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adult stem cells, received more than $15 million from investors last year. By contrast, 13 companies working with adult stem cells attracted over $100 million. Osiris Therapeutics Inc., a...
...Muslims come fiom Palustan, India, Iran, Afiica, and the Middle East, plus American converts...
...In addition to speed, venture capitalists look for a "technology platform" broad enough to support multiple indications for the same product...
...He rolled his eyes dramatically...
...He is the first president to utter the word "mosque" in an inaugural address...
...Muslims around the globe noticed, 18 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR . June 2001 for example, that he always speaks of believers who attend "church, synagogue, or mosque...
...It's My Hotel...
...together on pro-life, school choice, and The number of mosques in this country other issues...
...Socially and economically conservative in their attitudes, American Muslims look like members of the Christian Coahtion or religiously active Catholics, who continue shifting to the Republican Party-55 percent of mass-attending Catholics went for Bush in 2000...
...The margin of victory for Bush over Gore in the Muslim vote was 46,200, many times greater than hs statewide margin of victory...
...Uncomfortable silence was the best Listen \\,'liilc ljriving...
...Outside Saigon's brothels beach Pattaya is just two-and- teenage girls chase tourists like dogs after a-half hours, but it seemed cars...
...But the Muslim vote is more in play...
...If there's a major ethical adult stem-cell companies have attracted problem with embryonic stem cells, we more Wall Street financing, "It's as much will probably see the return on these vento do with what's immediately applica- tures to be much lower...
...Or less...
...Muslim immigrants don't walk across the border pendess-they fly into airports, largely to attend American universities...
...Osiris Therapeutics Inc., a bellwether company in adult stem-cell research, raised $16.5 million from private investors...
...Since authorized, it d appear thls September...
...They know hm there...
...The Muslun vote won Florida for Bush...
...Have you been to Pattaya...
...They have new allies for the has increased 25 percent since 1994...
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...In Philadelphia last year, Talat Othrnan, chairman of the Islamic Institute, gave the first Muslim prayer at a Republican convention...
...rn Evidently this was his 50th time...
...The Muslim community is thus not an ethnic bloc, but a faith-based, naturally conservative community...
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...In Florida, that totaled 55,000 people, who, accordmg to an exit poll by the Tampa Bay Islamic Center, favored Bush over Gore by 20 to 1. Accordmg to ths exit poll, Bush got 88 percent of the vote to Gore's four percent, with eight percent voting for Nadar...
...Viacell, Inc., a new privately held company that banks and uses adult stem cells derived fiom umbilical cord blood for the treatment of cancer and certain genetic diseases, raised $48 million in VC money...
...Bush in 1992, then in 1996 went two to one for Clinton...
...When George W. Bush condemned the use of secret evidence in his second nationally televised debate with A1 Gore, national Muslim groups decided to endorse Bush...
...Osiris Therapeutics, for example, has programs exploring the use of adult stem cells in everything from regenerating cardiac muscle to growing new bone, cartilage, and ble but also what the eventual total bone marrow...
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...Much of the credit for the strong GOP performance goes to Khaled Sa&ri, the founding president of the conservative, pro-6ee enterprise Islamic Institute...
...While the embryonic cells are rumored to have broad potential, so far only adult stem cells have demonstrated wide uses...
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...Bush, Speaker Denny Hastert, Chairman Jim Nicholson, and National Republican Campaign Committee Chairman Tom Davis wrote letters in support of the Eid stamp...
...The VC community is typically more adept at judging new technologies than government bureaucrats, even well-intentioned ones with Ph.D.s...
...First time," I volunteered...
...more ecumenical right over the past 20 The American Muslim community is years, with evangelical Protestants, Roman large and growing, thanks to both high Catholics, and Orthodox Jews worlung immigration and relatively large famihes...
...he asked...
...It was the company: three white, middle-aged Unabridged Audiobooks men-a Dutchman, a Brit, and an -H eL,r ~ ~ L , r \ - o r - .. American-clean cut and with short hair...
...In Pattaya, civilians drive the sex trade BY SAM DEALEY P ATTAYA, Thailand-The bus Underage prostitution is not new in ride from Bangkok to the sex Southeast Asia...
...In any other setting they would pass as comfortable professionals...
...Guess I better change hotels Ac Dept...
...Hard data on their voting habits is surprisingly hard to come by, because national polling groups do not yet include "Muslim" as a full-fledged religious category (Protestant, Catholic, Jew, and "other...
...I always stay there...
...One Mush man was held in prison for three years based on secret evidence that turned out to be a claim by his former d e (with whom he was in a custody battle) that he planned to kill Janet Reno.The wife had pulled a similar stunt on a previous husband...
...As for claims that Muslims voted for Bush because Joe Lieberman is an observant Jew, Muslim leaders themselves cite Lieberman as one of the most Muslimfriendly Senators, praising his strong faith and co-sponsorship of a resolution aggression of the secular left has created a condemning anti-Muslim bigotry...
...There are roughly six d o n Muslim-Americans...
...Just one out of six is of Arab descent...
...a "Natural Conservatives" Muslims deliver for the GOP BY GROVER NORQUIST eorge W Bush was elected President of the United States ofAmerica because of the Muslim vote...
...That way, if a company missteps on one application, it can still make money in other areas...
...Given the long lead times necessary to gain approval for new medical technologies, if a company can't get significant results in four to six years, it's generally beyond the scope of a venture capitalist's interest...
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...Eight national Muslim groups &d so on October 23rd...
...George W Bush got them back only through a vigorous outreach campaign...
...Muslim groups, Bush won more than 70 percent of M u s h who voted...
...But they were traveling, alone, to a mecca for child prostitution...
...Sixty-one percent of Muslims, for example, would ban abortion except to save the life of the mother...
...Muslims voted two to one for George H.W...
...Knowing chuckle5 all round, and the silence returned...
...If Administration...
...70," they petulantly demand, but longer...
...Saffuri also brought to the GOP's attention the most important issue for the Mush community-the misuse of 'secret evidence" in immigration cases, allowed under a 1996 law...
...Not because of the roads-the wdl settle for $20...
...I nodded inconclusively...
...Saffuri organized a series of meetings between Muslim and Republican leaders, incluhng a visit by Bush himself to an Islamic Center in Michgan...
...But then he says he has a Fihpino girEiend &om Japan coming down next week...
...return will be," says Dr...
...Abolishing the death tax is a major issue...
...good for me...
...Frank Young, forFinally, venture investors must also mer commissioner of the Food and Drug consider the political environment...
...Muslims are Republican by economics as well, with a median annual famdy income of more than $69,000...
...Saffuri also pned Republican support for the national campaign to have a postage stamp honoring Eid, the Muslim feast...
...The what...
...That's right, the M u s h vote...
...Just north of Sukhumvit Highway is a monument to Keynesian state spending...
...of the available alternatives...
...of the 3 million Arabter are self-employed small businessmenmore than twice the national average...
...At one @ point, the Dutchman turned around to 4 . a - - . the American...
...84 percent support school choice...
...He asked if I knew where I was staying...
...it's cheap and has clean sheets...
...Aastrom Biosciences, another early-stage company that banks and develops adult stem cells, received two venture financing totaling $1 1.8 d o n . Others funded last year include Neuralstem Biopharmaceuticals, NeuroNova AB, Layton Biosciences, closely held MorphoGen Pharmaceuticals, and Stemcells Inc., whch uses adult stem cells for a variety of applications...
...No, I lied...
...When two similar technologies exist, this kind of uneven investment flow is usually a proxy for scientific promise and imminent commercial potential Adult cells are far closer to commercial application, which is crucial to venture investors...
...The Democrats scrambled to invite a Muslim to speak to their convention two weeks later...
...I was on the founding board of &rectors...
...But according to surveys by national Americans, two-thirds are Christian...
...The asking...
...Then you should stay at my hotel...
...No response...
...h "Tourist very No sailor...
...His Hotel is just off Beach Road in South Pattaya, in the heart of it all...
...Fully a quarWith a median family income of $69,000, Muslim immigrants don't walk across the border, they fly, largely to attend American universities...
...Eighty-five percent of Mush voters, in a poll commissioned by Mush leaders, reported that they were aware of the leadership's endorsement...
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