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...Reported by Massimo Calabresi, Margaret Carlson, James Carney, Michael Duffy, Mark Thompson and Douglas Waller/Washington and J.F.O. McAllister/London
Startled scientists from Mumbai, India, to Goteborg, Sweden, to San Diego cautioned that many of their embryonic stem-cell colonies were not yet--and may never be--worthy of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tommy Thompson's claim that they are robust and viable for research. Goteborg University, for instance, was credited with the world's largest cache--19 lines--even though its researchers had told Thompson the week before that only three had progressed beyond the earliest, most tentative stages. Goteborg fertility expert Lars Hamberger told the Washington Post that he and his colleagues thought the White House...
...number grow so big? In the weeks before the President's speech, an order came down to the NIH from Thompson: Work the scientific grapevine to find out how many cell lines might conceivably exist. But Jay Lefkowitz, the White House official who worked the issue with HHS, insists that it was merely an effort to build on existing NIH data. Last month Lefkowitz said it was "at the President's direct instigation" that he asked the NIH "to press further" in its search. But, he told Time last week, "no one said, 'Jay, go out and find more lines...
...HANG LOOSE: PW is overwhelmed by "Fred & Edie" by Jill Dawson (Welcome Rain; September), giving it a starred review. "Dawson?s third novel strikingly and elegantly blends fact and fiction in a reimagining of the events surrounding the spectacular 1922 London trial of Edith Thompson and her lover, Frederick Bywaters, who were convicted and hanged for murdering Edith?s husband, Percy...Gripping, surprising and beautiful. FORECAST: This title was a finalist for the Whitbread Prize; a film (?Another Life?) based on the same incidents premiered in the U.K. and is scheduled for U.S. release this year. Though set 80 years...
...Republican sources tell me that two other Senators - Fred Thompson of Tennessee and Pete Domenici of New Mexico - are also considering retiring when their terms are up in 2002. Same story there: both are fed up with the chamber and realize their party won't recapture it for a while. Domenici, who wielded considerable clout as Budget Committee chairman, now has to sit back and grit his teeth while Democrat Kent Conrad runs the show. Thompson has only $544,000 in his campaign bank and hasn't yet announced whether he'll seek reelection...