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using an executive order, Bush blocked federal support for stem-cell research

I stopped reading right there as this statement wasn't true.

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I stopped reading right there as this statement wasn't true.

Same here. Any writer that chooses to make such a fundamental error -- on purpose -- has discredited themselves. Thus, is unworthy of further reading -- save for identifying other errors to come. That said, nothing good can follow when the writer has to cheat. Especially so when the writer believes the cheating needs to be at the beginning of a piece of work.