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C 0 R a Still The Second Best Thing About Payday Record Debuts on the Web HIGHLIGHTS· From 'Whatchamacallit' to Funshine New Camp Starts for Children The NIH Record, exclusively a paper publication since May 1949, is now Special love Infected with HIV available electronically on the World Wide launches New By Rich McManus Web. It can be accessed within the NIH Camp home page (www.nih.gov) under the nless you just came to NIH a week ago, you probably know at " Information for Employees" and "News Microsoft least something about Camp Fantastic. For the uninitiated, it's and Events" sections. Or open the site Wunderkind ~ a week-long slice of August turned into terrific summer camp directly by going to http://www.nih.gov/ Foretells Future for children-many of them Clinical Center patients-with cancer, news/NIH-Record/archives.htm. and has always been powered by the freehearted and funloving Catch the Record side of the National Cancer Institute-its Pediatric Branch and The Web version is modeled after the on the Web associated caregivers. It began 15 years ago at a 4-H campground paper one and closely resembles it, but has near Front Royal, Va., and has evolved into a year-round, family the advantage of color design and centered program that worries not just about the child with photography. The site's opening page is an cancer, but also about the healthy sibling who wonders where all " Archives" of issues that leads off-for the Dyer, Gorgas Talks of mom and dad's attention went. And much more. moment-with the Mar. 25 edition. It w ill Coming Up Organized by nonprofit Special Love, Inc., of Winchester, Va., eventually go back to July 1996, when we which was founded by the parents of a child who succumbed to adopted a new look. Soon, new issues w ill cancer, Camp Fantastic is a household word at NIH. You can appear online at the same time as, or even Mammography give CFC dollars each year to Special Love. You can chow down a day or two before, the printed version. Offered to NIH'ers SEE CAMP FUNSHINE, PAGE 6 Click on ,my of t he dates to enter a given issue. Play Ian Again, Microsoft's Myrhvold Gazes To encourage responses from readers, Please Into Computing's Future there are several links for sending us email; we hope readers w ill take advantage of By Rich McManus this tool. he flyer announcing his visit to NIH was, In preparation since last December, the site in itself, a stunning document, written, was developed w ith important contribu lpresumably, to induce pangs of inferiority tions from designer Richard Barnes of in the largest egos on campus. The next NCRR's design section, and Dennis speaker in NHGRl's Human Genome Rodrigues and Becca Houston of OD's Lecture Series was not simply Bill Gates' Office of Communications. right-hand man at Microsoft, the country's leading computer giant and certified shaper The online availability should be a boon to of worlds. He was also a colleague of famed retirees and off-campus readers who have cosmologist Stephen Hawking at Cam been barred from subscriptions to the bridge, holder of a herd's worth of sheepskin Dr. Nathan Myrhvold Record since 1987, when more than 2,000 U.S. lkp,utmcnt from such places as Princeton and Berkeley, outside subscribers fell victim to govern of Health and and dabbler in such pastimes as mountain climbing, formula car I luman Sc..·rvil:cs racing, photography and French cooking. ment cutbacks. N;1tirnul itl',lilllt1..·\ ol I k.dth "When he takes time off," the notice continued, "[Dr. Nathan] Check out-any day of the week-the Myrhvold works as an assistant chef at one of Seattle's leading "second best thing about payday" at NIHI April 8, 1997 French restaurants. He has competed twice in the world champi Vol. XLIX, No. 7 SEE MICROSOFT MAN, PAGE 4 Community Briefed about NIH Recycling Recently, the NIH core community working group was briefed on NIH's expanded recycling program. The group is led by Jan Hedetniemi, director of NIH's Office of Community Liaison, and has mem bers from the community, business and county government. The presentation was well received by both community and Montgomery County represen tatives. Eileen Kao, director of the Montgomery County recycling program, offered an interactive display for use during NIH recycling program events. The briefing noted that expanded recycling will take place in stages across campus by "clusters" of Jan Hedetniemi, director of the Office of Community Ileana V. Trevino buildings, each of which will have the opportunity to Liaison, receives a certificate of appreciation and NIH recently joined participate. Each NIH building will have a custom recycling T-shirt for her role as Bldg. 1 floor coordina NIH as deputy ized recycling plan, developed to meet its recycling tor from Dr. Robert McKinney, director, Division of director of the needs. Safety. Office of Equal The assistance of building floor coordinators will be Opportunity. important as each building develops a recycling program. Division of Safety director Dr. Robert McKinney Before coming to presented Hedetniemi with a certificate of appreciation and NIH recycling T-shirt for her role as Bldg. 1 OEO, she was an floor coordinator. EEO consultant specializing in The NIH recycling program will include outside containers placed in convenient locations throughout counseling, campus. All recycling containers will be identified with the blue and green NIH recycling logo. complaints For more information about being a floor coordinator or about the recycling program, visit the NIH investigation and Recycles home page, http://www.nih.gov/od/ors/ds/recycle. Ill EEO training. From 1985 to Take Your Child to Work Day, Apr. 24 1989 she was chief of employ This is an opportunity to introduce school-age children to che public services ment programs their parents provide and to encourage future career decisions that will assure a for the Depart quality workforce for the 21st century. The observance was launched initially in ment of Agricul 1993 as "Take Your Daughter to Work," but NIH broadened it to include sons NI H RfC ORD ture. She served as well as daughters, and grandchildren as well. as a personnel Children can participate in a variety of activities such as displays, tours, Published biweekly at Bethesda, Md .. by the Editorial Operations management presentations and even " hands-on" exercises. Many of last year's popular specialist with the Branch, Division of Public activities will be available as well as some exciting new ones. lnformotion, for the information of Department of Visit the "Take Your Child to Work" web site: http://www.nih.gov/od/ors/ds/ employees of ,he Nationol Transportation Institutes of Health, Department of from 1979 to tycw/tycw.htm. This page will have the most up-to-date information about the Health and Human Services. The day and registration procedures. content is reprinrable without 1985. Trevino permission. Pictures may be earned a Due to space limitations, some activities will require preregistration on Apr. 17 a,·ailable on requeS1. Use of funds bachelor's degree or Apr. 18 between 10 and 1 p.m. in front of Masur Auditorium, Bldg. 10. for prtnring ,his periodical has been from Boston Registration must be done in person and will be limited to two activities. apprmtd by 1he direc1or of the Offiae of ~fanagemcnt and Budget College, and a Employees are welcome to bring their children to work if approved by the 1hrough Sept. 30, 1997. master's degree employee's supervisor and certain rules are followed. NIH Manual Chapter from Boston 3015 contains information about bringing children into potentially hazardous University. KJH Record Office areas. Iii Bldg. 31, Rm. 2B03 Phone 6-2125 Workshop of Bibliographic Standards Fax 2-1485 Editor There will be a free workshop Apr. 16 titled, "The Future of Bibliographic Richard McManus Standards in a Networked Information Environment: Does the Internet Need [email protected] Bibliographic Standards?" Sponsored by CENDI, an interagency cooperative organization composed of scientific and technical information managers from a Assistant Editor Carla Garnett variety of federal agencies, the workshop will bring together speakers and [email protected] attendees from libraries, information centers and database producers; and from the public and private sectors to discuss the future of bibliographic standards Tin: "XI H Re,ord reserves tbc right to make correct. ions, changes, or deletions and practices. Hours are 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. (registration begins at 8:30 a.m.), in submitted copy in conformity with Rms. El-E2, Natcher Conference Center. Registration by Apr. 9 is encouraged. Ith• policies of the p.lpcr and HHS. To register or for more information call Kathryn Johnson, 1-800-949-6659. Iii \.j The Record is recyclable as office white paper. Von Boehmer To Give Dyer Lecture pursue a Ph.D. as a fellow of the Max Planck Society. He received his Ph.D. in medical biology nr. Harald von Boehmer will give a talk on "Lym from Melbourne University in 1974. From 1973 to Uphocyte Survival" at the NIH Director's R.E. Dyer 1996 he did research at the Basel Institute for Lecture on Thursday, Apr. 10, at 3 p.m. in Masur Immunology, where he became a permanent member Auditorium, Bldg. 10. Von Boehmer is professor of in 1976. immunology at the Faculte de Medecine Necker and Since 1982, he has been an adjunct professor in the director of Unite INSERM (National Institute of department of pathology at the University of Florida Science and Medical Research) 373 in Paris.