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...review of the same data, the group had concluded that abortion inflicts no particular psychological damage on women. She pointed out that despite the millions of women who have undergone the procedure since the landmark Roe v. Wade case legalized abortion in 1973, there has been no accompanying rise in mental illness. "If severe reactions were common," she noted, "there would be an epidemic of women seeking treatment...
...traveling image consultant gave a presentation in Atlanta, and Tom showed up with two business suits for a critique. "He told me to burn everything," says Tom. "But not in an offensive way." He has hired Henderson, whose London Image Institute is based in nearby Alpharetta, to help him rise out of the ashes...
Eighteen years may have been needed, but when freshmen received their housing assignments yesterday, the rise of the Radcliffe Quad to equality with its sister houses on the Charles was virtually confirmed...
Even to label genes as defective can be dangerous. In the 19th century new discoveries about heredity and evolution gave rise to the eugenics movement -- a misguided pseudo science whose followers thought that undesirable traits should be systematically purged from the human gene pool. Believers ranged from the American eugenicists of the early 1900s, who thought humans should be bred like racehorses, to the German geneticists who gave scientific advice to the leaders of the Third Reich, instructing them on how the species might be "purified" by selective breeding and by exterminating whole races at a time...
...future. If gene transplants are performed on tissue cells -- bone-marrow cells, for instance -- the altered genes will die with the patient; they cannot be passed on to any children the patient might subsequently have. Someday, however, it may be possible to change genes in germ cells, which give rise to sperm or eggs. If that feat is accomplished, the new genes would be transmitted to one generation after another...