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...Souza has been given a three-year, $300,000 grant from the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation—awarded to five outstanding researchers during the initial years of their first faculty position...
...site. To accommodate the new schedule, the foundation will ramp up its payout, aiming to spend $3.5 billion per year beginning in 2009 and continuing through the decade, as compared to $1.3 billion spent last year, according to its Web site. It has committed itself to grants totaling $11 billion in its seven years of existence thus far. The Gates Foundation has already given millions to fund global health research in Harvard’s labs. Harvard’s vice provost for research policy, John P. Huchra, said that the announcement “will have no particularly major...
...coup leader himself. This week he overthrew the South Pacific nation's lawfully elected government of Laisenia Qarase. It is Fiji's fourth coup in two decades. Before he took the final step, declaring himself president, the military man had thundered for months against the government's move to grant amnesty to the 2000 coup plotters. Bainimarama's talk became more strident in recent days, as the military tightened its grip on security personnel, the bureaucracy and the country's media...
...city manager, Robert W. Healy, and Cambridge Police Department’s commissioner, Ronnie Watson, told the council that the vast majority of the grant would pay police officers overtime for extra foot patrols. Councillor Marjorie C. Decker objected, however, saying that increasing police presence would not effectively reduce crime in Cambridge...
...more than one wife, so is free to marry again, while she cannot. Far from the gruesome tales of women's rights abused that the British public might typically associate with Sharia law - Taliban-style sentences of death by stoning, for example - Khan says a Sharia council will always grant a woman a divorce whether her husband accepts it or not. He will comply, too, because to dispute or refuse to follow the decision of community elders is a shameful act in Muslim society...