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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...
...here. They're learning, for example, that humans have far fewer genes than the 100,000 to 140,000 scientists believed as recently as last summer. The real count, says Celera geneticist Mani Subramanian, turns out to be more like 30,000 or 35,000--a number that seems shockingly low to many scientists. "We think we're superior beings," he says. "But we have the same number of genes as a plant...
While tout Hollywood purloins comic books for its scenarios, Joel and Ethan Coen raid noble antiquity: not just Homer's fabulous travelogue in verse but Preston Sturges' Sullivan's Travels (for the movie's title) and MGM's The Wizard of Oz (for a delirious production number starring the Ku Klux Klan). Toss in enough gorgeous blue-grass music to make the movie's CD a must-have, and you get prime, picaresque entertainment. It celebrates the chicanery of the human spirit, the love of raillery and rodomontade...
Systematic errors in machine reading of ballots almost universally result in undercounting. They occur, for example, when a chad does not separate from the ballot card or when a mark on an optically scanned form is too faint. Manual counting in precincts that use machine voting thus increases the number of votes tabulated for both parties. Machines do not favor one candidate or the other, and the percentage of votes obtained by each party usually remains the same after a fair manual recount--unless extra ballots turn up. A manual recount using different standards to decide voter intention...
...Commentary "Our Imperial Judiciary" [VIEWPOINT, Dec. 4], Charles Krauthammer decried the Florida Supreme Court and all courts for "trampling the prerogatives of elected legislatures and elected governments." While I do not agree with a number of the rulings that the Florida court and the U.S. Supreme Court have made in recent years, I defend their right to make them. We absolutely need a court that will protect individual rights from majority rule and help interpret laws with conflicting provisions. I find that the Florida legislature has enacted laws that allow for manual recounts but do not provide deadlines with enough...