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History, of course, is littered with premature prophets of doom. One of America's largest millennial movements was led by William Miller, a 19th century farmer. On Oct. 22, 1844, many of his 50,000 followers took to the hilltops, waiting in vain for the appearance of Christ and an...
Founded by Harvard, Yale and Princeton in 1946, the Pan-Am Championships are the chess team's biggest event of the year, according to its members. Harvard participated every year until 1995, procuring five wins in that time, McClelland said.
Venter flourished in the private sector. Backed by venture capitalist Wallace Steinberg, he founded the Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) and within a year had been transformed from a government scientist with a $2,000 savings account to a millionaire. He gave gifts of stock to his family and Fraser...
Even though TIGR was spewing out gene sequences at unprecedented rates, Venter was still restless. Then Hunkapiller called from his office at Perkin-Elmer to say that he had a new, faster machine he wanted Venter to see. What Venter saw was the future: a gene-mapping computer 50 times...
Pretty much that whole last paragraph-hyperbole and all-I lifted straight out of the press release, because my mind was so numbed by the actual spectacle that I could not move myself to say anything original. And the press release is the best part of the show slick and...