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Boogie Nights, written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, is itself a size freak; the movie is in love with bigness. It spends 2 hrs. and 32 min. spanning eight years in the lives of a dozen or so denizens of the porn biz. Loosely based on the life of...
"Twelve disorders that I see here are founder-gene defects carried by the dozen families that established this population 300 years ago," observes Dr. D. Holmes Morton, 47, a pediatrician and geneticist who gave up an academic career to work among the Amish. One of those diseases, he has discovered...
Meanwhile, Morton's clinic has become a model for rural health care, reducing hospitalization for the disorders to one-tenth their historic rates. The Amish and Mennonites who use the clinic do not buy medical insurance or subscribe to Medicare, but instead depend on family and community for help. Says...
Morton may well have performed an even more remarkable service to modern medicine by establishing a link between metabolic disorders like glutaric aciduria and cerebral palsy. Most practitioners have long believed that oxygen deprivation or trauma at or before birth causes cerebral palsy, a motor disorder that reflects injury to...
We agree there is an urgent need to clear land mines. In fact, the Clinton Administration has led the world's humanitarian demining initiative and has provided training and assistance to 14 countries to help develop indigenous, self-sustaining humanitarian demining programs. U.S. government agencies have spent more than $137...