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Politics : View from the Center and Left

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To: Alastair McIntosh who wrote (152198)12/14/2010 2:45:05 AM
From: Wharf Rat  Read Replies (1) of 542655
 
"Given the advocacy positions of the AAAS it is evident that Rs would be less likely than Ds to support the organization with their membership $."

Sorry; most people join for the journal, one of the most respected in the country, and the meetings. Believe it or not, not all decisions are based on politics.

Where else would you get stories like these?

Issue Highlights...
Plant Pathogen Genomics
Positive Cloud-Climate Feedback
Slime Mold Sex Triangle
Toward Better Batteries

Sports section, too...
Chesapeake Crabs: Engineering a Rebound

. A new strategy to selectively spare pregnant females has brought the Chesapeake Bay crab population back from a precipitous collapse in just 3 years

Really in to kinky sex, too...the love triangle.. don't leave this around where the kids can find it.

Microbiology
Sex and Sacrifice
Richard H. Kessin
Science 10 December 2010: 1487-1488.[DOI:10.1126/science.1199899]
A single genetic locus determines the three sexes of slime mold amoebae.



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Noodle around; I'm sure there is something in there sufficiently left wing to prove something to somebody. If you don't find what I'm not looking for, try the 2010 annual meeting. Very suspicious theme.

AAAS 2010 Annual Meeting Program
Summary
This issue of Science includes the program of the 2010 AAAS Annual Meeting. The theme of the AAAS Annual Meeting in San Diego, 18 to 22 February 2010, is "Bridging Science and Society," and calls on all scientists and engineers to make their work both beneficial and understandable.

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