article_snippet.sent: — and his philanthropy continued unabated.
article_snippet.sent: his had pledged $100 million to the Detroit Institute of Art.
article_snippet.sent: his also financed public-policy programs at Harvard, Brown University and the University of Michigan, which received several large donations.
article_snippet.sent: his donated millions and spoke passionately in support of the 2008 ballot initiative in Michigan that eased restrictions on embryonic stem-cell research and enabled his namesake institute to conduct major research for diseases — including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig's disease, which claimed the life of his good friend, New York Sen. Jacob Javits, in 1986.