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CHUL's decision, while commendable for providing a temporary solution to the problem of vacancies that presently exist, fails to establish a firm policy to be applied, if future vacancies should arise. Will sophomores be allowed to fill those vacancies as soon as they occur, or will the transfer freeze still apply? CHUL will clearly be imposing an undue hardship on students if they have to wait for the monthly CHUL meetings for approval of their desired transfer on a case by case basis. However, such a situation can only be avoided if CHUL finally does what it should have...
...nearby residents. Scientists have assured the Harvard community that such mistakes probably won't happen and, even if they do, that the possibilities of disease are slim. But no one has been able to give a 100 per cent guarantee that these biohazards won't occur...
...many of Harvard's biologists and biochemists, as well as scientists as the National Institutes of Health, are sure there is almost no potential for danger, there are experts in the field, most notably Robert Sinsheimer, chairman of the Biology Department at Cal Tech, who believe that biodisasters could occur. In an interview in Science Magazine Sinsheimer cites the possibility that, by endowing lower organisms with the DNA of upper organisms, a "sort of betrayal of state secrets at the molecular level may occur." These new organisms may be endowed with dangerous, possibly lethal characteristics that scientists...
...bring up the question of how slowly an organism becomes a species norm with the idea that a recombinant DNA organism would become a species norm. I was just telling you how slowly these tiny changes occur in genes, and hence in the proteins that genes direct the synthesis of, and contrasting that with the fact that whole genes and blocks of genes can be transposed by these new methods. Everyone realizes our state of almost complete ignorance, which was expressed beautifully by the NIH guidelines, which state, "At present the hazards may be guessed at, speculated about, or voted...
...unlikely to crack under the strain of crisis. Ford was notably relaxed while handling the celebrated Mayaguez affair. "We've got a little crisis," he said casually to some visitors in the Oval Office. "I don't know why it is, but these crises always seem to occur on Monday...