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Congress is currently considering President George W. Bush's budget proposal, which recommended the same level of NIH funding as the year before, a real-dollar decline once inflation is taken into account...
...Kennedy ’54-’56, who chairs the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions that Faust is addressing, to propose an amendment this week to increase NIH funding by $1.8 to $2 billion, or more than six percent increase over the current year's budget...
...energy, intelligence or enthusiasm—but in opportunity.”Harvard received $329 million in grants from the NIH last year, making it far and away the University’s largest source of federal research dollars.Congress is currently considering President George W. Bush’s budget proposal, which recommended the same level of NIH funding as the year before, a real-dollar decline once inflation is taken into account.INSIDE THE BELTWAYIn her Congressional testimony, Faust pointed to recent advances in biomedical science as evidence of the need for further funding support.“I feel...
...Congress doubled the budget of the NIH between 1999 and 2003, increases credited with facilitating breakthroughs in research like the sequencing of the human genome and dramatic advances in cancer treatment. But since 2003, the NIH’s budget has been flat, causing the overall success rate for research project grants has dropped from 32 percent in 1999 to 24 percent last year...
...most colorful recent sign of detente was Pakistan's decision to partly lift its ban on Indian films. Officially, Bollywood movies have been banned in Pakistan since the 1965 war between the two countries. But Indian stars and big-budget dance numbers have a huge following in Pakistan, and are now widely available via black-market DVDs. Indian films shot in third-party countries have been allowed in Pakistan for the past four years, and now a Pakistani Senate Committee says it will allow in 12 Indian films a year as long as Pakistani films are shown in India...