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...even before it has been fertilized. The technique could enable thousands of mothers with a family history of genetic disorders to avoid giving birth to an afflicted child without having to undergo abortion. Dr. C. Thomas Caskey, president of the American Society of Human Genetics, calls the new method "promising" but stresses that more testing is needed...
Even if the method proves effective, the costs are considerable -- up to $6,000 for the analysis and IVF. Moreover, IVF is a taxing procedure that usually requires repeated cycles of medication to enhance ovulation and delicate manipulations to remove eggs and implant embryos...
...indicates that these stereotypes are no longer caricatures but facts. For the reader, the numbers themselves rendered the caricatures real and the houses obvious. Dean Jewett's omission of house identities is a fleeting salve on the painful reality which his own results have made plain. This method is self-defeating. Craig Katz '91 Steven Kawut...
...members of the panel--sponsored jointly by the Kennedy School, the International Tusk Fund and the Energy and Environmental Policy Center--said the most effective method of protecting elephants is to involve communities at a grass-roots level...
...great degree, American business has turned to its principal competitor, Japan, to learn how to restore quality. Ironically, what U.S. executives think of as "the Japanese method" was pioneered largely by an American statistician, W. Edwards Deming, 89, who began preaching the quality gospel to receptive Japanese industrialists in 1950. During the 1980s, thousands of U.S. companies borrowed the so-called quality-circle concept, in which teams of employees are encouraged to participate actively in monitoring and improving their part of the production process...