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Fanciful as it seems, this scenario may soon be commonplace. It is based on the heady progress that medical researchers are making these days as they discover new genes and their role in disease. More than that, it reflects the fact that virtually all disease, to some degree, has a genetic component. As a result of these discoveries, tests for the presence of genes that either cause disease or make people more susceptible to it are becoming increasingly available. "We are entering an era when disease will be predicted before it occurs," says William Haseltine, chairman of Human Genome Sciences...
...worst-case scenario is here," warns Fred Tenover, chief of the CDC's Nosocomial [hospital-transmitted] Pathogens Laboratory. "We are seeing infections that are no longer treatable because the bacterium is resistant to every significant antibiotic ever developed. And, for now, no new drugs are coming down the pike." Drug companies are belatedly working to create new antibiotics, but results are years away...
...catalog of conventional wisdom, the most hopeful outcome of the 1996 election is a scenario in which the Democratic President and the Republican Congress actually work together to govern in a spirit of comity and bipartisanship, thereby fulfilling the mandate of the voters...
...aside the ethics crises nipping at the heels of both the President and the Speaker of the House, plus the possibility of an imminent recession--each of which in its own right would be enough to shred this idyllic scenario. The division between a Democratic President and a Republican Congress has been, since the current party system began in the 1850s, the country's least productive political arrangement. Splits may work for champagne, or maybe bananas, but they often don't make for good government in Washington...
VICTOR SNYDER Democrat--Arkansas 2nd In a classic dewey beats truman scenario, the media projected Snyder's opponent as the winner, though Snyder came back to win this open seat by a 4% margin in the final tally...