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...loss to cystic fibrosis and Tay-Sachs disease and sickle-cell anemia, prenatal testing may spare them a future as painful as the past. But if we can screen embryos for curses, should we also screen for gifts? Do you want to know if your child will have perfect pitch or violet eyes? Would parents love their children differently if they designed them to order...
...better when they speak in unison, as in a group reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. That's why a new hearing-aid-like device called the SpeechEasy seems to help. Invented by researchers at East Carolina University in Greenville, N.C., it's a tiny, programmable earpiece that alters the pitch of the speaker's voice and echoes it back into the ear. This "choral effect" tricks the brain into thinking someone else is talking and encourages fluent speech. In initial tests, the SpeechEasy worked for about 85% of stutterers. The effect is nearly instantaneous; but like glasses for the nearsighted...
...COSTS. Reverse mortgages involve costs, just like regular mortgages, that can eat up any financial advantage in the short term. These costs often get swept under the rug in the sales pitch because they are not up-front charges but are subtracted from the amount the borrower eventually receives. Take the house from the example above, with a $175,600 reverse mortgage. Typical costs would include an origination fee of $4,700, mortgage insurance of $4,700, other finance costs of $1,200 and servicing fees (deducted monthly but computed up front) of $4,500--leaving a payout of only...
...They shouldn’t throw at me, I’m the father of five or six kids,” said former San Francisco second baseman Tito Fuentes, after being hit by a pitch. Not sure if Fuentes ever figured out if it was five...
...intelligence official: "If they're trying to compel people, that's not the place I'd rest my argument." Some in Congress say it will take more than the one-time visit to Baghdad by a one-legged al-Qaeda operative to convince them. Democrats who have heard the pitch tend to agree with Illinois Senator Richard Durbin: "What I have seen is so minimal that it seems like a stretch...