Word: infantalizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...looks like a nursery-size flying saucer. But poking up where the antenna ought to be is a rubber nipple, and inside is tepid baby formula. The strange contraption is nothing more far out than a new plastic baby bottle called Beniflex, designed by Mead Johnson Laboratories to simplify infant feeding and provide added safeguards against nursery bacteria. As more and more U.S. hospitals fight to beat down rising costs and rampant infections, the oddly shaped dispensers are beginning to replace the standard glass bottles...
More than just a new bottle, Beniflex is an entire infant-feeding system. Everything about it is presterilized and disposable after a single use. Ready-to-use formulas supplied in quart cans are drained into the bottle through a plastic tube inserted by needle into the nipple -a process that takes only 15 seconds, and can be done right in the nursery. There is no more tedious measuring and mixing of formulas, no overnight refrigeration, no rewarming or washing and sterilizing of bottles for reuse. To buy and prepare Beniflex costs only 14? per unit, about the same as present...
...degree of corruption. Today Haiti provides its President with five palaces, a private police force known as the "Ton-ton Macoute" (which is Creole for "bogeymen"), and countless sources of income. In a nation with a 10 per cent literacy rate, high unemployment, and a 50 per cent infant mortality rate, only 15 per cent of the budget goes for operations, while 85 per cent is spent on salaries for the dictator's associates. The government's response to erosion, a serious problem for Haiti's almost entirely agricultural economy, is indicative of its philosophy. Of the $112,000 budgeted...
...poems about her. In the current Harper's, Penelope Gilliatt, wife of Playwright John Osborne, moons about Marilyn's "innocent and anxious talent'' that was wasted in the Hollywood child-woman fixation: "One sensed that Marilyn Monroe had probably been made tragically unhappy by the infant mold that was forced upon...
...success in providing effective preventive medicine is indicated by statistics. Compared with New York Blue Cross-Blue Shield subscribers, HIP members have lower hospitalization rates and lower rates of infant mortality...