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Reports that the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has honored U.S. Senator Claiborne Pell of Rhode Island at its February Board of Directors meeting in Washington, D.C. Award which was given to Senator Pell to commemorate his dedication to library and education issues; Role of Senator Pell in creating the Higher Education Act of 1965, the Library Service and Construction Act, and the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965; Efforts of Senator Pell to gain national policy on permanent paper, and his work for the National Endowment for the Humanities.

The article presents an editorial looking at U.S. Democratic Senator Barack Obama, who unofficially declared his intentions for running in the 2008 presidential race by filing papers for a presidential exploratory committee. According to the author, there is an undeniable aura of excitement that surrounds Obama, a kind of charisma other candidates, no matter their credentials, may be hard-pressed to match.

Reports on the involvement of U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman's (D-Conn.) in the issue of broadband policy. Information on the misspelling of Representative John Dingell's last name in an early version of Lieberman's paper of Lieberman.

Discusses the role of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) in providing technical advice to legislators in the United States on global climate change. Technological challenges of the Kyoto Climate Change Protocol; Paper published by ASME related to the Kyoto Protocol; Interest of lawmakers on the efforts of ASME; Formation of the Global Climate Change Task Force chaired by past ASME presidents.