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Mississippi's infant-mortality rate per 1,000 births in 2005, the highest in the nation. The U.S. average for 2003, the last year for which data have been compiled...
...generation ago, the social critic Christopher Lasch diagnosed narcissism as the signal disorder of contemporary American culture. The cult of celebrity, the marketing of instant gratification, skepticism toward moral codes and the politics of victimhood were signs of a society regressing toward the infant stage. You don't have to buy Freud's explanation or Lasch's indictment, however, to see an immediate danger in the way we examine the lives of mass killers. Earnestly and honestly, detectives and journalists dig up apparent clues and weave them into a sort of explanation. In the days after Columbine, for example, Harris...
...women who share milk say it's good for babies and moms. Lorna Medina, 30, who stayed home in Tucson, Ariz., after the birth of her child, also nursed the infant of her working sister for a year. Medina says it created a unique bond with her niece, a preemie who needed breast milk to grow. Chang says cross-nursing brought her closer to her neighbor. "It takes female friendship to another level. You're trusting another person to nurture your child," she says. And she adds that since she and her husband don't live near family...
Anyone familiar with Durang’s work will know that he does not write for children. His best plays are good-naturedly wicked send-ups of life’s pain and absurdity. They mine comic gold from such unfunny topics as depression, divorce, alcoholism, and infant mortality (as in his “The Marriage of Bette and Boo,” which the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club produced this fall...
...silver bullet for health in developing nations, according to a Harvard study published today in the New England Journal of Medicine. The researchers suggest that distributing multivitamins, such as B-complex, C, and E vitamins, to pregnant women could be a cost-effective way of reducing low infant birth weight, a significant risk factor for infant mortality and other afflictions like heart disease and diabetes. Building on earlier findings of improved birth outcomes for HIV-positive women, the study showed better outcomes for HIV-negative women taking multivitamins as well. The researchers found an 18 percent decrease in low birth...