AAAS 2003: SCIENCE AS A WAY OF LIFE

摘要

The theme of this year's Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), was "Science as a way of life". The AAAS (www.aaas.org) is the world's largest general scientific organization, with more than 134,000 individual members (from 130 countries) and 275 affiliated scientific and engineering societies (comprising more than 10 million members). This year, the 169th national meeting, held in Denver, Colorado, 13-18 February 2003, drew an attendance of almost 5,000 registered individuals, of whom 1,000 were members of the press. It almost constituted a sequel to last year's 2002 Meeting "Science in a connected world." held in Boston. AAAS's President last year, Peter Raven, recognized "the global community of which we are a part and the many challenges ahead in building a world in which perhaps eight or nine billion of us will be able to live in relative prosperity, peace, and good health".