Word: infantalizes
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...first, after the baby arrived, Marianne kept her same hectic work schedule, taking along her infant son and a baby sitter to out-of-town conventions. After daylong meetings, she'd return to her hotel room and nurse the baby. "I made it work," she says. "But I sure don't miss those times." Since then, Marianne has changed jobs to cut out travel. Her mother lives with her and helps out with baby sitting. "I don't have all the answers," Marianne says. "But I trust myself and the people around me to help me make the right decisions...
...ending sanctions while conceding as little as possible on his weapons programs. But there's no denying that those sanctions have occasioned a precipitous decline in Iraqi living standards and an alarming rise in the death rate. The country that, 10 years ago, had one of the lowest infant mortality rates in the world now has one of the highest. Sanctions not only cripple Iraq's economy, they also block access to many critical lifesaving medicines on the grounds that these could supposedly be used in a biological warfare program...
...community. This is the kind of man we want kids to look up to: Someone who has found peace with himself, who invites his competitors to ride his back wheel up the worst of the mountain stages, and who gets himself through his toughest rides by thinking about his infant son, waiting for his dad at the finish line...
...Gore's personality, difficult to grasp in American terms, seems perfectly coherent and natural if transplanted north of the 48th parallel. Indeed, as the Canadian Theorem settles into the imagination, one begins to wonder if there may have been some switched-at-birth scenario years ago that landed the infant Albert far south of the Canadian border, all the way down in Tennessee, while, at the same time, a tow-headed changeling from the chigger latitudes wound up in a snowbank in the Haliburton Highlands...
...world consisting by and large of Davids, we assume the Goliaths have it easy. If they dare complain, we search for slingshots. O'Neal's life, however, didn't start off so terribly comfortably. His biological father, he says, abandoned him and his mother Lucille when he was an infant. O'Neal wrote a caustic rap song about it in 1994 called Biological Didn't Bother. O'Neal's mother eventually married Philip Harrison, an Army staff sergeant, who imposed, naturally enough, a disciplined upbringing on a boy who was growing at an unruly rate. "I never see my biological...