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Obama Hails 150th Year of Academy of Sciences
2013-04-29 16:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: President Obama helped the National Academy of Sciences celebrate its 150th year of service to the country by giving a speech at the group`s annual meeting today. There were some pretty nice laugh lines, including: [P]art of whats made the Academy so effective is that all the scientists elected to your elite ranks are volunteers - which is fortunate because we have no money anyway. There was a subtle dig at lawmakers for whom political stances matter more than data: [M]ore important than...
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