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A touching and insightful story of a young woman's healing from childhood abuse. Abuse and neglect were all Jenny knew as a child. In her college years, she withdrew into herself and then chose to live a reclusive life in the San Juan Mountains. For two summers she backpacked through the wilderness and spent the winters in a secluded cabin, but when, with another winter coming on, she finds her cabin has burned down, she is forced to seek shelter with a stranger. Wary and frightened, she finds the man, William, to be kind and caring, and they gradually develop a bond. With his help, she learns to trust people again and counseling helps her regain her spirit and get her life back. But will she ever be able to forgive her abusers and herself and move forward with her life?

Russell Henderson, newly divorced, suffering from depression, and a failure in his and his parents' eyes, takes a sabbatical from his work as an investment banker and makes a spur-of-the-moment decision to go on a camping trip to explore the Western United States. Somewhere in Iowa, he picks up a woman hitchhiker, and then his awakening begins.

Recent Advances in Genetic Epidemiology' is a special edition of Human Heredity to celebrate Professor Newton E. Morton's 70th birthday. Newton E. Morton, a member of the U.S. National Academy of Science, is one of the founding fathers of genetic epidemiology and laid the ground work for the methodology that produced our current human gene maps. Professor Morton and eight authors have contributed peer reviewed original papers and reviews addressing some of the most challenging problems in genetic epidemiology at the dawn of the era of genetic medicine. One author gives us fascinating insights into the history of eugenics in the USA and draws parallels to China. Another reflects thoughtfully on the ethics of prenatal testing, population control, as well as medical care and the rights of individuals. In general, the authors recognize the need for an emphasis on population analysis of non-Mendelian genetics. Several contributors address the importance of population isolates for the mapping of complex diseases, while others propose novel methods, such as pattern recognition, for mapping complex traits and yet another presents a method to tackle the difficult project of mapping traits with small effect sizes. Taken together, these articles can be used as a handbook for the problems facing the science of genetic epidemiology in the 21st century.

Memories and anecdotes from a man growing up on a farm north of Utica, NY in the 1920s.