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...political defeat of his life, he recruited Eskew to write his withdrawal speech--a graceful, humble, witty, healing final note to the brutal presidential campaign that Gore had run. With an eye to the future, Eskew made sure that Gore began making peace with the former rivals he would someday need. Gore lauded Gephardt for his "passion in the service of policy" and Jesse Jackson for teaching him that "we are a richer party and a better nation when we break down barriers and fight for justice." More important than winning, Gore added, was "helping my party, serving my country...
Some animals, besides being non-zero-sum games, are good at playing them. Vampire bats returning from a successful blood-sucking expedition share the proceeds with bat buddies that had a tougher night on the parasitism front. Since these magnanimous bats will someday be needy themselves, this reciprocal altruism is a win-win game. Natural selection favored animals good at win-win gamesmanship...
...conventional wisdom among scientists that having the complete genetic blueprint for humans will transform medicine--with new classes of drugs, new kinds of treatments and new definitions of disease based not on overt symptoms but on underlying genetic defects. Armed with a patient's genetic data, doctors may someday be able to diagnose diseases before they occur or prescribe medications custom-made to fit each patient's unique genetic profile...
...course, the individualism to which we have grown accustomed will probably become a lifelong habit. Now we rush from a seminar, to the library, to a meeting, to a party, to another meeting--there are a lot of meetings here. Someday soon we will run from the boardroom, to the gym, to day care, to the PTA meetings--and end up at the shrink...
...While scientists have already used human cells to grow skin in labs, the generation of eyes and ears is a more complex and multi-faceted challenge, in part because of the complexity of those organs. But in the long run, scientists say, it's possible that human cells could someday be used to grow replacement parts - thus diminishing the dependence on human donors and, because the parts are made from the patients' own cells, ending the problems of organ incompatibility and rejection...