America’s Collision Course With The Debt Ceiling
As the nation counts down to default, Diane talks to longtime Congress watcher Norm Ornstein about the debt limit negotiations, what's at stake and whether he sees a way forward.
John Sulston, 2002 Nobel Prize winner for physiology and medicine for his research on a tiny worm, gives an insider’s account of the science, politics and ethics behind the Human Genome Project.
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- John Sulston John Sulston won the 2002 Nobel Prize in Medicine for studies on how cells in a tiny worm are genetically programmed to develop and to die. But he is best known for his groundbreaking work on human DNA.
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