Former NSF director Arden Bement, who launched EAGER in 2009, urged program officers to make many more EAGER awards, up to 5% of their total budgets.
In California, where immigrant rights groups are fielding an unprecedented number of calls, many advocates are urging program recipients set for renewal of their work permits to do so as quickly as possible.
"If we want to stop the cycle of poverty, then we need to start with our families," he said, urging programs to improve parenting skills, home environments and the health of infants.
So in what little spare time is left to a Microsoft vice president, Mr. Rashid began more than three years ago to satisfy his hacker urges by programming an ambitious prototype for a computer game.
On Wednesday, the co-executors of the Jackson estate wrote to Discovery to say the program was "in shockingly bad taste" and cited "common sense and decency" in urging the program be pulled from the air.
At a time of budgetary crisis, the Social Security disability program, which paid $172 billion last year, has attracted criticism nationwide from those who call its benefits too generous and urge the program to issue more denials.
Otpor in particular has been urging a program of civil disobedience, but at the same time, nightly rallies here for Studio B have shrunk to fewer than 500 people.
He urged NSF program officers to spend up to 5% of their budgets on them.
Easterners urge a program of tough love and reforms for Europe's stragglers.
Government's agricultural program, urges progress by destruction, recovery by dissuasion, has never been clearcut in this regard.
