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...fill the gap--California voted for a $3 billion bond initiative to fund stem-cell research. Advocates from Nancy Reagan to Michael J. Fox have pushed Congress to unleash more money and loosen the rules. Many Republicans as well as Democrats have been receptive, knowing that even socially conservative suburban voters tend to support the promise of research that they think might cure their parents' Alzheimer's or their children's diabetes. It fell to Senate majority leader Bill Frist, once a Bush ally on stem cells and a heart surgeon himself, to break with the President and build...
...Federal prosecutors say vaunted State Department Asia hand Donald Keyser sent Cheng long e-mails detailing his ?conversations with Chinese President Jiang? in Texas. At some point, prosecutors say, the spy became his lover, and Keyser was caught lying to hide the affair - and hoarding classified documents in his suburban Washington home. Facing jail and with his marriage threatened, Keyser cut a deal, promising to tell all he knew about Taiwan?s intelligence operations. But then the tale of the diplomat, his spook paramour and his wife - also a spy - got even weirder...
John H. Updike ’54 discussed his decision to depart from studying the mind of the suburban middle-class citizen in favor of the disturbed mind of an outsider, at a book reading of his new novel “Terrorist” yesterday at First Parish Church...
...this sharp increase in social isolation? Both the new study and mine found sharp generational differences--baby boomers are more socially marooned than their parents, and the boomers' kids are lonelier still. Is it because of two-career families? Ethnic diversity? The Internet? Suburban sprawl? Everyone has a favorite culprit. Mine is TV, but the jury is still...
...Immigration Anxiety All Over In "Bush Is Smart on the Border?and His Party Isn't" [May 29], columnist Joe Klein stated that the Republicans most opposed to accommodating illegal immigrants are "white, Southern and Western, suburban and rural, working class." But Klein ought to be aware that right in New York City there is strong opposition to making it easier for illegals to become citizens. New Yorkers can spot a scam, and this one is huge. Gahan Haskins New York City...