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That's not the only question to which Bush's proposal will be subjected on Capitol Hill, starting with hearings this week before the Senate Health Committee. Lawmakers also want to know whether patents and other legal obstacles will restrict use of the cell lines and whether they might have been tainted by exposure to mouse cells and bovine serum. G.O.P. Senator Arlen Specter says the doubts that researchers are raising about their own work makes it "a fair pending question" whether political pressure is distorting what should be an ethical and scientific debate. At a minimum, the issue seems...
...wealthier nations don't need to bother with such chicanery - they can simply rely on their power to restrict the agenda of the conference, and their participation in it. The Americans and some other Western nations may have focused their reservations on the Israel issue, but there's plenty else on the agenda that has them worried. In a perverse way, the anti-Zionist camp has given the U.S. a pretext for pulling Secretary of State Colin Powell from a conference that will also focus extensively on the legacy of slavery...
...create a hostage situation where Iraq has a U.S. prisoner of war, which Saddam knows would dominate the front pages for days, weeks and months. So this is another reminder of the risks of the "no-fly zone" policy, which the U.S. and Britain maintain in order to restrict Saddam's ability to move troops around either to suppress domestic opposition or to threaten to invade another neighbor. Because the 1990 invasion caught everyone by surprise - the U.S. had good relations with Saddam before that, on the grounds that Iraq was the strategic underpinning of the containment of Iran...
...Crimson has not yet decided how to restrict access to the archives or whether users will be charged a fee. However, MacInnis says he hopes The Crimson will be able to provide free unrestricted access to at least University affiliates...
Monti told TIME that the key point was that GE could not restrict those who would buy the shares. But to some GE advisers, this could mean only one thing--Monti wanted GE to sell part of GECAS to a competitor. That was never going to fly. "It would have been like asking [Ford CEO] Jacques Nasser to drive a Toyota for 20% of the day," says Yale economist Barry Nalebuff, who advised GE. Monti asked Welch to consider the terms and return that afternoon. Welch did, and rejected them. The next day, Welch called Card and flew back...