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December 16, 1997
Martin Luther King III To Address Annual MLK Program, Jan. 16
Fated Bldg. Used for Fire Training
NIAMS Awards Grant for First Specialized Center of Research in Scleroderma
New Service for Those Needing, Offering Leave
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A Happy New Year NIH Gets Generous '98 Budget
President Clinton signed another record budget for NIH on Nov. 13, totalling
$13.648 billion, or a 7.1 percent increase over fiscal year 1997, and $570 million
more than he had originally requested in his spending plan for fiscal 1998. Among
the most notable items in the budget are $90 million to continue funding for the
Mark O. Hatfield Clinical Research Center, $17 million to build a new Vaccine
Research Center on campus, and funding for nearly 7,700 new and competing
research project grants.
Next Bids Due in January By Rich McManus
If you think your job is wearing you down on these cold, dark early winter eves,
consider for a moment the men working down in the hole that is Bldg. 50 -- the
new Consolidated Laboratory Facility. During these coldest months of the year,
crews are drilling some 155 "caisson" holes, which plummet another 60 feet or so
beneath the pit floor, so that the new 5-story structure will sit solidly upon
concrete stilts rooted in the Earth. Even back on Nov. 25, when the weather was
still relatively balmy, the muddy hole became, by late afternoon, quite nippy; the
site's sunless southwest corner featured the campus' first ice ponds in the week
before Thanksgiving.
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