| Top earners are big givers, too
The rich in China often take flak for being tight-fisted when it comes to charity - but a new report finds that some are more generous than Bill Gates or Warren Buffet when it comes to opening their purses for a good cause. Shenzhen hotel entrepreneur Yu Pengnian, 85, is one. He tops the list of 100 top philanthropists last year with 2 billion yuan ($258 million) - almost all his wealth - since 2003. Most of the money went toward providing free cataract surgery for about 100,000 people. Another is Niu Gensheng, chairman of Mengniu Group, who has promised to donate all his shares at the diary group to a charitable fund he set up in 2005. The 2007 Hurun Report's Chinese Philanthropists List, compiled by Briton Rupert Hoogewerf, finds that 30 of the top 100 richest Chinese were also among the 100 most generous in 2006, up from 20 the previous year.
NU Professor Wins $1.5 million Prize, 8 Others Recognized
Northwestern faculty members pulled in nine prestigious awards at the end of Winter Quarter, including a $1.5 million prize that is awarded to only one person each year.
The Templeton Prize for Progress Toward Research or Discoveries About Spiritual Realities is the world's largest monetary award given annually to a single individual. The prize went to Charles Taylor, a professor of philosophy and law.
Taylor, who has studied the spiritual dimensions of philosophy and law for more than 50 years, will officially be rewarded at a ceremony at Buckingham Palace in May. His research included using both spiritual and secular perspectives to solve social problems.
"It's a tremendous honor for him to be recognized," said Law School Dean David Van Zandt.
Viking Systems, Inc. Announces Sale of the Viking 3Di Digital ...
SAN DIEGO, April 16, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Viking Systems, Inc. (OTCBB:VKSY), a designer, manufacturer and marketer of high-performance laparoscopic vision systems for use in minimally invasive surgical procedures, has sold one of the Company's proprietary surgical technology devices, the Viking 3Di Digital Vision System ("Viking 3Di"), to Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC), the United States Army's premier medical center on the east coast of the United States. Col. (Dr.) Ernest Lockrow, director of the Telerobotics and Minimally Invasive Surgery Center at Walter Reed, recently used the System's 3-D capabilities to successfully perform a hysterectomy, becoming the military's first surgeon to use the new 3-D minimally invasive surgical technology at WRAMC. .
American Museum of Veterinary Medicine Acquires Historic Farmstead ...
The American Museum of Veterinary Medicine (AMVM) announced it now has a permanent home with the purchase of historic Ridgewood Farm, Berks County, Pennsylvania. The farm will once again focus on animals, and the profession who cares for their health and welfare. Berks County, PA (PRWeb) March 22, 2007 -- The American Museum of Veterinary Medicine (AMVM) announced it now has a permanent home with the purchase of historic Ridgewood Farm, Berks County, Pennsylvania. The farm will once again focus on animals, and the profession who cares for their health and welfare. The property includes a stone farmhouse, built in two sections, circa 1740 and 1811, a rare 1809 double bank barn, a smoke house, wagon shed, root cellar and other outbuildings that will be adapted to museum use.
Foreign travel for health care?
For a travel writer, there is no surer way to attract a barrage of hate mail than to suggest foreign travel for the purpose of obtaining medical or dental treatment. Immediately, dozens of U.S. doctors and dentists accuse you of putting people's lives at risk, since only U.S. doctors and dentists are able to safely treat us. And U.S. medical and dental treatments, as we all know, are the absolute best. If the United States had universal medical and dental insurance, and every American was able to afford treatment here at home, I would not be disposed to argue the matter. But more than 40 million Americans are without such insurance and are unable to afford many elective treatments here at home. The proposed remedy will, therefore, not go away. Outside the United States are medical facilities and a myriad of doctors and dentists willing to charge modest sums within the financial reach of nearly everyone.
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