Opening at the Hammond Museum in North Salem, N.Y., in October 2001, it will travel to five museum sites in the Northeast until December 2003. As the College of Human Ecology at Cornell University celebrates the centennial of the field of home economics with events throughout the year, its faculty and administration are reflecting on the college's role as the gateway for women into higher education and scientific careers over the past century. The institute is an independent federal agency that fosters leadership, innovation, and a lifetime of learning by supporting the nation's 15,000 museums and 122,000 libraries. It has become fairly commonplace for homeowners to test their houses for radon, the colorless, odorless and tasteless radioactive gas that seeps from the ground and can cause lung cancer. But schools, where a child can spend 14,000 hours by the time of high school graduation, often are overlooked, two Cornell University housing experts report.
Children are more sensitive to air pollution than adults.
They breathe more air relative to their body weight and are more likely to breathe through their mouths than adults, which bypasses the nasal cavity's protective functions. Saturday, Oct. 28, at 2 p.m. at Ithaca Sciencenter. Spiders are the most important land predators, killing many tons of insects every year, says Rayor, an instructor on the Cornell University faculty. There would be proportional increases to ticket and pass prices. Before beginning her position at Texaco, Vallot was a Washington, D.C., lawyer and a member of the Clinton-Gore transition team for the U.S. Department of Commerce under the department's late secretary, Ronald H. Brown.