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...push hard for more federal science funding, and Casey said that its representatives have been on Capitol Hill, arguing directly to senators and house members that such a sweeping economic stimulus package would be incomplete without funding for basic research and “intellectual infrastructure.” Earlier this month, the Massachusetts Life Science Collaborative—co-chaired by University President Drew G. Faust and the heads of MIT, Genzyme Corporation, and the University of Massachusetts—wrote a letter to the state congressional delegation advocating for increases in NIH funding, writing that each grant awarded...
Nye’s nomination would mark a return to an earlier and “highly admirable” tradition of selecting distinguished intellects, Frankel said...
...Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy announced its latest crop of fellows earlier this week, welcoming a group of four journalists and academics who will study issues currently confronting news outlets...
Maybe you watched the now former Governor Rod Blagojevich make his tardy and halfhearted "closing statement" to the Illinois senate that was poised to boot him from office. More likely, you didn't. After his media blitz through New York earlier in the week, what could he possibly say that...
...credibility of the council was called into question earlier in January, when Transparency International Indonesia accused the institution of being one of the most frequent takers of bribes in the country, particularly in the issuance of halal stickers for food and beverage products. The Council has the sole authority to issue halal certificates - a stamp that can make or break a product in this 85% Muslim market. And while some praised the group for taking on the tobacco lobby in its antismoking efforts, the clerics fell short of banning the habit outright - not surprising in a country where cigarette companies...