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EVENTS ON THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2002

TIME: All Day

EVENT: NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES Transportation Research Board Studies and Information Services

holds a meeting to review of the Federal Railroad Administration Research, Development, and Demonstration Programs.

AGENDA: Highlights:

9 a.m. -Introductions and Opening Comments (Alan Bing, chair)

9:10 a.m. - FRA Presentations on the Railroad R&D Program (Steven Ditmeyer, Director, FRA Office of R&D, and staff)

- FY 2003 Budget Request

- Current Project Updates

- R& D Management Reporting System and Case Studies

- Report on TRB workshop on human factors research needs, Thomas Rockwell, committee member, and Thomas Raslear, FRA

- Status Report on Project Evaluation and Investment Analysis

1:30 p.m. - FRA Presentations on Next-Generation High-Speed Rail Technology Demonstration Program, Robert McCown, Team Leader, NGHSR, FRA

- FY 2003 Budget Request

- Current Project Updates

- R& D Management Reporting System and Case Studies

4 p.m. - FRA Presentations on Magnetic Levitation Technology Deployment Program, Arnie Kupferman, FRA

- FY 2003 Budget Request

- Current Program Updates

DATE: November 14, 2002

LOCATION: 500 5th Street NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-334-2138

WEB ADDRESS:nas.edu

TIME: All Day

EVENT: EDUCATION DEPARTMENT THE OFFICE OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE ACQUISITION (OELA), will hold its first Summit on English Language Acquisition under the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 themed CELEBRATE Our Rising Stars."

AGENDA: Sessions will feature panels, presentations and include discussion on such topics as accountability and assessment, meeting Adequate Yearly Progress, early childhood education, parental involvement, professional development, building on scientifically based research, and effective working relationships between state education agencies and local school districts under the No Child Left Behind Act.

DATE: November 14, 2002

LOCATION: The Hilton Washington Hotel, 1919 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-401-1576

WEB ADDRESS: ed.gov

TIME: 8:30 a.m.

EVENT: FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION ANTIVIRAL DRUGS ADVISORY COMMITTEE holds a meeting to discuss biologics license application 125061/0, peginterferon alfa-2a copackaged with ribavirin, new drug application 21-511, Hoffmann-La Roche, Inc., proposed as combination therapy for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C.

DATE: November 14, 2002

LOCATION: Holiday Inn, Versailles Ballroom, 8120 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda, MD.

CONTACT: Tara P. Turner, 301-827-7001

WEB ADDRESS: fda.gov

TIME: 10 a.m.

EVENT: UNITED STATES HELSINKI COMMISSION holds a briefing on Turkey's future following the country's precedent-setting November 3rd election.

WHO: The speakers are:

Abdullah Akyüz, President, Turkish Industrialist and Businessmen's Association - US, Inc (TUSIAD)

Sanar Yurdatapan, Musician and Freedom of Expression activist

Jonathan Sugden, Turkey Researcher, Human Rights Watch

DATE: November 14, 2002

LOCATION: 2200 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC

CONTACT: Ben Anderson, 202-225-1901

WEB ADDRESS: csce.gov

TIME: 12 noon

EVENT: FOREIGN PRESS CENTER holds a briefing Senior Administration Official

Daniel Fried, NSC Senior, Director for European and Eurasian Affairs) discussing The NATO Summit, Prague, November 21-22, 2002.

DATE: November 14, 2002

LOCATION: Foreign Press Center, National Press Building, Room, 898, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-724-1640

WEB ADDRESS: fpc.gov

TIME: 12 noon

EVENT: NATIONAL ARCHIVES presents Kathleen Hall Jamieson who will discuss her latest book (co-authored with Paul Waldman), The Press Effect: Politicians, Journalists, and the Stories That Shape the Political World. The unprecedented events of election night 2000 and the following 36 days revealed the impact of network overconfidence in polls and how preconceptions color press interpretation.

DATE: November 14, 2002

LOCATION: National Archives, 700 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC,

CONTACT: 202-501-5000

WEB ADDRESS: nara.gov

TIME: 6 p.m.

EVENT: SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION Resident Associate Program presents slide-illustrated seminar featuring Barry Gordon (M.D., Ph.D., and director of the Memory Clinic at Johns Hopkins University) and Sharon Powell (R.N., MPH, and co-director of the Memory Clinic) discussing what can be done to preserve your memory, how to be alert to more serious problems, and what is normal memory and normal-aging memory.

DATE: November 14, 2002

LOCATION: USDA Jefferson Auditorium, 14th & Independence SW, Wing 5, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-357-3030

WEB ADDRESS:si.edu

TIME: 6:45 p.m.

EVENT: LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Library's Poetry and Literature Center presents Kim Barnes and Robert Wrigley reading from their works.

DATE: November 14, 2002

LOCATION: Mumford Room, sixth floor of the Madison Building, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-707-5502

WEB ADDRESS:loc.gov

TIME: 7 p.m.

EVENT: LIBRARY OF CONGRESS holds a reading from Civil War letters, diaries, newspaper editorials and other resources in the Library's collections.

DATE: November 14, 2002

LOCATION: Montpelier Room, sixth floor of the Madison Building, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-707-5502

WEB ADDRESS:loc.gov

TIME: 7 p.m.

EVENT: NATIONAL ARCHIVES presents Robert Cohen who will discuss Dear Mrs. Roosevelt: Letters from Children of the Great Depression. As first lady, Mrs. Roosevelt was the most visible spokesperson for the National Youth Administration, the New Deal's central agency for aiding the needy young, and she insisted that federal aid to young people be administered without discrimination. Cohen presents nearly 200 of the thousands of letters children wrote to her between 1933 and 1941.

DATE: November 14, 2002

LOCATION: National Archives, 700 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC,

CONTACT: 202-501-5000

WEB ADDRESS: nara.gov

TIME: 7 p.m.

EVENT: NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES holds a lecture by Sir John Sulston, Winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

AGENDA: Dr. Sulston, also the author of the new Joseph Henry Press book The Common Thread, will talk about his work on the Human Genome Project. He and his co-author, Georgina Ferry, will take you behind the scenes for an exclusive, in-depth look at the controversial and riveting story of the politics, personalities, and ethics of one of the most important scientific endeavors of our time.

DATE: November 14, 2002

LOCATION: National Academy of Sciences building, 2100 C St. NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-334-2138

WEB ADDRESS:nas.edu

TIME: 8 p.m.

EVENT: SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION Resident Associate Program presents Executive chef and best-selling author Anthony Bourdain revealing how he combined his love of food and travel, and embarked on an adventurous journey criss-crossing the globe in search of the perfect meal. He also touches upon the unthinkable things that really occur behind the scenes of elite restaurants.

DATE: November 14, 2002

LOCATION: Natural History Museum, Baird Auditorium, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-633-2330

WEB ADDRESS: si.edu