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...Situation Report: Having presided over Russia's catastrophic economic and social decline, Boris Yeltsin has now been replaced by a president with ambitions to restore Moscow?s big-power status. And President Vladimir Putin is quite happy to step on Washington's toes to do that, increasingly staking out positions that run counter to U.S. interests on the world stage - rebuilding Soviet-era relationships from Baghdad to Havana, openly discussing a strategic alliance with China and India to curb U.S. power on the global stage and, perhaps most important to Washington, looking to secure new orders for his country...
Venter will undoubtedly continue to irritate. He sparked a new controversy just two weeks ago by negotiating an agreement with Science whereby the prestigious journal will publish his genome sequence without insisting that he take the customary parallel step of uploading the data to NIH's GenBank website. Leaders of the competing genome project symbolically chastised Science by taking their own version of the genome to the rival journal Nature. But it's thanks to Venter, aggressive and hard-nosed as he is, that the world can read the score of the human symphony--and those of some 40 other...
...Robert Sullivan's piece "Show Them the Money" [BUSINESS, Dec. 4]. Sure, the PGA is making money off Woods' talent, but he is earning dough by playing in PGA tournaments. And if he's entitled to a share of the profits, why doesn't Woods take it a step further and request a payoff from the television stations that broadcast the matches? And how about a cut from the electric companies that supply the power to TV viewers who watch the most boring sport on the planet? TERRENA SHEA Westbrook, Conn...
...Gilmore, a good soldier, a great fund-raiser and a tax-cutting conservative to boot, is meant to further assuage GOP righties who have found Bush's appointments a little unsettling thus far: The party machinery is in reliable hands. (Gilmore will stay as governor but step down as chairman of the Republican Governors' Association, which means vice-chairman Tom Ridge may finally get a promotion after...
...India. "Well, yes, in the sense that it may be a lot harder for the government of General Musharraf to rein in the Islamic militant groups who're doing much of the fighting in Kashmir. But in the end, it may be equally difficult for India and Pakistan to step back from the brink in Kashmir, because Kashmir is far more than a territorial dispute; it's intimately linked to the national identity of both sides - with Pakistan's identity as an Islamic state and India's identity as a secular state...