Shortage of science grads feared

"Fifteen leaders in government, education and some of the largest companies in the country expressed alarm here Monday because of the likelihood that Asians and other non-Americans would fill pending vacancies in science- and math-related professions... The panel, which also included leaders of Shell, Xerox, Ford, Lockheed Martin, Verizon Telecom and NASA, brainstormed ideas on how to encourage youths to pursue careers defined by equations and numbers."
Jesse Bogan
San Antonio Express-News
9/25/2006

Uncomfortable Genes

"The Wall Street Journal caved in to irrational opponents of biotechnology."
By Henry I. Miller
National Review
October 2, 2006

Internet freedom reigns in Amsterdam�

Amsterdam has the world's busiest Internet exchange, thanks to nuclear physicists and mathematicians who in the 1980s connected their network needs with the academic belief that knowledge needs to be free.
By Lucas van Grinsven
Reuters
Sep 30, 2006