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With the decline of the space program, biology had emerged as the preeminent science, and Congress was becoming skeptical about how millions of dollars in federal research grants were being spent.

In a career spanning 61 years, over 10,000 cartoons, 24 illustrated collections and one Pulitzer, Oliphant established himself as one of the world’s preeminent political cartoonists.

The district, called The Battery, prefers the grand descriptor of “the South’s preeminent lifestyle destination.”

The top item on the homepage was the Fifth National Climate Assessment, which it described as “the preeminent source of authoritative information on the risks, impacts, and responses to climate change in the United States.”

Now, as the latest punishment meted out to the Trump administration’s preeminent academic scapegoat shows, it’s our own government posing the threat.