Obama names Holdren, Lubchenco to science posts WASHINGTON - President-elect Barack Obama on Saturday named a Harvard physicist and a marine biologist to science posts, signaling a change from Bush administration policies on global warming that were criticized for putting politics over science. Obama fills econ team, says business will revive CHICAGO - Completing his Cabinet a month before taking office, President-elect Barack Obama named officials to oversee transportation, labor, trade and small business policy Friday but warned that economic recovery won't be nearly as swift. "It will take longer than any of us would like -- years, not months. It will get worse before it gets better. But it will get better if we are willing to act boldly and swiftly," Obama said -- and he promised to do just that. Michelle Obama seizes the spotlight DENVER — Michelle Obama was to stand by her man Monday before the Democratic National Convention and a national prime-time television audience, reprising a role she had during the Democratic presidential primaries: the deal sealer.
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