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...State legislators agree. More and more have introduced or passed laws to mandate that doctors and hospitals educate expectant parents about the possibility of cord-blood donation. Doctors can now treat some 70 diseases using stem cells harvested from cord blood, and states including Oklahoma, Michigan and Arkansas are considering bills to fund the establishment of additional local public cord-blood banks and collection centers. "Ideally, we want people to see this as a public service akin to blood or organ donation," says Oklahoma state senator Jay Paul Gumm, who has sponsored such legislation. "Something that they automatically think...
WHAT'S NEXT? States like Michigan, which suspended a student-loan program, will feel the pinch. If insurers can't regain ratings or split off municipal debt, they could go under, meaning fewer public works or higher taxes...
Mohammed Alomari, a director for the Southfield, Michigan-based organization LIFE for Relief and Development says his organization sent its last expatriate staff member home from Iraq in 2005; a local program director was killed in 2006. "Others have been threatened. Others have quit and fled the country," says Alomari. Finding qualified staff to replace those who have fled, he says, is a major challenge...
...good game.” GPSTS, Nesson’s brainchild, sponsors team poker matches between law, business, and other professional schools. In its attempt to spread the joy of poker to universities around the world, GPSTS has already claimed 366 students at the University of Michigan, 100 students at Cornell, and 65 at Harvard. But don’t think it’s all fun and games—the society also holds academic seminars and conferences to discuss the use of poker as a tool for strategic thinking in fields from economics to public policy...
...coach Tim Mitchell said. “Whoever wins the EISA is generally either first or second in the nation. It’s far deeper than any other sport that Harvard competes in terms of the strength of the league. It would be like Harvard football competing against Michigan and Notre Dame.” “We’re closing the gap,” Nordic coach Peter Graves said. “We’re working our way up against schools that have had ski programs for more than a century and are incredibly...