Word: elective
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President-elect Obama named Harvard physicist John P. Holdren as his chief science adviser, marking the latest in a string of Harvard faculty appointments to Obama's transition team or top advisory positions...
...President-elect found not only a scientist of the highest caliber, but someone who has been steeped in policy," wrote Bart Gordon, the Democratic Tennessee representative who chairs the U.S. House Committee on Science and Technology, in an e-mail. "This is a strong message that science will no longer be kept at an arm's length in the White House...
...Holdren could not be reached for comment, but in a statement released by the Kennedy School, he said the opportunity to work with President-elect Obama and his team was "the greatest opportunity—and the greatest responsibility—of my professional life...
Santa Claus could fly into Oahu this Christmas and no one would notice because President-elect Barack Obama is home for the holidays. Since Saturday, Obama has been lying low in a way only a man born and raised on Oahu could, working out, lounging on the beach and eating spam musubi on the golf course where he learned the game as a teenager. Hawaiians were ecstatic - with more than just local pride. The local economy, like everywhere else in the world, has suffered with the global financial crisis. Local enterprises were eager to latch on to the state...
...previous days had the President-elect reliving the pastimes of his youth. On Sunday he joined three friends at 12:30 p.m. for a round of golf at the Olomana Golf Links, a public course near the beachfront vacation home where he is staying. Peter K. Yamashita, general manager of the golf course, said Obama's childhood friend Bobby Titcomb called and told him the President-elect wanted to play a round. Yamashita was worried that the recent wet weather that brought 14 inches of rain to Oahu in one 12-hour period would make it an unattractive place...