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...institute was created by a November 2004 ballot measure authorizing the sale of $3 billion in bonds over 10 years to fund stem-cell research at California universities and institutions. Supporters said the law--the first of its kind in the nation--would be a fiscal and scientific jackpot, wooing top researchers and private investors to California. They also forecast that medical breakthroughs could produce therapies generating $4 billion in annual revenue within 10 years...
...kidnappings and the initial Israeli response, I met with an American professor friend to discuss a non-partisan American voter-registration drive we were organizing in the Bekaa Valley. I had volunteered at a similar event in May, at which we processed over 100 voter registration and absentee ballot requests from expatriates and Lebanese-Americans...
...million registered voters (0.58%). Calderón is doing his best to talk and act as a president-elect, but the alliance backing the center-left candidate, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, claims its man won but the counting was crooked, and is demanding a ballot-by-ballot recount to prove their case. So, the outcome will be determined by how the electoral tribunal, known by its Spanish initials TEPJ, responds to the demand for a recount...
...Democratic effort to block a scheduled $3,300 increase in congressional pay--the typical lawmaker's salary would rise to $168,500 a year--unless Republicans agree to hike the minimum wage to $7.25. The Dems are also emulating the Republican gay-marriage strategy by backing ballot measures in six states to boost the minimum wage. They hope voters will go to the polls for this cause, then support Democrats in races that could help the party take back Congress. Clinton and ex-Senator John Edwards will head to Ohio this week to stump for that state's measure. Edwards...
...enough Republicans have sided with Shays to get a House vote, which means any action this year will depend on voters in the six states with ballot initiatives. All would increase the minimum wage to at least $6.15, and all are good bets to pass. It's less clear whether the Democrats can convert that support into backing for the party. If the minimum wage doesn't generate maximum anger against the Republicans, low-income workers may find themselves with bigger paychecks, but congressional Democrats may be right back where they began--in the minority...