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...Your story "The Ping Heard Round the World" gives me hope that perhaps this world may make it. It is ironic that a Ping Pong team could do what no diplomat could. In the smugness of our homes we tend to forget that there are others on this planet. Not to recognize 700 million human beings is sheer stupidity...
...Affairs that he was later to elaborate in the 1968 campaign. "Taking the long view." declared Nixon, "we simply cannot afford to leave China forever outside the family of nations, there to nurture its fantasies, cherish its hates, and threaten its neighbors. There is no place on this small planet for a billion of its potentially most able people to live in angry isolation...
...first it was like being on another planet," said Saar after he returned to Hong Kong. "For at least two days, no one was quite sure what he was seeing, and then gradually things began to fall into place and we began to see a society and a nation that was very much unified and organized-with a level of overall poverty but absolutely no misery, no hunger. My impression was of a nation very much together, very strong and reliant not on police or enforced discipline but on genuine conviction. There are no beggars, no suffering visible...
...extent, man has already altered himself and his planet. Scientists can only guess at the genetic toll from radioactive fallout, chemical contamination and other assaults on the environment. Even man's noblest impulses are apt to offend against nature. While improved medical care assures the survival and reproduction of those with genetically caused mental and physical defects, it also ensures that an increasingly larger percentage of the population will be heir to these illnesses in years to come. Geneticist Theodosius Dobzhansky succinctly expresses the ethical dilemma. "If we enable the weak and the deformed to live and to propagate their...
SOME FAVOR LESS obvious alterations. They have suggested that man be given the genes to produce a two-compartment stomach (a cow has four) that could digest cellulose; that mutation could be advantageous if man fails to increase his food supplies fast enough to feed the planet's growing population, but superfluous if he does. They also want man programmed to regenerate other organs, such as he now does with the liver, so that he can repair his damaged or diseased heart or lungs if necessary...