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...needs troops to help create a secure environment for reconstruction to proceed, and money to help underwrite it. An international donor's conference is schedule for Madrid late in October, when some 45 countries are expected to make commitments to help share the burden. But earlier indications from such key potential donors, such as the European Union and the World Bank, suggest that financial aid, too, might be conditional on some changes in the political arrangements in Baghdad - Washington might struggle to convince some key donors to make commitments that might be seen as underwriting an occupation...
...team of researchers from Israel and the Netherlands have taken a bold step that could help infertile woman by increasing the short supply of human donor eggs: harvesting the eggs from aborted fetal tissue. With the parents' permission, the team surgically removed developing ovaries from seven aborted fetuses aged between 22 and 33 weeks, and bathed them in a hormone cocktail designed to stimulate ovarian maturation. Although the follicles that eventually produce eggs would normally remain inactive until puberty, in this case they began to secrete the female hormone oestradiol after four weeks in the test-tube?a sign that...
...Republicans--and Oliver--have been helped by the campaign-finance reform enacted last year. Championed chiefly by Democrats, the law bans soft-money donations--unlimited sums given to political parties mostly by corporations--and raises the ceiling on hard-money gifts by individuals. Republicans have a bigger and wealthier donor base, so they have been better at the new, purely hard-money game. The Democrats, with a smaller base, depended on a short list of deep-pocketed donors who wrote large soft-money checks...
...Having a donor on the top oversight committee is unusual for an academic institution, but more acceptable in the world of private foundations such as Whitehead, Harvard officials said...
Golan, now senior director and one of the top fundraisers at New York’s renowned Carnegie Hall, describes this as his first exposure to “creating a little event to recognize a donor for a particular enhancement.” He says this, of course, with a slightly joking air, noting that neither he nor his roommates had much respect for the tactic at the time...