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Unlike other experiments in "genetic engineering" (TIME, July 19), Khorana's work apparently does not pose dangers. For one thing, the gene is assembled with control signals, which enables scientists to prevent runaway activity. Also, there is no attempt to produce new gene combinations from different organisms that could accidentally breed mutants against which humans or other life have no natural defenses. Indeed, some scientists see in gene synthesis enormous potential for good. It could, for example, eventually be used to replace defective genes in ailing humans-in hemophiliacs, say. It may also bring new understanding-and possibly control...
Suddenly, what had not long ago seemed to be a Carter runaway was beginning to shape up as a close race indeed. Victory will probably go to the candidate who appeals most successfully to the aspirations and fears of the vast American middle class, a group that is well off by any standard and hopes to go on bettering...
...Court of King's Bench decision in London in favor of a runaway slave, James Somerset, brought slavery to a virtual end in England. But in the Colonies, real moves against slavery have been few. Three years ago, a group of slaves in Massachusetts petitioned the General Court to be free of bondage. Another group applied to the legislature, asking that they be allowed to work for themselves one day a week and so buy their freedom. No one answered the appeals. Though the Massachusetts legislature has been offered various bills abolishing the slave trade, all have been defeated...
...Colonies. Partly because of widespread labor shortages, American women have by now made inroads into virtually every occupation. A survey of local newspapers reveals advertisements by women blacksmiths, gunsmiths, shoemakers, shipwrights, tinworkers, barbers and butchers. The Virginia Gazette recently carried a notice of an arrest of a runaway slave signed by "Mary Lindsey, gaoler" of Henrico County...
Bonnie Angelo's final week with Idaho Senator Frank Church was no kind of show at all. He was haunted by the tragic flood in his home state. "Even his plane was wrecked by a runaway airport-maintenance cart in Cleveland," says Angelo, "and a telephone strike prevented him from learning the bad voting results...