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March 10, 1998
Civil Rights Movement's Health Activists Remembered
New Exhibit Probes Many Lives of NLM Site
NIH Computer Training Begins Third Decade
Safe Computing
Schlessinger Establishes
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services |
Not So Ancient After All Trees Recycled for Navy, Parks Restoration Projects By Rich McManus
By Sharon Ricks
In a biology laboratory 3 miles from Spingarn High School, 10th grader Marvin
Bethea watches as a sharp lancet dives into his middle finger, and a drop of blood
appears. Under a binocular compound microscope, erythrocytes, leukocytes, and
neutrophils emerge 400 times their normal size. Marvin counts the odd doughnut
shapes, and with the help of an instructor learns why some cells have a nucleus
and others don't. | |||
While President's Day (Feb. 16) was a holiday for most federal employees, it
marked the end of the road for two large, old white oak trees on the former
Wilson estate, which were cut down to make way for construction associated with
the new Clinical Research Center. In an irony of the calendar, one of the trees
dated back some 192 years to post-Revolutionary times, when Thomas Jefferson
was in the midst of his White House tenure. Both timbers are slated for reuse in
historical exhibits.