September 14, 2004 Vol. LVI, No. 19 Success of NCI Research-Outreach Program Celebrated Public, NIMH Discuss Mental Health Research Priorities NCI Lecturer Urges 'Chemoprevention' Research Festival Set, |
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Lessons from a Flood By Rich McManus One year ago, NIH director Dr. Elias Zerhouni's waterfront home in Pasadena, Md., was nearly swallowed by the Chesapeake Bay, whose appetite had been churned up by Hurricane Isabel. The deluge, which ruined three cars and threatened the structure of a home he had helped design, taught him invaluable lessons in crisis management: emergency preparedness is sheer fiction until you've actually been in an emergency, and in what has become a leadership mantra for him at NIH it's not the blows you suffer that take the measure of a man or an institution, it's the way you respond to adversity that defines you.M O R E . . . Your CFC at Work Make-A-Wish Foundation Made a Life for Bail By Jane DeMouy
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