washingtonindependent.com - 12/19/2008
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Washington Independent: After President-elect Barack Obama fills out his cabinet appointments, he will turn to appointing new leadership for the government agencies with the power to regulate industry--a process that will likely bring an end to what has become known as the Bush administration's ...
change.gov - 12/20/2008
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change.gov —
In the latest weekly address, President-elect Barack Obama
took a bold stand for making decisions based on
science and facts rather than ideology as he introduced leading members of his science and technology team. “The truth is that ...
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“The search for knowledge, truth and a greater ...
guardian.co.uk - 12/23/2008
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guardian.co.uk —
Barack Obama's administration in waiting signalled yesterday that
it was preparing the biggest economic stimulus in US
history to avert mass unemployment in a stuttering economy that could face the toughest recession in half a century. In a programme ...
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Obama team plans biggest boost in history to save ...
grist.org - 12/17/2008
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grist.org —
Barack Obama. Photo: Charlie Neibergall / AP On
Nov. 11, Austria's Ministries for Agriculture and Health released
the results of a long-term study [PDF] of genetically modified organisms. A widely used strain of GM corn, they found, appears to ...
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Will the Obama administration be the first to seriously ...
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Under next director CDC must participate in climate science program with health impacts research
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... The Centers for Disease Control should be directed to engage actively in the multiagency Climate Change Science Program, we told the Washington Independent. CDC should be directed and supported to develop a research, assessment, and public communication agenda focused on mortality risks from heat waves, effects of climate change on the transmission of water-borne, food-borne, insect-borne, and rodent-borne diseases, health effects of climate change impacts on air quality, and other potential human health consequences of global climatic disruption. ...
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