Word: three-year-old
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...operation of Jikei Hospital's "stork cradle," earlier this month, an unexpectedly large package arrived. The new service consists of a small hatch facing the outside of the building where desperate parents could safely and discreetly leave unwanted infants. But nobody was expecting to see a three-year-old deposited in the hatch. The toddler reportedly told doctors at the hospital in the southern Japanese city of Kumamoto that "I came with Daddy," and knew his own name, which enabled authorities to identify the father...
...Like the three-year-old Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI), the department will be focusing in large part on stem-cell biology. But the new department will have a somewhat different purview, including the instruction of undergraduates...
...Back in Nanuku, Dharmendra Prasad's three-year-old son is sick. Prasad can't tell if the skinny toddler's illness came from the faecal scum in the open drain next to the family's tin shanty, or from the clouds of mosquitoes swarming among the surrounding mangroves. He just hopes it doesn't worsen because he hasn't enough money to feed his family, let alone pay doctors' bills. For the past three weeks, the father of three has failed to obtain his regular $2 an hour construction work; a messenger has just dropped by to tell...
...could tell us the truth before we read it in the papers that our mother had committed suicide. Because up until then, he had always told us she died of pneumonia. I asked him once, "Why did you do that?" He said, "What do you tell a three-year-old who doesn't understand?" And he said, "Once having told a three-year-old something that they could cope with at the time, how do you determine the age at which you tell them the truth? Every year would go by and I'd say, could I tell them...
Gouinlock, whose responsibilities will include working with the College Events Board and developing programming at the Student Organization Center in Hilles (SOCH) and the Cambridge Queen’s Head, is the first female named to the three-year-old fellowship...