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Narcissistic or not, the shows raise obvious Peoria-play questions. Movie Stars had a relatively strong start amid weak summer competition, while Beggars' ratings have not taken off, despite fairly positive reviews. Action, however, will prove a big test. It's got notice for bringing pay cable's profanity to broadcast, but another risky import is the deep-insider view that worked for Larry Sanders' select, limited audience. (Creator and executive producer Chris Thompson, who was executive producer of Sanders, originally intended Action for HBO.) While Action could be the best fall comedy in an anemic field, and Mohr plays...
...prospective parents would prefer to avoid putting an unborn child at risk with amniocentesis, the current test for Down's syndrome, but would they wait the month for a verdict that a new, safer test involves? That's the question being debated following the release of a new study, published Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine, in which researchers developed a computer program that can collate the results of two non-invasive procedures carried out a month apart to more accurately establish the presence of Down's syndrome. Although neither a first trimester blood test and ultrasound...
...This method would potentially give a more accurate reading of which women should be advised to undergo amniocentesis," says TIME medical correspondent Christine Gorman. "But among women who might abort rather than give birth to a Down's syndrome baby, if a first-trimester test contains a warning sign, most would be unlikely to want to go through the agony of waiting until the second trimester for a definitive answer. This study contains some interesting clinical observations, but unfortunately what it really shows is that there?s still no conclusive non-invasive test for Down's syndrome...
India and Pakistan don?t need much excuse to start fighting, so Tuesday?s shooting down of a Pakistani military plane will be a real test of the two countries? restraint. Just weeks after Pakistan ? under intense international pressure ? withdrew its forces from the Indian side of Kashmir, Indian combat planes shot down a Pakistani coastal patrol plane killing all 16 people on board, including five naval officers. India said the plane was downed while flying over its airspace; Pakistan insisted the plane was on the Pakistani side of the border and said the location of the wreckage would prove...
STOKING THE STORK Just as the first test-tube baby comes of age--Louise Brown turned 21 in July--there's a major advance in in-vitro fertilization. Waiting four days instead of three before transferring an embryo from the lab dish to the mother's womb can increase the odds of the implantation's success. The new technique is called blastocyst transfer...