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...seven institutions will pool more than $125 million in National Cancer Institute (NCI) grants each year, the largest sum of NCI money in the world, said David G. Nathan, president of Dana-Farber and the cancer center's director...
Establishing a good communication network will help win the center a Comprehensive Cancer Center designation--and up to $10 million a year in grant money for upkeep of facilities--from the NCI, Nathan said. With the NCI visiting the center in early February, the center is trying to launch as many initiatives as possible...
According to Corlette, an additional $105 million will be available to Boston area teaching hospitals because of the action. These hospitals make up the bulk of teaching hospitals in the state...
...curious about it. "Many kids who attend abstinence-only schools think their schools' attitude is unrealistic," says TIME writer Jodie Morse. "They feel that condoms should be available to protect the kids who are going to have sex anyway." Given that abstinence curricula just got an infusion of $250 million in federal funding over the next five years, supporters are under considerable pressure to link chastity lessons to the recent decline in teen pregnancy. And so far that evidence is in short supply...
...Friday, Fidel Castro drew more than 2 million people into Cuba's streets to demand the return of the boy, who is currently staying with a great-aunt and great-uncle in Miami. The same day, Florida relatives filed a claim for political asylum on the boy's behalf, to prevent him from returning home to his natural father, with whom he remains close. While the U.S. has urged Elian's father to make a formal claim with immigration authorities, legal challenges by the boy's relatives - backed by Cuban exile organizations - are likely to delay his early return...