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...added that “the report states that our ‘equity of improvement,’ [or the] progress in reducing the achievement gap, dropped on all six summary measures the EQA used...
...leadership is aware of the conflict between the short- and long-term interests of the party and is doing what it can to diminish the cost. On stem cells, for example, the tactic is to get the battle over with as soon as possible. The GOP leadership chose the gap between the July 4th and August recesses as a low-visibility moment for the vote and compressed the time the voting would take. Bush's veto, and the expected House failure to override it, will come within days and will soon have been replaced by other issues...
...Natural Resources Defense Council in the U.S., recently opined: "Until coal is replaced with cleaner fuels, we must somehow make it part of the solution." Germana Canzi, a senior climate and energy campaigner for Friends of the Earth, says: "We are supporting ccs as an option to bridge the gap between the fossil fuels of today and the cleaner fuels of tomorrow." There are obstacles that will likely mean we won't see too many full-scale coal-fired plants with ccs technology soon. Building a supercritical, 1,000-MW coal-fired plant with ccs technology from the ground...
...most likely contaminated with the mouse feeder cells and calf serum used to grow them. Top U.S. scientists, many of whom depend on federal grants, decamped to labs in Europe or Singapore, where the government has made biotechnology a national priority. Some states have tried to fill the gap--California voted for a $3 billion bond initiative to fund stem-cell research. Advocates from Nancy Reagan to Michael J. Fox have pushed Congress to unleash more money and loosen the rules. Many Republicans as well as Democrats have been receptive, knowing that even socially conservative suburban voters tend to support...
...three factors. First, baby boomers are about to retire in droves everywhere. Second, anyone who went to work for the federal government prior to 1984 is grandfathered under an old law that lets them retire at age 55. Third, a hiring freeze during the early 1990s left a gap, so there are not enough middle managers to replace the senior managers when they depart...