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With his usual thoroughness, Nixon is rigorously preparing himself for his journey in February. He is reading Dennis Bloodworth's The Chinese Looking Glass, John K. Fairbank's The United States and China, Francis Hsu's Americans and Chinese. He is working his way through thickets of memos from Kissinger, who returned with 500 pages of notes from his two separate flights to confer with Chou. All of those notes have been broken down by topic; the Chinese position on each subject is being exhaustively researched and a Nixon response or initiative is being outlined. Such intensive study...
Each test tube, embedded in dry ice, contains between 60 and 100 million cells of an individual species, usually grown from bits of skin tissue. Most of the samples come from animals Hsu believes are doomed to extinction. When that happens, their genes will be lost. Hsu's hope is that scientists of the future will be able to use the genetic "codes" locked in the cells of each species to reconstitute the original animals...
China-born Dr. Hsu, whose more conventional field is the study of chromosome behavior, concedes that this notion is still close to science fiction. But he can point out that a complete carrot plant has indeed been grown from a single carrot cell. At any rate, other scientists are becoming interested; some have even risked life and limb to contribute to his frozen...
...years ago, Navy health officers came under fire while trying to take skin samples from a rare Vietnamese mole. On another occasion, a California biologist set out for a remote and desolate island off Southern California, which Hsu had heard was the only habitat of a certain rodent. The biologist's boat sank, and he was marooned for three days. He fed himself on bait he had brought for the rodents...
...Says Hsu: "If through my work children two centuries hence may be able to see extinct species live again, I feel that I will have left a worthwhile legacy...