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...onerous to applicants and reviewers alike,” said Lawrence A. Tabak, co-chair of the NIH working group. “A lot of it is material that isn’t very informative if what you think you should be doing is evaluating applications for their impact and innovation.” The working group’s presentations call for increased support of new investigators, reduced administrative burden, and reaffirmation of the core principles of the review process as major challenges facing grant applicants. The committee solicited input from Harvard and other educational institutions. Provost Steven...
...Both students and administrators at Madison Park praised the group for making college less intimidating and for its positive impact in helping students on their path to college...
...while his biography still leaves many skeptical of his foreign policy credentials, at least some voters are drawn to Obama because of his time abroad. "I lived abroad as a young child and I know what a lasting impact on the way I looked at the world," said Rebecca Hutchinson, 54, from Deerfield, New Hampshire, after attending a house party for Obama in August. Hutchinson, who works on the Democratic staff of the New Hampshire House Minority Leader - a Clinton supporter -spent third and fourth grades in Pakistan, and she sees Obama as the only candidate who can undo...
...Divestment advocates claim that the South Africa divestment campaign of the 1970s and 1980s played a major role in ending apartheid. There is no empirical evidence, however, for this claim. A 1999 study in the Journal of Business found that the boycott had almost no impact on financial markets or corporations in South Africa. In addition, global capital markets are significantly more liquid than they were in the 1980s, so even short-term effects of divestment will revert more quickly...
Decisions for schools that maintained their early admissions programs are to be sent to students this week, though Fitzsimmons said this had “zero” impact on the timing of the announcement...