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Perhaps you missed it in the crunch of midterms, but the Brave New World arrived a few weeks...
Many Harvard students are studying to be the doctors and scientists of tomorrow. Certainly, they should be concerned with the issues of modern science and with the impact their future work might have. Why has there been no outcry, no wave of hysteria about the prospect of this brave new world...
Frightened ethicists often tout Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" as a nightmarish blueprint of where science could lead us. Huxley envisioned a world of factory-produced human beings, engineered and brainwashed to fill society's different needs...
Perhaps this is the true vision of our brave new world: one in which the masses live in fear of a science which they do not understand, where scientists must constantly work under the shadow of public opinion, chained by restrictive laws. The real danger apparent in the cloning debate is not that it will really give us made-to-order human beings, but that it will create a backlash against science that could have impacts in every field...
...rated movies, Restic became a special agent. Working mostly alone, he penetrated enemy lines, merged with the masses of Europeans fleeing Hitler's terror, and relayed information back to the Allies. Putting his life on the line several times while dealing with double agents, the brave, hardworking youngster earned the overwhelming respect of his superiors...