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$125 Million Is Pledged to Big Medical Center
Original Source By STEPHANIE STROM Despite a worldwide economic decline, the nine-figure gift is not dead. Charles F. Feeney, the iconoclastic philanthropist known as “the billionaire who wasn’t,” is giving $125 million to the University of California San Francisco Medical Center to support development of a complex…
Author: The New York Times
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UCSF Receives $125 Million for New Medical Center at Mission Bay
By Robin Hindery UCSF has received one of the largest gifts in its 145-year history $125 million as the lead funding for a state-of-the-art medical center at the Mission Bay campus. The transformative donation injects a shot of adrenaline into an ambitious project that will…
Author: The University of California, San Francisco
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Balfour's application dismissed by judge
A bid to block the personal release of a report on the death of an HIV-positive prisoner by Correctional Services Minister Ngconde Balfour was dismissed in the North Gauteng High Court on Friday. Pretoria Judge Brian Southwood dismissed the application for leave to appeal a…
Author: SAPA
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S. Africa gangs using rape to 'cure' lesbians
Original Source JOHANNESBURG – Gangs of South African men are raping lesbians in the belief it will “cure” the women’s sexual orientation, an aid agency said Friday. NGO ActionAid said in a report titled “Hate Crimes: the rise of corrective rape in South Africa” lesbians…
Author: MSNBC/Reuters
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Understanding Obama's education vision
Original Source From NBC’s Chuck Todd The White House beat is more than just what happens at the Oval Office. We’re doing out best to cover every department and every utterance made by members of President Obama’s Cabinet. To that end, here are the most…
Author: MSNBC First Read
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The Perfect Storm
The intensifying economic crisis slams the world of nonprofit organizations. Original Source By Eyal Press In the days between Christmas and New Year’s Eve, Anthony Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, sat at his desk in Lower Manhattan and reached out to people…
Author: The Nation
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PM approves foreign aid projects
Original Source Hanoi — The Prime Minister has given a nod to a list of foreign aid projects. These include a technical assistance and legal framework building project for wind power in Vietnam funded by the German Government. The Ministry of Industry and Trade will…
Author: Asia Pulse Data Source
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Xenophobic violence last May organised by community leaders, says researcher
JOHANNESBURG: The xenophobic violence last May was organised by “community leaders”, a university researcher said yesterday. “The community leaders – the street committees, the comrades, the CPF (Community Policing Forum) as they are called – are involved. “They were the ones who were organising the…
Author: Cape Times (South Africa)
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Hanoi meeting marks World Glaucoma Day
A meeting, entitled Glaucoma Detection and Control, was organised in Hanoi on March 11 in response to World Glaucoma Day (March 12). During the meeting, held by the Vietnam National Institute of Ophthalmology (VNIO), it was revealed that there are approximately 30,000 glaucoma patients in…
Author: Vietnamese News Agency (VNA)
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International Fund for Ireland Continues 'Building For Peace'
Original Source Just over £10m has been promised to “promote reconciliation, community development and peace building” throughout Northern Ireland and the southern border counties. Coming just days after the divisive killing of two soldiers and a policeman in separate terrorist attacks, the Board of the…
Author: 4NI Northern Ireland News