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Mrs. Taylor, block 6 It’s a rare occasion that I find something interesting on television after school, but just last week I saw the most incredible thing. I was watching Oprah and just as she broke for a commercial she said, “Coming up next: you won’t belie ....

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.... the article was called, “Brave New Worlds”. It stated that “Developments in the field of genetics offer the possibility of bringing all life processes under control. We must step carefully into this vast new field of science with the understanding that putting a patent on the melanoma gene or the baldness gene for that matter is simply playing God in a potentially dangerous way.” (Appleyard, Bryan, Jan 98, Smithsonian) These are only a few examples of scientific developments that in my mind raise the question: in science? Mr. Appleyard could not have been more on point in his allusion to Aldous Huxley’s novel “Brave New World ....