Developing an economic
competitiveness strategy or climate-change-mitigation policy will inevitably
challenge whoever wins in November, points out Shawn Lawrence Otto. It would be
nice, he suggests, to know that the chief executive had done his homework.
A Minnesota-based
screenwriter, known for the movie House
of Sand and Fog, Otto is also a founding organizer of a movement to put
science and technology front and center by petitioning both major national
parties to engage in dedicated science debates.
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