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None of this is to dismiss concerns about genetic engineering. Should the techniques be developed, as now appears likely, there will be significant potential for accidents and abuse, serious issues of distribution and social stratification, questions of homogeneity, and further repercussions, perhaps as wide-ranging as those of industrialization, that we cannot yet predict. Perhaps, in the end, genetic engineering will need to be banned. But there is nothing uniquely apocalyptic about genetic engineering, and we must confront it in the same way we should confront every new development: with our ethics clear and our eyes open...
...hearing on Harvard's latest motion will take place Feb. 16th in the Mass. Superior Court. Brassard already denied Harvard's motion to dismiss this case twice...
What's most revealing here is not the gifts themselves--although it is hard to picture one adult giving another a sofa--but how horrified people were at the very suggestion that Hillary would lean on supporters to furnish her house. The Clintons have long dismissed the criticism of those in the vast right-wing conspiracy whom they don't respect. But how do you dismiss the views of those you do respect--who insist you would never sink so low, until they are silenced by proof of your grasping...
...killer. She was convicted of manslaughter in 1981 and sentenced to death for shooting a lesbian lover in 1988. None of her supporters, including the Rev. Jesse Jackson--who was among 28 protesters arrested at Allen's prison--were trying to spring her or dismiss the suffering she has caused two families. They were arguing that under the circumstances, an execution was barbaric...
...Others stood close by to defend Ashcroft's record and dismiss apocalyptic visions of burning abortion clinics. "John has made it very clear in the past that he believes that violence in front of abortion clinics is absolutely wrong, and that's the law and should be enforced," Senator Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.), told CNN last week. Ashcroft insisted he will not allow his personal beliefs to influence the way he defends existing laws. "Roe v. Wade is the law of the land," he told the senators. "I know the difference between enforcement and enactment...