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...fund raising enables wish granters to fill a basic need: they give critically ill people a chance to make a choice that's not about their medical care or funeral arrangements. "When you're in the process of dying, you lose a little control every day," says Stevie Ball, CEO of the Fairygodmother Foundation. Dreams are an opportunity for the dreamers "to control one of the last pieces of their lives." Though all the groups vie for funding from individuals and companies, "it's the kind of business that really isn't competitive," Ball says. The world needs as many...
...DAILY PENNSYLVANIAN runs an interesting piece on websites that predict your chances of getting into particular schools: Questions range from the basic to the blunt. ThickEnvelope, for example, asks clients: "Would you say that your mother or father is a nationally recognized, very important person or well-known celebrity?"What the DP doesn't do, but could have, is pay for some ex-post-facto predicting, checking to see if the sites are any good at guessing whether current Penn students would be admitted to the school...
...treatment that would protect their children's lives. To be sure, there is some good news; a recent report by unicef found that global access to safe drinking water rose from 1990 to 2004. But 1.1 billion people still don't have clean water; 2.6 billion lack a basic toilet. "That's an infrastructure problem and a development problem that we have not been able to deal with," says Greenough of Johns Hopkins. If the world wants to avoid the needless deaths of yet more children, it's time that...
...Maybe the color of the Nobel Prize medal should be changed from gold to red, white and blue. U.S. researchers swept the science awards for the first time since 1983. But the joy came with a warning from many in the U.S. scientific community: the kind of basic research that won Nobels is no longer getting adequate funding. Without more funds, they argue, U.S. scientific dominance won't last, as other nations become more competitive in these cutting-edge fields...
...time to lighten up on energy, basic materials and other economy- sensitive stocks, says Liz Ann Sonders, chief investment strategist at Schwab. She is shifting into slowdown stalwarts like health care and consumer staples. But she is also heavy in technology shares, which she believes have fallen so far as to be bargains in any economic climate...