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...consider the probability that an inadvertently produced harmful organism might cause a laboratory infection, and let us assume the worst case: an E.coli strain producing a potent toxin absorbable from the gut, such a botulinus toxin. Such a strain would indeed present a real danger of laboratory infection. But there are a number of reasons to expect this danger to be less than that with the pathogens that are handled every day by medical bacteriologists...
...thus see that with a strain known to have added the gene for a potent toxin a serious laboratory infection requires the compounding of four low probabilities. With strains from shotgun experiments we have a fifth, very low probability, already mentioned: that an apparently harmless mammalian tissue will yield a dangerous product...
Wash Sins. Devout Hindus bathe in the Ganges all year long to wash away their sins, but the spiritual effect of the ablutions is considered most potent during the festivals that are held at twelve-year intervals on one of four sites. The Kumbh Mela at Allahabad is the most blessed, for here the Ganges meets not only the Yamuna but the Saraswati, a legendary underground river. This spot is known as the Sangam (sacred confluence). Some holy men, moreover, deem the current configuration of the sun, moon and stars to be exactly the same as at the creation...
This Republic of Technology has brought a new flavor to our lives, a new relation to our fellow Americans, a new relation to the whole world. Two forces of the new era have proved especially potent...
Broadcasting is perhaps the most potent everyday witness to the converging powers of technology. The most democratic of all forms of public communication, broadcasting converges people, drawing them into the same experience in ways never before possible. The great levelers, broadcast messages and images, go without discrimination into the homes of rich and poor, white and black, young and old. More than 99% of American households have at least one television set. If you own a set, no admission fee is required to enter TV land and to have a front seat at all its marvels. No questions are asked...