You also don't understand the facts about the success of Medicare and Medicaid or who really contributes to college debt by cutting Pell Grants, and how many people who need government help go to work every day for poverty wages.
The foundation also gave Johns Hopkins smaller grants to calculate how many pneumonia cases there are in adults and adolescents.
The Justice Department doled out Byrne grants based on how many arrests officers made, how much property they seized, and how many warrants they served.
One thumb touch later, the free Pedometer++ app asked for my permission to use motion data (granted) and immediately told me how many steps I'd taken over the past seven days.
Having always taken the jet fuel of the Western world for granted, I was surprised at how many stages are needed for the small, cherrylike coffee beans to be washed, depulped, dried, sorted by size, dehusked in various baths and channels, eventually spread to dry for days outside in a large courtyard, then stored in sacks for a few weeks.
We who take flushing for granted also don't realize how many folks around the world can't flush.
Typically, corporate tax breaks are granted on the basis of how many jobs a company will create using the money it's saving on taxes.
"What people do is they count papers, and they look at the prestige of the journal in which the research is published, and they see how many grant dollars scientists have, and if they don't have funding, they don't get promoted," Dr. Fang said.
Last November the WAO said it did not know exactly how many grants were being made available from public bodies.
