Word: infantalizing
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...befits what is still an infant medium, CU-SeeMe's performance is a little sluggish on most Net links -- the black-and-white images are akin to something you might see in a nickelodeon -- but capabilities are improving quickly. Viewing choices are limited by the fact that right now there are only a few dozen Net sites, most of them academic, with CU-SeeMe capability. Browsers might end up staring at an empty physics lab in Norway or a blank chalkboard in Israel. But already CU-SeeMe promises low-cost video conferencing for students, journalists and the dateless. Using...
...percent of the population has an income below the poverty line. Black men living in Harlem are less likely to reach age 65 than men in Bangladesh. The murder rate for males nationally is 10.2 per 100,000 people; in Harlem it's over 100. The area's infant-mortality rate is 60% higher than that of New York City as a whole and can be attributed largely to alcohol and drug abuse by expectant mothers...
...novel's principal setting, though the ramified and exceedingly tenuous plot spreads across the U.S. and into the '90s. Dunne invents a child star named Blue Tyler (born Melba Mae Toolate, or perhaps not, because her birth mother is supposed to have sold her as an infant to a Mrs. Toolate for the price of a bus ticket out of -- maybe -- Yuma, Arizona). Blue isn't cute like Shirley Temple (that "midget in drag," as one of Dunne's wise-guy industry types calls Blue's competition). Rather, she conveys adult sexuality to an unsettling degree, in part because...
Everyone knows that breast-feeding is natural and that doctors agree it is the best way to feed an infant. It is a less advertised fact that not every woman -- or baby -- can do it. "In our attempt to promote breast-feeding, we have overstated how easy it is," says Dr. Marianne Neifert, medical director of the lactation program at Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center in Denver. Neifert is an expert on a rare condition called low-milk syndrome, which occurs when a baby fails, as Bradley did, to get enough nutrition. Her studies suggest that perhaps...
...proof, say experts, is in the diaper. In the first few weeks of life, a nursing baby normally wets at least six diapers a day and has very frequent bowel movements. For mothers who cannot produce enough milk, the solution is easy: supplement the baby's diet with infant formula...