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DIED. PAUL KEENE, 94, a pioneer of the organic-food movement in the U.S.; in Mechanicsburg, Pa. Starting in the mid-1940s, when the government was urging farmers to use new chemicals for efficiency, until the sale of his farm in 2000, Keene ran Pennsylvania's Walnut Acres Farm, a hub for vegetables, free-range chicken, peanut butter and other foods produced without pesticides or chemical fertilizers and sold widely in health-food stores across...
...extraordinary prosperity for our nation. Today's massive deficits stem from a bipartisan band of congressional spendthrifts and our purportedly conservative President. Greenspan sets banking and monetary policy. He has no control over the insatiable thirst of elected officials to spend, spend, spend. Oren M. Spiegler Upper St. Clair, Pennsylvania...
...South Dakota bans it altogether, and most states simply have no relevant legislation. Seven states restrict research--including Michigan, which prohibits it on live embryos, making any cutting-edge work all but impossible, and Louisiana, which specifically protects embryos created by in vitro fertilization. A handful of states, including Pennsylvania and Nebraska, do not allow public funding...
...cure for anything. Researchers, they say, should first explore the potential of stem-cell research that does not require the destruction of embryos, including use of adult stem cells and stem cells from umbilical-cord blood. "This is not a debate between pro-science forces and religious zealots," says Pennsylvania Republican Joseph Pitts. "This is a debate about saving lives...
...author Laura A. McCloskey, an associate professor at the School of Social Policy at the University of Pennsylvania, offered another interpretation of the results...