Word: infantability
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...years ago, women in the area reported a series of insensate attacks. A mother driving her car was halted by a pile of logs, after which a hidden rifleman opened fire, shattering her infant son's nursing bottle. One night, as his wife prepared for bed, another resident surprised a Peeping Tom, who blasted the husband's left leg off. On another occasion a masked intruder shot a woman in the hand, carried her into the woods and tried to rape her-but was impotent and broke into tears. Police questioned Bicycle Bill but could get no evidence...
...northeasterners scratch out a subsistence living from the cracked earth, supplementing their diets of rice and rotten fish with such regional delicacies as eels, ant eggs, fried cicadas and fresh cucumbers served in a dark red insect sauce. Long a center of discontent, the northeast has lately erupted in infant guerrilla war, just as Peking Foreign Minister Chen Yi blatantly predicted last year...
...doctor's hard work and all the medical advances, the U.S. still has plenty of room for improvement. In incidence of infant mortality, it stands twelfth among all nations. The life expectancy of U.S. men is only 18th in the world. In ratio of doctors to population, the U.S. ranks 15th. This low rating for the world's richest country is partly due to the fact that U.S. doctors tend to cluster in urban areas, where there are better hospital facilities and more opportunity for consultation, leaving a lethal shortage in remote and rural areas. Another reason...
Just as the human fetus has long been thought capable of absorbing adequate nourishment even if the mother is starving, so the human brain has been considered able to develop normally even in a starving infant. But this could be an outdated thesis, said researchers at a Boston symposium on mental retardation convened by the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation. There is a growing body of evidence that mental retardation is sometimes the result of malnutrition, and in the case of premature babies, who by definition have not been nourished up to a normal birth weight, the effects...
...range from Bach to Mozart to Prokoviev to Odetta to the Missa Luba to Leadbelly. Running head-on against our various stock responses, he inevitably creates image-sound discords. For me such discords arose between the healing of a leper and a cotton-field blues moan, between the infant Jesus and Odetta's annoyingly mannered "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child...