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...restore the temple, Warsaw is broke. The Poles have asked UNESCO for funds and have been turned down. The organization would like to see such bilateral efforts postponed until the overall environment can be stabilized. Even though there is a general understanding of the need for that approach, donor nations want a temple to restore and claim as their own. "Everyone wants to produce a before-and-after photograph," complains Engelhardt...
...diagnosis of CF. Some public health experts believe that since doctors can identify the defective DNA (which occurs in 1 out of 25 Americans) they should screen all prospective parents. Men and women who find that they are both carriers might then choose to adopt or conceive with donor sperm or eggs. Last November the National Institutes of Health financed a handful of pilot projects to help it decide whether a massive screening program would be worth the considerable cost...
...federal indictment handed up last week, he deceived them. Not only did the babymaker tell women they were pregnant when they weren't, say federal officials, but he secretly inseminated others with his own seed, fathering at least seven children for couples who thought they were receiving legitimate donor sperm. "It's basic fraud of the cruelest sort," said U.S. Attorney Richard Cullen, whose office is prosecuting the case...
...latest charges come from some of those other women. Acting on a tip, several patients requested genetic tests, which revealed the doctor himself had fathered their babies. According to the indictment, Jacobson conned patients into thinking he had an elaborate system for matching sperm donors to particular physical, mental and social characteristics. But in some cases, says the government, he was the sole donor...
...appropriate child has been found. Meantime, they scramble to assemble birth and marriage certificates, medical and financial statements, personal references, and the crucial "home study," done by a social worker and attesting that the aspiring parents are fit for the task. Finally, they may have to travel to the donor country -- and stay anywhere from two weeks to six months, facing more interviews and court hearings before they can bring their child home...