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Experts highlight the diminished role of science in addressing climate change and global food shortages due to lack of federal funding.

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From the Washington Post:

NEW YORK, May 28 -- Some of the nation's leading scientists, including Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's top science adviser, today sharply criticized the diminished role of science in the United States and the shortage of federal funding for research, even as science becomes increasingly important to combating problems such as climate change and the global food shortage.

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Sounds familiar...ScienceDebate2008 anyone? New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg opened the city's science summit yesterday, calling science "just as exciting, just as cool, just as cutting-edge" as the new film "Sex and the City." Totally.

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