 JANUARY 22, 2001 TEACHER'S GUIDE: Focus Lesson: The Battle over John Ashcroft | Teacher Tip | The Writer's Craft | Words of the Week | TIME Weekly Quiz | Building Analytical Skills WEB ONLY FEATURES: TIME Capsule: The Embattled Nomination of Zoe Baird | Take A Stand Building Web Skills | Cover Analysis ARCHIVE Choose From Past Issues Take A Stand If the technology that allowed the genetic engineering of the Rhesus monkey Andi proves feasible in humans, will we want to take advantage of it to produce children with particular desirable traits? Should we be allowed to? Read the quote below to students and challenge them to take a stand on an ethical issue that will probably come to the fore in their lifetimes. "There is little reason to think that the drive to do right by our kids will be any different if and when we are offered the chance to improve them genetically. No one will have to fool us or force us—we will fall over one another to be first to give Junior a better set of genes." |