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A higher education study committee last month issued a broad report for the reorganization of higher education in New Jersey.

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OTTAWA — «Parliament gets ready to weaponize M - 103, Trudeau's «anti-Islamophobia» motion,» screamed Ezra Levant's headline in Rebel Media last Monday as MPs in Ottawa sat down at the House Committee on Canadian Heritage to study the growth...

The preference for a male may be unspoken or obliquely voiced by search committees, especially in liberal Protestant denominations where «it is totally unacceptable to refuse» pastor candidates because of gender, race or ethnicity and it is «frowned upon» to make age or marital status an issue, said the study, published last year as part of the Pulpit & Pew project at Duke Divinity School.

Analyzing the cases over the last six years in which competitive elections for the council resulted in dissidents defeating the nominees proposed by the nominating committee, Lupia generated a table, which he read in full, that bears close study.

Last winter, legislature Chairman Ken Ronk appointed a study committee with orders to produce recommendations by the May meeting.

Last month Will voted against allocating $ 42,000 for the C.T. Male study when the issue came before the council's Finance Committee.

NYPIRG is basing its study in part on two Freedom of Information Law requests over the past year that found enforcement actions from the state BOE have resulted in «modest fines» levied on committees that filed their disclosures reports late over the last five years.

Last month the Ulster County Legislature passed a resolution to appoint a study committee of legislators on the future

In a statement sent to reporters last night, Sen. Barbara Boxer, chair of the Environment and Public Works committee, said the study prompted her to ask the Food and Drug Administration to inform the public «how best to protect children from perchlorate.»

«The increased interdependency of countries, economies, and cultures resulting from tremendous growth in international travel and trade over the last several decades has brought improved access to goods and services, but also a variety of health threats,» said Jendayi Frazer, co-chair of the committee that conducted the study and wrote the report and adjunct senior fellow for Africa studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.

Leonard Spector of the Center for Nonproliferation Studies in Washington DC told a US Congressional committee last week that in a recent military exercise, the US and 18 other nations, and «more than 12,000 participants» rehearsed ways to «prevent the transfer of chemical arms out of Syria».

They also prompted Representative Raul Grijalva (D — AZ), the top Democrat on the Natural Resources Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, to launch an investigation last week into the funding sources of seven academics who have studied climate change or testified before Congress on the matter, often to criticize research findings or policy proposals.

Biomass was one of three candidate missions that the European Space Agency's (ESA's) Earth Science Advisory Committee studied during a workshop in Graz, Austria, last month.

After asking an advisory committee to help it carry out IOM's advice, NIH announced last June that it would retire to sanctuaries all but 50 of its 360 research chimpanzees and impose new requirements on any remaining NIH - funded behavioral and biomedical studies.

The study, published in the newest special issue of Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, was mentioned in a presentation on the topic of medical marijuana to the New Mexico Legislative Health & Human Services Committee last November, and is now available from Routledge Journals with Free Access.

However, one of the panel's reservations was that ``... a statistical method used in the 1999 study was not the best and that some uncertainties in the work «have been underestimated,»...» The panel concluded «Based on the analyses presented in the original papers by Mann et al. and this newer supporting evidence, the committee finds it plausible that the Northern Hemisphere was warmer during the last few decades of the 20th century than during any comparable period over the preceding millennium.

To assist the Committee in understanding the impact of these more extreme ratios on responsiveness to dietary fatty acids, Dr. Krauss presented data from an unpublished study that he presented last year to the American Heart Association.

The school committee had decided last month not to reopen the school until health officials had studied environmental conditions...

The Ethnic Studies Committee, which LA Unified unceremoniously disbanded last year, has been renewed by the district, and members agreed to meet for up to three more years with a goal toward incorporating ethnic studies as a graduation requirement, according to Derrick Chau, director of secondary instruction at LA UStudies Committee, which LA Unified unceremoniously disbanded last year, has been renewed by the district, and members agreed to meet for up to three more years with a goal toward incorporating ethnic studies as a graduation requirement, according to Derrick Chau, director of secondary instruction at LA Ustudies as a graduation requirement, according to Derrick Chau, director of secondary instruction at LA Unified.

In testimony before the General Assembly's Appropriations Committee last week, the Connecticut Coalition for Justice in Education Funding [CCJEF] presented the rationale behind Connecticut conducting an Education Adequacy Cost Study in order to determine the level of resources that are really needed to ensure that every child has access to their constitutionally guaranteed right to a quality education.

And last year, Dynegy favored continuing the freeze in testimony before the Energy Mandates Study Committee.

Last week, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration responded to a subpoena sent by the Chair of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee, Lamar Smith (R - TX), requesting data and internal communications related to a study conducted on the global surface warming hiatus.

The report was done at the request of Representative Sherwood Boehlert, the New York Republican who is chairman of the House Science Committee, who called last November for a review of the 1999 study and related research to clear the air.

Last session 15 government bills on criminal law were studied by the Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs, nine of which had originated in passed the House of Commons.

Last week, the House of Commons committee studying the bill was told that plant height has nothing to do with yield or potency but with the fact that most fences are more than one meter high — the inference being that the legislation is designed to keep marijuana plants hidden behind fences.

Last month, the Government commissioned the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC), with the purpose of conducting a study about and advising upon the economic and social impacts of the United Kingdom's exit from the European Union.

Last month, a Facebook representative was questioned by the parliamentary Select Committee studying deliberate online falsehoods.

Communications Committee members began studying the issue early last year.