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...from Jersey and his grade-point average were about as popular as Pharoah in the Moses household. It's not just that Carlo was a nurd. Sure, he had spent an entire summer doing medical research at some institute where they paid you per dozen rats you managed to infect with assorted communicable horrors, and said he actually enjoyed the stay at "cancer camp." (That story had something to do with it, of course. Pre-med fever ran as high in Prescott as in any other freshman dorm, and even the most casually ambitious protosurgeon could develop a hatred...
...spite of these drawbacks, for the most part the material chosen was timely and effectively dramatized. The energy of the presentations seemed to infect the largely sympathetic audience. The evening's finale, which was accompanied by enthusiastic, rhythmic handclapping by the audience, was a song called "Solidarity Forever Rock," sung to the tune of the rock 'n roll song "Locomotion." It seemed to be a light-hearted self-parody of the radical leftist style. Yet troupe members assured me afterwards that they were in total earnest...
...trying to estimate the immediate hazards from novel organisms it is useful to distinguish three possibilities: that experiments with a given kind of DNA will produce a dangerous organism; that the organism will infect a laboratory worker; and that the organism will spread...
...trial-and-error nature of the experiments also makes it possible they will produce a strain of bacteria that could seriously infect man or other animals and for which no cure is known...
Opponents of the research warned at that time of the risks that new uncontrollable organisms may be produced that can escape to infect nearby residents...