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...screening process tests for neural tube defects, which affect the development of the brain and spinal cord. It has been used extensively in Great Britain and on a small scale in the United States, where it is awaiting regulatory approval...
...friend's house, where he had spent the night without telling his mother. Dempster Williams, 10, was discovered at a gym on the city's southwest side after running away from home. The boy told the police his mother had beaten him with an extension cord for breaking a lamp...
There is also a fair amount of drama behind him, the sort that did not make it to the big screen. Three winters ago, Diamond collapsed onstage during a concert. Doctors diagnosed a tumor on the spinal cord, and Neil endured a twelve-hour operation and three months in a wheelchair, uncertain whether he would ever walk again...
Although Kameny dismisses the idea that homosexuals are especially susceptible to blackmail, many intelligence experts disagree. Says Cord Meyer, former CIA assistant deputy director for operations: "The Soviets specialize in homosexual cases. They assign KGB agents who are homosexuals themselves to entrap our agents." Another U.S. expert cites the case of a homosexual British clerk with the naval attaché's office in Moscow in the mid '50s, William Vassall, who passed Admiralty secrets to the Soviets...
...also, implicitly, the story of Jesus and Mary. Eddie is consumed by the dream of transcendence, of return to the modern godhead of the self. He is off on a perilous trip down through the memory of the race, and his only connection to reality is the umbilical cord of his need and, finally, his love for Emily. He often curls naked into her side as if wounded, seeking succor, reliving the Pieta. Again and again, Eddie dies and is reborn; each time he finds the action frightening, and "supremely satisfying." At the end, the couple fuse and are redeemed...