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...proctor said that he believes the summer school is more concerned with the latter issue...
...that's perhaps the most significant difference between the genome project and the first moon landing. The latter was a clean, well-defined achievement. But more than 30 years after Neil Armstrong's dusty first step, space travel has gone pretty much nowhere. Thirty years from now, our understanding of the human organism and its various ills is likely to be transformed beyond recognition...
Venter first targeted the genome of an old laboratory favorite, the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, whose genes have many counterparts in humans. By March he had succeeded in sequencing its genome--work that ultimately helped break down the barriers between Venter and Collins. The latter had implied all along that Venter could not be trusted to release gene sequences to the public, despite promises that he would. "This was a major frustration," said Venter last week. "Fundamentally, nobody believes you're going to release the data. Your integrity is constantly being challenged...
...King is attached to his three sisters and brother, the latter being next in line until the unmarried monarch produces an heir. (While Moroccans anticipate a royal wedding, details of the King's social life are closely held by the palace and his friends.) Old friends now in key positions may kiss his hand during working hours, then kick back as former high school buddies at night. He's working on ways to get together with his close friends and fellow Arab rulers King Abdullah II of Jordan and Emir Hamad of Bahrain; he hasn't met Syrian heir Bashar...
Papal politics, unlike presidential politics, is never a winner-takes-all scenario. And that makes the Vatican unlikely to abandon its effort to beatify Pope Pius IX, despite protests by liberal and Jewish groups. The latter are incensed that the current pontiff, so deeply committed to healing the church's relationship with the Jews, would propose sainthood for a man who in the mid-19th century forced Rome's Jews back into the ghetto and stripped them of their civil rights after having initially allowed them greater freedom. Further fueling the protests is the case of Edgardo Mortara...