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...images of death filled their TV screens: the rows of fly-haunted corpses, the skeletal orphans crouched in pain, the villagers desperately scrambling for bags of grain dropped from the sky. What started out as a trickle of aid turned into a billion-dollar flood. The U.S., the largest donor, sent $500 million, and that does not include millions in private contributions. Irish Rocker Bob Geldof enlisted the help of his fellow musicians, dubbed his crusade Band Aid and raised $140 million. The rescue effort was plagued by delays and controversy, and some 1 million Ethiopians eventually died. But more...
...pulled back muscles and nerves, exposed the bones and the tumor; using a surgical saw, he then severed the femur four inches above the knee and the tibia, or shinbone, six inches below it. That done, he lifted out the old joint and tumor, trimmed the carefully chosen donor joint and inserted it into the twelve-inch gap. Using a metal rod and plate, the surgeon secured the new joint to the remainder of the femur and tibia and stitched the thigh muscles to their proper tendons...
...will add some $2 million annually over ten years. The first beneficiaries will be current seventh-graders. To receive the assistance, needy students must, among other things, maintain passing grades and take part in some kind of public service activity. "We want to break the poverty cycle," says the donor. Philanthropically inclined tycoons, take note...
Should the bill fail to reach the floor before December 31, it will die in committee, causing a breakdown in the planning of the museum. The donor of the land, Sprague Technologies, and the art collectors have committed themselves only until the end of 1987, after which the land and the art may go to other owners...
...long range plan is that the Charles and Joanne Dickinson Endowment would function as a permanent, named endowed fund at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. The specific terms of the Endowment may be modified subsequently upon mutual agreement of the Dean, or his successor, and the donors. If, at some future time, the Endowment cannot be usefully applied to agreed upon purposes, they will be applied to such uses as will most nearly accomplish the donor's initial intent...