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...HUMAN GENOME SCIENCES CHAIRMAN AND CEO: William A. Haseltine FOUNDED: July 1992 NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES: 650 WHAT IT DOES: Patents genes and develops proprietary gene-based drugs...
Colin Powell, who was Dad's chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was named on Saturday to the post of Secretary of State, and Bush has all but said Condoleezza Rice will be his National Security Adviser. Rice worked on the NSC staff of Bush's father for two years and has been at W.'s side for six months. But Bush was finding it harder to pick someone to run the Pentagon, perhaps because everyone knows he will look first to Powell and Cheney on military matters. Already one top contender has withdrawn: with Powell's backing, Bush...
...Gore was in fuller command than he had ever been, drawing his circle in the dining room of the Naval Observatory tighter around him. By the end, former Secretary of State Warren Christopher and campaign chairman Bill Daley seemed to weary of the war for which they had been drafted. But Gore's family stayed there as it always had, maybe even more, maybe too much. "Up there, Karenna's vote counts the same as Warren Christopher's," an angry strategist grumbled about Gore's eldest child and most dedicated warrior. Though Karenna was teary-eyed at her father...
...INSTITUTE FOR GENOMIC RESEARCH PRESIDENT: Claire Fraser FOUNDED: July 1992 EMPLOYEES: 230 WHAT IT DOES: Genomics research on a not-for-profit basis Started by Venter after he left the NIH, this outfit is the mother of Celera. Run now by his wife, Claire Fraser (Venter serves as chairman of the board), it claims credit for identifying many of the human genes used in research today. TIGR (pronounced Tiger) now concentrates on microbial and plant genomic research, the results of which it publishes free on its website: www.tigr.org...
...China the People's Literature Publishing House, which once issued the collected poems of Chairman Mao, this year released 600,000 boxed sets of translations of the first three Harry Potters, the largest first printing of any fiction since the communists came to power...