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This article presents proceedings of the 108th annual meeting of the American Economic Association (AEA) held in San Francisco, California from January 5-7, 1996. The John Bates Clark Medal for 1995 is awarded to the economist David Card in recognition of these impressive achievements. Card has largely defined and developed the currently dominant methodology in applied labor economics. This approach sets out a testable hypothesis, searches for exogenous variation in the key determinants, and leads to the labor and time-intensive development of an appropriate data base. He has successfully applied this methodology to the most important issues in labor economics, and his research papers have achieved the status of standard references in many areas. The one hundred and eighth annual meeting of AEA was called to order by President Victor Fuchs on January 6, 1996. The first item on the agenda to be considered was minutes of the previous annual meeting as published in Papers and Proceedings issue of the journal "The American Economic Review."

Presents news briefs relating to biology and biologists. Awards which were presented to Roger Renvelle of the University of California at San Diego and to Senator John Chafee of Rhode Island; Appointment of Anthony J. Dennis as vice president of biotechnology at Battelle in Columbus, Ohio; Presentation of the Bicentennial Medallion of Distinction from the University of Pittsburgh to Herbert Boyer of the University of California at San Francisco; Scientists who have joined the staff of the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS), including Patricia Lynn Donaldson, Peter Richard Jackson, and Gillian R. Woollett.

Presents news briefs relating to biologists and biological research. Awarding of the 1988 World Food Prize, sponsored by General Foods Fund, to Robert F. Chandler, Jr., the founder of the International Rice Research Institute; Presentation of the Moet Hennessy-Louis Vuitton Prize to Stanley N. Cohen of Stanford University School of Medicine and Herbert W. Boyer of the University of California for their experiments in cloning and development of recombinant DNA techniques; Reception of the 1987 Robert Allerton Award for Excellence in Tropical Botany by Peter H. Raven, director of the Missouri Botanical Garden; Appointment of new members to the National Research Council's Board on Agriculture, including Theodore L. Hullar, Timothy M. Hammonds, Paul W. Johnson, and Robert L. Thompson.

The article presents information about several developments in the field of biosciences. Albert J. Aguayo, professor of neurology and neurosurgery at McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, has received the 1982 Wakeman Award for Research in the Neurosciences. A Water Technologies Board has been created within the Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems of the National Research Council (NRC) which will provide a focus for the NRC's advisory activities in water resources engineering. Frank H. Talbot has been appointed the director of the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, California.