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...months a White House working group led by Karl Rove, the President's top political adviser, had been taking views from all sides on the stem-cell question. Bush turned to the issue seriously three months ago. On May 8 he had lunch with Tommy Thompson, the pro-research Secretary of Health and Human Services. At the time Thompson was fairly certain that Bush would not budge from the position he took during the campaign, when the question had been turned over to aides who handled abortion issues, with predictable results. To Thompson's surprise, Bush insisted that...
...Thompson was a major advocate of the idea that already existing lines of stem cells might serve as the basis for compromise. He spoke from time to time with James Thomson, the stem-cell pioneer at the University of Wisconsin (see America's Best), who had led him to believe there could be useful research with even a limited number of stem-cell lines...
...with a hands-on style and, as former NIH director Harold Varmus once commented, "an iron fist." With Fauci at the helm, NIAID's annual budget soared from $320 million in 1984 to $2.4 billion this year. He has already won over new Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson, who calls Fauci "one of the most passionate HIV/AIDS researchers in the world today...
...long ago, Ohio State University glaciologist Lonnie Thompson was standing on the summit of East Africa's Mount Kilimanjaro, watching his drilling team bring up a cylindrical core of ice. With eyes honed by a quarter-century of experience, he saw immediately that the core's glassy surface was riddled with holes--not the little round holes formed by trapped air bubbles but gaping conduits that could have been excavated only by running water. It was not an encouraging sign...
...entire cast of the production is in top form. Matthew Thompson ’02 turns in a creditable performance as Tybalt, and the skill of Jay Chaffin ’01 shines through his directorially misinterpreted role as the Friar. Showing his resourcefulness and skill once again, Dan Cozzens ’03 plays a wonderful Benvolio and has great chemistry with Romeo...