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Clark Withholds $60 Million Pledge to Stanford
vocaljess writes: "In an op-ed piece in Friday's New York Times (which you have to register to read, blah blah blah), Netscape creator Jim Clark has announced that he will withhold $60 million he had pledged to donate to Stanford University to build a center for biomedical engineering and science. He states "I believe our country risks being thrown into a dark age of medical research. Biologists are at the threshold of the most important set of discoveries in history, and rather than teach and lead, our politicians react and follow a conservative few. This legislative action will cause the United States to miss a revolution in biology.""
The fact that Slashdot posts links to www.nytimes.com instead of archive.nytimes.com?
Or the fact that they always repeat the completely redundant "registration is required blah blah blah." Guess what? We know this already. And if you don't know it, you'll find out as soon as you click on the fucking link!
And what exactly is the point of not using the archive.nytimes.com link? It's not like you're doing NYTimes a favor, since one of the firsts +5 posts is ALWAYS someone giving the direct link to archive.nytimes.com!
Give us a frigging break!
HERE WE GO AGAIN!
"And like that
and oh, say, 100 million for stem cell lobbyists.
Why? Why just not use the 100 million for stem cell research? I think 90% of the people don't get the fact that they are only limited to 60 stem cells for Goverment Funding. You can use as many stem cells as you would like if you get funding from somewhere else.
Jim Clark cuts off nose to spite face.
he who has all the gold
Makes all the rules.
at least he's trying to use his gold for good rules - overturning the recent legislation that stoppped the federal funding.
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Kewl, thanks for posting this.
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