Kids & Family - Jan. 7, 2008
Adoption Ally understands waiting parents
A woman in Maine e-mailed me in response to today's "Motherfest" column. She started Adoption Ally in 2000 to help parents waiting to adopt.
Tags: Adoption Ally, adoption, international adoption, China, Guatemala, Motherfest, Russia, Colombia, Cambodia, Korea

Arts & Entertainment - Feb. 26, 2005
Milwaukee Public Museum polishes up "Pearls" exhibit
The Milwaukee Public Museum will shine when it unveils "Pearls: A Natural History" March 5-June 26. The exhibit contains the largest and most comprehensive collection of pearls ever assembled. It traces the lore, legends and facts of this treasure of nature.
Tags: Milwaukee Public Museum, Pearls: A Natural History, Chicago Field Museum, pearls, jewelry, decorative art, Venezuela, Tahiti, South Sea, Renaissance Europe, Imperial China, India, Russia, Marilyn Monroe, Joe DiMaggio, Barbara Bush

Milwaukee Buzz - Dec. 3, 2004
Milwaukee exports huge shovel to Russia
The Port of Milwaukee will load a huge P&H electric mining shovel today for export to St. Petersburg, Russia on the Palessa, a vessel owned by the Danish shipping company J. Poulsen Shipping.
Tags: huge shovel, russia, export, port of milwaukee

Politics - Nov. 20, 2008
Russia's Missile Game
          ‘Hitting a bullet with a bullet’ is the way even proponents of anti-ballistic missile systems describe the extraordinary technical challenge. Yet there has been sustained pressure within the United States government for a half cen...
Tags: Russia, Missiles, U.S., Foreign Policy, Cold War