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Science News March 18, 2006	Explore Your Knowledge Test your math and science knowledge at the National Center for Education Statistics Web site.
Chemistry World March 2006 Karen Harries-Rees	Editorial: Engaging with the Media Misleading or incorrect science stories regularly appear in the media. Current initiatives in the UK to make expert scientists accessible to media outlets for commentary are a start, but are clearly not enough.
Chemistry World March 2006	Flashback 60 Years Ago: US chemist Gilbert Newton Lewis died... 90 Years Ago: Christian Boehmer Anfinsen was born in Pennsylvania... 95 Years Ago: Jacobus Henricus van't Hoff died... etc.
Geotimes March 2006 Linda Rowan	Fueling America's Innovation Now Meeting America's energy needs represents a major component of the creeping crisis of a shrinking skilled workforce and dampened technological advances in the US and may be the Sputnik moment we need to gain necessary advancements in research and math and science education.
IEEE Spectrum March 2006 David Kushner	Uncommon Law An interview with Lawrence Lessig, founder and chair of Creative Commons, a nonprofit organization that lets copyright holders, from musicians to engineers, grant flexible use of their work on his plans to launch the Science Commons with the hopes of expanding into the world of research.
Bio-IT World February 2006 Salvatore Salamone	Hip Hop Offers Lessons on Life Science Data Integration The combination of new tools such as the Google Maps API and increased adoption of Web services and Semantic Web will give researchers new ways to view and aggregate their data in the coming year.
Inc. February 2006 Carl Schramm	Five Universities You Can Do Business With When it comes to technology transfer, smart schools resist the temptation to treat every entrepreneur's new idea like it's the next Google.
Geotimes February 2006	Budget Blues and Bonuses In his State of the Union Address, President Bush gave the public a sneak-peak at his funding priorities for fiscal year 2007 in the sciences: In a nutshell... Renewable resources, alternative energy shifts... Other basic research... etc.
Scientific American February 6, 2006 Patrick DiJusto	Winner Takes All New technology prizes are designed to spur innovation and challenge entrepreneurs to do something that outstrips the state-of-the-art in return for a sizable payoff. But is basic research being prized out of the market?
Geotimes February 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Victory for Evolution in Dover A Pennsylvania judge ruled that the Dover School District's science curriculum, which required the presentation of intelligent design (ID) as an alternative to evolution, is unconstitutional. Just two weeks after the decision, schoolboard members voted to remove ID from its curricula.
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