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...promise of their findings has already prompted funding from the National Institutes of Health, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Sarah Thomas Monopoli Lung Cancer Research Fund, the Lucas Foundation, and several drug companies—most notably Novartis—in the hope of developing drugs that may specifically target common genetic alterations across cancer types...
...obvious source of emergency funds, then, is the International Monetary Fund. Not only is it one of the only institutions with enough money (over $750 billion in lending capacity) to sustainably prop up the Greek economy, but the fund also has unmatched experience in setting troubled economies straight—that, after all, is its purpose. While it is unprecedented for the IMF to bail out a eurozone nation, it has bailed out several EU members including the United Kingdom in 1976 and, more recently, Hungary, Latvia, and Romania in cooperation with...
...Doctoral Child Care Student Scholarship Program was founded in 2006 to help graduate student parents in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences fund daycare costs that often surpass the student stipends...
...bill's biggest stumbling block may be the funding it would require. Created with the assistance of the Animal Legal Defense Fund, the bill would raise the approximately $500,000 to $1 million necessary for its launch through a 2- or 3-cent tax per pound of pet food, says Florez, a Democrat who is chairman of the Food and Agriculture Committee. He estimated that after it's launch, the project could cost between $300,000 to $400,000 a year to maintain. Yet even that relatively small amount has some organizations, including a national pet-product trade group...
There may be other ways to fund the registry. Fearing says the Humane Society supported a similar law in Tennessee that called for those convicted of animal abuse to pay $50 toward the cost of an animal-abusers registry. The bill, however, was defeated. Florez says having offenders pay a fee toward the operation of the registry is also under consideration in the California legislation...