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...only some 35,000 years after the birth of modern man???a brief interval on the evolutionary time scale?the arrow is pointing in a dramatic new direction. Not only has man begun to unlock the most fundamental life processes, but he may soon be able to manipulate and alter them?curing such killer diseases as cancer, correcting the genetic defects that account for perhaps 50% of all human ailments, lessening the ravages of old age, expanding the prowess of his mind and body. Says Caltech's Robert Sinsheimer, one of the architects of the biological revolution: "For the first...
...molecular manipulations need hardly be confined to the prevention and cure of disease. His understanding of the mechanisms of life opens the door to genetic engineering and control of the very process of evolution. DNA can now be created in the laboratory. Soon, man will be able to create man???and even superman...
...matter of days. In this era of the inescapable nude scene, Gould's ordinary and not especially well-cared-for proportions come as a blessed relief. For the average American male on a Saturday-night movie date, it was once a recurring minor trauma when the leading man???Burt Lancaster, say, or Charlton Heston?shed his shirt to reveal muscles rippling in well-choreographed rows and a Mr. America chest. Gould, bare-assed in Move, evokes anything but competitive embarrassment and might even persuade a few victims of anatomical insecurity to forget about jogging...
...Pessimists argue that only a catastrophe can change that attitude?too late. By contrast, Barry Commoner and others put their faith in man's ability to reform when confronted by compelling facts. It is also possible that ecologists can eventually stir enough people to an emotion as old as man???exaltation. Ecology, the subversive science, enriches man's perceptions, his vision, his concept of reality. In nature, many may find the model they need to cherish. The question is: How many...
...Congressmen: Mendel Rivers, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee?a man the Pentagon always listens to?and Arizona's Morris Udall, who had personally checked out Ridenhour. Rivers' committee demanded an investigation on April 7. It took Army investigators four months to finally place charges against just one man???Lieut. Calley?on Sept. 5. Presidential Security Adviser Henry Kissinger was notified in November?and so, presumably, was Nixon. The fact that Calley was charged with an unspecified number of murders produced only a small Associated Press dispatch on Sept. 8. It took the enterprise of a tiny Washington news...