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...prepare to change forever the way doctors fight disease. They're not alone: spurred by the prospect of scientific glory and enormous profit, big pharmaceutical firms and university and government labs have been joined by scores of new companies, not just in Cambridge but in Montgomery County, Md., Silicon Valley and other high-tech hot spots around the nation. It's a virtual gold rush to mine the mountain of potentially valuable data the genome contains...
Even more jarring, especially to those in academe who enjoy the permanence of tenure, is the dizzying rate of turnover in struggling public schools. Take the partnership between a high school in California's central valley and a neighboring community college, which won a five-year, $300,000 grant from the state. By the second year, 85% of those involved with the project had left. Says Dave Jolly, who administered the grant for the state: "The principal, the vice principal and most of the best teachers were all gone." The partnership fizzled...
...native of Virginia's Shenendoah Valley, Faust has written several books about the Confederacy and Southern women...
...Israeli Reservations: The Israeli military is reluctant to leave the Jordan River valley, which is currently Israel's first line of defense against threats from the east. The generals have publicly warned Prime Minister Barak against accepting a deal that limits their access to the valley. And Israel?s settler community, which numbers some 200,000 in the West Bank, as well as their conservative and religious supporters, see the territory as part of the biblical land of Israel, and have vowed to resist ceding control...
Like California's Silicon Valley and Massachusetts' Route 128, Montgomery County, Md., has been transformed in the past decade from a sleepy suburb into a bustling scientific Mecca. The 15-mile stretch of Interstate 270 that runs from Bethesda to Gaithersburg now houses one of the world's largest and smartest collections of genomic firms. The chief draw is the NIH, which dispenses $14 billion a year in research grants. But there are other attractions--proximity to Johns Hopkins, a start-up-friendly local government, an abundance of office space; and most of all, a critical mass of like-minded...