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...Gambino crime family is not usually known for good works. Its deeds are more likely to be chronicled in FBI reports about the Mob. There is one place, however, where the surname Gambino gets respect: Schneider Children's Hospital in New Hyde Park, N.Y., which has received a $2 million gift from Thomas and Joseph Gambino in memory of their late father Carlo. The money is funding a + pediatric bone-marrow-transplant unit, the only such facility in the state. When it opens, it will bear the Gambino name...
...turned themselves in. It is equally hard to find anyone who detects a note of triumph in their suicide. Novelist Alix Kates Shulman quotes La Pasionaria on this point: "It's better to die on your feet than live on your knees." But as Brooklyn Law School professor Elizabeth Schneider points out, the message here is that "self-assertion and awakening lead to death." Or, as film scholar Annette Insdorf puts it, "When death is your only choice, how free...
...Schneider emphasized that the U.S., as well as developing countries, must take action to preserve the environment. "Hundreds of millions of people are destroying the resources on which their future depends because they see no other alternatives apparent to them," she said of the populations of the developing world. "The U.S. sees the need for involvement. The environment is connected to everything...
...Schneider stressed the need for information and technology transfer between countries. "when we have good models, we should spread the word," she said. "We need a strategy that will rapidly multiply the successful programs...
...domestic level, Schneider challenged audience members to communicate their commitment to the environment to the government. "You have to walk you talk," she said. "If you think it's a good thing to recycle, put your money where your mouth is. You are either part of the problem or part of the solution...