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Given the international attention accorded the recent Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement, another historic cross- cultural event taking place in Israel has received somewhat less publicity. Khaled El-Shami, a surgical intern from Alexandria University Hospital, has become IsraelUs first doctoral student from Egypt. The 29-year-old El-Shami, who holds a masterUs degree in molecular biology from the University of Sussex in England in


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available on NSF's Science and Technology Information System (STIS) and BMEnet, a biomedical-enginineering system sponsored by Whitaker. On STIS, refer to publication NSF 94- 99. For information about STIS, contact NSF's publications section at (703) 306-1130 and request "STIS Flier," NSF Publication 94-4, or send E-mail to stisinfo@nsf.gov (Internet) or stisinfo@NSF (Bitnet). Access BMEnet at gopher://niblick.ecn.purdue.edu:70/1 or send E-mail to wodicka@ecn.purdue.edu.

The Directories of Undergraduate Research, published biannually by the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR), are available. The directories describe 2,000 science departments at various schools stressing undergraduate research. For information, contact CUR, University of North Carolina at Asheville, 1 University Heights, Asheville, N.C. 28804; (704) 251-6006. Fax: (704) 251-6002. E-mail: CUR@UNCA.edu.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, Md., has announced the availability of its Standard Reference Data Catalog 1994. Two of its 92 computerized databases and compilations, an NIST statement notes, are databases that ...

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