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Anthony Cipoletta (at right), a young patient at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, has probably never seen ice-skating. He also does not know that the Jimmy Fund, the primary source of private contributions to the Institute, celebrates its 40th anniversary this year. Neither does he know that the Evening with Champions is among the largest contributors to the Fund. The annual skating exhibition has raised over three quarters of a million dollars over the last 18 years for the research and treatment of childhood cancer...
Little steps, like the New York City plan, are signs that officials are concerned about helping the mentally ill. The ambitious programs coursing their way through state legislatures to fund more care facilities are even bigger steps. But until concern for solving the problem permeates each neighborhood, each business and each government as deeply as does the illness itself, there will be little progress...
With its small percentage of the fund, theLibrary of Congress spends a couple of milliondollars annually to support 90 New Dehli stafferswho search for and purchase books. Participatinglibraries pay nearly 30 percent of the price ofbooks for delivery and packaging. Harvard's billlast year was approximately...
...Indian government, however, ordered theAmerican money spent, objecting to such a large"neocolonialist" fund, Filstrup said. He said inabout seven years the fund will be exhausted andmember libraries will have to pay for the purchaseof Indian books, in addition to their delivery...
...praised the fund, saying, "It helped createan infrastructure of Indian publishing. It was avery wise seizing of an idea...