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...race marked the 196th anniversary of Paul Revere's thrilling ride through the Boston suburbs to warn the citizens that the British were coming...
...heartbreak of delivering a hopelessly defective infant. But the mother whose unborn baby is found to have one of several hereditary enzyme deficiencies has a more acceptable alternative, for medicine has developed techniques for treating many such illnesses. An amniotic test for fetal lung maturity, for example, has helped warn doctors when a child may be born with hyaline membrane disease, which blocks proper breathing. In those cases, birth can be delayed by sedation until tests show the baby ready to breathe on its own. Tests that permit prompt postnatal detection of PKU give doctors an opportunity to place babies...
...cannot wait for natural selection to change him, some scientists warn, because the process is much too slow. Yale Physiologist José Delgado likens the human animal to the dinosaur: insufficiently intelligent to adapt to his changing environment. Caltech Biophysicist Robert Sinsheimer calls men "victims of emotional anachronisms, of internal drives essential to survival in a primitive past, but undesirable in a civilized state." Thus, by his own efforts, man must sharpen his intellect and curb his aboriginal urges, especially his aggressiveness...
...York University finds that babies show a characteristic style (easy, difficult or slow-to-warm-up) from their earliest days. While he admits that this temperament may develop in the months after birth, he does not rule out the possibility that it is inborn. Other life scientists warn that "when we strive for equality of opportunity, we must not deceive ourselves about equality of capacity." For example, it is believed that genetic influence is especially great in such areas as mathematics, music and maybe acrobatics. Unless genetic potential is tapped by the environment, it will not develop: kittens prevented from...
...teen market. "The commercials advise your child to equate sugar with health and snacks with happiness," he complains. Choate's code would require that precise nutrient values be listed in food commercials for children; promotions based on an item's sugar content would have to warn viewers about the possibility of tooth cavities. The code would also ban more than four food ads an hour on children's programs and effectively bar all drug, medicine and even vitamin messages during youngsters' viewing time. Choate believes that vitamin ads can invite children to substitute capsules...