“We thought it was part of a drama skit ... when he shot, what you saw was confetti. We just

“We thought it was part of a drama skit ... when he shot, what you saw was confetti. We just sat there waiting for what comes next, not realizing that he had wounded the pastor.”

Congregant Linda Cunningham

Whose husband is a minister of adult education at First Baptist Church in Maryville, Ill.

“We view what happened with stem cell research in the last administration is one manifestation of failure to think carefully about how federal support of science and the use of scientific advice occurs.”

Harold Varmus

A Nobel Prize-winning biologist who is chairman of the White House’s Council of Advisers on Science and Technology.

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