Now here’s a worthy cause: Americans serving abroad make requests for goods that will help the local people and improve their relations with them. Spirit of America collects donations to meet the request and purchases and ships the goods to the requestor. Donors are given follow up information and photos when the goods are distributed. …

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Neal Lane, who served as director of the National Science Foundation and then as presidential science adviser during the Clinton administration, observed: “It’s always the case in the White House … that science is one of a number of sets of issues that a president, a political policymaker, has to consider when they’re making decisions. …

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