Word: humanity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...list of complaints, Bok said he probably wouldn't have time to look at it. Still, it doesn't bother Bok to say that "universities should be the last institutions to discourage a belief in the value of reasoned argument and carefully considered evidence in analyzing even the hardest human problems...
...small white mouse that develops cancer? Both are tools created by man for the use of man. Mankind has been hybridizing plants and cattle for centuries for profit. It would be a foolish, backward step to prevent us from using biological aids to better the environment and the human condition...
...problem, say critics, is not with a few altered lab mice, but with the broader commercial applications of gene-transplant technology. Theoretically, any gene could be inserted into any embryo. Scientists, for example, have already produced mice that manufacture human insulin. Until now, such animals have existed only in laboratories, not in the marketplace. Patenting them would change that. Critics are concerned that the potential to make millions of dollars on, say, animal-generated pharmaceuticals will drive biotech companies to produce generations of bizarre creatures whose release into nature could have unforeseen consequences...
Medical researchers have recently succeeded in treating people with such chronic diseases as diabetes and Parkinson's with transplants of human fetal tissue. So far, doctors in the U.S. have used fetuses only in experimental transplants on laboratory animals suffering from conditions mimicking human ailments. Most such research in federal labs came to an abrupt halt last week. The Reagan Administration banned the use of intentionally aborted fetal tissue by Government scientists until an outside panel can examine the ethical implications of the practice. Experiments involving tissue obtained from miscarriages can proceed...
...American, yet he understands his country in his bones, half cynically, half naively, much like Gatsby. The only thing that Nixon did not understand is Nixon. (Talk about funny!) Perhaps his resilience is a function of his intelligence: "I'm fighting getting old." Perhaps he knows that in % the human comedy of politics, the last man onstage is the hero...