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...family and colleagues realized that something was amiss when Weinstein failed to meet his eldest daughter Lori at La Guardia Airport the morning of his kidnapping and then did not show up for an important business meeting a few hours later. The next day, the abductors, dramatically calling themselves the Black Cat Organization, phoned twice to demand a $3 million ransom. Those were the first of what would eventually total more than 50 calls, including one recorded message from Weinstein and a brief call he was allowed to make on ! a cellular phone that his captors lowered down into...
Although Richard and Lori Riggins, of Exeter, California, have a normal four-year-old daughter, a son born to them in 1991 was diagnosed with SCID at the age of four weeks, and ever since has required treatment with PEG-ADA to survive. His disorder was evidence that both his mother and father, while healthy themselves, carried a recessive gene for SCID. This meant that any of their offspring would have a 1-in-4 chance of being stricken with the disease. The outlook was equally gloomy for Crystal Emery and Leonard Gobea, from California's Imperial Valley; their first...
...chose to have amniocentesis after becoming pregnant again last fall. The test results showed that neither fetus was producing ADA and that the babies would have SCID. It was then that Dr. Diane Wara, the pediatric immunologist who had treated the Rigginses' other child, suggested the stem-cell trial. Lori Riggins was easily convinced. "You only get a once-in-a-lifetime chance to get large amounts of stem cells," she says. "That's at birth, and we didn't want to pass up that chance...
...Lori E. Smith '93-94 appears in this space on alternate Mondays...
...time: Fall, 1991. The place: a kibbutz in Northern Israel, my home for the last six months I receive a postcard from my sister, then a first year at Harvard. The picture: a certain blue tower. --Lori E. Smith...