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May 23, 2013
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The surprising and complicated history of adoption
In his book, “Adoption: A Brief Social and Cultural History,” Peter Conn, the Vartan Gregorian Professor of English, provides a well-researched and readable survey of adoption, exploring the long history of adoption from the earliest human behaviors to present-day practices across the world.
Hispanic migration in Durham, N.C.
Chenoa Flippen, an assistant professor of sociology, conducted the “Gender, Migration, and Health Among Hispanics Study” to investigate how Hispanic migrants were fairing in Durham, N.C. In 1990, there were fewer than a couple thousand immigrant Latinos in Durham. By 2010, there were almost 30,000.
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“I really do see the wait list as the final touches to a class.”
Eric J. Furda, dean of admissions at Penn, on students who are neither accepted nor rejected from a school. Last year, Penn offered 87 students admission off its active wait list of 1,200. (Philadelphia Inquirer, April 23, 2013)
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