Word: two-year-old
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...fact that farming requires long-term planning. In addition, the "rural brigades," groups of soldiers who occasionally visited farmers during the martial law period to remind them of the government's good intentions, hardly inspired confidence. Scoffs Szur: "They knew less about farming than my two-year-old daughter. They pretended to be interested in me, but they really wanted to hear about my political views." Farmer Jan Skrzypkowski was spared such visits only, he suspects, because his are the kind of views that the brigades did not wish to hear: "There's big talk in the press...
...Michael Groetsch, director of probation for the New Orleans Municipal Court, sees scores of accused wife abusers every week. "There is a very interesting analogy between a male batterer and a two-or three-year-old child," Groetsch says. "His tantrums are very similar to those of a two-year-old. Like a narcissistic child, the batterer bites when he's throwing a tantrum. I have seen many women come in with teeth marks all over their arms and legs...
...Arcadia, for example, a hernia operation for a two-year-old child recently cost $450; the same surgery, if performed at a local children's hospital, would have run to $ 1,200 (excluding the surgeon's and anesthesiologist's fees in both cases). Similarly, cataract surgery at the center costs $700, compared with $1,700 charged at nearby Methodist Hospital of Southern California. Instead of paying $100 to $400 for a night in the hospital, patients at the new clinics are sent home with instructions on how to care for themselves. "They know what to anticipate...
...Debbie and Maury Fisher, having a baby is a risky business. The Roehls both carry the gene for Niemann-Pick disease, a metabolic disorder that has already taken the life of their first child. The Fishers are carriers of Tay-Sachs disease, a fatal ailment that afflicts their two-year-old son. For both couples, the odds are one in four that any child they bear will be defective. When the two wives became pregnant earlier this year, they intended to undergo amniocentesis, a test to determine if the fetuses were normal. Each planned to abort...
...Fairchild Camera & Instrument Corp. She and her neighbors are charging Fairchild with negligent contamination of a public well serving 700 residents. They are also holding the company responsible for seven deaths in the past three years, as well as a number of miscarriages and birth defects. "People here were health conscious," says Ross, who blames the congenital heart ailment of her two-year-old daughter Juliana on toxins from the tainted well. "There were so many medical problems on our street we joked that maybe we were living on a toxic dump...