Word: infantalizes
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...opportunity finally won out. In March 2000 the Schweitzers, then 52 and 53, sold their home in Connecticut, invited all their friends to a grand farewell shindig and set out for Portland, Ore., where they found a home less than 10 miles from their son, daughter-in-law and infant granddaughter. "We didn't want to wait until we were frail, until we needed our children. We wanted to move while we could baby-sit, go to the zoo with them, have them over for dinner once in a while," says Linda...
...proposed return to neighborhood schools is in its infant stages, and the school department is still computing the attendant projections, but Mayor Thomas M. Menino’s general endorsement—especially given his strong ties with the minority communities in Boston—should guide the council toward this new solution. Clearly, the plan must be crafted with significant input from parents and community groups. It must account for the potential influx of students returning to the BPS from private or parochial institutions if residents have more confidence and ownership in neighborhood schools. Such a dramatic increase...
...critics' award at the recent Venice Film Festival), he exposes the social horror of India's antifemale birth policy from the first scene. A woman goes into labor; her husband paces anxiously; a baby's cry is heard. "It's a girl," the man is told; he takes the infant, drowns it in a well and apostrophizes, "Next year...
...bizarre tragedy of the University of California, Irvine, professor who forgot that his infant son was in the back of his car and, instead of driving the baby to child care, went to work—unwittingly leaving the baby to die in the car—is symptomatic of something far more common at Harvard and beyond. It is the result of mindlessness, an affliction not confined to the proverbial absent-minded professor who has more important things to think about. It is hard to imagine that for him, an apparently loving father, there was anything more important...
...many people in the World Trade Center and abroad, I do it not in spite of, or as a matter aside from, but precisely because of my religion, Islam. Despite popular perception, Islam preaches peace. As prophet Muhammed said, “Never kill a woman, a weak infant, or a debilitated old person; nor burn palms, uproot trees, or pull down houses.” Thus, before even the Western theory of just war was born, Prophet Muhammed prohibited the killing of innocent civilians and even plants...