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June 21, 2004 Presidential elections present us with choices about our nation's future. We support John Kerry for President and urge you to join us. The prosperity, health, environment, and security of Americans depend on Presidential leadership to sustain our vibrant science and technology; to encourage education at home and attract talented scientists and engineers from abroad; and to nurture a business environment that transforms new knowledge into new opportunities for creating quality jobs and reaching shared goals. President Bush and his administration are compromising our future on each of these counts. By reducing funding for scientific research, they are undermining the foundation of America's future. By setting unwarranted restrictions on stem cell research, they are impeding medical advances. By employing inappropriate immigration practices, they are turning critical scientific talent away from our shores. And by ignoring scientific consensus on critical issues such as global warming, they are threatening the earth's future. Unlike previous administrations, Republican and Democratic alike, the Bush administration has ignored unbiased scientific advice in the policy-making that is so important to our collective welfare. John Kerry will change all this. He will support strong investments in science and technology as he restores fiscal responsibility. He will stimulate the development and deployment of technologies to meet our economic, energy, environmental, health, and security needs. He will recreate an America that provides opportunity to all at home or abroad who can help us make progress together. John Kerry will restore science to its appropriate place in government and bring it back into the White House. He is the clear choice for America's next President. Signed, Peter Agre, Chemistry, 2003 David H. Hubel, Medicine, 1981 Sidney Altman, Chemistry, 1989 Louis Ignarro, Medicine, 1998 Philip W. Anderson, Physics, 1977 Eric Kandel, Medicine, 2000 David Baltimore, Medicine, 1975 Walter Kohn, Chemistry, 1998 Baruj Benacerraf, Medicine, 1980 Arthur Kornberg, Medicine, 1959 Paul Berg, Chemistry, 1980 Leon M. Lederman, Physics, 1988 Hans A. Bethe, Physics, 1967 T. D. Lee, Physics, 1957 Gunter Blobel, Medicine, 1999 David M. Lee, Physics, 1996 N. Bloembergen, Physics, 1981 William N. Lipscomb, Chemistry, 1976 Leon N. Cooper, Physics, 1972 Roderick MacKinnon, Chemistry, 2003 James W. Cronin, Physics, 1980 Mario J. Molina, Chemistry, 1995 Johann Deisenhofer, Chemistry, 1988 Joseph E. Murray, Medicine, 1990 John B. Fenn, Chemistry, 2002 Douglas D. Osheroff, Physics, 1996 Val Fitch, Physics, 1980 George Palade, Medicine, 1974 Jerome I. Friedman, Physics, 1990 Arno Penzias, Physics, 1978 Walter Gilbert, Chemistry, 1980 Martin L. Perl, Physics, 1995 Alfred G. Gilman, Medicine, 1994 Norman F. Ramsey, Physics, 1989 Donald A. Glaser, Physics, 1960 Burton Richter, Physics, 1976 Sheldon L. Glashow, Physics, 1979 Joseph H. Taylor, Physics, 1993 Joseph Goldstein, Medicine, 1985 E. Donnall Thomas, Medicine, 1990 Roger Guillemin, Medicine, 1977 Charles H. Townes, Physics, 1964 Dudley Herschbach, Chemistry, 1986 Harold Varmus, Medicine, 1989 Roald Hoffmann, Chemistry, 1981 Eric Wieschaus, Medicine, 1995 H. Robert Horvitz, Medicine, 2002 Robert W. Wilson, Physics, 1978 The views of expressed in this letter represent those of the signers acting as individual citizens. They do not necessarily represent the views of the institutions with which they are affili <A HREF="http://www.usnewswire.com/">http://www.usnewswire.com/</A> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn