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EEPC Director Irwin M. Stelzer said that while the DOE had been the center's largest donor over the past six years, giving between $100,000 and $200,000 a year, it cut off all support after the center issued a report last September that challenged an earlier DOE study of energy security issues...
Japanese Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita used last week's economic summit in Toronto to showcase Japan's growing involvement in global affairs. Takeshita unveiled a $50 billion foreign-aid package before the meeting that would make Tokyo the world's largest donor. Japan also announced a debt-relief program for Third World countries and agreed to phase out import quotas on oranges and beef...
...fellowships, funded by an anonymous donor, will allow two Costa Ricans to attend the K-School's Edward S. Mason Program in Public Policy and Management each year. The program was initiated in 1971 to educate leaders from developing and newly industrialized nations...
...body. Once the alien threat has been identified, agents known as helper T cells unleash the powerful immune response that attacks grafted tissue. During the 1970s, physicians found that they could minimize this reaction by more closely matching the MHC proteins, or immunological "dog tags," of a donor with those of the recipient. Even so, they could not completely eliminate the rejection response. To make matters worse, the only drugs available to weaken it shut down the defensive system completely, leaving patients vulnerable to viruses, bacteria or tumors. The triple threat of rejection, infection and malignancy kept transplant surgery...
...Public and private donors are looking for waysto coordinate giving for maximum impact," Ramseysaid. "Coordinated and effective programs buildconfidence in donor communities...