We have heard a lot about a new era of personalised medicine - some of it pretty wild speculation about miracle cures - that would follow in the wake of the Human Genome Project.

BBC: Is this the shape of medicine to come?

Republicans and Democrats alike put their faith in an imagined "iron law, " according to which democracy must follow inexorably in the wake of economic development.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

America had insisted that any global agreement would have to follow its own accounting principles, but in the wake of Enron and myriad other accounting scandals it was forced to soften its attitude to European practices.

ECONOMIST: A loss of confidence

If the anti-union vanguard is comprised of neoliberal Democrats, can we really be surprised if Republicans follow in their wake unopposed by an unenthusiastic progressive base?

FORBES: The Impotence of the Democratic Base