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...notion of science as a Faustian enterprise is deeply embedded in the popular psyche, even in the relatively optimistic U.S. Technologies that tinker with the fundamentals of life can inspire anxieties enough; when increasingly wedded to the profits of Big Business, the exercise can begin to look downright alarming. Author Jeremy Rifkin, America's most persistent critic of bioengineering, wonders what is in store for a world in which evolution is treated as a plaything and life as an "invention." A case in point: the announcement in November by Advanced Cell Technology of Worcester, Mass., that it had hybridized human...
Recruiting seniors who enter consulting or investment-banking are often charged to have somehow entered a Faustian contract and sold their souls to the devil. Sure, I have met people upon whom I wish the proletarian revolution, but on the other end of the materialist spectrum sit social-justice advocates who attack recruiting seniors with a vengeance that makes the Intifada look like a bunch of PBH counselors. Hearing some of the charges waged against recruiting seniors makes me grateful for the fire codes which have prevented those social justice advocates from holding candlelight vigils in front of their dorm...
...marriage; we're working it out"), the interview would come to focus on the marriage itself. The public is sick of Monica and all that anyway; the real remaining mystery is Hillary: What's her true feeling about all this? How does she stand it? Saintliness? Some Faustian bargain...
...strongly disagree with those who would argue that some sort of Faustian bargain has been struck whereby public figures are fair game, any time, any place," Michael J. Fox said at a congressional hearing Thursday. It's hard to sympathize with the singleminded paparazzi who, Fox testified, "chased me on foot and in my car, yelled obscene comments at my entire family, and literally staked out my home." But opponents say villains could use the restrictions to keep their crimes from photojournalists' cameras. Peace of mind for Hollywood celebrities or an unfettered press -- take your pick...
...devil; Jesus does not take the bait; he won't turn stones into bread because man does not live by bread alone; he won't jump from the temple tower to prove his divinity because it is forbidden to presume God's protection; finally, he rejects the Faustian bargain--the world's riches for his soul...