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...social centers in Italy are linked by a computer network that dispenses information about meeting places, concerts and technical matters concerning | instruments. "At first the groups represented the embryo of a new form of protest," explains music critic Alberto Dentice. "But slowly they became technologically organized. Rap brought out the rhythm that is inside everyone. It's homemade music within everyone's reach...
...couples who are concerned about passing on defective genes may be spared that agonizing dilemma, thanks to a remarkable new procedure that allows doctors to test days-old embryos for genetic abnormalities outside the womb. The technique -- which begins with in vitro, or "test-tube," fertilization and then involves plucking a single cell from an embryo the size of a grain of sand -- has already produced a healthy baby girl for a British couple with a 1 in 4 chance of having a child with cystic fibrosis, according to a report in last week's New England Journal of Medicine...
...test also takes society right into the brave new world of genetic screening, raising the specter of eugenically minded parents throwing out embryo after embryo in search of the "perfect" child. And while it promises to reduce the number of abortions later in pregnancy, it is already drawing fire from those who oppose the taking of any human life, no matter how small. "Once you've joined the male sperm with the female egg, it's a human being," says Robert Powell, vice president of the National Right to Life Committee. "You're killing the very youngest of human beings...
...heart of the debate are the tiny four- and eight-cell spheres that represent human life at a very early stage -- three days after fertilization. Scientists have long known from animal studies that cells in these pre-embryos are totipotent (that is, capable of taking any subsequent form, from skin to bone marrow) and more or less expendable. A 16-cell bovine embryo can be divided into four equal groups of four cells each, cultured for a few more days, and then redivided to yield 16 identical cell clusters, each of which will grow into a genetically interchangeable...
...Aquarius. Israel is nowhere near meeting Syria's demand that it get all of the Golan back. On the issue of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, there is a wide gap between the Israeli proposal for an "administrative" council and Palestinian demands for a "legislative" body, an embryo parliament for a Palestinian state. But gone are the days when, as Palestinian delegate Ghassan Khatib puts it, "proposals were prepared for confrontation, not agreement." Propaganda ideas are yielding to suggestions that might be negotiable. Someday. Maybe...