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LOOKING AHEAD Venter's breakthrough, says genome expert Dr. Edward Rubin, means individual DNA sequencing is inevitable: "It's not clear whether it'll be 10 years or 50 years, but in our lifetime, this will happen...
...Stronger educational and financial fundamentals are essential, but the U.S.'s physical foundation-its infrastructure-also needs work. "If you went to Kennedy Airport and Shanghai airport, which would you say is the more advanced country?" asks Rubin. China's roads are in better shape than many found in the U.S., starting with the potholed, neglected highways near the Detroit auto factories that put America on wheels in the first place. On trains zipping past Indian fields, passengers surf the Internet on their laptop computers. On subway cars deep underground in China, riders chat on cell phones. Not in America...
...says Morgan Stanley's chief economist, Stephen Roach. "That's precisely what worked when farmers were displaced by the Industrial Revolution, when sweatshop workers lost their jobs to automated assembly lines, and when the U.S. Rust Bowl was hollowed out in the early 1980s." Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin agrees, but when he talks about the economic challenges facing the U.S., his tone takes on an edge of frustration. Rubin isn't really worried about the rise of India and China. He's worried about the U.S. "What we've really got to do is get serious," he says...
...official. "It was all well and good for Britain to offer up ground troops, but that was only going to happen if America was going to do so, too." During one angry call to Blair, Clinton accused Campbell of briefing against him. But most of the time, says James Rubin, the chief spokesman for the State Department from 1997-2000, "American officials appreciated Alastair's bluntness. To some people the British seem to beat round the bush, and Alastair never does that." Meyer, critical of many Labour figures in his memoirs, praises Campbell's "extraordinary ability...
...Rubin, a personal friend of Summers who initially expressed support for an external candidate with an assertive leadership style, was one of the most vocal questioners in the room. Lee, who had grown to be one of Faust’s most ardent supporters toward the end of the search, also actively grilled his candidate, the sources said...