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Edited on Fri Jul-30-04 10:23 AM by e j e
Hearing this from a presidential candidate felt like rain after a drought
Kerry: So much promise stretches before us. Americans have always reached for the impossible, looked to the next horizon, and asked: What if?
Two young bicycle mechanics from Dayton asked: What if this airplane could take off at Kitty Hawk? It did that and changed the world forever. A young president asked: What if we could go to the moon in 10 years? And now we're exploring the solar system and the stars themselves. A young generation of entrepreneurs asked: What if we could take all the information in a library and put it on a little chip the size of a fingernail? We did, and that too changed the world forever.
And now it's our time to ask: What if?
What if we find a breakthrough to cure Parkinson's, diabetes, Alzheimer's and AIDS? What if we have a president who believes in science, so we can unleash the wonders of discovery like stem cell research to treat illness and save millions of lives?
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