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Most people are only dimly aware of the information in your delightful cover story on babies [Aug. 15]. I am a registered nurse in the maternity unit of a New York hospital, and when I talk to babies just out of the delivery room they respond to my voice and other sounds. They see and react to a soothing touch and consistently avoid painful or frightening stimuli. In the first week of life they are much more aware than most people realize...
...recent test, on July 27, was botched because of improperly placed shims, or washers, in the hot-thrust section of the missile. Glitches that have caused other failures include a faulty hydraulic pump and a misplaced wire that led to a short circuit. Officials of Martin Marietta declined to respond to Wickham's blast...
...admission last week. He charged that the Prime Minister's "behavior has been shown to be grossly improper." Hawke reacted sharply, saying he was "disgusted" that Peacock would make such allegations at a time when Hawke, because he was giving testimony at a hearing, could not respond. Hawke asserted that Peacock's charges amounted to defamation and protested to the commission about the opposition leader's statement. Peacock received a warning...
Thus the old keeps becoming the new. Much of what modern research is so elaborately documenting is what parents have always known-whether from instinct or from common sense or from the teachings of their own parents-that babies need and respond to love, attention, stimulation, education, in perhaps roughly that order. The research documents not only the importance of such needs but the damage that can occur when they go unanswered. Yet even these blessings of the latest orthodoxy can be overdone. "We are learning that everything will have an impact on an infant, but we still need...
...Psychology (1891) that the infant is so "assailed by eyes, ears, nose, skin and entrails at once" that he views the surrounding world as "one great blooming, buzzing confusion." As recently as 1964, a medical textbook reported not only that the average newborn could not fix its eyes or respond to sound but that "consciousness, as we think of it, probably does not exist in the infant...