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...allow only one. Many lawmakers are driven less by moral than medical concerns, for the health of mother and baby and the costs associated with premature and multiple births. Professional associations in the U.S. also favor limits but stress the need to treat each case individually; they recommend a maximum of five embryos implanted in a woman over...
...Defense saw cuts. The administration’s budget was better for financial aid, proposing an 18.5 percent increase in spending on Pell Grants. Overall, the budget allocates $2.6 billion more for the grants, which translated to an additional $69 awarded to each student receiving a grant. The maximum award allocation would increase to $4,800 in 2009 and $5,400 by 2012. But even the administration’s record on increasing financial aid has come under fire, with Mark Kantrowitz, publisher of FinAid.org, calling it “too little, too late.” Kantrowitz said that...
...justice and stage craft" in the opinion of centrist leader Francois Bayrou. Normal enough, of course, for the opposition to carp at government action. But this time there was some evidence giving credence to their complaints: scores of journalists had been tipped off and given access to ensure maximum coverage of the secret police operation...
...access to research across all disciplines in the spirit of the “one-university” environment that the HOLLIS catalog now provides for holdings in all the libraries, more than 80 of them, throughout the University system. The Office for Scholarly Communication will also promote maximum cooperation by the faculty. Many repositories already exist in other universities, but they have failed to get a large proportion of faculty members to submit their articles. The deposit rate at the University of California is 14 percent, and it is much lower in most other places. By mandating copyright retention...
...jury ordered Vela to 10 years in prison, a reduction to the rank private, forfeiture of all pay and benefits and a dishonorable discharge. But the penalty was also seen as a concession to the extraordinary pressures under which soldiers decide whether to take or preserve life. The maximum possible sentence was life without parole; the prosecution had recommended a minimum sentence of 15 years...