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...State Department's more sensitive efforts are those that seek to empower grassroots organizations, such as the $5 million Civil Society Initiative 2.0, officially launched in Morocco last November to work with local NGOs in North Africa and the Middle East. An even broader effort, the Alliance of Youth Movements, mentors activists from around the globe using annual summits and a bulging library of how-to videos such as How to Create a Grassroots Movement for Change. "Mostly these are one or two people doing amazing things on their own, who often did not appreciate the full significance of what...
...seems domestic basic research is [a priority] and for that were pleasantly surprised,” Casey says after arriving in Washington Monday night to seek lawmakers’ support for Obama’s budget proposal. “We look forward to defending that on the Hill...
...open forum last September, Smith said that FAS would seek to reduce its deficit to $90 million for the fiscal year ending in 2010—a planned decrease of $20 million that the administration has exceeded by $10 million, according to its most recent estimates...
...competition, which organizers emphasize is an “experiment,” does not seek solutions to diabetes research and treatment, but instead ideas from a broad spectrum of individuals—both in and out of the medical industry—that might aid research. Organizers said they hope that a set of fresh eyes will yield innovative approaches towards the disease...
...particular caveats - many of which include no fighting - shocked Gates during his visit a year and a half ago. "He heard that we had a soldier who was shot and was in Spain's AOR [area of responsibility]. The Spanish troops had to call back to Madrid to seek permission to medevac him," a Pentagon aide told me. "The soldier lived. But Gates was furious." He also heard that while wounded soldiers in Iraq were guaranteed a medevac within the "golden hour," in Afghanistan they could wait as long as 1 hr. 41 min. Gates saw that there were...