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New observations with space-borne instruments by Daniel Rosenfeld of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem showing that aerosols over land can modify clouds, suppress precipitation and reflect light is a "huge leap forward" in understanding the interplay among pollutants, clouds and greenhouse warming, said University of Colorado Professor Owen B. Toon.

Professors from the University of Colorado at Boulder and Colorado State University are working together to present the conference, "Beyond the Image: Crossing Cultures Through Film," on March 17 at CSU's Lory Student Center. Nine faculty members from each campus will participate in panels on different methods of using film to teach diversity issues in the classroom. The keynote speaker is Rosa Linda Fregoso, a nationally known scholar in Chicana cinema and a professor at the University of California at Davis.

It's the city girl facing the country boy in "The Urban-Rural Divorce," a March 18 program in Greeley exploring the complex relationship between the urban and rural West. The Center of the American West at the University of Colorado at Boulder is presenting the fun and creative program, casting the many difficult issues facing the urban and rural West in human terms. The three-hour mock divorce hearing will begin at 1 p.m. at Our Savior's Lutheran Church, 1800 21st St. The event is free and open to the public.

The Japanese Speech Contest, a program that has received rave reviews throughout Colorado and publicity from as far as Yamagata, Japan, will be held in conjunction with Japan Day 2000 at the University of Colorado at Boulder on March 18 from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. in Humanities Building room 150. One of the highlights of the speech contest is an opening talk delivered by the honorable consul general of Japan, Makoto Mizutani.

Author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Susan Faludi will visit the University of Colorado at Boulder campus March 14-15 as a guest of the new "World Affairs Athenaeum" program. The Athenaeum, launched in February, is an extension of the annual World Affairs Conference designed to create a more intimate setting for visitors and students to meet and discuss world affairs and new ideas.

Lillian R. BeVier, the Doherty Charitable Foundation Professor of Law at the University of Virginia, will deliver the 43rd annual John R. Coen Lecture on March 14 in the Lindsey Memorial Courtroom at the CU-Boulder School of Law. The lecture titled "When I Speak, Does the State Act?" will begin at 4 p.m. and will focus on First Amendment and freedom of speech issues.

A University of Colorado at Boulder study of landlocked salmon indicates they possess a genetically programmed "aging clock" timed by reproduction, which may provide insight into human aging and AlzheimerÂ’s disease.

Editors: Photographers are welcome to attend this event including the demonstrations on Aikido martial arts and origami and performances of the shakuhachi flute and traditional dance. About 100 Colorado high school students taking Japanese courses, their teachers, and students and faculty of the CU-Boulder East Asian languages and civilizations department will gather on March 18 for Japan Day 2000.

Genealogist and private investigator Kathleen Hinckley will present the program "Be Your Own Detective: Locate Lost Family and Friends" on Sunday, March 19, at 2 p.m. at the University of Colorado at Boulder. The lecture, sponsored by the CU-Boulder Friends of the Libraries, will be held in the Benson Earth Sciences Building auditorium, room 180, and is free and open to the public. "Attendees will learn how to get started on researching their 'roots' or locating lost individuals," said Friends of the Libraries President Ruth Kahn.

The Wirth Forum on Religion and Nature in the West will present a public colloquium led by CU-Boulder Professor Patricia Limerick and Professor Mark Silk, director of the Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life at Trinity College in Connecticut, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Saturday, March 11, in the Hale Science Building, room 270. The talk at the University of Colorado at Boulder will be a synopsis of two days of conversation by a gathering of academic experts from across the United States.