"Purchase costs are just the beginning, " says Gail Buchwald, senior vice president of the ASPCA's Adoption Center.

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"I don't think there's anything to be afraid of, but families need to think it through, " says Ann Wrixon, executive director of the Independent Adoption Center, a nonprofit agency that Ms. Edwards and Mr. Cargle used.

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More importantly, however, the Center believes American adoption of these measures is very much in the U.S. national interest, with or without a crisis in Lithuania.

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More recently, a somewhat overlapping group of tech heavyweights called the Green Grid, including Intel, HP, Dell, Microsoft, IBM, Sun and AMD, announced a "roadmap" for the IT industry's adoption of more efficient data center hardware.

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With that being said, we've convinced ourselves that the future of Media Center, and the key to wider adoption that we think it deserves, is with Windows Home Server.

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Some mutts are not so lucky -- Quest joins actress Allison Janney at the New Leash On Life dog rescue center, where the doe-eyed inmates wait for adoption.

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