Word: infantability
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...necessarily more deterministic than is a purely "environmental" theory (which is also an impossibility). The critics' misunderstanding is basic: a casual model is deterministic only to the extent that it narrowly specifies possible outcomes from an interacting system of variables. For example, a model which interprets differential infant mortality rates as due to differences in parental economic status alone, might be more deterministic or less deterministic than a model which interprets such rates as resulting from effects both of genetic background and environmental context...
...Infant mortality, often regarded as a key indicator of a nation's wellbeing, declined from 29.2 deaths per 1,000 live births in 1950 to an estimated 16.5 deaths in 1974. Despite that improvement, the U.S. still ranks only 15th in infant survival...
...obviously quite another matter for a child born in America, though by no means is there now a uniform childhood for all. Although our infant mortality rate is higher than that of many Western democracies, it is still overwhelmingly likely (984.5 chances out of 1,000) that a child born in this country will survive infancy. Longevity has more than doubled in two centuries, and so has the duration of childhood. In 1775 a boy or girl of seven or eight, especially if his or her parents were not very well off (and few were), might already be learning...
...crown, studded with rubies and emeralds. It is traditionally believed to contain the only relic left on earth by Jesus Christ. True, Christ ascended bodily into heaven before the eyes of the astonished Apostles after his resurrection. But he had been circumcised in the temple as an infant, and the Holy Foreskin, preserved by a succession of devout guardians, is said to have found its way eventually into the sanctum sanctorum of the Vatican. A German mercenary laid his rude hands on it during the Sack of Rome in 1527 and stole it away; it was lost for 30 years...
...frequently on her own. "I try not to be a stage mother," says her mother Margaret, A "but she was very gifted, with a great fondness for mu sic and great reading and mathematical abilities at an early age." Sarah's parents were divorced when she was an infant; until she was remarried twelve years later, the mother was frequently away continuing her own graduate studies in music. Sarah stayed with relatives, who saw to it that mementos from her mother were on hand. "Because my mother was gone, I was raised with pictures of her and stories...