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December 1, 1998
Howley To Give
CFC Kickoff Is Music
NIEHS Continues
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'One of Us' WHO Chief Makes Historic Visit To NIH, Proposes Partnership By Carla Garnett
No sooner did Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland step down as prime
minister of Norway 2 years ago than she was approached for a new
assignment by the man she had appointed minister of health. It was
just a few weeks following her third term. By then she had led the
government for more than 10 years, though not consecutively. The
first woman and the youngest person ever to lead the nation, she'd
overseen tremendous success: When she left office, Norway had a 5
percent growth rate, inflation was less than 2 percent, the country
had no foreign debt and was operating with a substantial budget
surplus.
MobileLab Takes Science for a Spin By Lori Mulligan
NIH staff recently had an opportunity to board the Boston University
MobileLab, a 40-foot-long, custom-built, fully equipped biotechnology
learning laboratory on wheels during its visit to campus. The MobileLab
takes the NCRR-supported CityLab program on location to middle and high
schools and to teachers' conferences in New England and beyond. CityLab
challenges students to solve problems by applying the same genetics and
molecular biology techniques and concepts used in modern biotechnology
laboratories.
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WHO director-general Brundtland