Word: donors
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...required to construct the ITP facilities came from an anonymous donor. The program trains foreign teachers of business management, especially those from underdeveloped countries...
Other nations were more generous. Biggest single donor was the U.S., with a total display of 52 works. The Soviets sent a consignment of 13 works rarely seen outside Russia, including four from the Hermitage. Canada helped fill the Italian void with Piero di Cosimo's Vulcan and Aeolus, part of a group of ten pieces that modestly included only two native Canadians, Jean-Paul Riopelle and Paul-Émile Borduas. France obliged with 28 pieces, West Germany with twelve, Japan with ten, Britain with 14, The Netherlands with eight. But some of the most striking contributions came...
Blurring by Mixing. Whether such a conviction would stand up in a higher court is open to question. Although the practice of artificial insemination by donor is growing (perhaps 150,000 living Americans were so conceived), not a single state or federal law defines the rights of the offspring. Only one legal case, in New York in 1948 (Strnad v. Strnad), has held an artificially inseminated child to be legitimate. All other cases on record seem to rule in favor of illegitimacy, whether the husband gave his consent...
What blocks the legislation needed to clear all this up is indifference-plus opposition by religious groups that contend that artificial insemination by a donor constitutes adultery. Last month the Oklahoma house of representatives approved a bill (it has still to pass the senate) that would make that state the first in the U.S. to recognize children produced by artificial insemination as legitimate. Seven other states have tried and failed in the past to enact such basic legislation...