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    <title>Nature Network - government</title>
    <description>The latest taggings for government</description>
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      <title>National science policies - Upheaval in France (reposted)</title>
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        <![CDATA[Heather Etchevers - Over the last few days, upwards of 12,000 people to date have "signed the following petition":http://www.sauvonslarecherche.fr/spip.php?article1990 criticizing the French government's approach to reforming the way science is conducted in France. If you agree, you are encouraged to "sign as well":http://www.sauvonslarecherche.fr/spip.php?article1990.]]>
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      <title>Shifting to another of the popular prints for scientific enlightenment..</title>
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        <![CDATA[Charles Darwin - I might have read the headline 'no science happened yesterday'. I certainly couldn't find a report of anything scientific, nor a section in which it would be covered. By contrast a great deal of art and culture happened, and it]]>
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      <title>Canada loses science adviser</title>
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        <![CDATA[Eva Amsen - Last week the Canadian government announced that they would be retiring the office of "national science adviser":http://www.ic.gc.ca/epic/site/ic1.nsf/en/00092e.html , a position held by Dr. Arthur Carty. The position was introduced in 2004 under a liberal government and is currently being retired]]>
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      <title>The Brown Government&#8217;s science shake-up</title>
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        <![CDATA[Matt Brown - Two weeks in to the new government and the parts of the civil service with responsibility for science and higher education have undergone a major shake-up. Gone are the former Department for Trade & Industry and Department for Education and]]>
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      <title>Climate change: the new call to arms for science?</title>
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        <![CDATA[Matt Brown - This year's Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Parliamentary Links day, on 26 June, was entitled ‘Earth, Air, Fire, Water: Science and the Global Challenge’. The message came loud and clear that climate change will be a major research funding focus]]>
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      <title>Stem Cells on the Senate Floor</title>
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        <![CDATA[M. William Lensch - Well, it's happening. Measures to ease the restictions currently placed on human embryonic stem cell research are being "debated on the floor of the Senate":http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=2202496. Momentum has been slowly building in the House over the past few years and culminated]]>
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