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...until now, anyway. Geneticist Edward Fugger and his colleagues at Genetics & IVF Institute, a fertility center in Fairfax, Va., surprised the obstetrical world last week with a report in the journal Human Reproduction asserting that the clinic can offer couples an 85% chance of ensuring they will have a girl. "I'm impressed," says Dr. Alan DeCherney, chairman of the department of obstetrics and gynecology at the UCLA School of Medicine and editor of the journal Fertility and Sterility. "It really seems to work...
With the first win of 1998 under its belt, the Crimson next turns to the 16th-ranked University of Massachusetts squad which knocked off ninth-ranked James Madison 4-2 in Charlottesville, Va., yesterday...
...cyberspace. After a raid coordinated with 13 other countries last week, law-enforcement officials charged that Wonderland and its Wondernet operated the largest, most sophisticated ring of child pornographers yet found. "This is a dangerous, dangerous crowd," says Glenn Nick of the U.S. Customs CyberSmuggling Center in Sterling, Va. "They're dangerous because they can be in any neighborhood...
...nearly 3 percent less DNA than its female X chromosome counterpart, why not sort sperm by its genetic weight -- and stack the deck for couples who want to choose the sex of their child? Easier said than done, of course. But that's precisely the technique that a Fairfax, Va., fertility center is set to reveal Wednesday in the journal Human Reproduction. Based on the information released so far, this appears to be the most reliable gender-selection process ever developed...
DIED. LEWIS POWELL, 90, the Burger court's balanced conservative--appointed in 1971 by Richard Nixon--whose 1978 Bakke opinion barred racial quotas but opened the door for affirmative action; in Richmond, Va. (see Eulogy, below...