Word: biotechs
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...course, this isn’t the first time Congress has approached a complex question armed only with sound bytes. But Congress is a political beast, good at balancing interests and not much else, and there are no lobbyists here—except for a few biotech companies and the Catholic Church. One might think that this freedom from lobbying would spur healthy debate, improving the chances that Congress would reach the right decision for the right reasons. But without a firmer grasp of the ethical arguments than the five-minute presentations they receive—and without the courage...
...With 25 international telcom operators located here, Marseilles has become France's second-largest telecommunications center and the key hub for the southern European network. It also boasts research and production centers for the biotech and microelectronics industries - including the likes of Gemplus and STMicroelectronics - and has created local graduate schools to produce employees with the skills these companies need. The June 10 launch of the new high-speed TGV rail service - reducing travel time to Paris from four hours and 20 min. to three hours, and to Lyons from two hours and 45 min. to one hour...
...Biotech Goes to School...
...Europe, protests against the biotech industry are a staple of the news. Now a trade group is mounting a counterattack starting in classrooms. In April, 600 schools in Scotland were sent 84,000 copies of a magazine called Your World: Biotechnology & You. Produced by the Biotechnology Institute, an industry-funded organization based in Washington, the magazine features stories on transgenic animals and other biotech wonders. A recent issue highlights Monsanto's herbicide Roundup; another features a girl who took Prozac and "felt like herself again." Since 1999, 4,500 U.S. schools have received the magazine, to little protest...
...human genome has only 30,000 genes (about three times as much as a fly, and only 11,000 more than a worm), but "messages" - basically, proteins handcrafted for internal use by the apparently versatile genes - numbering in the hundreds of thousands leads to two conclusions for the biotech field...