Word: infantalizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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From the day Karen Katz brought her infant daughter Lena home, there was a certain question she knew was coming. It finally came when Lena was four; she turned to her mother and asked, "Mommy, how come I'm not the same color as you?" Her heart stopped. Then Katz, who is white, explained to her cinnamon-skinned, Guatemalan-born daughter that they came from different countries. Over the years, Katz and her husband Gary Richards have consciously worked to minimize the distance between themselves and their daughter: taking a trip to Mexico to surround Lena, now eight, with people...
...have the first baby of the new millennium will have to get busy on April 9, the most promising conception date. Although he or she is no more than a note in someone's diary now, we already know much about the millennial baby. As a Capricorn, the infant is allegedly fated to be practical, ambitious and fatalistic. International time zones dictate that junior will quite probably be a New Zealander, Fijian or Russian. Or, of course, someone visiting those countries in order to have the millennium's first baby...
...wait for the first human infant to be produced, in secret, by a Richard Seed or his offshore equivalent? Ian Wilmut, the soft-spoken scientist who started this noisy revolution, says no. The father of three (one of them adopted), he speaks passionately of honoring the individuality of the child. Human cloning, he says, should be banned...
...part of the institute's program that will test and improve drug treatments for block mother-to-infant transmission of HIV is especially appealing to the foundation, Laping said...
...institute will use the money to fund a three-year program devoted to basic research, vaccine development and treatments to block mother-to-infant transmission of HIV, he virus that causes AIDS. The money will also fund a program to train AIDS researchers from southern Africa, which has been hit especially hard by AIDS, according to an Oak Institute press release...