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...years, predicts biologist Leroy Hood of the California Institute of Technology, doctors will be able to take a blood sample from a newborn infant, extract DNA from the blood and insert it into a machine that will analyze 100 or so genes. "That will give us DNA fingerprints of genes that predispose us to common kinds of diseases," Hood says. Based on the genetic profile, the computer will dispense some medical advice. It might say, "This individual has a tendency toward skin cancer and should avoid overexposure to the sun." Or: "He has insufficient LDL cholesterol receptors and a proclivity...
...feel that you are getting a good education at Phillips High School?" asks Leroy Lovelace, pacing the aisles of his classroom. "Yeah," booms a male voice from the back row, "because most of the teachers seem concerned if you fail or not. A whole lot of teachers up here care. Even you, Mr. Lovelace...
WHILE MOST READERS HAVE BEEN LOOKing the other way, writer Eric Kraft has turned out a series of whiz-bang novellas about a kid named Peter Leroy who does a lot of neat stuff, like thinking, squidging for clams with his toes and noticing the fantastic legs of his new science teacher, Miss Rheingold. Now the out-of-print novellas have been published by Crown as LITTLE FOLLIES ($22) and Peter's new adventures as WHERE DO YOU STOP? ($15). Kraft misses endless opportunities to be poisonously cute about a smart boy who likes words (spline, ontology) and worries about...
...past few years, the movement toward professionalism has only accelerated. "We're not in this sport because we like it or we want to earn our way through school," Leroy Burrell, a top American sprinter, told the Wall Street Journal in 1990. "We're in it to make money." The lack of hypocrisy may be refreshing, but the bald-faced commercial sentiment may start grating before long...
...your article of march 20 ("Admissions office Says It Destroyed Comment Sheets"), you made much of an apparent inconsistency between the admissions office's statements that they routinely destroy summary sheets and my statement in a letter to LeRoy Rooker in the Department of Education about Harvard retaining summary sheets. These statements are not in conflict...