LETTERS
LETTERS
Volume 3, Issue 2
July 2000
This section of the magazine is dedicated to responses, letters, and queries about the previous issue. The editorial staff of The Ambassadors concentrate their efforts on trying to create a bridge not only between different cultural groups but also between generations. We hope that through our educational coverage, youth around the world are inspired and motivated to instigate change in years to come. The Ambassadors would like to thank all readers who have visited the magazine and sent their comments, criticism and encouragement. This LETTERS section contains a sample of the comments and correspondences we received on the previous issue. All back issues of the magazine are now available in the ARCHIVES section.
The article on McKusick is great. The 1967 photograph of Medical Genetics Division staff is a memorable one (I am on Victor's left side because I was junior in standing to the person on his right). I retired from my position as director of Cytogenetics Laboratory at the Christiana Hospital in Delaware at the end of June of last year. I continue to work on Chromosomal Variation in Man Online in cooperation with John Wiley & Sons, Inc, NY (www.wiley.com/borgaonkar). I am presently at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, FL as a Visiting Scientist and working
on a long standing research project of mine on the Genetics of
Late Onset Alzheimer's Disease.
Prof. Digamber S Borgaonkar PhD
Delaware, USA
dsborgaonkar@hotmail.com
I enjoyed reading the biography of the father of medical genetics, Prof. Victor A. McKusick in the megastars of the Ambassadors. It is interesting that you are planning to write about Oman. What I can tell you about Oman, based on my own experience, is that its people have exceptional manners and you can feel that their culture is deeply rooted and their country is developing steadily with good planning for everything. The Omani citizens work at all levels in their country, from janitor to university chancellor. You enjoy tasting the past and feeling the future. It is a wonderful country.
Prof. Ahmad S. Teebi MD, FRCP, FACMG
Professor of medical genetics,
University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
ahmad.teebi@sickkids.on.ca
Would you kindly alter my title within the Editorial Board of The Ambassadors Magazine to:
Geoffrey B.W.Little - THE SMILING POLICEMAN - Dean of Ambassadorial; Chair -
ROTARY DISTRICT PEACE COMMUNITIES PROJECT, and excise the word `Sergeant'.
The issue was great.
Geoffrey B.W.Little
THE SMILING POLICEMAN
Australia
Editor, The Ambassadors Online Magazine
geoffreybwlittle@address.com
My congratulations on the new issue of Ambassadors Online Magazine. I am looking forward to future collaboration.
Dr. Chahira Kozma MD
Georgetown University, USA
kozmac@gunet.georgetown.edu
I read the last issue of The Ambassadors Magazine. I enjoyed reading all of its contents.
Dr. Maher Sedra MD
Los Angeles, California, USA
SSadra8190@aol.com
We have visited The Ambassadors online magazine, and it looks very good. Since the time that we sent you the information about the pyramids, a few months ago, we have several updates, which we will be sending to your magazine. We have researched the subject of "sacred geometry," as it relates to the pyramids and other monuments in ancient Egypt. As the name implies, the geometrical proportion of a structure has significant "sacred" meanings and powers.
I am in the process of writing a book about the subject of "sacred geometry." The title of the book is "Egyptian Harmony: The Visual Music," ISBN 0-9652509-8-9, Pub Date July, 2000. This book will provide the complete background for the extensive knowledge of ancient Egyptians, about harmonic proportion and how it was reflected in all their architectural achievements. Every proportion has theological, metaphysical, musical inter-related meanings.Eng. Moustafa Gadalla, Chairman
Tehuti Research Foundation (TRF)
Greensbro, NC, USA
http://www.egypt-tehuti.com
mgadalla@egypt-tehuti.com
I always look at the Ambassadors online magazine. It is very interesting especially for me and all my family members living away from the Arab world. Today I was awarded the PhD degree from Nottingham university (Prof. John A. Raeburn). My project was about familial breast cancer; Investigations of BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene changes in women affected by early onset breast or ovarian cancer. I screened 209 individuals from 203 families and found 30 pathogenic mutations and an extra of 8 alterations, which could be a polymorphism (non-pathogenic) . Also, I screened 38 women affected with medullary carcinoma of breast. I found only one mutation. Some investigators suggested that there is an association between this type of pathology and BRCA gene mutation, and we could use it as a marker for mutation detection in either gene.
Dr. Makia Marafie PhD
Consultant Medical Geneticist
Kuwait
mj_marafie@yahoo.com
I am trying to find a complete calendar of National Days of all (or at least most)
of the world's countries. Can you help me please? I require this information
only for International acknowledgments of my Rotary Club.David Rosenberg
davidelaine@bigpond.com
I enjoyed reading the Ambassadors "Egyptomania" issue.
Dr. Soheir El-Badramany, MD
Consultant physician
Cairo, Egypt
I am a first year student for the Master's Degree program in Human Genetics at SR Medical College & Research Institute in India. The present Research Institute in which I am doing my Master's Program is one of the best and well known Universities in India. The campus is located in around 175 acres of land with a multi specialty most modern hospital having around 1100 beds. The campus includes medical, dental, pharmacy, nursing and other life science institutes. I am desirous of pursuing higher studies after the completion of my Master's degree. I will need help in locating suitable institutions granting financial aid for supporting my higher studies.
ZAREENA HAMZA, BSc
M.Sc student (Human Genetics)
INDIA
zareenamza@hotmail.com
I visited the archives of The Ambassadors Magazine at http://ambassadors.net/archives/issue2/, where I found an article about healing. Interestingly, on January 9, 2000 in New York City, I will be launching two phenomenal workshops entitled, "FENG SHUI PERSONAL PARADISE (TM) and POWERHOUSE OF PROSPERITY THROUGH FENG SHUI (TM)". Feng Shui is the 3,000 year old Chinese tradition and the life force energy called Ch'i, useful in profoundly changing one's personal life into a paradise and one's business into a powerhouse
of prosperity. By using Feng Shui people have improved their relationships,
increased their finances, more than doubled their business profits, improved
their children's school performance, obtained desired jobs. There are even
cases where health concerns have dramatically improved! As quoted in Feng
Shui for Modern Living Magazine, May 1999 issue, "The underlying principle
of Feng Shui is to live in harmony with your environment so that the energy
surrounding you works for you rather than against you."Dr. Janet Hicks PhD
Certified Feng Shui Consultant
New York, USA
E-mail: jhicks@JOH9.COM
The staff of Ambassadors must be saluted
with the tallest glass of champagne
on a perfectly designed and presented web magazine. Your contribution on
your editorial for AIDS in the Workplace will be printed, framed and placed on
the
front wall of our establishment with the font and home page of your publication.
All of our stake holders will be informed to visit your web site, be it private
sector,
non government organizations and government structures in order to
celebrate
your participation in all our efforts of contributing towards global awareness
of this
pandemic to mankind. The Ambassadors staff can always be assured of our
highest considerations at all times. Yours into the New Millennium.
Juan R Kirsten
South Africa
Managing Coordinator AIDS Support Trust
neville@aidsinworkplace.com
I just looked at my article under the
OPINIONS section. It is very nice.
Thanks for publishing my article and adding a photograph from Balata Camp,
which I visited before. Well, that brought back memories. Love and Light.
Barbara Wolf
USA
Co-ordinator of Global Meditations Network
http://www.globalmeditations.com
bjwolf@rochester.infi.net
I am experimenting with a link to The Ambassadors Online Magazine from:
http://www.mala.bc.ca/~mcneil/greatbooks.htmRussell McNeil
Canada
I was very much impressed by the effort done in the millennium issue. Great work with a lot of creativity. Hoping and wishing for more and more success.
Hala El-Banna MA (Psycholinguistics)
Cairo, Egypt
dalou@excite.com
The Ambassadors Online Magazine is now connected. You have been allotted the Current Affairs section in MAGAZINES of the search engine.
Feann Torr
Australia
Web Wombat Australian Internet Search Engine
http://www.WebWombat.com.au
I am a modern Arabic calligraphy artist. Please take a look at a sample of my work on my web site www.ndukhan.com
Nihad Dukhan
ndukhan@att.net
My name is Dominic Taverniti and I work for User Interface, Microsoft bCentral's customer relations company. We are contacting bCentral's (formerly LinkExchange) most innovative customers to discuss your company's Web site and use of the bCentral services.
Can you provide any feedback concerning benefits and business enhancements associated with your use of bCentral services? If you would like to share your success with Microsoft bCentral, please let me know a time that's convenient for us to speak. We're trying to wrap up all of our customer conversations by January 21st. We look forward to working with you.
Dominic Taverniti
User Interface Inc. - The customer relations company
http://www.userinterface.com
The Global Fusion 2000 meeting will take place at St. Louis, Missouri from 13-15 October. It will bring together scholars and professionals for the first regional academic conference endorsed jointly by AEJMC, BEA and ICA.
Check out this conference at: www.siu.edu/~gf2000.
Leo A. Gher, Director
BROWN MEDIA MANAGEMENT LAB
Department of Radio-Television
Southern Illinois University
Carbondale, IL 62901-6609
I am trying to a search for an ambassador to Nigeria whose last name is Uppal, but I am not coming across any information. Would you have any information on this subject?
Beverly M Fessenden
GSM/CDMA Configuration Engineering
bfess@nortelnetworks.com
I would like to know who the U.S. ambassador is to the United Nations.
Mark E. Sauer
msauer@sytronics.com
On behalf of The Ambassadors Magazine, I send my condolences to Dr. Afaf Bahnassy, FRCOG, on the death of her husband, the late Dr Jameel Ahmed Hussain, MD on Jan 15 Jan. 2000. Born in Assuit in April 1930, Dr. Jameel Hussain graduated from Ain Shams Faculty of Medicine in Jan. 1956. He worked as a consultant pediatrician at Al Sabah Hospital (Kuwait) and gained the respect and love of his colleagues, patients and their families. May GOD repose him.
Dr. Sayed Nasr MD
Consultant pediatric neurology
Cairo, Egypt
saidnasr@link.com.eg
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