Word: infantability
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...Boyer is a major stockholder in Genentech Corp., a Bay Area genetic engineering firm, and obviously stands to make money from the process. No one quarrels with that. But there is a mixed view of just how much good will accrue from the introduction of patents to the infant industry...
...HUNDRED YEARS ago today in Tuscumbia, Alabama, "more of a village than a town," Helen Keller was born. The neighbors remembered her as a lively infant carried about the house on her mother's hip, raising a fuss like most children...
...U.S.S.R. for 18 months and is the author of a forthcoming book, Inside Russian Medicine: "They took a country that was 200 years behind the rest of the world and provided the basics at a fraction of what we charge. They eliminated epidemics. Life expectancy is up and infant mortality is down. That has to be judged a success...
Just before the revolution, the average life expectancy was about 30 years. By the 1960s men were living on average to 66, women to 74 (about the life expectancy of U.S. citizens). In 1950, 84 children out of every 1,000 died before the age of one. By 1971 infant mortality had dropped to 23 deaths per thousand. Lately, though, these gains seem to be eroding. Life expectancy for men has been dropping, in part because of rampant alcoholism, and observers say that the U.S.S.R. is losing 30 of every 1,000 new citizens (double the U.S. figure...
...Korea the rival agencies used to fight for headlines with newsbeats about hills taken or Chinese hordes repelled. ("How many Chinese in a horde?" the gag used to be.) With Wirephotos from Tokyo, still photographers regularly beat the infant TV industry; television cameramen had to ship their film halfway round the world to San Francisco, a 36-hour flight in those prop-driven days...