Help! I am trying to recapture something I read from the lost years of jr. high. I was on a sci-fi rampage and I devoured so much it all kind of blurs together. What I'm looking for was, I think, a short story and the feeling of it smacks of Clarke, though I can't be sure even of that. The scenario was a future in which genetic engineering made possible very well defined class systems -- an elite intelligentsia, a work-force class. The focal point of the story was a girl who was a genetic fluke, born into a working-class (farming, I think) family who was attractive and intelligent and didn't want to adhere to her place. The solution was to have her sent to a "center" of some sort where she was remade physiologically (less attractive, stronger & sturdier for farm work), and reprogrammed psychologically to fit her given place in society, altering her personality significantly and erasing her memory. Does this ring any bells with anyone?? My distant memory may have warped it out of all recognition. (I keep thinking of it when the kids are flipping channels and "extreme makeover" comes on. Does anyone else have a violently negative reaction to that show or is everyone pleased that these people can get this wonderful chance at a new life? Does anyone else think the whole notion of a "reality show" is revolting to begin with?) Julie Krueger ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html