Many of the groups that signed the letter were instrumental in securing a moratorium on geo-engineering research under the U.N.

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However, women are still under-represented in the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields.

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Because a field trial with a genetically engineered plant may be 10 to 20 times more expensive than the same experiment performed with a plant that has identical properties but that was modified with less precise genetic techniques, genetic engineering with the best techniques has been vastly under-used for the past 25 years.

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In December, the government extended a cheap loans program for exporters by an year and also added engineering-goods companies to the list of beneficiaries under the program.

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He finds that research into geo-engineering, which might slow or check the temperature increases, languishes under-examined, and that the international problems such technology would raise seem no more likely to be sorted out wisely than the problems of climate change itself.

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Some 13 incubators either have been launched or are under creation, while partnerships with Columbia University and Cornell University are expected to bring dedicated engineering and applied-sciences facilities to the city.

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At Blu's 120, 000-square-foot factory outside Springfield, Mass. a 1, 650- square-foot model called the Glidehouse (ordered by a retired Boeing engineering executive in Seattle) is under construction.

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