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...when Hunkapiller showed Venter his new ABI Prism 3700, a sequencer five times as fast and even more highly automated, Venter formed a partnership with Hunkapiller's company, Applied Biosystems (now PE Biosystems). Venter named his new outfit Celera, from the Latin for "quick." It was. Backed with an infusion of $300 million from his new collaborator, Venter boldly announced that he would sequence and assemble the entire human genome by the year...
...crotchety old guy. The first week the Pulau Tiga-based game show aired, ABC scheduled the virtually unbeatable Who Wants to Be a Millionaire against it. Survivor won in almost every audience category. The second week, Survivor won hands down. By the third week--when Regis Philbin, monochrome outfit in tatters, slunk away to lick his wounds, leaving Two Guys and a Girl and Norm to take his butt whuppin' for him--Survivor had ballooned into the biggest TV success since the last voyeur-vision landmark: Fox's gift to late-night comedians, Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire...
...Europeans really trying to keep America down? Monti's staff is telling him that a short list of U.S. Internet companies are poised to own Europe's Internet backbone, and WorldCom and Sprint are high on it. Would it help if WorldCom were a French outfit? Maybe. European business does think nationally first, and officials there may be underestimating U.S. companies' determination to compete with each other. But Monti has a record of being plenty tough on Eurodeals, too, and he has as many detractors among Europe's pols and CEOs as Klein does in Redmond (well, maybe not that...
...thing. And by the way, if I were you, I'd get rid of that Eton costume - top hats, long-tailed coats, fancy vests (waistcoats to you) and so forth - just as soon as you're finished with your A-levels. Granted, you carry off that sort of silly outfit better than most guys, but wearing something like that around in public is pretty much the sartorial equivalent of wearing a sign that says "Hi! I'm Part of a Decaying Dynasty Whose Lavish Parties Are Supported By You, the British Taxpayer!" In other words, just not a very good...
...absolute repulsiveness of the sexual aid I was given--both because this is a family magazine and because the English language is not equipped for the task. It was supposed to be a disembodied part of a woman, but it was more like part of a really expensive Halloween outfit to which someone had haphazardly taped a lock of Dweezil Zappa's hair. It felt like wet latex, smelled like wet latex and looked like something Sigmund Freud might have used to make a very twisted point. I figured it was designed for men without hands...