Word: auge
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Most people are only dimly aware of the information in your delightful cover story on babies [Aug. 15]. I am a registered nurse in the maternity unit of a New York hospital, and when I talk to babies just out of the delivery room they respond to my voice and other sounds. They see and react to a soothing touch and consistently avoid painful or frightening stimuli. In the first week of life they are much more aware than most people realize...
...International Federation of Business and Professional Women looked past the ends of their liberated noses, they would realize that President Reagan gave them quite a compliment when he said, "If it wasn't for women, us men would still be walking around in skin suits carrying clubs" [Aug. 15]. I sincerely hope their attitude is not held by all of America's women...
Cloned Humanity Charles Krauthammer's Essay on our tendency to believe that everybody is "just like us" is sublime [Aug. 15]. Neither people, as discrete personalities, nor cultures, as macrocosms of small social groups, are alike. The piece is a modern exegesis of an established and immutable truth. When I was an undergraduate 45 years ago, it was labeled "individual differences...
...silk." Thus, with only days to go, NASA Spokesman Jim Kukowski ebulliently described the final launch preparations for next week's flight of the Challenger space shuttle. Lift-off for the eighth mission of NASA'S Space Transportation System, known as STS-8, is scheduled for Aug. 30 at 2:15 a.m. at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, just two months after Challenger's historic flight carrying the first American woman into space. That is the shortest turnaround time yet between shuttle flights. This time there will be three more firsts: the nighttime launch, a nighttime...
...intruder appeared chastened, yet over the next two months there were about 20 other calls to the computer; the most recent took place on Aug. 11. In July the hospital received a tip identifying two young men in the Milwaukee area as the source of the trouble. The two were innocent, but the Milwaukee connection turned out to be the break that police needed. For months, FBI agents had been tracking the activities of a loosely organized gang of computer enthusiasts in and around Milwaukee who call themselves "the 414s" after that city's telephone area code. Using home...