Word: program
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Graham is currently a professor at the University of Iowa, working in the Writers Workshop division, which she explained is considered "the premier graduate program in the nation...
...Professor Graham will both ensure continuing distinction to our Creative Writing program and bring further strength to our department's poetry wing," said Lawrence Buell, chair of the English department...
Opponents of the rule, though, are not simply pointing fingers. Two weeks ago, the Louisiana attorney general filed suit in federal court seeking to prevent the program from going into effect in his state. A hearing on the motion is being held this week. And Louisiana Representative Bob Livingston, the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, has attached a rider to the HHS funding bill that would block the rule for one year...
...Jacques Cousteau picked to replace him as head of the U.S.-based Cousteau Society and its French counterpart, Equipe Cousteau, which own the rights to his films, books and inventions. Under Francine, the organization has planned ambitious projects, ranging from a Caspian Sea expedition to a "Waters of Peace" program that aims to locate ecologically threatening wrecks left under the sea. "We conceived this operation as a way to carry on Cousteau's work and philosophy," she says, sitting in the Captain's former office in Paris surrounded by diving helmets, Greek amphoras and other memorabilia...
...thing it has left: allocation of astronauts. For a mere $60 million, NASA chief Daniel Goldin told members of Congress in a letter printed in the New York Times Monday, America will get "up to 100 percent of the research time previously allocated to Russia" -- and Moscow's space program effectively becomes a subsidiary of Washington...