re: politics
I'd like to see evidence that the research has been "killed." California alone will be putting billions into embryonic research.
"All the scientists" do not seem to feel that all the promise is from embyronic research. A lot of money is going into adult stem cell research because that's where all the workable results have been coming from.
The next President will probably not be so hard-assed about this, and it's going to be a moot point anyway. God knows I would not have chosen this trivial issue for Bush's first veto, not by a very long shot.
Some perspective from enlightened Europe. We are usually led to believe that only the Neanderthal U.S. has this issue.