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That includes not simply the use of molecular biology and genetics in human health, but the whole range of application of the life sciencesadvances in agriculture, in animal husbandry, in cloning, in bioremediation to solve environmental problems, in the applications of biology in space, and so on. Dan Goldin, head of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, has launched a new astrobiology program.
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I am particularly pleased that the Academy Complex this summer will be hosting representatives of 11 academic health centers for a 5-day institute in which they will be joined by their colleagues from the public schools in a joint activity to apply the new science standards and to learn about hands-on teaching and how to achieve systemic change in public education. I hope you as individuals and collectively will support our efforts in K-12 education; without an educated public that understands risk, probability, and science, we will be hampered in carrying out major programs.
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