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...himself playing a macabre game: Look around at the people in an airport terminal, or the crowd at a soccer game or on the beach, bearing in mind that as many as half of them are HIV-positive and will probably die within a decade. They're in the snapshot the traveler may take at that moment, but a few years from now they'll have simply disappeared...
...This is the backdrop to the case that opened Monday in a Pretoria courtroom, over the intellectual property rights of the international pharmaceutical corporations who manufacture the drugs that could serve as a lifeline to those in the snapshot currently doomed...
Like all promotional material distributed by Harvard College, the Junior Parents Weekend brochure that arrived in my mailbox last week bore a string of lofty promises. Pledging to offer the parents of the junior class "A Snapshot of Our Lives" and claiming that the weekend would give our elders the opportunity "to take a walk in our shoes," the brochure all but swore to give parents an out-of-body Freaky Friday-esque encounter in which they would magically experience the College as if they were actually 20-year-old students. Intrigued by the assertion that my parents could learn...
...will take, some predict, is that first snapshot. "Once you have a picture of a normal baby with 10 fingers and 10 toes, that changes everything," says San Mateo, California, attorney and cloning advocate Mark Eibert, who gets inquiries from infertile couples every day. "Once they put a child in front of the cameras, they've won." On the other hand, notes Gregory Pence, a professor of philosophy at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and author of Who's Afraid of Human Cloning?, "if the first baby is defective, cloning will be banned for the next 100 years...
...will take, some predict, is that first snapshot. "Once you have a picture of a normal baby with 10 fingers and 10 toes, that changes everything," says San Mateo, Calif., attorney and cloning advocate Mark Eibert, who gets inquiries from infertile couples every day. "Once they put a child in front of the cameras, they've won." On the other hand, notes Gregory Pence, a professor of philosophy at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and author of Who's Afraid of Human Cloning?, "if the first baby is defective, cloning will be banned for the next 100 years...