Announcing the change, Chancellor George Osborne said the updated qualifications would help Britain "lead the way in science and technology".

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That's the kind of investment in our own people that helped us lead the world in business and science and technology and medicine.

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She was also named to help lead the White House national program on STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) in November 2009.

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H1N1 could infect between 30 percent to 50 percent of the American population during fall and winter and lead to as many as 1.8 million hospital admissions, the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology reported.

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