Many of those jobs will be moved to the company's new plant science headquarters near Raleigh, North Carolina, and to other sites in Berlin and Belgium.
But it is also a place apart, a spectacular mountaintop village anointed as science headquarters of the Manhattan Project in the 1940's.
In 1978, Dr. Soffen became the director of life sciences at NASA headquarters.
Donald Savage, the public affairs officer for space science at NASA headquarters, rejected the criticism directed at the agency by Nature.
"Our job is to be the first line of defense, and we take that very seriously," James Green, the director of planetary science at NASA headquarters, said in an interview Friday after the Russian strike.
"There is a good argument for robotics over shuttle servicing, and a lot of folk are really warming to the idea," said Dr. Edward J. Weiler, newly appointed director of the Goddard center, who formerly directed space science at NASA headquarters.
Even after Cameroonian teachers and education officials ranked English instruction as their lowest priority (after help with computer literacy, math and science, for example), headquarters in Washington continued to send trainees with little or no classroom experience to teach English in Cameroonian schools.
In an exclusive interview with Science at AEOI headquarters in north Tehran, Salehi, 66, related how he would only agree if his opposite number in the United States, Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, sat across from him at the table.
The academy made news last year when it closed its award-winning magazine The Sciences and put its headquarters building, an elegant mansion at 2 East 63rd Street, up for sale.
Any decision against KFC would be binding only in Washington, where the science group has its headquarters.
Considered an icon of conservation science, researchers at World Wildlife Fund WWFF) headquarters in Washington, D.C., innovated many approaches to conservation.
