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Obama Appoints Climate Change Experts

Dec. 20, 2008
President-elect Barack Obama named a physicist and a biologist to top science posts, signaling a change from Bush administration policies on global warming
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Obama would seat Gore 'at the table'

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Lori Anne Madison, 6, competes in Scripps National Spelling Bee
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Lori Anne Madison, 6, of Woodbridge, Virginia, spells out the letters in her word as she competes during the opening round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, May 30, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. Madison, the youngest known qualifier in the history of the contest, correctly spelled the word "dirigible*", a lighter-than-air aircraft, to advance. UPI/Mike Theiler