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NIH Orders Halt To Embryonic Stem Cell Research
sciencehabit writes "Responding to a court order issued a week ago, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on Friday ordered intramural researchers studying human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) to shut down their experiments. NIH's action — probably unprecedented in its history — is a response to a preliminary injunction on 23 August from US District Judge Royce Lamberth. The judge ruled that the Obama policy allowing NIH funding to be used to study hESC lines violates a law prohibiting the use of federal funds to destroy embryos."
Wow and I thought US politics was like US pro-wrestling (two wrestlers, two sides, one commentator per side, each side supports its wrestler no matter what). Looks like I was wrong.
At least in US pro-wrestling they actually take a chair from outside the ring (even if it's a stage prop) and smack someone with it. Rather than a wimpy fake "agree to chair"[1] somebody, they take the trouble to make a half-decent show of the whole thing.
[1] I hear in nerdland Microsoft they even use real chairs (and it's not just a token ring either).
It depends. If they misentered the code for "Fox News" or "TV Land", probably Republican. If they misentered the code for "MSNBC" or a porn channel, probably Democrat.
If they actually meant to be watching C-Span, they are probably Rain Man, or maybe Ralph Nader.
You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.