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...starting point for any count is 50-50, with Georgia Democrat Zell Miller on board the Bush plan and Rhode Island Republican Lincoln Chafee siding with the Democrats. Enter the back-scratching: Vermont Republican Jim Jeffords says he could bolt if Republicans don't give him a $180 billion plan to fully fund the federal share of education programs; Nebraska Democrat Ben Nelson - as a narrowly elected red-state Democrat, a prime target for Bush blackmail - is talking to GOP leaders about farm programs. And Chafee may yet yield to the hard party sell: "The President feels strongly about...
...familiar MO of attracting publicity by attacking causes espoused by civil rights leaders, Horowitz took out tendentious ads in college newspapers around the country, listing 10 reasons why reparations are "a bad idea for blacks." Predictably, a rumpus ensued on campuses from Duke to Wisconsin. At Brown University in Rhode Island--whose founders include a prominent slave trader--students offended by the Brown Daily Herald's decision to publish the ad seized all 4,000 copies of the paper. At the University of California, Berkeley, a forum on reparations degenerated into a shouting match after Horowitz delivered a characteristically pugnacious...
David Oriani, today a sophomore at the University of Rhode Island, was a 13-year-old public school seventh-grader when the bullying began. "At first, I tried to brush it off," he remembers. "But it got worse. I got beat up every day and couldn't take it. I'd fake being sick. My grades slipped." David's parents, having learned of his travails, went to school administrators. But the harassment was ceaseless, and David's thoughts darkened: "I felt, 'What did I do to deserve this?' I wanted revenge. I never sat down and planned anything--I personally...
...more such peddlers proliferate, the more politicians will be tempted to invoke prohibitions. Four U.S. states?California, Louisiana, Michigan and Rhode Island?have already banned human cloning, and soon Texas may become the fifth. Republican state senator Jane Nelson has introduced a bill in Austin that would impose a fine of as much as $1 million for researchers who use cloning technology to initiate pregnancy in humans. The proposed Texas law would permit embryonic-stem-cell research, but bills proposed in other states were so broadly written that they could have stopped those activities...
...more such peddlers proliferate, the more politicians will be tempted to invoke prohibitions. Four states--California, Louisiana, Michigan and Rhode Island--have already banned human cloning, and this spring Texas may become the fifth. Republican state senator Jane Nelson has introduced a bill in Austin that would impose a fine of as much as $1 million for researchers who use cloning technology to initiate pregnancy in humans. The proposed Texas law would permit embryonic-stem-cell research, but bills proposed in other states were so broadly written that they could have stopped those activities...