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Lending Nature A hand Car Wash Helps NCAR NASA Creates Astrophysics Network UC Regents Press Ahead on DOE Ties The Boston-based family of mutual funds, Fidelity Investments, has teamed up with the Smithsonian Institution to offer its investors the chance to make charitable contributions to support conservation efforts in Latin American rain forests. The project is based on the "debt-for-nature" swaps pioneered by biologist Thomas Lovejoy, assistant secretary for external affairs at the

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Lending Nature A hand

Car Wash Helps NCAR

NASA Creates Astrophysics Network

UC Regents Press Ahead on DOE Ties

The Boston-based family of mutual funds, Fidelity Investments, has teamed up with the Smithsonian Institution to offer its investors the chance to make charitable contributions to support conservation efforts in Latin American rain forests. The project is based on the "debt-for-nature" swaps pioneered by biologist Thomas Lovejoy, assistant secretary for external affairs at the Smithsonian, in which governments invest in local conservation and research efforts in exchange for the purchase of some amount of their foreign debts. Investors, with their contributions, are in effect "buying" environmental preservation. The financial management firm describes the program in the company's current newsletter. For more information, contact Smithsonian Rainforest Project, c/o Fidelity Investments, Box 650277, Dallas, Texas 75265; (800) 544-6666.

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