Rutgers Was Used to Fund Program on Food in Space

New Jersey has been spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on a
special Rutgers University appropriation that supported a small
nonprofit group to teach school children how to grow food in space,
The Star-Ledger reported. Given that space agriculture hasn't exactly
taken off, the revelation was sure to be controversial, but the
newspaper found that this appropriation featured a peculiat twist on
the concept of the no-show job. Much of the money has been going to
pay the salaries of two people -- one of whom has been dead for two
years. The newspaper first reported the unusual appropriation Monday
morning, and by the end of the day legislators were vowing to kill the
program.
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/05/12/qt#198661
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