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Kerry has offered unflinching support for federal funding of embryonic stem cell research, which has the potential to cure a wide range of the most debilitating human diseases. The question, as Kerry has correctly recognized, is not when life begins, but rather how to best alleviate the pain and suffering of individuals who are already living...
...especially impressed that Kerry seems willing to break with personal beliefs on certain social matters in order to serve the good of the nation. What Kerry thinks about stem cell research or gay marriage or abortions after he leaves the Oval Office for the evening does not concern us; the only thing that matters is what he signs while he’s there. In a Kerry presidency, the driving force behind policy decisions will be his concern for what is best and what is right, not his private religious beliefs...
Yale closed the gap to two, 26-24, but Schweitzer floated an attack attempt that found the back corner of the court to stem the surging Bulldogs. Ogbechie did the rest for Harvard, recording a kill and blocking a Yale hitter twice on the same play, as the Crimson closed out the first frame...
...which ended last week with his death from heart failure at age 52. While the actor most famous for playing Superman was never as close to walking again as he perhaps believed, he nonetheless spent his immobile years in constant motion, raising money for paralysis research, speaking out for stem-cell funding, offering hope to other paralysis sufferers, even using his body as a proving ground for new therapies. At least partly through his efforts, paralysis research accelerated in that time--small consolation to the family he leaves behind, but a real gift for researchers still laboring in the field...
...heat generated over stem cells, that science still requires a great deal of work. Senators John Kerry and John Edwards have both invoked Reeve's advocacy of embryonic stem-cell funding in their campaign against the Bush Administration, which restricts research on religious grounds. But scientists must first coax stem cells to develop into nerve cells before they can begin to put them to work in the spine...