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The 100 Worst Stimulus Packages
Long, but worth the read. Some of my favorites...
- Pictures of Ants (San Francisco, CA) - $1.9 million
- Jamming for Dollars (Atlanta, GA) - $762,372
- Monkey and Chimpanzee Responses to Inequity (Atlanta, GA) - $677,462
- Helping Siberians Lobby Russian Policymakers (San Francisco, CA) - $199,862
- Weather Predictions for Other Planets (San Antonio, TX) - $298,543
- Monkeys Get High for Science (Winston-Salem, NC) - $144,541
- Studying the Effect of Local Populations on the Environment...in the Himalayas (Ann Arbor, MI) - $529,648
- Scientist Attempts to Create Joke Machine (Evanston, IL) - $712,883
- Eighth Rock From the Sun (Berkeley, CA) - $456,663
- Marketing Video Games to the Elderly (Raleigh, NC and Atlanta, GA) - $1.2 million
- Law and Order in the Spanish Empire (Miami, FL) - $59,845
- Addiction Studies Program for Journalists (Winston-Salem, NC) - $266,505
- Helping Drinkers Control Their Alcohol Consumption With Creative Labeling (San Diego, CA) - $497,117
- Let's Polka at the International Accordion Festival! (San Antonio, TX) - $25,000
- Study: Does Retirement Help or Hurt Marriage? (Los Angeles, CA) - $174,661
- NIH Spends Stimulus Money to Promote the Impact of Its Stimulus Projects (Silver Spring, MD) - $363,760
- A Better Way to Freeze Rat Sperm (Columbia, MO) - $180,935
Posted by: tu3031 2010-08-04 |
