Word: infants
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Brazil, delegates representing 50,000 church-organized grass-roots communities declared at their annual meeting last year: "Land in the hands of those who don't need it, workers earning a pittance, hunger, infant mortality and illiteracy. This great sin is a social sin, and it is called the capitalist system...
...Sudden infant death syndrome is a killer that leaves no clues. Every year in the U.S., at least 8,000 babies die in their cribs with no discernible signs of distress. Crib death, as SIDS is commonly called, claims more babies between the ages of one month and one year than any other affliction. Doctors now believe that one cause is sleep apnea, the unexplained tendency of many babies to stop breathing while asleep. If that respiratory interruption continues for several minutes a baby can die of asphyxiation, unless a watchful parent rushes to shake the infant into breathing again...
...need for medical help. Most discouraging, apnea is almost certainly not the sole cause of SIDS (one Boston specialist puts the incidence rate at anywhere from 5% to 90% of all SIDS cases), so the alarm can only be a stopgap measure. But it should at least cut the infant death toll...
...Government, motherhood and free enterprise have given the nation a Christmas tree with such sublime harmony it is a true wonder to behold. The tree was ordered out of a seed catalogue by a son-in-law. As an infant it was tenderly watered by four grandchildren. At age six the blue spruce (Picea pungens) was a Mother's Day gift to Mrs. William E. Myers of York, Pa. Transplanted to her front yard, it was smothered with loving neglect for 15 years. No fertilizer. No watering. No insecticide. No pruning...
Last night, in the considerably smaller playpen of the IAB, Wagner's infant basketball program threw away its swaddling clothes. The Seahawks defeated Harvard 82-73, outscoring the Crimson 44-29 in a second half comeback...