Word: infantalizing
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...only remaining superpower had just referred to his opponent as “Senator Kennedy”. It had never before occurred to me that being “liberal” was a bad thing, and, since I have always considered myself to be so ideologically inclined, my infant life in politics flashed before my eyes. Would I be branded for all my days, stripped of all credibility by this self-imposed semantic burden? Just as I was teetering precariously on the brink of emotional devastation and a career in consulting, I remembered...
Anyone who has ever cared for an extremely premature infant knows the stakes are high. Doctors can sustain a tiny baby with severe bleeding in the brain, with lungs so fragile that even the gentlest respirator can permanently damage them. But should they? "That's when neonatology becomes a difficult and ethically fraught field," says Dr. Myra Wyckoff of the University of Texas Southwestern Health Science Center in Dallas. No matter how you answer the question, surely the best solution is to find a way to reduce the number of extremely premature births from happening in the first place. --Reported...
...December because the ocean freezes later each year. Berry picking begins in July instead of August. Most distressing for the Inupiaq is that thin ice makes it harder to hunt oogruk--the bearded seal that is a staple of their diet and culture. At the Nayokpuk Trading Co., where infant formula sells for $21 a package and the only eggs for sale, sent by bush plane, sit broken in their shells, the talk is of the disruption of nature's rhythms. "When was the last time we went hunting on snow machines?" owner Percy Nayokpuk asks a customer. "About...
...estimated that her paper will spend about $120,000 covering the Games. Still, hefty advertising has offset such costs; China's state-run CCTV, for instance, says it is raking in $60 million in ad revenues?a remarkable feat in a country where advertising is still an infant industry. Everything about the Olympics has been marketed, right down to sponsorship of the televised medal count that flashed on TV screens several times an hour, courtesy of the motor-oil brand Kunlun...
...also uncertainty in men's roles at home. Says Bob Silverstein, an employment consultant and personal life coach in New York City: "Home has become one more place where men feel they cannot succeed." For as much as women desire and demand their husbands' assistance in floor waxing and infant swaddling, many men complain that their wives refuse to surrender control of the domestic domain and are all too adept at critiquing the way their husbands choose to help out. Haltzman, who gathers research on husbands through his SecretsOfMarriedMen.com website, points out that "there are a lot of things...