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...Queen stayed holed up in Balmoral, her country estate in Scotland, while her subjects, shocked by the violent death of the blond goddess whose flaws they cherished as much as her charms, sobbed their hearts out. Strange, isn't it, how the powerful get short-circuited from their power base. Too often, people whose job it is to lead by listening have the tendency to go politically deaf in times of crisis - to proceed as if nothing had happened, to sleepwalk in a state of bland or numb denial...
...abstinence-only education and the Bush administration’s funding and ideological support of such programs. “Abstinence-only sets the clock back on women’s rights,” said panelist Julie F. Kay, a staff attorney at Legal Momentum, a New York-based women’s rights advocacy group. Speaking to a packed lecture hall, Kay said abstinence-only programs are designed with a “real intent to make girls fearful of sex.” She cited “Free Teens,” a New-Jersey based...
...Gets Nervous in Tennessee In the race for the Senate, Harold Ford wasn't supposed to have much appeal outside his home base of Memphis. But now that he is in a virtual dead heat with his Republican opponent, the race is getting down and dirty
...diseases and disorders, including Alzheimer's disease and arthritis. No single study is expected to establish that definitively, but Mathur's is an important step in a multipronged approach encompassing basic science research and clinical trials, including work on human embryonic stem cells. Europe has become an increasingly important base for that cutting-edge research, particularly as American and Asian efforts endure setbacks. The Bush Administration's limit on the use of federal money for human embryonic stem-cell research in the U.S. since 2001 has reduced funding and deterred some scientists from undertaking the controversial work. A report...
...Gets Nervous in Tennessee In the race for the Senate, Harold Ford wasn't supposed to have much appeal outside his home base of Memphis. But now that he is in a virtual dead heat with his Republican opponent, the race is getting down and dirty