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John Buse is delighted to be in the non-profit world of academia at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine in Chapel Hill. He spends about half his time taking care of patients with diabetes without worrying about their ability to pay. The pharmaceutical industry has all kinds of programs that make it quite easy to take great care of the poor. Even so, the under-insured middle class remains a problem John spends another half of his time working with the "for-profit sector" in the development of new drugs, devices and treatment approaches, both as a consultant and as a investigator managing a clinical trials program in diabetes. The third half of his time is spent working with the NIH in two large, multi-center clinical trials aimed at deter- mining optimal treatments in adults with diabetes, as well as prevention strategies for childhood diabetes. The fourth half of his time is spent in administration and teaching. John spends his free time with his delightful daughters and wife who is an "age appropriate" third-year medical student.

A classmate anonymously shared his idea for a small but powerful gift that he and his wife recently made: "We donated two dozen efficient light bulbs to our local library. Total cost to usunder $200 after the tax deduction.Total savings to the library in lighting, cooling and bulb costsmore than $4,000 through the end of the decade, plus 5,000 pounds of CO2 pollution abated annually."

Tom Pearson is a tenured professor in accounting at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, where he received the university's highest teaching award. He normally teaches tax courses and has also taught ethics and law courses. For the past two years, he has also been a visiting professor at National Taiwan University. Tom is the first nonChinese westerner to teach regular semester courses in the College of Management.

Jack Spellman is the operations manager of the real time office of the Caption Center, a part of the media access group at WGBH in Boston. Essentially, he oversees live closed captioning for deaf and hard-of-hearing audiences of primarily news and public affairs broadcasts, that is, PBSNews Hour, Charlie Rose, Morning and Nightly BusinessReport, NOW with Bill Moyers, Religion & EthicsNewsweekly, Wide Angle, as well as all of CBS's news programming. The Caption Center also provides captioning of news programming for local ABC affiliate WCVB and for New England Cable News. Non-news programs include Red Sox games on NESN and a lot of CBS programming, such as Late Show with David Letterman and Survivor. Jack says it's a fun job.

Toni Hull is development director for the North Museum of Natural History and Science in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Toni joined the North Museum after serving as director of alumni relations and development for the Aloha Foundation in Fairlee, Vermont.

Peter Hutchins, a past president of the New Hampshire Bar Association, stays on the run as a high school basketball referee. Peter did not want to coach because coaches must deal with parents. Peter believes the competition for college scholarships has made high school sports more intense but that most student athletes are good sports.

Bruce Duthu continues at Vermont Law School as a professor of law and last year became associate dean for academic affairs. As such, Bruce is responsible for hiring and supervising the law school's faculty, with broader responsibility for guiding the institution. Bruce remains an adjunct professor in Native American studies at Dartmouth.

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