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Given this remarkable record, why are so few of Venter's fellow scientists trumpeting his success? Or talking him up for a Nobel Prize? Why, in fact, is this cherubic-looking, blue-eyed ex-surfer hated by so many colleagues, who have called him everything from a greedy megalomaniac to a Hitler? Forget about easy explanations, such as his outsize ego (yes, one of the samples he is analyzing is rumored to contain his own DNA) or his penchant for doing science by press release (yes, he keeps his door open to reporters) or his tendency to do not science...
...record seven college players were taken in the first round of the 2000 draft and 66 were picked altogether...
Despite all this unappetizing knowledge (which, by the way, has been in general circulation since 1982), young American males are lighting up at a record pace. Since the mid-'90s, cigar consumption has risen 70 percent - and that's just your average, corner-store cigar. When you get into the luxury stuff, we're talking about a 250 percent rise. That's a heck of a lot of imported tobacco, and a lot of smelly suits...
...time that decision came down, the rise and rise of Napster had made My.MP3.com look like a littering violation in the middle of a full-scale riot. And Robertson, because he disavows the Napster free-for-all and sees a future in which record companies get paid for online distribution, has suddenly become a man the music industry can do business with. The settlement deal MP3.com cut with Warner and BMG two weeks ago--whereby Robertson will pay $100 million in damages and get a license to run My.MP3.com in return--is only the beginning of a beautiful friendship...
...Despite retaining power, the results are a stunning reversal for the party that led the liberation war against white minority rule and has ruled the country, with Mugabe at its head, ever since independence 20 years ago. ZANU campaigned on the basis of its liberation war record, attempting to demonize the opposition by casting them as stooges of the country's 70,000 remaining whites. The centerpiece of Mugabe's campaign has been the mass occupation by squatters of some 870 of the country's 4,000 white-owned farms, which occupy the best 70 percent of Zimbabwe's arable...