Stem-Cell Science Vetoed

American Voices

July 21, 2006 | ISSUE 42•29

President Bush executed his first veto since entering office on a bill supporting stem-cell research. What do you think?

Maybe Bush would pass the bill if, instead of research, the stem cells would be used for torture.

Susan Faden
Systems Analyst
If God wanted to cure or treat diseases affecting 100 million people, he would've put a sane person in the Oval Office.

Ray Kiley
Bar Back
To Bush's credit, the ailing and enfeebled can't vote, let alone fund a Republican campaign.

Mitchell Goldberg
Lawyer

U.S. Cuts Aid To Pakistan

05.25.12 |

The Senate Appropriations Committee voted 30-0 to cut aid to Pakistan by $33 million after the country’s government arrested and sentenced a doctor who tipped off the United States to Osama bin Laden's location.
'Fifty Shades Of Grey' Series Reaches 10 Million Sales

05.25.12 | ISSUE 48•22

Publishing house Vintage has sold 10 million copies of the erotica trilogy Fifty Shades Of Grey in multiple formats in an astonishing six weeks.
Suspect Arrested In Etan Patz Case

05.24.12 | ISSUE 48•22

A suspect in the 1979 disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz, the first missing child to be put on a milk carton, was taken into custody.
U.S. Census Overcounted By 36,000

05.24.12 | ISSUE 48•21

A survey revealed that the 2010 census counted an extra 36,000 people, or 0.01 percent, because of duplicate forms and deaths, which is down from the 0.49 percent overcount in the 2000 census.
Egypt Holds First Presidential Elections

05.23.12 | ISSUE 48•21

Fifteen months after Egyptian ruler Hosni Mubarak was deposed, Egyptians voted in their first-ever free presidential elections.