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Homeland security calls for sci/tech innovation

Without pain, organizations don't change and the U.S. government is no exception, the science advisor to President Bush and director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy told more than 170 students, faculty, researchers, and public and private sector representatives at a May 2 Faculty Club luncheon.

A version of this article appeared in MIT Tech Talk on June 4, 2003.

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