Word: projects
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Philip M. Sadler, director of educational projects at the center, said Friday that the National Science Foundation (NSF) this summer approved the grant to fund the Micro Observatory, a project conceived by researchers at the center...
Under the program, scientists are designing telescopes that can be mass-produced cheaply and that can view the stars during the daylight hours, when students are in school, said Owen J. Gingerich, principal investigator for the project...
Andrew R. Molnar, director of Applications for Advanced Technology Programs, a division of NSF that awards $6.5 million in grant money every year, said yesterday that the Harvard-Smithsonian project was selected because it will encourage student involvement in scientific research...
...inadvertently contributed to the environmental problem rather than the solution. In the early 1980s, the U.S. Agency for International Development helped build the Mahaweli Dams in Sri Lanka -- a multibillion-dollar construction typical of AID's past tendency to define development in terms of steel and concrete. The project has flooded forests and destroyed tea plantations. Washington's Environmental Policy Institute cites the dams as one of the 18 most destructive water projects on earth...
During his meeting with Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita in Tokyo, Bush expressed concern about the project. Takeshita seemed prepared for the question. He stiffly denied involvement and assured Bush that his country would not fund the road. It was the first time that a U.S. President considered an ecological issue important enough to justify a tense moment in relations with the world's other economic superpower...