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Anderson Cooper A 360-Degree Look at World Events February 19, 2011
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Producer Patron
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Producer Patron
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Producer Patron
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Opening program
Susan Greenbaum
and National Anthem Opening remarks
Welcome and introduction of tonight’s speaker
Presentation
Bill Chapman Executive Director The Richmond Forum Linda M.Warren Vice President & Controller Altria Group Anderson Cooper Fifteen-minute intermission for collection of audience questions
Remarks and introduction
Mr. Chapman
of tonight’s moderator Audience Questions Closing Remarks
Mr. Cooper and Dr. Marcus Messner Mr. Chapman
Excerpts from Dispatches From the Edge are reprinted here with the permission of Anderson Cooper and HarperCollins Publishers.
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Anderson Cooper’s New York office at CNN is said to look like a “global yard sale.” The decor includes everything from the license plate of a car blown up in Sarajevo to a box of seeds belonging to an imprisoned Saddam Hussein, who passed his time gardening. Perhaps most symbolic of the lengths to which Cooper has gone to cover the biggest stories around the world is the Kevlar helmet and gas mask. As a new college graduate, Cooper found no success getting his foot in the door with broadcast news media, so he created his own way. With fake press credentials and a borrowed home video camera, he slipped into Myanmar to cover the student revolt there and was ultimately able to sell his homemade reports to Channel One. He went on to be one of the first American reporters in Somalia during the earliest days of the violence there; he then covered the bloody wars in Bosnia and Rwanda. Drawn to the world’s hot spots, Cooper has reported multiple times from Afghanistan and Iraq, covered the ongoing violence in Mexico, the bombings in London and the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict in 2006; he traveled to Sri Lanka in 2004 to cover the aftermath of the tsunami. Earlier this month he was in Egypt to report on the dramatic uprising there. Anderson Cooper has never been one to skim the surface of a story. He spent more time than any other national news anchor in the U.S. Gulf Coast region, reporting on the BP oil spill, its damage and the clean-up. In 2005, Cooper spent more than a month in the same region, covering the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina, and he has returned more than 20 times to follow the reconstruction progress. In 2010, Cooper was awarded the National
Order of Honour and Merit by the Haitian government for his reporting on the catastrophic earthquake there. As an Emmy-winning anchor for CNN and contributor to CBS’s 60 Minutes, Anderson Cooper has made a career of camping out in the middle of the biggest news stories in the world, going beyond the headlines to tell stories in depth and from multiple points of view. Later this year, he will add the role of daytime talk show host to his busy schedule with the premiere of the syndicated program, Anderson. His memoir, Dispatches from the Edge, about covering the South Asia tsunami, Hurricane Katrina and other news events, topped the New York Times bestseller list in 2006. Cooper graduated from Yale University in 1989 with a bachelor of arts degree in political science. He also studied Vietnamese at the University of Hanoi. He is the son of Gloria Vanderbilt and the late writer, Wyatt Cooper. Anderson Cooper lives in New York City where he is restoring an historic firehouse in Greenwich Village.
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Dr. Marcus Messner is a journalism professor at Virginia Commonwealth University. He researches the growing influence of new media formats, especially the impact of blogs and social media on news media coverage and political discourse. He is also studying the adoption of Facebook and Twitter for news dissemination and online research purposes by news organizations. His research has been presented at national and international conferences and has been published in academic journals and books in the U.S., the UK, China and Germany.
Dr. Messner teaches multimedia journalism, media business and global communication at VCU’s School of Mass Communications and is directing a U.S. State Department sponsored intercultural social media program for Iraqi college students. Before entering academia, he worked as a newspaper reporter and editor, covering business and politics in his native Germany. He currently serves as the head of the communication technology division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication and on the advisory board of the national Social Media Club Education Connection. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Miami in Florida. Dr. Messner and his wife, Vivian Medina, have three daughters.
Susan Greenbaum Susan Greenbaum graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University, was a Fortune 500 corporate officer and now signs her tax returns as a singer-songwriter. She has released four CDs and won several national songwriting awards, most recently the Smithsonian Songwriters Award in 2009. Billboard Magazine has twice featured Susan, calling her “a startlingly adept writer” with a voice that is “a strong and clear delight.” Susan, a Kansas City native, focuses her songwriting on intelligent, meaningful lyrics wrapped in catchy melodies in a variety of styles, and she performs
solo, duo and with her band. Susan also shares her music with many worthy causes around Richmond. Visit www.susangreenbaum.com to hear her music. She also has CDs available in the lobby tonight. Accompanying Susan is percussionist, drummer and drum instructor Chris Parker. Chris is a graduate of Shenandoah Conservatory of Music and the drummer in Susan’s band; he has set the beat for several shows at Barksdale Theater and Swift Creek Mill Playhouse, and he has also played conga in the Drums No Guns outreach program for inner-city youth. Tonight’s musical performance is made possible by the generous support of Moore Cadillac Company.
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Excerpts from the 2006 Best-Selling Memoir by Anderson Cooper
I remember an old globe that sat on the table by my bed. I must have been five or six.
As a boy looking at that globe, I grew up believing, as most people do, that the earth is round. Smoothed like a stone by thousands of years of evolution and revolution. Whittled by time. Scraped by space. I thought that all the nations and oceans, the rivers and valleys, were already mapped out, named, explored. But in truth, the world is constantly shifting: shape and size, location in space. It’s got edges and chasms, too many to count. They open up, close, reappear somewhere else. Geologists may have mapped out the planet’s tectonic plates—hidden shelves of rock that grind, one against the other, forming mountains, creating continents—but they can’t plot the fault lines that run through our heads, divide our hearts. The map of the world is always changing; sometimes it happens overnight. All it takes is the blink of an eye, the squeeze of a trigger, a sudden gust of wind. Wake up and your life is perched on a precipice; fall asleep, it swallows you whole. None of us likes to believe our lives are so precarious. In 2005, however, we were reminded just how quickly things can change. The year began with the tsunami and came to a close with
Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. There were wars and famine, and other disasters, natural and man-made. As a correspondent and anchor for CNN, I spent much of 2005 reporting from the front lines in Sri Lanka and New Orleans, Africa and Iraq. For years I tried to compartmentalize my life, distance myself from the world I was reporting on. This year, however, I realized that this is not possible. In the midst of tragedy, the memories of moments, forgotten feelings, began to feed off one another. I came to see how woven together these disparate fragments really are: past and present, personal and professional, they shift back and forth again and again. Everyone is connected by the same strands of DNA. I’ve been a journalist for fifteen years now, and have reported on some of the worst situations on earth: Somalia, Rwanda, Bosnia, Iraq. I’ve seen more dead bodies than I can count, more horror and hatred than I can remember, yet I’m still surprised by what I discover in the far reaches of our planet, the truths revealed in the dwindling light of day, when everything else has been stripped away, exposed, raw as a gutted shark on a fisherman’s pier.The farther you go, however, the harder it is to return. The world has many edges, and it’s very easy to fall off.
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At first you want to know what happened in each house, to each heart, but after a while you no longer ask. Too much has already been said. The words fail to have meaning, fail to get at the depth of the sorrow. I look into the eyes of these mothers grieving for their children. “I’m sorry for your loss,” I say. It comes out sounding so small. I find it hard to listen to these people’s stories. They remind me so much of what I’ve lost, though compared with their suffering, mine seems minuscule. A minor misery, swallowed by the sea. There was a time many years ago, when I first became a reporter, when I thought I could fake it. Go through the motions, not give away pieces of myself in return. I focused on the mechanics: storytelling and structure. I had conversations, conducted interviews and I wasn’t even there. I’d nod, look in others’ eyes, but my vision lost focus, my mind turned to details. People became characters, plot lines in a story I was constructing in my head. Their mouths moved, I heard only lines of track, bite of sound. I listened for what I could use; the rest I fast-forwarded through. When I had what I needed, I’d pull out. I thought I could get away unscathed, unchanged. The truth was I hadn’t gotten out at all. It’s impossible to block out what you see, what you hear. Even if you stop listening, the pain gets inside, seeps through the cracks you can’t close up. You can’t fake your way through it. I know that now. You have to absorb it all. You owe them that. You owe it to yourself as well. “Sometimes you have to look very narrowly down the path,” an aid worker in Somalia once said go me. “You can’t look at
what’s lying on either side of the road.” I didn’t understand what he meant at the time, but I certainly get it now. Crystal clear. If you are going to engage, then there’s only so much you can stand. It’s best not to stop in one place too long. A week or two, maximum. You can buy yourself more time if you have somewhere to stay away from the carnage. Then the story becomes a place you go to, venture from. It’s an office, one that you prepare yourself for every morning. In Sri Lanka, we sleep in a luxury hotel a few hours’ drive away from the worst of the devastation. Each night we return to edit our footage and wolf down some dinner. A few tourists lounge in the last light of day: blackbikinied painted blondes with collagen lips, and Speedo-clad men with overhanging bellies and sunburned scalps. I see them laughing by the pool, sipping drinks with umbrellas, telling jokes in Russian and German. At first I’m shocked; I scream at them in my head, “Don’t you know people have died here? How can you still lounge by the pool?” But I say nothing, of course. Why shouldn’t they lounge? Elsewhere in the world life continues. That’s just how it is. When we leave Kamburugamuwa, I notice that we’re quiet. Even Phil has been silenced by the sadness of it all. A truck filled with Buddhist monks chanting through a loudspeaker passes us by. Their deep-throated droning wafts over what remains of the small village. Maduranga is standing by the water’s edge. Alone on the beach. A sad little boy. He throws stones at the sea.
“ d i s pat c h e s f r o m t h e e d g e ” – b o o k e x c e r p t s
Sri Lanka: The Tsunami
“ d i s pat c h e s f r o m t h e e d g e ” – b o o k e x c e r p t s
Baghdad Sometimes the places that are the most dangerous don’t feel that bad at all. In Baghdad there are moments when you think nothing can touch you. Encased in a Kevlar, puffed up like some B-movie cyborg, you peer through doublepaned bulletproof glass at the dust and decay; the cement blast barriers. You watch people on the street and wonder who’s good, who’s bad, who’ll live, who’ll die. You’re surrounded by guys with barrel chests and ceramic plates hidden underneath their shirts, machine guns ready, safeties unlocked. Who knows what else they have in their bags? You’re trapped in a bubble of security; you can’t break out—with guards and guns, and no time to linger on the street, it’s hard to tell what’s really going on. Bulletproof glass protects but it also distorts. Fear alters everything. It’s late January 2005, and I’ve come to Iraq to cover the interim elections for CNN. We’re driving in from Baghdad’s airport, on a road the army calls Route Irish. “They say this is the most dangerous road in the world,” my driver says. “They always do,” I say, and I realize I sound like a jerk. Every war has a road like this one, the most dangerous, the most mined. I don’t know how you can judge. Baghdad’s Route Irish connects the airport to the Green Zone. It’s an eight-mile haul but there’s a two-mile stretch that’s particularly bad. Snipers, improvised explosive devices, ambushes, suicide attacks—you name it, it’s happened on Route Irish. U.S. soldiers patrol the road and the surrounding neighborhoods, but the attacks keep coming. After Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel
Pearl was kidnapped and murdered in Pakistan in 2002, news companies began to take security much more seriously. In Baghdad most major American news organizations contract with private security firms. Big guys with thick necks meet you at the airport and give you a bulletproof vest before they even shake your hand. The company that CNN contracts with provides former British Special Forces soldiers— tough professional men who’ve done things you can’t imagine, in places you’ve never heard of. They don’t talk much about where they’ve been, but they’ll tell you right away: Baghdad’s the worse they’ve seen. The city is crawling with security contractors, a ghost army of more than 10,000 private guards. In other times, other places, they’d be called mercenaries, but here contractors is the preferred term. “Look at the GI Joe,” one of my guards says, pointing to a contractor manning a roadblock. “Isn’t he all decked out.” You see all kinds: from former Navy SEALS who know what they’re doing, and keep a low profile, to weekend warriors you don’t want to get anywhere near. The latter swagger around the city tricked out in ninja gear: commando vests, kneepads, pistols on hips, knives in boots, machine guns at the ready. A little overweight, a lot down on their luck, for them Iraq came along at just the right time. A year here, and they can earn two hundred thousand dollars. The ones who worry me the most are South Africans—Afrikaners: big buzz-cut blonds with legs like tree trunks. They come for the money and the frontier freedom. One of my security guards complains that they’re out of control.
“I saw some South Africans shoot up the grill of a car that was driving behind them,” he tells me, shaking his head. “There was no reason, they did it just because they could.” There’s not a lot of talking in the car on the way from the airport. I want to shoot a story about driving on Route Irish, and planned to videotape my guards, and the drama of the ride into Baghdad, but when I take out my camera, they strongly suggest that I put it away. They don’t want anyone knowing who they are. Even in an armored car, we have to wear Kevlar vests. If we got ambushed, insurgents might be able to disable the car, then we’d have to take our chances outside. That’s when the vest could come in handy. The guards radio our location constantly to CNN’s office so that if we’re kidnapped, CNN will at least know
where it happened. Thousands of Iraqis use Route Irish each day. The traffic moves in fits and starts; cars merge from unseen on-ramps. That’s often from where attacks are launched. We drive fast, constantly scanning the traffic around us. A car suddenly appears out of nowhere. It’s coming up quickly behind us. Eyes dart. Bodies shift. “Four guys, young, bearded,” one of my guards says into a walkie-talkie. “Ali Babas,” says another, using the universal term for bad guys. We stay tense, expect an attack, but nothing happens. The car swerves off; another takes it place. After awhile I stop paying attention, stop noticing my heart pounding against the Kevlar.
“ d i s pat c h e s f r o m t h e e d g e ” – b o o k e x c e r p t s
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The Earthquake in Haiti:
Little Did I Realize This Moment Would Impact My Life Forever.
A Student Essay by Danny C. Yates
Driving through the rubble and chaos, past bodies engulfed in clouds of dust, I tried to convince myself that this was simply a nightmare. Yet when I closed and re-opened my eyes, the sights, sounds, and smells of this enormous catastrophe remained shockingly vivid. Coming upon a roadblock, our truck stopped. Stepping carefully around debris and human dead, my Haitian friends and I continued on foot. We walked through the ruins of Haiti’s National Cathedral, where dozens of churchgoers had perished while in the midst of prayer. A few blocks away, we noticed good Samaritans using their bare hands to claw through the rubble of Université St. Gerard—attempting to rescue several college students who had been trapped under thick layers of collapsed concrete. A William and Mary freshman and recent Maggie Walker Governor’s School graduate, I was there in Haiti on January 12, 2010, serving as an interpreter on a trip with my Richmond-
based church. Little did I realize that this moment would impact my life forever. Bouncing along in a pickup truck filled with injured refugees, we left Port-au-Prince behind and began the trek to Hinche, a small, rural town located beyond the mountains, some 50 miles to the north. This town of about 50,000 had escaped major damage in the earthquake, but it was about to be overrun with displaced persons, all victims of a seismic event, lasting less than a minute, which killed a quarter of a million people. My mind was bombarded with pictures of death and destruction in the capital city. I wondered how the 28 individuals squeezed next to me in the bed of a standard Toyota would survive the coming days. How would they find food, water, and housing? How would they cope with their injuries and losses? A voice crackled across the truck’s FM radio, “Ayiti se devaste, peyi nou pa te fini,” (Haiti is devastated, but our country is not yet destroyed), proclaimed the announcer.
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a way that it would provide support without fostering dependency or further weakening the Haitian state. After I had raised and sent funds to help with emergency food and medical relief, a local leader in the town of Hinche approached me and asked that I help with a longer-term issue. Fr. Bourdeau, a Catholic priest with whom I had formed a strong bond over the last few years, told me that the future leadership of Haiti was at risk. With the universities destroyed, surviving students had no way to continue their education. Bourdeau pleaded that without educated leaders, Haiti would never progress or even approach self-sufficiency. Truly, the only viable possibility for Haiti to rise from the ashes lies with a longterm rebuilding effort which is internally directed. However, such a process requires educated Haitian leaders with skills such as English proficiency, an understanding of democratic fundamentals, and a familiarity with the tenets of How difficult it was to watch Anderson Cooper free enterprise. reporting live from the very place from which I Haiti must build an had just evacuated. educated and honest leadership base. Surviving leaders must be joined by skilled, committed profits supplemented by individual efforts. I Haitians returning from the diaspora. In a recognized that the primary relief efforts should country with over 50% of the population under be led by the United Nations, the Red Cross, the age of 18, it is also imperative that education Catholic Relief Services, and many other large continue and expand. With the help of many in the Richmond organizations. NGO’s, already a mainstay of Haiti’s economy, were now flooding into Port- community, I have organized an effort to help au-Prince, setting up camps, hospitals, and rebuild Haiti’s intellectual infrastructure. The feeding stations. The international response was Hinche Scholars Project is an initiative of the I unprecedented in its generosity and size, but it Have a Dream Foundation of Richmond, and our mission is to provide university education was focused almost solely on Port-au-Prince. From my perspective, the smaller towns, to displaced Haitian university students. We suddenly overwhelmed by refugees, also needed are attempting to bring “Hinche Scholars” to attention and support. Furthermore, I strongly the U.S. so they can complete their studies and Continued believed that aid delivery should come in such return to Haiti as leaders. As we inched closer to the relative safety of Hinche, I tried to comprehend the impact of the earthquake we had just experienced. Days later, upon returning to Richmond, I continued to struggle with this concept. It became clear, through phone calls and emails with Haitian contacts, that the weak infrastructure Haiti once possessed had evaporated. How difficult it was to watch Anderson Cooper reporting live from the very place from which I had just evacuated. He described how Haiti’s commercial, religious, and governmental sectors all screeched to a halt, paralyzed due to impossible communications and the unfathomable loss of life. How could I, a college freshman, help the survivors? I had heard world leaders such as Tony Blair and Vicente Fox address global crises and responsibilities at past Richmond Forum programs, and I understood that Haiti needed the support of major powers and non-
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Oprah Winfrey George Will “The Cold War – Will it Thaw?” Marvin Kalb, Jeane Kirkpatrick and Vladimir Pozner Art Buchwald
1 994-1995 November January February March April
General Colin Powell Walter Cronkite with Judy Woodruff Dave Barry Tom Clancy Jack Kemp and Senator George Mitchell
1 988-1989 January February March April
Sam Donaldson John Chancellor and Henry Kissinger “Should Drugs be Legalized?” William Buckley and Charles Rangel Dr. Carl Sagan
1 995-1996 November January February March April
Ambassador Carla Hills and Prime Minister Brian Mulroney “Space and Flight: The First & Last Men on the Moon” Neil Armstrong, Capt. Eugene Cernan, David Hartman and Dick Rutan Calvin Trillin Charles Kuralt “The Presidency, The Press and The People” Ed Bradley, David Gergen, Pierre Salinger, Sheila Tate and Bob Woodward
1 989-1990 January February March April
Paul Duke, Howard Fineman and Charles McDowell “Perspectives – From Right to Left” Frank Carlucci, Bettina Gregory, George McGovern, William Proxmire and William Rusher Mike Wallace Alistair Cooke
1 996-1997 November January February March April
Dick Cavett and Carl Reiner Ray Brady with Paul A. Volcker “To Preserve and Protect: The Story of the American Presidency” Doris Kearns Goodwin and David McCullough Sir David Frost interviews Andrew Lloyd Webber “The Legal System in America” Marcia Clark, Philip K. Howard, Prof. Arthur Miller, Dr. Rodney Smolla and The Hon. Kym Worthy
1 990-1991 October January February March April
Chancellor Helmut Schmidt “Crisis in the Persian Gulf” Admiral William Crowe, General Alexander Haig, Robert McFarlane and Edwin Newman H. Ross Perot Art Buchwald and Andy Rooney “Space and Beyond” James Burke, Dr. Frank Drake and James Lovell Barbara Walters Margaret Thatcher Larry King with General Norman Schwarzkopf “DNA: From Catching Criminals to Constructing Dinosaurs” Patricia Cornwell, Dr. Victor McKusick and Dr. Marc Micozzi Mark Russell
1 997-1998 November January February March April
Bill Moyers Wynton Marsalis Prime Minister Shimon Peres and Dan Raviv Mary Tyler Moore Peter Lynch
1 991-1992 October January February March April
1 998-1999 November January February March April
Rt. Hon. John Major Robert S. Bennett and Dr. William J. Bennett with Tim Russert Harry S. Dent, Jr. and Lou Dobbs Lily Tomlin Dr. Robert Ballard and Jean-Michel Cousteau
1 992-1993 October January February March April
Terry Anderson “Japanese/American Trade Debate” with Hiroki Kato and T. Boone Pickens Dr. Joyce Brothers Bill Cosby Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev with Cokie Roberts
1 999-2000 November January February March April
Julie Andrews with Catherine Crier “The Century” Todd Brewster and Peter Jennings “Technology and the New Marketplace” Ray Brady, Michael Connors and John Krubski Archbishop Desmond Tutu James Carville and Newt Gingrich with Tim Russert
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2 000-2001 November January February March April
Senator John Glenn Tom Brokaw Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with Daniel Schorr Frank McCourt Dr. William Kelso
2 001-2002 November January February March April
Hal Holbrook in “Mark Twain Tonight!” Rabbi Marc Gellman and Msgr. Thomas Hartman Dick Clark Doris Kearns Goodwin and David McCullough The Hon. Madeleine K. Albright and The Hon. James A. Baker III with Gwen Ifill
2 002-2003 November January February March April
Ken Burns The Hon. Rudolph W. Giuliani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and Her Majesty Queen Noor with Gwen Ifill FBI Director Louis Freeh Senator Fred Thompson
2 003-2004 November January February March April
Cal Ripken, Jr. Robert Shiller and Jeremy Siegel with Geoff Colvin Candice Bergen Rt. Hon. Mary Robinson Thomas L. Friedman
2 004-2005 November January February March April
General Tommy Franks Michael Beschloss and Walter Isaacson Tim Russert Fareed Zakaria Frank Gehry
2005-2006 November January February March April
Robert Redford Sherry Lansing General Colin Powell Tom Wolfe Rick Wagoner with Geoff Colvin
2 006-2007 November January February March April
Burt Rutan Malcolm Gladwell and Alvin Toffler B.B. King Jim Lehrer Dr. Jared Diamond
2 007-2008 November January February March April
President Vicente Fox Carly Fiorina Michael Douglas with Jeffrey Brown Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. David Brooks
2 008-2009 November January February March April
Rt. Hon. Tony Blair Reza Aslan and Jon Meacham Smokey Robinson with Daphne Maxwell Reid Terry Bradshaw and Howie Long Marion Nestle and Michael Pollan
2 009-2010 November January March April May
Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson Greg Mortenson Steve Forbes Condoleezza Rice David Plouffe
2010-2011 November President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf January Laura Bush
The Richmond Forum is in a category of its own because of the excellence and diversity of its speakers, the sophistication of its audience, and the unique character of its presentations. There is little wonder that it has survived for a quarter century and good reason to hope that it will thrive for decades more. — Madeleine K. Albright
Coming to The Richmond Forum March 19, 2011 Dr. George Church The Personal Genomics Revolution The advent of direct-to-consumer DNA testing means that anyone with cash and curiosity can now glimpse their genetic makeup. Personal genomics will soon become common currency as we strive to understand our individual risk profiles for disease, our physical and biological characteristics, and our personal ancestries. What are the benefits, consequences, and societal implications of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Personal Genomics Revolution?â&#x20AC;? There is no better authority to bring to The Richmond Forum than Dr. George Church, professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School and creator of the Personal Genome Project.
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