Bloomberg to Albany:
If We Won't Do it Here, I'll Fund It Myself in Maryland
The gift, roughly the same amount almost allocated by the entire state government of New York for a year's funding of stem cell research (until it was left to rot on somebody's desk), is an unprecedented embrace of stem cell research by the most prominent major donor one could imagine. Although there have to be some folks at Mount Sinai and Columbia and Rockefeller who wonder whether they should have made Bloomberg an honorary graduate...