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...also the program director for sociologyat the National Science Foundation...
...still confused about the difference between a browser and a search engine! (Don't be ashamed. I have an editor who is also befuddled on this point.) Think of a browser as the 3-D glasses your computer needs to "see" things on the Web. When you launch the program and type in an address, you can visit Web pages on the Net. And the most popular places people visit are search engines; they archive the hundreds of millions of pages that make up the World Wide Web. Yahoo, Excite, InfoSeek, Lycos and Hotbot are examples of search engines...
They may be right. But by throwing the genome program into a competitive race, Venter has forced government-funded gene researchers to rethink their plans. Says Rockefeller University biologist Norton Zinder, who headed the first National Institutes of Health advisory panel on the Human Genome Project and recently signed on to the Venter venture: "Now everybody has awakened...
With prestige and grants on the line, government and academic scientists regrouped and counterattacked. The most important naysayer, as usual, was Watson, but others quickly lined up behind him. Venter's "book of life," said one of the leaders of the federal genome program, would be a Mad magazine...
...potential objections about the cruelty of this measure by asserting that personal sacrifices would serve the common weal. "We go beyond neighborly love," said one. "We extend it to future generations. Therein lies the high ethical value and justification of the law." As Kevles notes, the Nazis' draconian eugenics program did not originally encompass the anti-Semitism that later so rabidly characterized the Third Reich. But as Hitler and his regime turned ever more fiercely against the Jews, the sterilization of "undesirables" escalated into genocide, a horrifying realization of Francis Galton's vision of the world biologically cleansed according...