Future Shock

New genetic tests may tell us more than we really want to know about our future.

By Jill Kramer

Thursday, January 16, 1997

Sherry Heschong found out last year she stood a 50 percent chance that she had inherited Huntington's disease, a neurological disorder that destroys one's mental faculties and motor coordination.

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