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...think $200 is significant enough. If you put in more, then you would probably have to set some conditions, because then otherwise it might be too much money. This looked like the right figure...
...many ways, private donors who give their own money, or their foundation's money, truly care about the objectives. They can actually have a beneficial influence on bureaucracies that generally try to protect their behinds from being criticized. Those bureaucracies are maybe less mission-oriented than private citizens that put up their own money. Very often, this is how we use money at our foundation, to set examples or to innovate in ways that the public authorities by themselves are unlikely to do. Generally speaking, I'm in favor of [using my money to] influence how public authorities spend their...
...deaths among 160,000 confirmed cases. Hay says his team is watching for several changes in the virus' genome that could make the pandemic more severe. The first involves the H1N1 vaccine that is currently in production. The batch is based on a recipe that Hay's team helped put together in April. As it takes six months to produce a vaccine, virologists must be on the lookout for "antigenic drift" - changes in the virus that would let it escape the immune responses induced by the vaccine. (Because the flu virus can mutate so easily, antigenic drift is not unusual...
...under the same roof with the family she'd chosen for them. President Nicolas Sarkozy hosted Picat and her kids - Julie, 12; Thibault, 9; Matthieu, 5; and Margot, 3 - at the Elysée. The family was invited to Disneyland Paris for Christmas - a longtime dream that had been put on hold due to lack of funds. (See pictures of Sarkozy celebrating Bastille...
...Soon, people from all over France were sending Picat letters of support, some accompanied by checks and cash. At first she sent it all back. "I wasn't doing any of this for money," she later told the press. "But when people insisted, I decided I'd put it in a bank account the children could use later...