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Free-traders hailed it as a victory for: 1) American business, which runs a large trade deficit with China; 2) the Chinese economy, which has been stunted by limited competition; and 3) Sino-American relations, which have been tense since last spring's bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade.
The afflicted children--about 20 percent of the 18,000 adopted--are incapable of forming emotional bonds with their new parents, probably because the absence of attention and affection in infancy stunted brain development.
I am the product of perhaps too permissive parents in that they believed, being children of the '60s, that excessive discipline and training may lead to stunted personality development in their children.
One possible explanation is that if they had kept the formula to themselves, the budding options market would have been stunted.
The forest is made up of juniper trees (sabinosas) which are incredibly and grotesquely twisted, stunted, gnarled, and, in some cases, almost bent double by the wind.