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...being rethought," says Daniel Burton Jr., president of the Council on Competitiveness, which represents the chief executive officers of 140 U.S. firms. "What they're trying to do is make sure that there is a solid, results-oriented goal driving research, and not just research for research's sake...
...best politicians display solid leadership in order to avoid the need for excessive and constant compromises. The president will need the public faith if he is to be at all successful with his much needed upcoming health care reform proposals. Hopefully, for the sake of the country, he can lead us into the next century as an invigorated, optimistic and honest nation...
...gene that was almost named warthog and razorback and can claim a popular SEGA Genesis game as its name-sake, the Sonic hedgehog gene plays a crucial role in the development of animals...
...amoral people, but they do have a richer understanding of the necessary ambiguities of public life. Their political sensibility informs them that some questions are not easily hammered out, and so they do not believe it is reasonable to try to sweep aside moral complexities for the sake of public consensus and resolution...
While it might be a good idea to put human space flight on hold while the booster problem is re-examined, that isn't likely to happen. Men went into space not so much for the sake of science but because of cold-war competitiveness. Although the space race is long gone, an equally compelling foreign policy consideration has replaced it: the need to engage the Russians in international alliances and keep their technology headed in peaceful directions. That was one of the President's main motives in offering them $1 billion in return for their help on the space...