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March 15, 2005
Vol. LVII, No. 6

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African American
History Program Recalls Great Thinkers

Inventor, Futurist Kurzweil To Speak, Mar. 30 in Masur

NINR Examines Care at the End of Life

Rockey Named OER
Deputy Director

Bourne To Speak Apr. 6
in Masur

Haaga Takes NIA Behavioral, Social Research Post

Women Urged to Find the Time for Exercise

News Briefs

New Appointments

Retirees

Obituaries

Study Subjects Sought

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Health and Human Services

National Institutes of Health

NIH Record Archives

 

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National Wear Red Day
NHLBI Enlists Fashion, First Lady in Heart Campaign

By Amy Pianalto and Ann Taubenheim

Paula Abdul wears designer red.

If you were seeing red on Feb. 4, you were not alone. The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute led a national blitz of activities for National Wear Red Day, all designed to raise awareness of heart disease as a critical health concern for women.
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A Return to His Roots
NCI's De Luca Can't Get Enough of the Classics

By Rich McManus

NCI cancer researcher Dr. Luigi De Luca gets a ton of unreported income from an approved outside activity, and finds it so rewarding that he shows up at his moonlighting job 8 times a week — every weekday morning, Monday and Wednesday afternoons and Sunday mornings.

The income isn't money, though. It's the satisfaction of introducing parochial school kids to the joys of Latin.
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