James Earl Jones to lead MLK
tribute
Actor and Sen. Sarbanes to be honored for their lifetime
service

Legendary star of stage and screen James Earl Jones
will be the featured guest and keynote speaker for Johns
Hopkins' annual Martin Luther King Jr. birthday
remembrance, an event that takes place this year on Friday,
Jan. 13. Begun in 1982, the Johns Hopkins Martin Luther
King
Jr. Commemoration honors the Nobel Peace Prize winner's
legacy of nonviolent activism and community service. It
will take place from noon to 1:30 p.m. in Turner Auditorium
on the East Baltimore campus and will be broadcast to
several other university and health system locations.
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United Way campaign tops its goal
Due to a strong start and robust final weeks, the 2005
Johns Hopkins United Way campaign has surpassed its goal.
As of Jan. 5, the official last day pledges were marked
toward the 2005 United Way of Central Maryland campaign,
the combined contributions from those at the university,
Johns Hopkins Medicine and the Applied Physics Laboratory
totaled $2.69 million, nearly $94,000 past the desired
mark.
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New view of cancer: 'Epigenetic' changes come
first
A Johns Hopkins researcher, with colleagues in Sweden
and at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, suggests
that the traditional view of cancer as a group of diseases
with markedly different biological properties arising from
a series of alterations within a cell's nuclear DNA may
have to give way to a more complicated view. In the January
issue of Nature Reviews Genetics, online Dec. 21, he
and his colleagues suggest that cancers instead begin with
"epigenetic" alterations to stem cells.
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