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...also criticized the U.S. biofuels program, said biofuels compete with food for farming land and help push up food prices, hurting the world's poor worst of all. "We need to cut back significantly on our biofuels programs," he said. "They were understandable at a time of much lower food prices and larger food stocks but do not make sense now in a global food scarcity condition...
...said. “It’s an issue about which we’ve been concerned for quite some time.” Donahue noted that financial constraints provide an educational disincentive for poorer students. “Not only are mostly lower-income students falling out of the educational pipeline,” Donahue said, “but many are not even graduating from high school.” Accordingly, Harvard said it recognizes its role in reversing the trend. “Our own effort in that regard is the Crimson Summer Academy...
...certainly makes it appear so. Before New Hampshire apple growers, she speaks of apple subsidies. At a North Carolina train station, she promises high-speed rail. In southern Indiana, she talks up clean coal. She tells college kids that she will get them lower student loan rates, the sick that she will provide universal health care, and the poor that they will be favored more in the tax code. She even promises new federally funded scientific breakthroughs to cure afflictions like diabetes and autism...
This time, the presence of a quorum was never questioned, and the official vote on a lower attendance figure went forward. The number of meeting attendees required for a binding vote will be decreased from one sixth to one eighth of the more than 700 FAS professors...
...meantime, prices for Japanese butter are going up and the government announced that Japan may need "emergency" butter imports, A government-backed body would then purchase butter at a lower tariff...