As Zerhouni noted in his desk-to-desk letter, the National Heart , Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) is already doing that.
Dear Readers, In his fall 2006 "desk-to-desk letter," Making It Work for Emerging Scientists, National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Elias Zerhouni emphasizes the importance of getting scientists started on independent research careers while they're still young.
Until recently, Zerhouni has emphasized scientific "stars --but in thistars --butstars --butletter, he focused on the lower tinr of emerging biomedical scienthiss, beyond the elatestroup whose success is inevitable.
He does admit to being troubled by the war's outcome: I still keep in my desk a letter from an Iraqi woman who came to see me before the war began.
But he winds up with a bitter anecdote: "I still keep in my desk a letter from an Iraqi woman who came to see me before the war began.
When Dennis Hastert, the speaker of the House, returns to work in January, he will find on his desk a letter from John Dingell of Michigan, a colleague wise in the ways of energy legislation.
The Kurdish security official sat at his desk, handling letters from his informants.
In the meantime, as he sifts through the stack on his desk, the letters provoke a complicated emotional reaction.
The desk has letters scratched into its surface, as though they were the carvings of a naughty school child.
Instead, it was a man sitting at a desk, writing letters.
(Mayor Bloomberg skims through mail on his desk. One letter in particular catches his attention. As he reads, lights come up on Letter Writer No. 1, a tightly wound New York native. Can be played by a man or a woman of any age. It's attitude that matters).
