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...provocation" on the Temple Mount aimed at instigating a war between Arabs and Jews that would culminate in Armaggedon. Deciding not to wait for the end of the world, the Israelis raided two houses where 14 cult members lived, taking in three men for investigation of conspiracy to commit a crime and to bomb holy places. Though they asked to go to Greece to join their fellow believers, all 14 Concerned Christians were deported to Denver on Saturday. Some cult members indicated last week that Miller was in London. Says Colorado-based cult watcher Hal Mansfield: "He can run them...
...problem is, If you could locate such genes, what would you do with that knowledge? Should you incarcerate people for crimes they haven't yet committed but are genetically predisposed to commit? Is it possible to fix such miswired genes, and if so, should you try? The possibility of mucking about with such fundamental genetic coding gives a lot of people existential shivers--and it should. "This is the kind of technology that would flourish in an Orwellian society," says Bereano...
...brain are tumor cells, the retroviruses infected them alone, inserting the herpes gene into their nuclei. As this gene expressed itself, it made the tumor cells sensitive to the herpes drug ganciclovir. When the drug was then administered to the patient, says Anderson, it "made the tumor cells commit suicide." But here there were troublesome side effects...
...they grow up healthily gene-bettered, more such children will follow, and they and those whose lives are enriched by their existence will rejoice that science has again improved human life. If, however, the added genetic material fails to work, better procedures must be developed before more couples commit their psyches toward such inherently unsettling pathways to producing healthy children...
...President. Meanwhile, in a Los Angeles courtroom, the voluminous MARLON BRANDO joined the volatile SEAN PENN to protest prosecutors' efforts to send former Black Panther Geronimo Pratt back to jail. Pratt was released last year after spending 27 years behind bars for a murder he says he didn't commit...