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...search coordinated by Wexler's foundation, geneticist James Gusella of Massachusetts General Hospital discovered a particular piece of DNA, called a genetic marker, that seemed to be present in people suffering from Huntington's disease. His evidence suggested that the marker must be near the Huntington's disease gene on the same chromosome, but he needed a larger sample to confirm his findings. This was provided by Wexler, who had previously traveled to Venezuela to chart the family tree of a clan of some 5,000 people, all of them descendants of a woman who died of Huntington's $ disease...
Jimmie Reese sighs forbearingly at all this, camped on a folding chair behind a batting cage near an orange grove, counting pitches. "Spring and baseball," muses the California Angels' most seasoned coach, "don't change very much." Reese knows something about both. Seventy-two springs ago, he was the Pacific Coast League Angels' eleven-year-old batboy for "Peerless" Frank Chance. Playing with the Yankees in 1930, Reese and Lefty Gomez split a $2-a- day suite at the new Edison Hotel. On the road, Jimmie stayed with Babe Ruth. "I roomed with the Babe's luggage, mostly," he says...
...some 30 heavily armed fighters camped on a coffee plantation just seven miles from Santa Ana's provincial capital, the site of a major army base. In recent months E.R.P. regulars and dozens of new peasant militias have attacked military outposts, ambushed patrols, and even briefly taken a town near the Guatemalan border...
...Terry Anderson lies on a cot in a dingy apartment in Beirut's sprawling, bomb-ravaged Shi'ite slums. A blindfold is tightly wrapped around his head, and chains shackle a wrist and ankle, biting into the flesh. He can hear the roar of jets; Beirut airport is near. The former U.S. Marine is % stunned and sobs constantly, frustrated, angry and afraid that the kidnapers intend to execute him. A guard bursts in and threatens him merely because he creaked the bedsprings. "I am a friend of the Lebanese," Anderson had told his family. "They won't kidnap...
...possibilities for gene therapy will be limited for the near future. If gene transplants are performed on tissue cells -- bone-marrow cells, for instance -- the altered genes will die with the patient; they cannot be passed on to any children the patient might subsequently have. Someday, however, it may be possible to change genes in germ cells, which give rise to sperm or eggs. If that feat is accomplished, the new genes would be transmitted to one generation after another...