Word: infantability
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...Some had their hands tied behind their backs; one young man had been castrated. Middle-aged women and girls as young as three, their arms and legs grotesquely splayed, were draped across piles of rubble. Portions of their heads were blown away. One woman was found clutching an infant to her body; the same bullet that tore through her chest had also killed the baby. Said a Lebanese Army officer: "There is so much butchery the mind cannot comprehend...
Judy Woodruff leads one of the most glamorous lives in Washington. As a White House correspondent for NBC television, she has waltzed at state dinners, traveled with Presidents to New Delhi and Versailles. Acclaim has gilded every aspect of her life. Like many working mothers, Woodruff, 35, brought her infant son Jeffrey to the office one day; unlike other mothers, she was summoned to see President Reagan, who spent ten minutes bouncing the baby and chanting nursery rhymes...
...closing of Sydenham Hospital in 1980 symbolizes Koch's attitude toward human services. As the only emergency-care municipal hospital in West Harlem. Sydenham treated Black and Hispanic people in one of the nation's most medically underserved areas: the infant mortality rate in Central Harlem, the second highest in the country, compares with figures in some underdeveloped nations. But Koch saw only the need to enforce "fiscal austerity," so Sydenham was closed after community protests, a hospital takeover, and a violent clash between the police and outraged citizens...
Controversy has brewed for years on campus over the propriety of various Harvard investments, especially those in companies doing business in South Africa, marketing infant formula in the third world, and those relying extensively on nuclear power. Following a nationwide trend toward greater concern over nuclear weapons, University officials took a tentative first step in 1982 toward reevaluating another class of investments: those in firms helping to build nuclear weapons...
...much store in exercise, for themselves or their children. But members of the Jane Fonda generation have remade their own bodies, and are encouraging their lithe young daughters to start from scratch. In Chicago, new mothers are flexing the arms and legs of their month-old babies in an infant aerobics course. By the time they grow up, after a youth of exercise and competition encouraged at home and at school, these girls will have acquired naturally the bodies their mothers fought to shape...