NEWS
December 5, 2001 | AARON ZITNER, TIMES STAFF WRITER
As the president of a Massachusetts biotechnology firm announced ambitious plans Tuesday to use human cloning in disease research, seven senators said the controversial work should remain legal. The House and some Senate Republicans have moved to bar human cloning for any purpose. Six of the senators, by contrast, said they would back legislation to outlaw cloning as a method to produce children while leaving scientists free to use it in the search for cures for disease. Sen.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
December 8, 1996 | MICHAEL G. WAGNER, TIMES STAFF WRITER
To understand the future of American politics, look closely at Dana Point and at Orange County, a Stanford University professor says, and keep in mind that in a few years whites will cease to be the majority in California. Around the year 2000, the state estimates, whites will make up less than half of California's more than 31 million people.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
November 5, 1996 | AMY PYLE, TIMES EDUCATION WRITER
Former Assemblyman Mike Roos donated his political papers to the Center for the Study of Los Angeles on Monday, dramatically swelling the archives at Loyola Marymount University's year-old policy institute. The papers--notes, appointment books and pending legislation files collected over Roos' 14-year tenure with the Assembly--have been held for the last 5 1/2 years in a far less glamorous rental storage facility.
NEWS
November 2, 1995 | JOHN M. BRODER, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Anticipating the entry of retired Gen. Colin L. Powell into the Republican presidential race, leading GOP candidates quietly have begun compiling research on Powell's public record and private life in hopes of discovering ammunition to use to deny him the nomination. The most aggressive anti-Powell preparations are being conducted by the campaigns of Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole and conservative commentator Patrick J. Buchanan, campaign aides said.
BUSINESS
July 17, 1994 | JOHN BRENNAN, JOHN BRENNAN is director of The Los Angeles Times Poll
George H. Gallup, an inventor of modern opinion polling, idealistically believed that surveys of the public would enhance democracy by providing leaders with a true picture of peoples' attitudes and concerns. Sixty years have gone by, and polls are now as common as Big Macs on the American landscape. But their effect remains dubious at best, as does the effect of the burgeoning number of studies of all types that are now part of every public policy debate.
NEWS
January 21, 1994 | DAVE LESHER, TIMES POLITICAL WRITER
Former President Richard Nixon joined his onetime White House colleagues Thursday to recall the achievements of the Nixon Administration and to launch a new policy research center that they hope will continue the work they started 25 years ago.