Word: screen
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Sound familiar? Didn't you see this on the screen just last weekend at your local multiplex? Toms River could easily be a sequel to A Civil Action, the new movie based on the best-selling nonfiction book by the same name. Starring John Travolta as Schlichtmann, A Civil Action is a compelling tale of how the federal courts chewed up and spat out the cocky lawyer and the working-class families he represented in a suit that charged large industrial polluters with contaminating the water supply of Woburn, Mass. Expenses mounted so fast that Schlichtmann lost his Porsche...
...doomed to live among the Monimals. As readers of this column know too well, Monimals are furry, decorative computer-monitor covers. With one, you can gussy up your screen so it looks like a cow, for instance. Or a moose. Whatever. I can't ignore the wretched things. The No. 1 question among Personal Technology readers? "Where can I get one?" The blurb we ran about Monimals some months ago gave its website www.monimals.com as the sole point of contact. Tragically, the site doesn't tell you where to buy one in the U.S. And, until recently, I couldn...
...Handyside developed the procedure at London's Hammersmith Hospital in 1989. The majority of candidates for PGD are infertile couples or older women who suffer repeated miscarriages, a condition often due to chromosomal errors easily identified in the embryo stage. But for most couples the cost is prohibitive; a screen for a single disease costs $20,000. Says Santiago Munne of St. Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, N.J.: "The limit is not that the population doesn't want it; it's that they cannot pay for it. We could do many more diseases if PGD were covered by insurance...
...dark side of genetic testing is that information affecting your future health is as valuable to insurers as it is to doctors, but for very different--and disturbing--reasons. Knowing that you are susceptible to breast cancer or diabetes would be invaluable to an HMO looking for ways to screen out riskier candidates and thus keep costs down--and profits...
...baby Jessica is just the beginning. Within a decade or two, it may be possible to screen kids almost before conception for an enormous range of attributes, such as how tall they're likely to be, what body type they will have, their hair and eye color, what sorts of illnesses they will be naturally resistant to, and even, conceivably, their IQ and personality type...