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...research group comprised of scientists at the Harvard-affiliated Dana Farber Cancer Institute and area laboratories have developed a monkey model system to study the transmission of the AIDS virus from mother to fetus...
...order to establish a high infection rate in newborn monkeys, the scientists exposed the animals to the simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), whose behavior is similar to that of HIV, a virus which causes AIDS in humans. SIV was injected into the amniotic fluid, surrounding the fetus, during the late stages of pregnancy...
...When the fertilized eggs have grown to the 32- or 64-cell stage, the doctors will flick off a few cells from each and analyze their DNA. When they find an egg carrying a gene without the fatal defect, they will implant it in the uterus and allow the fetus to grow to term, free from the threat of Huntington's disease...
...fellow named Weaver % Walquist, who, becalmed and lacking direction, joins the antiabortion protest squad of an evangelical church in St. Paul, Minnesota. He collides with a pregnant young woman named Kim during a protest at an abortion clinic, and at first is attracted to the idea of saving her fetus and her soul. Then, faintly -- a puff of wind ruffles the calm -- he is attracted to her. Kirn, author of a 1990 story collection, My Hard Bargain, plays fair with both the churchly and the wicked -- middling people in an everyday predicament. His story is shrewd and wryly amusing...
...change and decay. "We have one political party with two right wings," he says. "See why I go so deep into satire? You know, there are only two great issues -- converting from war to peace and managing the economy. Instead we're talking about the fetus and the flag...