MSNBC - In her new book, “Buy Buy Baby,” Thomas explains how a well-meaning 1994 report by the Carnegie Corporation led to the creation of a vast marketing effort aimed at parents of young children. The report, called “Starting Points,” used neuroscience to
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Philadelphia Daily News - GENEVA, Switzerland - The famous Gerber Baby is changing parents. Nestl SA said yesterday that it was buying Gerber Products Co. for $5.5 billion, giving the world’s biggest food and drink company the largest share of the market for baby food. The

Unknown child buried in Port Orchard
Seattle Post Intelligencer - PORT ORCHARD, Wash. — Under a small white tent at Sunset Lane Memorial Cemetery, about 35 people gathered to help lay to rest an unknown child who was alive for just a day. Thursday’s burial was for “Baby Jane Doe,” whose frail body was found in a

Baby stabbed 135 times, teen charged with first-degree murder
KSTP - STILLWATER, Minn. (AP) - A 17-year-old stabbed her newborn baby 135 times and disposed of her body in a garbage can outside her home in Oakdale, authorities alleged Thursday. Nicole Marie Beecroft was charged Thursday with first-degree murder. The

Boston Online - Tiffany Heineman, a senior from New Jersey, stopped by after class to debate for a few minutes, asking when a baby becomes a baby. “When does it become a human being? When there are 46 chromosomes?” she asked. “So a fertilized chicken egg is a chicken
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New practices cut pain of shots for infants
Detroit News - It’s the old story: Baby gets shots. Baby howls. But increasingly, pediatricians and researchers say it doesn’t have to be that bad. There’s a growing body of evidence that relatively simple and inexpensive pain-management techniques can ease the
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