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...sounds like a sweetheart deal for Jacobson so Jacobson can increase what he gets paid," said Albert F. Gordon '59, a retired investment banker and securities analyst for Kidder Peabody and Marcus Schloss, donor and long-time critic...
Yale, Princeton and the University of Chicago are currently considering Holocaust studies professorships, according to Martin H. Peretz, a lecturer in social studies. While no particular scholar may have been available at the time of the bequest, that is no reason for the University to convince the donor to reallocate the money...
...Frelimo government was smart enough to help too. Anxious about the potential for trouble from 90,000 unemployed guys with guns, it contracted with the United Nations to develop a plan that would rapidly resettle soldiers and refugees in their home villages. In 1994 the government and donor countries scraped together $20 million to pay all demobbed soldiers a minimum salary for two years to help them rebuild their shambas (farms) and restock their corrals. "We wanted to get them out of the military and make them civilians right away," explains Sam Barnes, a program administrator. "We wanted the soldiers...
...marble figure of the centurion who pierced Christ's side, only to then discover His divinity. Longinus is one of four figures planned for the altar niches at the crossing of St. Peter's Basilica. The bronze cast of the of the Countess Matilda (called the "FalkBronze" after its donor) is one of two remainingfigurines that closely resemble the statue of thecountess in the tomb erected in St. Peter'sBasilica under order of Pope Barberini. All theseform part of one of Fogg Museum's most spectacularand far-sighted purchases ever, when in 1937, theFogg acquired 27 terracotta sculptures, fourteenof which...
...should cloning an adult cell be so hard? The cell-cloning technique scientists use offers some clues. Typically, the nucleus of the donor cell, whether fetal or full grown, is transferred to an unfertilized egg from which the nucleus has been removed. In mysterious ways scientists still do not understand, something in the cytoplasm of the egg appears to reset the donor cell's DNA. That resetting, it has been clear from the beginning, works much less reliably when adult cells are used, even when they are relatively immature fibroblast cells...