1.   Avorn and others ask how effective the monitoring will be and, just as important, what the agency will do with reports of thalidomide babies.

2.   But it was the graphic photos of thalidomide babies that appeared in Life and other magazines and that made them gasp.

3.   Many other thalidomide babies died.

4.   The thalidomide babies stunned the world with their flipper-like hands, often attached right to the shoulder, and their stunted or missing legs.