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Think the mud wrestling over stem cells is ugly in Washington? Wait till you get to the states. Stem-cell proponents consoled themselves after President Bush's veto with the hope that friendly state governments would pick up the funding slack, and indeed California's and five others' (see box) are trying to do just that. But the Golden State's initiative--widely seen as the one with the most promise--is proving that stem-cell politics outside the Beltway is no less nasty than inside...
When TIME asked, "Is belief in Jesus the only way to get to heaven?", Jefferts Schori said, "For us to assume that God could not act in other ways is ... putting God in an awfully small box." She implied that there are several roads to God. But faith is not cherry picking. The Presiding Bishop is in the wrong profession...
...allowed Higgins and Mann to display more rotten behavior, more thugs lashing out in violence, than would be permitted in a story with no law-enforcement pedigree. After 70 mins. of betrayal, despair and sadism, the narrator would return to insist that crime does not pay. Except at the box office...
...space-shuttle design meeting that morning and was not in the mood to take John along. He told him to stay with Mommy. Rusty made certain Andrea had swallowed her morning dose of antidepressants, and as he left he saw her eating handfuls of Sugar Pops from the box...
...cold pool at the YMCA. The family had one of the largest paper routes in Houston, making deliveries in their mother Jutta's aqua station wagon, which their father Andrew had souped up. As soon as she was old enough, Andrea got a job at a Jack in the Box restaurant. "Her parents expected her to make good grades, and she made good grades," recalls Wark. "She was always interested in pleasing her parents, particularly her father. He was a teacher and very demanding. She did not want him to disapprove of her." She took a calculus test from which...