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Show sumu ilte descendants cetebrate century Cruise down south a family reunion br some travelers !- vx. v v,-ti.- B5V- .L - If:,. s if great-grandso- great-grandfuth- namesake, a Seattle reporter, covered the arrival of an early Klondike gold shipment so creatively that people quit their jobs and struck out for the Yukon. J was like II m i dangling a carrot, but for muny, the carrot never panned out." r 1 i ' The week-lon-- voyage of the Spirit of which ends Saturday when the ship '98, iv nwii) i;khm vi viiudocks in Seattle, is part of a series of events Gold brick: Mariah Morris, left, a of Klondike gold stampeder Thomas this year and next to commemorate the Lippy, and her friend Samantha Clay, both of Haines, Alaska, examine a bar of gold that was centennial and the hardships the molded and carried aboard the cruise ship Spirit of '98. The gold was brought off the ship for stampeders endured. display during a brief stop in Haines last Sunday. "This is to remember them," said Judy Gingell, commissioner of the Yukon gambling or lost it through bad invest"I'm just glad he was a cleancut person," of ments. Territory and a said Marilyn Morris Lippy, a grandniece. Skookum Jim, a Tlingit Indian who found "He was very big in his heart." Berry, though, went on to find more gold the first gold nugget that put the Klondike near Fairbanks then invested in oil in The Lippys and Berrys said the cruise River on the map. California and built a fortune that suptheir families together for the first brought "Sometimes you have to look back and the family today. a century. time in ports not repeat history, but think back on it He even set up a retreat for family mem"We're all such a diverse group," said and what it means today" said Gingell, bers in need, relatives said. of Clarence Gail Berg, a who like Brown joined the cruise for a "He had good values," said Wanlyn Berry. brief jaunt between the of Berry. a "Other than our connection to the gold of Skagway, Alaska, and nearby Bejach, grandniece "That's what was different about rush a hundred years ago, we all sure have Haines. So many people went to the Others rode the whole way from Clarence. gone our own ways." Klondike and squandered what they found. One descendant, Gerald Pennington, is Skagway to Seattle, including relatives of He his He do about that. didn't thought Klondike families. who the to went Clarence Berry, trying to keep tabs on He has published a registry of prospecwilh three brothers and found one of the family." Descendants of another rich prospector, tors and organized the Klondike richest gold claims. ' Thomas Lippy, also joined the cruise Stampeders Relatives Association. Berry was among 68 miners who came Unlike Clarence Berry and Thomas eouth to Seattle aboard the steamer between Skagway and Haines. Lippy wound up losing his fortune Lippy, Pennington's father never found Portland, whose arrival in Seattle on July gold in the Yukon. 17, .1897, sparked gold fever and sent through a combination of bankrupt businesses and a variety of good causes, lavish"He went up and like a lot of the 100.000 100,000 stampeders north. ;Most never found gold, and those who ing money on a hospital and participating stampeders, he came back the same way he went," Pennington said. "Broke." league. did teneraNy b'ew on wine, women and in charities and an g - ...u-.- i great-grea- t grand-niec- e gold-rus- h great-grand-nie- great-grand-nie- boom-tow- n gold-rus- h ; anti-saloo- USJui 'it ol 01 n ( uJU u In a medNORFOLK, Vu. ical first, researchers in New Jersey said Thursday that a healthy baby girl was born as a result of a new laboratory procedure that fixes a weak egg cell by injecting it with material from another woman's egg. The technique could be used to help some women, particularly older mothers, who under current treatment can get pregnant only with an egg donated by another woman. to "cytoplasmic Thanks transfer." a .'lit year-olwoman was able to give liiith to a child May 51 that carries her genes, not the genes of a donor. Doctors at St Barnabas Medical Center in New Jersey siphoned oil' some of the inlra-cellua- r stull'that floats outside the nucleus of a healthy egg cell and used it to supplement an egg with defective cytoplasm. Their work, to be published Saturday in the medical journal The Lancet, builds in part on work done at Norfolk's Jones Institute for Reproductive Medicine. The technique is still eonsidoi'ed exKrimental. It is used wilh : r nun hi k r U 1 it i t; t i i n A"I i I I J Help us celebrate the opening of our new building, July 21-- 25. a AMERICAN 1 ! LJULj BANK OF rj COMMERCE 3670 North University Ave., Provo - iv 7 377-422- 2 o "When we were told by doctors that it was unlikely we would ever have children, we were not ready to believe that," said Ott in a prepared statement. "We wanted a baby so badly that we felt it was important to pursue every option available." Part of IVF involves giving the woman hormones to cause her body to develop many eggs at once, instead of the typical one per menstrual cycle. Doctors use a surgical technique to harvest the eggs. Unfortunately, a certain pertypical centage of those eggs haven't ly about MO percent "ripened" to the point where they can be fertilized. Kven when doctors let them ripen in the laboratory, they almost never are able to produce a viable pregnancy, Others are ripened, but for some unknown reason have defective cytoplasm. This reduces the woman's chances of getting pregnant, because even embryos con the and from healthy eggs often ceived dish, place lalwatory don't take root in the uterus. lvsulting embryos ui the uterus. Gary I). Hodgen, president of The more mature, healthy eggs the Jones Institute, said it a woman has. the more likelv would be used when a woman she will get pregnant. had to rely on a donor because In 15189. working with prithe quality of her own eggs had mates, Jones Institute declined with age, or because researchers tried to improve there was some unknown flaw the odds. They used a pipette in her eggs' cytoplasm. about ll.r)th the width of a A woman who uses a donathuman hair to suck an ed egg carries and delivers the extremely tiny amount of cytochild. However, the baby gets of a mature egg and out his maternal genes from the plasm it an unripened egg. into donor. While most couples are inject The cytoplasm contains very happy with this arrangement, bodies. small Some, called mitoabout a third stop treatment at contain chondria, genetic matethis point, said Hodgen. make rial and also energy This procedure might also cell needed the to grow help who women help carry certain Unlike divide. and genetic inherited disorders of types material in the nucleus of cells, caused by genetic material contained in the cytoplasm, rather mitochondria are passed down onlv bv the mother. than the material in the nucle or LI LJ X r;AC 1: uh fertilization. "V- f i nant through typical : J i. hm... us of the cell. By changing the cytoplasm, doctors might eliminate the chance that a child would carry the disorder. In the New Jersey case, the mother, Maureen Ott, had tried four previous times to get preg- 5,. J i fertilization, in which doctors remove a woman's eggs, fertilize them with the father's sxrm in a L"JatJLjLJ w w' mi New Jersey hospital succeeds with fertilization procedure K l ABOARD THE SPIRIT OF '98, Alaska A cruise on this small luxury ship has been something of a family reunion for descendants of Klondike gold stampeders who set out in search of riches 100 years ago this week. Accompanying a gold shipment out of the Yukon were sons of stampeders, grand-niece- s and grandnephews of a wealthy n of the prospector, even a newspaper reporter whose story captured the country's imagination and touched off the gold rush. "The gold rush was what Woodstock was to many of our generation," said Beriah Hrown, whose and .(1111 i - Associalcd Press Writer gold-rus- h :i. By MARIK. JOK K k n 11 III K nliU'1 V' nMuti By DAVID GERMAIN The idea of instant wealth Juh ah 11 1 J wJ KJ |