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Jesse Ventura wakes up on another below-zero morning in St. Paul, Minn., and looks around the room...
...nation's savings rate remains abysmal. "For two months back to back last year, the savings rate was less than zero," says Baumohl. "That's the first time since the Depression that there have been two consecutive months of negative savings." With the bulging Baby Boom generation edging toward retirement and Social Security coffers looking barer and barer, politicians are scrambling to come up with any proposal that will prompt people to take the financial responsibilities of retirement into their own hands. The Roth proposal may help some, but since the plan obviously benefits those who have money to begin...
...compelling: you don't need the entire genome mapped to high precision to make big advances. Cohen's discoveries of prostate-cancer genes are one example. Similarly, the National Center for Biotechnology Information, part of NIH's National Library of Medicine, is using databases of partial gene sequences to zero in on genes that make aberrant proteins in ailments like Parkinson's disease...
Venter wasn't finished, though. Last month it was revealed that the U.S. Department of Energy, whose labs are part of the federal project, was negotiating with Venter to let him do part of the job for it. The cost to the government: zero. That proposal was put on ice by project leaders, supposedly because the DOE had contracted with Venter without checking with other project members, and also out of fear that the release of information to the public might be delayed. Unofficially, it's clear that sour grapes over Venter's latest triumph played a role in their...
...Bret Easton Ellis' first full novel since 1991's American Psycho (1994's The Informers was a series of vignettes), takes on the classic Ellis topic: the amoral world. This time, that world is not just New York (as in American Psycho) or Los Angeles (The Informers, Less Than Zero) but that of international celebrity, taking in the glitterati axis of New York-London-Paris which Woody Allen has visited recently, but more lightheartedly--in contrast, Ellis is cold, cold, cold...