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Consider for a moment a simple scientific fact: at the instant conception occurs, all that any microscope or documentary can show you is a single cell, dividing upon itself again and again, not taking recognizably human shape for many days. The reality of cellular infancy belies the genetic reality that exists fully at that same moment of conception. Painted to complex perfection on its landscape of DNA are the characteristics and flaws, talents and proclivities of an individual. These are facts that science has given us. This is a truth that the arbitrary nature of the Roe V. Wadetrimester system...
...addition to the linear accelerator that directs high doses of radiation at tumors like Poochie's, Angell boasts a state-of-the-art CT ("CAT") scanner to determine the size and shape of cancer areas and a three-dimensional treatment planning system to plan the radiation therapy...
...sanctum, a tiny private chapel off his sparsely decorated bedroom, which is adorned with a large bronze crucifix and a small icon of the "Black Madonna" of Czestochowa, symbol of Polish nationalism. Each morning and evening he privately speaks to God there, communing with his one true superior to shape the mission he too has pursued with relentless single-mindedness for 20 years: Go forth and spread the word...
...microchip has changed the world, but do we know what the long-term consequences will be? Like the programming changes needed to adjust computers to the year 2000, unexpected difficulties lie ahead of us. As has been pointed out by anthropologists, the tools we use to shape the world shape us reciprocally. Computer programmers have not taken this into account. The results will be a modern Tower of Babel: an avalanche of improperly understood information producing increasingly serious errors, messed-up minds and even economic catastrophe. DAISY SWADESH Farmington...
...SHAPE The American Cancer Society found some states more fit than others...