8 | EXPRESS | 12.20.2012 | THURSDAY 30 Homes Sold in 30 Days Less than 8 Remain! 301-779-2290 LiveUTC.com from$138,000 from$138,000 Could a Diet Change Help Your Migraines or Arthritis? Want to join one of our research studies testing whether changes to your diet can improve or reduce pain? Learn more about our migraine headaches and rheumatoid arthritis studies at www.PCRM.org/study or call 855-6-JOINUS Conducted by Ask About 0% Down for Qualified Buyers! * 6506 America Blvd Hyattsville MD 20782 ©2012 Oral representation cannot be relied upon as correctly stating the representation of the developer. For correct representations, make reference to the documents required to be furnished by developer to a buyer or a lessee. <strong>Not</strong> an offer where prohibited. Including NY and NJ. Price, features, amenities and square footage are approximate and subject to change without notice. Information believed to be accurate but is not warranted. *Restrictions apply. Jeffrey Azuse, Broker of Record. Lic #3027251 5100 Wisconsin Ave NW, Suite 400, Washington, DC, 20016 World Russia Moves to Outlaw Adoptions by Americans Moscow Russia’s parliament on Wednesday gave overwhelming preliminary approval to a measure banning Americans from adopting Russian children, a harsh retaliatory move against U.S. humanrights legislation. But the proposal appears to be too extreme for some senior Russian officials. The foreign minister and the education minister spoke out flatly against an adoption ban, and the speaker of the upper house of parliament, a close ally of President Vladimir Putin, suggested the lower house members were letting emotions overtake rationality. Putin has made no public comment on the adoption provision. But his spokesman indicated Wednesday that Putin regards it as excessive. The legislation further steps up animosity with Washington by calling for closure of political groups in Russia that receive U.S. funding. Many Russians have long bris- Hearsay “We won’t call each other names and we won’t use comparisons to the animal kingdom.” — VICTOR PONTA, ROMANIA’S PRIME MINISTER, QUOTED WEDNESDAY BY MEDIAFAX NEWS AGENCY AFTER HE AND PRESIDENT TRAIAN BASESCU SIGNED AN AGREEMENT TO COOPERATE. THE ENMITY BETWEEN THE TWO MEN HAD GROWN IN RECENT WEEKS, WITH BASESCU CALLING PONTA “A PIG” AND “A COMPULSIVE LIAR.” Backstory Russian anger over adoptions by Americans hit a boiling point in 2010 when an American woman sent back a 7-year-old Russian boy she had adopted, saying he had behavioral problems and she didn’t want him anymore. In the wake of that scandal, and after long delay, Russia in July ratified an agreement with the U.S. on regulating adoptions. (AP) tled at the adoption of Russian children by Americans, sensitive to the implication that Russians are hardhearted or economically unable to take care of their own. The resentment is fanned by cases of abuse or deaths of Russian children adopted by Americans. Before becoming law, the measure has to pass a third reading in the State Duma on Friday, after which it would go to the upper house and then require Putin’s signature. (AP) DMITRY LOVETSKY/AP Upward and Onward A SOYUZ ROCKET BLASTS OFF Wednesday for the International Space Station, ferrying a three-man crew from the U.S., Canada and Russia from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
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