Mayors complain stimulus spending isn't reaching metropolitan areasPresident Barack Obama is facing complaints from big-city mayors and county politicians that parts of the economic stimulus package are shortchanging their constituents.

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Top Research Universities Based on US News Data on PhD Programs

July 4, 2009, 3:30 pm | Leiter Reports: A Philosophy Blog

I haven't run one of these meta-analyses of US News reputation data on PhD programs in a number of years, but now that US News has conducted new surveys of natural science, humanities, and social science PhD programs over the last couple of years, I thought it might be amusing.  The scoring system is the one used previously, though I've limited the survey to the Natural Sciences (Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Earth Sciences, Mathematics, and Physics), Social Sciences (Economics, Politica