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Welcome to Citiwire.net! Quietly encouraging all the rest of us, Farley Peters has been the Citistates Group’s behind-the-scenes player as instigator and strategist for 14 years. Last year she helped author Century of the City and now, based partly on the book’s findings about population and women’s role for these times, writes this week’s Citiwire.net column–focused on the dramatic implications of President Obama’s decision to revoke the “gag rule” on U.S. global abortion funding. … My column deals with two issues more intertwined than most people think: how America catches up in energy R&D to fuel its lagging economy, and how creative metro regions–with some critical federal boosts–can play an important role in getting us there.