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...spent a week at the Wayne County (Detroit) prosecutor's office observing a murder case. He quizzed lawyers at lunch and took files back to his hotel at night. At one conference a question arose -- about the relative heights of shooter and victim -- that stumped the real lawyers. "Harrison was the only one who knew the answer," recalls chief assistant prosecutor George Ward, "because he had studied the pictures of the two persons. He really did his homework...
This defense might as well rest; the prosecution has a watertight case. In fact, the imaginary charges against Scott Frederic Turow, 41, may not go far enough. They ignore, for example, the $20 million film version of Presumed Innocent, directed by Alan Pakula and starring Harrison Ford, which will be released this summer and will probably lure every Turow fan who is not still hiding from job and loved ones while reading The Burden of Proof...
...Blake did breathe, and today he is a healthy nine-month-old -- thanks to a dramatic operation carried out when he was still a fetus. This procedure, the most impressive achievement yet in the young field of fetal surgery, was performed by Dr. Michael Harrison and colleagues at the University of California, San Francisco and reported last week in the New England Journal of Medicine. Seven weeks before Blake was born, the doctors cut into his mother's uterus and partly removed the fetus. Then they opened his left side, patched the hole in his diaphragm and put his organs...
Since the early 1980s, doctors have operated on fetuses, fixing urinary- tract blockages, for example, or inserting needles to drain excess fluid from the brain. But never before had physicians successfully performed such major surgery in the womb. Harrison hopes that his technique can be used to correct other potentially fatal problems, including large lung or spinal tumors and certain heart conditions. Several experts echoed that optimism. "We're in a whole new era of fetal treatment," said Dr. Eugene Pergament, head of reproductive genetics at Northwestern Memorial Hospital...
That era may take a while to unfold, however. For now, the procedure seems useful only for rare ailments. Blake Schultz's diaphragmatic hernia, for example, occurs in 1 out of every 2,200 births, and 90% of those cases are considered unsuitable for surgery. Moreover, while Harrison has proved that this operation is feasible, only long-term clinical trials can establish that the surgery will be effective for a majority of patients...