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Although he says the group is "not a high priority" for him, and feels it does not represent all gay students at Harvard, he says more important things are at stake...
...partner, Vijay Angadi, a founding member of India's first venture-capital firm, TDICI, studied some 700 business plans and were poised to pounce in 1999 when the economy moved into recovery. Last year they signed half a dozen deals to fund Indian start-ups, including a 24% stake in Linc Software Services, which specializes in insurance and banking software; a 49.5% stake in the business-to-business portal MatexNet; and a significant stake in Explocity.com to help the cross-India city-guide publisher get established in e-commerce. They expect to close another half a dozen deals...
More than vanity is at stake. If Venter's Celera wins what has become an increasingly bitter competition, government scientists fear, the human genome will be entangled in patent and licensing battles as rival drug firms seek protection for agents they are hoping to develop from the newly emerging genetic blueprint. With the announcement last week by Collins' team, though, these concerns are subsiding because Collins has been making the data public as he goes by putting it on the Internet every day. Says Lander: "Now there is no doubt that a genome will be freely available...
...come a long way since 1600, when Giordano Bruno, a defrocked priest from Naples, was burned at the stake for espousing, among other things, his belief that there might be other worlds and other life-forms beyond Earth. In our Star Trekking age, it's now almost heretical not to believe in extraterrestrial life--a belief that will surely be fortified by last week's announcement of the discovery of two Saturn-size planets around two distant stars...
...noisy static gathered by radio telescopes. The odds of pulling a Jodie Foster (who snared the elusive extraterrestrial signal in the 1997 sci-fi flick Contact) are a zillion to one. But if you fail--or even if you succeed--nobody's going to burn you at the stake...