Word: scandalized
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...answer-just the kind of qualities that might be required to rally the Democratic troops gearing up for the best chance the party has to take back Congress since the GOP won both the House and Senate in 1994. Even with Republicans reeling from the Jack Abramoff scandal and President Bush still down in the polls,it won?t be easy: the Democrats need to capture 15 seats to control the House and six to win the Senate, and the party has lost ground in the last two congressional elections. But if anyone can pull it off, it's probably...
...leading attack dog; over the last week he has lead his party in demanding information on any meetings the White House had with Abramoff. Emanuel has long pushed for the lobbying reforms that both parties are now so suddenly embracing. Both have made clear that the Abramoff scandal alone won?t hand Democrats control of Congress. Instead, they?re hoping to use the stench of corruption and other issues, such as the unpopular Medicare prescription drug plan, to paint Republicans as too close to ?special interests? like drug companies...
...grave act that damages the foundations of science." Dr. Hwang Woo Suk, South Korea's famous stem-cell researcher, had fallen from grace. An S.N.U. investigation into Hwang's groundbreaking experiments in human cloning found the nation's top scientist had faked the results of his greatest success. The scandal was a setback not only for the controversial field of embryonic-stem-cell research, but also for the image of scientists as disinterested practitioners pursuing knowledge and truth...
...glory. Not that the cynics needed reminding. A survey of 3,247 scientists published last June by the University of Minnesota and HealthPartners Research Foundation reported that up to a third of the respondents had engaged in ethically dubious practices. But thanks to the international scope of Hwang's scandal, the public's faith in science?rarely unconditional even in times of dazzling technological progress?has taken a hit. "At least in the U.S., my feeling is that people are more mistrustful about science than they used to be," says Christopher Scott, a Stanford University bioethicist and the author...
...high hopes to build on last year's Democratic successes-which included blocking President Bush's Social Security reform plan, his proposed extension of capital gains and dividend tax cuts and his long sought-after approval of drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. And with the Abramoff scandal gaining steam, Reid had a seemingly perfect backdrop for last week's rollout of the Democrat's election year theme-the "Republican culture of corruption...