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...said. The other Harvard-affiliated grant recipients—Bernstein, Hochedlinger, and Wilson—did not return requests for comment for this article. Eggan was on vacation and could not be reached for comment. The new grants come at a time when scientists are most in need of support. After five years of flat funding from the National Institutes of Health—the largest source of money for academic research—coupled with rising inflation, scientists are now scrambling for funds from President Obama’s two-year stimulus package, which includes $10.3 billion...
...Obama have placed them in," says Allen St. Pierre, executive director of NORML. "[Lynch] is the case that will probably inform society where we're going to go on this because he got arrested under the Bush Administration. He was a Main Street medical distributor who enjoyed the support of the town council, the mayor - quintessential local acceptance. His case has been caught up for months now in the [transition between the two] Administrations. These defendants are caught in this sort of Alice in Wonderland of medical marijuana, between the states and Federal Government...
...beamed back to America's living rooms. Even environmentalism has its iconic images, like Cleveland's heavily polluted Cuyahoga River catching fire in the 1960s, smog wreathing Los Angeles's skyline during the next decade and even the stark hole in the ozone over Antarctica. To help galvanize public support - especially around a complex issue - the right picture really can be worth a thousand words...
...thanks to the climate crisis and a 30-year stretch without serious accidents in the U.S., no-nukes sentiment has faded; a Gallup poll this month found that 59% of Americans now support atomic power. The industry has an even broader base of bipartisan support in Congress, which continues to funnel it billions of dollars worth of loan guarantees, tax breaks, insurance benefits and direct subsidies; the latest goodie is "risk insurance," which will reimburse the industry for regulatory delays. States are devising even more creative incentives for new plants; Florida has promised to pay utilities for nuclear investments even...
...There may be a second political purpose served by Sarkozy's proposal for the sharing of resources between nations whose size and natural riches vary drastically: wooing Rwandan leaders hostile to Paris. Most of Rwanda's Tutsi-dominated government still blame French conniving with - or outright support of - the Hutu militias that conducted the 1994 genocide. In 2006, Rwanda formally broke off ties with France; Sarkozy has made restoring the relationship a foreign policy priority. (See pictures of Sarkozy...