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The NIH Record
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The NIH Catalyst
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Scientific Opportunities and Public Needs
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the single largest funder of health research in the United States, and research it has supported has been pivotal to the explosion of biomedical knowledge over the past century. As NIH's success has grown, so has pressure from advocacy groups and other members of the public to devote more spending to their health concerns. In response to a request from Congress, this IOM study reviewed NIH's research priority-setting process and made recommendations for possible improvement. The committee considered the: Factors and criteria used by NIH to make funding allocations. Process by which the funding decisions are made. Mechanisms for public input. Impact of congressional statutory directives on funding decisions. Among other recommendations, the book recommends that NIH seek broader public input on decisions about how to spend its nearly $14 billion budget; it also urged the agency to create new Offices of Public Liaison in the Office of the Director and in each of the 21 research institutes to allow interested people to formally take part in the process.
Tours That Bind
Winner, 2010 Association for Jewish Studies Jordan Schnitzer Book Award 2011 Honorable Mention for the American Sociological Association Culture Section's Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book Since 1999 hundreds of thousands of young American Jews have visited Israel on an all-expense-paid 10-day pilgrimage-tour known as Birthright Israel. The most elaborate of the state-supported homeland tours that are cropping up all over the world, this tour seeks to foster in the American Jewish diaspora a lifelong sense of attachment to Israel based on ethnic and political solidarity. Over a half-billion dollars (and counting) has been spent cultivating this attachment, and despite 9/11 and the ongoing Isr...
FEAR JUNCTION
This novel is a horror dealing with a supernatural evil that has the ability to possess a person who then unwillingly commits unspeakable acts of horror when they otherwise would be normal members of the community.Fourteen year-old Stella Rose witnesses her sister attacked in the woods by a hatchet-weilding madman possessed by a hundred-year old evil spirit. With her father away on business as he always seems to be, and her alcoholic mother teetering on the edge of madness, Stella Rose finds herself alone in the town being terrorized by evil and madness where no one can be trusted, and nothing is what it seems.Fear Junction, Oregon Chief of Police Willie Troth is in a race against the clock to capture the madman before he kills again. What is doesn't know yet, is that capturing madman is only part of the solution. There is only one way to destroy evil and only young Stella Rose knows the secret.
Civic Administration
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