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...Craig Venter The genome scientist and author of A Life Decoded: My Genome: My Life is a past TIME 100 honoree Energy Secretary Steven Chu, a Nobel Prize--winning physicist, has acted quickly to help implement President Barack Obama's ambitious agenda to invest in alternative and renewable energy, end our addiction to foreign oil, address the global climate crisis and create millions of new jobs...
...past decade," says Steve Andreasen, a former director for arms control on the National Security Council, "many of the career officials experienced in these issues have left government, and they have not been replaced during an era when arms control was not a priority." Peter Zimmerman, former chief scientist of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, calls this a "serious problem," adding that "the President must make sure the American delegation is packed with fast learners if he cannot persuade some of the experienced people to return to duty...
...respected social scientist who will run the Census Bureau with integrity and independence." - Commerce Secretary Gary Locke. (AP, April...
...about the impact of the Obama visit on their own political class. The U.S. President's "goal is to address Europeans in the country [currently] presiding over the European Union and to have a picture taken with [former Czech president and anti-Communist resistance icon] Vaclav Havel," says political scientist Jiri Pehe, a former Havel adviser who heads Prague's branch of New York University. "I don't want to be cruel, but present-day Czech politicians do not interest...
...Steven Chu is a brilliant scientist and an eloquent exponent of thoughtful, creative approaches to meeting the challenge of global climate change,” Faust said, adding that it would be a “pleasure” to hear Chu speak at the afternoon exercises on June...