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December 12, 2000
NINDS Wins
Annual King Observance Set, Jan. 12
Team Unravels DNA
NIAMS Funds Grants
NCI Launches Web
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From Russia, With Love By Rich McManus Photos by Nancy Simpson and Yuri Pliushchev
It's probably a pretty common syndrome among those who go
abroad to give aid to a stricken population: You find beauty amid the
horror, and soon you fall in love with the place. And to be frank,
Nancy Simpson, a program director and public health advisor in
NCI's early detection research group, Division of Cancer
Prevention, seems prone to affection: a native of South Pasadena,
Calif., who in high school used to help build floats for the annual
Rose Bowl Parade on New Year's Day, she is herself of rosy
disposition — she brims with empathy for the populations she
has helped over the years in Appalachia, Bangladesh, Indonesia, and
now Belarus, a republic once part of the Soviet Union from which
she returned in August after an 18-month assignment.
Symposium Takes a Fresh Look at Language By Sharon Ricks
Do brains learn like lungs breathe and hearts pump blood? How do
you know that you can "fasten" and "unfasten" but not "hug" and
"unhug?" How does your brain accomplish syntactic processing? |
