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David Marsh, a specialist in the genetics of allergy at Johns Hopkins, believes his laboratory has found evidence of a recessive gene that is at least partly responsible for susceptibility to allergies. And allergies indeed tend to run in families. If one parent has allergies, the odds are that close to 1 in 4 of the children will also be allergic. If both mother and father are allergic, probably most of their offspring will...
...fluttering over front porches, hand-painted signs tacked to trees announcing weekend garage sales, white-haired elders watering lawns, teenage boys working on cars. But somehow, as Fisher traveled that brief and reassuring stretch of terrain day after day, her life took the sort of detour that is every parent's nightmare. She is accused of becoming a prostitute by age 15, meeting customers through an escort service and sustaining contact via a beeper that she showed off in the high school girls' room. Far worse, she is charged with falling in love with an alleged client, a 38-year...
...public good are not mutually exclusive," says Whittle, a stylish 44-year- old who sports fancy bow ties and a shaggy hairstyle. "We are a private institution with a public mission." He has already attracted commitments of $60 million from corporate interests for research and development (including Time Warner, parent company of TIME, which owns 37% of Whittle Communications). Whittle will have to raise an additional $3 billion to implement his plans fully...
...more traditional time than Comencement. A nice, lush lawn for the robed seniors to trek across is probably as symbolically important as the butter pats on the Union ceiling. And anyway, the University would turn the grass iridescent yellow if it thought that would mean more alumni and parent donations...
...hypocritical for Dan Quayle to denounce single motherhood on one hand and abortion on the other. But he does have a point: having both a mother and a father is not some Republican affectation but an ideal to strive for. Coming into the world with one parent is a handicap, no matter how mature and moneyed the mother may be. Just because fatherhood can be reduced to 20 seconds, or dispensed with altogether by tapping into Nobel-prizewinner sperm banks, does not mean it should be. Imagine if men decided that motherhood was equally expendable. Sated with their corner offices...