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...fact, genetically modified foods are already very much a part of our lives. A third of the corn and more than half the soybeans and cotton grown in the U.S. last year were the product of biotechnology, according to the Department of Agriculture. More than 65 million acres of genetically modified crops will be planted in the U.S. this year. The genetic genie is out of the bottle...
...Mayo Clinic. In Dr. Darryl Chutka's classroom, the 10 first-year medical students look a little different from what you might expect. They're all wearing goggles coated in a clear film, ear plugs, heavy rubber gloves, extra-thick socks. They also have marshmallows stuffed in their mouths, corn kernels scattered inside their shoes, stiff, confining braces around their necks--and enormous, padded diapers stuffed inside their underclothes...
...novel, if slightly frightening, effort to familiarize future physicians with the circumstances of the patients they will be treating when they emerge from their medical training. The goggles simulate cataracts; the ear plugs, loss of hearing; the gloves, arthritis; the socks, edema; the marshmallows, post-stroke paralysis; the corn, bunions; the neck braces, the nearly universal muscular stiffness of old age. The diapers...well, the diapers are indicative of what managers at Kimberly-Clark consider the promising future of the market for "adult-incontinence products," one of their fastest-growing areas of business...
...information overload, once upon a time we actually worried that we weren't getting enough information. Fears of media monopoly were once rampant - what if the television station and the newspaper in a city were owned by the same family? And what if that family hated, say, corn on the cob? Everyone in that town would be denied important news concerning that noble vegetable. Recognizing the danger inherent in such a scenario, in 1975 the regulators at the Federal Communications Commission stepped in and made a decree: No one entity may own more than one news outlet in any city...
These protests have been largely based on misinformation about the practice of genetically engineering food products. Despite our instinctive fear of unknown, mutant food monsters, most of the endeavors to scientifically improve food have made crops hardier or more nutritious. Scientists have developed strains of corn that have built-in pesticides, for example, and others have developed a strain of rice that is rich in Vitamin...