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		<title>Pork Report October 29,2009: National Science Foundation Edition</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[National Science Foundation studies gossip and workplace politics in elementary school
$1.47 million grant from the National Science Foundation will fund a 3-D virtual recreation of the 1964-65 New York World’s Fair
National Science Foundation funds self-help for Members of Congress
$1.57 million stimulus grant to search for fossils&#8230; in Argentina
Thirty companies ranked among the most egregious offenders [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>National Science Foundation studies <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091028090526.htm ">gossip and workplace politics </a>in elementary school</p>
<p>$1.47 million grant from the National Science Foundation will fund a <a href="http://today.ucf.edu/blog/2009/10/28/ucf-to-build-virtual-new-york-worlds-fair/ ">3-D virtual recreation of the 1964-65 New York World’s Fair</a></p>
<p>National Science Foundation <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2009/10/28/national-science-foundation-funds-self-help-for-congress/">funds self-help for Members of Congress</a></p>
<p>$1.57 million <a href="http://live.psu.edu/story/42549/rss30">stimulus grant to search for fossils</a>&#8230; in Argentina</p>
<p>Thirty companies ranked among the <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/28/AR2009102804540_pf.html">most egregious offenders of state and federal laws </a>awarded more than $1.2 billion in federal stimulus contracts</p>
<p>Taxpayers paid <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2009/10/28/autos/clunkers_analysis/index.htm ">$24,000 per car under federal Cash for Clunkers </a>program</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2009/10/29/earmark_applicants_complaint_fuels_critics/">Group accuses Senate committee staff of unfairly applying earmark procedures </a>by refusing to sponsor a project in the home state of the committee’s chairman while directing federal dollars to an institute in another state for his political friends</p>
<p>Homeland Security Department awarding many research projects <a href="http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/congress-asks-d.html ">without competition or peer review</a></p>
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