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...when it comes to research on the basic stem cells themselves, WARF and WiCell insist that they are planning to get as many independent researchers involved as possible to maximize the chance that something useful will come of stem cells. Those researchers will have to pay WiCell a nominal fee--$5,000--and may have to share royalties with the foundation on any commercially successful therapies...
...inspect the bomb, but that he was briefed that the capsule was not on board. Others aren't convinced. Retired Colonel Derek Duke, who sparked the recent investigation, claims the bomb was complete and should be located. He has formed a search-and-salvage operation, seeking a $1 million fee to find it in the shallow waters off Tybee Island, and assembled a band of advisers, which he describes as "like the famous TV A-Team." The Air Force says it's not interested...
...airlines have a system that seems to work. They require that parents fill out a form noting who will meet the child, that adults greeting the child produce photo identification and that family on both ends of the voyage provide phone numbers. Airlines offer escorts for children for a fee (usually $30) to hand-deliver the child to the connecting flight. G.L. Brown, an airline passenger-service consultant in Winston-Salem, N.C., told me that parents can help by arriving at least 90 minutes before the flight and by supplying phone numbers where they can be reached at all times...
...year-old captain has been arrested twice, once in Malaysia when he was busted for smuggling bales of Cambodian marijuana, and once in China. Both times he was released after his bosses bribed the authorities, but he suspects his employers arranged both arrests so they could cut his fee, a common ruse. Choosing a boss is a delicate business, he says: "But sometimes we just take the front money and disappear, so it works both ways...
...further background information, see the TIME Archive for TIME's August, 1991 special issue on the revolution in Russia (fee required...