Word: infantalizes
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...titles--including, ominously, zero from home-video-titan Disney--should come out this year (a few highlights: Raging Bull, Twister, Legends of the Fall and Tony Bennett's mtv Unplugged), which is a lot fewer than this new medium needs in the long run but more support than the infant CD industry got in its rookie year, 1983, when Sony moved a mere 35,000 players. "We think DVD will ramp up more quickly," says Briesch, who predicts 10 million players sold by decade...
...each morning, Alberta Early has arrived at the Carter Development Center on Milwaukee's near North Side. Along with Shirlene Devougas, Early cares for eight infants in one of the center's day-care programs, and three of their charges show up before 7, so Early has to be ready for them. By 8:30 all the babies are present, and Early and Devougas give them breakfast. "Everybody wants to be fed at the same time," says Early with a laugh. The room is clean and bright, painted in a pleasant combination of green and white. Some infants crawl around...
...that reason, the day-care part of workfare is both an enormous risk and an enormous opportunity. Few of Wisconsin's poor children will get the excellent care that Alberta Early provides at the Carter Center, which charges $8,476 a year for an infant (less for an older child). In fact, some mothers may have to take their children out of the center because their co-payment will rise. What happens to the 2,700 children of the working poor who lose their subsidies altogether is one of the many imponderables as Wisconsin enters the next phase...
...pols and petty criminals use the same buzzphrases these days, they probably get them from TV, like everyone else. One week on Friends, when David Schwimmer's all-thumbs buddies offered to baby-sit his infant son, he said, "I don't think so"; an hour later, Jerry Seinfeld told an unctuous magician who asked to borrow him for a trick, "I don't think...
...authors suggested that the surge of maternal estrogen to the infant, which is correlated with higher birth weights, may be a factor that increases risk of breast cancer for the female fetus...