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...dramatically larger part of the population in the coming decades, according to a report released Tuesday by the National Academy of Sciences. Americans are living longer, working longer and waiting until later in life to have children.In the near...
...includes payments of nearly $2.4 billion to the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, $350 million to the National Academy of Sciences and about $500 million to the Securities and Exchange Commission. The SEC accused BP of misleading investors...
...cotton and soybeans account for more than four-fifths of those crops grown in the U.S., according to the National Academies of Sciences.But there have always been critics who are wary of tinkering with the genes of living animals. They say...
...Valdez, Prince William Sound now has eleven escort & response tugs for its tankers. In the Aleutians, a 2009 National Academy of Sciences report concluded: "None of the existing measures are adequate for responding to large vessels under severe...
...energy, the lesser the damage we will inflict on ourselves and our children through climate change.A 2011 National Academies of Sciences report finds that the total warming of the atmosphere, and consequent instability of climate, is directly...
...senior scientist Donald Kessler, who headed the National Academy of Sciences report.Since the space age began 54 years...National Research Council, a branch of the National Academy of Sciences, which is an independent organization chartered...
...for more time so it can consider an upcoming National Academy of Sciences report on toxicological risk. The committee...its deadline until a subcommittee under the National Academy of Sciences finishes its study on fluoridation. The subcommittee...
...commission is supposed to give its final report Nov. 1, but it might ask for an extension to consider an upcoming National Academy of Sciences report on fluoride's toxicological risk. "We want to hear what the experts have to say," said commission...
...water to 10 parts per billion from the current 50 parts per billion, which has been the rule since 1942. The National Academy of Sciences recommended speedy arsenic reductions in 1999. Arsenic can occur naturally in water. It can cause some forms...
...and others have suggested that the study be run by the National Research Council, the research arm of the National Academy of Sciences. Two business groups, the Alaska Miners Association and the Resource Development Council, have criticized...