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Williams said the institute's activities now include only a dissertation fellowship program and the sponsorship of two research associates...
Conducted with the sponsorship of several Government agencies, the yearlong NRC study agreed that fluorocarbons do, as suspected, percolate upward into the stratosphere, where their chlorine atoms react with and thus destroy ozone molecules. According to the NRC report, if the fluorocarbon release continues at the 1973 rate, it could ultimately deplete the three-mile-thick ozone layer by as much as 7%. Public health authorities predict that the subsequent increase in the amount of ultraviolet light reaching the earth would raise by about 200 the number of Americans afflicted annually by malignant melanoma, a form of skin cancer that...
...officially tied to the Church but it is connected through Moon's sponsorship and also occupies the same New York address...
...says Xerox Vice President David J. Curtin, "We felt we'd like to help a magazine do something special, which might be tough for them to do on their own." Esquire chose both the subject and the writer, and Xerox approved the selection. Under the terms of the sponsorship agreement, Xerox paid Salisbury a handsome $40,000 for the six months' work he put into the essay, as well as $15,000 in expenses; in addition, the company took out $115,000 worth...
Getting exclusive stories through the sponsorship of scientific investigations -and related feats of derring-do-is a grand but largely abandoned tradition of U.S. journalism.* It was the New York Herald that sent Henry M. Stanley on one of history's most celebrated man hunts ("Find Livingstone!" ordered Publisher James Gordon Bennett Jr. in 1869). The Times backed Commander Robert E. Peary in the 1908 North Pole race with $4,000 and got more for its money than the Herald, which put $25,000 behind Dr. Frederick Cook. In 1922 the Times bought U.S. rights to stories from...