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...three children. Violators would be liable to fine or imprisonment. It is doubtful that the Indian government would ever go that far on a national level because of enforcement problems. One of the most difficult tasks will be to make family-planning programs effective in rural villages, where high infant-mortality rates have led to large families to ensure that some children will survive to care for the parents in their...
Helene then moves home and husband to a life of rural seclusion. She protects her infant son Oswald from his brutish father by packing him off to boarding school at an early age. When the Captain impregnates the maid, Helene quickly marries her off to a carpenter named Engstrand and raises the child Regina in her own home. If she can't save the man's conscience, she can at least salvage his reputation; Helene busies herself with philanthropy while her husband garners the glory...
Other specialists queried by TIME are sharply divided. According to Brian Jenkins, a California expert on the behavior of hostages, Patty's conduct conforms perfectly to that of brainwashed and terrorized victims. As he has written, "The hostage is helpless, frightened, humiliated, virtually an infant. Under these circumstances, the hostage unconsciously begins to assimilate-and even imitate-the attitudes of his captors." But why did Patty not try to escape when she had the chance? "The answer is indoctrination," maintains Boston Attorney Lawrence O'Donnell, who has represented brain washed P.O.W.s. "Once a person is sufficiently indoctrinated, there...
Nestle is a leading producer of powdered formulas for infant milk sold in less developed nations, where many mothers are uneducated and illiterate...
...officials insist that their advertising has always stressed, as one billboard in Nigeria puts it, that BREAST MILK IS BEST. Often, however, mothers themselves are undernourished and must supplement their own milk with formula. Nestlé was also a principal architect of an ethical code recently adopted by nine infant-food producers. The code requires that promotional materials in the Third World adequately educate illiterate consumers...