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Submitted by abte_admin — Fri, 11/14/2008 - 16:43

Illinois senator to become first African-American executive in U.S. history

Barack Obama, a 47-year-old first-term senator from Illinois, shattered more than 200 years of history Tuesday night by winning election as the first African-American president in the history of the United States. The Illinois senator will become the first African-American to win the presidency.

Supporters in Chicago cheering, "Yes, we can" were met with cries of "Yes, we did."

Obama's former rival for the Democratic nomination, Sen. Hillary Clinton said in a statement that "we are celebrating an historic victory for the American people."

"This was a long and hard fought campaign but the result was well worth the wait. Together, under the leadership of President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, and a Democratic Congress, we will chart a better course to build a new economy and rebuild our leadership in the world."

The Illinois senator is projected to pick up a big win in Virginia, a state that hasn't voted for a Democratic president since 1964.


Obama names Zewail to Science and Tech council

Submitted by basem on Tue, 04/28/2009 - 18:14.

US President Barack Obama, on Monday, named Nobel Prize winning laureate in chemistry Ahmed Zewail to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST).

“This council represents leaders from many scientific disciplines who will bring a diversity of experience and views,” said Obama during remarks at the National Academy of Sciences, according to the US Embassy in Egypt’s website. “I will charge PCAST with advising me about national strategies to nurture and sustain a culture of scientific innovation,” Obama said.

Zewail is Professor of Chemistry and Physics at Caltech and Director of the Physical Biology Center. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1999 for his pioneering work that allowed observation of exceedingly rapid molecular transformations.