1.   A reason Venter and Celera hurried to complete their own human genome database was so they could sell that information to other researchers.

2.   Meanwhile on Saturday, the eight U.S. astronauts and Russian cosmonauts inside the station and shuttle hurried to complete a massive cargo transfer.

3.   New Mexico and Oregon were hurrying to complete their tallies, which were still too close to call a winner.

4.   Six days before the Israeli elections, Chaim Yisrael, an elderly Hasidic Jew, hurried to complete his shopping near the ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Mea Shearim.

5.   Housewives hurried to complete exhaustive pre-Passover cleaning, which calls for ridding homes of each and every crumb of bread.

6.   Throughout the day, a construction crew hurried to complete a security fence around a U.S. military communications facility where police expect protests against the forced renewal.