Word: infantalizes
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...senior Hong Kong-based securities regulator,as vice chairman of China's Securities Regulatory Commission, the first time Beijing has filled a senior government position with someone from outside the mainland; in Beijing. A U.S.-educated lawyer who was born in Shanghai but moved to Hong Kong as an infant, Cha had to renounce her American citizenship to take...
Although celiac disease is a hereditary disorder, it can strike at any time, starting in childhood. "The first peak occurs at one to three years of age," says Dr. Marvin Ament, a pediatric gastroenterologist at UCLA. "Typically, within six months after the introduction of cereals [to an infant's diet], you'll see a change in the stools. There's progressively more diarrhea, and you'll notice that the growth rate starts to slow." Other peaks occur just before puberty...
FLAT HEADS Placing infants on their backs to sleep has dramatically reduced cases of sudden infant death syndrome, but is causing a side effect: heads that are flat in the back. The condition can lead to misalignment of the ears and jaw. Fortunately, the softness of an infant's skull, which causes the problem, also makes it easy to fix. Babies should get plenty of tummy time when they are awake...
...symbolic profundities. The young couple announce cutely that they are having a baby, go offstage and return in seconds with their new bundle of joy. The older couple then arrive, and, after quite a bit of gab, steal the baby and proceed to convince the younger pair that the infant never existed. These kinds of mysterious mind games, of course, are old hat to anyone who has been paying attention to Pinter, Mamet or even Albee in his better days. But here's it's especially facile and inauthentic: The "power" this older couple has over the younger seems...
...Annick DeBaets, 32, is a volunteer from Belgium. In the two years she has spent here in Tugela Ferry, she has learned all about how hard it is to break the cycle of HIV transmission from mother to infant. The door to this 48-cot ward is literally a revolving one: sick babies come in, receive doses of rudimentary antibiotics, vitamins, food; go home for a week or a month; then come back as ill as ever. Most, she says, die in the first or second year. If she could just follow up with really intensive care, believes Dr. DeBaets...