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...have doubts. For one thing, at the turn of the millennium, rapid change (technological, social, cultural) has become so pervasive in American life and sometimes so difficult to absorb - think of the genome project and its implications, to cite one of a thousand examples in a world of techno-miracle and deconstructed tradition - that voters might actually prefer continuity of political leadership...
...guard a title that was rich before/ To gild refined gold, to paint the lily," wrote Shakespeare, "is wasteful and ridiculous excess." True, but this is a new millennium, and the gilding of Harry Potter seems to have worked. The carefully built-up demand produced long lines of customers and the curious at the many U.S. bookstores open for business at the crack of Saturday. Some of these settings seemed surreal. At Books of Wonder in lower Manhattan, local TV and print reporters swarmed among the expectant book buyers. "The AP has already hit us," said Dave Lambert...
...Boston area brought in the first Fourth of July of the new millennium in grand fashion, celebrating the nation's independence with parades, concerts and the traditional fireworks displays...
Mounting this kind of operation for a single patient is hugely expensive--this case ran up a bill of $37,000--and the advice that works for one patient wouldn't apply to someone whose genetic makeup is different. That's why scientists at Gene Logic and other firms--Millennium Pharmaceuticals in Massachusetts and Glaxo Wellcome (both in England and the U.S.) are just two examples--are putting together databases of tissue samples to look for one-letter genetic differences. (These differences are formally known as single-nucleotide polymorphisms, or SNPs.) Fourteen drug companies and the philanthropic Wellcome Trust...
Actors Ricci, Jessica Lange, Jason Biggs and Michelle Williams all made appearances in Cambridge for the shooting of the Millennium Films production...