Maybe genetic engineers haven’t awakened to the full economic potential of their vocations. The real money is in solving the problems of homeowners.

Genetic engineers could take the genetic coding in certain bright flowers or tropical fish and implant them in our drab aspens, poplars and elms.

Or create grass that would grow to a certain, uniform height, then stop. Or introduce the genetic code for the mass suicide of the lemming to the most dangerous species of mosquito….