August 2, 2002

Plummeting Stock Price Jeopardizes $250-Million Gift to U. of Colorado System

The plunging stock market has forced an Internet entrepreneur and his wife to delay payment on -- and possibly greatly reduce -- a gift to the University of Colorado System initially valued at $250-million. When the pledge was announced, in 2001, it was the largest ever to a public university.

The university and the donors say that work will continue at the interdisciplinary center that the gift supports -- the Coleman Institute for Cognitive Disabilities, whose

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