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• India's Former President Visits Stanford to Discuss Emergency Medical Project

  - 2007-09-17

  STANFORD, Calif. -- The recently retired president of India, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, will visit the Stanford University School of Medicine on Tuesday, Sept. 18 to discuss his country's collaboration with the medical school to help build India's first 911-type emergency response system. Emergency medicine physicians from the medical school...

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• Hot spots

  - 2005-10-28

  Get Talking Have students locate Israel, Venezuela, Sudan, Iraq, Iran, and North Korea on a world map. Ask students: Why are these countries considered world news hot spots? What is the U.S. State Department? Who is Condoleezza Rice? Notes Behind the News The secretary of state heads...

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• National Academies to create a national technology agenda

  - 2005-08-08

  The National Academies of Sciences is putting together a blueprint that Congress can follow to assure that the United States continues as a science and technology powerhouse. The internally funded project titled "Prospering in the Global Economy of the 21st Century: An Agenda for American Science and Technology," was requested...

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• Editor's note

  - 2005-07-09

  This week, we are pleased to welcome Elizabeth Marincola as the new president of Science Service and publisher of Science News. She succeeds Donald R. Harless, who retired after 34 years at Science Service, including 7 years as president and publisher of Science News. Marincola comes to us from...

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• Gallagher appointed Westport president.(Who's News)(Brief Article)

  - 2004-12-01

  Dr. Michael Gallagher will add "president" to his current title of COO at Westport Innovations in Vancouver, BC. David Demmers will continue as CEO. Gallagher, who earned his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Stanford University in 1975, has been the COO since...

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• OBIT/W. Glenn Campbell, Former Director of Hoover Institution, Dies At Age 77

  - 2001-11-26

  City Desks OBIT... STANFORD, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--Nov. 26, 2001 W. Glenn Campbell, director emeritus of the Hoover Institution, died Saturday, November 24. He was 77 years old. Campbell was director of the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, for nearly 30 years, an adviser to U.S. presidents, and a...

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• Hoover Institution Fellows On President Bush's Tax-cut Plans, Violence in Macedonia, the Stock Market Plunge, and California Visit by Mexico's President Fox

  - 2001-03-20

  Business Editors STANFORD, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--March 20, 2001 Fellows at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University are available to comment on the following topics. They may be reached directly or through the Office of Public Affairs at 650-723-0603. PRESIDENT BUSH'S TAX-CUT PLAN Martin Anderson, Senior Fellow. Expertise:...

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• What's Ahead? - the future of parapsychology

  - 2000-12-01

  DEAN I. RADIN [1] All conferences held this year are required to have at least one talk devoted to the challenges and opportunities of the new millennium, so my talk tonight is en tided, "What's Ahead?" I'm going to speculate about the kind of future where psychic phenomena...

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• Hoover Institution Fellows On Crisis in the Presidency, the Russian Economic and Political Upheaval, Asian Economic Crisis

  - 1998-09-21

  STANFORD, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--Sept. 21, 1998--Fellows at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University are available to comment on the topics listed above. They may be reached directly or through the Office of Public Affairs at 650/723-0603. CRISIS IN THE PRESIDENCY Martin Anderson, Senior Fellow. Expertise: The presidency, economic...

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• Kennedy Joins Board of Directors of Arris Pharmaceutical

  - 1996-12-20

  SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--Dec. 20, 1996-- Arris Pharmaceutical Corp. (NASDAQ: ARRS) today announced that its Board of Directors had elected Donald Kennedy (65), president of Stanford University from 1980-1992, and former Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to the Arris Board as a director. ...

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