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EVENTS ON THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2001
TIME: All Day
EVENT: NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING, FOUNDATION FOR AMERICAN COMMUNICATIONS, NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE RADIO-TELEVISION NEWS DIRECTORS ASSOCIATION AND ASSOCIATED PRESS MANAGING EDITORS hold a conference on "Terror and Homeland Defense: Bringing the Stories Home."
AGENDA: Highlights:
8:20 a.m. - Introduction/Welcome -- Jack Cox, FACS, and William Wulf, NAE
8:30 a.m. - The Context of Terrorism in America -- Anthony H. Cordesman, Senior Fellow, Strategic Assessment, Center for Strategic and International Studies; Military Analyst for ABC News An overview and historical context of the roots of and motivations behind acts of terrorism.
9:15 a.m. - Analyzing and Evaluating the Threats -- William Wulf, Ph.D., President, National Academy of Engineering
A discussion of the targets, weapons and delivery systems of terrorists.
10 a.m. - Assessing the Real Risk of Terrorism -- Baruch Fischhoff, Ph.D., Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
A discussion of how to assess the risk of terrorism in your community with a focus on the psychology of risk.
10:45 a.m. - Points of Intervention: Defending Against Terrorism -- James Woolsey, former director of the Central Intelligence Agency
11:30 a.m. - Thomas Ridge, Director, Office of Homeland Defense
1 p.m. - Reporting the Story -- Scenario Discussion
Biological - Peggy Hamburg, M.D., Vice President for Biological Programs, Nuclear Threat Initiative; former New York City Health Commissioner
Nuclear - Richard L. Garwin - Philip D. Reed Senior Fellow for Science and Technology at the Council on Foreign Relations, New York
Cyber-terrorism - Jeffrey Hunker, currently Dean of the H. John Heinz School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University and Senior Director for Critical Infrastructure of the National Security Council from 1996-2000.
Infrastructure - Jeremy Isenberg is president and CEO of Weidlinger Associates, Inc. a New York-based civil and structural engineering that specializes in blast engineering
3 p.m. - Framing the Story: Practical Ideas for Journalists -- Moderator: Jeff Cowart, FACS
DATE: December 6, 2001
LOCATION: Reserve Officers Association / 1 Constitution Avenue N.E., Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-334-1508
WEB ADDRESS:nae.edu
TIME: All Day
EVENT: NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR SCIENCE AND THE ENVIRONMENT holds its conference on 2nd national conference on science, policy and the Environment sustainable communities: science & Solutions.
AGENDA: Highlights:
9 a.m. - Opening Statements by the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and the National Council for Science and the Environment
Robert Sullivan, Associate Director for Public Programs, National Museum of Natural History
Stephen Hubbell, Chair, National Council for Science and the Environment
9:15 a.m. - Introduction by Ambassador Richard Benedick, President, National Council for Science and the Environment
Setting the Stage and Envisioning the Big Picture of Sustainability
Donald Kennedy, Editor-in-Chief, Science, American Association for the Advancement of Science, former President of Stanford University
10:30 a.m. - Plenary I: What Are Sustainable Communities?
Case Study: Curitiba, Brazil
Governor Jaime Lerner, State of Parana and former Mayor of Curitiba, Brazil
Panel Discussion
Tom Lovejoy, World Bank
Deborah Bleviss, Inter-American Development Bank
David Crockett, former City Council Member, Chattanooga, TN
Karen Peabody O'Brien, W. Alton Jones Foundation
1:30 p.m. - Plenary Lecture: From Rio to Johannesburg: Implementing Sustainable Development on the Global and Local Scale
John Dernbach, Associate Professor of Law, Widener University Law School
5:45 p.m. - Sustainable Communities: Science, Solutions and Environmental Decision making
Chair, Sarah Moten, United States Agency for International Development
David Crockett, former City Council Member, Chattanooga, TN
Jack Dangermond, President, ESRI, Inc.
Diane Dumanoski, Journalist, Newton, MA
Dan Mazmanian, University of Southern California
8 p.m. - John H. Chafee Memorial Lecture On Science And The Environment "The Future Of Life"
Ambassador Richard Benedick, President, National Council for Science and the Environment
Georgia Chafee Nassikas
Stephen Hubbell, Chair, National Council for Science and the Environment
Edward O. Wilson, Pellegrino University Research Professor, Harvard University Baird Auditorium, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
DATE: December 6, 2001
LOCATION: Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Constitution Avenue at 10th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-530-5810
WEB ADDRESS: ncseonline.org
TIME: All Day
EVENT: NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF STATE LEGISLATURES holds its Assembly on Federal Issues and Assembly on State Issues Joint Meeting.
DATE: December 6, 2001
LOCATION: Hyatt Regency -- Capitol Hill, 400 New Jersey Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-624-5400
WEB ADDRESS:ncsl.org
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: US-CHINA COMMISION holds hearings on Chinese fundraising activities in US capital markets.
AGENDA: Highlights:
9 a.m. - Opening Remarks by Senator Fred Thompson
9:30 a.m. - Overview - U.S. Capital Markets/China's Capital Requirements
Prof. Warren Bailey, Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University
Dr. Nicholas Lardy, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
Thomas Byrne, Vice President, Moody's Investors Service
Stephen Harner, President, S.M. Harner and Co. (Shanghai)
1:30 a.m. - Market Participants and Underwriters
Paul Wolansky, Managing Director, New China Management Corp.
Robert D. Hormats, Vice Chairman, Goldman Sachs
Marc E. Lackritz, President, Securities Industry Association
3 p.m. - Investors and Risk Assessment
James A. Dorn, Vice President for Academic Affairs, Cato Institute
William Patterson, Director, Office of Investment, AFL-CIO
Michael Flaherman, Chair of Investment Committee, Cal. Public Employees' Retirement System
Rep. Steven R. Nickol, Pennsylvania House of Representatives
DATE: December 6, 2001
LOCATION: 124 Dirksen Office Building, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-624-1407
WEB ADDRESS: 202-624-1407
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: CENTER FOR STRATEGIC AND INTERNATIONAL STUDIES presents Bulgarian Foreign Minister Solomon Passy, discussing "Bulgaria Transatlantic Values: Role in the New Antiterrorism Coalition."
DATE: December 6, 2001
LOCATION: 1800 K Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Mark Schoeff, 202-775-3242
WEB ADDRESS:csis.org
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: BROOKINGS INSTITUTION holds forum on Helping Low-Income Workers Weather the Recession.
WHO: The speakers are:
Ron Haskins, Senior Fellow and Co-Director of Welfare Reform & Beyond, The Brookings Institution
Rep. Benjamin L. Cardin, D-MD
Rep. Jim Mccrery, R-LA
Robert E. Litan, Vice President and Director, Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution
Harry Holzer, Professor of Public Policy Georgetown University
Rich Hobbie, Unemployment Insurance Director, National Association of State Workforce Agencies
Mason Bishop, Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary, U.S Department of Labor
Robert Gross, Executive Director, Department of Workforce Services, State of Utah
Eric J. Oxfeld, President, UWC - Strategic Services on Unemployment and Workers' Compensation
Charity Wilson, Senior Policy Analyst, Public Policy Department, AFL-CIO
DATE: December 6, 2001
LOCATION: Falk Auditorium, 1775 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-797-6105
WEB ADDRESS: brookings.edu
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: BROOKINGS INSTITUTION holds an economic discussion on "Dot.Coms May Be Dying, But the Internet is Alive And Well."
WHO: The speakers are:
Michael Mandel, chief economist, BusinessWeek
Robert Litan, Brookings Institution
Alice Rivlin, Brookings Institution
DATE: December 6, 2001
LOCATION: Falk Auditorium, 1775 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-797-6105
WEB ADDRESS: brookings.edu
TIME: 10:30 a.m.
EVENT: RAND holds a briefing to release a study entitled "Rhetoric Versus Reality: What We Know and What We Need To Know About Vouchers and Charter Schools."
DATE: December 6, 2001
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 310-451-6913
WEB ADDRESS:rand.org
TIME: 11 a.m.
EVENT: REP. CURT WELDON, R-PA, will host a briefing on an alternative smallpox vaccine that may prove safer and more effective than traditional vaccines currently being proposed.
DATE: December 6, 2001
LOCATION: 2325 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Bud DeFlaviis, 202-225-2011
WEB ADDRESS: house.gov
TIME: 11 a.m.
EVENT: GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY Democracy Online Project holds a roundtable discussion that will examine privacy issues and online politics, including electronic profiling and the recent passage of the Patriot Act.
WHO: The speakers are:
Marvin Kalb, executive director, Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy Scott Harshbarger, president and CEO, Common Cause
Jeffrey A. Eisenach, president of The Progress & Freedom Foundation.
former U.S. Representatives and Democracy Online Project National Task Force Co-Chair Pat Schroeder
former U.S. Senator Mike Gravel; David Boaz, executive vice president of the Cato Institute Adam Clayton Powell, III, former vice president of technology and programs, The Freedom Forum
Jerry Berman, executive director, Center for Democracy and Technology Evan Hendricks, editor, Privacy Times.
DATE: December 6, 2001
LOCATION: 800 21st Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-994-6467
WEB ADDRESS:gwu.edu
TIME: 11:30 a.m.
EVENT: CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND ALLIANCE FOR ENERGY AND ECONOMIC GROWTH hold a briefing to call for a decision from the Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham and the Bush Administration on the suitability of Yucca Mountain as a federal used fuel and defense waste site.
WHO: The speakers are:
Bruce Josten, Executive Vice President, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Bubba McDonald, Chairman, NARUC Nuclear Waste Task Force
LeRoy Koppendrayer, Chairman, Nuclear Waste Strategy Coalition
DATE: December 6, 2001
LOCATION: 1615 H Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-463-5682
WEB ADDRESS:uschamber.com
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: CATO INSTITUTE holds a policy forum "Terrorist Military Tribunals and the Constitution."
WHO: The speakers are:
Timothy Lynch, Director, Project on Criminal Justice, Cato Institute
Michael Nardotti, Major General, U. S. Army (ret.), former Judge Advocate General; Joseph Robert Barnes, Brigadier General, U.S. Army (ret.), former Assistant Judge Advocate General for Military Law
Lee Casey, Baker & Hostetler.
DATE: December 6, 2001
LOCATION: Cato Institute, 1000 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-789-5229
WEB ADDRESS:cato.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: NATIONAL ECONOMIST CLUB holds its luncheon program with a presentation by Joe Quinlan, Morgan Stanley, on "Global Capital Flows In The New World Disorder."
DATE: December 6, 2001
LOCATION: Chinatown Garden, 618 H Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 703-739-9404
WEB ADDRESS: national-economists.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: ECONOMIC CLUB OF WASHINGTON holds a luncheon program featuring James Wolfensohn, president of the World Bank.
DATE: December 6, 2001
LOCATION: Park Hyatt Hotel, 1201 24th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-223-4560
WEB ADDRESS: economicclub.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on Sudan and the Controversy over Slave Redemption with Michael Rubin, Adjunct scholar, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy and Visiting Fellow, Hebrew University's Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations.
DATE: December 6, 2001
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 12:15 p.m.
EVENT: NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION holds a brownbag luncheon program on "What Should the Bank of Japan Do?" with Shuji Kobayakawa, Representative of the Bank of Japan's Chief Representative Office in New York.
DATE: December 6, 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: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Luncheon Newsmaker" news program featuring NPC Sergei N. Krushchev Senior Fellow, Thomas J. Watson, Jr. Institute for International Studies, Brown University discussing "Russia, Putin And The War On Terrorism."
DATE: December 6, 2001
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: WOMAN'S NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CLUB presents Dr. Jerrold M. Post, a specialist in political psychology, discussing the psychology of radical Islamist terrorists that not only permits, but requires them to give their lives while taking thousands of others in the name of God.
DATE: December 6, 2001
LOCATION: 1526 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-232-7363
WEB ADDRESS: democraticwomen.org
TIME: 1 p.m.
EVENT: GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY presents a program on the disclosure of new scientific data from the infamous "Boston Strangler" case.
WHO: The speakers are:
Exhumation Introduction: James E. Starrs, Ph.D., professor of forensic sciences and law, The George Washington University
Sullivan Autopsy Compared to DeSalvo's "Confession": Michael M. Baden, M.D., forensic pathologist of the New York State Police Medicolegal Investigation Unit
Discussion of Toxic Substances: Bruce Goldberger, Ph.D., director of toxicology, University of Florida
Discussion of DNA Evidence: David Foran, Ph.D., assistant professor and director of GW forensic molecular biology lab
DATE: December 6, 2001
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-994-0616
WEB ADDRESS:gwu.edu
TIME: 1:30 p.m.
EVENT: CONGRESSIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS CAUCUS holds a briefing on A Changing Worlds Order: The Human Rights Situation In Tibet."
DATE: December 6, 2001
LOCATION: 2325 Rayburn Office Building, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-225-3531
WEB ADDRESS: house.gov
TIME: 2 p.m.
EVENT: CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF THE PRESIDENCY AND U.S. INSTITUTE OF PEACE present on "From Pearl Harbor to 9/11: Organizing for a New Homeland Defense."
WHO: The speakers are:
Chester Crocker - Chairman, U.S. Institute of Peace
Dick Solomon - President, U.S. Institute of Peace
David Abshire - President, Center for the Study of the Presidency
James Woolsey - Former Director of Central Intelligence
Admiral James Watkins - Former Chief of Naval Operations and Secretary of Energy
Lee Hamilton - Director, Woodrow Wilson Center, and former Chairman of the House International Relations Committee, the House Intelligence Committee, and the Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress
DATE: December 6, 2001
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Elizabeth Curwen, 202-737-8400
WEB ADDRESS:thepresidency.org
TIME: 4 p.m.
EVENT: REP. CIRO D. RODRIGUEZ, D-TX, holds the landmine policy briefing.
DATE: December 6, 2001
LOCATION: 340 Cannon Office Building, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-225-1640
WEB ADDRESS:house.gov
TIME: 4 p.m.
EVENT: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PAUL H. NITZE SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES holds a lecture entitled "Turkmenistan: Ten Years Of Independence" with Meret Orazov, ambassador of Turkmenistan.
DATE: December 6, 2001
LOCATION: 1619 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-663-5626
WEB ADDRESS: sais-jhu.org
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: KENNEDY CENTER MILLENIUM STAGE presents National Symphony Orchestra Youth Fellows in a recital of classical music.
DATE: December 6, 2001
LOCATION: 2700 F Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-416-8000
WEB ADDRESS: kennedy-center.org
TIME: 6:30 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB presents a Cyber Security panel discussion.
WHO: The speakers are:
Richard Forno, CTO, Shadowlogic
Mark Rasch, CEO, Predicitive Systems
Amit Yoran, CEO and co-founder of Riptech
Richard Clarke, Tentative - Office of Homeland Security
Declan McCullagh, Wired News Washington bureau chief
DATE: December 6, 2001
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
