Word: alterable
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There are many factors which influence mothers in developing countries to bottle feed rather than breast feed their infants. These include a lack of encouragement by health professionals, the fact that the breast has become a sex symbol and the belief that breast feeding may alter the contour of the breast, and the false impression that breast feeding is primitive and bottle feeding is sophisticated. But the main reason that women in developing countries bottle feed is that they falsely believe it is better for their infants. This belief has come largely from the promotional practices of the corporations...
...AARON J. ALTER...
NEGLECTED LIVES by Stephen Alter Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 179 pages...
Occasionally, Alter grows so sensitive that he is practically inaudible, and some of his insights are a bit unripe. But his cast is indelible and his command of narrative assured. The handful of flaws can be easily overlooked. For the author, who grew up in India, the son of American missionaries, is all of 22. His first novel marks the debut of an artist worth reading and watching closely...
Neglected Lives may mark the arrival of a strong new force in fiction; still, it remains to be seen whether Alter can break out of the ultimately constraining parameters of trying to write the Great Indian Novel. For the present, however, Neglected Lives is a fine first novel, and the only thing a similarly-aged writer can do is be admiringly jealous...