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EVENTS ON WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2001

TIME: 9 a.m.

EVENT: TREASURY DEPARTMENT UNDER SECRETARY FOR DOMESTIC FINANCE PETER FISHER holds the quarterly refunding news conference.

DATE: October 31, 2001

LOCATION: 1500 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-622-2960

WEB ADDRESS:treas.gov

TIME: 12 noon

EVENT: SMITHSONIAN National Air and Space Museum presents Center for Earth and Planetary Studies research specialist Andy Johnston discussing the multi-spectral scanner.

DATE: October 31, 2001

LOCATION: Meet at the museum seal, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202- 275-0570

WEB ADDRESS:si.edu

TIME: 12 noon

EVENT: LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Tomoko Steen of the Science, Technology and Business Division discussing Charles Darwin and Origin of Species.

DATE: October 31, 2001

LOCATION: LC, Jefferson Building, 101 Independence Avenue SE, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202-707-9203

WEB ADDRESS:loc.gov

TIME: 12 noon

EVENT: NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH CLINICAL CENTER GRAND ROUNDS LECTURE SERIES presents "Cancer Vaccines: A Translation Research Initiative, "with Drs. James Gulley, Senior Clinical Fellow, Laboratory of Tumor Immunology and Biology, Center for Cancer Research, NCI, and Philip Arlen, Clinical Expert, Laboratory of Tumor Immunology and Biology, Center for Cancer Research, NCI.

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DATE: October 31, 2001

LOCATION: Lipsett Amphitheater, Building 10, Bethesda, MD

CONTACT: 301-496-2563

WEB ADDRESS:nih.gov

TIME: 3 p.m.

EVENT: NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON 2001-2002 DIRECTOR'S LECTURE SERIES presents "Protein Folds, Functions, and Evolution," with Dr. Janet M. Thornton, Director, European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, Director, BBSRC Center for Structural Biology at Birkbeck College and University College, London, UK.

DATE: October 31, 2001

LOCATION: Masur Auditorium, Building 10, Bethesda, MD

CONTACT: 301-594-5595

WEB ADDRESS:nih.gov

TIME: 6 p.m.

EVENT: SMITHSONIAN Resident Associate Program presents award-winning mystery novelists Val McDermid (Killing the Shadows) and Ian Rankin (The Falls) talking about the moody craft of creating mysteries and the inspiration they mine from Scottish environs.

DATE: October 31, 2001

LOCATION: TBA, Washington, DC

CONTACT: 202- 357-3030

WEB ADDRESS:si.edu

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