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...British Telecommunications for $4.3 billion, it began looking for a partner to transform its worldwide phone network into pathways for "content"-whatever a computer or TV screen can receive, from info-services to movies. "You can hardly think of content without the name of Rupert Murdoch coming to the fore," says MCI chairman Bert Roberts...
Examples of overaggressive treatment based on test results abound in fields ranging from cardiology to back surgery. But what has brought this issue to the fore is the extraordinary pace of genetic research. In the past few months, scientists have developed experimental tests for several cancer-causing genes that were discovered only last year--including one called BCRA1, which, if mutated, can trigger breast tumors. Tests for newly identified genes that cause melanoma and colon cancer will soon be marketed to doctors...
Moreover, the currently existing intelligence agencies of the world (and their controllers) would never allow themselves to be subsumed into such an organization. Every nation would have an incentive to found its own clandestine net of spies; superpowers would again come to the fore in intelligence...
Third, it would be fundamentally unpolitic (and there fore impossible) for the federal government to induce a national drinking age of 18. Even if the funding enticement was reformed in such a way, many states dominated by conservative interests would maintain a drinking age of 21. Thus the same problem of incongruity among the states and the inevitable fatalities...
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