World's pledge to halve hunger by 2015 looks like empty promise
Almost 200 countries agreed in 1990 to cut worldwide hunger in half by 2015. That commitment is now looking like an empty promise -- all talk and no action -- according to a Cornell University expert on world hunger. If business proceeds as usual, just as many people will be hungry in the world -- 800 million -- in 2015 as there were 16 years ago, said Per Pinstrup-Andersen, Cornell's Babc...Governor Doyle Pledges Support for Stem Cell Research and Biotechnology Advancements
Madison, WI Governor James Doyle was joined by University of Wisconsin Chancellor John Wiley along with leaders from Wisconsins biotechnology industry in pledging their full support for the continued growth and development of Wisconsin s biotechnology industry. The Governor, addressing a special meeting of the Wisconsin Biotechnology Association, proclaimed his full support for the con...Wisconsin firms pledge to support healthcare IT standards
The pledge came as...State pledges $50K to NovaScan, Platypus
NovaScan, a Milwaukee-based company developing technology to measure the electrical properties of materials used to identify different tissue types, will recei...Cloning ban passes Assembly, Doyle pledges veto
The state Assembly on Thursday passed AB 499, a proposed ban on all forms of human cloning in Wisconsin. The bill would outlaw the cloning of embryos both for reproductive purposes and for what practitioners have called research or therapeutic cloning, the making of a cloned embryo for the purpose of extracting stem cells. Penalties for violating the bill if it were to become law would g...George Bush pledges 200 million dollars for AIDS relief
American president George .W. Bush has pledged 200 million dollars to fight AIDS. The money will be directed toward a United Nations fund designed to pay for treatment and prevention of HIV/AIDS, as well as malaria and tuberculosis. Those three diseases together killed some 5.5 million people last year, the bulk of them in Africa,according to the World Health Organization (WHO). The shee..."Defeat AIDS Pledge" by Andhra CM
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy Saturday administered a "defeat AIDS pledge"// to people in a major effort to create awareness on HIV/AIDS,. India has 5.13 million people infected with HIV/AIDS. Andhra Pradesh has the highest prevalence of HIV cases in the country with more than 400,000 affected people. According to the National AIDS Control Organization (NACO), the...Buddhadeb pledges to donate his body
West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya has pledged to donate his body for the "advancement of medical sciences"//. The general secretary of Ganadarpan, Brojo Roy said that, "The chief minister has always been supporting us in this cause." Ganadarpan is an NGO with which Bhattacharya signed his formal pledge on March 8th. Bhattacharya joins other communist leaders...Donor Nations Urged To Pledge More To Combat Bird Flu
An UN official said that donor nations should be prepared to pledge more money to combat bird flu as the H5N1 virus spreads more developing countries//. Western and Asian donors had pledged $1.9 billion in January, during a conference in Beijing to combat bird flu and improve containment and prevention methods in 12 countries, mostly in Asia. However, with the virus steadi...Teenagers Often Deny Taken ‘Virginity Pledges
Taking virginity pledges is gaining popularity among the teenagers in the recent years. But a new study has found that despite such pledges teens deny bluntly that they ever took such vows. // The study also questions whether teens' self-reported sexual histories are a good way of gauging how well they adhere to these pledges, reports foodconsumer.org. Virginity pledges us...