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...raced only once as weather led to the cancellation of seven of the day’s eight scheduled races. Nevertheless, that one race was enough to cement a third-place finish for the Crimson in the B-division. The uncooperative weather frustrated the ambitions of juniors Kyle Kovacs and Elyse Dolbec. The shortened regatta left the boat in eighth place in the A-division, resulting in an overall eighth-place finish for the Crimson. “The winds were very inconsistent and fickle,” Johnson said. “You can really see that inconsistency...
...Finally we will be able to change the way we think about cancer. It won?t just be ameliorated. It will be cured because expanding medical databases, improvements in pattern recognition and intensive computer analysis will finally bring our understanding of this disease down to the molecular level. - Caroline Kovac, general manager, IBM Life Sciences. People will do everything they can to get the sort of kids they want. Cloning will become commonplace. Imagine, you?ll be able to get your own Marilyn Monroe, James Dean or Elvis Presley. - Rick Smolan, founder and CEO, Against All Odds Productions...
...latest technologies. This fall Eli Lilly joined their ranks with a $75 million biotech fund. And IT firms such as IBM and Compaq are getting involved. IBM works in partnership with investment banks like Boston's Oxford Bioscience Partners to provide funds for promising start-ups. Says Carol Kovac, general manager of IBM's life-sciences program: "We see this as the next major scientific revolution for the decade...
...which said last year that it would invest $100 million in the field, has now more than doubled its life-sciences investments. Says the initiative's general manager, Carol Kovac: "Partnering with companies in proteomics and genomics is essential for our success." Big Blue has invested $10 million in MDS Proteomics, a subsidiary of MDS, based in Toronto, Canada, and recently announced a collaboration with LION. It is also building what will be the world's fastest supercomputer, Blue Gene, to work out the complex rules by which proteins assume their shapes...
...Yugoslav war crimes tribunal convicted three Bosnian Serbs of raping Muslim women. It marked the first instance in which the tribunal has defined sexual offenses as crimes against humanity. The three men -Dragoljub Kunarac, a former commander in the Bosnian Serb army, and former paramilitary leaders Radomir Kovac and Zoran Vukovic-received sentences ranging from 12 to 28 years for brutalizing women in 1992 and 1993 in the southeastern Bosnian town of Foca. The tribunal found that rape was "used by members of the Bosnian Serb armed forces as an instrument of terror" to get the Muslims of Foca...