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...goal is "not to convert the negative people but just activate the people who support us already." McCabe, who is taking a year off from her job as a psychologist, added, noting that polls show that 63 per cent of the national population and almost 70 per cent of all students support...
According to the proposal, 10 per cent of the funds allocated for the grants committee would be set aside for "emergency grants" for groups formed after the committee's original deadline...
Furthermore, it would redirect between 30 and 50 per cent of federal funds for animal research to the development of alternative methods. The NIH, the principal government agency administering funds for biomedical research, granted $2 billion to more than 500 institutions for such research in 1980. An estimated three-quarters of this involved animal research...
College textbook prices have risen by about 40 per cent over the past four years and "there's no question" that they will continue to rise at the same rate, Garis Distelhorse, executive director of the National Association of College Stores, said recently...
...told they should stick to University activities. After all, private industry does boast far more advanced equipment than even the richest of universites. The notion of universities spearheading the quest for scientific advance is romantic, but it simply doesn't always happen that way. The 5 per cent of faculty members who choose not to disclose their outside lives--one expert's educated guess of the rate of noncompliance--may just be the ones who forge a new understanding of issues in not only genetics, but cancer research and the other areas that challenge America's scientists today...