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...those who handle their medical treatment once again became an emotional public issue last week in two controversial court cases. In New York, the U.S. Justice Department filed an unprecedented lawsuit aimed at finding out whether a couple improperly refused to permit life-prolonging surgery on their severely handicapped newborn infant. In California, Elizabeth Bouvia, 26, who has been rendered helpless by cerebral palsy, was in a hospital, where she wanted to starve herself to death. When hospital officials told her that they could not aid her suicide, she went to court seeking the right to be treated...
...killed. One Navy corpsman had just married a Lebanese woman. He had returned from his honeymoon a day early, on Sunday, just in time for a rendezvous with death. Some recalled the Marine staff sergeant who a few days before the attack was proudly showing a videotape of his newborn son, whom he had never seen and now never will. Few could avoid pointing out that the tour of duty for most of those killed had almost ended, that they were scheduled to leave Beirut in a few weeks for the States...
...roll enchantress (Bella Donna, The Wild Heart); and Kim Anderson, 32, record promoter; after eight months of marriage; in Los Angeles. Anderson was formerly married to Nicks' close friend Robin Anderson, who died of leukemia in 1982 and who had asked the singer to take care of her newborn daughter...
...oddest elements in their development is that infants soon lose many of the skills they had at birth. A newborn baby that is held upright on a table is nearly able to walk while suspended; immersed in a tub of water, it makes a fairly impressive try at swimming. Those abilities deteriorate within a few months. The same process seems to occur with intellectual skills that are not used. Psychologists Janet Werker of Dalhousie University in Halifax, N.S., and Richard Tees of the University of British Columbia have shown that babies of six to eight months can distinguish sounds that...
Most current advice givers urge anxious parents not to take such standardization too seriously. Pediatrician T. Berry Brazelton (see box), who is publishing next month a revision of his 1969 bestseller, Infants and Mothers, begins by declaring: "There are as many individual variations in newborn patterns as there are infants." Still, though a child's development during its first year is far slower than that of a monkey or even an elephant, it is nonetheless so dramatic-from lying flat on its back to the first creeping across the floor to the first faltering steps around the corner...