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Judging by Leeson's experience, Société Générale's rogue trader might some day land another career. Leeson is now manager of the Galway United soccer team in Ireland, and was portrayed by Ewan McGregor in the 1999 movie Rogue Trader, the film version of his autobiography. He has written a further book entitled Back from the Brink: Coping with Stress. That sounds like perfect bedtime reading this week for Société Générale executives...
...something of an irony then that such an imperfect organism as Venter has devoted much of his career to understanding the engineering of other organisms. He was the leader of one of two teams that in 2000 sequenced the human genome-the entire 25,000-gene cookbook that makes us people in the first place and not chimps or birds or banana trees - and he has conducted the same work with many other organisms. But Venter, 61, may have just done something that is at once more thrilling and promising and unsettling than all that. According to a just-released...
...Still, after spending his career trying to digitize, quantify and standardize biology, even Venter recognizes that there may be some aspects of life that simply can't be understood without a nod to what he calls the "mystery and majesty" of the cell. Well before he became involved constructing artificial life, he christened his sailboat with a name that may reveal as much about that awareness as about what he is trying to accomplish: he called it Sorcerer...
...Sinclair eventually became the doyen of Hong Kong's press corps and a prolific author, editor and columnist. His memoir, Tell Me a Story: Forty Years of Newspapering in Hong Kong and China, is an anecdote-rich chronicle of his life and career, a newsman's perspective on major events in recent Chinese history - from the Cultural Revolution to the launch of China's economic transformation - and an encomium to his adopted home, Hong Kong. Sinclair and tales of drinking go together like Scotch and a beer chaser, and passages of Tell Me a Story also document his struggles with...
...Albright cited Kosovo as the greatest achievement of her career as Secretary of State. It was the first act of the U.S. in the post-cold war era by which military action was used as a human-rights tool, and it opened a Pandora's box. It might be too early to call the operation a success. Drasko Jovanovic, Portland, Oregon...