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Defenders of the funding system hasten to note that a 74% overhead rate does not mean that 74 cents out of every research dollar is spent on library books and electric bills. Under government regulations, universities are prohibited from applying overhead rates to certain research-related expenses. Equipment purchases, for instance, are not permitted in the total; neither are subcontracts over $25,000. Thus if a Johns Hopkins professor gets a $100,000 grant to cover his direct costs of research, he may be able to apply his school's indirect-cost rate -- 65% -- to only...
...virgin rain forest in Costa Rica with money earned collecting old newspapers and recycling aluminum cans. Japanese students have mounted a campaign to eliminate disposable wooden chopsticks and replace them with reusable plastic models. Children in one Soviet town were able to persuade the sluggish local government to hasten construction of a roundabout that would allow traffic to bypass the center of town and thus reduce pollution. In Brazil the number of nongovernment environmental groups has swelled from 500 three years ago to nearly 4,000; they include many children...
Additional divestment now will not hasten the decline of apartheid as much as it will tie the hands of the future leadership...
...economy in the Eastern bloc, the Soviet Union's, is the largest and most important to its neighbors. A Soviet economic collapse would devastate Eastern Europe. Assuming that the U.S.S.R. adopts constructive policies toward the Baltic republics and German unification, the summit nations could provide assistance that would also hasten demilitarization. The West could help the Soviets build housing to expedite the return and demobilization of soldiers in Eastern Europe and provide training for non- defense factory managers...
...believed the owners of the 26 major-league baseball teams would seriously consider putting the 1990 season in danger. Management's Feb. 15 lockout of players from spring-training camps in Florida and Arizona was largely seen as a negotiating ploy, a bit of bluff and bluster that might hasten agreement on a new contract and get the game going on time, before any serious money was lost. The events of last week, though, proved the cynics correct. Talks between the club owners and the Major League Players Association remained deadlocked. In an eleventh-hour gesture, Commissioner Fay Vincent offered...