Word: rifkin
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...some other personality trait changed as well? "Everything comes at a price," argues UCLA neurobiologist Alcino Silva. "Very often when there's a genetic change where we improve something, something else gets hit by it, so it's never a clean thing." The alarmists, like longtime biotech critic Jeremy Rifkin, go further. "How do you know you're not going to create a mental monster?" he asks. "We may be on the road to programming our own extinction...
...broader concern is one of fairness. Will such enhancement be available to everyone or only to those who can afford it? "Every parent in the world is going to want this," says Rifkin. "But who will have access to it? It will create a new form of discrimination. How will we look at those who are not enhanced, the child with the low IQ?" Who would have the right to know whether your smarts were natural or turbo-charged? How would it affect whom we choose to marry--those with altered genes or those without? If, as a parent...
...miss Lisa a lot," Rifkin said. "But it won't change our attitude...
...hard adjustment to not be the underdog," said junior Lori Rifkin, the spring captain. "It was harder to prepare for each game, and we started to take it for granted...
...Rugby has a different sense of why you play from any other sport," Rifkin said. "You're out there because you want to be, and there's a real sense of community...