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Endangered Species Act (ESA): Every time the federal government approves a development project - such as a new road or a mine - it must consult with scientists at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to see if the project has the potential to impact an endangered species. This expert scientific review is the heart of the ESA - and the Bush Administration proposes to all but eliminate it. Instead, Bush would allow the federal agency in charge of the project itself to determine its potential impact on endangered species...
...they were interested in things like how we communicate information, what avenues we use, the feedback cards, the blog, how we have a relationship with our students, how our staff know students—and we use food as the medium to do that.10. FM: The Food Literacy Project plays a big role in developing the HUDS relationship with students. What are your plans for the Food Literacy Project?TAM: The next step is the Food Literacy Reps, to try and really have the students from each House focus in on their individual Houses and see how we can have...
...admirable, Spare Change is a necessary complement for the homeless community. However progressive HSHS may be, it is still a charitable organization. Spare Change, importantly, is not. It is an organization dedicated to homeless empowerment, from its mission statement to its content. Published by the Homeless Empowerment Project (HEP), every issue proudly states that Spare Change intends, “To present, by our own example, that homeless and economically disadvantaged people, with the proper resources, empowerment, opportunity, and encouragement are capable of creating change for ourselves in society.” The agency implicit in this mission is clear...
...practice. But in 1980, NBC reported Ronald Reagan's 1980 victory over Jimmy Carter nearly three hours before polls closed on the West Coast, leading to a large-scale examination of exit polling and Congressional hearings on whether it depressed voter turnout. As a result, networks vowed not to project a state's winners until polls there are closed. States have tried and failed to restrict exit polling, which is protected by the First Amendment. (Ironically, the U.S. government is a big supporter of exit polling abroad: the practice is widely used by pollsters hired by NGOs and monitors...
...year's elections. Peronist Senator Eric Calcagno sees the President's current troubles as a backlash from Argentina's business establishment against her stated aim of more evenly distributing Argentina's wealth. "After the economic crisis in 2001, the Argentine establishment accepted becoming a minority partner in a political project it doesn't really agree with, but now that the economy has been solved, the message is: We want you out," says Calcagno...