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...Sunday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced that his country would begin enriching its uranium stockpiles beyond the 3.5 percent threshold necessary for electricity generation. Ostensibly, the move is designed to allow for the production of medical isotopes. But many nuclear security experts note that the announced plan for 20 percent enrichment enables Iran to perform 90 percent of the process necessary to produce weapons-grade uranium under the guise of medical research. As such, the United States must take a very strong stance against further Iranian enrichment on both the domestic and international fronts...
...poll also revealed that fears about vaccine shortages have mostly abated, as 70 percent of adults surveyed now believe there are adequate vaccine supplies in their communities. A poll last November had found that only 21 percent believed their communities were sufficiently prepared...
...increase in question, released on Feb. 1, augments the current budget for Pell Grants by six percent, raising the minimum grant from $5,500 to $5,710. It will also allocate an additional one billion dollars to the National Institutes of Health, constituting a 3.2 percent increase, the largest such increase in eight years. The National Science Foundation, likewise, will see an eight percent growth in the size its budget under Obama’s proposal. These changes will likely make American education available to an even wider group of students, and they therefore deserve praise...
...Boston. Get out of the metropolises. Look beyond the densely populated zones of our country where collectivism is expected and mostly accepted. Get out of Cambridge where 85 percent still voted for Martha Coakley. I hate to perpetuate the Massachusetts-as-foil-for-Texas stereotype, but I’ll take the risk. So drive down through the winding roads of non-urban Texas, where people of modest means have yards the size of parks, where you’ll break a sweat walking to the next door neighbor’s, and where stray cattle wander through neighborhoods...
However, the faculty did limit the percentage of students who receive Latin honors on their diploma after 91 percent of the Class of 2001 graduated with honors...