BARACK OBAMA

摘要

Speaking last summer to a convention of bloggers in Chicago, Barack Obama accused the Bush Administration of ignoring or distorting data to shape its decisions on science-related issues. He promised the audience that his policies would be based on "evidence and facts." Political rhetoric? Perhaps. But some scientists who have seen the first-term U.S. Democratic senator in action say that's how he operated as a community activist in Chicago and as an Illinois state legislator.