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...buddy from his M.I.T. rowing days, he had an Internet search engine that could reach far into dynamic databases and cope with constantly churning information. His friend, then working in the airline industry, gave Barth the news: "Don't you realize? This is the Holy Grail of travel. They've wanted to do this forever...
What I needed was Radio Me: a station that knew my likes and dislikes so intimately, it could offer me new music that would hit my groove each time. This concept being something of a holy grail in the digital-music world, there has been an explosion of websites that offer music custom-made for you--among them radio.sonicnet.com (owned by MTV's online division), tuneto.com and mongomusic.com But be warned: most can be wrong as often as they are right...
...Thus began one of my most satisfying obsessions - a 20-year search of any vinyl archive I could uncover. In collectors' shops, record fairs, flea markets, and Pennysavers, I sought my self-appointed Holy Grail. But more on that in a minute...
...haven't been this excited since...well, ever. For the past half an hour I have been reading a review copy of the Holy Grail of books: "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire". I can't believe I've gotten my hands on this thing. The book actually belongs to TIME magazine's Paul Gray, who has the enviable job of reviewing it for the upcoming issue, and until he abruptly yanked it from my trembling fingers, it was my moment in the sun. Then it was gone, and now I'm faced with the thought of joining...
Despite some accounts likening his accomplishment to finding biology's Holy Grail, Venter points out that identifying the order of the letters in our genetic alphabet is just a first step. Still ahead for Celera as well as its competitors: the much more complicated task of telling what those letters mean, what they do and what can be done if the messages they spell out are in error--a prime cause of human disease and suffering (see following story...