Hughes looks east for next expansion

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The Howard Hughes Medical Institute may establish a program of grants in the former Soviet bloc that would award $14 million to individual researchers over five years. The institute hopes to identify the most promising researchers who have published in English outside the Soviet Union. The logistics of transferring money to the former Soviet Union, and dealing with its tax laws, still need to resolved. Though other international grants awarded by Hughes average nearly $100,000 per year, researchers in Russia could be supported for much less, perhaps as little as $2,000.

Foreign operations, Finance, International aspects, Eastern Europe, Medical research, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Europe, Eastern

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Hurricane pounds Florida research facilities

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Hurricane Andrew badly damaged several research facilities and laboratories when it ripped through southern Florida in Aug 1992. A National Institutes of Health facility at the University of Miami was smashed up, killing many of the research primates housed there. A commercial primate research facility also in Miami was virtually razed by the storm, killing some animals and setting about 4,000 free, most of which were later caught. In addition, NASA was forced to put off starting its Mars Observer mission.

Social aspects, Florida, Natural disasters, Laboratories, Hurricane Andrew, 1992

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How much green in the greenhouse?

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Patrick Michaels, Robert Balling and Stephen Schneider are the most prominent scientists to go on the public lecture circuit to argue for or against the possibility that greenhouse warming will alter the climate. Michaels and Balling doubt that greenhouse warming is real while Schneider believes that it is. None of these men made more than $30,000 from lecturing in 1991 despite accusations of being enriched to serve the interests of either the fossil-fuel industry or the environmental lobby.

Political activity, Political aspects, Global warming, Scientists, Environmental policy, Greenhouse effect

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