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...first generation. He came to work the tin mines, a "sold piglet," as they were called, since they were sold by their parents with no real promise of return. She met him when she sold coconut cookies to the tin miners. They had five children, but twins died at birth...
...odds of two carriers meeting and having a child who suffers from the syndrome are about 1 in 100,000. David and Nancy, already the parents of a healthy son, Matt, drew that 1 in 100,000 chance, when 2 1/2 years ago Nancy gave birth to a severely disabled daughter named Hope, who struggled with life for 199 days. After Hope was found to have the ailment, David got a vasectomy. The odds of a woman's becoming pregnant after her partner has had the procedure are roughly...
...birth, Hope Guthrie had clubfeet; she would not suck. The doctor said, "There are a few little things we want to look at, but it's not Down's or anything." It was in fact far worse. Zellweger devastates essential bodies called peroxisomes in every cell. Zellweger newborns are severely brain damaged, often blind and deaf, unable to take food orally. Nancy asked whether the syndrome was fatal. The doctor replied, "There's no cure, and there's no treatment." That night David crawled into Nancy's hospital bed. They prayed, "God, our hearts are broken, but we still want...
SENTENCED. ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR., to 30 days in prison; for trespassing during a protest of U.S. Navy bombing exercises on Vieques; in San Juan. The latest of several high-profile protesters to be imprisoned, Kennedy may miss the birth of his sixth child, expected this week...
Poland's shipyards have a proud and venerable tradition of giving birth not only to huge cargo vessels but also to the Solidarity movement that swept the country toward democracy in the 1980s. Now the yards are being transformed by a new revolution--one rooted not in politics but in business. And their most recent product is quite an eye-catcher...