In her letter, Dr. Faust said Harvard would step up efforts to revitalize Allston, a gritty neighborhood wedged between the Charles River and the Massachusetts Turnpike, even as it delayed the science center.
A squabble between President Jacques Chirac and Prime Minister Lionel Jospin over whether Bréchignac should stay or go was apparently responsible for the delay (Science, 28 July, p. 523).
Potocnik and the other 24 members of the European Union's leadership group were due to be sworn in on 1 November, but controversy over Italy's nominee for justice commissioner caused a delay (Science, 5 November, p. 959).
He delayed moving to the science ministry, he says, because he had been busy this past week standing for election to a cricket management body in Mumbai.
As the costs mount, so do allegations that powerful interests in the oil and gas industry, like ExxonMobil, purposefully misled the public about climate science and delayed corrective measures.
Representing the interests of 155 corporate members, including chemical companies Dow, DuPont and Olin; pharmaceutical firms Bayer, Eli Lilly and Merck; and petrochemical conglomerates BP, ExxonMobil and Shell, the ACC has delayed, weakened and blocked science-based health, environmental and workplace protections at the state, national and even international levels.
Production of Kung Fu Hustle 2 was delayed while Chow filmed the science fiction adventure film CJ7.
Exxon and API's efforts to sow doubt about climate science have significantly delayed government action on climate change, according to environmentalist Bill McKibben. .
The astronauts will also replace a failed science data processing computer that delayed Atlantis's launch last October.
Debates on the societal impact of emerging science in China are always delayed until the maturation of the technology.
But the new GCSEs in science, history and geography will be delayed until 2016.
