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EVENTS ON THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 2002
TIME: All Day
EVENT: AMERICAN ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY holds its 199th meeting.
AGENDA: Highlights:
8:30 a.m. - Warner Prize Lecture
1 p.m. - The Next Generation Space Telescope Townhall International Perspectives
DATE: January 10, 2002
LOCATION: Washington Hilton and Towers, 1919 Connecticut Ave., NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-797-5820
WEB ADDRESS:aas.org
TIME: All Day
EVENT: KELLOGG FOUNDATION holds its Devolution Initiative entitled "Building Bridges Between People and Policy: Devolution In Practice" which examines the effects of welfare and health care reform efforts.
AGENDA: Highlights:
8:30 a.m. -- Perspectives in Devolution Impact on low income
9:15 a.m. -- Support for low-income families
12:30 p.m. -- Dr. William Richardson, CEO, WKKF
DATE: January 10, 2002
LOCATION: Washington Marriott, 1221 22nd Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-326-1611
WEB ADDRESS:wkkl.org
TIME: All Day
EVENT: NATIONAL MANAGED HEALTH CARE CONGRESS holds its sixth annual Congress on Medicaid & Medicare themed "Innovations for Challenging Regulatory Environment."
DATE: January 9, 2002
LOCATION: Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, 2660 Woodley Road NW,
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 781.663.6600
WEB ADDRESS: nmhcc.org
TIME: 7:30 a.m.
EVENT: CHAMBER OF COMMERCE holds a forum on "Doing Business With Big Business: Partnering "How-To" and How to Succeed."
WHO: The speakers are:
Warren Bellamy Celera Genomics
Vete Clements, CommWorks
John DeBlasio, META Group
Diana Meacham, Siemans Enterprise Networks
DATE: January 10, 2002
LOCATION: 1615 H Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-463-5682
WEB ADDRESS:uschamber.com
TIME: 8:30 a.m.
EVENT: ASIA SOCIETY presents Ralph L. Boyce Ambassador of the United States to Indonesia discussing a political and economic update and share impressions of developments in Indonesia since he began service in his new post.
DATE: January 10, 2002
LOCATION: The St. Regis Hotel, 923 16th Street NW, Washington DC
CONTACT: 202-833-2742
WEB ADDRESS:asiasociety.org
TIME: 8:30 a.m.
EVENT: LEADERSHIP TO KEEP CHILDREN ALCOHOL FREE hold a conference to discuss "The Solution IS With in Our Reach: Working Together to Keep Kids Alcohol Free."
WHO: The speakers are:
Steven Schroeder, president, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Raynard Kington, National Institute of Alcohol Abuse
DATE: January 10, 2002
LOCATION: Monarch Hotel, 2401 M Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-452-9511
WEB ADDRESS: alcoholfreechildent.org
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: HOUSE BUDGET COMMITTEE MEMBER JOHN SPRATT, D-SC, holds a news conference to discuss the budget.
DATE: January 10, 2002
LOCATION: House Radio/TV Gallery, U.S. Capitol, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-225-5501
WEB ADDRESS:house.gov
TIME: 11:30 a.m.
EVENT: THE GEORGE C. MARSHALL'S CIVIC ENVIRONMENTALISM WORKING GROUP
holds a reception and discussion celebrating the publication release of Civic Environmentalism: A New Approach to Policy.
DATE: January 10, 2002
LOCATION: US Capitol, Room HC7, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-296-9655
WEB ADDRESS: marshall.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: NATIONAL ECONOMIST CLUB holds its luncheon program featuring Anthony Santomero, President, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia discussing "Great
Expectations: Monetary Policy in Today's Economy."
DATE: January 10, 2002
LOCATION: Chinatown Garden Restaurant, 618 H Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 703-739-9404
WEB ADDRESS: national-economists.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: WORLD WATCH INSTITUTE holds a luncheon program releasing the State of the World 2002 Special World Summit Edition. The report reveals the findings of a special edition of State of World, reviewing environmental progress since the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio, and looking ahead to the many problems that will confront the delegates at the upcoming World Summit
on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in September 2002.
DATE: January 10, 2002
LOCATION: Worldwatch Institute, 1776 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Niki Clark, 202-452-1992, Ext. 517
WEB ADDRESS: Worldwatch.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: PEOPLE FOR THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANIMALS holds a news conference to discuss its use of donated furs in library displays, anti-fur fashion shows, street theater, and other educational events designed to convince consumers that animals should never be killed for coats. Now they are donating the coats to people truly struggling to survive. "
DATE: January 10, 2002
LOCATION: Northwest corner of Third and Constitution Avenues NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Jay Kelly 757-622-7382, ext. 1600; 916-798-4549
WEB ADDRESS:peta.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: HERITAGE FOUNDATION holds a program entitled "Change of Guard in Bulgaria: Effects on NATO, EU and National Development."
WHO: The speakers are:
H.E. Philip Dimitrov Embassy of Bulgaria
Dr. Janusz Bugajski Center for Strategic and International Studies
Ambassador Harvey Feldman The Heritage Foundation
DATE: January 10, 2002
LOCATION: 214 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-675-1752
WEB ADDRESS:heritage.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: RESOURCES FOR THE FUTURE features Ruth Greenspan Bell, Resources for the Future discussing a recent effort to develop laws, institutions, and practices that would allow individuals in Hungary and Slovenia to request and obtain environmental information from their governments.
DATE: January 10, 2002
LOCATION: 1616 P Street, NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-328-5000
WEB ADDRESS: rff.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: WOMAN'S NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CLUB presents Joan Martin-Brown, Foundations Coordinator at the World Bank.
DATE: January 10, 2002
LOCATION: 1526 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-232-7363
WEB ADDRESS: democraticwomen.org
TIME: 1:30 p.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a conference on Politics, Economics, Religion: Should the US Care?
AGENDA: Highlights:
1:30 p.m. -- Regional dynamics
Kamouldin Abdullaev, professor, Yale University
Nayereh Tohidi, Kennan Institute, WWC
Nancy Lubin, JNA Associates, Inc.
3:30 p.m. -- US Interests in Central Asia
Lynn Pascoe, Assistant Secretary of State
DATE: January 10, 2002
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 5 p.m.
EVENT: EMBASSY OF GREECE holds a news conference with The Greek Prime Minister Costas Simtis.
DATE: January 10, 2002
LOCATION: Willard Inter-Continental Hotel, 1401 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-332-2727
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: KENNEDY CENTER MILLENIUM STAGE presents Edgeworks Dance Theater, an all male company, featuring modern dance artist Helanius J. Wilkins.
DATE: January 10, 2002
LOCATION: 2700 F Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-416-8000
WEB ADDRESS: kennedy-center.org
TIME: 7 p.m.
EVENT: POLITICS & PROSE BOOKSTORE features Mary Robison discussing and signing copies of "Why Did I Ever." The book narrator Money Breton navigates a world that is chaotic and absurd, lived desperately because there is so much to defend.
DATE: January 10, 2002
LOCATION: 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-364-1919
WEB ADDRESS: politics-prose.com
