“The market is booming. I can pick and choose a firm of my choice.” Who said the above? A. A 28-year-old American, latte-sipping engineer in Palo Alto in October 1999. B. A 28-year-old Indian, tea-sipping engineer in Bangalore in October 2003. For the answer, click here.

In the interests of fair and balanced information, here’s an article by Newt Gingrich about something to improve our health care. Actually, it’s an a-political piece about how IT could improve handling drug prescriptions and lower costs.

If you’re interested in science trends that may be contributing to the new twists at NIH, it happens that The Scientist has a feature this week that is all about cancer science. Strap on your molecular biology thinking cap. Aberrant cell signaling. How cells take the wrong fork. DNA expression profiling. Are cancers as distinctive as, say, earlobes? Diagnosing cancer ...

Re-imagining the Future There was a conference last week at MIT about emerging technologies. It shows there are people out there dreaming big.