Word: nas
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...National Academy of science (NAS) elected seven more Harvard professors to the honorary society April...
Fifty scholars are elected each year on the basis of the quality of their original research, Patricia P. Worns, a spokesman for the NAS, said yesterday...
...strategy, however, exceeded even the Army planners' cool calculations. Agent Orange not only blighted forests and crops, it also insured that nothing will grow in those areas for generations to come. After the spraying ceased, the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) conducted an investigation of the environmental and human costs of Agent Orange. NAS found that the Army sprayed more than 10 per cent of the inland forests, 36 per cent of the mangrove forests, and 3 per cent of cultivated land with Agent Orange. The Academy estimates that 11. 25 million gallons of Agent Orange drifted over Vietnam...
...decision to grant Nathanson a visa came after repeated protests by the NAS that the Soviet Academy of Sciences and the Soviet Foreign Ministry were damaging the 18-year-old exchange program by denying the visa, Nathanson said...
...NAS was stunned--it had never happened before that a person accepted into the program was denied a visa," Nathanson said...