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...between the short- and long-term interests of the party and is doing what it can to diminish the cost. On stem cells, for example, the tactic is to get the battle over with as soon as possible. The GOP leadership chose the gap between the July 4th and August recesses as a low-visibility moment for the vote and compressed the time the voting would take. Bush's veto, and the expected House failure to override it, will come within days and will soon have been replaced by other issues. "It'll all be over in 72 hours," says...
...ideas with their professional peers. Three years later, and what at first seemed like a cliquey Tokyo phenomenon is now extending its reach as far afield as Shanghai, Vienna and Buenos Aires. One of the first cities to catch on was London. "We held our first two events in August last year," says Marcus Fairs, co-organizer of the London event and editor of Icon magazine. "Even though it was the middle of the summer, no-one had heard of Pecha Kucha, and we didn't advertise at all, both events were total sellouts." Last month, the city hosted...
...Come August, AOL may fully embrace that strategy. To compete more aggressively for the expanding pool of Web advertising revenue, AOL is expected to throw the gates open to its previously private Web. "We'll be behaving more like a portal than ever before," says a company executive, who requested anonymity because he wasn't authorized to talk about the plans. (The company declined TIME's repeated requests for an interview.) As part of the switch, analysts expect AOL to stop charging a subscription fee to anyone who gets high-speed service from another provider and to offer free access...
...juggling to become a big-time professional sport, like ice skating--or at least a lucrative fad, like poker. And he has made a start: ESPN and ESPN2 broadcast the first two WJF championships in 2004 and '05, a first for competitive juggling. The next event is in August. The IJA holds its own festival--the '06 festival is this week in Portland, Ore.--but so far it remains a relatively low-profile affair...
Ever since Bush limited federal funding to a small number of existing stem-cell lines in August 2001, research advocates have been worried that the U.S. would lose its edge in the revolutionary field of regenerative medicine. The "presidential lines" were of limited value; there were not nearly as many as scientists initially thought would be available--more like 21 than 62, and they were old, in some cases damaged and most likely contaminated with the mouse feeder cells and calf serum used to grow them. Top U.S. scientists, many of whom depend on federal grants, decamped to labs...