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Genetic counseling once relied more heavily on mathematics than medicine to predict the chance of hereditary handicaps. But it is now possible for doctors to identify and catalogue chromosomes. If there are certain chromosomal abnormalities, the prospective parents are informed that they will almost definitely produce deformed offspring. While this knowledge may take some of the mystery and romance out of procreation, it also eliminates much of the uncertainty. As one geneticist puts it, "There is nothing very romantic about a mongoloid child or a deformed body...
Such experiments lead Herman Kahn of the Hudson Institute to predict that by the year 2000, people will be able to wear chest consoles with ten levers wired to the brain's pleasure centers. Fantasies Kahn: "Any two consenting adults might play their consoles together. Just imagine all the possible combinations: 'Have you ever tried ten and five together?' couples would ask. Or, 'How about one and one?' But I don't think you should play your own console; that would be depraved...
...current example illustrates the problem. Amniocentesis can now quite accurately predict whether a fetus is mongoloid; women carrying such abnormal fetuses are now encouraged, where it is legal, to have abortions. Already a number of medical planners are pointing up the cost-effectiveness of abortion in those cases. Unless the birth rate of mongoloid children is reduced, their care by 1975 may well cost some $1.75 billion nationally...
...Still, the deep-seated problems about the dollar's role as the world's key currency remain unresolved. Says Yale Economist Robert Triffin, a prominent monetary expert: "We are in the middle of an agonizing reappraisal-and total revamping-of the international monetary system." No one will predict exactly where it will lead, but almost all experts sense some uneasy times ahead...
McCurdy declined to predict a winner. "First, out of loyalty to the CRIMSON. We'd like to predict a 23-2 win," he said. "The nature of the sport eliminates this. However, we'll predict a win. We'll only hedge on naming the team...