Replacing human VISION is more than just a tool: we NEED to understand how that affects the BRAIN.

The EXCITEMENT of STEPPING onto a stage - there's NOTHING QUITE like it.

In ASIA, it's customary to get TOGETHER with your entire extended family on a REGULAR basis, and it's all rife with POLITICS.

When I was OLD ENOUGH to ride a MOTORCYCLE and GOT my license, I bought a '69 Sportster.

I have SEEN how payday lenders and CHECK cashing outfits set up in towns AROUND military bases to take advantage of young SERVICE members, WHOSE starting salaries are barely over $20,000 per year.

We know that the decisions we reach will have a PROFOUND IMPACT on the communities HOSTING our military installations, and more importantly, on the people who bring those communities to life.

The first TRUE antibiotic to be derived from a culture of an actinomyces was isolated in our DEPARTMENT in 1940. The organism, Actinomyces antibioticus, yielded a substance which was designated as actinomycin. It was SOON crystallized, and its CHEMICAL and biological properties were established.

I feel now, as we did then, that for an EFFECTIVE APPROACH to the problem of nucleic acid biosynthesis, it was ESSENTIAL to UNDERSTAND the biosynthesis of the simple nucleotides and the coenzymes and to have these CONCEPTS and methodology well in hand.

My own LIFE changed when my father returned from his second combat tour in Vietnam. When he came home after ALMOST a YEAR in Army HOSPITALS, he weighed less than half of what he did when he left. I watched the agonizing recovery, and that experience was on my mind when I was asked to come to VA.