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...Foundation's grants process has been under scrutiny since Epps began an investigation of a Society of Arab Students complaint about their fall grant. "Dean Epps did indicate that the faculty would not just rubber stamp the decisions," says Nicholson...
Worse, the recovery has not yet brought much help to the poor -- quite the contrary. The number of people qualifying for food stamps has fallen sharply after previous recessions ended. But it has jumped 40% in the past three years; in December, after 21 months of recovery and six months of rapidly rising production, food-stamp qualifiers reached an all-time high of 26.6 million, or 10.4% of the total population. Economists generally still expect output growth of about 3% this year, up from 2.1% in 1992. They had better be right...
CAPTION: U.S. federal food-stamp program...
DARTMOUTH: Stamp 17-46-6, Burke 8-17 2-2-19, Jones 00-00-0 Cornell 0-5 3-4-4 Reed 8-19 2-2-18, Lawrence 56-24-12, Stucker 5-11-34-13, Stuebner 3-12 00-6 Totals...
...million appropriation is a pittance in NIH's overall annual budget of more than $10 billion, critics resent that any sum is being diverted from traditional research. Some carp that the office will be a refuge for quacks -- a charge Jacobs flatly denies. "We're not created to rubber-stamp questionable practices...