Word: infantability
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...Last week they sent a convoy of 20 ambulances, ten medical-supplies vehicles and 25 doctors to Tyre and Sidon. Individual Israelis have donated chocolate candy, blankets and clothes to Lebanese youngsters. There was even a scheme devised by the Israeli National Labor Federation to bring homeless mothers with infant children from Lebanon into Israeli homes for several weeks. Such moves were admirable. But to the innocent victims of Israel's push northward, there was little that could justify the suffering. -By Patricia Blake
...English professor in Boston, still maimed by the events of two decades earlier: "McKay had once regarded it as the central task of his life to understand what had destroyed his family. Yet he had not directly addressed that question in twenty years." On cue, Magda Dettke, the infant from Berlin, appears in his office. Her mother, the woman Jake had seen in the museum 20 years ago, is dead. Magda now works for British intelligence, and she has startling news. Giles wants to redefect, but he will do so only if his nephew helps him cross from East...
Controversy has brewed for years on campus over the propriety of various Harvard investments, expecially 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 build nuclear weapons...
...Elliott, E.T. is everything a boy could want: a toy, a pet, a jolly Space Invader of a video game - most of all, a friend whose feelings become his own. To Gertie, E.T. is a youngest sibling's most welcome addition: someone even smaller than she, an infant brother she can dress up as a bag lady and even teach to speak. E.T. is remarkably adaptable and wonderfully funny in his adventure on earth. Left alone in the house, he toddles around like a middle-aged ironworker on a weekend without the wife, his potbelly peeking...
...Chilean prison or dead. Susan's twin sister Miriam pops up when the story needs her; she is still scarred from being raped by a motorcycle gang and tortured by the Shah's secret police in Iran. She and her current lover, a Vietnamese refugee, have an infant son named Edgar Allan...