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Think the mud wrestling over stem cells is ugly in Washington? Wait till you get to the states. Stem-cell proponents consoled themselves after President Bush's veto with the hope that friendly state governments would pick up the funding slack, and indeed California's and five others' (see box) are trying to do just that. But the Golden State's initiative--widely seen as the one with the most promise--is proving that stem-cell politics outside the Beltway is no less nasty than inside...
...political frameworks. Whereas a supporter of gay marriage is not particularly likely to be an environmentalist or a fervent advocate of affirmative action, with religion you are likely to get a whole basket of issues: if one is against abortion, he is also likely to be against gay marriage, stem-cell research, and euthanasia...
...dehumanized the scientist in a completely opposite way: They have deified him. In many Asian countries, scientists are national heroes. Take Chen Jin, a top physicist, who was feted by top Chinese leaders for developing the Hanxin computer chip. Or Hwang Woo-Suk, the South Korean biologist whose pioneering stem cell research was a point of national pride. When the research of each scientist was uncovered as fraudulent, it was a blow not just to the field in which his work was conducted, not just to the institution he was affiliated, but to the collective national egos of China...
...campaigns here have the usual dynamics of the national races, with the Republicans calling the Democrats "liberal" (as in "liberal lobbyist Lois Murphy") and Democrats attacking Republicans for voting with George Bush on every issue, particularly focusing on stem-cell research last week. Two of the Democratic candidates are military veterans, Patrick Murphy and Joe Sestak, so they are doing their best to use their military credentials to counter any assumptions that their party is weak on national security...
...with leading Republicans, occasionally to the point of sounding like Democrats. Simmons in Connecticut is touting his endorsements from labor unions, while Johnson is calling on Bush to get rid of the penalty for seniors who sign up late for the prescription drug plan. And all three supported the stem-cell bill that Bush vetoed. In this part of the country, every step that GOP candidates take away from Bush may be one step closer to reelection...