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...Sheila and Peter Hebein learned that their first and only child had Down syndrome on the day he was born, in 1972. "I remember kind of stopping breathing," Sheila recalls. Prenatal testing was rare in those days, and because she was only 30, she was not a candidate. "One of the most challenging things about that day is that you're on a great high because you just had a baby," she says. "Then someone comes in and says, 'Yeah, you had a baby, but ... ,' and how they say that but is critical." The Hebeins, who live in Evanston...
Thirty-three years later, fewer women are surprised in the delivery room the way Sheila Hebein was. Screening for Down syndrome became a routine part of U.S. prenatal care around 1990. Typically, women are offered a "triple screen" blood test during the second trimester of pregnancy (see chart). The results are entered into a computer along with the mother's age, and the machine spits out her individual risk of carrying a child with Down. If the risk is high--say more than 1 in 300--she will be offered amniocentesis, a needle-in-the-belly test that allows doctors...
...Istanbul: James Wilde Jerusalem: Lisa Beyer Cairo: Dean Fischer Beirut: Lara Marlowe Nairobi: Andrew Purvis Johannesburg: Scott MacLeod New Delhi: Jefferson Penberthy Beijing: Jaime A. FlorCruz Southeast Asia: William Dowell Tokyo: Edward W. Desmond, Kumiko Makihara Ottawa: Gavin Scott Latin America: Laura Lopez Administration: Susan Lynd, Denise A. Carres, Sheila Charney, Breena Clarke, Donald N. Collins, Joan A. Connelly, Corliss M. Duncan, Ann V. King, Lina Lofaro, Anne D. Moffett, Judith R. Stoler News Desks: Brian Doyle, Waits L. May III, Susanna Schrobsdorff, Pamela H. Thompson, Diana Tollerson, Ann Drury Wellford, Mary Wormley
Apart from a kind of sybaritic utilitarianism, there is science to explain this yen for closets. Getting organized appears to lower stress and anxiety and increase efficiency. Sheila Jowsey, a professor of psychiatry at the Mayo Clinic, says, "Organization is comforting. It's soothing." How does this age of bigger and more luxurious closets bring about that kind of Zen? "We don't have the disposable time to go through our possessions and determine what we need, so it accumulates," Jowsey says. "What Americans do have is enough disposable income to tell somebody, 'Build...
...SHEILA BOERNER North Platte...