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...landmark experiment, led by Dr. W. French Anderson, a pioneering advocate of gene therapy, and Drs. R. Michael Blaese and Kenneth Culver, raised the curtain on what some experts believe will be a new era in medicine, when many previously incurable genetic diseases will be contained or even conquered. The long-term impact on society could be enormous. Up to 5% of the infants born in the U.S. are afflicted with often debilitating and sometimes fatal genetic diseases. In most cases, no effective treatment exists for these disorders, which are caused by one or more faulty or missing genes among...
...another politician. Throughout his relatively undistinguished career as lieutenant governor and, later, attorney general, Bellotti has chosen his positions with one hand measuring the winds of public opinion and the other covering his behind. In one of the most monumental flip-flops of Massachusetts politics, Bellotti--who brought a landmark parental consent case to the Supreme Court that would have severely restricted access to abortions--now says he supports the right to choose. And in a double flip-flop, Bellotti started his political career in 1964 as a supporter of the death penalty, then briefly opposed it, and now supports...
...Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, which is scheduled to begin later this week. The enigmatic New Englander will be closely questioned about his judicial philosophy in what are expected to be heated, partisan sessions. In particular, some Senators will try to probe Souter's views on Roe v. Wade, the landmark ruling that legalized abortion. Pro-choice and some women's groups have been mobilizing against Souter, but they are unlikely to impede his progress -- unless he makes a major gaffe. "Souter is far too good a technical lawyer to get himself into trouble," says American University law professor Herman Schwartz...
Igasaki said that a report critical of Harvard would be especially damaging because the College's affirmative action program was cited as a model for admissions in the 1978 Bakke decision--the landmark Supreme Court ruling outlawing quotas...
...private schools may no longer be just a Dick-and-Jane fable. Next week more than 400 students from Milwaukee's inner city will begin attending private neighborhood academies with the aid of $2,500 grants from the state of Wisconsin. In November, Oregon will vote on a landmark initiative that would give parents as much as a $2,500 tuition tax credit for each child in a private or religiously affiliated school. Already, students statewide in Minnesota as well as in such widely praised individual school districts as Cambridge, Mass., and New York City's East Harlem can select...