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Despite the low success rate for the procedure, "it presents little real danger for the mother except for minor interferences," Biggers, who published a report on test tube babies in yesterday's edition of the New England Journal of Medicine, said. The danger of increased genetic defects is not high and the risk "is certainly not greater than if a parent carries an inherited receissive defect and decides to have a child anyway," he added...
...defect most likely to result from the test tube conception is the production of an extra set of chromosomes, "but 99 per cent of defective embryos will die when they are transferred into their mother's womb," Biggers said, adding that even in normal pregnancies as many as half of all embryos are naturally aborted...
...immigrants were even aware of it. Doctors stationed in the hall simply observed the newcomers as they walked by. In six seconds, physicians checked off 15 diseases. They placed chalk marks on the lapels of those who needed closer scrutiny: H for heart, L for limp, X for mental defect. With still evident embarrassment, Sophie recalls a distressing moment when a nurse "put her hand under my skirt. She was checking for I don't know what, but she did it to everyone." Then a doctor dipped a buttonhook into an antiseptic solution and used it to flip back...
Aided by two Eagle penalties, Harvard penetrated early, setting up pretty combinations which all seemed to end with sliding Cameron saves. On the first power play, Reed stickhandled through the B.C. defense, and fed to Palmer, who rifled a low bullet which Cameron managed to defect by Sue Yunick waiting for the rebound...
...examples of his own work, Cobb emphasizes his desire to make designs fit existing structural and social contexts. One of his designs, the John Hancock Insurance Company building, has been one of Boston's most controversial structures. Located in Copley Square, the Hancock tower in famous for the structural defect which resulted in huge planes of glass exploding off its facade exterior. Even before that catastrophe, citizens were outraged by the arrogance of a private corporation erecting a 60-story office building adjacent to the city's historic heart; the tower stands next to H.H. Richardson's Trinity Church...