dr. francis collins about this two or three months ago. he heads up the n.i.h., a brilliant, wonderful man who was in charge of mapping the human genome project. he did it on time, ahead of time and on budget and produced a wealth of information which is now being used to find cures for diseases. just a month or so ago, the national institutes of health introduced their amp program, where they have engaged the 10 largest pharmaceutical companies in america to join up with the n.i.h. to use the human genome to find cures for the following diseases: alzheimer's, type 2 diabetes, and rheumatoid arthritis. those are the first three targets they're going after. we need to go after more and we need to encourage them for several reasons. first, if we don't make an investment in medical research that future generations of researchers can count on, young people will not dedicate their lives to medical research. think of this for a moment. 30 years ago -- 30 years ago, 19% of all the n.i.h. medical researchers were under the age of 36. 30 years ago

dr. francis collins, now the head of the n.i.h., was headed up and how we're all 99.96% the same, and he mentioned the hutus and the tutsis and how they were so, so, so alike. but that -- the minor differences that were visible caused them to have this awful, awful, horrific genocide. it pained president clinton, and whip highway wrer mentioned that this is something he brought up -- and whip hoyer mentioned that this is something he brought up before, that it was a mistake not to intervene. it was right after the difficulty we had in moe gandhi -- in mogadishu, the helicopter, the way the american soldiers re killed and horrifically treated in the streets of mogadishu by the somalian people there and it was reticent to get involved in another situation in africa. it's a tight line to decide whether to go in or not. and the president made a mistake, he admits it. and we have to realize that the united states of america has a special place in the world, we're the only country that has the ability to see that mankind doesn't engage in horrific generalsides again. so when the opportunity fo