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A reseller of genetic information, Gene Logic offers as its main product the GeneExpress reference database, which shows which genes are over- or under-expressed in various diseases ranging from heart failure to cancer. Gene Logic gathers and packages the data and sells it to biotech and pharmaceutical companies.
Like many great ideas, it was conceived by someone without the good sense to know it was impossible. In mid-1999, the laid-back, 18-year-old Northeastern University dropout Shawn Fanning--nicknamed "Napster" for the nappy hair under his omnipresent baseball cap--holed up for days without sleep in...
He first stood out for his voice. As a boy, Thomas Penfield Jackson won a choir scholarship to St. Albans prep school that he lost when his voice changed. But he became a lawyer, then a judge, distinguished by his booming baritone. He had tried high-profile cases (like Washington...
Family Man is a film that's fun to argue with. But at the end you may surrender to its Wonderful Life portrait of middle-class coping, and to Cage's poignant anguish. His features crumble, his shoulders sink under the burden of a strong man's perplexity. --R.C.
Expect to hear that refrain a lot - in fact, the budding Bush team is already under some fire from the current White House for "talking down their own economy for short-term political positioning," as Gene Sperling put it. But political positioning is done for a reason - it works.