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Human geneticists have reached a private crisis of conscience, and it will become public knowledge in 2010. The crisis has depressing health implications and alarming political ones. In a nutshell: the new genetics will reveal much less than hoped about how to cure disease, and much more than...

Amulya Charan is sitting in the lobby of the stately Taj Bengal hotel in Kolkata when a call comes in from a small contractor trying to sell him a 10 megawatt power plant. There is some haggling before Mr Charan, the managing director of Tata Power Trading Company, a unit of India's biggest...