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...said. The $1.25 billion will consist of $1 billion of state money and $250 million in matching funds from private donors and will be disbursed over a 10-year period. A sizable chunk of the money will be reserved for public institutions. The proposed multi-million dollar Massachusetts Stem Cell Bank and a separate center for RNA research will both be located at the University of Massachusetts, according to plans released by the Governor’s office. The stem cell bank will be the world’s largest repository for stem cell lines, the plans said...
...military spending 8.8% Percentage of Saudi Arabia's GDP devoted to military expenditure in 2005. Saudi Arabia has expensive taste in military hardware, such as Patriot missiles, from the U.S. 4% Percentage of America's GDP devoted to military expenditure in 2005, a lower proportion but higher dollar amount: the U.S. spent $495.3 billion, compared with Saudi Arabia's $25.4 billion
...such an extent, he told the Atlantic Monthly, that he asked his grandchildren to call him "Ike" and Ann "Mamie." It was Eisenhower who presided over the first National Prayer Breakfast, saw the addition of "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance and IN GOD WE TRUST to dollar bills, and declared that "our form of government has no sense unless it is founded in a deeply felt religious faith, and I don't care what it is." There has always been a certain virtue in vagueness when it comes to presidential piety, and Eisenhower, a Presbyterian convert raised...
Percentage of America's GDP devoted to military expenditure in 2005, a lower proportion but higher dollar amount: the U.S. spent $495.3 billion, compared with Saudi Arabia's $25.4 billion...
...Paul van Dijk, director of the tortoise and freshwater turtle biodiversity program at Virginia-based Conservation International (CI). Turtle meat is still eaten in parts of rural America and there is a growing domestic market in urban Asian-American communities. The meat also has found its way onto high-dollar menus at fashionable wild game restaurants across the country. But ever since China opened up its economy in 1989, conservationists have become alarmed at that country's insatiable appetite for turtle meat...