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...descriptions have none of those elongated pronunciations he's prone to; he serves up none of the verbal jambalaya he's known for on the stump. His accent has no thickener the way it might if he were trying to give the Disney version of the tour. And he doesn't go the other way either, trotting out 10[cent]words like sylvan or making wide detours to talk about Teddy Roosevelt. His voice is easy. Meanwhile, the recount continues...
...maybe it's just another version of a stunt he pulled during a college game of bridge. "David was sitting opposite the dummy," classmate Richard West recalls. "He arranged his cards in his hand, put them facedown on the table and then played them out one by one, as if he knew exactly how my partner and I were going to play the hand. It sort of destroyed our focus...
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...
...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 organisms--not three or four or five years from now but today...
...preliminary version of the bill would have proscribed only the distribution of electronic or printed versions of the records. After sending the guidelines to consumers for feedback, the White House was obliged to intensify the language considerably, blocking not only paper records from unauthorized dissemination, but also outlining procedures for verbal exchanges between doctors, insurance companies and other medical staff. Privacy advocates hail the bill as "a major victory for consumers," as the Health Privacy Project's Janlori Goldman told the New York Times. "The administration went to great lengths to respond to consumers' concerns about the proposed rules...