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...pork. The same is probably true if you're in the military or in a public school. As part of a government effort to boost America's hog farmers - who have identified themselves as the forgotten casualties of the H1N1 swine-flu epidemic and asked Washington for financial help - the Agriculture Department announced last week a $30 million purchase of surplus pork. That brings the federal total of pork purchases for fiscal 2009 to about $150 million, or close to $100 million more than last year's figure for the same period. During a Sept. 10 morning press conference, Secretary...
...letters to the Agriculture Secretary requesting assistance. The council asked the USDA to lift the $300 spending cap on pork products for government food programs, and to spend at least an additional $150 million on pork products during fiscal year 2009; the industry also asked for $100 million to help survey herds for H1N1. In a similar letter from state governors, lawmakers requested that the government urge overseas markets to start buying U.S. pork again, and Vilsack said he would lean on the international trading partners who haven't yet lifted their U.S. pork bans. "Among the ones who have...
After spending eight weeks at the University of Cambridge, Rui Wang ’11 has fine-tuned a third ear—one she hopes might someday help explain complex human behaviors like the struggle to quit smoking...
...months, they had planned to attend an exchange program at Oxford, and were banking on Harvard funding to help foot the $10,000 bill...
Despite the debilitating conditions, Asha has managed to get 200 students into universities this past year, Jain said. To help them with study skills and assimilating to college social life, she held workshops for the students...