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Other Harvard finishes included 13th place inthe 200 freestyle relay (Kaplan, Berkoff, Tull,freshman Kevin Williams) and 17th place in the 400freestyle relay. Paul Watson and Chris Kovacs swamboth backstroke events for the Crimson, but didnot qualify for the finals...
Robert L. Henry '90 is president of the Black Students' Association (BSA). Carlos R. Watson '91 is the BSA representative to the Harvard Foundation...
...enthusiasm that the genome project has generated among scientists and their supporters in Washington, however, none matches that of James Watson as he gears up for the monumental task ahead. "It excites me enormously," he says, and he remains confident that it can be accomplished despite the naysayers both within and outside the scientific community. "How can we not do it?" he demands. "We used to think our fate was in our stars. Now we know, in large measure, our fate is in our genes...
...scientists have an obligation to protect humanity against disease and pestilence. Once it becomes possible to eradicate a gene that causes a fatal disorder, and thus keep it from passing to future generations, it will be criminal not to do so. As director of the Human Genome Project, James Watson contends that the research has a crucial humanitarian mission. Says he: "The object should not be to get genetic information per se, but to improve life through genetic information...
Headed by Nobel laureate James Watson, the project is ushering in a new era in medicine. Doctors may eventually be able to predict, cure and even prevent deadly genetic disorders as well as heart disease and cancer. -- The quest is already raising a host of thorny legal, ethical and philosophical issues, from discrimination to invasion of privacy. See SCIENCE...