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Pressure also came from stem-cell opponents on the Hill. In early July House majority leader Dick Armey, majority whip Tom DeLay and Republican Conference chairman J.C. Watts had issued a joint statement demanding that Bush prohibit funding. "It is not pro-life to rely on an industry of death," they argued, "even if the intention is to find cures for diseases." House Speaker Dennis Hastert, though he opposes stem-cell research, refused to join his three top lieutenants in the statement...
...going to delay the progress we need to bring these therapies to the bedside." --DR. JOHN GEARHART...
...Winston-Salem, N.C., told me that parents can help by arriving at least 90 minutes before the flight and by supplying phone numbers where they can be reached at all times. After the child boards, parents should wait until they are certain the plane is in the air. A delay on the ground can disrupt connections, and parents should know this before they leave the airport so they can notify whoever is picking up the child of possible delays...
...those who had help figuring out what needed to change in their eating habits and how to work a daily walk into their routine who maintained their weight loss. It's not yet clear whether these lifestyle changes can actually prevent Type 2 diabetes or merely delay its onset for a few years. But a third of this group saw their blood-sugar levels fall back to normal--an especially encouraging sign. Losing a few pounds and walking 30 minutes a day are goals well within everyone's reach...
Moscow is upbeat: The operation to raise the Kursk proceeds according to plan. But a crucial stage in the salvage operation, cutting off the sunken submarine's bow torpedo bay, has been delayed at least a week, raising new questions about just how serious the Russian government is about ever finding out just what went wrong. The delay has been explained as a failure of the Dutch-made underwater saw-chain and as the fault of rumored poor training of the Russian contingent of the diving team. Unconfirmed information that the Chief Military Prosecutor's Office (CMPO) allegedly intervened...