Word: infantalizes
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When a baby is born in Rwanda, a traditional ceremony takes place on the eighth day of the child's life. Banana beer is served, and the community gathers as the newborn is brought out and held up to the sky. The infant is scrutinized, and names are suggested by family, friends and neighbors until the father hears one that sounds right...
...most pressing public-health issues on the planet. At least 11% of the population is HIV positive. Malaria, cholera and other diseases are rampant and periodically spike to epidemic levels. Malnutrition is a chronic problem here as in much of Africa, with 10% of the children afflicted. And infant mortality rates at 125 deaths per 1,000 births are at double the world average. For such doctors as Emmanuel d'Harcourt, 34, a program manager for the International Rescue Committee, that means having to build a health-care system in the midst of a full-blown health crisis, improvising with...
...more than cloth, an old blade and a string to tie off the umbilical cord. While the Rwandan government hopes eventually to have most women deliver in hospitals, that is wishful thinking in a country with only a few thousand hospital beds. The best chance of lowering maternal and infant mortality is equipping midwives with a few simple tools: razor blades, cloth, swaddling, disinfectant, soap and rubber gloves, plus training in hygienic techniques. The cost...
...fictional writer Suzanne Alexander, consists of a lecture Alexander rehearses in the library stacks of her old university. For the current American Repertory Theatre production, however, director Marcus Stern has reset the play during the actual delivery of Alexander's lecture concerning the kidnapping and murder of her two infant daughters. Instead of the private recollections of a horribly wronged mother, we hear the carefully controlled rage of a public speaker. Instead of the mountainous stacks of books called for in Kennedy's script, we see a nearly empty classroom (brilliantly conceived by set designer Molly Hughes in a cream...
...Scenes at That '70s Show--billed by producer Carsey-Werner as "the first-ever weekly Internet streaming series for a network show" (whew!)--it made sense. The jumpy video, the garbled audio (over a 56.6K modem), the thrown-together interviews with the Fox hit's stars--the infant days of TV must have been like this. It was enough to make one nostalgic for today...