Word: eight-month-old
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...days of summer have hit Italy hard this year. During my family's beach holiday on the enchanting island of Sardinia, the surprise star was Totò, a pint-size, black-and-white, eight-month-old mixed-breed from Naples whom our friends brought along to a house we shared near the southern town of Pula. Totò - named for the famed Neapolitan comedian, not Dorothy's pooch - has exactly one trick in his repertoire: misbehaving. He swiped everything from pasta al pesto to a half-pound of butter off the kitchen table, ran around the yard with a neighbor...
...Across town, in an eight-month-old processing warehouse run by India's largest company, Reliance Industries, half a dozen women wearing balaclavas, woolen trousers and bulky jackets work inside a room kept at a constant 3?C, peeling and chopping vegetables, spinning them dry and then heaping them in small plastic packets before placing them in plastic transport crates. At the other end of the 5,600-sq-m warehouse, men unload crates of grapes from a truck pulled up to a spotless loading dock. A quality-control expert samples every tenth crate; if the grapes are good...
...country last week, I jetted off to be with my family for Thanksgiving. Five hours, three airports and one missed flight later, I reached my destination—my sister’s new home in the secluded woods of southern Maryland, where she, her husband and their eight-month-old baby had settled comfortably two months...
NULLIFIED. The adoption by a British couple of eight-month-old twins KIMBERLY and BELINDA, who had been offered via the Internet; by an Arkansas judge citing fraudulent circumstances. A California couple who were promised adoptive rights by the twins' biological mother pulled out of the custody battle after the husband was charged with molesting two baby sitters; meanwhile, the estranged natural parents are each claiming the twins. The infants remain in foster care...
NERVE TRANSPLANT In a surgical first, Houston doctors transplanted nerves from a living donor to her infant son. To repair torn nerves in eight-month-old Rodrigo Cervantes Corona's left shoulder and arm, doctors took 3 ft. of neural tissue from his mother's legs and tracked it from the right side of his body to his left hand. The transplanted nerves will act as a conduit to allow the baby's undamaged right-hand nerves to grow over to his left side. The mother will feel a bit of numbness on each side of her feet...