Word: summer
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Beyond that, their equal billing at last summer's announcement belied the fact that Venter's version of the genome was more complete than Collins'. Venter's contribution, asserts Victor McKusick, the Johns Hopkins researcher who is considered the grandfather of medical genetics, was "spectacular...
...start. By looking at the genome as a whole, scientists can begin addressing broader questions about who we are and how we got 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...
...extensive publicity during the summer and fall for Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, not to increase sales--a laughable notion given the enormous, pent-up demand--but to make herself available to some of her young readers. In October she went public for a project unrelated to Harry Potter but of personal concern to her. She agreed to become the first ambassador, i.e., spokeswoman, for the National Council for One Parent Families, a British charity, and donated $725,000 to the cause...
...synergy? The two companies have already found ways to boost growth by cross-selling subscriptions and advertising and running promotions for Time Warner content on AOL. Last summer a promotion on AOL is credited with boosting box-office returns for The Perfect Storm. Perhaps the best success so far has come from collaboration between Time Inc. president Don Logan and Pittman, who engineered a scheme to sell magazine subscriptions via AOL. So far, the combination has produced more than 500,000 orders...
...might think they were in the same room. But Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and his Palestinian counterpart actually sat for TIME in Jerusalem and Gaza City, respectively. Two men, just a few miles away, in fact separated by light-years of misunderstandings. So it was this summer when Barak came to Camp David resolved to settle the Palestinian question with an unprecedented concession: a Palestinian state. Later he considered having Jerusalem's holiest sites administered by a third party. It was a stunning, failed leap. Negotiations collapsed, the Holy Land exploded, and Barak resigned in an effort to stay...