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With no fanfare, Thomson set himself up six years ago in an off-campus lab under a nonprofit arrangement with the University of Wisconsin's alumni association. That way he freed himself from existing federal restrictions--and avoided jeopardizing the university's government-funded research. Geron Corp., the Menlo Park, Calif., biotech firm that was financing Gearhart's efforts, partly bankrolled Thomson's work in exchange for commercial rights. (Thomson, however, was free to distribute his stem cells to fellow academics.) Because he could afford only one part-time assistant, he ended up doing much of the work himself, getting...
...might be holding out for Ted's Senate seat, should his uncle, who turns 70 next year, hang it up in 2006. But a friend who has seen him lately is not so sure. Joe is making money, giving speeches and sitting on boards while he runs his nonprofit energy company, and doing what he wants with his weekends. "He really is, for the first time, as much at peace as he can be," the friend says. "He's a lot wiser than he was 15 years ago. He knows himself pretty well, and he just wants to be happy...
Most dogs practicing in hospitals today are certified either by Therapy Dogs International in New Jersey or by the Delta Society, a Seattle-based nonprofit organization that screens dogs for personality, obedience and training in hospital protocols. Delta estimates that its 4,500 "pet partners" have provided services for 350,000 patients in 45 states...
Gross has an abiding faith in the free market, even for information. The system may work for rent-a-car companies--but museums and libraries? The results of Gross's handiwork can have a mercenary feel. The first site Google brings up in a search for "motherhood" is the nonprofit "Safe Motherhood Home Page." The first site on GoTo: "Nursing Apparel and Bras--Free Shipping...
Part of Generations of Hope, a nonprofit organization, Hope Meadows is the brainchild of University of Illinois sociologist Brenda Krause Eheart, who got the idea after five years of research into the adoptions of older children, which she discovered often failed. The key problem, she found, was that even the best foster families felt isolated. Without constant, accessible support, they found the task overwhelming. Eheart also fondly recalled having older neighbors who were devoted to her family when her children were young. In the early '90s, when some politicians were promoting a return to orphanages and group homes, Eheart says...