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...Charles Vinick, sitting in the chopper overhead, was disappointed, he didn't show it. Instead, he was upbeat about the progress made since Keiko saw his first wild cousins a few months ago--and fled in fright. Vinick is executive vice president of the California-based Ocean Futures, a nonprofit environmental organization headed by Jean-Michel Cousteau (son of Jacques) that has taken over the job of returning Keiko to the wild. Ocean Futures sees this as a "labor of the heart" but hopes it will also help raise public interest in marine issues. "The knowledge we are acquiring with...
...banned its import in 1989, citing safety concerns. On his third day in office, President Clinton lifted the ban and ordered the FDA to begin safety testing. Developer Roussel Uclaf, meanwhile, sick of getting hammered by both sides, donated U.S. patent rights for mifepristone to the Population Council, a nonprofit reproductive-rights group founded 50 years ago by John D. Rockefeller. The council had to steer the drug through U.S. trials, file the applications for approval, weather the political storms and lawsuits that followed every step of the process. No wonder it took nearly eight years...
Fears of antiabortion protests kept Roussel Uclaf, the French company that developed mifepristone, from trying to enter the American market. Instead, the company donated rights to the drug to the Population Council, a New York City-based nonprofit research organization. The council conducted the clinical trial of mifepristone, but needed a drug-company partner to handle manufacturing, advertising and distribution. Again, fears of protest--or worse--intervened, with drug behemoths refusing to touch the controversial pill. The council spent a year searching before it chose Danco, a company started expressly to handle mifepristone...
...Rond?nia. Moreover, the dozen or so clearings were cut in less than a week, a coordinated assault that bespeaks organization and planning. Antonio Alves, one of the settlers, says he came here because he was told the land did not belong to anyone. In fact, it belongs to a nonprofit organization that has not been able to produce clear title to the land; ibama officials guess that the settlers were tipped to this opportunity by a local politician...
...report, which was issued by Zero to Three, a nonprofit child development organization, in conjunction with the nonprofit Civitas, and Brio, the toy maker, is based on interviews with 3,000 adults, including 1,066 parents of children under the age of six. Sixty-one percent of all respondents felt regular spanking was an acceptable form of punishment. Even more surprising, thirty-seven percent of parents of young children believe it?s acceptable to spank children younger than two. And as a corollary befitting the old adage "spare the rod, spoil the child," fifty-six percent believe a 6-month...