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According to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, total government research funding would increase by a mere 0.6 percent, well short of the two percent increase needed to keep up with inflation, while basic research funding would decrease by one percent. Other departments’ budgets have been devastated. The Department of Energy’s Office of Science, responsible for funding research into cleaner, more efficient energy, will see its funding reduced by almost 4 percent below the level appropriated by Congress...
...what’s the truth beneath these delicious falsehoods? Well, at a very basic level, Meloy is a bespectacled young thirtysomething from Helena, Montana with a degree in creative writing and a uniquely nasal singing voice. In 2001, while living in Portland, he and a handful of similarly-minded individuals formed a band called the Decemberists, named after the group of Russian insurgents who unsuccessfully tried to stage a coup against Tsar Nicholas I in 1825. That brand of exotic, obscure, and only-half-serious historical reference has come to define the work of the band, from their...
...that car gets competition from the 1930 Mercedes-Benz SSK, customized along almost sinister lines by Italian Count Carlo Felice Trossi. In the '30s it was still common for auto firms to deliver their most luxurious cars merely as a chassis, engine and drive train, sometimes also with a basic body, leaving it to the buyer and his "coach builder" to finish the product along their own lines. With his now forgotten British builder, Trossi crafted a long body with pontoon fenders that ended in tapering points. So did the swelling tongue of the trunk, creating a three-pronged effect...
...across the U.S., the need simply cannot be met. "The bottom line is that there will never be enough specialists to deal with the problem," says Fishman. "So we have to train primary-care physicians at the front lines to be able to do this as part of the basic care that we give patients." For that to happen, more doctors and patients will have to heed the lessons of Vioxx and Celebrex and refuse to settle for prescription-pad medicine. --With reporting by Dan Cray/ Los Angeles, Chris Daniels/ Toronto, Alice Park/ New York and Maggie Sieger/ Chicago
...suspect that for him, sending troops into Iraq (and perhaps Iran in the future) was merely politically expedient. If the President's commitment to freedom is as idealistic as it sounds, why not invade North Korea? And one might also consider the detainees in Guant?namo Bay, who lost their basic right to a fair trial while they were imprisoned for years. Freedom is not a word you can bandy about as verbal punctuation. Let's hope Bush will learn what it actually means. That would bode well for the future. Iona Sharma Merseyside, England...