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ARPA-E had since won the praise of business leaders from Bill Gates to Lee Scott, the former CEO of Walmart, to Fred Smith, the Republican founder of FedEx, who has said that “pound for pound, dollar for dollar, activity for activity, it’s hard to find a more effective thing government has done than ARPA-E.” Trump’s first budget eliminated ARPA-E a
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station,” the reporter and editors at the Times left out one critical fact that would have been known to them all: the “semi-official news agency” cited as the article’s main source was one of the Nazis’ central propaganda organs. In reality, by 1939 there was no such thing as a “semi-official news agency” in Germany. Propaganda minister Joseph Goe
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Every day we are assaulted by scientific or biomedical questions that we don’t even know how to think about, from toxic wastes and “Star Wars” and nuclear energy to acid rain and gene splicing and surrogate motherhood. Many of them are the legacy of scientists who now admit that they didn’t understand how their decisions would affect the quality of
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outcome appeared to be comic.