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A F T E R N O O N S E S S I O N
DR. SHAPIRO: I think we should begin now. We
will have no chance of completing our schedule if we do not
begin now.
As you know, although the first priority of our
work is to continue and finish the projects that are
currently under way, we have begun thinking about our
longer term agenda and I asked Eric Cassell to speak with a
couple of committee members to give some thought to what
items might appear on our longer term agenda so at least we
can begin thinking about them and thinking about mobilizing
ourselves for them.
I will also be speaking in the next four to six
weeks with various members of the administration and the
Congress to see what is on their minds that might -- that
NBAC might do that might be useful for them and will feed
that into our own considerations also. So this is not an
item that needs to be decided today. That is we are not
about to take any decisions. This is just the beginning of
the discussion which will probably occupy some time in all
our meetings in the next two or three meetings until we can
focus down on some things we want to do and some ways we
may wish to organize ourselves.
So let me turn now to Eric and let him describe