Nanowerk LLC - Honolulu, HI, USA - The University of Michigan Center for Risk Science and Communication just announced that registration is now open for the 2007 Bernstein Symposium: "Nanotechnology and Health: Evidence and Impact." Keynote Speaker: Christine Todd Whitman.

The symposium will bring together leading scientists and policymakers to examine the emerging field of nanotechnology, its potential impact on human health, and the growing debate over whether to regulate nanotechnology products.

Christine Todd Whitman, Governor of New Jersey (1994-2001) and Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (2001-2003), will discuss nanotechnology through her keynote address, "Risky, Riskier, Riskiest: The Pitfalls, Perils, and Possibilities for Policymakers." Other national and international

PR Newswire (press release) - New York, NY, USA - More than thirty years after the mountains and coasts of south and central Vietnam were sprayed with millions of gallons of Agent Orange and other toxic herbicides by US military forces, a joint American-Vietnamese humanitarian initiative has been launched to support the growing movement to resolve this remaining legacy of the war.

The joint initiative comes just days before Vietnamese President Nguyen Minh Triet is scheduled to visit the White House on the first visit of a Vietnamese head of state since the conflict ended.

The US-Vietnam Dialogue Group on Agent Orange/Dioxin, funded by the Ford Foundation, brings together seven eminent policy