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AAP News Vol. 15 No. 12 December 1999, p. 1 © 1999 American Academy of Pediatrics
When Janet Reno was state's attorney in Dade County, Fla., she visited the "crack babies" in Jackson Memorial Hospital's neonatal unit. The pediatricians, child development experts and nurses there taught her how important the first three years of life are. They explained that a person's conscience and concepts of reward and punishment are developed in those early years. In essence, they changed the way she looked at life. "Whatever I've done as attorney general has been profoundly influenced by the pediatricians of America," Reno told AAP members at the Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.
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