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Summers' presidency will not be his first time setting priorities for scientific research. Neal F. Lane, a professor at Rice University who served as the assistant to the president for science and technology under Clinton and later took the post of Director of the National Science Foundation, says Summers was a strong advocate of giving money to scientific research while he was at the Department of the Treasury...
...always judicious and fair," says Lane. "I always viewed Larry as one of the champions of federal investment in science and technology...
...Lane, who was trained as a physicist, says that Summers has a talent for explaining how the complex ideas of science can have real-world benefits. For example, Lane says Summers likes to explain how the idea of the square root of negative one, i--a so-called imaginary number--has had a tremendous effect on technology. i represents a point in the two-dimensional plane, and such two-dimensional numbers are used extensively in engineering and physics. Lane says Summers uses i as an example of how theoretical understanding can lead to practical benefits...
...Without going into the details of writing equations down, people see how mathematics has helped us," Lane says...
...preparation for heading back to Jackson Hole. It is at this point that my thoughts turn back to the tri-state area for the first time in several days. I start thinking about my family and my job, heading back to the mayhem of life in the web-lane. I realize how much time I was spending fighting to control the future in my day to day life. In a ski race there are so many factors that are obviously out of your control, that you've just got let go, do the best you can, and accept things...