Word: toddlerhood
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Einstein, King, Jefferson, Salk, Chopin--go ahead, clone them all. Chances are that at least three would be placed in day care at six weeks of age, given mind-numbing doses of television and videos from toddlerhood through adolescence and educated in dumbed-down public schools with expectations and outcomes far lower than those of a few generations past. Our biological gestation period may be only nine months, but our spiritual, emotional and intellectual development lasts a lifetime. TOM KOWITZ Portland, Oregon...
...position the actors mere feet, if not inches, from the audience as they portray over-the-top derangement. All are good, and the two nuttiest -- Gary Whitaker, as the youth who comes to believe he is an alien, and Brenda Blethyn, as the neglected wife who regresses into toddlerhood -- rip open psychic dungeons to unleash dragons of despair...
...when most babies are active and curious, Oliver Clark lay motionless in his crib, indifferent to his surroundings and gasping from pneumonia that he could not seem to shake. Oliver's prospects for active toddlerhood hardly improved when doctors discovered his problem: a hole in the wall separating the two ventricles, or pumping chambers, of his heart. Oliver was just a year old. Usually such patients do not undergo conventional open-heart surgery until they are at least two, and in the interim normal development may be seriously retarded. In Oliver's case, a team of surgeons...