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...seem as if J. Craig Venter is on an extended vacation as he sails his 95-ft. luxury yacht on a 25,000-mile voyage around the world. But the iconoclastic scientist who took on a consortium of national governments in a race to map the human genome--and fought them to a photo finish five years ago--is actually hard at work. He's prospecting--not for gold but for DNA, applying the same techniques developed to decode human genes to the genes of microbes scooped from the ocean and out of the air. On a pilot voyage, through...
Puopolo and his teammates were celebrating the end of the football season at this traditional spot—a consortium of prostitutes, back alleys, and lawlessness...
...really missing here are the two most important political products: a Party of Sanity, representing the pragmatic centrism of the business and professional elites, and a Party of Passion, representing populist anger about outsourcing, illegal immigration, social permissiveness and Bush's overseas activism. In fact, Democracy Corps-a polling consortium run by Democrats James Carville, Stan Greenberg and Bob Shrum-- tested products named after well-known popularizers of the economic aspects of these points of view: the eminently Sane New York Times columnist Tom Friedman and the surprisingly Passionate CNN anchor Lou Dobbs. Stick around for the results...
Feldstein has served as president and CEO of NBER—a consortium of more than 500 economists—since 1984. NBER’s power comes from its reputation as a forum for top-notch researchers, who often turn to NBER first to publish their works...
...Sinopec is essentially a contractor, whereas [PetroChina’s parent] CNPC actually owns the lead shares in the consortium that runs Sudan’s oil patch,” Goodman wrote in an e-mail to The Crimson...