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Anticipating this concern, federal officials took pains to emphasize that federal dollars devoted to autism have been rising in recent years. According to Peter Van Dyke, who oversees HRSA's Maternal and Child Health Bureau, President Obama has proposed an increase from $42 million this year to $48 million in 2010 for HRSA's autism-related programs. Insel, who heads the federal Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee, noted that autism is the only disorder specifically targeted for federal stimulus funds, to the tune of $85 million over the next two years...
...opportunity for the city state. They put forward a proposal that the government not only acquire Tyler's works and machinery but also establish a world-beating institute under the guidance of the man many believe to be the greatest printer alive. When the Cabinet balked at the $15 million required, the Totalisator Board, a state body, stepped...
...numbers for his past three pictures prove that: Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheit 9/11 and Sicko have together earned more than $300 million worldwide. Not all this boodle can have come from people who agree with his populist-lefty agenda. No, they pay to see him play "Michael Moore": a heavyset fellow with a doofus grin, alternately laughing and badgering but perennially at the center of attention. For all his girth, Moore fits the mold of the little guy in classic Hollywood movies. Like Jefferson Smith and Rocky Balboa, he bucks the odds and takes on the power élite...
Antonio and the world's 25 million other small coffee growers don't have a lot of career alternatives. So you'd think they would be enthusiastic about Fair Trade - a global campaign that for 25 years has sought to bring struggling Third World farmers, including Antonio, out of poverty by paying them higher-than-market prices for everything from coffee to quinoa. Along the way, it has recruited retail giants like Starbucks, which is the globe's largest purchaser of Fair Trade - certified coffee...
...Cold War, dropped to as low as 45˘ per lb. Fair Trade was the small farmer's savior during that crisis, paying twice the going rate. Starbucks joined the cause and this year has pledged to double the amount of Fair Trade coffee it buys, to 40 million lb., 40% of the Fair Trade beans the U.S. imports. The company declined to comment on whether Fair Trade's benefits fall short of its vision or how much it would need to raise prices if coffee were to climb to $2 per lb. Fair Trade "isn't the only reason...