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...Despite technological advances that make surrogacy safer and more reliable, Japan's conservative health-care establishment remains against it, partly out of fear that some women might become for-profit baby factories. "For safety and welfare reasons, the human body should not be used as a tool for reproduction," said Tomoko Kashiwagi of the Health Ministry. The Japan Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology opposes the practice in part due to the potential for "complication of family relationships." The ministry, meanwhile, is pushing for an outright ban. Women with reproductive dysfunction, says Kashiwagi, may simply "have to give up on biological...
...Asia and the U.S. by integrating it into Teradyne test equipment that scans circuit boards for flaws. Simply stated, a Teradyne machine takes pictures of the circuit board and hands over the image to Imagen software, which scours the snapshot for imperfections. This business allows Imagen to make a profit, though for Lipson, there have been other rewards. She met her future husband and Imagen co-founder Pawan Singha during their graduate days at M.I.T. Today he serves on Imagen's scientific advisory board while working as an M.I.T. professor of neuroscience...
Although Lipson won't reveal financial details, she says Imagen is making a profit--an impressive result for a company started with just $30,000 in prize money that Lipson won in 1997 as a doctoral student at M.I.T.'S Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Imagen has not raised any venture capital either; indeed, Lipson claims to have spurned offers because, she says, working as a lone wolf, Imagen is free to develop its technology at its own pace and in several markets simultaneously. The company's only funding other than the M.I.T. prize and fees from Teradyne has been...
Second, I’d close the revolving door between lobbyist shops and top government jobs. Just recently we’ve seen administration officials like former Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Joe M. Allbaugh moving into the private sector to set up lobbying shops and profit from their insider connections. At the same time, President Bush has appointed top lobbyists to government positions where they are supposed to regulate their former clients. I’d close this revolving door by barring former top officials from lobbying the government for five years, and stopping lobbyists from taking high-level...
...reform promise that George W. Bush, by under-funding the No Child Left Behind Act, has broken so badly. And I will make college more affordable—by dramatically increasing the Pell Grant and shifting toward direct government loans. Banks should not be squeezing every last penny of profit out of young people who are getting the skills they need to better themselves and lead our economy...