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After weeks of contentious debate between politicians who are much better at reading polls than reading research findings, scientists finally took center stage this week in the furious debate over federal funding for stem cell research. On Wednesday, the National Institutes of Health issued a report supporting the continuation of embryonic stem cell research...
...secret that the 2000 elections did not go smoothly. For months after Election Day, the nation?s attention was riveted on Florida, where charges and countercharges flew between election officials furious over lost, misplaced, or uncounted votes...
...boss recounted the conversation to TIME, he told Card that he would appreciate "whatever help you can give us." In the formal meetings in Sweden, GE never came up. But on June 15, in Warsaw, Bush said he was "concerned" that the Europeans had rejected the merger. Monti was furious--not with Bush, he told TIME, but with those who had sought the President's help. Three days later Monti said he "deplore[d] attempts to...trigger political intervention." And though the case dragged on for two more weeks, the deal was dying a slow death...
...Vegas, they've got a saying about the Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee: Never bet against a home-schooled kid. The bookies were right again this year as SEAN CONLEY, 13, and home-schooled in Shakopee, Minn., until earlier this year, survived 16 furious rounds to become the nation's top youth orthographer. Conley, who finished second in last year's bee, went head-to-head with Kristin Hawkins for five rounds before knocking her off with succedaneum, which means "one who succeeds to the place of another." (Those bee people are an ironic lot.) But there are a million...
...features stories on transgenic animals and other biotech wonders. A recent issue highlights Monsanto's herbicide Roundup; another features a girl who took Prozac and "felt like herself again." Since 1999, 4,500 U.S. schools have received the magazine, to little protest. But in Scotland, industry critics are predictably furious. "Biotech companies aren't interested in education," says Matthew Herbert of the protest group Scottish Genetix Action. "They're selling products." Publisher Jeff Davidson replies, "We're trying to encourage scientific literacy and debate...