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...They weren't human or inhuman. They were nonhuman." That was how French Journalist Jean-Paul Kauffmann, quoting fellow hostage Michel Seurat, , described the pro-Iranian Islamic Jihad terrorists who held him hostage for three years. The wrenching account of his kidnaping, captivity and release appeared last week in L'Evenement du Jeudi, the French newsmagazine Kauffmann worked for when he and French Researcher Seurat were abducted...
...granting of patents on selectively bred plants or genetically-engineered microorganisms has been accepted for years. But the issue of the first patent for a "transgenic nonhuman mammal" should have been the focal point for an ethical debate on man's right to manipulate the course of nature to fit its needs...
...century of efforts to quantify physiological differences between the races has yielded plenty of anthropological mumbo jumbo. In the early days of Darwinism, some European scholars suggested that the major races had each descended from a different species of ape: Caucasians from chimpanzees, the most intelligent nonhuman primates; Orientals from orangutans; and Negroes from gorillas, the biggest and blackest...
...Patent and Trademark Office has taken what seems to be the next logical step. It announced this month that it "considers non-naturally occurring nonhuman multicellular living organisms, including animals, to be patentable subject matter...
Some theologians decried the apparent equation of God's creatures with manufactured goods. Others were afraid that the patenting of genetically altered human beings might be next, despite the fact that the Patent Office statement clearly specified "nonhuman" life. "My fear is that we will begin valuing human beings as no different from animals," said J. Robert Nelson, director of the Institute of Religion at Texas Medical Center in Houston...