Word: infants
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Near the top of the agenda of every socialist regime are elaborate programs for improving health care and expanding educational facilities. These states can boast that infant mortality has dropped dramatically, life expectancy is on the rise, and illiteracy is gradually being conquered. In short, state-provided social services are one promise that socialism has kept...
...farm produces, the PBB has affected them, Thomas said. He said his family is chronically anemic and fatigued, frequently suffering from abnormally stiff and sore joints. "We saw the same symptons in our cows," he said. His son, who has been exposed to PBB since he was an infant and has abnormally high levels of the chemical in his body, has an enlarged liver and spleen. The doctor who examined him thought the condition may have been due to the PBB, but knowledge of PBB's effects is so sketchy that no one can directly tie any one ailment...
DIED. Dr. Martha May Eliot, 86, unpretentious, single-minded former chief of the U.S. Children's Bureau (1951-56) who was responsible for a dramatic decline in maternal and infant death rates; of bronchial pneumonia; in Cambridge, Mass. In 1921 Dr. Eliot left her private pediatric practice ("I never felt comfortable about asking for my fees") to study rickets, and along with Dr. Edwards Park of Yale discovered the preventive value of sunshine and cod liver oil. In 1947 she became the first woman to be president of the American Public Health Association...
...wife, Veronica, and another daughter. The room filled gradually with relatives, gym figures, musicians, sycophants, friends. His dietician entered, carrying a bushel bag of carrots. The champ suddenly clucked. Everyone jumped. This sound of a popping champagne cork is Ali's command signal. It was a summons for his infant daughter, Laila, dutifully brought in by her nanny and admired by the claque...
...Menichella and Campari Knoeffler and backstroke Geoff Seelen, all high-school All-Americans who have consistently gone under two minutes as the top performers in their respective events this years. Add to that crew sprinter Julian Mack and distance-man Michael Coglin, who have emerged while still in the infant stages of their college careers as two of the East's finest freestylers, and you see that Orschiedt has created a Yardling goldmine for his successor Bernal...