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Date: 2008-09-23
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Bo Goes
by Paul Bass | September 16, 2008 12:03 PM

Rosa DeLauro’s GOP opponent (you mean you didn’t know she had one?) said he’s headed for victory. He’s just not sure when.

Officially Boaz ItsHaky is running for U.S. Congress in this fall’s election in New Haven’s Third Congressional District. He’d like to take office on Jan. 1, 2009.

Note: Susan Hockfield is president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “… On September 10, 2008 she testified on this subject before the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming.

REIMAGINING ENERGY
By Susan Hockfield

…For America to win the war that was to come, it had no choice but to make aggressive, focused investments in basic science. The case was so compelling that Roosevelt approved it in 10 minutes. From radar to the Manhattan Project, the innovations that decision unleashed produced the military tools that won the war.

That same presidential decision launched the enduring partnership between the federal government and research universities, a partnership that has vastly enhanced America’s military capabilities and security, initiated many important industries, produced countless medical advances and spawned virtually all of the technologies that account for our modern quality of life.

Today, the United States is tangled in a triple knot: a shaky economy, battered by volatile energy prices; world politics weighed down by issues of energy consumption and security; and mounting evidence of global climate change.

…The potential gains — from the economy to global security to the climate — are boundless. Other nations are also chasing these technologies. We must be first to market with the most innovative solutions. We must make sure that in the energy technology markets of the future, we have the power to invent, produce and sell — not the obligation to buy.”