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...With reporting by Abi Daruvalla/Amsterdam
...banks, which have found little support among Silvio Berlusconi's center-right opposition, aren't much happier than the consumer groups. Maurizio Sella, chairman of abi, the Italian bankers' association, calls the amended law "unacceptable" because it interferes with the free market. But he is grateful that the decree at least recognizes that a mortgage that is in conformance with the law when it is made ought to remain legal. "If this point isn't clearly upheld, Italian banks may well stop offering fixed-rate mortgages," he predicts...
...when Hunkapiller showed Venter his new ABI Prism 3700, a sequencer five times as fast and even more highly automated, Venter formed a partnership with Hunkapiller's company, Applied Biosystems (now PE Biosystems). Venter named his new outfit Celera, from the Latin for "quick." It was. Backed with an infusion of $300 million from his new collaborator, Venter boldly announced that he would sequence and assemble the entire human genome by the year...