Word: infantalizes
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Arriving at the Mississippi Women's Medical Clinic in Jackson, Tucker learns that the cops have chased away the crazed protester, but someone yells, "God will bring you down! Woe to the man who will take the blood of an innocent child!" A young mother displays a diapered infant. Tucker shakes his head and walks inside; he changes into blue scrubs and starts on the first of this afternoon's 23 abortions...
...presidency in Guatemala of human-rights champion Ramiro de Leon Carpio, indigenous peoples like the Maya remain at the bottom rung of the political and economic ladder. In Chiapas, where the natives speak nine different languages, literacy rates are about 50%, compared with 88% for Mexico as a whole. Infant mortality among the Maya is 500 per 1,000 live births, 10 times as high as the national average. And 70% of the Indians in the countryside lack access to potable water...
...Connecticut two years ago, a teenager named Gina Pellegrino fled a New Haven hospital, where she had registered under a phony name, hours after giving birth to a girl. A search was made for the infant's biological parents, and Pellegrino's parental rights were terminated a few weeks afterward; the abandoned baby was placed for adoption. A few months later, Pellegrino reappeared and sued to regain custody, which would mean taking the baby out of a secure home and sending her to live with her mother in a homeless shelter. Late last year the state supreme court granted Pellegrino...
...slightly damaged drawing by Michelangelo, Holy Family with the Infant Baptist on the Rest on the Flight into Egypt, brought $6.32 million at auction at Christie's in London -- a world record for an old-master drawing. The buyer was the supremely well endowed J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu, California...
...when half of all infants in the Netherlands were placed on their belly before going to sleep, there were 1.3 cases of SIDS per 1,000 babies. (The U.S. rate is 1.7 per 1,000.) After a national campaign to switch sleeping positions, the already low Dutch rate fell to 0.6 cases per 1,000. A similar campaign in Britain, which was launched three years ago and included warnings against parental smoking or keeping the baby too hot, produced equally dramatic results. Last month the government reported that the rate of unexplained infant deaths for England and Wales had been...