March 16, 2001

Wiggle Room on Stem-Cell Research?

By RON SOUTHWICK

Tommy G. Thompson, the secretary of health and human services, said last week that he would be troubled by a law restricting embryonic stem-cell research. His comments point to a possible shift in the Bush administration's view of the controversial field of study.

Mr. Thompson made his remarks during a Senate Budget Committee hearing. After the hearing, a spokesman for Mr. Thompson said he had meant to say that he was troubled by the murky legal interpretation the Clinton

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