Word: infantes
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There has been no such improvement in many other areas. In black Africa, some national fertility rates have actually increased in the past decade. The average number of children born to a woman in Kenya is now eight; when that is combined with a declining infant mortality rate, the country's population could balloon from 20 million today to 83 million in 2025. In Bangladesh, the fertility rate figure is 6.3, which means that 266 million people (nearly three times the present population) might be squeezed into an area the size of Wisconsin by 2025. With a fertility rate...
...racial situation in South Africa has changed little in the past 50 years, according to a 700-page survey. By any measure, the country's whites are still far better off than the nonwhite majority population. The most recent figures show that whites have the lowest infant mortality rate (13 per 1,000 births, compared with 80 per 1,000 births among blacks); for every dollar earned by a white household, an Asian family brings home 59?, "coloreds" (people of mixed race) 40? and blacks...
...inseparably interwoven with the genetic. The health of the mother, the practices of giving birth, the family structure and the way the family treats its new member during its first crucial days all form part of the newborn's environment. As these factors vary from culture to culture, the infant shapes his behavior in response...
...fathers, nearly all black. One of the center's typical clients is Donna, 15. Her parents are heroin addicts, and her month-old-child's father has been charged with burglary. But her future is not absolutely hopeless: the center has taught her the rudiments of infant care, found her a doctor and persuaded her to return to school...
...right, with the bustle and the chained monkey? She is the artist's mistress, Dot (Bernadette Peters), pretty as a picture but not quite so still; she would rather be at the Follies. See the white bundle a man at the rear is holding? That is the infant daughter of Dot and the artist; she will grow up in America, and in Act II her grandson George, a sculptor, will take a journey of self-discovery back to his roots on this island in the Seine...