Word: womanfully
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...procedure, reported last week at a meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics in Baltimore, is based on analysis of the "first polar body," a small packet of chromosomes sloughed off from the human egg during cell division. First the researchers remove several eggs from a woman's ovaries. Next the first polar body is detached, and a new genetic test called ! polymerase chain reaction is employed to analyze the chromosomes, which are complementary to those left in the egg's nucleus. Eggs that are not defective can then be selected and used in an increasingly common procedure known...
Researchers caution that the test remains experimental and will not be widely available for several years. It has been tried on just five eggs from one woman, and none of the embryos developed. Verlinsky attributes this to IVF's failure rate. But his team must repeat the test on many women before convincing doctors that it is accurate and does not damage the ovum...
Still, the technique may be worth the trouble for those who oppose abortion but not IVF. The procedure may also appeal to mothers traumatized by past abortions. With current genetic tests, a pregnant woman waits nine weeks after conception before genetic analysis. With prefertilization testing, however, the parents could theoretically know from the start that their child has healthy genes...
...Whatever is out on the street seeps into the schools." Violence, however, is no longer confined to tough areas. In an affluent part of Tallahassee last month, one janitor shot another to death in front of about 100 grade schoolers. Last year in posh Winnetka, Ill., a woman opened fire in an elementary classroom, killing an eight-year-old. Other recent school slayings have occurred in middle-class areas of Greenwood, S.C.; Largo, Fla.; Little Rock and Virginia Beach...
...director of Lambda, argues that the campaign for domestic partnership or gay marriage is misdirected because it tries to adopt traditional heterosexual institutions for gays rather than encouraging tolerance for divergent life-styles. "Marriage, as it exists today, is antithetical to my liberation as a lesbian and as a woman, because it mainstreams my life and voice," she says...