Omni Yearly News: 2003

January 14th, 2010 admin

The Iraq War began in March, and the Human Genome Project announced it had accomplished its mission of sequencing the complete human genetic code in April, while Arnold Schwarzenegger followed the release of Terminator 3 in July with his election as governor of California in October. It was a year of blockbusters in books, with the fifth Harry Potter installment rivaled by a surprise hit thriller that suggested a secret history of the Catholic Church. Audrey Niffenegger and Khaled Hosseini made debuts with novels that would…

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