Word: projects
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...major Spanish-language TV network, was seeking to curry favor with his audience. But Perenchio wasn't alone. Millions of dollars are now being poured into pro-Latino causes by such corporations as AT&T, GTE, Miller Brewing and Kaiser Permanente. One grass-roots group, the Southwest Voter Registration Project, has received a $500,000 pledge from State Farm Insurance (to be paid over five years), and its recent "Feel the Power" convention was partly sponsored by ARCO (a company that was boycotted by Hispanics in 1994 after it supported Governor Pete Wilson, backer of the anti-immigrant Proposition...
Last year, I attributed the missing depth of Peace Games discussions to my own relative inexperience and the sheer difficulty of forming relationships with children in hectic one-hour class times. My decision to spend the summer teaching at an academic summer camp in Mission Hill, a Roxbury housing project, was partly due to my belief that hour-a-week public service was insufficient if I wanted to build lasting or, at least, effective relationships with children...
...have not experienced first hand. All nine of my campers are of predominantly African-American descent. I am white. All nine qualified for the free lunch program. I have the luxury of spending over a third of my summer earnings on travel. All nine live in a housing project in which drug use and violence are common-place. I live at Harvard University when I'm not visiting my parents in southeastern Utah. The list goes...
From the people that brought you Dolly the Sheep and the people that brought you 50 cloned mice comes a new project: genetically engineered pigs. PPL Therapeutics in Edinburgh, Scotland, is teaming up with ProBio America for the potentially lucrative purpose of cloning pigs for animal-to-human transplants. "We are going to see if we can make their technique -- the Honolulu technique, used with mice -- work with pigs," said PPL chief Dr. Ron James...
...NASA has wearied of cajoling Moscow to deliver its long-overdue piece of the $20 billion International Space Station. The builders, having received just $22 million of the $300 million pledged, have yet to finish the module that will serve as the astronauts' living quarters, causing consternation throughout the project. "We're not talking about assembling a Lego toy," gripes a NASA official, pointing out that the work the U.S. is undertaking must necessarily follow that done by Russia...