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EVENTS ON TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2002
TIME: All Day
EVENT: U.S. CLIMATE CHANGE SCIENCE PROGRAM, holds a workshop to discuss draft version of its Strategic Plan for climate change and global change studies.
WHO: The speakers are:
Dr. Bruce Alberts, President, NAS
Robert Card, Undersecretary of Energy
Dr. Rita R. Colwell, Director, NSF
VADM Conrad C. Lautenbacher, Administrator, NOAA
Dr. John H. Marburger, Director, OSTP, EOP
Prof. G.O.P. Obasi, Secretary General, WMO
Sean O'Keefe, Administrator, NASA
Dr. R. K. Pachauri, Chairman, IPCC
Hon. Klaus Toepfer, Executive Director, UNEP
DATE: December 3, 2002
LOCATION: Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, 2660 Woodley Road NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: Bob Hopkins, 202-482-6090
WEB ADDRESS: climatescience.gov
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: DEFENSE DEPARTMENT Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition,
Technology and Logistics Michael Wynne holds an awards ceremony recognizing the accomplishments of the eBusiness Working Group.
DATE: December 3, 2002
LOCATION: Pentagon, Auditorium, room 5A1070, Arlington, VA
CONTACT: 703-697-5131
WEB ADDRESS:dod.gov
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION National Museum of American History features Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Max Desfor presenting his combat photographs from World War II and Korea. He covered the Pacific Theater in World War II for the Associated Press and was on board the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay when the Japanese surrendered. He has photographed conflicts in Kashmir, Burma, Afghanistan, Indonesia, and Pakistan.
DATE: December 3, 2002
LOCATION: 1st Floor, Information Age Theater, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-633-2330
WEB ADDRESS: si.edu
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: NATIONAL ARCHIVES presents Capt. James Wise USN (Ret.) who will discuss his series of books: Stars in Blue: Movie Actors in America's Sea Services, Stars in the Corps: Movie Actors in the United States Marines, Stars in Khaki: Movie Actors in the Army and the Air Services, and International Stars at War. These books are with revealing profiles of dozens of celebrities, many readers will discover for the first time the patriotic contributions and sacrifices actors have made in the armed forces from World War I to Vietnam.
DATE: December 3, 2002
LOCATION: National Archives, 700 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC,
CONTACT: 202-501-5000
WEB ADDRESS: nara.gov
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: LIBRARY OF CONGRESS "Poetry At Noon" presents George Bilgere and Geraldine Connolly reading poems on the theme of "Home and Hearth."
DATE: December 3, 2002
LOCATION: Pickford Theater, third floor, Madison Building, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-707-1308
WEB ADDRESS:loc.gov
TIME: 4 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH VRC SEMINAR SERIES holds a program on "Natural History Studies of Sexual Mucosal Transmission in the Rhesus Macaque -- SIV Model," with Dr. Ashley Haase, University of Minnesota.
DATE: December 3, 2002
LOCATION: Main Conference Room, Building 40, Bethesda, MD
CONTACT: 301- 594-8491
WEB ADDRESS:nih.gov
TIME: 7 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL ARCHIVES presents Candace Clifford who will discuss Nineteenth-Century Lights: Historic Images of American Lighthouses. Clifford's presentation illustrates the evolution of the lighthouse construction types through historic images, many from the National Archives.
DATE: December 3, 2002
LOCATION: National Archives, 700 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC,
CONTACT: 202-501-5000
WEB ADDRESS: nara.gov
TIME: 8 p.m.
EVENT: SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION Resident Associate Program presents author Debra Trione who asked 50 influential Americans to name two or three things they hoped will be true about the world in 50 or 60 years. This evening she discusses the responses.
WHO: The speakers are:
Center for Equal Opportunity president and author of An Unlikely Conservative Linda Chavez
National Organization for Women president Kim Gandy
editor in chief of The Kiplinger Letter and Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine Knight Kiplinger
and Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and Chicago Tribune editorial board member Clarence Page
Goucher College president Sanford Unger moderates
DATE: December 3, 2002
LOCATION: S. Dillon Ripley Center, Lecture Hall, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-633-2330
WEB ADDRESS: si.edu
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