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...happen next year, or next week, or even this afternoon. Economics is called the dismal science as much for being dismally wrong as for being excessively gloomy in its visions of Malthusian catastrophe and Kondratieff instability. Weather forecasters, with their satellites, high-altitude balloons and multidimensional computer models, still predict sunny spells just before the deluge, and blizzards just before the thaw...
...problem is in the design of the game qua game. The two major modes, career and arcade, are exactly identical - literally exactly the same races, except that career mode has much stricter requirements for completion. So strict, in fact, that I predict you will not complete it. And why bother, since the prizes of bizarro cars are all available through the arcade mode anyway? The races also get repetitive, especially because many are so difficult you must do them over and over...
...part that's because, as ANDi's case proves, it's very difficult and expensive to do, and because the unexpected side effects of gene transfers will be hard to predict. Indeed, even conventional gene therapy, which doesn't change the basic germline, has become controversial since the death of Jesse Gelsinger in a gene-therapy trial at the University of Pennsylvania last year. Besides, scientists have much simpler ways to stave off at least some genetic diseases. Parents whose embryos have the gene for Tay-Sachs disease, for example, can test for that defect and never bring the embryo...
...they should have a better understanding of precisely what happens, down to the molecules within individual cells, when the body malfunctions. And, says Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health's Human Genome Research Institute, "if you understand the genetic basis of a disease, then you can predict what protein it produces and set about developing a drug to block...
GeneFormatics of San Diego, for instance, uses bioinformatic algorithms to help drug companies predict the function of proteins encoded by newly discovered genes. It does this by comparing the new proteins with those of known structure, generating a "fuzzy" picture of what each looks like. That, in turn, suggests what their biochemical functions may be--and how best to shut them down...