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	James R. Thompson, Jr.
		Thompson spent 20 years with NASA at the Marshall Space Flight Center in various positions, including associate director for engineering in the Science and Engineering Directorate and as manager of the Space Shuttle Main Engine Project in the Shuttle Projects Office.
		James R. (J.R.) Thompson, Jr., became Deputy Administrator of NASA in 1989.
		Thompson transferred to Marshall's Astronautics Laboratory where he served as chief of the Man/Systems Integration Branch from 1969 to 1974.
	www.hq.nasa.gov /office/pao/History/Biographies/thompson.html (597 words)

	James R. Thompson Center
		The James R. Thompson Center fulfills the promise that it would be alive with events which bring activity and excitement to downtown Chicago.
		The James R. Thompson Center's 7,500 square foot Assembly Hall, which seats 600, is attractive, modern, and versatile.
		The James R. Thompson Center in Chicago's North Loop is emphatically all of these.
	www.state.il.us /cms/jrtc/building.htm (505 words)

	About James C. Thompson, Jr.
		Managing General Partner, J. Cleo Thompson & James Thompson, Jr., A Partnership, engaged in the oil and gas exploration and production business since 1953 with properties located principally in Texas, New Mexico, Colorado and Oklahoma.
		Thompson Scholarships -- Southern Methodist University Law School.
		President and Chairman of the Board, Thompson Petroleum Corporation, engaged in the oil and gas exploration and production business.
	www.ncpa.org /abo/board/jcthompson.html (275 words)

	Neuroscience Graduate Program @ Univeristy of Southern California
		Fellow: American Association for the Advancement of Science; Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences; William James Fellow, American Psychological Society.
		Thompson Laboratory Group: Margaret Burnett, Kimberly Christian, Michael Foy (Loyola University), Richard Hinchliffe, Ka-Hung Lee, Ingrid Liu, Shahriar Mojtahedian, Andrew Poulos, Karla Robleto, Andrea Scicli, Judith Thompson, Benjamin Tran, Karen Varilla, Rose-Marie Vouimba.
		Our research program utilizes all variety of techniques appropriate to answer the questions of brain substrates of learning and memory, including all varieties of neurophysiology, from intracellular recording to field potentials, neuroanatomical methods, lesions and reversible inactivation, behavioral training procedures, neurochemistry, computational modeling and use of transgenic mice.
	www.usc.edu /dept/nbio/ngp/Faculty/thompson-rf.shtml (786 words)

	Office of the Illinois Attorney General - Press Release - Chinese Jurist
		in Room 2-025 of the James R. Thompson Center, 100 W. Randolph, in Chicago.
		From the Jilin province in the Northeastern Region of China, the contingent of 20 judges and 10 prosecutors is the second group to visit Illinois in the exchange program that the law school began in 2002.
		The office of Attorney General Lisa Madigan is scheduled to host approximately 30 visiting Chinese judges and attorneys currently studying at the John Marshall Law School for a roundtable discussion on the American judicial system.
	www.ag.state.il.us /pressroom/2005_02/20050201b.html (786 words)

	Daley
		Victor James Daley Victor James Daley (Ireland, and emigrated to Australia as a young man. He used the pseudonym Creeve...
		Richard J. Daley Center The Richard J. Daley Center, also known by its courtyard Daley Plaza and named after longtime 1...
		Daley Thompson Francis Morgan "Daley" Thompson, born World titles in a single event.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/daley.html (786 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - The Murder of James Bulger
		With James Bulger in tow the Robert Thompson and Jon Venables left the shopping center under the watchful gaze of the CCTV cameras.
		James Bulger's parents have also expressed their fears of forbidden websites posting photographs of Thompson and Venables because other innocent boys could be targeted and the killing would be in James name.
		James' mother Denise was inside buying meat and had let go off him for just two minutes.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A583049 (561 words)

	The Winchester Star-Obituaries
		James Hubert Womack Sr., 79, of Vicksburg, Miss., died Thursday, Jan. 31, 2002, in Parkview Medical Center, Vicksburg.
		Raynor was born April 5, 1925, in Martinsburg, the daughter of Copeland Thompson Sr.
		Surviving are a son, Michael Steven Raynor of Bunker Hill, W.Va.; a daughter, Beverly Kopczenski of Winchester; a brother, Copeland Thompson Jr.; two grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
	www.winchesterstar.com /TheWinchesterStar/020202/Obituaries.asp (561 words)

	Young Killers Jon Venables and Robert Thompson
		Encountering Bulger in the Shopping Center, Thompson and Venables led him on a long, exhausting walk down nearby streets, past the Breeze Hill Services Reservoir and the Job Center on Church Road West, to the railroad tracks.
		On Feb. 12, 1993, in Liverpool, England, Robert Thompson and Jon Venables murdered James Bulger, 2 years old.
		The Death of James Bulger: - A 2 year-old lured by ten-year-old killers to be tortured and beaten to death then abandon on the railroad tracks.
	www.karisable.com /mbulg.htm (362 words)

	The Leadership Genius of George W. Bush: 10 Common Sense Lessons from the Commander-in-Chief - Leadershop @ LeadshipNow.com
		Leadership and management consultants Carolyn Thompson and James Ware identify ten timeless qualities that have made Bush a great leader, breaking down each one so that you too can use these techniques in your own leadership quest–whether you are running a Fortune 500 company, the local school board, or your condo association.
		Ware is a Myers-Briggs Type Indicator®—qualified instructor, and a certified mediator for the Center for Conflict Resolution in Chicago.
		James W. Ware is a partner of the Focus Consulting Group, Inc. The firm works with leaders to develop mission and value statements that are the foundation of sustainable growth.
	www.leadershipnow.com /leadershop/2006-9.html (917 words)

	Ummah.com - The Strange Journey of Earnest James Ujaama
		Ujaama--a Muslim convert from Seattle, born James Earnest Thompson--had become a protege of Abu Hamza, according to U.S. officials who say the American pledged bayat, an oath of loyalty, to the mullah.
		James Ujaama, a U.S. citizen who recently lived in London, has been kept in solitary confinement at the Federal Detention Center in SeaTac, south of Seattle.
		Whatever his true convictions, Ujaama clearly has become an important pawn in one corner of the war on terrorism: U.S. efforts to reach into the nerve center of radical Islam in London and take down a leader regarded as one of Al Qaeda's principal front men.
	www.ummah.net /forum/printthread.php?t=8881 (5203 words)

	Print Message
		The Ujaamas — formerly known as Jon Thompson and James Earnest Thompson — are among the Seattle Muslims being investigated by the FBI and a federal grand jury in Seattle.
		James Ujaama is the oldest of three boys raised as Catholics in the Central Area.
		Charlie James is chairman of the Organization of African American Unity, which he says is a group of 25 men and women "trying to restructure the agenda in the African-American community" in Seattle.
	www.suite101.com /print_message.cfm/investing/68672/668106 (929 words)

	Special Events
		The Embassy of France, in conjunction with The James H. Thompson Foundation, is delighted to announce that for the first time, an art exhibition featuring Haute Couture will be presented at the Jim Thompson Center for the Arts.
		Lacroix himself could not have imagined a better framework to discuss and interact with his work than through The James H. Thompson Foundation.
		In this exhibition 63 of his unique fashion designs and accessories will be presented along with works by well-known contemporary artists including French artist Annette Messager, who was awarded the “Golden Lion” at this year’s International Biennale of Venice.
	www.jimthompsonhouse.com /events/Christian_Lacroix.asp (453 words)

	Spasmodic Dysphonia - Dr. Morton Cooper - strangled voice therapy
		After meeting with Dr. Thompson for about 10 minutes, he immediately referred me to Dr. Gregory Postma, the assistant professor of Otolaryngology at the Wake Forest Medical Center.
		JOHN FONVILLE’S BOTOX EXPERIENCE AT On Thursday, December 7, 2000 at 9:45 a.m., I had an appointment to see Dr. Jim Thompson, Dean of the Wake Forest Medical Center, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
		Later Thursday afternoon, after returning to the Wake Forest Medical Center, I spent 1-1/2 hours with Shannon reading and talking into a computer program, after which she confirmed Dr. Postma’s diagnosis.
	www.voice-doctor.com /testimonial/jfonville.html (453 words)

	San Jacinto Veterans-Unit
		James B. Thompson, Spencer Townsend, Owlyn J. Trask, Robert M. Williamson, William Foster Young
		James C. DeWitt, Christopher Edenburg, George Washington Lawrence, Matthew Moss, George Washington Robinson, John Sadler, Jesse G. Thompson, James Wilson, John F. Winters,
		Aides-de-Camp: James T. Collinsworth (center), William H. Patton, Alexander Horton (right), Lorenzo de Zavala Jr.
	www.tamu.edu /ccbn/dewitt/sjvetsunit.htm (1705 words)

	San Jacinto Veterans-Unit
		James C. DeWitt, Christopher Edenburg, George Washington Lawrence, Matthew Moss, George Washington Robinson, John Sadler, Jesse G. Thompson, James Wilson, John F. Winters,
		James B. Thompson, Spencer Townsend, Owlyn J. Trask, Robert M. Williamson, William Foster Young
		Aides-de-Camp: James T. Collinsworth (center), William H. Patton, Alexander Horton (right), Lorenzo de Zavala Jr.
	www.tamu.edu /ccbn/dewitt/sjvetsunit.htm (1705 words)

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		Sinclair Lewis); Thompson, Holland; Thompson, John B.; Thompson, Lawrence Sidney; Thompson, Randall; Thompson, Robert L.; Thompson, William Taliaferro; Thomson, Charles Alexander; Tigert, John James; Tillett, Charles William, Jr.; Tillett, Gladys (Mrs.
		(1994), a documentary biography film by John B. Wilson, Jr., and Martin Clark for the Arts and Sciences Foundation of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of North Carolina Center for Public Television.
		Zehmer, George Baskerville; Ziegler, Samuel George; Zimand, Gertrude Folks; Zimmerly, Howard Henry; Zimmerman, Erich W.; Zimmerman, James Fulton; Zook, George Frederick; Zucker, Adolph Edward; Zurcher, Arnold John
	www.lib.unc.edu /mss/inv/ead2/01819.xml (4296 words)

	Gazette: James Thomson and the Holy Grail (Jan/Feb 2002)
		Among those Bush consulted were Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson, who as governor of Wisconsin had praised James Thomson’s work.
		In 1998, graduate alumnus Dr. James Thomson won the race to isolate and culture human stem-cells for a sustained period—one of the holy grails of medical science—but he can’t outrun the controversy generated by his work.
		So it’s not surprising that in his laboratory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where Thomson is assistant professor of anatomy in the Medical School and chief pathologist at the Wisconsin Regional Primate Research Center, he has cut to the heart of the matter.
	www.upenn.edu /gazette/0102/whitaker.html (627 words)

	A Der Spiegel Interview with James Shikwati [Mackinac Center for Public Policy]
		The Mackinac Center’s connections to James and IREN are deep and lasting.
		James himself is in demand the world over as an articulate spokesperson for the ideas of liberty and sound policy.
		That letter started a correspondence and then a blossoming friendship with one very remarkable James Shikwati, whose work at the Nairobi-based think tank he later founded, the Inter-Region Economic Network, now reverberates with impact far beyond his native Kenya.
	www.mackinac.org /7186 (517 words)

	washingtonpost.com: In Newark Race, Black Political Visions Collide
		James was never a civil rights icon -- his administration has been rocked with corruption scandals, though the mayor has never been indicted -- but movement veterans and many black intellectuals view the infatuation of white liberals and some conservatives with Booker as suspect.
		"I heard Cory Booker being referred to as presidential material and I'm saying, 'What?' " said Columbia University political scientist Phil Thompson.
		We're going to the performing arts center." Booker, he says, has no record at all.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A11578-2002May13?language=printer (1882 words)

	Headline News
		SHIPWRECK IN THE DESERT: TITANIC ARTIFACTS ON DISPLAY IN SALT LAKE CITY (28 May 04, Salt Lake Tribune) " Corbett was one of several Titanic passengers with ties to Utah, a fact revealed in "Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition," which opens Saturday at the ZCMI Center in downtown Salt Lake City.
		TITANIC MENU FETCHES $88,500 AT AUCTION (12 June 04, Associated Press) The lots auctioned by Guernsey's ranged from artefacts salvaged amid flotsam on the night of the disaster to more tangential items associated with the ship and James Cameron's 1997 blockbuster film.
		TITANIC FIRM UNLIKELY TO OWN ARTIFACTS (17 May 04, Reuters) " A U.S. judge says she is unlikely to grant ownership of nearly 6,000 Titanic artefacts to the company that holds sole salvage rights to the sunken luxury liner.
	www.titanicnewschannel.com /headlinenews2004.html (6430 words)

	National Center for Food and Agricultural Policy
		NASULGC participants and Jill Long Thompson reported to James Fischer and Mike Mills on their planned participation in the agreement.
		James Fischer will relate to the NASULGC collaborators reflecting the fact that he is an employee of DOE EERE.
		James Fischer will work with Doug Faulkner and Assistant Secretary David Garman to appoint the members of the Coordinating Committee from the DOE EERE side.
	www.ncfap.org /specialprojects/minutes/minutes-feb2_orgmeeting.php (6430 words)

	Race Matters - Benjamin C Thompson
		Thompson's national reputation was earned in a series of waterfront projects with the developer James W. Rouse, beginning with Faneuil Hall and including Harborplace of 1980, the South Street Seaport of 1985 and the Bayside Marketplace in Miami and Jacksonville Landing in Jacksonville, Fla., both of 1987.
		Thompson said, "The problems of the cities, how to create a new city center in practically every city in the country, is the greatest issue facing the country today."
		Thompson himself at the South Street Seaport in Manhattan, Harborplace in Baltimore and Union Station in Washington that it is difficult now to recall how radical the notion once was that a dilapidated, moribund inner-city locale could be remade as a vibrant, popular, round-the-clock gathering place.
	www.racematters.org /benjamincthompson.htm (869 words)

	Nevada Obituaries
		She attended St. Gall Catholic Church in Gardnerville.She is survived by daughters Dana Desmond and Mary Johnson of Gardnerville; Barbara Desmond of Coucil Bluffs, Iowa; Virginia Hernandez of Riverside, Calif.; and Lori Desmond and son-in-law, James F. Jusko, of Corona, Calif.; seven grandchildren; and 12 great-granchildren.
		Desmond was actively involved in the Douglas County Senior Center activities.
		Desmond was preceded in death by her husband, Wayne W. Desmond, in 1985, and by her daughter, Tess Desmond Stoddard, in 1993.
	www.rootsweb.com /~nvdougla/recordobits.htm (869 words)

	APP.COM - JOSEPH THOMPSON, 83, of Whiting, MANCHESTER
		Surviving are a daughter, Sharon R. Thompson and her companion Diana Eadson of Little Egg Harbor; a daughter-in-law, Verna Thompson of Clifton; his brother, George H. Thompson of Oakland; and four grandsons, Shawn, Christopher, Timothy and James.
		JOSEPH THOMPSON, 83, of Whiting, MANCHESTER, died Saturday June 25, at Community Medical Center, Toms River.
		He was the husband of the late Rose Thompson, who died in 2003, and father of the late Joseph Thompson, who died in 2005, and the late Harold Thompson, who died in 1970.
	www.app.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050628/OBITUARIES/506280392/1076 (869 words)

	PUBLICATIONS SPONSORED BY THE CENTER (Center for the Book: Library of Congress)
		Developing Lifetime Readers: A Report on the 1991 "Year of the Lifetime Reader" Promotion of the Library of Congress, compiled by Michael Thompson.
		Includes essays by Terry Belanger, James N. Green, Michael Hackenberg, Robert D. Harlan, Michael H. Harris, Bruce L. Johnson, Alice D. Schreyer, Madeleine B. Stern, and Michael Winship.
		compiled by Michael Thompson and edited by John Y. Cole.
	www.lcweb.loc.gov /loc/cfbook/pub-lis.html (1796 words)

	Miller Center — James Monroe Bibliography
		Hall and Abraham cover Monroe's appointment of Smith Thompson to the Supreme Court.
		Cunningham, Noble E. The Presidency of James Monroe.
		Argues that the Monroe Doctrine was issued to influence the coming presidential election.
	millercenter.virginia.edu /scripps/reference/bibliographies/monroe.html (1796 words)

	City Center - Encores!
		Orchestra • Associate Choreographer: Vince Pesce • Casting: Jay Binder • Scenic Consultant: John Lee Beatty • Costume Consultant: Toni-Leslie James • Lighting: Peter Kaczorowski • Sound Design: Bruce Cameron • Concert Adaptation: Kirsten Childs • Production Stage Manager: Beverley Randolph • Orchestrations: Jonathan Tunick • Musical Coordinator: Seymour Red Press
		Orchestra • Associate Choreographer: Debra McWaters • Casting : Jay Binder • Scenic Consultant: John Lee Beatty • Sound: Scott Lehrer • Costume Consultant: Candice Donnelly • Lighting: Ken Billington • Concert Adaptation: David Thompson • Production Stage Manger: Karen Moore • Original Orchestrations: Ralph Burns • Musical Coordinator: Seymour Red Press
		Orchestra • Choreographer: Daniel Pelzig • Casting : Jay Binder/Laura Stanczyk • Scenic Consultant: John Lee Beatty • Sound: Scott Lehrer • Costume Consultant: Michael Krass • Lighting: Ken Billington • Concert Adaptation: David Ives • Production Stage Manger: Karen Moore • Orchestrations: Emil Gerstenberger, Alfred Goodman, Hans Spialek • Musical Coordinator: Seymour Red Press.
	www.citycenter.org /encores/encseasons.cfm (1796 words)

	Miscellaneous York County, SC, Obituaries
		James Daniel Mills Sr., 77, of 547 Miles Road died Monday, Feb. 22, 1999, at Piedmont Medical Center in Rock Hill.
		W.W. Thompson, A.A. Bankhead, Vernon Worthy, Danny Grier, James Goods, O.L. Smith, George Lowery, J.D. McClurkin and Curtis Washington assisting.
		Surviving are three daughters, Geraldine Wilmore and Maggie Hemphill, both of York, and Angela Neely of Chester; five sons, James Neely, Bobby Neely, Willie Neely and Jerry Neely Jr., all of York, and Albert Neely of Clover; two sisters, Ida Harris of Rock Hill and Maggie Gunnings of New York; 33 grandchildren; and 43 great-grandchildren.
	www.obitcentral.com /obitsearch/obits/sc/sc-york103.htm (3650 words)

	TOURISM NEWS -- AT THE TABLE OF JIM THOMPSON – BANGKOK’S LEADING FARANG HOST
		These were always major social events and over the years, Thompson’s prestigious guest list included famous names such as the author James Michener, Senator William Fullbright, Senator Edward Kennedy and his wife, Joan, Broadway Star Ethel Merman, the fashion designer Pierre Balmain, the Woolworth heiress Barbara Hutton and many others.
		Having gained international renown as Bangkok’s most ‘celebrated social center’, the house Jim Thompson built on the bank of Klong Maha Nag still preserves the spirit and legend of the man.
		Jim enjoyed meeting individuals from all walks of life and entertained guests at his home, simply referred to as the "Jim Thompson Thai House".
	www.tatnews.org /tourism_news/2463.asp (448 words)

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