Sun 5 Nov 2006
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She was a brilliant naturalist — one of the first people in the world to recognize that lichens are a symbiotic organism, for instance. As a woman, however, she was excluded from assuming what would have been, today, her place in the scientific community.
Article here in Chet Raymo’s online Science Musings.
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Federal power grabs -- many by regulatory agencies that don't answer to voters, others by politicians who are too stupid or corrupt to care about the long term implications of their policy decisions -- are driving up our taxes and eroding our personal liberties.
It's time to return our country to the Constitutional principles that made it great. Support the Federalism Amendment.
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