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...have a 6-year-old son with autism [SCIENCE, May 6]. When his condition was diagnosed, I thought I was the only one dealing with this disorder. Now everyone I talk to has a son, brother, cousin or neighbor with autism. Bringing this topic into the open will help us find out why so many of our children are afflicted with this disorder. Thank you for helping families get the word out. KATHY RIZZACASA Dorchester, Mass...
...Dehai never imagined he would wed his shy first cousin Hai Hongmei. But Liu's parents couldn't make enough from Shaanxi's parched earth to buy their son a wife. Desperate, his mother asked her sister for a big favor. A few days later, Liu was informed he would be marrying his kin. "It can be unsafe to marry cousins," says Liu's mother. "But what...
...While not as risky as once thought, marriage among first cousins nearly doubles the chances of birth defects. Reminders of the potential dangers fill neighborhoods just a few miles from Liu's village of Nanliang. In the roadside hamlet of Chenzhuangke, a first-cousin couple grieve for their young son who died of a rare blood disease. In the nearby city of Yan'an, a brother and sister squat in the mud-brick slums, signing a secret language to each other. Both Cao Shuai and Cao Jing were born deaf-mute. Everybody in the neighborhood thinks they know why: their...
...sibling may produce a dramatic twist in the murder trial of Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel. So far, relative after relative has backed up Ethel Kennedy's nephew, who is on trial in Norwalk, Conn., for the 1975 murder of his teenage neighbor Martha Moxley. He has said he was nowhere near the murder scene - Moxley's home, across the street from the Skakels' in Greenwich - at 10 p.m. that Oct. 30, the time forensic experts estimate Moxley died. And last week Skakel's elder brother Rushton Jr. and cousin James Dowdle testified that the defendant left home...
...person dart past the kitchen window. "She could be the missing link," the victim's brother John told Time. Andrea Renna, a former friend of Julie Skakel's who was with her in the house that night, testified Friday that Michael Skakel did not drive to his cousin's mansion. The prosecution has subpoenaed Julie to corroborate that testimony against her brother. The drama will be whether she can make her recollection fit Michael's alibi...