2 - The Michigan Daily - Monday, July 11, 2005 LONDON Continued from page 1 such a connection so far. Only a single day after these attacks, it seems that London's pulse has regained some regularity. While Queen Elizabeth II requested flags fly at half mast, residents and tourists are back on the street and back in the tube. Affected areas have been taped off, and some of the train lines are under repair, but Londoners are not afraid to continue using most trains. Buses are operating and people are on the streets. Erika Blume, a German who now lives in East Lon- don, said that she sympathizes with the.families who suffer from injury or loss, but recognizes that all life in London can not and will not cease to move on. "I feel sad for the families of those that have been hurt and killed, but after the attacks, my friends and I, we ask 'are you OK?' and we are, so we go on. It's what's best to do," Blume said. The Daily Telegraph reported that former New York City mayor, Rudolph Giuliani, who was in Lon- don at the time of the bombings was impressed by Londoners conduct. "As we were walking through the streets of the city it was remarkable how the people of London responded calmly and bravely," Giuliani said to the Telegraph. Many London residents feel the same way as the former mayor. "Most people are back to normal," said Simon Hankin, "We've had this before with the IRA." Hankin, a 28-year-old raised in London, normally takes the Picadilly tube line through Russell Square and into King's Cross. But because of rain, the trains were crowded, Hankin said, so he decided to walk to work. Had he taken the tube, Hankin believes he would have been near the explosion. "It's always a shock to see this go on, but we've had Irish terrorism for five, 10 years - not prop- erly on your doorstep - but I remember growing up myself, and everyone growing up with bombs going off around them," Hankin said. "There's always that feeling that something's gonna happen, so you know, you gotta crack on as per usual, like today. Straight back in, straight back to work, straight back into classes." PESICK Continued from page 1 tive cloning from 10 years in prison to 15, Meisner said. Somatic nuclear transfer is the process of transfer- ring the nucleus of a patient's body cell into an embryonic stem cell in order to treat the patient. The process is only illegal in four other states: North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa and Arkansas. Last year, Bill Ballenger of Inside Michigan Politics conducted a poll that found substantial support for embryonic stem-cell research (73 percent) among Michigan voters. He told me that following the release of the results, Meisner began seeking support from Granholm - even space for the issue in her State of the State address - and other state leaders for changing Michigan's laws. Embryonic stem-cell research didn't make it into the governor's February address. Support for life- sciences research, though, did. In the speech, Granholm said: "We will build the best laboratories and bring and grow the best scientists and researchers in Michigan." In the address, she also promoted a $2 billion bond proposal to reinvigo- rate the state's economy, in part by increasing the size of the state's life- sciences sector. She didn't mention that, in addition to not taking a stance on embryonic stem-cell research, she has sliced in half the state's annual funding for the Life Sciences Corridor (explain what this is) and distributed it among research programs in homeland security and advanced automotive technology. In a message titled "Why I Sup- port Research with Human Embry- onic Stem Cells" that is posted on University health system's website but locked to the public, Robert Kelch, the University's executive vice president for medical affairs, points out this contradiction: "It's incon- sistent to say we have aspirations of becoming a leading state in life sci- ences research, and then prohibit the development of new lines of human embryonic stem cells." Kelch has to be nervous about the implications of the current laws for the University, with a leading stem- cell researcher, Medical School Prof. Michael Clarke, leaving the Univer- sity in the fall for Stanford University. And if you think that's an isolated incident, you're fooling yourself. Kathy Sue O'Shea, the head of the University's stem-cell center, knows what the future holds if the restric- tions aren't loosened: "You bet people are gonna move." Keich's statement is right on the mark. It's not good policy to try to make life sciences a prominent part of the state's economy while not creating an economic and legal environment that is at least not hostile to the hottest area of life-sciences research. Granholm, whom Michigan vot- ers elected to lead the ailing state, is putting politics before good policy. That's nothing new for her, but at some point, if she keeps govern- ing with her finger to the wind, the result will make her political out- look very grim. Pesick can be reached ai pesick@michigandaily.com 3 g ' ' ~ l ,.y www.nichigandaily.com The Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is published Monday through Friday during the fal and winter terms by students at the University of Michigan. One copy is available free of charge to all readers. Additional copies may be picked up at the Daily's office for $2. Subscriptions for fall term, starting in September, via' U.S. mail are $110. Winter term (January through April) is $115, yearlong (September through April) is $195. 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