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AROUND THE WORLD Match each of the following descriptions with its appropriate place on the map of the world on the opposite page...
That arrogant challenge, coupled with Venter's high-flying profile on Wall Street, where his company was publicly traded, didn't sit well with Collins, by now the project's unofficial leader. Collins claimed at one point that Venter's genome map would be so incomplete and full of errors it would read like Mad magazine. Not to be bested in a war of words, Venter called the genome project's directors the "liars' club...
After several pit stops along the Rockville-Bethesda corridor, Venter established his brainchild--Celera--in Rockville. Here he built the world's largest collection of genome-sequencing computers and won the race to map the 3 billion letters of human DNA (as well as the genomes of several other species). But with the NIH's Human Genome Project publishing much of the same data free on its website, Venter must now convince corporate customers that his DNA maps are more accurate and his proprietary software tools indispensable...
...seriously, folks, there was real other news this year. While we were worrying about Katherine Harris' mascara, scientists continued to map the human genome. There were new photographs suggesting that lakes and seas may have existed on Mars. The Pope visited the Western Wall in Israel. Great people left the world--Alec Guinness, John Gielgud, Charles Schulz. Memory-enhancing drugs were in production, so that one day, 10 years from now, we'll be able to recall the name Richard Hatch. The President went to Vietnam. Stuff like that...
...Collins, formerly a medical geneticist at the University of Michigan, the effort to map and sequence the human genome ranks as one of humankind's noblest endeavors. It dismays him, he says, to see the importance of the enterprise besmirched by the continuing focus on such tawdry matters as the rivalry that developed between him and Venter. In an effort to heal that breach, Collins now says that he considers Venter to have "been a stimulant in a very positive way." At the same time, he acknowledges, "we'll never find ourselves going out for a beer on Friday nights...