Word: infantability
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Everyone knows the story about the boy from Midland, Texas, who overcame the handicap of low expectations. But it belongs more to Tommy Franks than to George W. Bush. Franks was born in the tiny town of Wynnewood, in south-central Oklahoma, but moved as an infant with his mechanic father and stay-at-home mom to Midland at the same time the Bush clan arrived from Connecticut. The two families didn't know each other, though Franks went to high school with Bush's future wife Laura. She doesn't remember him, and their high school principal's memories...
...Gusm?o, the best way is economic development. "It will be meaningless if we have all the perpetrators in jail, but the people continue to face infant mortality, endemic and epidemic diseases, without a decent home, without clean water and food," he said on Feb. 17. Gusm?o argues Indonesia is the key to such growth. The U.N. mission in East Timor agrees. Says mission chief Kamalesh Sharma: "I'm hopeful that the maturity of relations between both countries would insulate them from the trials and tribulations of the independent decisions of a judicial process...
...would expect from a former high school football player from Boise, Idaho. But to him this stage represents a time of pure potential. The descent of the testicles in the male fetus is a moment to be regretted. He made peace with his own anatomy sufficiently to father an infant girl last October by Bjork, the Icelandic pop star. That child is guaranteed an interesting life...
...keep a roof over their heads. Each evening after the family had gulped down a meal of greasy fast food, Cruz would shut the door on her children and get high on methamphetamines. Then a new baby tested positive for drugs, and the older Cruz girls soon joined their infant sister in California's child protective services. But instead of moving the children from one foster home to a another, authorities in Contra Costa County gave Cruz a different option: move in with a family herself...
...dwelling?for extra insulation. They burned furniture to keep warm. "If you don't have animals," says Bayarsakhan, "you have nothing." To survive, he left everything he'd ever known for a place where people dressed oddly, behaved differently and used paper money instead of bartering. His wife and infant son came with him (he and his wife have since had a second son), as did his two brothers, one of whom also brought a wife and child. They rented 500 square meters in Chingeltei for $90 a month, then set up their ger. One brother found work selling coal...