Word: hatched
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...Iowa, Michigan and Kansas, to restrict therapeutic-cloning research. More dramatically, the U.S. House passed legislation last year that would make cloning human cells a crime punishable by up to 10 years in prison. The bill stalled in the Senate, in part because of opposition from Utah Republican Orrin Hatch, who is antiabortion yet favors stem-cell research...
...salesman arrested for the Madrid bombings, and Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, 37, the Jordanian suspected of orchestrating violence in Iraq--has taken up the banner. Barely recognizable even to officials who make a living tracking terrorists, the new jihadists proved in Madrid that they can evade detection while they hatch their plots. And no one knows where they will strike next...
Spain's most celebrated director is in trouble for a bit of unscripted dialogue. In Madrid last week, the nation's naughty auteur PEDRO ALMODOVAR said Spain's outgoing Popular Party tried to hatch a coup the day before its defeat in the March 14 election. The party denied the charge and threatened to sue the director for slander. Almodovar says he "just echoed a sea of rumors." Hey, can Bill Clinton sue anyone...
...news from Russert-world that day was Ralph Nader’s decision to run as an independent. Nader’s announcement got the headlines but the more important news came from the other guest, Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Governor of California. Asked about an Orrin Hatch-backed constitutional amendment that would allow foreign-born, U.S. citizens who’ve lived here for more than 20 years to run for president, Schwarzenegger responded with enthusiastic support...
...course, this is all wishful thinking. The Hatch Amendment most likely isn’t going anywhere; and there are probably too many skeletons in Arnold’s awfully big closet for him to mount any serious effort for the White House anyway. Arnold, however, shouldn’t be ignored...