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...popular support. In Maryland last month, pro-life state senators blocked a vote on a bill that would have allowed state funding for research even though the bill had the backing to pass. In Texas, four pieces of pro-research legislation, including a proposal from state representative Senfronia Thompson to create a $900 million Texas Institute for Regenerative Medicine, never emerged from the purgatory of committee. Thompson says her legislation is "as dead as dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stem Cells: Meanwhile, at the State Level: California Leads, but a Pack Follows | 5/16/2005 | See Source »

...than ever, on where the bases are located. Rumsfeld proposed closing 33 of the Pentagon's 318 major military bases, along with shuttering or realigning 775 smaller facilities, to save nearly $49 billion over the next 20 years. But what's "striking" about the base-closing plan, says Loren Thompson, a defense analyst with the nonpartisan Lexington Institute think tank in Arlington, Va., is "the geographical migration of the military out of the Frost Belt and into the Sun Belt." Northern states such as Connecticut, Maine and New Jersey will lose more than 19,000 military and civilian jobs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Those Base-Closing Blues | 5/16/2005 | See Source »

Senior Eleanor Thompson finished 14th in the 100-meter hurdles with a time of 14.72. She missed the regional qualifying time by less than a second...

Author: By Elyse N. Hanson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Laine, Adjah Register Strong Showings For Track and Field | 5/16/2005 | See Source »

SENFRONIA THOMPSON, Texas state representative, protesting her colleagues' focus on passing a bill authorizing the education department to punish schools for allowing "overtly sexually suggestive" cheerleading routines at sports events

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim: May 16, 2005 | 5/8/2005 | See Source »

...4x400 team of senior Vicky Henderson, freshman Dimma Kalu, senior Eleanor Thompson, and junior Stevie DeGroff took sixth with a time of 3:54.69 in the Heptagonal division behind Ivy rivals Penn, Cornell, Columbia, Brown, and Yale...

Author: By Andrew R. Moore, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Select M., W. Track and Field participants record several strong showings at Penn Relays | 5/2/2005 | See Source »

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