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Faust's testimony is part of a Harvard-led effort by a consortium of research universities to reverse a recent real-dollar decline in research grants from the National Institutes of Health...
Congress is currently considering President George W. Bush's budget proposal, which recommended the same level of NIH funding as the year before, a real-dollar decline once inflation is taken into account...
University President Drew G. Faust spoke in favor of increasing federal funding for biomedical research before a U.S. Senate committee yesterday.Faust’s testimony capped a Harvard-led effort to reverse a recent real-dollar decline in research grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).Working as part of a larger consortium of universities, Harvard spearheaded the lobbying push, which began with a report and congressional appearances last spring.Yesterday’s testimony, as well as a second report, ”A Broken Pipeline?,” released at a press conference immediately preceding...
...handle the material, as opposed to having volunteers come in,” Brainard said. She added that the cost of the damage has not yet been estimated, since curators are still working on drying library holdings. “It’s always hard to put a dollar value on rare and unique items,” she said. In addition to the amount these items may receive at auctions, one must also consider “the value to scholarship, which is almost inestimable.” Brainard added that although much of the Pusey Stacks remain...
...particular park or grass verge can use Google to find out when last it was groomed by the city's gardening staff. And the city's cemeteries will soon be mapped to allow internet users to find out who is buried in each plot, says Kristensen. A new multimillion-dollar conference center, opening in June, will have 72 wireless access points to allow out-of-towners to use their laptops to navigate the Google Earth version of the city...