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...with sweet delight that Venter announced last week that Celera had completed a rough draft of the genome months ahead of schedule and that it was on track to wrap the project up as early as this summer. Celera scientists now have 90% of the genome in their database. They have also captured 97% of all the known human genes and discovered tens of thousands of new ones--including hundreds for previously unknown neurotransmitter receptors and at least one new kind of interferon. "This is not only a monumental moment in Celera's history," Venter proclaimed in a webcast news...
...Human Genome Project, by contrast, publishes its results on the Web, free to all comers. One of its biggest users, it turns out, is Celera. Of the 90% represented in Venter's rough draft, only 81% was sequenced by Celera's robots. The rest was taken from the public website...
...experience is going to help him," Mazzoleni said. "He played against the best 18-20 year olds in the world. Sweden featured the Sedin twins, who were both first round NHL draft picks...
...just as Gandhi had on the South African train, the unknown rebel blocking the line of tanks rumbling toward Tiananmen Square, Lech Walesa leading his fellow Polish workers out on strike, the British suffragist Emmeline Pankhurst launching hunger strikes, American students protesting the Vietnam War by burning their draft cards, and gays and lesbians at Greenwich Village's Stonewall Inn resisting a police raid. In the end, they changed the century as much as the men who commanded armies...
Jefferson's finest hour came when he was young, only 33. The Continental Congress, meeting in Philadelphia in June 1776, chose a committee of five (Benjamin Franklin, Adams, Roger Sherman, Robert Livingston and Jefferson) to draft a Declaration of Independence. Jefferson nominated Adams to compose the draft. Adams demurred, "I am obnoxious, suspected and unpopular. You are very much otherwise." Besides, "You can write 10 times better than I." The committee chose Jefferson...