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...supported by recent research that has shown a decrease in the number of cases of sudden-infant-death syndrome (SIDS) in countries where parents were urged to keep their kids on their sides or back. In the U.S., SIDS cases number 6,000 annually. Child-care expert Dr. Benjamin Spock told TIME Daily that the conventional wisdom on this issue has frequently flip-flopped over the years. Advice from America's Baby Doctor emeritus: Parents should accept the new evidence and abide by it, but realize that placing babies on their back is no guarantee of safety...
...Harvard, he can put away the Tylenol and break out the Dr. Spock. And unless Murphy succumbs to the mystique, he'll move on in five or 10 years, his job done...
Vulcan, mother tongue of the pointy-eared Spock, never really took off, but Okrand hit linguistic pay dirt when he was hired a year later to do Klingon dialogue for Star Trek III. He took his job more seriously than anyone expected, creating a substantial vocabulary and some kinky and sophisticated grammatical rules that are linguistically solid, albeit "kind of unnatural from a human point of view." (Klingon sentences, for instance, follow a bizarre object-verb-subject syntax.) In 1985 Okrand published the vocabulary and rules in The Klingon Dictionary, which now has 250,000 copies in print...
...dark, gritty show really be the latest spin- off in the Star Trek saga -- that seemingly never-ending cult series about a Utopian future in which knowledge and technology conquer disease and poverty and all the races and species in the universe coexist in near perfect harmony? Yes, Mr. Spock, this is Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, a syndicated show premiering the week of Jan. 4. It takes Star Trek, created 27 years ago by visionary producer Gene Roddenberry, further into uncharted territory than ever before, and is the first Trek venture initiated since Roddenberry died last year...
...PARENTS DID NOT HAVE ENOUGH TO WORRY about, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine is trying to make them feel guilty about giving milk to their children. At a press conference in Boston, a group of well-known physicians, including, of all people, Dr. Benjamin Spock, questioned the nutritional value of cow's milk and warned that it could actually prove harmful to some youngsters. "There's no reason to drink cow's milk at any time in your life," said Dr. Frank Oski, director of pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University. "It was designed for calves...