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...policymaking by demonizing whole countries. Just a handful of nations make up the nuclear club, and these aspiring members are under constant scrutiny. "The ballistic-missile threat is confined, limited and changing relatively slowly," argues Joseph Cirincione, director of the Carnegie Non-Proliferation Project, which is part of the nonprofit Carnegie Endowment for International Peace...
...Michael Washe, founder of the website Breakupmicrosoft.org But many neutral parties were worried that the tech industry was stooping to new lows in skulduggery. "It's not the kind of use of resources anyone can be proud of," says Ruben Barrales, president of Joint Venture: Silicon Valley Network, a nonprofit economic-development organization...
With $70 million in long-term funding from the late biotech entrepreneur Wallace Steinberg, TIGR (pronounced tiger) finally gave Venter freedom to do what he wanted. But there was a hitch. First crack at any genes it decoded went to the nonprofit institute's commercial partner, Human Genome Sciences, led by former AIDS researcher William Haseltine...
...competitive edge. "Under the old system," agrees Nathan Schauer, a coach at Los Angeles' Lincoln High, "a few schools were always wiping the floor with the rest of us." Alvino adds that the $1.3 million proceeds from sales of study guides last year are needed to help support the nonprofit program's $1.75 million operating budget. In response to its critics, the decathlon association promises to cut prices for study guides and eliminate them for three decathlon categories. Alvino also vows to eliminate trivial questions and errors in the study materials, such as a reference to NASA as the "National...
...very hard to get a job in D.C. in advance," says Benvenutti, who will be looking for a job on Capitol Hill, the Federal agencies, or even a Washington nonprofit. For some jobs, she says, she has found that "you need to have a full transcript before you can even apply...