Choosing Eugenics

How far will nations go to eliminate a genetic disease?

By LILA GUTERMAN

The very word makes people in the Western world cringe. It conjures up images of Nazi atrocities or the thousands of criminals and "feeble-minded" people forcibly sterilized in the United States. The term "eugenics" carries with it the worst of the 20th century. But on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus, a eugenics program is...

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