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...Silver, a genetics professor at Princeton, is the author of Remaking Eden: How Genetic Engineering and Cloning Will Transform the American Family...
...good and right as it is hoped to be, and that this inauguration of a joined life will be perfect. Why not? I know that it is unrealistic to think like that, but reality is overrated. Who in his right mind would not opt for paradise before the fall, Eden pre-snake...
...that is never dry for the lapping waves, what seems neatly defined land and water mixes, leaving enough room for interpretation to fill the novel's 450 pages. An iceberg is both shelter from a storm and a ripping force of destruction, Newfoundland waste and an Eden, the sea a blessing and curse...
...this vision of a neatly-arranged academic eden is not so appealing in context of the costs entailed. Creating the Barker Center meant giving up some of the history and character of the building for a more generic space...
There are dangers, but not the ones everyone's talking about, according to Princeton University molecular biologist Lee Silver, author of Remaking Eden (Avon Books). Silver believes that cloning is the technology that will finally make it possible to apply genetic engineering to humans. First, parents will want to banish inherited diseases like Tay-Sachs. Then they will try to eliminate predispositions to alcoholism and obesity. In the end, says Silver, they will attempt to augment normal traits like intelligence and athletic prowess...