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...over pizza and beer at Patrinos' Rockville, Md., town house, the two wary antagonists sat down in a deliberately casual setting to work out their differences. In an exclusive conversation with Collins, Venter and TIME correspondent Dick Thompson last Thursday night, Patrinos recalled, "I don't think I've ever seen them as tense as they were that day." Yet despite mistrust on both sides, Collins and Venter met a second time and a third...
...face of such attacks, Venter remains serenely optimistic. "Imagine the infinitesimally small odds of ending up in such a privileged position," he tells a visitor to his airy, press-clipping-decorated office at Celera's Rockville, Md., headquarters, just a Metro ride away from his NIH rivals, "of making these discoveries and trying to help guide and impact medicine." Sure, he admits, the criticism "gets painful at times," but, he adds, "I wouldn't trade what I'm doing for anything...
...dust settled, NIH had withdrawn its patent proposal, Watson had quit the genome project, and Venter and Fraser, a former graduate student at Buffalo whom he had married after splitting with his first wife, were off running their own center, The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR), in nearby Gaithersburg, Md...
...serotonin-containing brain cells. You missed an important educational opportunity. Your article erred heavily on the side of glorifying a substance that experts agree is dangerous, particularly to those involved in the club drug scene. ALAN I. LESHNER, DIRECTOR National Institute on Drug Abuse National Institutes of Health Bethesda, Md...
...never seen anyone who has had adverse reactions to properly made MDMA. Your story cleared up many common misperceptions. Thank you for giving both the positive and negative facts on an issue that is quietly affecting every aspect of America's youth. SARAH ANNE COPELAND Baltimore, Md...