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...Though they avoided a face-to-face meeting, the TIME forum heard from both Francis Collins and J. Craig Venter, the rival leaders of the public and private human genome projects. Collins, describing himself as both exhilarated and terrorized in the aftermath of his team's great sequencing effort, announced ambitious new goals. These include sequencing all 23 pairs of human chromosomes, applying genomics to the treatment of specific diseases, developing gene-spotting systems for early detection of disease and expanding genome studies to larger populations so as to pinpoint the role of genetic differences in disease...
...Craig Venter and colleagues are first to decode the genome of a free-living organism, the bacterium Haemophilus influenzae...
...showcase gigs on the East and West Coast and bugger off again," says U.K.-based music writer Phil Sutcliffe. "Led Zeppelin did eight tours of America in their first two years, it was like an assault." That may help explain the success of Coldplay and R.-and-B. star Craig David. They are not shy of a gig or two Stateside. Says Conor McNicholas, editor of U.K. music mag NME, of Coldplay, "They are so rich in tunes and expression that it crosses borders. A lot about their music isn't very challenging or edgy and it appeals...
...shaping up to be an extraordinary event featuring as distinguished a gathering of scientific luminaries as I've ever seen. Among the speakers: Jim Watson and Hamilton Smith, both Nobel prizewinners for their work on DNA; Pulitzer prizewinning entomologist and sociobiologist E.O. Wilson; genome mappers Francis Collins and J. Craig Venter; John Gearhart, who isolated the fetal embryonic stem cell; Dean Hamer, the leading expert on behavior genes; plant geneticist Ingo Potrykus; neuroscientists Dr. Wise Young and Rudolph Tanzi; inventors Jaron Lanier and Raymond Kurzweil; software gurus Bill Joy and John Gage; environmentalists Thomas Lovejoy and Brian Halweil; ethicists Daniel...
...Freshman Craig Smith’s 27 points—21 of which came in the second half—further punished the Crimson, as the Eagles snapped a five-game Harvard win streak and dealt the Crimson its first road loss of the year...