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...have coffee with the President, no alarms went off. No one made much of the fact that Dhanin Chearavanont, 57, chairman of the CP Group, is believed to be the largest single foreign investor in China and an economic adviser to Beijing. When an aide to campaign czar Harold Ickes asked "if it would be problematic if this individual met briefly W/ POTUS," the green light came quickly from the NSC: "O.K. by Asia Affairs." Among the 11 NSC officials informed of the meeting: Rand Beers...
...last, however. As NIH director Dr. Harold Varmus told a congressional subcommittee last week, it could take just one infertile couple, arguing that cloning provides their only chance to bear a child, to turn public opinion around...
There are lots of wrinkles to the Ickes tale. Like his father, another compulsive note taker, he's learning just how cold Washington can be when the mighty fall. (Harold Sr. resigned when he found himself on the wrong side of his boss Harry Truman.) But the real irony of Ickes' story is that he is the first casualty of a fund-raising machine whose very creation he opposed. It was Dick Morris, the consultant turned million-dollar author, who pushed Clinton in 1995 to make his comeback with a centrist, ad-driven strategy that would require truckloads of cash...
...legal and ethical implications of the new technology and reporting back to him with their findings within 90 days. Later this week the House subcommittee on basic research will hold a hearing to address the same issues. The probable tone of those sessions was established last week when Harold Varmus, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), told another subcommittee that cloning a person is "repugnant to the American public...
...predictable--and even laudable--they may have missed the larger point. The public may welcome ways a government can regulate cloning, but what's needed even more is ways a thinking species can ethically fathom it. "This is not going to end in 90 days," says Princeton University president Harold Shapiro, chairman of President Clinton's committee. "Now that we have this technology, we have some hard thinking ahead...