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...Senators from Virginia, Colorado, Nebraska, New Mexico and Idaho are all planning to serve out their terms--leaving their seats open to challengers and, in many cases, divisive and expensive primaries. Republicans also have four vulnerable Senators running in purple states in 2008: New Hampshire, Maine, Minnesota and Oregon; some of them are trailing in polls. Senator Ted Stevens' corruption woes in Alaska may force Republicans to defend that once lock-safe seat. And Democrats have even vowed to go after Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell, whose protégé just lost the Kentucky Governor's mansion to a Democratic insurgent...
...health care professionals." The poll found that 55% of respondents wanted abortion rights protected by federal law. Still, anti-abortion efforts similar to those in Colorado are currently under way in at least a dozen other states, including Georgia, Mississippi and Michigan, while officials in two states - Montana and Oregon - have already given such attempts the official thumbs-down...
...original version of this story incorrectly stated that scientists in Seattle had cloned embryonic stem cells from monkeys. In fact, the scientists were working at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland...
Nine other states currently recognize civil unions or partnerships, with Oregon slated to become the tenth in January...
...have denied millions of children a tremendous reading experience because homophobic parents would not have let their children read the books. But this way, Rowling has infiltrated plenty of homophobe domiciles. There is far greater benefit to the understanding of gays when there is dialogue. Dennis A. Schaefer, Eugene, Oregon...