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Some insights from this year's meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. "WE ARE BASICALLY LOOKING NOW AT A FUTURE CLIMATE THAT IS BEYOND ANYTHING

WE'VE CONSIDERED SERIOUSLY IN CLIMATE MODEL SIMULATIONS." _Chris Field, co-chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's second working group_ "[CLONING A

NEANDERTHAL] STARTING FROM THE DNA EXTRACTED FROM A FOSSIL IS AND WILL REMAIN IMPOSSIBLE AS FAR AS I CAN SEE INTO THE FUTURE." _Svante Pääbo, sequencer of the Neanderthal genome_

"IF LIFE DID HAPPEN MANY TIMES, THERE COULD BE SOMETHING LIKE A SHADOW BIOSPHERE THAT EITHER WAS, OR IS, ALL AROUND US." _Paul Davies, Beyond Center, Arizona State University_

"[PRESIDENT OBAMA] SEES THE VALUE OF SCIENCE NOT JUST AS A WAY OF KEEPING THOSE STRANGE MEMBERS OF OUR SOCIETY EMPLOYED WHO WANT TO GO OFF AND DO QUIRKY THINGS. … HE IS REALLY VALUING

THE PRODUCT." _James McCarthy, AAAS president_ Sources: _Nature_, Wired Science RIGHTS AND PERMISSIONS Reprints and permissions ABOUT THIS ARTICLE CITE THIS ARTICLE Soundbites from

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