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...states where research opponents are perennially close to passing restrictive laws, uncertainty can stall science. In Missouri, conservative legislators who believe that using human embryos would be taking lives have proposed restrictions four years in a row. Although they failed each time, the Stowers Institute for Medical Research in Kansas City, Mo., said last month it would wait on a planned $250 million expansion until state law explicitly protects embryonic-stem-cell research. "If you're scared you'll get shut down," says Leonard Zon, president of the International Society for Stem Cell Research, "you think seriously about where...
Officially, the House Republican leadership has pledged not to pressure its members on the bill, having deemed it a matter of conscience. But majority leader Tom DeLay had been quietly looking for ways to stall it or complicate its progress through the legislative machinery. House sources say he stepped back from that effort after moderate Republicans reminded Speaker Hastert that he had promised them a clean shot at passage. Meanwhile, an alternative strategy is being discussed that would give House members the opportunity to also vote on an additional piece of stem-cell legislation, possibly a bill by Congressman Chris...
...stash the best bathroom on campus. But take it from one who basked in its aura for the entirety of sophomore year. D-51 has the best facilities on campus. Easily twice the size of the average freshman common room, one could comfortably install a bed inside the stall on which to lie if he or she were unable to move their bowels’ if such a practice were not commonly frowned upon by “society...
...some ways, the Princeton protesters are doing something that the Senate isn’t—they’re engaging in a public debate, while all our famously deliberative senators can do is stall,” according to the statement...
...they're going to stay there," says Wyss. Expect crude to remain around $50 a barrel, while gasoline could reach $5 a gallon within the next few years. There will always be blips in both directions. A hard landing for the Chinese real estate market, for example, could stall growth and cause a sudden drop in oil prices. "People would be terrified [by such an economic slowdown]," says Jim Rogers, a prominent commodities investor. "But it wouldn't last." Politics can also create short-term volatility: trouble in Saudi Arabia or political instability in Venezuela, Russia or Iran would cause...