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...this for Lee: he is an equal-opportunity annoyer. He condemns whites for manufacturing the old image of the shiftless, larcenous Negro and for still seeing blacks through that warped prism. He also chastises blacks for inhabiting restrictive new and polar-opposite categories: the gangsta and the Buppie. Satire typically proceeds from two impulses: rage at the powerful and contempt for the masses. Lee has both...
...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...
...will look at these ideas through the prism of the IOP's mission, and perhaps try some new things," Aaron wrote. "Most importantly, we will continue to support the great contribution Harvard students make to their communities and to the world. And we'll always try to help students see the fun and the enormous value in political participation...
...held mass official demonstrations Wednesday against criticism by the U.N. commission - but the vote may be a bellwether of international sentiment on China. Washington's failure to rouse a majority for castigating China suggests that the international community is increasingly unwilling to manage its relationship with Beijing through the prism of U.S. concerns, and that gives China plenty of room to maneuver. Even Washington's closest international ally, Israel, has rebuffed U.S. efforts to stop it from selling China an advanced airborne radar system...
...those factors aside, Rwanda today can be understood only through the harsh prism of the genocide that ravaged it in 1994. That bloodbath, fueled by an incendiary combination of misguided Belgian colonial policy, divisive domestic politics, ethnic stereotyping and tragic French foreign policy, took the lives of 800,000 of the minority Tutsi. The genocide, and the concurrent civil war during which the Tutsi minority took control of the country, devastated the infrastructure and exterminated the professional class. There were fewer than a dozen doctors within Rwanda's borders in 1997, and no more than 100 nurses. Hospitals were destroyed...