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| | TIME.com: The Faustian Bargain of Stem Cell Research -- Page 1 |
 | | The news from Norfolk was bad timing, since it adds a sinister implication of human life brought into being entirely for the purpose of being cannibalized for parts. |
 | | The German dramatist G.E. Lessing's Faust, in the mid-eighteenth century, was not damned for his pact with the devil, but, on the contrary, saved, because of his now admirable striving after knowledge. |
 | | So when we look at stem cell research and other Faustian intrusions into the divine workmanship, we see, alternately, damnation or salvation in the exercise. |
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