Among the other participants were former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich , National Science Foundation chief Mike Roco and Meya Meyyappan of NASA's Ames Nanotechnology Group.

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Raul Roco, the presidential candidate of the Aksyon Demokratiko party.

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At the Westin Roco Ki, for example, jungle vegetation was retaking the grounds and debris littered the beach when visited by a Wall Street Journal reporter late last year.

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"Because of nanotechnology, we'll see more changes in the next 30 years than we saw in all of the last century, " says Mihail Roco, the nanotechnology adviser to the U.S. President.

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Three days later, Mr Roco made the report public.

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