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...headed imperial eagle and dismissed reports that he harbors totalitarian aspirations. Displayed on his office wall was a portrait of the French ultranationalist Jean-Marie Le Pen. By the window sat a teddy bear. "I am no fascist," he snarled, bounding from his chair to stand before a large map demarcating the portions of Finland, Poland and Afghanistan that he hopes to annex. "I have not allowed myself to make a single extremist escapade in my life...
Anyone wanting a description of the entire map should be able to obtain it through a computer: Cohen has promised to feed the information into the Internet, the global communications network most heavily used by scientists. "It should be equally available to all the world," he says...
...away the goal was. The hunt will now be easier, thanks to last week's announcement that an international team of scientists, led by Dr. Daniel Cohen at the Center for the Study of Human Polymorphism in Paris, has produced the first full-fledged -- if still rough -- map of the human genome. "This is a major step forward," says David Ward, a Yale geneticist who has been analyzing the map for errors. "It's a first pass, and it will have its warts. But it's still significant...
That's why Cohen's new map will come in handy. To produce it, his group sliced many sets of chromosomes into thousands of segments and put each piece into a yeast cell. The cells then made thousands of copies of every piece of the human DNA. By studying different possible arrangements, Cohen's computerized machines were able to figure out the positions of a whole list of common markers as well as the proper order of the pieces...
Imagine if a nationwide program like Dor Yeshorim recorded the genes of every citizen. (Even now, the federal government is attempting to map out the entire human genome.) Would you be comfortable knowing that all your genes are on record somewhere, from your predisposition for baldness to your likeliness to commit violent crimes (scientists have discovered a "crime gene" for males)? Already we are less disturbed than we should be that our privacy, from what we buy to whom we call, is recorded and often sold; in this era, knowledge is money...