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That is what most frightens the foes of genetic engineering. If biologists can change the course of heredity, they can try to play God and influence human destiny. In 1983 activist Jeremy Rifkin, a longtime opponent of many kinds of genetic research, and several dozen theologians mounted an unsuccessful effort to persuade Congress to ban all experiments on human germ cells. Said Avery Post, president of the United Church of Christ, at the time: "We're not good enough or responsible enough. There is no question about it. We will abuse this power...
...With Uncle Carl's help, Nunn visited Washington and was able to tell Georgians that if he was elected he would be put on the Armed Services Committee. I have "assurances," he said cryptically. By primary day, Nunn had the support of both arch-conservative Lester Maddox and black activist Julian Bond. After defeating Carter's man -- a Harvard-educated lawyer whom Nunn chided for being "too used to air-conditioned rooms in Eastern Ivy League schools" -- Nunn faced a conservative Republican in the general. The great coup, the stroke that many say put him over, was Nunn's enlistment...
...petition's author, community activist Terry Crystal, says yesterday that the debate was not simply about the fate of the two projects...
...avoid a conviction for subversive activities. He refused, saying, "The solution of this human situation does not lie in leaving it. Fourteen million people can't just go and leave Czechoslovakia empty." That decision won Havel the respect and admiration of many Czechs. Says Charter 77 activist Martin Palou: "Havel is a symbol of hope for the future, a man who can articulate many people's feelings...
...change their names." This process of shucking off so-called slave names, commonly in favor of names with an African or Islamic flavor, persists. Malcolm Little became Malcolm X and then Malik al-Shabazz. Cassius Clay transformed himself into Muhammad Ali. Lew Alcindor became Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Civil rights activist Stokely Carmichael changed his name to Kwame Ture. The writer LeRoi Jones converted to Amiri Baraka...