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Volume IV | Issue 101| 10/09/2009 |
Floor action in Congress was again dominated by appropriations measures, with both chambers clearing the Agriculture spending bill and the Senate passing the Defense spending bill. Prospects for passage of the Senate Finance Committee health care reform bill improved with Congressional Budget Office cost estimates coming in lower than expected.
The Senate Finance Committee is expected to hold a final vote on its health care reform proposal. Appropriations measures are again expected to take up most of the floor time in the House and Senate.
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In New Pentagon-NSF Grants, Social Scientists See Reason for Hope and Caution
Chronicle of Higher Ed
In a widely discussed speech in April 2008, U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates called for a new spirit of cooperation between the military and academe. He envisioned "consortia of universities that will promote research in specific areas," including studies of the Chinese military and radical Islamic movements.
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Obama Aims to Boost Funding For Pell Grants by $40 Billion
Washington Post
After three years of major increases in federal Pell grants for needy college students, President Obama aims to boost the aid further with $40 billion in funding over the next decade. But even that influx might not ensure that the grants will recover and sustain the purchasing power they once held. Experts agree on the reason: soaring college costs.
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Education Agency Will Offer Grants for Innovative Ideas
New York Times
The federal Department of Education sketched out a new nationwide competition on Tuesday under which some 2,700 school districts and nonprofit groups are expected to compete for pieces of a $650 million innovation fund. The department already has the 50 states vying for chunks of a $5.4 billion education improvement fund that it calls Race to the Top; the innovation fund is a separate competition.
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Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at NYU to Show European Artifacts
Artdaily.org
This unprecedented exhibition brings to the United States for the first time more than 250 objects recovered by archaeologists from the graves, towns, and villages of Old Europe, a cycle of related prehistoric cultures that achieved a precocious peak of sophistication and creativity in what is now southeastern Europe between 5000 and 4000 BC, and then mysteriously collapsed by 3500 BC.
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Calorie Postings Don't Change Habits, Study
New York Times
A study of New York City's pioneering law on posting calories in restaurant chains suggests that when it comes to deciding what to order, people's stomachs are more powerful than their brains. The study, by several professors at New York University and Yale, tracked customers at four fast-food chains - McDonald's, Wendy's, Burger King and Kentucky Fried Chicken - in poor neighborhoods of New York City where there are high rates of obesity.
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NYU Anthropologist to Examine How Human Rights Rankings are Created Under NSF Grant
EurekAlert!
New York University Anthropology Professor Sally Engle Merry will examine how rankings of human rights are created under a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation.
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Washington Post
President Obama was awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize Friday for his work to improve international diplomacy and rid the world of nuclear weapons -- a stunning decision to celebrate a figure virtually unknown in the world before he launched his campaign for the White House nearly three years ago.
New York Times
The Senate Finance Committee legislation to revamp the health care system would provide coverage to 29 million uninsured Americans but would still pare future federal deficits by slowing the growth of spending on medical care, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said Wednesday.
Washington Post
The Senate Judiciary Committee approved a bill Thursday that would renew portions of the USA Patriot Act in an effort to address administration concerns about protecting terrorism investigations.
New York Times
He drives a Harley-Davidson, wears a black leather jacket on his back and his religion on his sleeve, and plays a custom guitar with big-name rock stars. All that would seem to have nothing to do with Dr. Francis S. Collins's day job as the new director of the National Institutes of Health. Except that at the institutes, such things do matter.
New York Times
Russell Westbrook held the attention of an audience and an instructor, a familiar role for an N.B.A. player. Only, fellow students made up the crowd. And he was addressed by a teacher, not a coach. Westbrook, a second-year guard for the Oklahoma City Thunder, walked in late to a history class this summer at U.C.L.A. As the N.B.A. opens its preseason, Westbrook was among about 45 players - 10 percent of the league - who had traded gym bags for backpacks in the off-season.
New York Times
Gone are the hot breakfasts in most dorms and the pastries at Widener Library. Varsity athletes are no longer guaranteed free sweat suits, and just this week came the jarring news that professors will go without cookies at faculty meetings.
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