If there is any advantage to "going private", it is the better facilities – science labs, sports fields, swimming pools, helicopter landing pads, etc.
Abraham is also a member of the school board, which, flush with oil and gas money and ranching wealth, has issued $34 million in bonds since 2002 — $30.5 million to be paid off by early next year — to improve athletic facilities, science labs, the county library and a 700-seat auditorium at the middle school that, Abraham hopes, will attract traveling Broadway shows.
Projects range from new student accommodation to medical research facilities, science labs, office space and facilities to help start-up businesses and universities work better together.
That's when Coulston and the U.S. Department of Agriculture USDAannouncedced a settlement agreement that resolved charges of animal-care infractions in exchange for improving conditions and transferring half of its 600 chimps to other facilities (Science, 10 September 1999, p. 1649).
The cuts are expected to have "significant and potentially lasting impacts" on DOE's research funding programs and sprawling complex of particle accelerators, x-ray light sources, and other science facilities, science office chief William Brinkman told a U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee on 5 March.
In addition to delaying the start of a proposed $12 million network of environmental monitoring stations, it cuts $15 million from a new $35 million earthquake detection and research network, called EarthScope, and freezes the money until NSF hires a permanent director to oversee big new research facilities (Science, 12 July, p. 183).
You can also find work at public and private research facilities, science centers, and planetariums.
Tsinghua University (1911) is the country's most renowned facility for science and engineering.
But he's impressed by Gingrich's facility with science, and somewhat amused that his book left such an impression on the candidate.
IISD President Scott Vaughan tells ScienceInsider that he intends to build upon this past research, while looking to expand the scope of the facility's science to investigate the effects of micropollutants and climate change on aquatic systems.
