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Want to have Ben Affleck’s baby? While that appears to be the exclusive domain of Jennifer Garner, women can now at least give themselves a fighting chance of having a child who looks like a movie star, sports hero or world leader.
Money managers, brokers and their marketing agents that secured public investment business in New Mexico in recent years have given more than $640,000 to Gov. Bill Richardson's campaigns and political organizations since he first ran for governor in 2002, an Associated Press analysis shows.
Hanqi Miao said she wanted to donate her eggs to help infertile couples reproduce, but she acknowledged the money is good, too: She said she'll be paid about $5,000.
Lesbians in China have organized an online petition calling for gay people to be allowed to donate blood, state media reported Tuesday.
Political contributors who donated thousands to Kentucky Sen. Jim Bunning's past election campaigns have found a new Republican to support for Senate.
President Barack Obama dismissed critics of his ambitious agenda as naysayers on Monday and vowed to have health care, energy and financial regulation initiatives in place by the end of the year.
Massive aid to the Palestinians can slow economic decline, but won't revive their private sector sufficiently to gradually ease their need for external support, the World Bank said Thursday, challenging assumptions that have long guided donor countries.
If Nick Glasgow were white, he would have a nearly 90 percent chance of finding a matching bone marrow donor who could cure his leukemia.
International donors, led by the United States and Japan, pledged more than $5 billion Friday to stabilize Pakistan's troubled economy and fight the spread of terrorism in the Islamic nation and neighboring Afghanistan.
Gary Locke is new to the Commerce Department but already known to corporate America, which spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to help re-elect him as Washington's governor.
President Barack Obama raised $4.5 million from private donors to help him and his team make the transition to the White House.
Donors to President George W. Bush's presidential library probably will remain a mystery, said the foundation overseeing fundraising.
A lottery fund, telecommunications company and Hollywood director were among the biggest donors to Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts, according to a list made public Thursday by former President Bill Clinton.
The world opened its wallet for Bill Clinton. Governments, corporations and billionaires with their own interests in U.S. foreign policy gave the former president's charity millions of dollars, according to records he released Thursday.
A sampling from the eclectic group of donors to the William J. Clinton Foundation:
The world opened its wallet for Bill Clinton. Governments, corporations and billionaires with their own interests in U.S. foreign policy gave the former president's charity millions of dollars, according to records he released Thursday to lay bare any financial entanglements that could affect his wife Hillary Rodham Clinton as the next secretary of state.
Financial giants now being bailed out by the government spent millions underwriting the Democratic and Republican conventions last summer, just weeks before coming to Washington begging for multibillion-dollar handouts.
Instead of giving Christmas gifts to his family last year, John McWhorter donated money to budding entrepreneurs. His gift, administered through , provided microloans to eight impoverished families worldwide, enabling them to start their own businesses.
Before this fall, it might not have occurred to Michael Aylesworth to swap his sperm for money. But faced with rising bills, a dwindling budget and a fractured economy, the 30-year-old Seattle man took stock of some very personal assets — and decided to sell.
In a 2008 Super Bowl ad, NFL golden boy Tom Brady asked nearly 100 million viewers to text "FIT" to donate $5 to the United Way. About 25,000 people responded, raising $10,000.
Former President Bill Clinton's nonprofit foundation raised more than $124 million last year as his wife sought the Democratic presidential nomination, according to tax forms recently filed with the Internal Revenue Service.
Britain should not change its organ-donation law to automatically designate every person a donor unless they or their survivors opt out, an expert panel recommended Monday.
The European Union, the United States and other international donors have pledged more than $4.5 billion for rebuilding parts of Georgia that were damaged in its war with Russia, officials said Wednesday.
Gov. Sarah Palin promised last week to give $2,100 in tainted donations to charity, but that will only happen this year if she and John McCain win the Nov. 4 election.
Gov. Sarah Palin promised to give $2,100 in tainted donations to charity, but that will only happen this year if she and John McCain win the Nov. 4 election.
Sperm bank offers celebrity lookalike donorsA Southern California sperm bank is matching its donors to the celebrities they most resemble. "It's not that our donors look like celebrities, it's that celebrities look like our donors," said California Cryobank's communication manager, Scott Brown.
Cash-strapped sell their kidneys to pay off debts - Times British victims of the credit crunch are offering to sell their kidneys for £25,000 or more to help pay debts, an investigation by The Sunday Times has revealed.
Exclusive: Grassley Attends Secret Miami Fundraiser And Touts Opposition To Obama Health Care Planexcerpt: "" The Washington Post's Ezra Klein reported recently that Sen.
Fifteen lives saved by British surgeons in record-breaking transplant op using just TWO donorsSurgeons are celebrating a European first with five lifesaving transplant operations from two donors in 24 hours.
Wealth Distribution in Effect - Federal Spending Received Per Dollar of Taxes Paid by State, 2005:
Police find person who left $10,000 at thrift storeDaytona Beach police announced this morning that they have found the person who dropped off several bags of clothes and more than $10,000 at a thrift store in October.
Barack Obama fundraiser Louis Susman tipped to be US ambassador in LondonPresident Obama, having campaigned on a promise to end the culture of cronyism, seems poised to appoint one of his biggest campaign fundraisers as the next American ambassador in London.
Man Thanks 59 Donors Who Saved His LifeOn Valentine's Day last year, Jackie Cowles watched in shock as her husband of 49 years, a man with no health problems who trapped alligators in his spare time, collapsed, writhing in pain.
Face transplant patient regains self-confidenceCHICAGO, Illinois (CNN) -- The woman who received the first-ever near-total face transplant in the United States told her doctor she has regained her self-confidence, said Dr.
Texas Governor's Race: Kay Bailey picking up some Perry supportersIn the upcoming Republican gubernatorial race some large contributors to Rick Perry (Texas longest-serving governor) are signalling they think he may have overstayed his welcome.
Organ trade rampant on the InternetThe sale of kidneys from Filipino donors is now being done online as buyers and sellers go around the prohibition on the trading of human organs.
Foreigners gave millions to Clinton foundationFormer President Bill Clinton's foundation has raised at least $41 million from Saudi Arabia and other foreign governments that his wife Hillary Rodham Clinton may end up negotiating with as the next secretary of state.
Donors list raises fears over Hillary Clinton role as Secretary of State Bill Clinton has raised millions of dollars from governments and politicians in the Middle East and Asia, raising fresh concerns about the impartiality of his wife's role as Barack Obama's Secretary of State.
Foreigners gave millions to Clinton foundationFormer President Bill Clinton's foundation has raised at least $41 million from Saudi Arabia and other foreign governments that his wife Hillary Rodham Clinton may end up negotiating with as the next secretary of state.
Obama urges donors to ease Clinton debtThe president-elect wants to keep an outstanding commitment before Hillary Clinton becomes his secretary of state by calling on his donors to help her reduce her massive campaign debt.
Big Business transfers its loyalty, money to the DemocratsThe crush of economic developments surrounding Barack Obama last week - from the promise of a large government stimulus package, to the possibility of a bailout for automakers, to the creation of a new presidential advisory panel of economists - may or may not turn the economy ar …
Dem sources: Clinton to help wife get State jobThe former president has offered several concessions to help his spouse become secretary of state, including releasing the names of several major donors to his charitable foundation.
How Will President Obama Deploy His Internet Army?Washington - A powerful new lobbying force is coming to town: Barack Obama's triumphant army of 3.1 million Internet-linked donors and volunteers.
National Journal Online - It would be easy for Obama to track his donors. He doesn't want to. Amid criticism for failing to identify the hundreds of thousands of low-dollar donors who have boosted his $600 million presidential campaign, Barack Obama has responded that it "would be a pretty hard thing for us to be able to process." But there is much widely used and inexpe …
Obama Lead on McCain Grows to 12 points...With less than two weeks before the November 4 election, Obama leads McCain 52 percent to 40 percent among likely voters in the latest three-day tracking poll, which had a margin of error of 2.9 points.
Rich Donors Bail on McCain: "Republican donors at the end of day aren't stupid""Donors just weren't willing to give the money," explains LaCivita. "They were hurt badly in the market crash and they were always concerned about how McCain would react."
Many big donors using a loophole in presidential raceMuch of the attention on the record amounts of money coursing through the presidential race this year, including Senator Barack Obama's announcement Sunday of his $150 million fund-raising bonanza in September, has focused on the explosion of small donors.
Barack Obama (D) Bundlers dataTogether, as of August 18, 534 elites have directed at least $75,750,000 to McCain, and 509 have gathered at least $63,300,000 for Obama.
Transplant Study Revives Questions Over When to Declare Donors DeadNEW YORK (AP) -- A report on three heart transplants involving babies is focusing attention on a touchy issue in the organ donation field: When and how can someone be declared dead?
McCain Bundler Collects From Unlikely DonorsThe bundle of $2,300 and $4,600 checks that poured into Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign on March 12 came from an unlikely group of California donors: a mechanic from D
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