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...heed now. It is shocking but nonetheless true that the majority of those who enter college never graduate. Many of them may drop out for the wrong reasons, out of impatience or self-indulgence. But so massive a disaffection?so large a gap between classroom and job, schooling and life???cannot be met merely with the old incantations about hard work and discipline. Education in the U.S. has been called its secular religion; from all signs it is ripe for a reformation...
Reshaping life! People who can say that have never understood a thing about life???they have never felt its breath, its heartbeat?however much they have seen or done. They look on it as a lump of raw material that needs to be processed by them, to be ennobled by their touch. But life is never a material, a substance to be molded. If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself.?Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
...OTHER ADVANCES may only increase man's moral agony. By growing life in artificial wombs, for instance, or even rearranging enough molecules to create life itself, man will invoke comparison to the legendary Faust. He attained the power to create life???the tiny test-tube man, or homunculus?but only after he had bartered away his soul to the devil. If the new knowledge is used recklessly, Faustian man of the future may wonder if he, too, has not made a pact with dark forces...
...great a mystery as ever. DNA had been discovered in the nuclei of cells by the Swiss biochemist Friedrich Miescher a few years after Mendel did his work on peas. But since the chromosomes in which the DNA was found also contained proteins?the basic building blocks of life???few scientists had any inkling that DNA might be playing an even more central role to life...
...head" problems, those pains that a lavish quota of middle-class advantages?plenty of money, a loving family, good schools, health, charm and talent?do not seem to prevent, and may in fact exacerbate. Drugs, underachievement, the failure of will, alienation, the doorway to suicide, the struggle back to life???James Taylor has been there himself...