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	Carter Center - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Jimmy Carter Library and Museum, which is adjacent to the Center, is owned and operated by the National Archives and Records Administration of the federal government.
		The Center is nonpartisan and acts as a neutral in dispute resolution activities.
		The Carter Center observes international elections, works for reduction of the stigma of mental illness, strengthens national, regional, and international systems dedicated to democracy and human rights, and spearheads programs to eradicate several diseases common in Latin America and/or Africa, such as Guinea worm.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Carter_Center (578 words)

	USATODAY.com - Carter Center closes in on Guinea worm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Carter learned that half the village's population was hobbled by the disease.
		Nearly 25 years later, the Carter Center's success in pushing the parasite to the brink of extinction is one of several achievements that today prompted the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to grant the Carter Center this year's $1 million Gates Award for Global Health.
		Carter says he and former first lady Rosalynn Carter have traveled in Africa with the elder Gates and his wife to acquaint them with AIDS, but the award was granted by an independent jury of experts assembled by the Global Health Council.
	www.usatoday.com /news/health/2006-05-14-gates-carter_x.htm (527 words)

	American Experience \| Jimmy Carter \| Timeline
		October 21: The Carter Center convinces Merck, a Fortune 500 pharmaceuticals giant, to donate the drug Mectizan for as long as might be needed to control river blindness in Africa.
		February 27: The Carters are joined by General Colin Powell and former Nigerian President Mahamane Ousmane as co-leaders of a 60-member delegation to observe the Nigerian presidential elections.
		September 3: Carter calls for the Indonesian government to move swiftly to maintain order in East Timor, where armed pro-integration militias are terrorizing the populace in the wake of the August 30 balloting.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/carter/timeline/timeline3.html (1395 words)

	Press Releases: Ethiopia, Carter Center postelection statement on the Ethiopia elections, June 9, 2005
		The Carter Center joins other members of the international community and Ethiopian citizens in expressing its deep alarm and sorrow at the violence, injuries, deaths, and violations of human rights that have occurred since 6 June in Addis Ababa and elsewhere in Ethiopia in the aftermath of the 15 May national elections.
		Carter Center observers have been witness to and received reports of acts of violence that appear to be the result of a lack of restraint on the part of some government security forces.
		The Carter Center acknowledges that the opposition parties have a shared responsibility in the preservation of a peaceful climate in which the elections process can be concluded.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/VBOL-6D8HRJ?OpenDocument (517 words)

	CNN.com - Larry King talks with Nobel-winning Carter - Oct. 11, 2002
		CARTER: Well, we got a call this morning about two or three minutes after 4 and informed us that we were going to get it and that they wanted me to call back to the Nobel committee at 4:30, Eastern Standard Time.
		And I noticed when they made this statement at 5 this morning that they gave full credit to the Carter Center, to the work that we've done the last 20 years, Larry, for peace and for freedom and for democracy and for human rights and the alleviation of suffering.
		CARTER: As a matter of fact, yes, I'd been informed for eight or nine years that I was one of the many nominees.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/US/10/11/cnna.carter.king (2238 words)

	Georgia Green Party - Carter Center Turns Down Request To Monitor 2000 Elections
		The Carter Center, established by former President Jimmy Carter, is well-known for monitoring elections in other countries to ensure they are carried out fairly and legally.
		As you said in your report there, “When The Carter Center was invited to observe these elections, one of the factors that figured in the decision to accept the invitation was the sentiment within the Cherokee Nation that a free and fair election could contribute to the process of healing.
		While the Carter Center has focused in many of the processes of the 16 countries it has observed, it is clear that each of these three processes is an important link in the chain toward effective democratic government.
	web.greens.org /georgia/cartercenter.html (4569 words)

	Carter book criticized - Boston.com
		A longtime aide to Jimmy Carter has resigned from the Carter Center think tank, calling the former president's new book on Israel and the Arabs one-sided and filled with errors.
		Kenneth Stein, the Carter Center's first executive director and founder of its Middle East program, sent a letter that bluntly criticized the book to Carter and others.
		Carter issued a brief statement saying that Stein had not been actively involved with the center for more than 12 years and was not involved with the new book.
	www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2006/12/06/carter_book_criticized (279 words)

	Carter Center Liaison Committee
		The Carter Center Liaison Committee is a standing committee of the University Faculty Council.
		The purpose of the program is to have Emory faculty members learn about Carter Center program operations, communicate what they have learned to their campus colleagues, and lend their expertise to the programs.
		There was heterogeneity in the accomplishments to date of the liaisons, in part reflecting some uncertainty of the nature of the liaisons' roles in the programs (not surprising in the first year of operation of the program) and the absence of release time from regular faculty responsibilities to participate in the liaison program.
	www.emory.edu /SENATE/facultycou/fac_cmtes/cartercenterliaison.htm (733 words)

	Dr. Harvey L. Carter - LASIK Eye Surgery in Dallas, Texas
		Harvey Carter, MD is a board-certified ophthalmologist who is one of the most well known physicians in the Dallas and East Texas areas.
		The Carter Eye Center was the first practice in Dallas to offer the crystalens®, a revolutionary accommodating IOL that corrects near and distance vision, and the first in the country to perform the procedure after FDA approval.
		These advanced capabilities are why the Carter Eye Center is the first LASIK practice in the Dallas area to offer a guarantee, "20/20 or It's Free." The Carter Eye Center is a full-service family eye care facility with services for cataract surgery, glaucoma, macular degeneration, contact lenses and spectacles.
	www.allaboutvision.com /lasik-surgeons/dallas-carter.htm (393 words)

	Carter BloodCare Home
		Carter BloodCare is also a training facility for undergraduate Medical Technologist programs at local universities and, in conjunction with the University of Texas Southwestern Health Science Center, conducts a graduate program leading to a Specialist in Blood Banking degree.
		Carter BloodCare is also a training facility for MLT program (EL Centro College) and for undergraduate Medical Technologist programs at local universities and in conjunction with the University of Texas Southwestern Health Science Center, conducts a graduate program leading to a Specialist in Blood Banking degree.
		Carter BloodCare is a not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) organization that operates on behalf of patients and their loved ones in 28 Texas counties.
	www.carterbloodcare.org (15614 words)

	Conversations at the Carter Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		President Carter said in his 2002 Nobel Peace Prize lecture, "The most serious and universal problem is the growing chasm between the richest and poorest people on earth, and the results of this disparity are the root causes of most of the world's unresolved problems."
		Rosalynn Carter discusses her roles as first lady of Georgia and first lady of the United States, including her more than three decades of tireless work in the mental health arena.
		Carter offer a briefing on Carter Center projects around the world, initiatives in disease eradication, conflict resolution, democracy-building, and mental health promotion.
	www.gpb.org /public/radio/cartercenter (419 words)

	The Carter Center
		Dr. James Zingeser, senior epidemiologist and technical director of health programs at The Carter Center, was generous with both his time and patience as he tried to help me understand in both technical and human terms what The Carter Center is accomplishing.
		According to Dr. Zingeser, the most important thing to understand is why The Carter Center has been able to succeed where countless others have failed in trying to provide aid and effective disease eradication programs.
		Carter’s position as a former U.S. President has enabled him to go to the leaders of at least sixty-five countries since 1982 and build the trust necessary for implementing even the simplest of projects.
	abilitymagazine.com /CarterCenter.html (1040 words)

	Miller Center — Jimmy Carter Oral History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Center scholars, led by Bancroft Prize-winning Professor James Sterling Young, recognized that a valuable source of learning about the American presidency was not being fully exploited: the personal knowledge and institutional memory of those freshly departed from the White House.
		The importance of this resource was accentuated by the fact that Carter was the first president elected in the post–Watergate era–meaning that there would be no Oval Office recordings for historians to mine in examining this administration.
		Hamilton Jordan was a close advisor to Carter during the 1976 presidential campaign and throughout his presidency.
	millercenter.virginia.edu /programs/poh/carter (522 words)

	Liberia not ready for Elections, Says Carter Center
		When I asked him under what conditions would the Carter Center consider going to Monrovia to monitor the elections, he said when and only when all major opposition parties came up and said that they were ready to go to elections.
		The withdrawal of the Carter Center from Liberia about three years ago was a sign that they finally understood the nature of the regime in Monrovia.
		The Carter Center under the leadership of the Nobel Peace Prize winner is certainly the only American group with the credibility and the capacity to work out such a scheme and salvage peace and stability in the sub-region.
	www.theperspective.org /elections_cartercenter.html (1745 words)

	Former Carter Center Members
		She has been thrilled and excited to be able to be involved with the Carter Centers research into HPE and to help the families dealing with this disorder.
		During her tenure at the Carter Center, she was the project assistant for the National HPE Project and was delighted to be a part of the Carter Center Team striving to assist families with HPE.
		She was actively involved with the Carter Center Database, a centralized repository of all of the research data on our HPE patients.
	www.stanford.edu /group/hpe/centers/grads.html (1407 words)

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		centers on a family-based morality, but liberals are much less aware than conservatives are of the unconscious mechanisms that structures their politics.
		And in the nations where the Carter Center works to combat disease, broker peace and ensure fair elections, the former president's image has reached almost mythic proportions.
		Unfortunately liberals are less insightful than conservatives at recognizing that morality and the family lie at the center of their political universe.
	www.lycos.com /info/politics--carter-center.html (309 words)

	Center for Democracy and Election Management - Home
		The Center for Democracy and Election Management (CDEM) was established to educate and train undergraduate and graduate students and mid-career professionals in the management of elections and best democratic practices.
		Former President Jimmy Carter and former Secretary of State James A. Baker III were interviewed by Court TV on the proposals of the Commission on Federal Election Reform, which CDEM organized.
		CDEM organized the Commission on Federal Election Reform, co-chaired by former President Jimmy Carter and former Secretary of State James A. Baker III and directed by Dr. Robert A. Pastor.
	www.american.edu /ia/cdem (237 words)

	Jimmy Carter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Carter won the Democratic nomination as a dark horse candidate, and went on to defeat incumbent Gerald Ford in the 1976 presidential election.
		Carter continued his predecessors' policies of imposing sanctions on Rhodesia, and, after Bishop Abel Muzorewa was elected Prime Minister, protested that the Marxists Robert Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo were excluded from the elections.
		Although the Carter team had successfully negotiated with the hostage takers for release of the hostages, an agreement trusting the hostage takers to abide by their word was not signed until January 19, 1981, after the election of Ronald Reagan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jimmy_Carter (7924 words)

	Carter Center Shuts Down Liberia Operation
		Based in Atlanta, the Center is a nongovernmental organization founded by President Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, and dedicated to the promotion of peace and health worldwide.
		President Carter made numerous trips to the region to meet with interim governments as well as faction leaders in the conflict, to assist the country's movement toward peace and democracy.
		I write to inform you that The Carter Center has decided to end our work in Liberia because prevailing conditions and the actions of your government have made it increasingly difficult for the Center and others to be effective in supporting democracy, human rights, and the rule of law.
	www.theperspective.org /cartercenter.html (817 words)

	The Carter Fold
		Janette Carter, one of three children of A.P. and Sara Carter established the Carter Family Fold to honor the memory of her parents and Maybelle Carter who played a historic role in helping give birth to the age of country music beginning in 1927.
		The original Carter Family lived on this hallowed ground, right where the Carter Fold is today, in Poor Valley, at the foot of Clinch Mountain in southwest Virginia.
		The Carter Family Fold is part of the Carter Family Memorial Music Center, a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of old-time, traditional country and mountain music.
	www.carterfamilyfold.org /carterfold.htm (369 words)

	American Experience \| Jimmy Carter \| Special Features
		The Carter Center was established in 1982 with the mandate of resolving political conflict and combating disease.
		Outside of the Carter Center, Jimmy Carter conducts diplomatic missions as an elder statesman.
		The Carter Center produced Faces in the Field, which shows the painful realities of Guinea worm disease.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/carter/sfeature/sf_post.html (185 words)

	The Carter Family Memorial Music Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Formally established in 1979, the Center's objective is to promote old time music and pay tribute to the Original Carter Family (A.P., Sara, and Maybelle Carter).
		As a result of that recording session, the Carters and Jimmie Rodgers came to be the first commercially viable "hillbilly" musicians.
		Joe and their older sister, Gladys Carter Millard, assisted Janette in her efforts to establish the Center as a living tribute to the Carter Family.
	www.fmp.com /orthey/carter.html (1231 words)

	Paula J. Carter Center on Minority Health and Aging
		To address the problem, the Lincoln University Cooperative Extension/Paula J. Carter Center on Minority Health and Aging was developed to provide leadership in the health, social, and psychological needs of Missouri’s minority, disabled individuals, and elderly populations.
		The purpose of the PJCCMHA Advisory Board is to assist the center by determining annual issues and priorities base on community feedback.
		The center looks forward assisting with the improvement in the quality of health and life through the concept of health management for all groups, in particularly minorities, underserved, disabled and elderly populations.
	www.lincolnu.edu /pages/650.asp (1004 words)

	Jimmy Carter NHS Education Program
		Turning Point is President Carter's story of how he first sought public office in 1962 and how the social and political conflicts in the South during that era shaped his vision of how people of good faith can join forces to right the wrongs of our society.
		A political boss of the district, who supported Carter's opponent, was not about to let civil rights or Supreme Court decisions stand in the way of his thirst for power.
		In recreating his own experiences amid the volatile atmosphere of that time, Carter paints a vivid portrait of America poised on the verge of political and social change that nearly tore it apart – an image that applies just as aptly to our nation today.
	www.jimmycarter.info /book_8.htm (327 words)

	BBCC Homepage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		His vision was that the center would serve as a catalyst for the development of new ways to diagnose and treat human diseases.
		The mission of the Beirne B. Carter Center for Immunology Research is to develop and sustain a program of research and training in immunology of international stature.
		The Center Office is on the fourth floor of the MR-4 building and offers a site of coordination for initiatives in immunology research and education within the Medical School.
	www.healthsystem.virginia.edu /internet/cic (303 words)

	Adviser to Jimmy Carter resigns in dispute over book on Palestinians and apartheid - Americas - International Herald ...
		Stein said he admired the former president's accomplishments but felt that he had to distance himself from the Carter Center and the book, which was published by Simon & Schuster.
		Deanna Congelio, a spokeswoman for Carter, released this statement with his response: "Although Professor Kenneth Stein has not been actively involved with the Carter Center for more than 12 years, I regret his resignation from the titular position as a fellow." It did not address Stein's criticism of the book.
		Carter's use of "apartheid" in the title has prompted much of the dispute.
	www.iht.com /articles/2006/12/07/news/carter.php (516 words)

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