It took a bumper crop of Napa Valley visionaries to show the entire world that with a lot of passion, great land and a little science, great wines could come from all sorts of places.

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The same thing was said about our ability to harness the science and technology to land a man safely on the surface of the moon.

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This project is coordinated by some leading advocates for science and research in the country: the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Association of American Universities (AAU), Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU), the Science Coalition, The Task Force on American Innovation, and United for Medical Research, with support from the Association of American Medical Colleges, the American Chemical Society, and the American Mathematical Society.

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This gratitude was echoed by Mr Hirofumi Hirano, Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology and the Senior Vice-Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, Mr Ken Okuda, during meetings with the Director-General in Tokyo on 16 February 2012.

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Science and technology delivered new methods, and productivity of people and land rose.

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The less glamorous locales may not have as much homegrown science, but they make up for that with other attractions, like cheap land and easy access to the Interstate highway system.

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The new farm, which will only occupy this spot temporarily, sits on land owned by Alexandria Real Estate Equities, a real estate investment trust (REIT) specializing in life science laboratory space.

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"We're on a moving boat and we don't have too much space to manoeuvre, to let the helicopter land, so it can be quite dangerous, " Dr Acevedo-Whitehouse told the BBC World Service's Science In Action programme.

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