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CBC News
August 13, 2008

The widespread use and development of genetically modified crops could lead to “the biggest disaster environmentally of all time,” Prince Charles said Wednesday in an interview with a British newspaper.

New experiments with GM crops could worsen food-supply problems, the heir to the British throne told the Daily Telegraph.

“What we should be talking about is food security, not food production — that is what matters, and that is what people will not understand,” he said.

“And if they think it’s somehow going to work because they are going to have one form of clever genetic engineering after another, then again, count me out, because that will be guaranteed to cause the biggest disaster environmentally of all time.”

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Ian Sample, The Guardian
August 13, 2008

Rapid advances in neuroscience could have a dramatic impact on national security and the way in which future wars are fought, US intelligence officials have been told.

In a report commissioned by the Defense Intelligence Agency, leading scientists were asked to examine how a greater understanding of the brain over the next 20 years is likely to drive the development of new medicines and technologies.

They found several areas in which progress could have a profound impact, including behaviour-altering drugs, scanners that can interpret a person’s state of mind and devices capable of boosting senses such as hearing and vision.

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