Word: cots
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...would make tuna for supper and share it with the cats. After dinner, I’d have a coffee mug of boxed Franzia as a treat and then fall asleep, alone—except for my cats, which would scamper back and forth across my twin cot throughout the lonely night...
Sometimes all babies need is a little rocking to fall asleep. The Caring Cot, created by an English industrial designer, is a motorized crib that rocks for about a minute if the baby in it cries for 30 sec. If the baby doesn't stop after about 5 min., a signal is sent to the parents via remote. A sensor goes off if the room gets too hot or cold. And for parents fearful of studden infant death syndrome, a motion detector indicates if the baby has stopped moving for too long...
...reliability of expert evidence. Last year, two women jailed for life for murdering their children, both of whom claimed their babies suffered from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, had their convictions overturned. A third woman was also acquitted of murdering her children. All three cases involved evidence from one cot-death expert, and prompted the Court of Appeal to rule that a parent should not be prosecuted for the death of an infant unless all the experts involved ruled out natural causes. Demanding Democracy iran Hard-line clerics reinstated more than 300 of the thousands of candidates they had disqualified from...
...platoon stops on a largely deserted road along the river and sets up a checkpoint. After fruitlessly searching a dozen cars for weapons, the Tomb Raiders head home. Whiteside unloads his gear and lays his machine gun next to his cot, which sits below a gallery of pictures of half-clad women clipped from magazines. "It's like Groundhog Day," he says. "It's the same thing every day. You just don't know whether you're going to live...
...fine," Whiteside remembers. At 8:30 a.m., the platoon was told to fall into the horseshoe formation that commanders use to disclose personal information to troops. Captain Mike Kielpinski, the Tomb Raiders' battery commander, sobbed as he broke the news of Colgan's death. Talimeliyor ran back to his cot, disconsolate. "I didn't read my Bible," he remembers. "I didn't wash my clothes. I just wanted to lay in my bed." Whiteside recalls, "I cried for the first day and a half." The rest of the platoon went numb. Says Beverly: "Everything just died. All sounds stopped...