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A proposed diverging diamond traffic pattern at the U.S. 15-501 interchange with Interstate 40 has leaders in Durham, Carrboro and Chapel Hill concerned. ....
While pushing record spending for research and development, the Biden administration is working not just to advance science but also progressive ideology. In line with the administration’s “whole of government” commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, recent grants and requests for proposals from the National Science Foundation encompass research that: ....
“People should realize that [we] are paying tax money to fund science that should be going to help improve people’s lives,” said Leif Rasmussen, a research Ph.D. student at Northwestern University who has analyzed NSF research grant funding in a white paper titled, “Increasing Politicization and Homogeneity in Scientific Funding. That money isn’t always going to that [and] is instead pushing an agenda in which people have to use the right words.” ....