IP: FLASH! BUSH IS RUMORED TO HAVE CHOSEN A SCIENCE ADVISOR.: What's New for Jun 22, 2001

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> 1. FLASH!  BUSH IS RUMORED TO HAVE CHOSEN A SCIENCE ADVISOR.  You
> may recall that back in March the President reactivated PCAST,
> the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology,
> with Silicon Valley venture capitalist Floyd Kvamme as co-chair.
> The other co-chair was to be the White House Science Advisor, but
> there was no Science Advisor, even as the President waded into
> deep water on global warming and missile defense.  But today, it
> is all over Washington that Jack Marburger, an APS member and the
> Director of Brookhaven National Laboratory, has accepted the job.



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