Word: diapered
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...international aids conference in Durban last year, he hardly seemed able to hold the microphone, let alone address 10,000 delegates. The shiny black suit he wore hung from a body ravaged by disease. The belt around his waist had six extra holes punched in it. He wore a diaper in case of diarrhea. Lit by a fearsome spotlight, the tiny figure paused for a few seconds, took a deep breath and began. "Care for us and accept us - we are all human beings. We are normal. We have hands. We have feet. We can walk, we can talk...
...study overseas (at Oxford) and choosing to wed the Harvard-educated Masako, a civil servant at the Foreign Ministry whom he met at a reception. Naruhito attended the delivery and held the baby in his arms moments after the birth. "We might see a picture of Naruhito changing a diaper," says Ken Ruoff, American author of The People's Emperor, about the postwar monarchy. "That would send a message about changing gender roles...
...same treatment--showing us how thoughtful adults react when their children hit the skids. For example, after his mother brings home a new baby, "Billy," 3, regresses and wets his bed at night. Billy's parents don't make a big deal of it and let him wear a diaper to bed. He soon adjusts to his new role as big brother and grows out of the problem. When parents are calm, they demonstrate just the sort of self-control their kids need to learn. The authors are especially good at illustrating the inescapable role of the child's individual...
...Monday Louisiana Congressman John Cooksey told a radio show, "If I see someone come in that's got a diaper on his head, that guy needs to be pulled over." (He later apologized.) On that same day, the pilot of a Delta flight in Texas had a Pakistani American removed before takeoff because he said his crew did not feel comfortable with the man aboard. Delta offered him a new ticket--on another carrier. (It later apologized.) In Lincoln, R.I., someone hit a pregnant woman wearing a hijab (head scarf) with a stone. She has been calling midwives to avoid...
...WOLF TRAP: PW dumps a full diaper on "Misconceptions: Truth, Lies, and the Unexpected on the Journey to Motherhood" by Naomi "The Beauty Myth" Wolf (Doubleday; September). "This work is so unoriginal in its social critique and so limited in its portrayal of the hardships endured by mothers and children and families in this country that it comes across as a weirdly out-of-touch bid for personal attention rather than a genuine expose. It is likely to alienate all but the newest and most sheltered mothers...