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...Murray Todd, executive director of the National Academy of Sciences' (NAS) commission on international relations, said yesterday the NAS is deferring "all high level and group activities that are already scheduled" between the United States and Russia...
...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...
...NAS was stunned--it had never happened before that a person accepted into the program was denied a visa," Nathanson said...