NSF graduate student fellowship

I was spammed by the NSF multiple times to fill out some silly little survey on their graduate student fellowship program (GRFP), so I got annoyed and did it. I call it a silly little survey because I suspect no learning will occur from it, where by “learning” I mean “corrective action.” The cynic in me suspects these surveys are to prove whatever they want to prove — in this case, that the program is “working.” I, however, don’t believe the program is working at a core level.
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Malawian who built windmill

William Kamkwamba builds windmill.

When I first came across this I thought — did he regulate the output in any way? Probably not. Then I saw this from Amazon’s preview of “his” book (it was almost certainly ghost-written):
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