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...There's been this sense that there's a race between the public project and the private project," says TIME science writer Dick Thompson. "That implies that there's a finish line, and there really isn't. There are just a series of milestones and Celera has just reached an important one first." Last week the government-backed scientists announced that they'd reached a milestone by completing two thirds of the sequence and predicted that they'd have the entire sequence completed by late June. Venter now says that his firm will have its entire map completed...
...general recognition that the Army, as well as Kennedy and Smith, are looking at a rough ride as these accusations play out in the national press. "Now that Kennedy's charges have gone public, it's going to be tough to handle it quietly," says TIME Washington correspondent Mark Thompson. Ironically, says Thompson, military insiders sense that no one wanted this case to be handled privately more than Kennedy. "She feels the whole thing has gotten out of hand," he says. "By complaining informally, she hoped to stop Smith's ascent - not get him kicked out." There was no reason...
...Institutes of Health, are warning that exuberance over the most recent announcement may be misplaced. The federal scientists have long taken issue with Celera's techniques, saying that the public project is taking a more thorough approach to the mapping. "There are gaps in Celera's gene sequence," says Thompson. "But what the public project doesn't like to say is that there are big gaps in their sequences as well. Right now we simply don't have the technology to clone some chromosomes." And as for the medical breakthroughs that these projects promise, they are still a few years...
...only human rights activists who are concerned. "The U.S. military is reluctant to be drawn into a counterinsurgency war," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "They don't think it's possible to say you're going to go down there and help the Colombian military shoot drug traffickers without shooting at the FARC, and that makes them very nervous. It's a rebellion that's been going on for some 40 years, and it's plainly not going to come to an end soon - the Pentagon fears it's a whirlpool that's going to suck them...
...send 'em forth. Round up the cadre to provide a flying wedge. Anyone not on board had better consider himself dead meat as far as the party is concerned. George W. Bush is merely the cover boy in this campaign; the Republican Party bosses are the real candidates. DAN THOMPSON Elgin...