Word: infantalizes
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...viral video probably began with the infamous Dancing Baby, which surfaced in 1996. A strangely compelling animation of a diapered infant getting its tiny groove on, the Dancing Baby was born as a software demo, but people started sending it to one another as an e-mail attachment. Until the Baby came along, nobody realized that that kind of spontaneous In box--to--In box sharing, following the and-they'll-tell-two-friends model, could ever add up to much, let alone scale to the level of a mass medium. "It wasn't as though a marketing firm attempted...
Batali's cookware has sold well since it was launched last year. The 2005 products were anchored around three cast-iron pieces--a 6-qt. pot, a grill press and a lasagna pan large enough to bathe an infant in. "It was the most successful launch of cast iron I've had in my career," says Marjorie Daugherty, the cookware buyer for Crate & Barrel. "We sold 6,000 pieces in the fall, and it was out for January and February." She also believes "Mario's are the best wooden tools on the market...
...While I was talking to Seth?s parents, Seth climbed up and down from their laps, explored the infant scale and took a matchbox car out of his pocket and raced it along the floor. In every way, he appeared and acted like a healthy active four-year-old boy. I summed up my findings to Seth?s family, but they just sat and stared at me blankly, making no attempts to stand or get Seth dressed...
...Congo River. Her brother-in-law went in search of his wife and disappeared too. "We found his body in the forests," Mamitshu says. "The Mai Mai had chopped off his head and taken it." She fled with her husband and three children, taking along her now-orphaned infant niece. The refugees have found some sanctuary but little food, despite Katanga's innate wealth. Situated right in the center of Africa, the province sits atop giant deposits of copper, cobalt and a good portion of the world's coltan, a rare mineral used in mobile-phone circuitry. Katanga is hugely...
HUMAN BEINGS HAVE ALWAYS HAD A CAPACITY to attend to several things at once. Mothers have done it since the hunter-gatherer era--picking berries while suckling an infant, stirring the pot with one eye on the toddler. Nor is electronic multitasking entirely new: we've been driving while listening to car radios since they became popular in the 1930s. But there is no doubt that the phenomenon has reached a kind of warp speed in the era of Web-enabled computers, when it has become routine to conduct six IM conversations, watch American Idol on TV and Google...