the president's recent advocacy of education in science, math, and engineering merits praise and support.
i'm glad to have a chance at long last to say i agree with him on something, not only because the US is falling behind in those fields, but because the world needs more scientists and engineers to solve problems like hunger and disease.
800 million people don't get enough food, half of them farmers trying to eke out a living on small, underproductive plots of land. when drought hits, it compounds the problem, causing children to die. another 25% live in rural areas, so three quarters of world hunger could potentially end if farm productivity were sufficiently raised in poverty-stricken areas.
faith won't do it. technology might.
now, when will bush realize global warming is real, "intelligent design" is junk, and embryonic stem cell research is ethical?
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