Word: cribbing
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...imagine the pain and horror of Daniel Scott's last hours. The seven-month-old baby was found by police lying in a pool of blood next to his crib in a Bronx tenement. His mother, off on a six-day crack binge, had left him in the care of his father, who abandoned the child in his unlocked apartment without so much as a bottle of water. Emaciated, filthy, desperate, the infant had apparently hoisted himself out of the crib and tumbled onto the wood floor before finally dying of starvation and dehydration. Both parents -- Jane Scott...
...sight is sickening and terrifying. In crib after crib lie babies and toddlers who look like old people, their skin shriveled, their skeletal faces bearing the unmistakable mark of approaching death. These pitiful children at a clinic in Bucharest are AIDS patients, the tiniest victims of the brutal, backward regime of Rumania's fallen dictator, Nicolae Ceausescu...
...pregnancy. Experts estimate that 375,000 newborns a year have been exposed to illegal drugs, frequently cocaine. Cocaine babies, as they are called, are more likely to be born prematurely or to die before birth. They tend to be abnormally small and face an increased risk of deformities or crib death. Moreover, there are strong indications that all these babies suffer some form of neurological damage. Says Darron Castiglione, supervisor of the child-abuse division of the Hollywood, Fla., police department: "These infants don't have a chance in life. They will never be right, never be whole people, through...
...Kenny lies in his crib upstairs in her home, in a house she shares on a tree-lined street, where her heart prepared him room. This nursery is merry with orange walls and pictures and 27 watchful stuffed animals. "It's going to be hard to lose him," says Gertrude...
...swivel chair and wander down the hall each time I need the name of the concierge at the Hotel George V in Paris. In contrast, about the only power tool my Daily Planner offers is a page of metric equivalents. Unfortunately, the last time I needed a metric crib sheet, I was standing on a bathroom scale in Italy after a huge dinner, trying to convince myself that pounds and kilograms are almost equal...