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...part of this outing at the darkest moment of the 36-day postelection battle with Al Gore is almost a country-boy ruse. Of course he wants us to see him here. This ranch, which he bought just a year ago, is a rich Texas symbol of achievement--what kids from the Midland dream of having. And it wasn't handed down. That ranch is all that he sees himself to be: rugged, real and thoroughly Texan. But Bush's persona at the ranch is also more than an act. He seems at peace in this place where he knows...
...that purchase became a symbol of Venter's disdain for authority, the new technique he developed for finding genes with it demonstrated his brilliance. By focusing on those bits of DNA that were actually doing something--as opposed to the long strings that had no obvious function--he was able to tag the relevant parts and decode them. These "expressed-sequence tags" enabled Venter to start identifying genes at a hitherto unimaginable pace...
...luck would have it, Newby launched the market's first genomics fund (symbol: GENEX) in March, only a few weeks before the NASDAQ--led by high-flying Celera--got hammered...
...postelection turmoil escalated, it became clear that it was the story of the year and more: whoever was the survivor would be not only the next President but a symbol of a historic showdown that would be remembered and cited a century hence. So by early last week, without knowing whether Al Gore or George Bush would win, we'd decided that the victor would be Person of the Year...
...elect to lose the popular vote since 1888, partly due to skepticism about one half or the other of his "compassionate conservative" duality and partly due to doubts among some that he had enough experience or heft for the job. By his narrow and contested victory, he became a symbol of an electorate that was not (as some have contended) deeply ideologically divided but was instead rather conflicted and ambivalent as it split the difference between the two parties...