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<DIV>From the <A
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/02/science/02ESSA.html">New York Times</A>:
Sometime in the future, when the distinction between cosmetologist and molecular
biologist has faded and gene shops dot the seedier urban streets like tattoo
parlors, the philosophers, moralists and historians of science will try to pin
down the moment when the new age began. Science historians will probably say it
started with the discovery of DNA, or the mapping of the human genome. Others
will claim it started when Dolly was cloned and it became clear that the tools
of biotechnology had moved out of the high church of pure research and into the
unpredictable hands of people who bred sheep for profit. <BR>I think the moment
is now. And the creature that embodies the escape of biotechnology into the
world at large - a movement that will never be reversed - is an aquarium fish
that glows in the dark. This is the tipping point, when the world irrevocably
turns toward the science-fiction fantasies of writers like Philip K. Dick and
William Gibson, who envision biomedical technology permeating every corner of
the marketplace, from global corporations on down to small-time illegal
operations like stolen-car chop shops. Imagine if you will, that you could pay
to have genes for glowing in the dark inserted into your own body. How many
glowing teenagers would there be? And who would stop them, once they reached age
18? After all, one's own body is one's own business.</DIV></BODY></HTML>