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...scientist's eyes gleamed in the sea of television cameras. "The genie is out of the bottle," he said. "Dolly is here, and we are next...
Next month, for example, the site will offer a piece by Dudley R. Herschbach on "Ben Franklin, Scientist" that will include demonstrations from a Science Center lecture and discuss Franklin's many contributions to the sciences...
...believe that the soul enters the body at the moment of conception think it is fine for God to make clones; he does it about 4,000 times a day, when a fertilized egg splits into identical twins. But when it comes to massaging a human life, for the scientist to do mechanically what God does naturally is to interfere with his work, and no possible benefit can justify that presumption...
...messy middle are the vast majority of people who view the prospect with a vague alarm, an uneasy sense that science is dragging us into dark woods with no paths and no easy way to turn back. Ian Wilmut, the scientist who cloned Dolly but has come out publicly against human cloning, was not trying to help sheep have genetically related children. "He was trying to help farmers produce genetically improved sheep," notes ethicist Erik Parens of the Hastings Center in New York state. "And surely that's how the technology will go with us too." Cloning, Parens says...
Crowe is a fascinating character. Not exactly a box-office magnet (Gladiator is his only hit), he has movie-star swagger to go with his outsize movie-actor talent. He burrows into roles as different as the paunchy tobacco scientist in The Insider and the hostage rescuer in Proof of Life. He gives intelligent, sexy performances. The question is whether his gifts can overcome his rep as a hard-case?a rude womanizer and, by all accounts, a balky guy on a movie...