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1. 1. NABP.net <> National Association of Boards of Pharmacy

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   Published on: 6/24/2008   Last Visited: 6/24/2008

   The panel will consist of Michael J. Albano, former mayor of Springfield, MA; Joseph L. Bast, president of The Heartland Institute; Rebecca H. Deschamps, executive director of the Montana Board of Pharmacy; and Ronald Guse, registrar of the Manitoba Pharmaceutical Association.
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   Joseph Bast is the president and chief executive officer of The Heartland Institute, a nonprofit, nonpartisan center for public policy research located in Chicago, IL, which held a national symposium on drug importation in October 2003.

2. 2. www.heartland.org

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   Published on: 5/22/2008   Last Visited: 5/22/2008

   Joseph Bast
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   Joseph Bast is president and CEO of The Heartland Institute, a 23-year-old national nonprofit research center located in Chicago, Illinois.According to a recent telephone survey, among state elected officials The Heartland Institute is among the nation's best-known and most highly regarded "think tanks."
   
   Bast is the coauthor of ten books, including Rebuilding America's Schools (1990), Why We Spend Too Much on Health Care (1992), Eco-Sanity: A Common-Sense Guide to Environmentalism (1994), and Education & Capitalism (2003).His writing has appeared in Phi Delta Kappan, Economics of Education Review, Wall Street Journal, Investor's Business Daily, The Cato Journal, USA Today, and many of the country's largest-circulation newspapers.
   
   Bast is publisher of five monthly newspapers with a combined circulation of nearly 200,000 copies.Those publications are titled School Reform News, Environment & Climate News, Health Care News, Budget & Tax News, and IT&T News.
   
   Bast has been recognized for his contributions to public policy research and debate, including being named one of "The 88 to Watch in 1988" by the Chicago Tribune; recipient of the 1994 Roe Award from State Policy Network; commissioned a Kentucky Colonel by Gov.
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   Prior to being hired as The Heartland Institute's first employee in 1984, Bast was coeditor of the bimonthly magazine Nomos and studied economics as an undergraduate at The University of Chicago.

3. 3. www.heartland.org

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   Published on: 5/22/2008   Last Visited: 5/22/2008

   Written By: Harriette Johnson and Joseph L. Bast
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   The three-day conference got off to a fast and successful start on March 2 with a capacity crowd at the opening dinner, featuring remarks by Heartland President Joseph Bast, comedian Tim Slagle, and climatologist Patrick Michaels.
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   During his opening comments, Bast cited a 2003 survey of 530 climate scientists in 27 countries, conducted by Dennis Bray and Hans von Storch at the GKSS Institute of Coastal Research in Germany, which found only 27 percent believed "the current state of scientific knowledge is able to provide reasonable predictions of climate variability on time scales of 100 years."
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   "That's a long ways from 'consensus,'" Bast observed.He then named 29 universities and other academic institutions represented by the speakers on the program, including Harvard University, the Institut Pasteur in Paris, the London School of Economics, and the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.
   
   "If this is the fringe [of the scientific community], where's the center?"Bast asked.
   
   Bast said, "it is my hope, and the reason The Heartland Institute organized this conference, that public policies that impose enormous costs on millions of people, in the United States and also around the world, will not be passed into law before the fake 'consensus' on global warming collapses.
   
   "Once passed, taxes and regulations are often hard to repeal," said Bast.
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   Joseph L. Bast (jbast@heartland.org) is president of The Heartland Institute.