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Currently, federal guidelines only permit the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to fund embryonic stem cell research using cell lines created before August 2001. This creates significant hardship for scientists, limiting both financial and physical resources. Embryonic stem cell researchers are also prohibited from using any equipment purchased with federal funds...
Because the federal government will only fund experiments with embryonic stem cells from lines that existed before August 2001—which amounted to $28 million in funding from the NIH in 2004—but does fund experiments with adult stem cells freely, scientists have felt particularly pressed to prove the necessity for research on the embryonic lines...
...funding, which supports essentially all other avenues of biomedical research, is prohibited except for the small number of lines that were in existence prior to August 2001,” says Hyman. “These funding rules create substantial burdens for our scientists because it means that equipment and supplies purchased with federal funds cannot be used by our stem cell scientists...
...Animals (PETA), for shedding her clothes in support of animal rights. Practically naked except for some strategically placed tape, the six activists staged a protest in the Square as part of PETA’s “Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur” campaign. In August 2004, a judge dismissed charges of indecent exposure against all six participants...
Dallaire first arrived in Rwanda on August 19, 1993, for a 12-day fact finding mission. He returned for a longer stay in October of that year, at which point he began the difficult task of advancing a peace between the Hutu-controlled Rwandan Government Forces (RGF) and the Tutsi Rwandan Patriotic Front...