[Guess biotech researchers would never have thought of using the Internet until Uncle Al stepped in. Lucky for us he's around! --Declan] --- From: Madeleine Kane <madkaneat_private> To: "'declanat_private'" <declanat_private> Subject: Gore on combining the Net's power with Biotechnology Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 19:09:24 -0500 It looks like Gore's back in business. Is this the beginning of Campaign 2004? http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/svfront/gore011002.htm Gore promotes benefits of combining biotech and information technology BY PAUL JACOBS <mailto:pjacobsat_private> Mercury News In a relaxed, not-quite-political speech spiced with self-deprecating humor, former Vice President Al Gore urged a crowd of health care and finance executives Wednesday to boost research based on the deciphering of the human genetic code and to beef up America's health delivery system. He was introduced to a standing-room-only, lunchtime audience at the annual JPMorgan H&Q conference in San Francisco as the man who got more votes than any other presidential candidate except Ronald Reagan -- ``more votes than the current officeholder.'' Bearded and wearing a dark suit, Gore did not rise to the bait as he spoke impromptu about the potential benefits of joining biotech and information technology, reflecting his new, part-time roles as university professor and vice chairman of Metropolitan West Financial, a Los Angeles investment company, where he'll focus on technology. [...] By combining the power of the Internet with biotechnology, he said, it should be possible to anticipate the movement of epidemics across the continents the way meteorologists follow the weather -- an application he called ``virtual epidemiology.'' [...] Madeleine Begun Kane, Humor Columnist http://www.madkane.com http://www.madkane.com/bush.html (Dubya's Dayly Diary) http://www.madkane.com/cheneyinterview.html (Cheney Parody Interview) Subscribe To MADKANE HUMOR: Send Blank email to madkane-subscribeat_private ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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