Word: infantalizes
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...Nerve Transplant In a surgical first, Houston doctors transplanted nerves from a living donor to her infant son. To repair torn nerves in eight-month-old Rodrigo Cervantes Corona's left shoulder and arm, doctors took 3 ft. of neural tissue from his mother's legs and tracked it from the right side of his body to his left hand. The transplanted nerves act as a conduit to allow the baby's undamaged right-hand nerves to grow over to his left side. The mother will feel a bit of numbness on each side of her feet for the rest...
...Joanie James NY specializes in clothing for women's sizes 4-14 and girls from infant to size 10. Her women's wear is unique in that it is cut to flatter the feminine, hourglass figure. Using design categories targeted to satisfy the needs of today's multifaceted woman, James' silk evening wear line has "fancy dress" appeal for formal wear, brides, bridesmaids and flower girls. Her wool jersey knits make a classy transition from the office to after work; and stretch velvets work for every day as well as parties and nightclubbing. An elegant emerald green glitter tank dress...
...sense, the holiday is about hope, and hope not in the midst of success and triumph, but hope in the midst of darkness and despair. It offers what has been termed a "sign of contradiction" to the world--a messiah who takes on the form of a weak, helpless infant and who brings light to the dark of the year...
...spirit that animates our University, by contrast, has little time for infant messiahs. We don't need them here: we bow at the altars of worldly success. Our idols are Law School, or Goldman Sachs or a dot-com windfall. Forty percent of our classmates will be millionaires, campus legend has it, and no one wants to be left...
...Kismet quickly withdraws and flashes a look of bewilderment. Most winningly, the robot is able to engage in a babbling "conversation" with humans in its midst. When it "talks," it takes turns with its human interlocutor, a decent representation of a conversation between an adult and an infant. By one measure, Kismet is a clear success: people love it. When visitors arrive in the lab, they are drawn to the robot. When Kismet engages them, they are invariably charmed. "It's human nature," says Breazeal. "They are very concerned about keeping it happy." Proof of its winning personality...