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From the Editor

by Victor van Beuren

Political Scene

by David Applegate
A Look Back at the 105th Congress

People & Places

News Notes

by Kristina Bartlett and Devra Wexler

Space-age education
Closing in on extinction rates
Saving geoscience data
Our carbon sink
Diversity in the science work force
Transportation's response to quakes
Snowball Earth
Gold-collar workers

Features

Advancing Science in the 21st Century
by Richard S. Nicholson

AGI Presidents Remember

Linking the Sciences
by Janice O. Childress

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