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...Somewhat unconvincingly, Venter now denies he was ever racing the HGP. "To me it's really a race to impact people's lives," he says. Collins, who has been pooh-poohing the idea of a race, insists in an almost perfectly crafted sound bite that "the only race involved here is the human race...
...Riverkeeper, a New York environmental group, ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR. is charged with monitoring the state's watershed and generally being greener than thou. Which makes his defense of William Wegner--a man convicted of smuggling rare cockatoo eggs into the U.S. to be hatched and sold as pets--somewhat bizarre. Riverkeeper president Robert Boyle fired Wegner, a consulting scientist, in December, when he discovered the 1995 conviction. But Kennedy secretly rehired Wegner, and at a board meeting this week, insisted that Wegner be kept on. Eight board members, including Boyle, quit in protest. "I was appalled," Boyle told...
...somewhat dreamy father Saul, the cantor at Beth Simcha synagogue, sees Eliza's skills with the alphabet as a sign that she is a "mystical prodigy" and begins training her for spelling competitions and for greater, more spiritual challenges ahead. "What do you and a Torah scribe have in common?" he asks her, and then answers when she falters: "Both spelling bees and Torah scribes share the idea that a word should be constructed perfectly...
GORE: Well, this was not prepared by me. This was prepared by, apparently by Ron Klain. But among the activities that were intended to help raise the funds were telephone calls to potential donors to ask if they would contribute to the D.N.C. And the coffees were in a somewhat different category, and I don't--that was not an activity that I--I may have attended...
...distance from clinic patients and employees, concluding that the statute does not violate the First Amendment rights of the protesters. And while the Colorado decision was not nearly as close, Kennedy's position rattled many pro-choice advocates, who have come to count on him as a dependable if somewhat unenthusiastic defender of abortion rights...