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Trapped in all this are patients and voters who struggle to weigh the arguments because the science is dense and the values tangled. Somewhere between the flat-earthers who would gladly stop progress and the swashbucklers who disdain limits are people who approve of stem-cell research in general but get uneasy as we approach the ethical frontiers. Adult-stem-cell research is morally fine but clinically limiting, since only embryonic cells possess the power to replicate indefinitely and grow into any of more than 200 types of tissue. Extracting knowledge from embryos that would otherwise be wasted...
...developed but no new lines could be created using federal funds. "There is at least one bright line," he declared. The speech was a political and scientific landmark. It gave Democrats that rare gift: a wedge issue that split Republicans and united Democrats, who declared themselves the party of progress. Five years later, with midterms looming, they hope to leverage the issue as evidence that they represent the reality-based community, running against the theocrats. States from Connecticut to California have tried to step in with enough funding to keep the labs going and slow the exodus of U.S. talent...
NOURI AL-MALIKI, Iraqi Prime Minister, addressing a joint session of the U.S. Congress last week and boasting of his country's political and social progress since...
...depth of Rice?s quandary had already been coming through in subtle ways. At times, she seemed to cling to dry diplomatic jargon. ?We?re making real progress on a political framework,? she said at one point.? At another, she said, ?We also have to realize that we cannot have a? circumstance in which there is a return to the status quo ante.? ?Now, I think the Security Council will take this up,? Rice said, apparently attempting to look forward to the infamously dilatory world of U.N. diplomacy in positive terms. ?We want the Security Council to take...
...hard to see how Rice can make any more progress here toward her goal of a compreshensive agreement between the Israeli and Lebanese governments, which include cessation of hostilities, the deployment of the Lebanese Army backed by a ?robust? international force to secure the border with israel and push Hizballah back so that its short range rockets cannot strike Israel...