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Venter will undoubtedly continue to irritate. He sparked a new controversy just two weeks ago by negotiating an agreement with Science whereby the prestigious journal will publish his genome sequence without insisting that he take the customary parallel step of uploading the data to NIH's GenBank website. Leaders of the competing genome project symbolically chastised Science by taking their own version of the genome to the rival journal Nature. But it's thanks to Venter, aggressive and hard-nosed as he is, that the world can read the score of the human symphony--and those of some 40 other...
...share an interest in curbing U.S. influence in Asia and are making that perspective part of their foreign policy. Washington's NATO partners in Europe are increasingly staking out their own turf, from engaging in trade warfare with the U.S. to attempting to build a defense umbrella parallel to NATO. Europe, of course, won't break the NATO alliance, but it will be increasingly ready to challenge U.S. influence where positions diverge - such as in current interventions in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and on the question of sanctions against Iraq. Washington may encounter a similar growing "friendly" challenge in Latin...
...Adil is 67. He stoops shakily to pick through the rubble around the shallow indentation in the ground, a yard across, where the tank shell landed. Rearranging his white kaffiyeh with one hand, he reaches out for a piece of silvery metal. It is a foot long with 10 parallel grooves near one end, part of the shell that killed his sons. Nahid and Sami Salman were Tanzim gunmen. They went to this building on the edge of the village of Kafr Khalil to shoot at the side of the main road into Nablus. The tank's return fire...
...around in a few years time." Moderation? China and Russia aren't rivals - they're "nations that are seeking their way" to capitalist democracy. North Korea or Iraq are merely "nations poorly led." (Where was this guy when they renamed "rogue states"?) He even tossed in an eerie parallel to the current domestic America, about the Cold War ending "the old world map of a red side and a blue side. The new map is a mosaic...
...there?s a big merger brewing, so everyone in his mergers and acquisitions firm will work on Christmas day. But Scrooges have to sleep on Christmas Eve; that's when revelations and atonement come. Jack nods off on satin sheets and wakes in another bed - his own, in a parallel universe, where for years he's been married to Kate (Leoni), the sweetheart he left behind to be a zillionaire. In this nightmare world he has two squalling kids, a cruddy job selling tires in his father-in-law's store, a bunch of bowling buddies...