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Sitting around a conference table in the den of the city's top brass, 17 teenagers were yakking about sneakers, CK perfume and how they were going to straighten out Boston's inner-city neighborhoods...
...articulated the most frightening peril posed by human cloning: rampant self-satisfaction. Just consider. If cloning becomes an option, what kind of people will use it? Exactly--people who think the world could use more of them; people so chipper that they have no qualms about bestowing their inner life on a dozen members of the next generation; people, in short, with high self-esteem. The rest of us will sit there racked with doubt, worried about inflicting our tortured psyches on the innocent unborn, while all around us shiny, happy people proliferate like rabbits. Or sheep, or whatever...
...cause of this clonal empathy wouldn't be that your inner life was exactly like your clone's (it wouldn't be). The catalyst, rather, would be seeing that familiar face--the one in your high school yearbook, except with a better haircut. It would remind you that you and your clone were essentially the same, driven by the same hopes and fears. You might even feel you shared the same soul. And in a sense, this would be true. Then again, in a sense, you share the same soul with everyone...
...Preparatory School in Roxbury, and I can't imagine a better life. All the teachers here are under 27, all educated at Harvard, Dartmouth, Williams, Amherst and the like, and everyone is interesting and fun. None of us is trained as a teacher; we wing it, and get our inner-city kids into New England's best high schools. The job is intellectually challenging--I still get to talk about literature every day, but now I get to plug it into real life. For these kids, Jane Pittman is their grandmother, and The Outsiders happens across the street...
...organizational skills onto their own economic and political infrastructure, so that they could achieve the delicate task of strengthening their country rather than undermining it from within. This selective and gradualist approach allowed China to keep at least a measure of faith that it was somehow preserving its own inner value system even while using the West in a host of developing areas. During this 19th century period--as during the 1980s and into the present--the effects of this attempt on the worlds of political culture were profoundly ambivalent. It turned out to be impossible to relegate foreign ideas...