That goal has long eluded human geneticists, and the consortium hopes to achieve the feat in the mouse.

By enhancing communication between reporters, the consortium hopes to promote a vibrant 4th Estate, a well-informed electorate and a more transparent government.

The international consortium developing the reactor hopes to complete the machine around 2015.

The consortium also hopes to improve the status of imaging technicians in hospitals, which provide 90 percent of the jobs.

The consortium hopes to adapt current fiber-optic technology to improve that record considerably: 500 million bits a second across 33 feet.

Their motives were not entirely altruistic; the consortium hoped to profit by selling prints.

She said that by 2004, the consortium hopes to put on several exhibitions, which would include paintings, sculpture, videos and oral histories.

The consortium hopes to have the modems in stores by the middle of next year, priced about $150.

Using teacher discussions, research projects and seminars, the consortium hopes to pinpoint what it is doing right.

The consortium hopes to complete testing on the system by late 1998 or early 1999.