Word: eyeful
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...have met thieves before, but few so epically wicked. There is something about Madoff's ability to look people in the eye as he stole from them, to accept accolades from the charities he was destroying, to absorb the praise of people who trusted him over decades of deception. He started out as a lifeguard, then let people drown...
Karen Tumulty's sad story about her brother points out so much that is wrong with our health-care system. The best health-care-reform option of all: a single-payer, universal plan that provides comprehensive coverage, including dental, eye, mental health, etc., to all citizens. The best part of all is that it is already in Congress: HR 676. The opponents of HR 676 are beholden to the insurance and pharmaceutical industries. It is time for a change. Anita Simons, LA JOLLA, CALIF...
...preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD), choosing many of a child’s characteristics is now possible, according to Dr. Jeffrey Steinberg of the Los Angeles-based IVF Fertility Center. Using PGD, Steinberg and company have claimed to be able to screen for certain cosmetic characteristics, such as hair and eye color, and to modify them...
...well off and those whose parents could not afford PGD. If genetic makeup becomes dependent on wealth, then people’s looks will be an immediate indicator of their upbringing, and prejudices regarding someone’s background would be developed merely based on traits as inconsequential as eye color...
...because of public outrage, not laws, that Dr. Steinberg and his team suspended their eye and hair color selection program. The United States currently has no laws prohibiting cosmetic trait selection; Dr. Steinberg describes the field as “an uncharted road.” But now that designer babies are a very real possibility, it is important that we act now to prevent a human catastrophe rather than wait until Babies “R” Us becomes more than a brand for baby clothes...