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...which has so far cleared 188 boats. "It gave us financial capability, plus the legal hammer if we needed to use it," says Doug Sutherland, the state's commissioner of public lands. Other state officials have expressed interest in Washington's model. In September, the California legislature passed a bill to increase fines for owners of derelict vessels. And last year, the U.S. House of Representatives passed an act that gives NOAA funds and authorization to remove abandoned vessels damaging coral reefs...
...Senate passed a spending bill this weekend that will maintain current levels of funding for financial aid and research through March, a move that will impinge on higher education support due to the current rapid rise in inflation. This financial support may be further reduced if spending cuts arise as a result of the government’s proposed bailout package, which the House rejected yesterday...
President Bush is expected to sign the bill, known as a “continuing resolution,” by tomorrow...
...Casey said he was encouraged by the priority given to higher education programs in the proposed appropriations bills and in the stimulus bill proposed this weekend by Senate Democrats that included a $1.2-billion increase in NIH funding...
...addition to previously serving as the health minister in Mexico, Frenk has been a senior fellow of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Prior to that, he was considered a finalist for the director generalship of the World Health Organization, even winning the endorsement of the prestigious British medical journal, The Lancet...