Word: infant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When community leaders in Roxbury's Mission Hill area decided to do something about the neighborhood's high infant mortality rate, they consulted experts at Harvard's School of Public Health...
...take a month's leave three months ago, when his first child, daughter Ranit, was born. A 40-year-old data-processing systems analyst for Transamerica, Greenhouse began his time off a few days before his wife Dianne gave birth by caesarean section. He savored the days with his infant. Says he: "It was really a blessing...
...workers have time off to care for sick children or parents. Southern New England Telephone guarantees the employee's job for up to six months of unpaid parental leave. Mike Liquori, 34, a customer-service representative, took a four-month leave starting last October to care for his infant son Luke after his wife's maternity leave ended. Says Liquori: "It created a bond between Luke and me that maybe wouldn't be the same if I hadn't been there...
Devastated by this news, the parents reviewed oddities surrounding their daughter's birth at Hardee Memorial Hospital in Wauchula, Fla., on Dec. 2, 1978. After delivery, their pink-cheeked infant scored a perfect 10 on the Apgar health rating. Nevertheless the baby the Twiggs took home suffered from a heart abnormality. The child's weight was allegedly changed from 8 lbs. 6 oz. to 6 lbs. on the birth certificate, which also recorded Arlena's blood type as O. A battery of genetic tests proved that the child the Twiggs had raised for ten years could not have been their...
Biden first looked death in the face during the heady period after his 1972 election to the Senate at age 29. His wife and three children were returning from buying a Christmas tree in Wilmington when a truck hit them. His wife and infant daughter died; his two sons were critically injured. He considered giving up his seat, but his family rallied around him. His sister moved into the Wilmington house to take care of the boys, and he began his daily three- hour round-trip commute to the Capitol...