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...Since 2004, federal funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has declined in real terms. The percentage of grant applicants receiving money has dropped from 31 percent in 1998 to under 20 percent...
...Foreman has found that tamarins will, around 5 to 10 percent of the time, deny themselves one Froot Loop if accepting it would trigger a reward of four Froot Loops to another monkey...
...deepening of their country’s democratic fabric, as well as the concentration of power in the persona and the position of the presidency. This first trend deserves to be celebrated. Through his government’s aggressive social programs (real per capita social spending increased by 30 percent% from 1998 to 2004) , Venezuela’s pernicious levels of inequality and poverty are being engaged, even if gradually. Perhaps more impressively, communal councils and workplace cooperatives (as of 2006, 100,000 cooperatives employing 700,000 workers) have sprung up in an ambitious attempt to return power...
...people that showed up, it was hilarious. The problem is not, however, that attendance was low, or that this year only 2,181 people voted in the UC presidential election, the lowest turnout in the Council’s recorded history. The reason more than 60 percent of the student body didn’t vote was not because we’re lazy, too busy, or apathetic, but because it didn’t make a difference to us who won.The winning ticket, Sundquist-Sarafa, garnered only 1,450 first-place votes, meaning only 27 percent of the undergraduate...
...rejected what it saw as their worst traditions, such as the Hindu caste system. It later incorporated the teachings of nine other Gurus, or teachers, which are collected in the Guru Granth Sahib, the holy book revered as the eleventh Guru. The religion claims 23 million followers today, 76 percent of whom live in the Indian state of Punjab. Although they make up only 2% of the wider Indian population, they are a close-knit and prosperous community with a strong cultural affiliation. But the battle to preserve the turban may well be the toughest facing the Sikhs since they...