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And though the government of President Olusegun Obasanjo is the most democratic and the least corrupt Nigeria has known since independence (including a period in the late 1970s when General Obasanjo was the country's military ruler until he stepped aside voluntarily to permit election of a civilian president), the country remains dangerously weak.

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For example, while it's hard to believe that a three kilogram lobster could elude scientists, it did until a few years ago when South African fishermen requested an export permit and scientists realized that this was something new to science.

In Copenhagen, four or five years ago, 184 nations came together to explain to one another why their sovereignty didn't permit them to deal with the grave, grave crisis of climate change, but the mayor of Copenhagen had invited 200 mayors to attend.

Can chemistry permit making these really large molecules where we've never been before?

This was the first permit of its kind in Oregon.

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