Word: infantability
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This fall, an infant who had been slightly ill, suddenly died with ugly white blotches all over its skin. An examination proved her to be the victim of meningitis, a deadly, infrequent, and contagious disease. Another child in the family, also sick, was rushed to a hospital and treated for the disease immediately, thus preventing a similar tragedy...
While the infant lotuses flourished in their Washington greenhouse, another batch of the seeds was sent to Dr. Willard F. Libby of the University of Chicago. Libby decided to check their age by measuring their content of radioactive carbon 14.-In the current issue of Science Dr. Libby reported his findings: his tests on 19 of the lotus seeds had proved that they are 1,000 years old, give or take a couple of centuries. This is nothing like 50,000 years, but it makes the seeds the oldest of any species that have yet been known to sprout after...
...casual prostitute and drug addict, Nancy nonetheless has an implacable loyalty to children. Better a dead child than a neglected or abandoned one, she feels. When Temple gets ready to snatch up her six-month-old daughter and run off with Pete, she finds the infant smothered to death in its crib. This brings Temple, screaming, to her senses, and Nancy, serene, to the gallows...
...operating table was a normal, squalling, blue-eyed infant except for one thing: he had been born without an esophagus. Surgeons cut into the abdomen, made an opening in the stomach wall so that the baby could be fed by tube. Then they sat back and hoped for the best...
...with conflicting theories on infant colic, two Manhattan pediatricians ried grandma's remedy on 28 babies: a rubber pacifier. It pacified all but three...