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Kass, 62, has taught for 25 years at the University of Chicago, where he earned his medical degree. Now he will be scrutinized by a much larger audience. He knows that if he stacks his panel with stem-cell opponents, it will be too easily dismissed; if he brings in a broad range of views, he may have trouble reaching a consensus. But Kass believes consensus is overrated. He prefers the prickly, the individual, the brilliant. It will be great fun to watch him work in Washington...
...debated whether the cover image should be James Thomson, the shy assistant professor of biology at the University of Wisconsin who made history in 1998 by isolating and growing human embryonic stem cells. Americans obviously are divided about the morality of this research and the government's role in funding it, but we decided that Thomson's achievement is so astonishing--and the potential applications stirring up so much excitement--that he deserved to be on the cover. As Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy point out in an essay, "It tells you something about the times we live in that...
LEON KASS Will head new bioethics council after advising Bush on stem-cell compromise. Ideas for Israel...
Meanwhile, back in his lab, Carson is trying to develop new treatments for a type of cancer called brain-stem glioma. The tumor's location makes surgery difficult and prospects for survival bleak. But those are exactly the kinds of odds that Carson has faced before and beaten...
When James Thomson learned last week that President Bush was about to make his big decision on stem cells, he coolly decided to do what he had planned to do all along. The once obscure University of Wisconsin scientist had triggered the great debate over embryonic stem cells. And so, on the morning after listening to the President's speech at a neighbor's house ("I don't have television," Thomson says. "I just watch DVDs on my computer"), he blithely went off hang-gliding in the hills near Madison. Good thing. As the lab Merlin who was first...