Making nice with the Nobelists

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Rep Dana Rohrabacher, known for his scathing criticism of climatic-change research, vowed to keep an open mind when he met with ozone-layer research F Sherwood Rowland and the six other US Nobel Prize winners for 1995. Both sides used careful, noninflammatory language to discuss the science budget.

Political aspects, Science and technology policy, Science and state, Science policy, Ecological research, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Rohrabacher, Dana, Rowland, Sherwood F.

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U.S., Europe clash over plan to set policy on data access

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The US opposes a European plan to restrict access to weather information that has commercial applications, fearing that the plan would lead to further restrictions. US negotiators have offered a compromise proposal to abide by copyrights and licenses for the data.

International aspects, Negotiation, mediation and arbitration, Meteorological research, World Meteorological Organization

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Flotilla is heading to Mars seeking end to data drought

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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor is one of the three spacecraft that will provide space scientists with the first new Mars data in 15 years. The others are Russia's Mars '96 and NASA's Mars Pathfinder. The launches are scheduled for Nov and Dec 1996.

Research, Planning, Mars (Planet), Discovery and exploration, United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Mars probes

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