More modest efforts can help people now.

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Amazingly, some of those same people -- including Spurgeon Keeney , president of the Arms Control Association and Mary Elizabeth Hoinkes , a former U.S. Arms Control Agency lawyer, who are quoted in today's Washington Post -- are sharply critical of even these modest efforts to understand and begin to address the threat that they purport to regard as a serious one (at least when opposing missile defenses).

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Newer gene therapy efforts have more modest goals and use techniques that so far appear to avoid the downside of earlier efforts.

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