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Michael Rabin, Watson professor of computer science, working with doctoral student Yan Zong Ding, said he has found a way to send and receive messages that cannot be decoded, a discovery that could have profound implications for cryptology...
...certainty" that cloned human children would be born with similar maladies. Of course, we don't euthanize babies. But these kids would probably die very prematurely anyway. Wilmut pauses to consider the genie he has released with Dolly and the hopes he has raised. "It seems such a profound irony," he says, "that in trying to make a copy of a child who has died tragically, one of the most likely outcomes is another dead child...
...course, there are ways in which identical twins are bound together that are more profound than the usual sibling links. When I walk into a room, it takes no more than a glance before I can sense my twin's mood--if she's happy or tense or upset. I know what it's about and why. It's something I suspect few people, maybe not even all twins, experience. Would clones? I suspect not, since their life experiences would be so different...
...requires so much money as to raise a strong possibility of blowing the budget. Once one factors in the roughly $400 billion in interest on the national debt that would otherwise have been retired, the cuts will cost the Treasury $2 trillion. A cut of this magnitude represents a profound threat to the successful fiscal discipline of the Clinton era. After securing the Social Security and Medicare surpluses, which many in Congress rightly feel should be reinvested in their respective programs, and after allowing for adjustments in current spending to keep up with inflation and population, the $5.6 trillion estimated...
Ignorance about AIDS remains profound. But because of the funerals, southern Africans can't help seeing that something more systematic and sinister lurks out there. Every Saturday and often Sundays too, neighbors trudge to the cemeteries for costly burial rites for the young and the middle-aged who are suddenly dying so much faster than the old. Families say it was pneumonia, TB, malaria that killed their son, their wife, their baby. "But you starting to hear the truth," says Durban home-care volunteer Busi Magwazi. "In the church, in the graveyard, they saying, 'Yes, she died of AIDS...