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...results automatically. Genetic researchers are already talking about using "FISH [for fluorescent in-situ hybridization] and chips," as they whimsically call these new tools, to look for any number of genetic characteristics, including the more elusive web of genes that may lurk behind familial patterns of heart disease and stroke, cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer's, various kinds of mental disorders and even gingivitis. Says Dr. Wayne Grody, head of the DNA diagnostic lab at the UCLA Medical Center: "We'll soon be governed by a new paradigm--genomic medicine--with tests and ultimately treatment for every disease linked to the human...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Good Eggs, Bad Eggs | 1/11/1999 | See Source »

...sometimes the theme. It is thought that children acquire language to tell the story that is already in them. Only a few weeks ago, the pure-science linguist Noam Chomsky, in another change of mind, said he now thinks a divine power gave us language in a single, inspired stroke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Story of the Year | 12/28/1998 | See Source »

AILING. BILL BLASS, 76, fashion designer; following a mild stroke; in Houston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Dec. 21, 1998 | 12/21/1998 | See Source »

Public Service professor of Jurisprudence A. Leon Higginbotham Jr. died last night at Massachusetts General Hospital after suffering a stroke at his Newton home Saturday afternoon and several additional strokes Sunday night...

Author: By Kevin E. Meyers, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Higginbotham, Revered Justice, Dies of Stroke | 12/15/1998 | See Source »

...Sony was a relatively small company and didn't come from the traditional strong houses of steelmaking, public utilities and heavy industry. In the Japanese economic circle, becoming chairman of Keidanren is likened to the succession of the Emperor. As it turned out, the day of Morita's stroke, Nov. 30, 1993, was the day the succession announcement was to have taken place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AKIO MORITA: Guru Of Gadgets | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

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