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Since 1992, when the American Academy of Pediatrics launched its Back to Sleep campaign, U.S. rates of sudden infant death syndrome have dropped 40%. But doctors have also seen an increase in flattened heads, a side effect of sleeping on one's back. Prevention is easy, with a few precautions taken in the baby's first few months of life. Doctors suggest alternating the position of the head nightly, to left or right, when putting the infant to bed. Changing the crib's location helps too, so that the baby isn't always peering out the same side. A stretch...
...arrived like a baby on my office doorstep, weighing several pounds and wrapped in a white, fuzzy swaddle. Underneath the cloth was a photocopied advance of Craig Thompson's mammoth, 592-page "illustrated novel," "Blankets" (Top Shelf Productions; $29.95). Like a needy infant it demanded immediate attention, compelling me to read it right away until finished. It consumed my afternoon, but I felt this book was indeed gifted and destined for a great future...
...leader-in-training was shot to death, his body mutilated,” he says. He had only recently adopted an infant whose own mother had disappeared abruptly...
...what ought to have happened according to various 'party lines.'" His stinging 1938 memoir Homage to Catalonia brought him vilification from the left. The fearful Orwell borrowed a revolver from Hemingway. He and Eileen took a house on a remote Scottish island, raised goats and chickens, and adopted an infant boy they named Richard, after Orwell's father. Despite continuing infidelities, Orwell remained a devoted dad and husband. He was not, however, a healthy one, afflicted regularly with bronchitis and pneumonia. Eileen had her problems as well. In 1945, while Orwell was away in France, she had surgery to remove...
...files down the horns of a familiar dilemma. On page 24, the authors present the case of a seven-month-pregnant peasant woman who is forced by family-planning officials to abort. She submits, but the baby survives. When the woman refuses to let the doctors "dispose" of her infant son, the book says practitioners should "act according to the one-child policy... [and] point out that because medical abortions can affect a child's normal development, she should abandon" her protests and allow euthanasia. If that doesn't work, the authors say, "let the family-planning office decide...