Norma Lewis wrote: > > This is an important message, very much worth reading - please buy these stamps. > Norma > > Dear Friends.... PLEASE READ and pass along to ALL of your WOMEN > >friends and colleagues ... > > > >As you may be aware, the U.S. Postal Service recently released its new > >Fund the Cure stamp to help fund breast cancer research. The stamp was > >designed by Ethel Kessler of Bethesda, Maryland. It is important that we take a stand and show our outrage against this disease that kills and maims so many of our mothers, sisters, friends. > > > >Instead of the normal .32 for a stamp, this one costs .40. The > >additional .08 will go to breast cancer research. If all stamps are sold, it will raise an additional $16,000,000 for this vital research. > > > >Just as important as the money is our support. What a statement it > >would make if the stamp outsold the lottery this week or outsold tickets to the latest box office hit this weekend. What a statement it would make that we care. > > > > I urge each of you to do two things TODAY. Not tomorrow ... but > >today: > > > >1. Go out and purchase some of these stamps. > >2. E-mail, call--whatever it takes--get your friends to do the same. > > > Clair A. Francomano, M.D. > Chief, Medical Genetics Branch > Clinical Director > National Human Genome Research Institute > Building 10 Room 10C101 > 10 Center Drive, MSC 1852 > Bethesda, Maryland 20892-1852 > > 301 402-8255 phone > 301 496-7157 fax > clairf@nhgri.nih.gov