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Eventually, even his bitterest critics had to face the fact that Venter had not been dealing in hype. And, in the end, the genome project was forced to adopt some of Venter's ideas to avoid being left behind. "It was," admits Watson, "the correct way to go." Thanks to Venter's maverick ways, says Phillip Sharp, director of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "we have the human genome four years early, and it's spectacular. Craig is to be applauded for doing this...
...Williams High School in Alexandria, Va., was integrated, and the usual ugly protests ensued. Perhaps the bitterest blow to the school's racist spirit was that its popular football coach, Bill Yoast (Will Patton), was demoted to defensive coordinator and replaced by a black man, Herman Boone (Denzel Washington). How Boone, a tough-love sort of guy, got his racially mixed team playing so well that it went on to an undefeated season and the state championship is the substance of Remember the Titans...
Mention Thailand, and images of coconut curries and spicy shrimp soup percolate in the mind. The country would seem an unlikely setting for a pizza war. But one of the bitterest battles in the global fast-food industry is shaping up in Thailand, and its outcome could determine not merely who dominates the pizza market in this country of 61 million but also the future of franchising agreements around Asia and beyond. "This isn't really about pizza," says William Heinecke, 51, the American-born multimillionaire franchise king and hotelier who is at the center of the conflict...
...Department of Afro-American Studies was born in 1969 amid the bitterest racial conflict in Harvard's history...
...bitterest rivalries in Collegiate Hockey, the Big Red has owned the Crimson at Bright Hockey Center. Harvard has not beaten Cornell in Cambridge since...