Word: silver
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...that parents know that the technology is available, and that at least some clinics will let them choose a child's gender for nonmedical reasons, it may be too late to go back. In a relatively short time, suggests Princeton University biologist Lee Silver, whose book Remaking Eden addresses precisely these sorts of issues, sex selection may cease to be much of an issue. His model is in vitro fertilization, the technique used to make "test-tube" babies. "When the world first learned about IVF two decades ago," he says, "it was horrifying to most people, and most said that...
...sorts of genetic enhancement will be permitted and what will be forbidden. But in the U.S., despite the growth of managed care, there will always be people with enough money--or a high enough limit on their credit cards--to pay for what they want. "Typically," says Princeton's Silver, "medical researchers are moved by a desire to cure disease more effectively. Reprogenetics [a term Silver coined] is going to be driven by parents, or prospective parents, who want something for their children. It's the sort of demand that could explode...
...Silver even contemplates a scenario in which society splits into two camps, the "gen-rich" and the "gen-poor," those with and those without a designer genome. The prospect is disturbing, but trying to stop it might entail even more disturbing choices. "There may be problems," admits James Watson, whose co-discovery of the structure of DNA in 1953 made all this possible. "But I don't believe we can let the government start dictating the decisions people make about what sorts of families they'll have...
...UNSCOM spy debacle may have a silver lining after all: It offers U.N. diplomats a way out of the post-Iraq bombing stalemate. ?The U.N. has to reach agreement with Iraq within weeks over the return of arms inspectors, and they know that Baghdad won?t allow UNSCOM back in its current form,? says TIME reporter Stewart Stogel. ?The spying fiasco will force the U.N. to substantially restructure UNSCOM.? And that may be the key to finding an agreement with Baghdad...
Here's what you get if you win the silver medal: an endorsement contract with Caress and a deal for four prime-time skating specials with...