Summary
IT IS hard to believe, given his subsequent stellar career, that the controversial American scientist Craig Venter flunked high school and opted for the life of a Californian beach bum, surfing and smoking dope.
War snapped him out of his complacency, if not his rebelliousness. He was drafted as a medic in the US Navy, but managed to avoid near-certain death in the Vietnamese jungle by securing an appointment at a hospital in Da Nang.See the full content of this document
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Driven to Decode His Renewed Lease On Life
Notoriously, the experience of spilled guts, severed limbs, bullet wounds and death on an epic scale broke thousands in the US military. It almost drove Venter to suicide - until, far out in the sea off China Beach, his survival instinct and took over and ren...
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