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April 8, 1997
Record Debuts on the Web
Von Boehmer To Give Dyer Lecture
NIH Library Open House, Apr. 17
Mammography Screening Offered at NIH for Employees, Families
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services |
From 'Whatchamacallit' to Funshine New Camp Starts for Children Infected with HIV By Rich McManus
Unless you just came to NIH a week ago, you probably know at least
something about Camp Fantastic. For the uninitiated, it's a week-long
slice of August turned into terrific summer camp for children --
many of them Clinical Center patients -- with cancer,
and has always been powered by the freehearted and funloving side
of the National Cancer Institute -- its Pediatric Branch and
associated caregivers. It began 15 years ago at a 4-H campground
near Front Royal, Va., and has evolved into a year-round,
family-centered program that worries not just about the child with
cancer, but also about the healthy sibling who wonders where all of
mom and dad's attention went. And much more.
Microsoft's Myrhvold Gazes By Rich McManus
Dr. Nathan Myrhvold
The flyer announcing his visit to NIH was, in itself, a stunning
document, written, presumably, to induce pangs of inferiority in the
largest egos on campus. The next speaker in NHGRI's Human
Genome Lecture Series was not simply Bill Gates' right-hand man
at Microsoft, the country's leading computer giant and certified
shaper of worlds. He was also a colleague of famed cosmologist
Stephen Hawking at Cambridge, holder of a herd's worth of
sheepskin from such places as Princeton and Berkeley, and dabbler
in such pastimes as mountain climbing, formula car racing,
photography and French cooking.
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