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The Bush
administration wants to move quickly on going to war, but on items it opposes
will stall or underfund to a slow death. Scientific research is just one topic with current legislation
stalled or pending that will be dropped if the midterm elections result in a
GOP domination of Congress: As
with its refusal to look beyond fossil fuels, the Bush administration pushes
ideologies that will help our competitors and leave us as the world’s greatest
producer of military hardware and standing armies, but not much else – except corn.
Even Hollywood has
competition. Cowboys and
fundamentalists are threatened by the future, carried by science and
technology. US
SCIENTISTS SAY ACCESS TO STEM CELLS LIMITED @ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2859-2002Sep25.html EXCERPT: “Nonetheless, scientists said, the
restrictive nature of the Bush policy, patent conflicts and the technical difficulty of keeping the fragile cells
alive have conspired to stifle research in what they had hoped would be, by
now, a highly energized research field. "Embryonic stem
cell research is crawling like a caterpillar," said Curt I. Civin, a pediatric oncologist at Johns Hopkins
University School of Medicine. The
cells, Civin said, are accessible "only to those persistent and patient
enough to jump through a series of hoops and endure lengthy waits. I am still waiting to receive my first
stem cell line." Sen. Arlen Specter (Pa.), the ranking Republican on the
Appropriations subcommittee on labor, health and human services, and education,
said he is worried that delays could undermine the U.S. lead in the stem cell
field. He noted that one expert witness appearing before the subcommittee had
already moved his research from California to Britain's more inviting stem cell
research climate. "A big issue arises as to whether [the Bush policy] is adequate to
carry on the research," said Specter, who supports proposed legislation --
widely regarded as unachievable this year -- to broaden federal support of the
field. END
OF THE FOSSIL FUEL ERA @ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3445-2002Sep25.html The GM-financed, EU engineered
hybrid hydrogen car is introduced in Paris: EXCERPT: “The
European Union and the United States are beginning to diverge in the most basic
aspect of how a society is organized: its energy regime. Nowhere was this more apparent than in
Johannesburg, at the World Summit on Sustainable Development, when the EU
pushed for a target of 15 percent renewable energy by 2010 for the whole world,
while the United States fought the initiative. The EU has already set its own internal target of 22 percent
renewable energy for the generation of electricity, and 12 percent of all
energy coming from renewable sources, by 2010.” HEADS UP: Again, if the GOP defeats Jean
Carnahan out of her US Senate seat in the state of Missouri, due to it’s
special election status, the seat will change hands immediately in November,
giving the Senate to the GOP two and half months early. Think what can be done with that time. - Karen |
