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YESTERDAY AT THE WHITE HOUSE by Don C. Reed Dear Stem Cell Research Advocate: Yesterday, being in the room when President Obama signed an executive order reversing ideological restrictions on embryonic stem cell research was an honor and a delight. But for my...
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IN MEMORY OF JERRY YANG Humanity stands on the shoulders of its champions: men and women who work, often in obscurity, all their lives, and when they die, become part of the great mountains. On December 31, 2008, I received the following email, which I now keep in a...
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THE RETURN OF JOHN REED By Don C. Reed On the 29th and 30th of this month, there will be a meeting of the Independent Citizens Oversight Committee, (ICOC), governing body of the California stem cell program. This one will be in San Francisco. As always, you are...
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A GLOBAL STEM CELL RESEARCH ACTION PLAN By Don C. Reed Like a war more deadly than any in history, chronic disease is ravaging Earth. The incurably ill suffer and die no less than if bullets had struck them; hospitals and sickrooms overflow, inadequate to the task....
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TIME TO TAX? OR– THE YANT ALTERNATIVE First, here is an argument FOR increased taxation of the very rich, the sort of folks for whom the first great Depression was a happy time: when prices were low, and servants worked cheap. For those who ignore the sufferings...
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THE LONE STAR VOLUNTEERS, AND THE FAMILY OF CURE By Don C. Reed As friends of this column know, the past four years have been great fun for me. Not only have I been able to work with amazing people, doing exactly the kind of work I most enjoyed, but I received a...
