The voice of science is being stifled in the Bush administration, with fewer scientists heard in policy discussions and money for research and advanced training being cut, according to panelists at a national science meeting.
Peace activists from around the United States gathered in St. Louis on Sunday, part of a three-day meeting to develop plans to pressure the Bush administration to exit Iraq.
President Bush admitted in interviews secretly taped by a friend before he became president that he had used marijuana but laughed about lying to the public about his drug use.
Hunter S. Thompson, a renegade journalist whose “gonzo” style threw out any pretense at objectivity and established the hard-living writer as a counter-culture icon, fatally shot himself at his Colorado home on Sunday night, police said. He was 67.
The White House said the president took his time because he wanted to get the choice right. But he is known to have been turned down by three candidates, including former CIA Director Robert Gates, apparently over reservations about the actual powers of the job.