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Infancy and Babyhood...
...turned to Mrs. John Connally and whispered: "Oh, Nellie, I feel that I am onstage for a part I never rehearsed." The First Lady learned her lines quickly. While her husband was al most constantly under fire, Lady Bird rarely became a target - except, perhaps, for cracks about her babyhood nickname and her Texas drawl. When the John sons had the Nixons to lunch at the White House just after the election, Pat Nixon told Lady Bird: "I've been many places, and I've heard nothing but admiration for you." She added with a smile...
...indicator, but an imperfect one. Adolescents and people in their early 20s are not famous for good judgment and sober reflection. Indeed, recent neurological studies reveal that the brain doesn't even finish laying down all its wiring until deep into the second decade of life - far beyond the babyhood years in which scientists once believed this basic work got done. "Adolescents tend to take more risks in general and tend to be more impulsive," says psychologist William Pollack, of McLean Hospital in Boston. "Boys [especially] are socialized into the idea that such behavior...
Stanley Greenspan, author of Building Healthy Minds, says a child's imagination develops in babyhood and is enhanced as kids grow, especially if adults pretend with them and challenge them to become "scriptwriters" in their own dramas, with lots of scenarios, subplots and intrigue. In short, we help them make their own movies. "In later childhood, books leave more room than movies for conjuring," Greenspan says, "but movies can bring literature alive and stir the imagination." Greenspan and others say the most important aspect of movie watching is the conversation after the final credits roll, when kids can be encouraged...
...succeeded. At the St. Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, N.J., Drs. Richard Scott and Jacques Cohen have been taking cytoplasm--the nonnuclear part of a cell--out of young women's eggs and injecting it into the eggs of older women. One egg with refurbished cyotoplasm has grown into babyhood; another birth is expected next spring...