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...scraggly cornstalks sprouting from pots in Andy Hiatt's laboratory don't look particularly unusual. But woven into their DNA is a tiny strip of mankind: a human gene that codes for an antibody to a sexually transmitted disease--genital herpes--that afflicts some 60 million Americans. When the corn plants mature and produce kernels, Hiatt's company, Epicyte Pharmaceutical of San Diego, hopes to turn them into a topical gel for herpes...
...lend a whiff of aristocracy to his enterprise, Singer relies on the orotund majesty of British thesping. Stewart and McKellen give heft to their respective patriarch and pariah. They make each debate on the shaky future of mankind sound as if it were taking place in the House of Lords--even if they are both forced to sport the goofiest headgear in fantasy-film history...
When you consider mankind's ever-lengthening roster of public menaces - terrorism, SARS, North Korean nukes - the perils posed by a voracious race of self-replicating robotic organisms might seem pretty low on the list. But the Prince of Wales has let it be known that he is so perturbed by the potential dangers of nanotechnology - the young science that could one day make such creatures possible - and worries that it could reduce the planet to a lifeless "gray goo," that in the next couple of months he will convene a nanotech summit at his country residence, Highgrove House...
...There’s a similar investigation into what makes us human, and what types of things are common to mankind,” he says...
...cultured” toward human suffering. Donny George, the head of the National Archaeological Museum in Baghdad, told reporters that the US troops’ failure to protect artifacts was “the crime of the century because it is really affecting the heritage of mankind...