Charity News from Wednesday, May. 10, 2000Senate Dodges Debt ReliefBread for the World | Yesterday, the Senate Appropriations Committee voted to provide only $75 million of $435 million requested by President Clinton to fund debt relief efforts through 2001. In so doing, the Senate Appropriations Committee is ignoring the enormous ... Wishes at Sea Make-A-Wish Foundation of America | Celebrity Cruises and Royal Caribbean International have joined forces with the Make-A-Wish Foundation® to help make wishes come true for children and teens, like Michael, with life-threatening illnesses. Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. is a global ... St. Jude Study Reveals Killer Gene Is Silenced in Aggressive Childhood Neuroblastoma St. Jude Children's Research Hospital (ALSAC) | The research group, led by scientist Vincent Kidd, Ph.D., of the department of Tumor Cell Biology at St. Jude, reported that a large proportion of the tumors from neuroblastoma patients with amplified-MYCN lack the caspase 8 protein. ...
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