Word: infantalizes
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...baby wasn't as lucky as my own infant son. Both were born in 1995 more than two months prematurely. After gazing at Roy in his incubator in the neonatal intensive-care unit of Peking Union Medical College Hospital in Beijing, I strolled past a row of bassinets containing other newborns. At the end lay a child with seaweed-colored skin stretched tight over his skull. I motioned to the young attending doctor, figuring she hadn't yet noticed his death. She had. The child's lungs were underdeveloped, she explained, and lack of oxygen at birth meant he would...
...worked as a research assistant in Kosslyn’s lab, working on a study of differences in visual mental imagery by testing about 30 subjects on visual imagery tasks and performing statistical analysis on the results. She also assisted a study of frontal lobe activation in infants jointly undertaken by Harvard Medical School students and graduate students at Harvard’s Laboratory of Infant Study...
...failing after decades of government neglect. While residents of the mainland's wealthier cities enjoy decent medical care, the network of doctors, clinics and hospitals serving the rural poor are simply unavailable to huge swaths of the population. Preventable scourges like tuberculosis and hepatitis B ravage the countryside, infant mortality is creeping upward after decades in decline?and now, with millions of migrant workers leaving their jobs in cities and streaming back to the hinterlands to escape SARS, it seems inevitable that some will infect villagers in places least able to cope with a medical crisis. If that happens, China...
...United Nations and World Bank. Despite stagnation in some areas, most poor nations nearly doubled their average incomes from 1975 to 1999. Consistent improvements have been the trend even among the poorest nations on every significant measure of the Human Development Index, including income, education, life expectancy and infant mortality...
Baby Conner's body was found first, by a couple walking their dog near the Richmond shoreline, less than five miles from the marina where Scott said he'd gone fishing on Christmas Eve. The infant corpse was "pretty bad," said a Richmond police official. "You would have to look closely to see that it had human features." Laci's remains, discovered by another dog walker the next morning, were partial and mostly skeletal. The state of the bodies posed a challenge to forensic scientists, who managed to extract DNA from Laci's tibia, or shinbone, and her baby...