Word: infantes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...head of the Harvard infant study laboratory, Starch Professor of Psychology Jerome Kagan, said in the Chronicle that 15 to 20 percent of children have a predisposition towards shyness, but that only 9 to 12 percent actually become timid...
...public health campaign urging parents to put newborns to sleep on their back has reduced the nationwide incidence of sudden infant death syndrome 12% in just six months...
...could find their way into the milk supply. While there is a germ of truth to their argument, their tactics -- and their rhetoric -- go overboard. Calling BGH "crack for cows," an alert issued by Rifkin's Washington-based Foundation on Economic Trends warned consumers -- erroneously -- that ice cream and infant formula from treated cows would be "laced with genetically altered, artificial hormones" and "large amounts...
...Infant T, Infant M and Infant D occupy identical cribs in a small, drab ward on the second floor of Washington's District of Columbia General Hospital. A Fisher-Price mobile dangles above each bed. No one ever visits them. They have never been outdoors...
...Washington Junior League with other donations, the hospital runs a 10-week support program for patients drawn from its prenatal and drug-abuse wards. The women, many of them homeless, gather weekly for lectures. Each receives a healthy meal and two gifts, one for herself and another for her infant: a blanket, baby clothes, a car seat. "By the time the child is born," says Ivey, "they've assembled a small layette." Volunteer "godparents" help keep their proteges off drugs and attending their doctors' appointments...