In addition, children absorb a greater percentage of ingested Pb, and circulating Pb has greater access to the brain because the blood brain barrier is not yet fully established (Cory-Slechta and Schaumburg 2000; Leggett 1993).
No adopted child comes without a history, and being adopted, in itself, creates a history: so any family that absorbs an adopted child has a whole tranche of factors that make it subtly different from the next family.
[At Sophia University] I was a Japanese literature major but I read lots of comics for children; you absorb a lot of Japanese that way.
Like a mother tongue, the stories are acquired, early, to become part of our mental furniture (think of the first books you absorbed as a child).
In it, the mystical, humanistic words of the eighteenth-century English poet are fused with the melodies, drones, and rhythms of the Appalachian string-band music that Redbone absorbed as a child from her grandparents, in Black Mountain, Kentucky.
Rousseau may well have received the inspiration for that belief from Mme de Warens; for although she had become a communicant of the Roman Catholic Church, she retained and transmitted to Rousseau much of the sentimental optimism about human purity that she had herself absorbed as a child from the mystical Protestant Pietists who were her teachers in the canton of Bern.
The Children's Post-Pesticide Appliconductedposure Stody (CPPAES) was conducted to look at the distribution of chlorpyrifos within a home environment for 2 weeks after a routine professional crack-and-crevice application and to determine the amount of the chlorpyrifos that is absorbed by a child living within the home.
Sierra Leone will also have to absorb an unknown number of child soldiers, some as young as six or seven, who fought in the bush for years.
In Italy the public kindergartens (almost 153,000 children enrolled) absorb an average annual cost by municipalities of 7,481 euro and an average contribution from the families of 1,796 euro per child (ISTAT, 2014).
It absorbs a larger portion of a child's life than a school does, and it makes a far more ambitious attempt to offer itself as a kind of alternative community.
