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...Republicans who think the stem-cell breakthrough gets them off the hook are going to end up very unhappy. This issue will not go away...
...were also saddened by the Bush administration’s apparent eagerness to twist the new scientific breakthrough for its own purposes. For instance, Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy Karl Zinsmeister told The New York Times that “I don’t think there’s any doubt that the president’s drawing of lines on cloning and embryo use was a positive factor in making this come to fruition.” Far from helping the recent studies “come to fruition,” Bush?...
...have their last, best chance next month, when energy ministers from around the world travel to Bali, Indonesia, for the annual meeting of the U.N.'s Framework on Climate Convention. There policymakers will begin attempting to negotiate a successor to the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012. "The breakthrough needed in Bali is for a comprehensive climate deal that all nations can embrace," said...
...tens of millions of dollars, and carrying a gas-analysis unit bankrolled by Wellcome - disappeared without a trace into the Martian atmosphere. Four years later, scientists and funders alike are delighted, if a bit bewildered, to find that technology developed for Beagle 2 offers hope for a significant medical breakthrough, despite the spacecraft's untimely demise...
...climate change will really break into the national political conversation next fall. "I have no confidence whatsoever that this is going to be a key deciding issue in who Americans vote for this election," says Ted Nordhaus, a political consultant and co-author of the new environmental book Breakthrough. "You don't see politicians making their name around climate change in Ohio, or Michigan or the other battleground states that will decide the Presidential election...