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...shock last week of Walker turning pro in his junior year was not that he is special, but that he is just a man after all. He signed a contract Feb. 17 with the newborn United States Football League (whose first rule turns out to be expediency) and then lied about it for almost a week. Nobody, not even the yapping Dog lovers of Athens, Ga., blamed him for signing, as the price was said to be $5 million for three years. But everyone was a little disillusioned...
Twice, a worried Charles Younger, 38, asked the staff in the Stanford University Hospital deli very room about his newborn's inactivity. He got only brisk reassurances. Finally, after 40 minutes, Younger pleaded: "How can I tell if my baby is alive?" Anna was alive, barely. She was suffering from oxygen deprivation, and the child today is a quadriplegic. But at least Anna will have few financial worries. The reason: an increasingly popular new way to settle malpractice lawsuits...
Both scientists and investment advisers still believe that genetic engineering has a good long-range potential. The first new products, including human insulin and a vaccine for newborn calves and pigs, are expected to appear on the market soon. Big profits, however, are still years away. A study released this month by SRI International, a California think tank, found that miracle drugs like interferon, which may be used to treat cancer, will not be available in commercial quantities until 1990. Development of agricultural products that could be used to increase food production may take even longer. Thus the investment payoff...
Besides making feeding easier, the device shortens the newborn's hospital stay. Moreover, once the child is home, its preverbal crying and gurgling noises sound reassuringly normal to parents. Finally, and most important, the plate actually appears to foster to some degree the closing of the palate. Markowitz, who has been using such plates for seven years, says, "I've seen drastically defective palates fill in by 70% to 80% in ten months." Perhaps as a result, children fitted with the gadget seem to develop clearer speech than most cleft-palate youngsters. Says Plastic Surgeon Saul Hoffman, director...
...Urban moved herself and writer-columnist Husband Ken Auletta, 39, to a larger and more expensive Manhattan apartment in preparation for the new child. The Aulettas exude a confident, plugged-in affluence. Theirs is a life many people would envy. Why would they turn it upside down for a newborn infant? Urban voices the generosity of many older, first-time parents about that twist of fate. Says she: "There is that old biological clock ticking away. At 35, it is sort of written in the skies. All the odds go from one digit to two digits. But also there...