Word: infantalizing
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...worst cases on record of a person knowingly transmitting the AIDS virus, 13 women McGee had sex with have tested HIV-positive. Some are pregnant. At least one has given birth to an infected infant. State public health officials, who are trying to track down and notify his sex partners, expect the tally to climb as more women come forward to be tested...
...Without a Penis" [BEHAVIOR, March 24] says this tragedy was due to a botched circumcision. What Americans need to know is that even a perfect circumcision causes harm. Medical studies report that circumcision removes a healthy, functioning part of the penis and causes overwhelming pain and trauma for the infant. There is no proven medical benefit from circumcision. Because of the lack of information, the U.S. is the only country that circumcises most of its male infants for nonreligious reasons. RONALD GOLDMAN, Executive Director Circumcision Resource Center Boston...
They're small white boxes with bright blue, stylized Chinese characters. Each box is ominously labeled, "Not a substitute for infant formula." They're available in every dining hall. And so far this year, Harvard students have taken more than 8,000 of them--nearly 1.25 boxes per undergraduate...
Most surviving families, however, felt differently, not quite able to see the new dimension their relatives had vanished into. "We are going through a tough time," said a relative of Yvonne McCurdy-Hill, a 39-year-old Cincinnati woman who left her five children (the youngest of whom were infant twins) to join the cult last August. "It's not the closure we wanted," said Alice Maeder, whose daughter Gail, 28, started following the cult in 1994 after her Santa Cruz, California, T-shirt shop failed, "but now we know where she is." Added Gail's father Robert...
...Korea is one of the top ten trading partners with the U.S., but Korean studies is still in an infant stage," Min said in a press release. "Harvard is the leader of Korean studies in the U.S., and we want to support this work...