$12.5 million in U.S. "genius" grants for lucky 25
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Twenty-five people who turned their  outside-the-box intellects loose on subjects as disparate as  the jazz violin and stem cell research were named on Tuesday as  winners of $500,000 unrestricted "genius grants."
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The government awarded $385 million in grants last week aimed at jumpstarting ethanol production from nontraditional sources like wood chips, switchgrass and citrus peels. What's surprising is that half of the six projects chosen will use a process first discovered almost a century ago to turn coal into a gas.
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Drexel University, the University of Michigan and Florida State University plan to use more than $600,000 in grants to turn the Internet Public Library into a virtual teaching and learning laboratory for digital reference.
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Commission an original composition for $2,000, or even $5. Some music lovers have even formed investment clubs to raise funds for new works.
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RapHappy.com nails $100,000 Digital Incubator award from MTV and Cisco for their online rap creation and sharing app.
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Giving cash prizes for solutions to thorny problems turns out to be a great way to tap the talents of geeks everywhere. The X Prize Foundation is just one source of funding for these contests ...
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Announcement a remarkable twist for a candidate who raised more than $100 million last year.
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Oct. 22 -- The US Department of Energy has awarded a $235 million grant to help fund the development of a clean, advanced technology coal-fired power plant near Orlando, Fla.
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An overview of The Motley Fool's Foolanthropy charity drive.
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On Thursday, the company announced it will invest US$12 million over the next five years in a new research and developmentcenter in Tokyo.
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San Francisco AIDS researcher Dr. Joseph &quot;Mike&quot; McCune was named Wednesday as one of nine winners of $2.5 million grants from the National Institutes of Health to carry out innovative medical research.
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News Corp. mogul Rupert Murdoch received a $12.5 million bonus in fiscal 2004, a 40-percent increase from the bonus he received the previous year, according to the company&#39;s annual report.
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A research team has been awarded a $3.5 million federal grant to use a molecular detective technique to study and potentially improve the military&#39;s anthrax vaccine.
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A record $12.5 million grant to be announced today will revolutionize science teaching throughout Boston Public Schools, officials said.
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The old thinking goes that to change the world, you have to give millions. But young tech-savvy philanthropists are trying to prove otherwise.
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By Mark Guydish, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Times Leader  Sep. 16--LEHMAN TWP. -- Lake-Lehman School District is one of only 74 districts nationwide to get a chunk of   $23 million in grants designed to beef up the district's ability to handle large-scale emergencies.
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The X Prize Foundation, famous for its 2004 Ansari award aimed at encouraging private space travel, offered 10 million dollars to the team of researchers able to develop technology that can map 100 human genomes in 10 days.