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...Republicans are praying that 98-year-old Strom Thurmond hangs on until his term ends next year, when South Carolina Congressman Lindsey Graham, who's said he'll run for Thurmond's seat, stands a good chance of keeping it in the GOP column. If Thurmond leaves before his term?s up, South Carolina's Democratic governor would almost surely name someone from his party to fill the vacancy, giving Democrats a leg up in that race. What's more, Republican senators tell me at least three other GOP incumbents - Fred Thompson of Tennessee, Pete Domenici of New Mexico...
...despite hearty assurances of continued support from GOP leaders, there was murmured speculation that Helms wants to avoid the fate of 98-year-old Strom Thurmond, who has effectively relinquished his duties to an army of aides. Helms fights hard to maintain a vigorous image: Battles with prostate cancer and peripheral neuropathy have compromised his health in recent years, but his often biting wit and political prowess are still very much on display...
Instead, it has provided the central predicament of his young presidency. It is an issue that has placed Senate pro-lifers like Orrin Hatch and Strom Thurmond on the side of those who want federal funding, and brought out stars like Mary Tyler Moore and Michael J. Fox to speak on behalf of juvenile diabetics and people with Parkinson's disease, who might benefit from the research. For Bush, the past few weeks provided a supreme opportunity. For a man who has sometimes seemed to lack the gravitas that the presidency demands, the stem-cell debate offered the chance...
Scientists have tinkered with them for longer than Strom Thurmond has paced the Senate floor. They can mitigate the uncertainties of oil prices on one hand and the threat of climate change on the other. They will be clean and quiet and cheap and won't take up much space in the backyard or basement or wherever you care to put a refrigerator-size box that isn't a refrigerator but can keep one cold. They will bring light to America's moonlit homesteads, pollutionless cars to its highways and stealth weed whackers to its suburbs. They are hydrogen-powered...
...research side already had strong emotional appeals from former Republican Senator Connie Mack, a cancer survivor, as well as G.O.P. Senators Gordon Smith and Strom Thurmond, who have relatives with diseases they believe might be cured if stem-cell research goes forward. Raising the emotional stakes, Smith went on CNN last week and challenged opponents of stem-cell research. "I ask them to go with me to the hospital and visit some of my relatives who are dying of Parkinson's and withhold that care and hope." All three men have long records opposing abortion. These are the kinds...