The official who oversees the federal government's broadcasts to foreign countries directed staff to do personal work and used government resources for his private racehorse operation, State Department investigators conclude in a new report.

Kenneth Tomlinson, a Bush appointee who chairs the Broadcasting Board of Governors, also double-billed the board for his own work, according to the report released Tuesday.

The new allegations come after Tomlinson was forced to resign last year as head of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting amid revelations of impropriety there.

    

Evolutionary biology has vanished from the list of acceptable fields of study for recipients of a federal education grant for low-income college students.

The omission is inadvertent, said Katherine McLane, a spokeswoman for the Department of Education, which administers the grants. "There is no explanation for it being left off the list," Ms. McLane said. "It has always been an eligible major."

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If a major is not on the list, students in that major cannot get grants unless they declare another major, said Barmak Nassirian, associate executive director of the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers.

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That the omission occurred at all is worrying scientists concerned about threats to the teaching of evolution.