Word: crib
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Inside an old factory building in Cambridge, Mass., a remarkable machine with the improbable name Zeus is hard at work. Flexing its two robotic arms, the computer-driven device reaches again and again into a storage area the size of a toddler's crib, where thousands of individual samples of genetic material sit in tiny wells etched into plastic plates, each one identified by a unique bar code. One by one, Zeus searches for a particular code, dips into the corresponding well with a fine, quill-like probe and picks up a minuscule droplet of liquid...
...long the co-sleeping period lasts, there will come a time when it must end. Parents should take the long view: unless they want to be sharing their bed with a thrashing two-year-old or negotiating with a recalcitrant four-year-old, they should move Baby to a crib by about age five months...
SIDS DANGER A study has found that 1 out of 5 crib deaths occurs when kids are away from their parents. After finding that babies who sleep on their belly are at higher risk for sudden infant death syndrome, doctors recommended that parents have infants sleep on their back. This has led to a 40% drop in SIDS deaths. But many day-care centers, baby sitters and older relatives haven't got the message and still put infants down for naps on their stomach. Parents should make sure that everyone who cares for their baby knows the proper sleeping position...
...producer Dick Wolf likes journalists. And well he should. Without newspapers to crib from, his ripped-from-the-headlines "Law and Order" franchise pretty much wouldn't exist. And Wolf's long been a favorite of journalists for his accessibility and his readiness with a controversial quote. So it stands to reason that Wolf, above all other TV types, should know how you guarantee a positive session with the press...
...Tony: And where was the cool car? And why don't you see Shaft's crib? You sort of wonder what this guy does when he gets home, where he lives, what he eats... All of those choices would have been an opportunity for the movie to define an aesthetic, and they just missed...