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A pair of Nobel laureates, President Bill Clinton's science adviser, the president of the National Academy of Sciences, two immediate past presidents of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and a student from Illinois Math and Science Academy, are among a planned 20-strong US delegation to the World Conference on Science.

The list has been put together by the National Academy of Sciences, the main US contact point with the International Council for Science (ICSU) which is organizing the meeting with Unesco.

Although the members of the delegation have yet to be formally approved by the State Department, academy officials expect little change to the final list. This will be headed by Bruce Alberts, the president of the academy, and include Nobel laureates F. Sherwood Rowland of the University of California, Irvine, and Leon Lederman, director emeritus of the Fermi National Accelerator Centre. Neal Lane, the president's science adviser and head of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, will be accompanied by two of his staff members.

The delegation will include Jane Lubchenco, AAAS president in 1997, and the AAAS immediate past president M. R. C. Greenwood. Also present will be Maxine Singer, president of the Carnegie Institute of Washington, and Keith Winstein, a student from Illinois.

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