Word: infantability
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...seen in the general cleanliness, in how people look and dress, that the general state of health seems remarkable. You don't see the open sores, undernourishment, tuberculosis, and all those things that are so prevalent in so many other Asian cities. The North Vietnamese claim that the infant mortality rate has been reduced to about seven per thousand, which is about what it is in America. I can't say whether this is true or false, but from what I've seen it might very well be true...
...every Infant's cry of fear...
...electronic traffic-control system. Meanwhile, however, consumer demands for cars are skyrocketing. Russians are so auto-hungry that they will pay twice the list price to those who win new cars in the state-run lottery. A cartoon in the Soviet humor magazine Krokodil shows a swaddled infant in a carriage, howling, "I want a car!" at the sight of the new Zhiguli. Even when the Togliatti plant reaches full production, it is scarcely likely to meet the demand. According to one estimate, even if Russia should succeed in producing 7,000,000 cars a year, it would still take...
...neighbor. How near? Science has long sought to discover in the intelligent chimp the gift of language, the incomparable skill that distinguishes mankind from all other living things. Until now, that search has been fruitless; the chimp lacks the capacity for speech that is innate in every normal human infant. But in Psychology Today magazine, Psychologist David Premack of the University of California at Santa Barbara demonstrates that the chimpanzee can converse with man in ways other than by the tongue...
Many mothers believe that they can determine whether a baby is ill or merely hungry by the way it cries. A South African pediatrician believes that doctors can often diagnose an infant's illness or defect from the sound of its crying. With this in mind, Dr. Eugene Weinberg catalogued 20 characteristic sounds and identified the conditions that cause them. Now he has produced a recording of these cries to help other physicians recognize and understand them...