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Lobbying, old-time politics block legislation on human cloning
The Center looks at the implications of the lack of federal laws regulating cloning research. The report finds that the absence of a legal mechanism prevents mainstream researchers from responsibly tapping into new technologies such as genetic engineering.
Tags: TRANSCRIPT; stem cell research; human cloning; genetic technologies; bills
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Sowing Technology; Spinning Science into Gold; A Nation of Lab Rats
The Sierra Magazine examines the achievements of the modern agribusiness as a "self-contained factory" with sophisticated tools and techniques. The story package finds that "the concern about genetic engineering isn't that it enables us to commit altogether new mistakes; it's that it perfects out ability to commit old ones." The authors point out that the "overriding question about biotechnology is not whether we are for or against this or that technical achievement, but whether the debate will be carried out in such fragmented terms." The articles describe in detail most of the tools of the modern biotechnology, and look at the question whether we are "losing sight of ... the diverse and complex communities and habitats we live in."
Tags: ecology; genetic engineering; agriculture; FDA; cold tolerance; disease resistance; bacteria; environment; health; biomedicines
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High Tech High Crime: How Pot Has Grown
The New York Times Magazine reports that "... in little more than a decade, marijuana growing in America had evolved from a hobby of aging hippies into a burgeoning high-tech industry with earnings that are estimated at $32 billion a year. That makes it easily the nation's biggest crop. Unlike corn ($14 billion) or soybeans ($11 billion), however, modern marijuana farming depends less on soil and sunlight than technology, allowing it to thrive not only in the fields of the farm belt but in downtown apartments and lofts, in suburban basements and attics, even in closets..."
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Technology Review describes the promise and problems of crops which are genetically-altered to be herbicide-resistant; finds that advantages are tinged with disadvantages such as the increased use of herbicides to kill unwanted plants like weeds, which leads to increased danger to farmworkers and other animals, and fear that the resistence will spread to other, less desirable plants, May - June 1994.
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Chicago Tribune investigates the new technology of genetic engineering in the areas of food production and medicine, April - May 1990.
Tags: IL Kotulak Gorner