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...company R&D is a secretive thing, often taking place in isolated Skunk Works closed off from the rest of the company, to say nothing of the world. That's not the way things work at J.P.L. The lab is not owned by NASA but rather is a nonprofit, federally funded research center managed by the California Institute of Technology and does its work for NASA under contract. The academics who work there come from the world of peer review, in which even theoretical work isn't considered sound until a lot of objective eyes have had a chance...
Earlier this year, a conservative nonprofit called Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays and Gays (PFOX, whose website says it supports "families touched by homosexuality") approached the PTA about exhibiting at the association's conference. The PTA said no: "From what we saw in the application, it seemed more of an agenda than just a resource for parents," says a PTA official. But the association did allow the liberal group Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays to present an anti-bullying workshop. When I spoke with PFOX executive director Regina Griggs about the PTA'S rebuff, she projected...
Nadosy, who joined the management company’s board two years ago, is also a board member of the World Wildlife Fund, the Markle Foundation, which is a nonprofit focused on health care and national security, and the Summit Foundation, an environmental group...
...Cross, insisting it's in the Gulf for the long haul, aims to raise millions more in donations. Smaller charities may want the Red Cross to spread the wealth, but "the Red Cross raised the money fair and square," says Trent Stamp, executive director of nonprofit-rating agency Charity Navigator. "We have to understand it's going to spend as it sees fit." --By Sean Gregory. With reporting by Greg Fulton/Atlanta
...oral sex, it's tempting to theorize, as James Wagoner of the Washington-based nonprofit organization Advocates for Youth does, that the abstinence-only movement hasn't prevented sex but has simply pushed teenagers away from intercourse and toward a practice that for some reason they don't think of as real sex. Says Wagoner: "The abstinence-only chickens are coming home to roost...