For content questions, call 202-898-8291
To fax additions or changes, 202-898-8064
For the UPI News Desk call, 202-898-8111
EVENTS ON THURSDAY, MAY 23, 2002
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: PUBLIC CITIZEN holds a news conference to oppose the proposed Yucca Mountain and Private Fuel Storage nuclear waste facilities. Participants will discuss the dangers of transporting nuclear waste through 44 states and the District of Columbia to sites in Utah and Nevada, as well as the environmental justice implications of these nuclear projects, which disproportionately impact Native American communities.
WHO: The speakers are:
James Cromwell, actor and activist
Sen. Harry Reid, assistant majority leader from Nevada
Sen. John Ensign, R-NV.
Joan Claybrook, president, Public Citizen
Ron Steif, director, Public Life and Social Policy, United Church of Christ
DATE: May 23, 2002
LOCATION: Senate Swamp, U.S. Capitol, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Erica Hartman, Public Citizen, 202-454-5174
WEB ADDRESS: public.org
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on "Women and Culture in Iran: Articulating the Void in Search of Identity in Contemporary Iranian Fiction."
WHO: The speakers are:
Azar Nafisi, Johns Hopkins University SAIS
Goli Emami, Zamineh Books (Tehran)
Nasrin Rahimieh, University of Alberta (Canada)
DATE: May 23, 2002
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: PUBLIC CITIZEN AND THE GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT holds a news conference to discuss a five-month review of records from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The records - documenting government salmonella testing at ground beef plants throughout the country - showed a systematic breakdown in the testing program, which began in 1998.
WHO: The speakers are:
Rep. John Baldacci, D-MA
Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-CT
Rep. Maurice Hinchey, D-NY
Felicia Nestor, Food Safety Project director, Government Accountability Project
Patricia Lovera, deputy director, Public Citizen's Critical Mass Energy and Environment Program
Donna Rosenbaum, food safety consultant with Food Safety Partners, and co-founder and former executive director of Safe Tables Our Priority (STOP)
Randy Howell, president, Mid-Atlantic Council, National Joint Council of Food Inspection Locals
DATE: May 23, 2002
LOCATION: 122 Cannon House Office Building, Washington, DC
CONTACT: Mick Andersen, 202-408-0034, ext. 143; Angela Bradbery, 202-588-7741
WEB ADDRESS: public.org
TIME: 11 a.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION holds a news conference to discuss findings on the content and
structure of the early universe. The news conference focuses on images from the Cosmic Background Imager (CBI), an interferometer that detects the cosmic microwave background--the radiation that began its journey to Earth shortly after the Big Bang.
WHO: The speakers are:
Anthony Readhead- Rawn Professor of Astronomy, California Institute of Technology
Alan Guth - Weisskopf Professor of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
DATE: May 23, 2002
LOCATION: National Science Foundation, Room 110, 4201 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA
CONTACT: Amber Jones, 703-292-8070
WEB ADDRESS: nsf.gov
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on Eastern Europe After Ten Years of Transition with Ionel Nicu Sava, Fulbright Fellow, Department of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles
DATE: May 23, 2002
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-287-3400
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: WOODROW WILSON CENTER holds a program on The Reluctant Dragon: Crisis Cycles in Chinese Economic Policy with Lawrence Chris Reardon, University of New Hampshire and Wilson Center Asian Policy Studies Fellow.
DATE: May 23, 2002
LOCATION: One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-691-4020
WEB ADDRESS: wwics.edu
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: HERITAGE FOUNDATION holds a program entitled "Bridging the Education Gap: What the Research Shows on School Vouchers."
WHO: The speakers are:
Paul E. Peterson, Ph.D. Harvard University
Richard D. Komer Institute for Justice
Nina Shokraii Rees Deputy Assistant to the Vice President on Domestic Policy
DATE: May 23, 2002
LOCATION: 214 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-675-1752
WEB ADDRESS:heritage.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: NATIONAL ECONOMIST CLUB holds its luncheon program featuring Maury Harris, chief economist, UBS Warburg, discussing cyclical issues facing the economy, including unemployment, household leverage, technology, as well as Fed policy. He will emphasize his rather optimistic multiyear outlook on technological change and productivity, and discuss the dollar's future from global bank's perspective.
DATE: May 23, 2002
LOCATION: Chinatown Garden Restaurant, 618 H Street, NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 703-739-9404
WEB ADDRESS: national-economists.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB Book Rap featuring author Robert Wolke discussing and signing copies of
"What Einstein Told His Cook." "What Einstein Told His Cook" contains more than 130 lucid explanations of kitchen phenomena involving starches and sugars, salts, fats, meats and fish, heat and cold, cooking equipment.
DATE: May 23, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
TIME: 1 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Luncheon Newsmaker" news program featuring Karen AbuZayd, Deputy Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, discussing the Middle East peace process and the refugee situation.
DATE: May 23, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
TIME: 3 p.m.
EVENT: HERITAGE FOUNDATION holds a program featuring Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson discussing The Next Bold Step in Welfare Reform
DATE: May 23, 2002
LOCATION: 214 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-675-1752
WEB ADDRESS:heritage.org
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: KENNEDY CENTER MILLENIUM STAGE AND The American Liszt Society presenting piano music by Liszt and Wagner with pianists Rosanne Conway, Kathy Detwiler, Ann Schein, and Andre von Frasunkiewicz, in the program "Venice and Naples."
DATE: May 23, 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 presents a reception for local authors and illustrators of children's books published this spring.
WHO: The authors include:
Brent and Jennifer Ashabranner
Paige Billin-Frye
Henry Cole
Pamela Edwards
Jonathan Fuqua
Carla Golembe
Polly Greenberg
Joseph Lekuton
Alice McGill
Laura Melmed
Jerdine Nolen
Barbara-Ann Porte
Candice Ransom
Barbara Wallace
DATE: May 23, 2002
LOCATION: 5015 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-364-1919
WEB ADDRESS: politics-prose.com
TIME: 7 p.m.
EVENT: THE COMMISSION ON PEACE MIDDLE EAST PEACE COMMITTEE, EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF WASHINGTON AND THE FOUNDATION FOR MIDDLE EAST PEACE hold a program to discuss the history and the legality of the Israeli settlements and their impact on the future for peace and the role the U.S. and United Nations can play in resolving the crisis.
WHO: The speakers are:
Phillip Wilcox, president of the Foundation for Middle East Peace
Geoffrey Aronson, editor of "Report on Israeli Settlement," Foundation for Middle East
Peace
Dr. Jerome Segal, founder of the Jewish Peace Lobby and Senior Research Scholar,
Univ. of Maryland Center for International and Security Studies.
DATE: May 23, 2002
LOCATION: Perry Auditorium, Washington National Cathedral, Wisconsin and Massachusetts Avenues NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-537-6546
WEB ADDRESS:edow.org
TIME: 7 p.m.
EVENT: KIDSAVE DC will hold their 1st annual benefit gala and awards night, "Celebrate the Miracles
AGENDA: highlighted attendees:
WHO: The speakers are:
Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-RI
Rep. James Moran, D-VA
Rep. Eva Clayton, D-NC
William Novelli, executive director, AARP
DC Mayor Anthony Williams
DATE: May 23, 2002
LOCATION: National Botanical Gardens, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: Allison Conyers, 202-331-1110
WEB ADDRESS: kidsave.org
