Word: infantability
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...wasn't always that way. From 1936 through 1950, the infant-mortality rate in the U.S. dropped from 57.1 to 29.2 per 1,000, an improvement of 49% that placed it sixth. Then the descending curve leveled off. By 1955, the U.S. had slipped to eighth place on the list. Since then, while other nations have achieved dramatic reductions, the U.S. rate has declined at an average of only .83% per year, pushing the nation even farther down the list...
...heavily bearded, King Constantine of Greece, 27, walked down a ramp onto Italian soil. Behind him, glum and red-eyed, came his Danish wife, Queen Anne-Marie, 25, her mink coat still smelling of the mothballs from which she had hastily removed it. With them were their two infant children, Queen Mother Frederika, the King's 25-year-old sister Irene, and several loyal followers...
...prove the benefits to babies beyond the shadow of a doubt. But studies seem to bear out his belief. South African babies born after prenatal decompression have scored, on the average, about 18% higher than normally born South African white children in tests based on the landmarks of infant development mapped out by Child Psychologist Arnold Gesell. In one group of decompression babies, 16% scored at least 48% higher. At their first birthdays, six specially watched infants who had had the benefit of decompression during gestation and birth appeared to be as developed physically and behaviorally as normal two-year...
...scoutmasterly fashion. However, 65 of the 375 species of mammals in America-north of the Rio Grande-are given knowledgeable biographies by an industrious naturalist. Leonard Lee Rue III knows more than other authorities, including Larousse, will let on about the American opossum: Did anyone else know that an infant opossum is the size of a pencil eraser, while a whole litter of 16 would not fill a teaspoon? Most backward and unfortunate of all American mammals, Mother usually has only a dozen teats. What happens to the odd opossums? They are dropouts...
...mine," whispered Audrey Oliver, proudly cuddling the six-month-old infant in her arms. "I'm going to call her Candy." The scene was hardly surprising, since it took place in the reception room of the Children's Bureau in Indianapolis. What made it unusual was that the abandoned child was being adopted by a woman who, at 29, was and is unmarried...