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David Clark, producer/director, David Clark Inc., Bethesda, Md.

Peter Dykstra, executive producer, CNN Science and Technology, Atlanta

Samuel C. Florman (member, National Academy of Engineering), chairman, Kreisler Borg Florman Construction Co., Scarsdale, N.Y.

Lubert Stryer (member, National Academy of Sciences), Winzer Professor Emeritus, department of neurobiology, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, Calif.

Curt Suplee, science writer and former science editor for The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.

Abigail Trafford, author and columnist for The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.

Dan Vergano, science reporter, USA Today, McLean, Va.

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