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...politics of the other side is just as troublesome. Swing-vote suburban women heavily support stem-cell research. The public faces of the diseases that may benefit from the research are a p.r. dream. To name just three: Michael J. Fox, Mary Tyler Moore and Christopher Reeve...
...Meanwhile, on Capitol Hill, the Senate took its swing at the topic, and unfamiliar fault lines divided longtime GOP allies. Noted abortion foe Bill Frist of Tennessee joined Utah?s Orrin Hatch in his support for federal funding, while Sam Brownback of Kansas stepped in line behind Majority Leader Trent Lott, voicing his opposition to earmarking federal funds for the controversial research...
...land in the 13 westernmost states--even as they have enjoyed the benefits of subsidized electricity, water, grazing and mining. But Bush's muscular espousal of a supply-driven national energy policy and his appointment of conservative officials to top posts overseeing public lands have made the pendulum swing back to the other extreme, toward one of concern about how far the development push will go. "They just don't get it," says Carl Pope, executive director of the Sierra Club. "Their ideological base is so out of synch with ordinary people on this." Even Congress is uneasy about that...
...Jocko Henderson. Douglas Wendell Henderson, from Baltimore, brought a soothing hipster air to his shows on the two "Negro" (but white-owned) radio stations in town, WHAT and WDAS. Imagine a voice with Billy Eckstine's swing and intimacy, to the beat of light brush strokes, as Jocko croons his standard intro: "Hey, daddy-o!/ Hey, mommy-o!/ This is your Ace from Outer Space,/ Jock-o!/ Spinnin' the records on the record machine,/ Correct time now: /five fifteen...
...jockeys and program managers in return for airplay. It ended the career of Alan Freed, the man credited with applying the black sexual term rock-and-roll to jump music. (By the way, that's a lie; the phrase goes back much earlier than Freed. In the 1941 film "Swing for Your Supper" young Dorothy Dandridge sings of her musical education: "They made me rock 'n roll ... brought me up on good ol' rhythmatic.") Freed had been his own worst witness, confronting the committee, contradicting himself under oath. Clark - who had become a millionaire by investing in 33 music-related...