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A quick survey of last week's headlines includes:
-- Kraft Foods' recall of taco shells that contain traces of a bioengineered corn. The feed was approved for consumption by cattle, not for humans, and the misdirected corn prompted a public outcry.
-- Then there was the story about the artist who persuaded a French laboratory to splice fluorescent genes from a jellyfish into a rabbit embryo. The altered embryo was planted in a female rabbit, which gave birth to a bunny that glows in the dark, just like a jellyfish.
-- Finally, there came the advisory report, two years in the making, that urged scientists not to do gene-splicing experiments on human sperm or egg cells. The thrust of the recommendation was to forgo any attempt to ``improve'' human inheritance, at least for now.
The common thread in all three stories is the almost magical fact that...