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...antiwar movement appears to be growing steadily. Last fall the Military Families Support Network was born after University of Wisconsin professor Alex Molnar -- the father of a Marine in Saudi Arabia -- wrote an open antiwar letter to President Bush in the New York Times. The Network began a storefront operation in a Milwaukee suburb with one phone. Today the office has five phones, three computers, a fax machine, two full-time staffers -- and 4,000 member families...
...front line of that debate are those whose sons and daughters are on the front line in the gulf. The Military Families Support Network, for example, grew out of an open letter to President Bush from Alex Molnar, a professor of education at the University of Wisconsin -- Milwaukee, whose son Christopher is a Marine corporal in Saudi Arabia. "If, as I expect, you eventually order American soldiers to attack Iraq," he wrote, "then it is God who will have to forgive you. I will not." After the New York Times published his letter, Molnar received thousands of calls from people...
...very best students score about average when compared to the rest of the world in areas such as chemistry, physics, biology and math," Molnar said...
...Molnar and Sadler said such programs were especially necessary because science education in the United States has lagged in recent years...
...very small percentage of the population is `scientifically literate," Molnar continued. "Many people think that acid rain is caused by radioactivity, that DNA is a food additive...