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FY12 Spending Debate Comes to a Close

Congress completed, and the President signed into law, the FY12 appropriations bill. The $915 billion spending bill wraps up the remaining nine appropriations measures. The bill provides funding for programs at the Department of Health and Human Services, including the National
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Rep. Rush Holt’s (D-NJ) Editorial in Most Recent Science

Science 16 September 2011:
Vol. 333 no. 6049 p. 1549
DOI: 10.1126/science.1211494
EDITORIAL:

Dueling Visions for Science

Rush Holt
Rush Holt is the U.S. Representative for New Jersey's 12th Congressional District and has a doctoral degree in physics.

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Teaching Science: How We Fail and How We Could Succeed - 4/26/06

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Dr. Bruce Alberts
University of California, San Francisco

Dr. Alberts discusses the report from the National Academies, "Rising Above the Gathering Storm: Energizing and Employing America for a Brighter Future". The report details the future global leadership position of the United States and our dependence on our ability to maintain that position in science and technology. This report, sometimes referred to as the "The Augustine Report," is the basis for the American Competitiveness Initiative that President Bush proposed in his 2006 State of the Union address.