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...Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, and the University of Chicago will also establish Ludwig Centers through the grants. The gift comes at a time when federal funding for cancer research is flat-lining, according to Demetri. He added that because of inflation, the lack of growth seems like a decrease...
...Sloan, a former congressional staff member for such liberal lawmakers as Michigan's John Conyers and New York's Charles Schumer, was working as an assistant U.S. Attorney when two Democratic activists approached her with the idea of trying something like Judicial Watch from the left. For its first 18 months, CREW was a one-woman shop. An early target was the seemingly invincible DeLay. Sloan asked the Internal Revenue Service to investigate the House majority leader's fund raising and sued the Federal Election Commission to get more info about his dealings with a Kansas utility...
Until, that is, DeLay redistricted Texas Congress- man Chris Bell--now the Democratic nominee for Texas Governor--out of a job. In Bell, Sloan finally had the in-house ally she needed, and under House rules formally filed a CREW-drafted com-plaint in June 2004. Eventually, the Ethics Committee unanimously admonished the majority leader--an early sign of the troubles that led to DeLay's resignation and an achieve- ment Sloan counts as "the thing I'm most proud...
...organization dedicated to holding government accountable, CREW isn't transparent about its own operations. Organized as a 501(c)3 under federal tax laws, it does not have to reveal the names of all its donors. "I wouldn't have any donors if I revealed all my donors," says Sloan. However, CREW acknowledges that it has received $100,000 from the foundation of liberal financier George Soros and several annual donations of at least $10,000 from that of entertainer Barbra Streisand...
...variables. The scope of the study is limited, she added, because it only examines the effects of Christian religious services. Maselko is currently working on another study examining similar factors in Hindu India in an effort to generalize the study’s findings to other communities. Richard P. Sloan, a professor of behavioral medicine at Columbia University Medical Center, criticized the study for its interpretation of the data collected. Sloan, author of the book, “Blind Faith: The Unholy Alliance of Religion and Medicine,” said there was “probably some other factor?...