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Because, says author Stephen Burd, they are engaged in "a relentless pursuit of prestige and revenue." The biggest change over the past 20 years, Burd tells ABC News, has been the shift from need-based aid to merit-based. That's been driven, he says ...

Sascha Meinrath, vice president and director of the Open Technology Institute, told ABC News that its open sourced wireless "mesh network" system can serve many purposes. "It can be used in places where there is no connectivity, where connectivity has ...

With Anhueser-Busch Inbev seeking a controlling share of Grupo Modelo, the brewer of Corona and Modelo Especial, the D.C.-based New America Foundation criticized the sale, which it says would solidify a virtual duopoly of the American beer market, ...

That's the remarkable possibility raised by Professor Anatol Lieven from King's College London, after he met with former Taliban leaders, who were sounding out the West on a negotiated peace. For anything to work the Taliban would almost certainly insist on ...

EMMA ALBERICI, PRESENTER: To some people, Peter Beinart is a hero of the liberal Jewish movement. Former US president Bill Clinton has called Peter Beinart's new book, The Crisis of Zionism, deeply important for anyone who cares about Israel, ...

Even northern California would be hard to ... blanket with the kind of battery changing stations that we need," said Lisa Margonelli, director of energy policy at New America Foundation. "We have, like, 150000 gas stations in the United States.

... “When you really get down to it, more nutritious meals cost more money,” said Jennifer Cohen, a senior education policy analyst at the New America Foundation, a Washington-based think tank. “And as long as we are in a situation where they are pushing for fiscal austerity in federal government, it’s unlikely that we are going to see a push for these nutritional awareness movements in school lunches.” ...

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$1.5 trillion in cuts? That's "peanuts," says Simpson, at a Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget press conference.

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... Some of the most ambitious and wide-ranging ideas can be found in "A Vision for Economic Renewal: An American Jobs Agenda." The plan is the handiwork of Sen. Tom Harkin,D-Iowa, Reps. John Garamendi, D-Calif., and Leonard Boswell, D-Iowa, and a task force co-chaired by Leo Hindery, Jr., chairman of the Economic Growth/Smart Globalization Initiative at the New America Foundation. ...

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