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...leader among developed countries, the U.S. must take a more proactive leadership position in the debate over climate change. We are glad that the U.S. has started to take this obligation seriously but ask that a climate change bill not fall by the wayside. The oil crisis of the 1970s highlighted the dangers of relying on a single energy currency, and we have known for decades that diversification is the key to energy independence. A stronger climate change bill could encourage the development of alternative energy sources and help free the U.S. from dependence on foreign fossil fuels...
...Professor Shing-Tung Yau, one of this year’s two winners of the Wolf Prize in Mathematics, announced on Monday that he intends use his portion of the award to create a fund at China’s Tsinghua University to support the study of mathematics, especially among low income students...
According to the Wolf Foundation’s website, the non-profit organization annually awards $100,000 grants to scientists and artists “for achievements in the interest of mankind and friendly relations among peoples.” Grants are awarded in six categories: agriculture, chemistry, medicine, physics, arts, and mathematics...
...Among those involved in the accident are two defensemen and a goalie from BC’s 2010 national championship-winning men’s hockey team. Police say they discovered blood-smeared beer cans at the site of the accident and an unopened bottle of Rubinoff vodka inside the students’ Jeep. No casualties or critical injuries were reported...
...multi-drug resistant and extremely drug-resistant tuberculosis. Treatment for drug-resistant TB with second-line drugs is astronomically more expensive, more time-intensive, and associated with more toxic side effects. Third, the rise of TB and human immunodeficiency virus coinfection means TB is leading cause of death among HIV-positive patients: In Africa, HIV is the single most important factor contributing to the increasing incidence of TB over the last 10 years...