We'll invite other nations to share the challenges and opportunities of this new era of discovery.

CNN: Bush: 'It is time for America to take the next steps' in space

The progress the researchers have made heralds a new era of medical discovery, U.S. President Bill Clinton and British Prime Minister Tony Blair declared at a White House news conference acknowledging the successes.

CNN: Leaders say discovery must be linked to responsible use

The latest discovery pushes the dawn of the Jomon era in Japan back 3, 500 years to a period when glaciers were rampant in much of the northern hemisphere.

ECONOMIST: A potted history

The author makes the (to him) rather depressing discovery that most communist-era jokes were just recycled versions of older ones.

ECONOMIST: Communist jokes

Through Sage Bionetworks, the organization he started in 2010, Friend is championing the principles, practices, and incentives that will define what he believes is a new era of drug discovery.

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