Word: typed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...make sure you have punched the right holes. As they cannot think, they cannot be impressed; they are clods. The only way to beat their system is to cheat.) In the humanities and social sciences, it is well to remember, there is a man (occasionally a woman), a human type filling out your picture postcard. What does he want to read? How, in a word, can he be snowed...
...baby Jessica is just the beginning. Within a decade or two, it may be possible to screen kids almost before conception for an enormous range of attributes, such as how tall they're likely to be, what body type they will have, their hair and eye color, what sorts of illnesses they will be naturally resistant to, and even, conceivably, their IQ and personality type...
...Doctors will be able to consult your genetic profile to determine ahead of time whether you are more likely to respond to one type of medication or another...
...technique does not have to be limited to infectious diseases, however. It may even be useful for conditions such as Type I diabetes, in which a patient's own immune system destroys essential insulin-producing cells in the pancreas. For diabetics, eating insulin-bearing tubers could eventually train the body's defenses to stop reacting to insulin as if it were a foreign material, all without the bother--or risk--of a needle. --By Alice Park...
...activated the enzyme telomerase, extended the telomeres and lengthened the life-span of cells in culture by at least 20 divisions past the Hayflick limit. In November, Geron scored another first by reconstituting the telomeres of embryonic stem cells, which are renowned for their ability to turn into any type of cell, making it theoretically possible to rejuvenate parts of any organ with a simple injection...