Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from Formosa for medical checkups, went to Ann Arbor to accept an honorary doctorate of laws from the University of Michigan, there delivered another timely warning that had fateful undertones. Its net: because of too much intellectual handwringing over the horrors of modern war, "freedom and the values of human dignity, which we were taught to cherish above all else, have begun to be secondary to biological survival...
...They nullify and perhaps unwittingly desecrate the principle of human dignity which has been the motivating force against tyranny...
...violence was originally responsible for producing an enzyme (organic catalyst) needed in the mold's process of making vitamin B-6 out of simpler nutrients. With the gene out of action, the process stopped, and the mold could not grow without help. It was like a human diabetic who needs an external source of the insulin that his body cannot make...
...change bacteria from one true-breeding strain to another, it may have some similar effect on higher animals, including humans. If such a process is discovered, not much DNA will be needed. The entire supply of DNA that could control the heredity of the next generation of the human species (several billion individuals) could be put in a cube one twenty-fifth of an inch on a side...
Into the Maze. The heart of the story is known even to schoolboys. Theseus, recently acknowledged son of the King of Athens, one morning finds the city draped in black. He is told that the city must send a human tribute of seven young men and seven maidens to Crete, where they are to be put into a maze called the labyrinth and devoured by a fearsome creature, half-man, half-bull, called the Minotaur. Either by lot or insistence, Theseus becomes one of the seven youths and sets sail for Crete. There he wins the love of Ariadne...