There are home-grown successes, too witness the transformation of a doddery East German combine, Carl Zeiss of Jena, in Thuringia, into the technology group Jenoptik, with world sales of DM2.6 billion and a first public share issue last month that was one of the hits of the season.

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As Judith Curry, a climatologist at the Georgia Institute of Technology, observes, attacks on climate scientists, sometimes paid for by carbon-emitting industries when global warming first became a public issue, have made many researchers in the field nervous and defensive.

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Since then Cole has been on dialysis three days a week and has been searching for a kidney, she told King in one of the first public interviews about the issue.

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First of all, is this an appropriate issue for public policy to address?

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Under the Florida statute it would appear to be illegal, and Constitutional rights under the First Amendment have no application to this issue even though it is clearly within the public interest to understand the private positions of candidates.

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He decided to go public with his story to put a face on an issue, using his first and last name and offering to provide a family picture to accompany this story.

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Scottish Liberal Democrat Tavish Scott also raised the issue of the economy and Scottish jobs, reminding the first minister that he had said the public sector would have to prepare for several years of fiscal austerity.

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