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To: Poet who wrote (7495)	3/14/2000 8:41:00 PM
From: Voltaire	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 35685

About time the porch got some of it's beauty back. V

To: Poet who wrote (7495)	3/14/2000 8:48:00 PM
From: Jim Willie CB	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 35685

biotechs and govt officials have a responsibility to clear up to investors the nature of protected intellectual property let's hope they do so at one point last week, biotech mktcap might have exceeded Old Economy pharmaceutical mktcap last week, questions were being raised as to whether New Economy biotechs would indeed begin to make a move to acquire some Old Econ firms with reduced stock value I personally hope a practical medium can be achieved that protects the hard work, brilliant research, and ingenuity of biotech corporations in 1995 I attempted to be hired by Genzyme, but failed tried with Genetics Institute, and made even less progress it would have been like working on a frontier our society can be changed permanently, somewhat for the worse, but very much for the better, by straightening out the profit potential and public rights to benefits, from all this amazing work just think, all of it is combinations of: A adenosine C cytosine T thiamine G guanine I would like to see some horrible diseases wiped out the day I was born, my mother's sister died of leukemia before I was born, my mother's father died of diabetes so I never met either of them that Irish genetic pool needed some balancing thank the Lord for Daddy's strong Iowa WASPy genetic strain and with a pinch of Germanic spice good to see you, Poet... but I will never reform / Jim

To: Poet who wrote (7495)	3/15/2000 3:45:00 AM
From: DOUG H	Respond to of 35685

Poet, Thank you for that post. At first I was puzzled as to why the Prez made such a public spectacle about something he seems to have little grasp of. Venter's letter to the NIH makes this clear now. "We believe that speed is essential for completing the genome. Its completion is the beginning of a new era in medicine that many lives depend on. The research that follows is far more important than squabbles over credit for its completion. Gore wanted to be father of the internet and Clinton, via the NIH, the mother of the human genome. I think he sees a spotlight/legacy oppurtunity fading. Shame huh?