Word: tested
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fairness, the uncertainty surrounding sophomore Dan Clemente's fitness to play this season made Harvard's early preconference games little more than scrimmages to test the waters...
...detect blocked arteries before a heart attack occurs. In one study, scientists used an ultrafast C.T. scan and computer technology to view and monitor plaque. In the other, researchers successfully used the scan with an injectable dye to see if arteries had actually narrowed. One conventional method, the stress test, isn't always reliable; in angiograms, the other technique, a catheter must be threaded to the heart...
...contrary, it often opens a Pandora's box of questions that tear not only into pocketbooks but at our psyches: What if the news from a test is bad? Or ambiguous? Should the fetus be aborted? Or should the child be brought into the world in hopes that a cruel disease can be managed or cured? And will insurance coverage be available if the condition was known at birth...
Beyond the poignantly personal dilemmas are broader family and societal issues. If a test is positive, should blood relatives be warned that their genes may contain the same inherited flaw? If so, should such findings become part of a permanent record, like a college transcript or an income tax return? And should doctors alert public health authorities, as they would for contagious conditions such as typhoid, hepatitis and AIDS? More disturbing, isn't there a hint of eugenics in all this picking and choosing, an attempt to shape people to our own genetic prejudices...
...fertilized eggs are subjected to intense DNA analysis. Only those that pass the test are implanted. Says Dr. Jeffrey Botkin, a University of Utah pediatrics professor: "Instead of aborting a fetus, you're flushing down a bunch of 16-cell embryos--which, to a lot of folks [who oppose abortion], is a lot less of a problem...