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...Though they avoided a face-to-face meeting, the TIME forum heard from both Francis Collins and J. Craig Venter, the rival leaders of the public and private human genome projects. Collins, describing himself as both exhilarated and terrorized in the aftermath of his team's great sequencing effort, announced ambitious new goals. These include sequencing all 23 pairs of human chromosomes, applying genomics to the treatment of specific diseases, developing gene-spotting systems for early detection of disease and expanding genome studies to larger populations so as to pinpoint the role of genetic differences in disease...
...exiled Cuban community was portrayed as staunch and stubborn in the press in the aftermath of Elian Gonzalez,” he said. “The speakers at this conference have been quite the opposite, encouraging students to go to Cuba, to bring their parents...
There was another incident of ugliness in the aftermath of a WCHA game between Wisconsin and St. Cloud St. on Friday. Fighting broke out in the corner just as the benches were emptying for players to shake hands. St. Cloud’s Erin McNamara received a game disqualification, but it was later rescinded...
...anytime soon. In the aftermath of war, Iraq could come under U.S. pressure to quit OPEC, but Baghdad is likely to resist because of its continued interest in maintaining higher prices. OPEC's share of world petroleum output has been slipping, however, from more than 50% in 1974 to about 42% today. And if cash-strapped Iraq eventually decides to boost production as high as 6 million bbl. a day, it could push world prices down sharply. So cheap oil may be on the way, but it could be a long time coming. --With reporting by Blaine Greteman/London, Scott MacLeod/Cairo...
...aftermath of Sept. 11, a wide variety of security measures have been enacted—but many have been riddled by delays, technical glitches and human errors...