kinds of things that gave us an understanding of recombinantdna and so forth, they weren t doing that. even the department of energy did some important work in human genome thinking. what i consider the most cutting edge thinkers, whether it s nick negroponte at m.i.t., there are a whole string of folks that are very good on this. and they emphasize a few points, one, you solve problems much better in a group, solving a problem, one. two, you should expect mastery and you should expect failure. that that principle is the only way you actually solve problems. is it lost on your colleagues in the house of representatives on the republican side that there is nothing more american than investing in experimentation in