Word: wagner
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...division, Harvard skippers Gordon Burnes and Peter Wagner tallied 144 points, good enough for ninth place overall. Petra Schuman crewed for Burnes, while Deb Dubin crewed for Wagner...
Perhaps. But eccentricity often accompanies creativity, even genius. Brahms frequented prostitutes. Liszt cut a Byronic swath through the women of 19th century Europe. All three of Wagner's children by Liszt's illegitimate daughter Cosima were conceived while she was still married to her first husband. Mussorgsky was a dipsomaniac and Tchaikovsky a homosexual. All these composers were able to transcend their personal difficulties to create great art; those searching for moral paradigms had better look elsewhere...
...mice, resulting in larger mice, and firefly genes into tobacco plants, which then glow in the dark. Genetic engineering cannot, however, "cross" a cow with a frog to produce a new species. "The essence of a particular animal is something you don't change," explains Thomas Wagner, director of Ohio University's Edison Animal Biotechnology Center in Athens, Ohio. "A pig is a pig, and a cow is a cow. You merely enhance certain aspects...
While some critics of biotechnology cite it as an attempt by man to play God, most scientists view it as merely the latest example of man playing man, exploiting nature as he always has. "A dairy cow was not put on this earth to produce milk for humans," Wagner says. "It was put here to make more cows. We just adapted them to our needs." Harvard Microbiologist Bernard Davis agrees. "Genetic engineering in animals is simply an extension of domestication," he says. "Of all the technologies that man has developed, domestication probably has the best record of enormous benefits...
...dairy cows that produce more milk, chickens that are resistant to infection and thus can be raised with fewer antibiotics. Though the Patent Office says it has about 15 applications for patents on genetically altered animals, important changes like these are probably ten years away from the farmyard. Says Wagner: "We need to breed, test and evaluate them in an agricultural setting...