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Golden was a member of the team that produced the first TIME cover story on DNA (TIME, April 19,1971). It was part of a special section that detailed "the promise and peril of the new genetics," and correctly predicted that scientists would soon be able to splice different DNA chains together. Senior Editor Leon Jaroff, who edited both the 1971 stories and this week's report, feels that "while sensible restraints may have to be placed on the experiments, the work should be allowed to proceed. The potential for good is fantastic...
That this exciting new research holds great promise but could also pose some peril was stressed in the day-long testimony before Senator Edward Kennedy's health subcommittee. Califano called recombinant DNA "a scientific tool of enormous potential." He also warned about possible-though unknown-hazards and concluded: "There is no reasonable alternative to regulation under law." Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, involved in the controversy over genetic-engineering projects at Harvard and M.I.T., argued for the public right to regulate the research. Said he: "Genetic manipulation to create new forms of life places biologists at a threshold similar...
...development of the recombinant DNA technique ushered in a new era of genetic engineering-with all of its promise and possible peril. The lowly organism that currently plays the largest role in the process is the E. coli bacterium. This microbe-a laboratory derivative of a common inhabitant of the human intestine-lends itself to being engineered because its genetic structure has been so well studied. In the first step of the process, scientists place the bacterium in a test tube with a detergent-like liquid. This dissolves the microbe's outer membrane, causing its DNA strands to spill...
...direct role in foreign affairs, she did have some contact with Soviet leaders. Leonid Brezhnev she would later describe as "the biggest clown in the world"; Nikita Khrushchev was "a big fool." She was particularly bitter about him because he had talked to foreign statesmen about the "yellow peril...
Reaching the Peril Point. Very little could be done to ease the present crisis. The transmission companies were faced with insufficient pipeline capacity: they could not fit enough gas into their systems to meet burgeoning demand. As temperatures dropped, meters at monitoring stations showed a lowering of pipeline pressure, indicating big surges in demand. "The gas was being pulled out faster than we could put it in," said Henry King, an executive of the sprawling Columbia Gas Transmission Corp., a network of seven gas distributors in several mid-Atlantic and Midwestern states. "In some plants we were reaching the peril...