Obama Announce's Worldclass Science Team to Meet 21st-Century Challenges

President-elect Barack Obama's selection Saturday of a Harvard physicist and a marine biologist for science posts is a sign he plans a more aggressive response to global warming than did the Bush administration.

John Holdren and Jane Lubchenco are leading experts on climate change who have advocated forceful government action. Holdren will become Obama's science adviser as director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Lubchenco will lead the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which oversees ocean and atmospheric studies and does much of the government's research on global warming.

Holdren also will direct the president's Council of Advisers on Science and Technology. Joining him as co-chairs will be Nobel Prize-winning scientist Harold Varmus, a former director of the National Institutes of Health, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Eric Lander, a specialist in human genome research.

"It's time we once again put science at the top of our agenda and worked to restore America's place as the world leader in science and technology," Obama said in announcing the selections in his weekly radio address.

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[dmarx]

Thank goodness for real change. Hopefully that banner to the right will become a more common sight.

[Saudi]

Mr. Presedint, you promised you will put an end to the lobbyists influence in the way the US is run.

Mr. President, the Middle East policy is the first crying for the change, unless your promises exclude the Jewish lobbyists.

Mr. President, the cost is high and the human suffering and miseries are only getting worse and worse.

Mr. President, we outside the US are also hoping for the changes you promised.

Mr. President, we want you to see closely for us also and not just seeing us through the Israeli binoculars.

Mr. President, make the USA to be good at making friends and not as it was good at making enemies.

Mr. President, the key to your success on this is being Just and fair and treating all as human with the same feelings and special needs.

Mr. President, we in the middle east have our reasons to view the Middle east situation and US treatment as in this link http://saudisolutions.org/USinIRAQ.htm

Mr. President, US successes reflected on US too, US discoveries and inventions helped us too, and we feel the admiration and gratefulness to America, Our Islam teachings tell us " whom they don’t thank people don't thank Allah" thank you America for the good things you gave us, and America please be fair and just in the middle east conflict, safe lives and money. Save the money for since and technology and prosperity for all.

The is best thing my English can help me with.

[mnuez]

Saudi, I'm sure your intentions are good but A) on the subject of which you speak, you happen to be wildly misinformed and B) you're being a troll. This post has nothing whatsoever to do with the subject on which you speak (and about which, again, you're horrifyingly misinformed) and is simply counted an annoyance as you paste it here. Please be interested in the subject at hand or go somewhere else where your interests happen to BE the subject at hand.

[Saudi]

mnuez,

OK,

Thanks.