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success of this treatment was critical to the cure of some forms of acute leukemia 

 in children At NCI he was responsible for the preclinical toxicology of the anti- 

 cancer drugs being developed, and he became interested in predictive toxicology 

 and population toxicology. Dr. Rail became director of the National Institute of 

 Environmental Health Sciences in 1971. He also served as the director of the National 

 Toxicology Program 



H. Guyford Stever, a member of the Carnegie Commission on Science, Technology, 

 and Government, was director of the National Science Foundation from 1972. to 

 1976; during this time he also served as Science Advisor to Presidents Nixon and 

 Ford. Dr. Stever was director of the White House Office of Science and Technology 

 Policy from 1976 to 1977. Before joining NSF, he was a professor at MIT from 1945 

 to 1965 and president of Carnegie Mellon University from 1965 to 1971. Dr. Stever 

 was Chief Scientist of the U.S. Air Force in 1955-1956. During World War II, in 

 1941 and 1941, he taught and did research in radar at the MIT Radiation Laboratory, 

 and from 1945 to 1945 was scientific liaison officer on radar and guided missiles 

 in the London Mission of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, in- 

 cluding seven technical intelligence missions to the continent of Europe. In the 

 past decade he is or has been a director of TRW Inc., Schering-Plough Corporation, 

 and Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company: a trustee of Woods Hole Oceanographic 

 Institute, and of Science Service, president and trustee of Universities Research 

 Association, and foreign secretary of the National Academy of Engineering. He 

 received his PhD in Physics from the California Institute of Technology. In 1991 

 he received the National Medal of Science, the nation's highest honor to a scientist, 

 awarded by the President. 



Gilbert F. White is a professor emeritus at the Institute of Behavioral Sciences, Uni- 

 versity of Colorado, Boulder. He received his SB, SM, and PhD from the University 

 of Chicago. He was a geographer with the Mississippi Valley Committee, the Nat- 

 ural Resources Committee, and the National Resources Planning Board. He worked 

 in the Bureau of Budget, Executive Office of the President, from 1940 to 1941 and 

 was President of Haverford College from 1946 to 1955. Dr. White has also been 

 a professor of Geography, University of Chicago; vice chair. President's Water Re- 

 sources Policy Commission, 1950; and a member of the UNESCO Advisory Com- 

 mittee on Arid Zone Research (1955-1956) and the UNESCO Advisory Committee 

 on Natural Resources Research (1967-1971). He is currently a member of the Ad- 

 visory Group on Greenhouse Gases, the World Meteorological Organization, the 

 United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), and the Advisory Committee on 

 Environment of the International Council of Scientific Unions. He received the Tyler 

 Prize for Environmental Achievement in 1991. 



Mark Schaefer is senior staff associate and director of the Washington office of the 

 Carnegie Commission on Science, Technology, and Government. He received his 

 PhD in the neurosciences from Stanford University in 1987. After completing his 

 undergraduate degree at the University of Washington in 1977, he worked for five 



