South West Wales AM Dai Lloyd said the change followed "an immense amount of work" by party leader Ieuan Wyn Jones, who is also transport minister in the Welsh Assembly Government.

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As I look at my team at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, and at a handful of other SETI teams around the globe, I see very clever individuals who have been willing to forgo the traditional challenges and rewards of academic research to work on a program of immense potential -- to do work that can literally change the world.

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Across the world climate change is set to exacerbate problems where poor land use and population pressure is already putting an immense strain on finely balanced ecologies.

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