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...Department of Justice is supposed to pursue the truth. It may have, but it certainly isn't going to publish it soon. Last December, the DOJ announced with great fanfare that it would finally reveal the results of an investigation into allegations that the U.S. government, and in particular the Central Intelligence Agency, collaborated with drug smugglers to funnel cocaine into inner-city neighborhoods. Many of those claims had been laid out in a three-part series in the San Jose Mercury News in 1996. The most outrageous allegations were later proved wrong, and the reporter who wrote the story...
Venter downplays those fears. "We're not trying to steal the Genome Project," he insists. "We're using private money to sequence the human genome. We're going to publish that information, give it to the public for free. We will guarantee that the human genome is not patentable because the information will be public." Still, biologist Francis Collins, director of the National Human Genome Research Institute, is concerned about how freely data from the commercial project will be shared. Testifying last week, he urged against lessening support for the government project. "Having the public effort continue," Collins said...
...Department of Justice is supposed to pursue the truth. It may have, but it certainly isn't going to publish it soon. Last December, the DOJ announced with great fanfare that it would finally reveal the results of an investigation into allegations that the U.S. government, and in particular the Central Intelligence Agency, collaborated with drug smugglers to funnel cocaine into inner-city neighborhoods. Many of those claims had been laid out in a three-part series in the San Jose Mercury News in 1996. The most outrageous allegations were later proved wrong, and the reporter who wrote the story...
Aside form his amusing portrayals of off-beat characters, Sugarman has channeled his humor into other areas. His first year at Harvard, he briefly comped the Lampoon (a semi-secret Bow Street social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine). However, he says that he eventually lost interest in the organization and has done no institutional writing since then...
Franken twice comped The Lampoon, a semi-secret Bow Street social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine. And he was twice cut from the comp...