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Years-Long Search Unlocks Deadly Genetic Disease
SMA is a neurodegenerative disorder occurring in children that involves severely weakened muscles and usually results in death within two years, often because muscles of the respiratory system can no longer support breathing. The X-linked form of the disease is passed unsuspectingly by healthy mothers to their sons. SMA made sense to Messer and her family, but they were baffled by the autosomal part of the diagnosis. "I'm not a genetics person, but I know that autosomal recessive means that both mothers and fathers have to be carriers [of the gene that causes the disease]," Messer said. "We started scratching our heads. What are the odds that all of us would have married somebody with the same recessive gene and our two mothers and our grandmother? I don't calculate odds very well, but I can tell that that's just a staggering amount." At about this time, another cousin, Patti, living in Houston, married and wanted to have children but was terrified after watching the devastation of her family.
What's up with ... Ted Hendricks
I don't even think they had a Media Day during my first Super Bowl, but I was too young to even notice. Baltimore had so many All-Pros, and that was only my second year in the league. Other than the local press guys from Miami, I don't remember too much media." .
Across America, deadly echoes of foreign battles
Late one night in the summer of 2005, Matthew Sepi, a 20-year-old Iraq combat veteran, headed out to a 7-Eleven in the seedy Las Vegas neighborhood where he had settled after leaving the Army. That particular 7-Eleven sits in the shadow of the Stratosphere casino-hotel in a section of town called the Naked City. By day, the area, littered with malt liquor cans, looks depressed but not menacing. By night, it becomes, in the words of a local homicide detective, �like Fallujah.� Sepi did not like to venture outside too late. But, plagued by nightmares about an Iraqi civilian killed by his unit, he said he often needed alcohol to fall asleep. And so it was that night, when, seized by a gut feeling of lurking danger, he slid a trench coat over his slight frame � and tucked an assault rifle inside it.
Redesign, day 2
The syndicate that provided the feature to us, decided rather abruptly a week or so ago to stop carrying it, and unable to find an alternative source, features editor Pia Hansen opted to drop it. Amid the uproar, Hansen looked more closely and discovered that one of our other syndicate services does carry the Jumble, and we'll resume publication tomorrow. Oh, and we also redesigned the whole newspaper What we haven't heard this morning is complaints about the newly redesigned Spokesman-Review. There was some talk on the Mark Fuhrman show about it this morning, including a complaint from Fuhrman himself that we "never" have Iraq news in the paper. There were some issues with the press run - some readers reported "bleedthrough" (when wet ink from one page blots onto another, making the page unreadable) and other legibility issues.
Wetting Her Appetite
New year-end columns on the top Human Nature stories and privacy threats of 2007. (For discussions of the latest topics, check out the Human Nature Fray.) Nearly half the doctors in a survey admitted to using placebos. These are pills that have no proven benefit relevant to your problem, but they might make you feel better just because you think they'll help. Sample: 231 Chicago internists. Results: 1) 45 percent said they've used placebos. 2) 96 percent said "placebos can have therapeutic effects." 3) "Most believe in the mind–body connection." Ancient doctor's attitude: I can't explain why this drug would help you, but it will. Modern doctor's attitude: I can't explain why this drug would help you, so it won't. New doctor's attitude: I can't explain why this drug would help you, but it will.
Wags and Riches
STUNNING Charlotte Mears reveals the incredible truth about her fabulous life as a WAG�and how it all came crashing down when love rat England star Jermain Defoe dumped her. It was a fairytale romance. The former �6,000-a-year holiday rep was hard up and trying to make it as a beauty queen when she first dated the �35,000-a-week Spurs striker. See Charlotte's stunning lingerie slideshow Within a few months she was SHARING his �3million mansion, DRIVING his flash motors, COSYING up to new celebrity pals and SPLASHING �200,000 on a kitchen! WAGS EXPOSED: SEE ABBEY CLANCY IN THE BATH - WITH A GIRL PLUS OTHER PHOTOS THE WAGS NEVER THOUGHT YOU'D SEE The pair planned a dream summer wedding complete with 5ft ice sculpture of their interlocked initials.
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