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Pressure also came from stem-cell opponents on the Hill. In early July House majority leader Dick Armey, majority whip Tom DeLay and Republican Conference chairman J.C. Watts had issued a joint statement demanding that Bush prohibit funding. "It is not pro-life to rely on an industry of death," they argued, "even if the intention is to find cures for diseases." House Speaker Dennis Hastert, though he opposes stem-cell research, refused to join his three top lieutenants in the statement...
White is preparing to invest $24 million in a plan to ship 132 million gal. of pristine lake water every week via specially lined oil tankers to prospective buyers (whom he declines to name) in the Southern U.S. and elsewhere. Canada's provinces prohibit bulk water shipments, on environmental grounds. Still, White's prospects have improved with official hints that Newfoundland's ban might be dropped--and with court challenges arguing that such bans are illegal under terms of the North American Free Trade Agreement. Says Bill Turner, who runs WaterBank.com an enterprise based in Albuquerque, N.M., that locates...
COMPREHENSIVE TEST BAN TREATY October 1999 The U.S. Senate rejected ratification of the treaty, designed to prohibit nuclear-weapon development...
...plans for an antiballistic missile shield and has hinted it might develop its own missile defense. Koizumi, who enjoys enormous popular support, has rattled neighbors by displaying a nationalistic streak. He plans to visit a controversial shrine where convicted war criminals are memorialized, and he has refused to prohibit the publication of textbooks that whitewash Japan's war aggression. Koizumi favors rejiggering the American-inspired constitution, which renounces the use of war. In the past, the merest suggestion of rearming has been off limits, though the Japanese armed forces--despite being tagged purely "defensive"--are already among the best equipped...