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...start of the fiercest scientific debate about medical ethics since the birth of the first test-tube baby 15 years ago. A line had been crossed. A taboo broken. A Brave New World of cookie-cutter humans, baked and bred to order, seemed, if not just around the corner, then just over the horizon. Ethicists called up nightmare visions of baby farming, of clones cannibalized for spare parts. Policymakers pointed to the vacuum in U.S. bioethical leadership. Critics decried the commercialization of fertility technology, and protesters took to the streets, calling for an immediate ban on human-embryo cloning. Scientists...
...this subtle comparison, Doerr undermines the romanticism of the remote foreign hamlet. Loomis, the only involuntary member of the community, alone succeeds in forging a bright future in this brave new world. The others mentally reconstruct Amapolas to match the painting on the book's cover. The local grandee cautions his guest: "Consider this, senora. You are transforming Amapolas into something more beautiful than...
...real: in a society where informants are everywhere and potential refugees are regularly jailed and beaten for merely seeking asylum, Clinton's "in-country processing" operation is absurd. Those who are scared enough to brave the consequences currently face at least a six-month wait before being interviewed, and in violation of international law are denied protection in the interim. ("How could we protect them?" asks a U.S. official, missing the point. "The place is a war zone.") The bottom line: according to an undisputed Americas Watch report, 14,590 Haitians have applied for asylum since Clinton took office...
...Bears. 10 Brookline St., Cambridge. 492-BEAR. Dante's Grin on Thursday, Oct. 21. Brave New World On Friday, Oct. 22. Ghost of an American Airman on Saturday...
...reversed by the White House. It has also become hard to assess the chances that the U.S. will dispatch 25,000 troops to help police a peace agreement in Bosnia, should one ever be reached. At present the chances are zero. It would be a supreme irony if the brave venture in Somalia winds up by effectively putting the U.S. out of the peacekeeping business. But it would be unwise to bet now against that happening...