Word: newborn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Judged by the record, the odds against a newborn daily newspaper's surviving infancy are astronomical. In Phoenix, Ariz., those long odds overtook the nation's youngest metropolitan daily, the Arizona Journal. Scant weeks short of its first birthday, the Journal found itself out of print, out of money, heavily in debt, and laid out for burial. About all that kept the infant paper out of the grave was a flicker of outside interest...
Certain other racial differences are less clearly adaptive. It is known that a newborn Negro baby has more advanced bone development than a white baby. The early lead of the Negro continues throughout growth, so that the adult Negro possesses a generally heavier skeleton than the white adult. Also, Negro babies seem to develop motor control more rapidly than white babies. Among Negro adults, there seem to be different endocrine mechanisms regulating body responses to stress...
...forehead), temporal (inside the temple), parietal (under the crown), and occipital (at the back of the head). Animals do not speak, write, or think abstractly, and presumably both halves of their brains are equally active. At birth, the human brain is little different from an animal's. A newborn infant who has suffered severe damage to the left side of the brain may have almost half of his brain removed and grow up intellectually normal: the right hemisphere learns to do most of the things that a whole brain...
...Innocent. In medieval France, painters were so ignorant of what a child was that they had no idea how to paint him. A 12th century miniature depicting the New Testament scene in which Jesus says, "Suffer little children ... to come unto me," shows Jesus surrounded by eight small men; newborn infants were commonly painted with the musculature of grownups, their age indicated only by their size. The reason, says Scholar Aries, is that during the Middle Ages, and for a long time afterward among the lower classes, children were thrown into the adult world...
...borders. At a three-nation meeting in Simla in 1914, Britain's representative. Sir Arthur McMahon, determined the eastern portion of the border by drawing a line on a map along the Himalayan peaks from Bhutan to Burma. The Tibetan and Chinese delegates initialed this map, but the newborn Chinese Republic refused to ratify it, and so has every Chinese government since...