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Whether the applicant is a Frenchman eager to marry before departing for Africa the next day, or a man and woman anxious to legitimize their newborn child, Bouvet obliges by donning his tricolor sash and officiating at a town-hall ceremony. "Mind you, I don't marry just anyone," says Bouvet. "First, I have a chat with the couple. If I feel something's wrong, then I refuse to marry them. But red tape shouldn't be allowed to thwart love and marriage...
...polygenic?dependent on several genes. But even so complex a trait as intelligence may eventually come under the control of molecular biologists. Some scientists fantasize that super-geniuses will some day be produced by increasing brain size, through either genetic manipulation or through transplantation of brain cells to newborn infants or to the fetus in the womb. (Such cells might be synthesized in the laboratory or developed by taking bits of easily accessible tissue from a contemporary Newton or Mozart and inducing them to turn into brain neurons...
...another way. After experiments with hooded bags of the bubbled, air-pocketed polyethylene material used to package glassware, a team of researchers at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center has found that the stuff can prevent damage to kids as well as to merchandise. In a test involving 85 newborn babies, they discovered that the temperatures of unpackaged infants fell by more than 2° during the first 40 minutes of life. But the temperature drop was only half as much for babies placed in the bubbly bunting within minutes of birth...
When Heinz-Georg and Maria Treyz submitted the name of their newborn son to be officially registered in the Bavarian town of Erding (pop. 11,500), they were greeted with a mixture of perplexity and horror. In 27 years on the job, the town registrar informed them, he had never been presented with the name "Che." Even in Argentina, he noted, it is not a proper first name but translates roughly as "hey, you." Also, he added, one cannot tell whether the name refers to a boy or a girl. Acting within his powers under German law, he rejected...
Morning is about freshness, birth, starting new. Aurora, goddess of dawn, advances from a distant pearl-pink horizon, and a newborn baby lies squirming on a carpet of grass and flowers. In a flood of crystalline blue light, lilies open in the sky to release their freight of music-making putti. "When I turn to flowers and trees," Runge once wrote, "it becomes clearer to me how in each plant is contained a certain human spirit, idea or feeling, and it is very clear to me that it must have originated in Paradise." -Robert Hughes