Word: infantalizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...instance of a successful champion which has benefited from government subsidies, he happily cites Airbus Industries. That choice would be hilarious, if it were not quite so bizarre: most Europeans are hardly bursting with pride over the alleged success of Airbus. It is the classic case of the "infant industry" that refuses to grow up, constantly sucking in subsidies which have promoted gross inefficiency and stifled innovation...
Compared with beating the world's greatest chess player at his own game, of course, infant-like flailing or knowing about wetness might not sound like much. But programs like CYC and Cog, not chess machines like Deep Blue, currently define the cutting edge of applied artificial intelligence--the 40-year effort to build machines that think. Ten years ago, when AI was as hot as the Internet is today, researchers raced to build programs that showed deep expertise in a narrow field of endeavor--like chess, for example, or medical diagnosis. These days, however, it's the promise...
According to the FAO report, conservative estimates place the death toll among children under five at 567,000, with a three-fold increase in infant mortality, and a four-fold increase in cases of marasmus since the end of the war, Fawzi said...
...AIDS-resistant babies, by contrast, remain baffling. A newborn's immune system isn't fully functional until around 18 months, so how could it successfully fight off an HIV invasion? But a report published in Lancet suggests that's just what the infant immune systems did. In the study, researchers followed more than 250 children in Sweden, Belgium and Italy, testing them at intervals for the presence of both antibodies to HIV and the virus itself...
...that it's easy to feel sorry for Di, since she's paid infinitely better than anyone else in the same line of work. A surrogate mother in the U.S. gets about $10,000 for the nine-month-long job of transforming some fellow's sperm into a viable infant--an amount Di could easily blow on cashmeres and facials in an afternoon. And while the surrogate mom gets shown to the door as soon as the baby's delivered, Di lingers on, posing for photographers and visiting hospices, at an allowance of up to $4,000 a week...