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...help explain why Bush has been looking a lot more like his very political predecessor, turning White House meetings into philosophy seminars. Last Wednesday, while conferring with doctors on the patients' bill of rights, Bush shifted to stem cells. That morning he had been disturbed to read that a Virginia research institute was mixing sperm and egg donations to create embryos solely for the purpose of research, opening a new door to yet another roomful of questions about the limits of science. Until last week, most people in Washington thought embryonic stem-cell research was confined to embryos left over...
...find a compromise that would suit both the pro-research community (represented by Card and Thompson) and the evangelical interests (which Rove is worried about upsetting). The three weren't having much luck to begin with, but last week the opposing sides dug in. The announcement that the Virginia institute had created embryos just to get their stem cells--and news the very next day that a Massachusetts company was trying to clone embryos for the same reason--got everyone's blood up. "The blast faxes have been going all morning," said a pro-lifer who was lobbying the White...
...those who favor research also latched onto the Virginia and Massachusetts news to push their position. If the pro-lifers were saying "See, we told you the stem-cell scientists were cloning monsters," the pro-research folks seemed to be answering that government regulation is the only way to keep the monsters from taking over the research. "The nation's best scientists work on [federal] funding," says Douglas Melton, chair of molecular and cellular biology at Harvard. "The work will be driven behind closed doors, completely unregulated. And because these are [private] companies, they have to consider the market value...
...Both the Santa Fe and the Toyota Corolla-sized Elantra recently won top marks for front-end crash results from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, beating rivals like Toyota's RAV 4 and Ford's Escape. Consumer Reports rates the Elantra as favorably as the Honda Civic. Says Virginia dealer Don Reilly: "This is awesome...
...debate over video surveillance is not new - but new technology may take it to a whole new level. Other high-traffic cities around the country, including Virginia Beach, are debating the idea of installing their own sidewalk surveillance cameras - and keeping a close eye on what happens in Ybor City...