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virus: zebras' muscles (oy vey)
« on: 2004-03-22 22:59:58 » |
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Cooperation urged on invasives
AIBS meeting participants say US Department of Homeland Security could
coordinate efforts | By Eugene Russo
WASHINGTON, DC—Policymakers are not doing nearly enough to curb the
negative ecological and economic consequences of invasive species,
biologists said
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Getting the bill passed, however, will be a struggle, Ehlers said. Several
committees have jurisdiction; coordinating policies across international
borders is tricky; and some members of Congress need to be better educated
about the issue. (According to Ehlers, at one hearing about the problem of
zebra mussels in the Great Lakes, one puzzled representative asked why they
should spend so much money on "zebras' muscles.")
http://www.biomedcentral.com/news/20040322/03
And these are the people who will be making policy decisions about high
tech life and death matters.
Keith Henson
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