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...life of debilitating illness? In many cases the answers to these worrisome questions can be found in laboratory analysis of a small sample of the amniotic fluid drawn from the sac surrounding the baby in the womb. Using amniocentesis, as the technique is called, doctors can accurately predict serious disorders like Down's syndrome (mongolism) and Gaucher's disease (a metabolic disorder); faced with a grim certainty, prospective parents can opt for abortion. But amniocentesis has its limitations; it cannot foretell all defects. Now comes fetoscopy, a technique that takes over where amniocentesis leaves off by allowing direct...
...Seed times don't mean a whole lot, but based on what I've seen on the teams we've swum and from the conference meet times, I'd say we should be all right," Florida coach Randy Reese said cautiously last week. "It's hard to predict what will happen once the meet begins. Everyone prepares a little differently. But because of our depth, I'd say we have a shot...
Americans have contemplated this annus mirabilis of weird weather with a special fascination. But even when the barometer is less mercurial, they pay almost abnormal attention to the weather's moods and the people who predict them. Americans have become chronic weather junkies. They monitor it the way a hypochondriac listens to his own breathing and heart-beat in the middle of the night. Some people, of course, have an urgent need to know: boatmen, farmers, construction workers, streetwalkers. But others whose daily exposure to the hazards of the open air is limited to three minutes between bus stop...
...with a shot in the arm to two campaigns and a dose of embalming fluid to one more, the candidates, the press, the pollsters and the freelance pundits have left the state, heading South and West where there is no indication the results will be much easier to predict...
Gasoline prices have more than doubled since 1973 and Americans have yet to cut down on their driving. One poll of business executives showed that if gasoline reached $2 a gallon, they still would not curtail their driving. Economists predict that even if gasoline prices increase 300 per cent between 1980 and 2000, per capita auto ownership will go up 43 per cent and automobile miles travelled will increase 35 per cent...