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...didn't plan that. You can't plan that. I mean, the year 2000 was definitely the breakthrough year; I saw that just from the booking offers I got from all around the world. My plans for the future? Producing nice records? Producing famous artists from the producer's side? Doing my dance, my techno stuff, as well as more interesting, more work-intensive productions for big artists. This is the plan. This is the dream. I don't know if it's [going to] happen, but I just did a Madonna mix, which is a really good sign...
...economy, stupid" is unlikely to be the mantra of any of the candidates in Israel's forthcoming election campaign. Barak is still desperate to cobble together an eleventh-hour peace agreement with Arafat to take to voters, although prospects for such a breakthrough are receding almost daily as new waves of violence wash away progress toward a cease-fire. Indeed, parallel with his election track, Barak is still pursuing the option of sharing power with Likud leader Ariel Sharon in a national unity government - a handy tactic for both men to postpone the challenge of the election's undisputed front...
SPEEDING UP THE GENE POOL INVENTORS: GAVIN MACBEATH AND STUART SCHREIBER Sequencing of the human genome may be the greatest breakthrough in human history, but it is just a beginning. To get to the good stuff, like gene therapy and hyperefficient drugs, scientists need to analyze the chemistry of 50,000-100,000 proteins encoded by our genes. But proteins are notoriously complex and finicky (a little heat or mishandling, and they break down like Scarlett O'Hara) and need to be treated gingerly in a process that was expected to take decades. Harvard biochemists MacBeath and Schreiber have found...
...comparison isn't that farfetched. By age 16, Kurzweil had built his first computer and sold software to IBM. His first major breakthrough, the Kurzweil Reading Machine, allowed blind people to read any document by simply feeding pages into an optical scanner that recognized characters. The computer then "spoke" the words aloud. In 1982, at the urging of Stevie Wonder, Kurzweil built what became the first synthesizer able to reproduce rich, orchestral sounds accurately; it is now widely used by pop musicians...
Ehud Barak's reelection campaign is not going well. Conventional wisdom has it that a peace breakthrough with the Palestinians is the key to the Israeli prime minister's chances of winning the election he was forced to call last week, and Monday's fierce gun battles in Bethlehem and Ramallah were a reminder of just how elusive such a deal may be. Israeli helicopter gunships fired on a Palestinian neighborhood in Bethlehem after Israeli troops guarding the Jewish shrine of Rachel's Tomb were fired on, while the Ramallah firefight capped a weekend of clashes that followed the mistaken...