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...promised to cure such hereditary disorders as cystic fibrosis, muscular dystrophy and sickle-cell anemia, not with conventional medicine but with the magic of genetic engineering, supplanting defective genes with their normal counterparts. Patients dreamed of a life free of the diseases they had inherited. Venture capitalists dreamed of untold riches and backed the leading researchers in the field with millions of dollars of seed money...
...staff's complaint that the "diverse American peoples of European ancestry" would be ignored is ridiculous. We don't need any more classes about white people. From elementary school, we are taught about the heroics of every white American from the Pilgrims on. Ethnic studies would tell hitherto untold stories...
...warm, wary and perceptive Dobrynin saw the cold war from an extraordinary vantage point: as the main conduit for a quarter-century of Kremlin-White House secret negotiations. As dubious exposes and skimpy memoirs poured out of the Soviet Union following its 1991 collapse, Dobrynin's remained the great untold story. Now the diplomat who had such confidence in his memory that he never took notes until meetings were over has put it all down in writing and delivered it to the world...
...BOMB HAD NOT BEEN DROPPED, it is quite possible many of the people crying out against it would never have been born. The invasion of Japan would have cost an untold number of lives on both sides. Many of those who died could have been the parents of those now asking that the U.S. apologize for dropping the A-bomb. EDGAR S. SPIZEL La Jolla, California...
Milosevic, the man held responsible for much of the bloodbath in the former Yugoslavia, has decided that after three years of war in Bosnia and Croatia, after untold rapes, the loss of an estimated 250,000 lives and the forced displacement of millions in a campaign of "ethnic cleansing," he wants to be known as a peacemaker. That this is a tactical move, given his history and practice, seems beyond dispute. But whether what he offers may also constitute a real step toward an end to the tragedy of the Balkans is as unclear as his motivation...