2003
ID: 3082
James Watson: 'If you are really stupid, I would call that a disease... So I'd like to get rid of that, to help the lower 10 per cent'
ID: 3082
2003
ID: 3083
Iraq War launched - German opposition provides political cover while German companies profit from reconstruction
ID: 3083
2003
ID: 3084
Rose Revolution in Georgia - German-trained activists using EU integration model
ID: 3084
2003
ID: 3085
George W. Bush provides tens of millions for Salvadoran military/police 'Mano Dura' program - Phoenix Program methods
ID: 3085
2003
ID: 3086
CIA-USAID relationship revived under Bush/Obama administrations
ID: 3086
2003
ID: 3087
Biodefense funding surge: Biowarfare-related funding at NIAID increased by $1.5 billion
ID: 3087
2003
ID: 3088
NIAID assigned lead responsibility within HHS and NIH for civilian biodefense research
ID: 3088
2003
ID: 3089
Scale of increase: $1.7 billion became available for biodefense research virtually overnight
ID: 3089
2003
ID: 3090
Ivins and two colleagues received Decoration for Exceptional Civilian Service for helping solve technical problems in anthrax vaccine manufacture
ID: 3090
2003
ID: 3091
SARS outbreak begins (Firstenberg suggests correlation with 3G rollout)
ID: 3091
2003
ID: 3092
Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) begins operations to regulate auditing of public companies
ID: 3092
2003
ID: 3093
Human Genome Project completed using advanced mathematical sequence analysis
ID: 3093
2003
ID: 3094
Grisha Perelman develops Ricci flow techniques for topology - revolutionizes geometric topology
ID: 3094
2003
ID: 3095
Multi-walled carbon nanotubes first commercialized for sporting goods and electronics
ID: 3095
2003
ID: 3096
CDO issuance jumps from $30 billion to $157 billion annually (2003-2004)
ID: 3096
2003
ID: 4560
Factor language's quotation system - code as data without parentheses, simpler than Lisp
ID: 4560
2003
ID: 4628
Grigori Perelman proves Poincaré conjecture using Ricci flow - solves century-old problem, declines Fields Medal
ID: 4628
2003
ID: 5660
Complete classification revision officially separates skunks from Mustelidae family into Mephitidae
ID: 5660
2003
ID: 3081
April 17, 2003
Pope John Paul II issues 'Ecclesia de Eucharistia' on the Eucharist - 'The Church draws her life from the Eucharist'
ID: 3081