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09/18/2002: "Superman vs. President Lu-- er, Bush"

Christopher Reeve would have liked to been up and around for his 50th birthday, but won't be-- and he says it's because George W. Bush is dragging his feet. "If we'd had full government support, full government funding for aggressive research using embryonic stem cells from the moment they were first isolated, at the University of Wisconsin in the winter of 1998 -- I don't think it unreasonable to speculate that we might be in human trials by now..." "I think we could have been much further along with scientific research than we actually are," he said.