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...Starr Foundation will award $100 million to five leading cancer research institutes in November, including the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard...
...Harvard in the past—including a $5 million gift for financial aid in 2004. The new money will fund the development of technology designed to investigate the molecular causes of cancer and, in turn, use this technology to create viable treatment options for patients, according to the Starr Foundation...
...goal in launching the Starr Cancer Consortium is to bring these exceptional institutions together in a manner that assures maximum efficiency and the greatest firepower in targeting cancer,” said Maurice R. Greenberg, the chairman of the Starr Foundation, in a press release. “This will enable us to achieve tangible results more quickly and decisively than any one or two members of the consortium could accomplish working alone...
...Starr Foundation—along with representatives from the five institutions—will divvy up the offer this November based on research plans proposed by the recipients...
...Lalibert? could have no suaver guide through the Beatles' catalog than the Martins, father and son. George was not only present at the creation; he was crucial to it. He was the one who insisted that Ringo Starr (anyone, actually) replace Pete Best as the band's drummer. He gave the early hits a clean, full sound. And as Lennon and McCartney grew apart, but even more impressively grew, as songwriters, each found in the elder Martin an ideal ear and musical mind, a kind of co-creator. It was Martin who put a string quartet under Paul's solo...