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...garden spot, to be honest," says Jim Sladek, who grows soybeans and corn on his farm in Iowa City, where scattered showers and thunderstorms are forecast through the weekend. Driving back from meetings in Missouri earlier this week, Sladek recalls looking out at corn and soybean fields that "were in horrible condition" because of the drought. "You come up to our area," he says, "and we're having one of the best crops ever. The rain definitely helped. But," he adds with a reference to news of the rain's onslaught, "it's a year of real extremes...
...number of companies assisting employees with volunteer efforts is growing about 25% a year, says Carol Sladek, work/life consultant with Hewitt Associates, a Lincolnshire, Ill., human-resources consulting firm. Nearly 75% of the employers in Hewitt's annual survey of the 100 best companies to work for provided time off for community service last year. And in 1999, 48% of employers included formal volunteer programs as part of their business plan, vs. just 19% in 1992, according to a survey of 248 companies conducted by the Points of Light Foundation. Nearly half of all employees in a variety of fields...
Whether or not the recoveries prove to be long lasting, University of Rochester Neurobiologist John Sladek and Yale Psychiatrist Eugene Redmond see a braver new world ahead. The two scientists reported reversing the effects of Parkinson's in adult African green monkeys by implanting cells from the substantia nigra of monkey fetuses, and believe that fetal brain grafts offer a better bet for Parkinson's patients. Vanderbilt researchers, using fetal nerve-tissue implants in experiments with rats, also reported progress in reducing chemically induced symptoms of Huntington's disease, a fatal genetic brain disorder. Others expressed hope that once...
...well as technical difficulties stand in the way of successful fetal-cell therapy. Many church leaders and right-to-life advocates oppose the use of tissue from artificially aborted fetuses. And doctors worry about using tissue from spontaneously aborted fetuses, which often have serious genetic defects. In any event, Sladek believes animal research on fetal tissue should continue for several more years before fetal-cell transplants are even attempted in humans. He and Redmond plan to treat monkeys and observe them for two to five years in order to detect any unexpected long-range effects. Still, Sladek is optimistic. Says...
...Sladek, for his part, believes that technology may circumvent some of these dilemmas. "We may someday be able to genetically engineer the cells we need -- add the genes for dopamine to cells, grow them in culture and use them in the brain. Whatever happens," he says, "it will be exciting." Notes New York University Neurologist Abraham Lieberman, who will assist in N.Y.U.'s first adrenal-cell transplant this week: "Five years ago, when you talked about brain transplantation, you were talking about Boris Karloff and Frankenstein. Today it's no longer science fiction...