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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most signers have no moral qualms about some forms of genetic engineering. For example, they do not object to scrambling the DNA of bacteria to make possible the mass production of insulin for diabetics. Nor do all of them oppose a possible future treatment that would change the genes of an individual to cure a disease such as hemophilia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Scientists Must Not Play God | 6/20/1983 | See Source »

...familiar to the rest of the country. Patches of its bright cityscape are on television all the time, and Woody Allen makes cracks about its well-muscled airheads. L.A. is to the rest of the U.S. as the U.S. is to Europe: both the butt of jokes and the object of envy, derided for its fast-buck vulgarity but secretly wished well just the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Los Angeles: The New Ellis Island | 6/13/1983 | See Source »

...Lindbergh School in Palisades Park, N.J., about 600 pupils a week read it. At Princeton High School in Princeton, N.J., 30 children a day use it. At Palisades Park High School, 15 students line up each weekday by 8 a.m. to get their chance to scan it. The object of all this excitement is the Academic American, an electronic encyclopedia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: Short Circuiting Reference Books | 6/13/1983 | See Source »

...echo constantly throughout Hadzi's work. Many of his earlier, more representational works involve the mythical figures of centaurs and lapiths. Later series evoke images of helmets, shields and arches. And if the sculptures themselves are not heroic enough certainly their names are "Delphic Omphalos," River Oracle," and "Naxian Object...

Author: By Merin G. Wexler, | Title: Bronze and Granite | 6/9/1983 | See Source »

...Mexican Revolution was the object of constant harassment, pressures, menaces, boycotts and even a couple of armed interventions between...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'The Daybreak of a Movement' | 6/9/1983 | See Source »

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