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...been born with a still undiagnosed illness. He composed the poems and thoughts in Kiss of God: The Wisdom of a Silent Child by tapping on a primitive letter board. Ball's tenaciously loving parents read him literature and played him music from the time he was still an infant; by age 9, he was testing at a 12th-grade reading level. Particularly partial to Tolstoy, Ball offers musings that are often similarly elliptical: "I hope to gather thinkers/ To give them my thoughts about Love/ Love to clean their ideas/ That cleaning might loosen the love in their hearts...
...furniture; they're the original authors of WARNING: CONTENTS HOT and THIS LADDER IS TO BE USED FOR CLIMBING. Without the CPSC, Americans wouldn't know the dangers of rickety swing sets, toxic crayons or detachable doll's eyes. Last week the CPSC announced that parents shouldn't allow infants to sleep with them in bed, owing to the risk of suffocation, strangulation or death by "overlying"--when a sleeping parent mistakenly rolls onto an infant. This announcement was based on data collected from 1990 to 1997 showing that on average, 64 American babies die each year while "co-sleeping...
Bloom's Bill of Rights outlines six points targeting these causes: the right to information, the right to mother and infant care, the right to childhood immunization, the right to teenage counseling, the right to health screening and the right to a healthy environment...
...their parents - particularly in waterbeds - than in their own cribs. Over the course of eight years, 515 children died as a result of mishaps in their parents? beds, versus 400 who were killed by accidents in a crib. These fatalities are separate from so-called crib deaths - or Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) - where young children die for no apparent reason. Particularly risky to infants, say the study?s authors, are the weight of unconscious adults, the spaces between the headboard and mattress in many beds and the indentations common in older waterbeds...
...been the protector of that nation's state of high corruption for the better part of a century. But it sure helps ? and this election year the Reform party has a chance to begin living up to its very purposeful name. There is perhaps an equal chance that the infant party will turn instead down the path that leads to the electoral deep dungeon where all hot-air revolutions...