The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has partnered with three minority-serving organizations to lead academic and scholarship programs designed to boost under-represented minority participation in engineering, math and science fields.

Oxnard, Calif,-based radio broadcaster Lazer Broadcasting has received $23 million in financing from the Global Media & Communications arm of GE Commercial Finance, the conglomerate announced today. The loan and revolving credit reportedly will be used primarily for acquisitions and business expansion.

Three Hispanic advocacy groups have attacked statements by a federal attorney that they feel depict efforts to improve diversity in the federal workforce as "handouts."

Richard Carmona, a former high-school dropout whose perseverence eventually made him Surgeon General has been pushed out of the post. Carmona, a decorated Vietnam veteran with the rank of vice admiral, is the second Puerto Rican to serve as the top U.S. public health official, after Dr. Antonia Novello.

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