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There it was on the front page of the October 24 New York Times: "Scientist Clones Human Embryos." What had once been science fiction was now fact. Newsweek devoted six pages to the topic, and Time put cloning on its cover, asking: "Where Do We Draw the Line...
Many of Time's poll questions bordered on the silly: "Would you like to have been a clone?"(Eighty-six percent said no.) In one of Newsweek's related stories, titled "How Will the Clone Feel?", an ethicist waxes metaphysical: "What would it mean if I ran into one of me in the grocery store some day? What makes...
...Newsweek views this as a horrible tragedy; the article speaks of "the waste of their $100,000 educations and the frittering away on once promising intellectual gifts." Here's how it describes one Harvard alum's abandonment of his graduate studies in mathematics at Berkeley to write for Beavis and Butt-head: "You could read the entire story of American decline in that one career move...
...interesting sidebar, Newsweek concluded that the precipitous decline of our generation's culture could be blamed on--guess who--Harvard. Our best and brightest are abandoning their productive careers as high-priced lawyers and are instead flocking in droves to write TV comedy...
That's hardly fair. If anything, the phenomenon shows that Harvard's spawn has, as always, a keen sense of which way the winds of change are blowing. "Underachievement [is] suddenly fashionable," Newsweek laments. But in this age, who's got a better shot at changing the world: one more addition to a horde of hungry litigators, or a writer whose vignette for "The Simpsons" will be watched and repeated by millions? "Someone has to entertain America," declared one Harvard man. Ah, duty...