''This is a great day,' President Clinton said at a White House event to commemorate the achievement by two rival groups - the publicly funded Human Genome Project and the private Celera Genomics. President Clinton compared the genetic maps revealed today to the maps that Meriwether Lewis and William Clark presented to President Thomas Jefferson nearly two centuries ago. 'Today the world is joining us to celebrate a map of even greater significance,' he said. 'Without a doubt this is the most important, most wondrous map ever produced by humankind.'''

Full story at ABCNews.com:
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/genome000626.html

Also at CNN.com:
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/06/26/human.genome.04/index.html

Time Magazine:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/articles/0,3266,48109,00.html

BBC

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_805000/805803.stm

And, of course, Yahoo!
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000626/ts/genome_dc_7.html

Submitted by J.W. Bizzaro