They played a defensive game in defensive conditions, and over four sloppy, soggy and hard-hitting quarters, the Bears lost their quarterback, Jay Cutler, and the Texans' Arian Foster proved why he may be the N.F.L.'s best running back as Houston emerged with a 13-6 win.
Finally, trying to run Afghanistan from Kabul, relying on a government the U.S. fostered, proved counterproductive in a country in which tribal allegiances are even stronger than they are in Iraq.
Simply tracking students as they moved between family members and foster parents proved a huge challenge.
She ran away from her first few foster families, proved to be uncooperative and disdainful of most authority figures, and frequently fought with others.
But Foster's fame proves to be a problem when she discovers, through a series of coincidences (centered on a concert that she's giving at her family home and that's interrupted by singing from Foster's cottage on their property), that he is a composer of popular songs.
Still in its first season, The Fosters has proven to be an influential and educational show about family and love.
"Coming of Age" proves that Foster is capable of crushing the high notes in full voice, while songs like "Goats In Trees" and "The Truth" find him settling into his lower register, very much akin to the baritone of The National's Matt Berninger.
Fletcher, now a lively brown 1-year-old, joined the household as a foster cat and proved so adorable the couple couldn't bear to give him to another family.
In many instances, they say, the convictions are old, and the foster parents have proved to be able caretakers, providing stable homes to children whose ties to their biological parents were severed long ago.
"I became a foster dad to prove to myself and to my family that I could have a 'normal' life.
