Sat Feb 21, 2009 OND (NeonVincent)
Science Funding Survives Stimulus Cuts
By Brandon Keim ( wired.com )
Despite Congressional attempts to make science funding a casualty in their shrinking of the economic stimulus plan, the bill signed Tuesday by President Barack Obama contains more than $20 billion for science.
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The stimulus plan, originally budgeted at more than $1 trillion, was Obama's first chance to make good on this promise. However, legislators in both the House and Senate included science-related funding among their proposed trimmings.
The final plan will cost $787 billion. Fortunately for science — and for an economy whose recovery may be tied to developments in clean energy, along with people whose health may be saved by medical advances — Congressional attempts to scrap science were unsuccessful.
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Reuters : Obama to lift ban on stem cell research soon: aide
by Alan Elsner
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will soon issue an executive order lifting an eight-year ban embryonic stem cell research imposed by his predecessor, President George W. Bush, a senior adviser said on Sunday.
"We're going to be doing something on that soon, I think. The president is considering that right now," Obama adviser David Axelrod said on "Fox News Sunday."
In 2001, Bush limited federal funding for stem cell research only to human embryonic stem cell lines that already existed. It was a gesture to his conservative Christian supporters who regard embryonic stem cell research as destroying potential life, because the cells must be extracted from human embryos.
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Sun Feb 21, 2010 OND (Interceptor7)
Haiti death toll could reach 300,000: Preval
Mica Rosenberg
Reuters
PLAYA DEL CARMEN, Mexico
Sun Feb 21, 2010 7:32pm
PLAYA DEL CARMEN, Mexico (Reuters) - The death toll from last month's devastating earthquake in Haiti could jump to 300,000 people, including the bodies buried under collapsed buildings in the capital, Haitian President Rene Preval said on Sunday.
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Haitian children start over in Florida schools
By Mike Clary
LA Times
February 21, 2010
Reporting from Miami - Fifth-grader Madjany Mouscardy was playing a "Hannah Montana" computer game when the walls of the second-floor office in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, where she sat began "shaking like a swing," she said.
Moments later she had fallen into a hole and was buried in concrete.
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Former Nixon aide, Alexander Haig dead at 85
Lisa Richwine
Reuters
WASHINGTON
Sat Feb 20, 2010 6:12pm EST
WASHINGTON ( Reuters ) - Alexander Haig, a former Army general who became White House chief of staff during the Watergate scandal and secretary of state during the Reagan administration, died Saturday at the age of 85.
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