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...become the Bill Gates of biotech. Just as Gates leverages his monopoly in computer operating systems to dominate other areas of the software industry, Venter may someday control information about the human genome--which in effect is the operating system of humans. That would enable him to hold sway over the burgeoning, multibillion-dollar business of creating drugs, diagnostic tests and other products based on human genes...
...married her, and the Bush Episcopalians, with their love of cold Maine waters, suddenly had a warm Catholic woman for a daughter-in-law. Then Jeb left Houston, the city he grew up in, and put down roots in the Latino culture of Miami, where his family had little sway. He lost his first race for Governor of Florida in 1994 by fewer than 2 percentage points, and the finish was not pretty...
...idea that students are in college toprepare for full participation insociety--including participation that won'tadvance their careers or enlarge their bankaccounts--no longer has much sway in highereducation," he writes...
Despite this calling, Rowe eventually chose to move outside the public sector to sway the Senate and rouse the House...
...religious, apocalyptic tradition. Just about any recent event, from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, is taken by some as a sign of the impending Doomsday or the flowering of the Peaceable Kingdom. Countless secular predictions also sway between doom and hope. Socialist Utopias are out of fashion, but belief in free-market cornucopias is rivaled by nightmares of savage Blade Runner cities...