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Barely two years after the completion of the Human Genome Project, a 13-year massive effort by worldwide scientists to map the human genome, U.S. researchers are now planning to collaborate in a national effort towards an even larger endeavor—sequencing the genomes of all human cancers...
According to Hightower, big proponents of this national effort to map human cancer genomes include Eric S. Lander, director of the Broad Institute and Leland H. Hartwell, president of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle...
...announcing a wholesale reorganization of the company--splitting it into five groups with such names as "mobility" and "digital home," each of which will focus on different ways consumers use technology. Yet analysts have not stopped being skittish about the company's future. "They need to get their road map stabilized," says Kevin Krewell, editor in chief of Microprocessor Report,a trade magazine. "People in the industry count on Intel to know where it's going. If it swings wildly around, the market gets nervous...
...Nicolae Ceausescu opened in February at the Teatrul Mic (Small Theater) in Bucharest to sell-out crowds and positive reviews. The play mocks the Ceausescus' megalomania and drive for absolute power, but it also makes the point that, for better or worse, the despised couple put Romania on the map. "Then, as now, Ceausescu is the brand of this country," says Denis Dinulescu, who wrote the script in 1994 but only now found someone to stage...
Laos' Quaintly-titled Vice Minister for Industry and Handicrafts sits in his office in Vientiane and allows himself to dream. From his desk, Nam Viyaketh points to a map of the country pinned on the far wall. It's dotted with dozens of red spots, each a potential site for a hydroelectric dam. Within 30 years, says Nam, Laos could have a generation capaciy of 12,000 MW of electricity (it currently has a production capacity of 700 MW) and exporting it to energy-hungry neighbors like Thailand and China, generating billions of dollars in revenue. "We can be like...