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Mayor, Columbia Agree: Collaboration Key to Regain NY’s Lead in Medical Research Three Receive Dean’s Award for Distinguished Service A Look at “Strange Science.” The winter 1999 issue of 21stC explores the line between the rational and irrational. A Football Star, a Beauty Queen, and the Cookie Monster Visit the Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center The Roving Reporter asks a group of Health Sciences faculty and staff how they expect the Y2K problem to affect them. Reporter At Large Dr. Pardes Recognized as Good Scout Changing Scenes FlashBack to the early 1960s, and witness the construction of the Black Building.