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...encouraged senators to support two alternatives bills—one sponsored by Sen. Dianne Feinsten (D-Ca.) the other by Sens. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) and Arlen Specter (R-Penn.)—that would ban reproductive cloning but allow somatic transfer techniques to be used for “therapeutic cloning...
...BORA MILUTINOVIC China's Yugoslav coach takes his fifth team in a row to the World Cup. The squad will also likely be his fifth team in a row to exit early BROWN MARMORATED STINK BUG Smelly, destructive beetle native to China invades Pennsylvania. Possible U.S. response: sending Senator Arlen Specter to China...
...subjected on Capitol Hill, starting with hearings this week before the Senate Health Committee. Lawmakers also want to know whether patents and other legal obstacles will restrict use of the cell lines and whether they might have been tainted by exposure to mouse cells and bovine serum. G.O.P. Senator Arlen Specter says the doubts that researchers are raising about their own work makes it "a fair pending question" whether political pressure is distorting what should be an ethical and scientific debate. At a minimum, the issue seems to have taken a detour into what one presidential candidate of recent memory...
Bush continued to seek views from everywhere. On an Air Force One flight to Philadelphia a few months ago, G.O.P. moderate Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania presented the case for a bill he had sponsored that would fund and control stem-cell research through the NIH. Bush listened attentively but gave no hint of what he thought. On July 11, Bush met with medical leaders to talk about the patients' bill of rights. Toward the end of the meeting, he broke away from health care to tell his audience that "the issue I am wrestling with is stem cells...
...veterans of the Count Basie and Duke Ellington outfits, and he proved he could play with the big boys, winning their respect after initial skepticism. It also showed he could lay his easy, tortured vocal style on such chestnuts as Irving Berlin?s "Alexander?s Ragtime Band" and the Arlen-Mercer "Come Rain or Come Shine." Then he was gone -away from Atlantic, off to ABC Paramount, for the life of an interpretive rather than creative artist. Ray Charles sings country? Well, why not? But not at Atlantic, where Ertegun had to be asking, "Where...