Thursday May 10, 2001
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An anonymous donor gave John Hopkins University Medical Centers $100 million to establish an institute for developing better treatments and a vaccine for malaria, a disease that kills more than a million people each year. A panel explains what's behind this initiative and the problems the researchers will face.
Diane Griffin, chair of microbiology and immunology at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Don Roberts, professor of tropical public health at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Regina Rabinovich, director of the Malaria Vaccine Initiative
Deborah Tannen, a linguist and leading expert on the ways people communicate, examines conversation within families in her new book. It might be helpful to listen in before Mothers' Day (this Sunday!).
Deborah Tannen, professor of linguistics at Georgetown University and author of many books, including "You Just Don't Understand," "Talking from 9 to 5," and "I Only Say This Because I Love You."
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