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...President Bush's affinity for signing statements (more than 500 in his first term alone) fall into this category: when he doesn't want to veto a law, he just asserts that it doesn't apply to him. Biotech entrepreneur Paul Abrams proposes that if the law funding embryonic stem cell research survives a Bush veto, Congress should allow for another little box on tax returns letting people check off whether they agree for their tax dollars to be used for research. "This mechanism would provide active acknowledgement of people's deeply held views," he argues, "without compromising hESC research...
...Hope for Stem Cells New findings as Congress votes...
Scientists have announced a new source of stem cells that can be harvested without destroying the embryo--just as Congress prepares to vote on the controversial issue in the coming weeks...
...Democrat, proposed a universal-health-care bill in December, but it has got virtually no help from the Democratic leadership. In the last election, House Democrats made only narrow promises on health-care coverage in their "Six for '06" agenda, including Medicare prescription-drug reform and the funding of stem-cell research...
...University expansion, Harvard officials promised to present a short master plan forecasting development as far into the future as 2057. Up until now Harvard has provided information to residents project by project, the latest an architect’s rendition of the four-building science complex to house stem cell research. At Monday’s Harvard-Allston Task Force meeting at the Honan-Allston Branch Library, Harvard officials said the master plan would be available on the Web site of the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) by the end of this week. But some in the crowd of nearly...