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Jannine and John Cody were packing to move from Sheppard Air Force Base in Wichita Falls, Texas, to Brooks Air Force Base in San Antonio in 1985 when a military doctor gave them some devastating news. Their 6-week-old daughter Elizabeth was missing part of her 18th chromosome. To explain what that meant, the doctor showed Jannine a textbook with a horrifying picture and caption that she still keeps in her files. It read, "They are probably the most seriously afflicted among carriers of chromosome abnormalities. They maintain the froglike position observed in infants and are reduced...
...journey to save Elizabeth took both mother and daughter to unexpected places. Cody went back to college and earned a Ph.D. in human genetics at age 42. Her dissertation topic: syndromes of the 18th chromosome. Today this former homemaker and president of her local embroiderers' guild conducts genetic research at the University of Texas Health Science Center. Her work has helped raise Elizabeth's IQ into the normal range and has provided a model for helping the approximately 500 other kids in the U.S. with the same defect. Cody also set up the Chromosome 18 Registry and Research Society...
Klein left all of that—the pressure, the expectations, the disappointing play—on the 18th green of Greate Bay Golf Course in Somers Point, N.J this past weekend, as he walked off the final hole of his last collegiate tournament victorious for the first time in over a year...
...when he marched up to the 18th green and eyed his 50 foot birdie putt, you couldn’t blame him if he was a little wary of what the final green of the day might have in store...
Klein carried the momentum from Saturday’s 18th green into yesterday’s final round and played magnificently...