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Only a few thousand PGDs have been performed worldwide since Dr. Alan Handyside developed the procedure at London's Hammersmith Hospital in 1989. The majority of candidates for PGD are infertile couples or older women who suffer repeated miscarriages, a condition often due to chromosomal errors easily identified in the embryo stage. But for most couples the cost is prohibitive; a screen for a single disease costs $20,000. Says Santiago Munne of St. Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, N.J.: "The limit is not that the population doesn't want it; it's that they cannot...
...grafts of brand-new skin. Unlike cells from an unrelated donor, these cloned cells would incur no danger of rejection; patients would be spared the need to take powerful drugs to suppress the immune system. "Given its potential benefit," says Dr. Robert Winston, a fertility expert at London's Hammersmith Hospital, "I would argue that it would be unethical not to continue this line of research...
...then we're off. We are taken on a worldwind tour of Jackie's life, from Bouvier bickering at Hammersmith Farm to living the beautiful life in New York City to "learning" at Miss Porter's School, where the schoolgirls are played by men in drag. The most hysterical stop along the way is the scene set at the Kennedy home on "the merry old land of Cod," where Joe Kennedy sizes up Jackie as a potential presidential wife. The Kennedy clan is painted in broad strokes as an obnoxious group of loudmouthed, thick-waisted jocks speaking with an accent...
Since the first SRO Dublin engagement, Riverdance has shuttled between Ireland and London, where it plays at Labatt's Apollo theater in Hammersmith, an old rock palace where the Beatles and the Stones once trod the boards. Because it is a big, expensive production, the show needs a theater that seats around 3,000. This week it starts a short U.S. run at New York City's Radio City Music Hall; most seats were sold weeks ago. A national tour is planned for later in the year...
Applying this knowledge to human embryos created by in vitro fertilization, doctors at London's Hammersmith Hospital, led by Alan Handyside and Robert Winston, perfected a technique for drawing cells into hair-thin pipettes one at a time. Then they teamed up with a group from Houston's Baylor College of Medicine and Methodist Hospital who had developed a procedure for rapidly spotting the cystic fibrosis defect in a single strand of DNA, using the gene- cloning technique called polymerase chain reaction. "It's like finding one typographical error in a book 180 times the size of the Encyclopaedia Britannica...