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...divert him from his true creative passions. "If you start thinking about your connections," says Ross, "you're already going in the wrong direction. The work has to be your focus; it always comes first." Ross pauses for a second while his compulsion toward absolute candor on this subject catches up with him. "Maybe I'll be changing my tune once I get out of here. I hope...
...genetic research has sometimes been like this: passionate, premeditated, but maybe driven by anxiety more than anything else. As a society, we tend to be nervous about knowledge, especially that which concerns the very building blocks of existence. Genetic engineering is exactly the kind of vague, little understood subject that can scare people with its Orwellian implication...
...this is the fundamental problem of Newman's position. He confuses an important distinction between regulating the result of a scientific inquiry and containing the inquiry itself. When society is concerned about a particular scientific outcome, it has a choice between preventing any research on the subject or only trying to control undesirable outcomes. Newman's position reflects the former approach. By seeking a patent that he will never use or license, New-man threatens to discourage any scientific investigation involving human/animal chimerical organisms...
...scientific experimentation, psychological examination, biblical exegesis and sundry other academic pursuits, are attempts to discover, if not logic, at least meaning in the world. Nothing in itself needs explanation in order to exist or live: individuals, societies, the planet itself do not require guide plans, and if they are subject to the programs by knowledgeable consultants, they consistently fail to live up to set standards. Columnists, too, are guilty of the sin of coherence--they attempt to make meaning of the world on a daily basis. They tell you why Bill Clinton sent a brooch to Monica Lewinsky, what possessed...
Even as one scandal dies for Bill Clinton, another comes back to life. Representative Dan Burton's campaign-finance team is set in coming days to depose presidential pal Webster Hubbell on a sensitive subject. Burton's gumshoes have traced an additional $200,000 that went to Hubbell in 1994, bringing to $700,000 the total of gifts and fees raised by Clinton friends from sympathetic companies. Independent counsel Kenneth Starr is trying to determine if any of it was intended to buy Hubbell's silence about Clinton dealings at a time when Hubbell was being investigated. In the deposition...