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EVENTS ON TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2001
TIME: 8 a.m.
EVENT: CMD holds its annual North American Construction Forecast conference. The daylong conference brings together leading economists and analysts from the United States, Mexico, and Canada to explore the conditions that will determine building activity and opportunity throughout the NAFTA region in 2002 and beyond.
DATE: October 16, 2001
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 404-720-8122
WEB ADDRESS: cmdg.org
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds its Spectrum Management Roundtable on "The Perils of 3G: Competing Priorities and Mechanisms for Resolution" with Harold Furchtgott-Roth, American Enterprise Institute.
DATE: October 16, 2001
LOCATION: 1800 K Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Mark Schoeff, 202-775-3242
WEB ADDRESS:csis.org
TIME: 9:30 a.m.
EVENT: BROOKINGS INSTITUTION holds a briefing "President Bush's Trip To China: An Economic Summit With a Wider Agenda."
WHO: The speakers are:
James B. Steinberg, VP and Director, Foreign Policy Studies program, The Brookings Institution; former Deputy National Security Advisor
Lael Brainard, Senior Fellow, Economic Studies & Foreign Policy Studies programs, The Brookings Institution; former Deputy National Economic Advisor
Bates Gill, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies program, and Director, Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies, The Brookings Institution
Nicholas Lardy, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies program, The Brookings Institution; author of China's Unfinished Economic Revolution
DATE: October 16, 2001
LOCATION: 1775 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington DC
CONTACT: 202-797-6105
WEB ADDRESS:brook.edu
TIME: 9:30 a.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR ACCREDITATION OF TEACHER EDUCATION holds a news conference describing the teaching profession's expectations for innovative institutions called Professional Development Schools. The implementation of these standards provides a way to enhance teacher quality and help answer the teacher shortage issue.
WHO: The speakers are:
Virginia Pilato, Chief of Program Approval and Assessment, Maryland State Department of Education
Robert Yinger, Dean of the School of Education, Baylor University and President, The Holmes Partnership
Kathleen Gagne, PDS Coordinator, Chestnut Accelerated Middle School Springfield, Massachusetts
Marsha Levine, Director of the NCATE PDS Standards Project
Arthur Wise, NCATE President
DATE: October 16, 2001
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Jane Leibbrand, 202-466-7496
WEB ADDRESS:ncate.org
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: INSTITUTE FOR POLICY INNOVATION holds a program on "Effective Components of an Economic Stimulus Package."
WHO: The speakers are:
Rep. Dick Armey, R-TX
Sen. Phil Gramm, R-TX
Rep. Jennifer Dunn
Tom Giovanetti, President, Institute for Policy Innovation
Aldona Robbins, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Policy Innovation
Steve Moore, President, Club for Growth
Gary Robbins, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Policy Innovation
Larry Hunter, Chief Economist, Empower America
Steve Entin, President and Executive Director, Institute for the Research on the Economics of Taxation
DATE: October 16, 2001
LOCATION: 345 Cannon Office Building, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 703-912-5742
WEB ADDRESS: ipi.org
TIME: 11 a.m.
EVENT: CONSUMER FEDERATION OF AMERICA, ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS AND AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ALLERGY, ASTHMA AND IMMUNOLOGY hold a news conference announcing a public health initiative to protect children from secondhand smoke hazards in their homes.
WHO: The speakers are:
EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman
Mary Ellen Fise, CFA
DATE: October 16, 2001
LOCATION: 111 Michigan Avenue, NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Jack Gillis, 202-737-076
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: AMERICAN UNIVERSITY Middle Eastern Law Students Assn., South Asian Law Students Assn., Immigration and Refugee Law Society hold a program on "Backlash: The Impact of Sept. 11 on Middle Eastern and South Asian Americans."
WHO: The speakers are:
Muneer Ahmad, professor of law, American University
Karaam Shora, legal advisor, Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee
Benjamin Johnson, associate director of Advocacy and Public Affairs, American Immigration Lawyers Association
DATE: October 16, 2001
LOCATION: 4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-885-5950
WEB ADDRESS:au.edu
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: KOMEN BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION holds a Congressional briefing to address how we can deliver the promise of today's research to breast cancer patients.
DATE: October 16, 2001
LOCATION: B-340 Rayburn Office Building, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 212-453-2235
WEB ADDRESS: breastcancerinfo.org
TIME: 1 p.m.
EVENT: WASHINGTON INTERNATIONAL HOURSE SHOW, KENNEDY CENTER, AND POINTS OF LIGHT FOUNDAITON hold a news conference announcing the Black Stallion Literacy Project.
DATE: October 16, 2001
LOCATION: Walker Jones Elementary School, 1000 L Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 301-407-9007
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES AND NATIONAL COALITION FOR ADULT IMMUNIZATION hold a news conference to alert consumers and health care professionals about critical and immediate influenza and pneumococcal disease vaccination recommendations for high-risk groups, healthcare workers and healthy persons.
WHO: The speakers are:
Nancy Cox, PhD, Chief, Influenza Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Pierce Gardner, MD, Senior Advisor for Clinical Research and Training, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health
Bonnie M. Word, MD, National Medical Association
Stephen F. Jencks, MD, MPH, Quality Improvement Group, Office of Clinical Standards and Quality, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (formally HCFA)
DATE: October 16, 2001
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th & F Streets, NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Taryn Green, 917-673-6696
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: SEN. DEBBIE STABENOW, D-MI, holds a news conference to discuss legislation honoring each of the victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks.
DATE: October 16, 2001
LOCATION: Senate Radio/TV Gallery, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-224-4822
WEB ADDRESS:senate.gov
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on Nationalism And The Problem Of Inclusion In Hungary with Alice Freifeld, Associate Professor of History, University of Florida and former EES Short-term Scholar.
DATE: October 16, 2001
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION presents The Roots of the Computer Revolution: What Information Technology Today Owes to Government Investment and the
Vision of J. C. R. Licklider" with M. Mitchell Waldrop, Author, The Dream Machine: J. C. R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal.
DATE: October 16, 2001
LOCATION: 1630 Connecticut Ave., NW, 7th Floor, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Jud Mathews, 202-986-4901
WEB ADDRESS: newamerica.net
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture entitled "Are Indigenous Artisans an Endangered Species?" with Lea Kaplan, executive director of the Crafts Center."
DATE: October 16, 2001
LOCATION: 1740 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, Dc
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture on "Political Consequences of Decentralization in Indonesia" with Mahendra Siregar, information councilor for the Embassy of Indonesia, and Anies Baswedan, a political science professor from Northern Illinois University.
DATE: October 16, 2001
LOCATION: 1619 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, Dc
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 3:30 p.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on "Japan's Role In The Fight Against Terrorism."
WHO: The speakers are:
Mike Green, Director of Asian Affairs for Japan, U.S. National Security Council
Toshiaki Miura, Political Correspondent, American General Bureau, Asahi Newspaper
Tomohito Shinoda, Associate Professor, the International University of Japan
Steven Clemons, Executive Vice President, New America Foundation
DATE: October 16, 2001
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 5:30 p.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN PROSPECT holds a forum on "Protecting Civil Liberties."
WHO: The speakers are:
Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-MA
Rep. Henry Waxman, D-CA
Rep. Hilda Solis, D-CA
John Sweeney, AFL-CIO
Burt Neuborne, Brennan Center
Morton Halperin, Council on Foreign Relations
Ralph Neas, People for the American Way
Robert Kuttner, The American Prospect magazine
Harold Myerson, The American Prospect magazine
DATE: October 16, 2001
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th & F Streets, NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 212-627-8098
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: KENNEDY CENTER MILLENIUM STAGE presents the Ballet Folklorico Cutumba of Cuba performing energetic and athletic Afro-Cuban folkloric and Cuban traditional dance, music, and song.
DATE: October 16, 2001
LOCATION: 2700 F Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-416-8000
WEB ADDRESS: kennedy-center.org
TIME: 6:30 p.m.
EVENT: GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY presents a lecture with Maria Livanos, secretary general of the International Chamber of Commerce discussing Is There Power-Sharing In International Affairs.
DATE: October 16, 2001
LOCATION: 800 21st Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-994-3087
WEB ADDRESS:gwu.edu
TIME: 7 p.m.
EVENT: POLITICS & PROSE BOOKSTORE features Sue Miller discussing and signing her new novel The World Below. The book revolves around the lives of Catherine and her grandmother Georgia, who was instrumental in her upbringing.
DATE: October 16, 2001
LOCATION: 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-364-1919
WEB ADDRESS: politics-prose.com
TIME: 8 p.m.
EVENT: MUHAMMAD MOSQUE OF ISLAM NO 4 presents via satellite Minister Louis Farrakhan marking the 6th anniversary of the Million Man March: A Holy Day Of Atonement, Reconciliation And Responsibility.
DATE: October 16, 2001
LOCATION: Easter High School, 17th and East Capitol Street NE, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-399-1010
WEB ADDRESS:finalcall.com
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