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President Bill Clinton is with the angels in extending the suspension of nuclear tests. The hope now is that a test-ban will follow. But the model of 1979 is not a good model.
The opinion that genome sequencing will create novel ethical problems is mistaken; the techniques are hardly novel, and are unlikely to be more troublesome than those of the genetic manipulation of bacteria twenty years ago.
