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Geotimes November 2005 Kathryn Hansen	Kansas Vote Challenges Evolution The Kansas State Board of Education voted yesterday to approve science education standards that treat evolution with skepticism. Scientists say that the standards open the door for nonscientific beliefs such as intelligent design to enter science classrooms across the state.
Reason November 2005 Tim Cavanaugh	Subsidized Spin The Pentagon is spending $300,000 to send mid-career scientists, researchers, and engineers to a workshop at the television and screen writing school with the hope that some of these scientists will be inspired to produce a screenplay that paints scientists as cool.
Smithsonian November 2005	35 Who Made a Difference: Sally Ride A generation later, the first female astronaut is still on a mission: making sure that girls get to share in the adventure that is science.
Geotimes October 2005 Megan Sever	Evolution Battles Continue The battle over the teaching of evolution in public schools in the United States reached a fervor this week, as a number of prominent scientists testified in an ongoing court trial that pits evolution against intelligent design.
Science News October 1, 2005	Science Cinema The Museum of the Moving Image has launched a Web site that features short films, interviews, and articles devoted to science and technology in movies.
Scientific American September 12, 2005 John Horgan	Clash in Cambridge Science and religion seem as antagonistic as ever at the Templeton-Cambridge Journalism Fellowship conference.
Geotimes September 2005 Lee J. Suttner	Believing vs. Knowing: Faith's Role in the Evolution Debate Belief in evolution does not preclude belief in God. But belief is the key word. Fully understanding the concept of belief is fundamental to arguments for keeping creationism and its clever smokescreen, intelligent design, out of the science classrooms of all of our schools, not just the public ones.
Geotimes September 2005 Linda Rowan	Congressional Climate: Changing or Chilling? A flurry of discussions and compromises on aspects of the energy bill included a level of activity on climate change that has never been seen before in Congress, including a confrontation in the House on specific science results that has brought scientific peer review to the forefront of the debate.
InternetNews August 17, 2005 David Needle	IBM Donates Supercomputer Resources IBM and the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory said they will provide significant enhancements to the computer capabilities available to scientific researchers around the world.
IEEE Spectrum July 2005 Michael Riordan	The End of AT&T In 1974 AT&T was the world's largest corporation and research arm Bell Labs provided a constant flow of technological break-throughs due to long-term stable funding. There is no comparable situation today.
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