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...results paint a bleak picture of the global status of mammals worldwide," the study's authors wrote in Science. "Within our lifetime, hundreds of species could be lost as a result of our own actions," said Julie Marton-Lefevre, the IUCN's director-general, at the organization's annual congress in Barcelona. "We must now set clear targets for the future to reverse this trend to ensure that our enduring legacy is not to wipe out many of our closest relatives...
...problems.” Palfrey noted that nine million American children are uninsured and said that she will continue the academy’s efforts to “close the gap.” She said that under her leadership, the academy will continue to press Congress to renew and expand the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, a bill that would provide health care coverage to four million children in addition to the 6.6 million already enrolled. The bill was twice vetoed by President Bush. Palfrey acknowledged that while the financial crisis may make it more...
...recent malfunction. But what hasn’t been in the news is that LHC comes 15 years too late and on the wrong continent. A potentially more powerful collider, the Superconducting Supercollider (SSC), was being constructed in Waxahachie, Texas in the early 1990s, but after much debate, Congress cut its funding in 1993 and had workers dismantle its 14 miles of underground tunneling. Without money, the project quickly collapsed. The official website is still frozen in time at early...
...What happened? SSC was criticized by Congress for going over its budget. At a time when NASA was demanding large amounts of funding for the International Space Station and the end of the Cold War made scientific competition appear unnecessary, the collider seemed like a luxury...
...solution is simple. We need to allocate more federal money to universities for scientific research and development. President Faust said as much before Congress in March. More than in any other country, science has been the secret to success for the United States, from practical inventions like the airplane or the personal computer, to breakthroughs like the nuclear bomb, to feats of engineering like the lunar landing. If we keep going at this rate, we’ll wake up one morning to find Europe or Asia accelerating past us, and it won’t just be in underground...