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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Stem cells will be at the top of the agenda for the U.S. Senate when it returns on Tuesday with supporters of the research hoping they can change the president's mind on the issue and opponents hoping to have a say about their stand. The Senate will consider two bills, one virtually identical to a bill vetoed by President George W. Bush last year that would have expanded and encouraged federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research. The other is a compromise measure worked out by Republicans Sen. Johnny Isakson of Georgia and Norm Coleman of...

November 27, 2004 THE SATURDAY PROFILE The Fear Born of a Much Too Personal Look at Jihad By RICHARD BERNSTEIN BREMEN, Germany THE first thing to know about the woman known widely here as Doris Glück is that Doris Glück is not her real name. She won't tell you her given name, or even her official new name - provided by the German police - beyond the first name and initial, Regina S. She won't say where she lives, either, and when she meets you at the railroad station in Bremen, she is clearly anxious to get away quickly lest...

Christmas falls on the first day of Hanukkah this year, only the fourth time that has happened in the last 100 years. Hanukkah is the celebration of the rededication of the Jerusalem Temple 2,100 years ago, but for many Jews volunteering here, it's also the celebration of the rebirth of New Orleans. Holiday season a time of reflection, renewal It is times like these people tend to get somewhat stronger or weaker. For Rabbi Andy Busch, who began working at the Touro Synagogue three weeks prior to Hurricane Katrina, it is a time to remind people what they're remembering and...

The destruction and despair wreaked by hurricanes Katrina and Rita were unprecedented. So was the generous response of the residents of south Louisiana. They came from all walks of life. Mechanics, sales clerks, bus drivers, business owners, college students, schoolchildren. They came from every neighborhood, some alone and some with family. [. . .]Rarely has this region been more mobilized, more unified, more sure of what needed to be done. This was a chance to put that much-talked-about and often-practiced Cajun hospitality into high gear. What took place, on every level, was extraordinary — enough to make Acadiana volunteers The...