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SSS 2012-03-06

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NPR 2009-03-10

President Barack Obama today moved to officially lift the Bush administration's restrictions on human embryonic stem cell research. The move reverses a 2001 directive from Mr. Obama's predecessor in the White House. At a signing ceremony in the East

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