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• TRX commented on No. Words.
  @25: gene therapy, still too crude to be safe When you're looking at a 100% probability of death, even 1-in-1000 or one-in-1000000 looks good......
• glaucon commented on No. Words.
  While definitely not typically characterized in this way, when I first heard this news I was literally speechless. I still can't appropriately express what I feel. Back in the early 90's, amid the chaos that goes with University studies, I had essentially given up on reading fiction for pleasure. I had been an avid reader since my early teens, but had voraciously read all the works of my favourite authors and had gotten to the point where it was difficult to find suitable new material. All this changed for me in 1994. Late that summer I began a European backpacking...
• Greg. Tingey commented on No. Words.
  The tributes are flowing in everywhere Very moving....
• chriscadwallon commented on No. Words.
  If there was ever a place that provided an ultimate goal for human society - it is The Culture. Only through their words, can we make it so. Nothing marks our own passage through time like the passing of people we value and esteem. But really.....bugger........
• von.hitchofen commented on No. Words.
  At least he will outlive Margaret Thatcher!...