Word: infantalizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Scientists don't pretend to know when that will happen, but some science observers fear it will be soon. The first infant clone could come squalling into the world within seven years according to Arthur Caplan, director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania. If he's right, science had better get its ethical house in order quickly. In calendar terms, seven years from now is a good way off; in scientific terms, it's tomorrow afternoon...
...life hunched over a chessboard. During appetizers he enthralls the table with discourses on a diverse array of topics, including hot chocolate (the world's best is found at Cafe Angelica on the Rue de Rivoli in Paris), Kremlin politics ("Russia has no choice other than Lebed!") and his infant son Vadim--"I want to stay on top long enough for him to recognize his father as a champion...
Harrison's preacher father was kicked out of the house by her mother and grandparents when she was tiny, and she had almost no contact with him until she was 20. The household was grim. Grandmother would scream like a "scalded infant"; mother, who lived elsewhere most of the time, beat her daughter with a hairbrush. The child herself was unlikable. There is an unintentionally risible passage where she pries open the eyes of newborn kittens. The teenage years are marked by anorexia ("the dizzy rapture of starving") and bulimia ("I never taste what I eat. Sometimes...
...later stage of development. Our growth and maturation, both inside and outside the womb, is the continuation of the same being, not a transformation into a different species. I did not come from a fetus, but I once was a fetus. I did not come from an infant, but was once an infant. Conception marks the beginning an individual's human life because that is the first time when she exists. At conception, a full human genome comes into being for the first time, and the the zygote has all the information it will ever need. No new genetic data...
...American refusal to be tried in the court of the World Trade Organization (WTO), calling the United States' position "arrogant." In defense, the United States has threatened to invoke "national security" as a justification for its ban on Cuba. This poses a problem for the potential effectiveness of the infant WTO in ensuring free trade practices. (Japan has also invoked "national security" in defense of its inflated rice tariffs.) It would have been much more savvy to avoid resorting to the crutch of national security, but given our contradictory attitude toward the Chinese, we are prevented from stating the case...