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Annan’s speech followed University President Lawrence H. Summers’ address, which touched on the curricular review, the planned Allston campus and the University’s commitment to stem cell research, but focused on University initiatives to promote equal access to higher education among people from all financial backgrounds...
Echoing recent statements by the Kerry campaign, the distinguished researchers alleged in an open letter that the Bush administration has actively impeded the progress of science in the last four years. The letter cited an August 2001 executive order restricting stem cell research, White House skepticism of global warming theory and tightened immigration rules as examples of Bush’s perceived roadblocks to science—and said the Democratic candidate would undo the damage...
Administration critics see a religious agenda that extends beyond compassionate-conservative outreach in the judges Bush has appointed and in his decisions to limit federal funding of stem-cell research, promote abstinence education over condom distribution and deny funds to international family-planning groups. But many of these were disputes that any Republican President could have had with his Democratic opponents. It was only after Sept. 11, when Bush found himself leading a shaken country through a dark valley, that the old left-right debates gave way to something altogether different. Now the debate was less about personal faith changing...
...Stem-Cell Potential
...spate of initiatives underway. The expansion in DEAS has been accompanied by a significant commitment to life sciences projects like the Broad Institute—to which Harvard and MIT committed $100 million apiece for research on clinical uses of the human genome—and the new Harvard Stem Cell Institute...