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Today's date:

Summer 1998

• POST GLOBALIZATION

• COMMENTARIES 2001-2007

• MADE IN CHINA

• THE TWO SOULS OF TURKEY

• THE NEW GLOBAL CINEMA

• MAKING GLOBALIZATION WORK

• DE-GLOBALIZE THE JIHAD

• THE THIRD WAVE'S THIRD WAY

• PLANET OF SLUMS

• THE GLOBAL IDEOLOGY
OF FEAR

• THE OTHER

• POST-NATIONAL
LITERATURE

• COLLAPSE OR MASSIVE
CHANGE?

• THE RISE AND FALL OF
AMERICA'S SOFT POWER

• THE SCIENTIFIC IMAGINATION

• PUBLIC DIPLOMACY

• THE HEADSCARF CONTROVERSY

• SCULPTURE AND THE
NEW SCIENCE

• BIOTECH AND THE
NEW BABEL

• WAR THROUGH THE
BACK DOOR

• ANTIAMERICANISM

• THE RISING SOFT POWER
OF CHINA & INDIA

• THE BUSH DOCTRINE

• FAIRNESS IN A FRAGILE
WORLD

• AMERICA'S MIGHT

• ISLAM IN THE 21ST CENTURY

• ANTIGLOBOS

• HOT PEACE

• MODUS VIVENDI

• LOOKING NORTH

• FROM WELL HAVING TO
WELL BEING

• POST-HUMAN HISTORY

• GLOBAPHOBIA

• THE GLOBAL MIND

• AFTER KOSOVO

• FROM VIETNAM TO KOSOVO

• DEGLOBALIZATION?

• THE RISE OF THE MEDIA-
INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

• BOOM [NUCLEAR] AND
[BUST] ECONOMIC IN ASIA

• BEYOND CAPITALISM

• ASIAN CRISIS

• CHINA: THE ASIAN
RENAISSANCE

• SLOW IS BEAUTIFUL

• ECLIPSE OF THE BIG
PICTURE

• AFTER THE END OF
HISTORY

• THE EAST IS RED AGAIN

• HALF-A-HEGEMON

• THIRD WAVE TERRORISM

• HEIMAT

• Fall 1987

• Winter 1987

• Spring 1986

• Fall-Winter '84-'85

• Spring 1984

Mouse Cloning Begins Bio-Industrial Era

Jeremy Rifkin is author of The Biotech Century: Harnessing the Gene and Remaking the World (Tarcher/Putnam,1998). Following Rifkins commentary is an interview with him by Michael Skafidas, editor of the Greek NPQ.

Washington - The recent announcement of the cloning of successive generations of a mouse represents a turning point in economic history. The University of Hawaii research team has, for the first time, successfully introduce bio-industrial design principles into the replication of complex living organisms, creating the prototype process for mass assembly line production of life. The coming together of recombinant DNA technology and the new cloning techniques allow life science companies to both customize genetic instructions into cells and mass produce countless copies of an original organism - or its individual parts - using the same kind of engineering principles and quality controls that were used by entrepreneurs more than 100 years ago when they perfected processes of mass production of industrial-based products.

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