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...advance in cancer therapy, and with help from colleagues, he continued treating patients. Osserman's last hope was an experimental therapy in which the cells malfunctioning in his brain would be replaced by an injection of vigorous developing cells -- cells from a fetus that a woman had chosen to abort...
...recent accusations stemming from his appearance at the Indianapolis pageant. An 18-year-old contestant says the fighter raped her in a hotel room. And Miss Black America of 1990, the first to make the buttock-fondling charge, has sued Tyson for $100 million. The allegations threaten to abort Tyson's November fight with current title holder Evander Holyfield -- the ex-champ's chance to recapture his old glory and the awe he once commanded in and outside the ring...
...state officials under pressure from ranchers to protect the local cattle industry that relies on the public lands around the park. The huge, shaggy bison not only can damage fences; about half the Yellowstone herd is also thought to carry brucellosis, an infectious disease that can cause cows to abort their calves. Montana cattle have been certified brucellosis-free since 1983, but ranchers fear that if the sick bison infect their herds, the result could be quarantine, slaughter and economic ruin...
...inflamed age-old prejudices against females. Rural and minority families routinely lie, cheat or pay fines in order to try a second pregnancy in the hope of having a son. And female infanticide -- plus its modern variation, the misuse of amniocentesis to identify female fetuses in order to abort them -- continues. The problem is so extensive that government campaigns urge parents to "Love your daughter" and allow girl babies to live...
...some rural parts of Asia, where baby boys have always been preferred. Nowadays technology also plays a role: fetal testing procedures, such as amniocentesis and sonograms, are employed by women in China, Korea, India and elsewhere to detect the sex of a fetus. Many mothers will abort a female. "Over the past century science has only quickened the pace of the death of the female child, from the born to the unborn stage," says Meenu Sondhi, an amniocentesis researcher at Delhi University...