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When Woods phoned his coach, Butch Harmon, after the 1997 Masters and told him he wanted to rebuild his swing, Harmon was confident his star pupil could pull it off. But he cautioned that results wouldn't come overnight--that Woods would have to pump more iron to get stronger, especially in his forearms; that it would take months to groove the new swing; that his tournament performance would get worse before it got better. Both men were aware of how such an apparent slump would be depicted by some golf commentators and fellow pros jealous of Woods' early success...
...Almost overnight, it seemed, scientific interest in the genetics of beta amyloid exploded. Researchers had long been aware that early-onset Alzheimer's, while rare, often ran in families. Could it be, they wondered, that the culprit was a mutant version of the APP gene? In 1991 scientists at London's St. Mary's Hospital Medical School screened the DNA of an Alzheimer's family and found what every geneticist in the field had been furiously looking for. The mutant APP gene sat on chromosome 21, and the single change in its DNA sequence occurred in the vicinity...
...site alive as its owners make one last bid to stave off bankruptcy. It's hard for even the most radical revolutionary to keep the faith under such circumstances. "I would go to a dotcom again," says reporter Joe Beaird, "but once you see your company go under overnight, you know how it really is. And it screws...
...does Venter subscribe to the traditional belief that true scientists must take a vow of poverty. When he left the National Institutes of Health to begin his great gene chase, he turned almost overnight from a hardscrabble government scientist with $2,000 in the bank into a yacht- and sports car-owning multimillionaire who threw Gatsby-like parties (last year's income: $560,000, not counting options on Celera stock that were worth, at last week's closing price of $125.25, nearly $351 million). And by declaring his intention to sequence the entire human genome in only a fraction...
...understand that trust is not going to be built overnight," he said...