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From an office in a Miami industrial park, Mas plots his return with an army of economists, lawyers and corporate executives. A committee of businessmen has drawn up a $15 billion blueprint for economic reconstruction, complete with an inventory of government property to be privatized after Castro's fall. An economic peace corps of 10,000 Cuban-American professionals will be trained to fan out across the island and teach free-market methods to their bewildered communist comrades. Lawyers have drafted principles for a new constitution. Videotapes smuggled into Cuba reassure islanders about the exiles' plans, and the foundation...
...nucleus of each of the body's 100 trillion cells (with the exception of red blood cells, which have no nuclei). And scientists will have sequenced, or placed in order, the 3 billion chemical code letters in that strand, giving them the ability to read nature's complete blueprint for creating a human being. As the project nears completion in the first decade of the next century, knowledge flowing from it will begin to have a major impact on medicine and other sciences, industry, agriculture, law and the environment. The stage will be set for an Age of Genetics that...
These achievements will help researchers decipher the genetic blueprint of human beings. They will not, however, by themselves lead to useful therapies anytime in the near future. Because of the complicated interplay between heredity and environment, knowing where a gene is located and what it looks like is only a first step. Years of research are still required to determine how and why a particular gene causes a disease and what treatments will be needed to cure...
Apart from the question of timing, many experts and just plain folk welcome Perot's plan as a credible blueprint for paring the deficit, which is now growing at a runaway rate of $310 billion a year. Such a program would scarcely pass Congress, however, because lawmakers embrace fiscal responsibility in theory but recoil from it in practice out of fear of angering voters. Yet the plan could take hold if the U.S. could somehow reach a consensus to divvy up the burden. "The only way you'll ever get political agreement is to promise that everyone will share...
...grand reasons why European integration makes sense are still there. But try telling that to angry, suspicious citizens, whose object of ire is the virtually unreadable Maastricht treaty, negotiated last December by the 12 nations of the European Community, which lays out a complex blueprint for the greater economic and political union of the Continent -- a plan that would take Europe far beyond the free-trade zone that goes into effect in January, to a single currency and common foreign and defense policies. The Danes' + refusal to approve Maastricht last June ignited simmering popular resentment, and France's razor-thin...