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<jats:p>Congress is moving quickly to lay a framework for a new federal body that would generate scientifically credible predictions about the impact of global warming, for use by everyone from city planners to state wildlife managers.</jats:p>

<jats:p>Macau, a gambling haven known more for unbridled development than for ecological awareness, started down the road to sustainability this year with the creation of a wetland reserve and an Environmental Protection Bureau.</jats:p>

<jats:p>Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a case that could clarify rules about what is, or is not, patentable.</jats:p>

<jats:p>A handful of stellar researchers could be in line for grants of as much as $90 million over 5 years, thanks to a new program included in a stimulus package approved by Japan's legislature on 29 May. But some scientists worry that a political selection process could steer money toward industry-favored projects.</jats:p>

<jats:p> Highlights from <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> 's online daily news site, <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> NOW, this week include the identity of the <jats:ext-link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://tinyurl.com/ngz5zc">birds that caused the January crash</jats:ext-link> of a US Airways jet, <jats:ext-link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://tinyurl.com/ldffvt">a 10-million-year-old laugh</jats:ext-link> , a mathematical model of <jats:ext-link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://tinyurl.com/lz3qny">how snakes get around</jats:ext-link> , and building a <jats:ext-link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://tinyurl.com/kmoc95">better light bulb</jats:ext-link> with lasers. </jats:p>

<jats:p>Last week, the governing body of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture met in Tunis to review implementation and coax reluctant nations to open their seed banks and contribute to a "doomsday vault" on Norway's Svalbard island.</jats:p>

<jats:p> <jats:ext-link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/06/merkel-shows-ge.html">Germany's stimulus plan</jats:ext-link> , a new <jats:ext-link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/06/major-uk-univer.html">open-access online repository</jats:ext-link> and a <jats:ext-link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/06/uk-science-fund.html">restructuring of government departments</jats:ext-link> in the U.K., and U.S. <jats:ext-link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/06/obama-to-suppor.html">science diplomacy in the Islamic world</jats:ext-link> were among the stories covered by <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> Insider in the past week. </jats:p>

<jats:p>The U.S. government has streamlined procedures for processing visa applications from foreign students and researchers trying to enter the United States.</jats:p>

<jats:p>China has launched a massive effort to stamp out Kashin-Beck disease, including moving populations from affected areas, but the cause of this crippling ailment remains elusive.</jats:p>

<jats:p> Prompted by potential menaces to Lake Baikal, the largest, deepest, most ancient, and most biologically diverse freshwater lake on Earth, scientists from the Russian Academy of Sciences, led by oceanographer and explorer Artur Chilingarov, last year began a program of research using two deep-water <jats:italic>Mir</jats:italic> minisubmarines. </jats:p>