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...Venter thumbs his nose at the system and the scientific establishment. He scorns the feigned modesty that most scientists wear as comfortably as their lab coats and tweed jackets. He loves to buck authority (in the Navy in Vietnam he was tossed in the brig twice for refusing to obey orders), and he almost always speaks his mind. "He has no filter. He shoots from the hip," says Norton Zinder of Rockefeller University, leader of the effort to map the genome who overcame his initial hostility and joined Celera's advisory board...
...People of the Book fear that the page (and reading and writing) will die. Who will adhere to the linear rationality found in books, new and old? Who will obey rules if books of laws are diminished or replaced by lines of code? Who will turn nicely bound pages when everything is available (almost free) on flickering screens? Perhaps only the rich will read books on paper. Perhaps only a few will pay attention to the wisdom on their pages...
...fight. The U.N. had to order 4,000 helmets for troops who came without any and scrounge for simple necessities like barbed wire. When an officer from one country gave orders to a unit from another, that unit's officers first radioed home to find out whether to obey. Though given a mandate to use force, many of the soldiers carried weapons they are not trained or willing to fire. Worst of all, no one drew up a fallback plan for what to do if one side decided to renege on its word. "The R.U.F. was supposed to turn...
...government points out one certain thing: as often as the family promised to obey the law, it also warned that if the feds wanted Elian, they would have to use force. Marisleysis told a federal official a few days before the raid, "There's more than cameras inside the house...
...foot dragging paid tactical benefits. In time, relations between Starr's office and the Justice Department deteriorated. Unknown to the press or public, Starr at one point came within hours of possibly losing his job--and being declared in contempt of court--because he refused to obey a secret court order to answer questions by Clinton's lawyers about grand jury leaks. Meanwhile, those lawyers had entered into "joint defense agreements" with grand jury witnesses whose attorneys had been recommended by the White House. This sharing of information gave Clinton's defenders a direct window into the supposedly secret grand...