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I firmly believe that the next great breakthrough in bioscience could come from a 15-year-old who downloads the human genome in Egypt.

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Thomas Friedman
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: July 20
Columnist
Journalist
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Saint Louis Park
Minnesota
Thomas Loren Friedman
Thomas L. Friedman
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We have to fight the terrorists as if there were no rules and preserve our open society as if there were no terrorists.
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