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Why Congress Needs More Scientists
- By godiggs bluecatza
- Published 02/5/2008
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The year was 1974, and no one thought the nuclear physicist from Calvin College had a shot at winning a seat on the Kent County Board of Commissioners. Vernon Ehlers, who had a Ph.D. from Berkeley, was running against two self-funded candidates and a city commissioner. But he prevailed and spent 20 years in Michigan politics before ascending to the House of Representatives in 1993.
Forecast for the West: Less Snow, More Floods
- By godiggs bluecatza
- Published 02/5/2008
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By 2040, scientists predicted yesterday, the Sierras and Colorado Rockies will shed most of their snowpack by the beginning of April each year. With average temperatures rising across the region, more precipitation will fall as rain and less as snow, and what snow does fall will melt earlier than it has in the past.
