The Administrative Core is designed to provide support for vision and leadership to the Center Directors, ensure the smooth-running of the Center for Healthy Minds, provide a mechanism for evaluation of Centerassociated work and pilot grant applications, and provide support for planning of Advisory Board meetings and maintenance of contact with representatives of the National Institute on Aging. In addition, the Administrative Core is responsible for the operation of the Recruitment Program, which will make human subjects available to all Center Researchers. We propose, as part of the Administrative Core to establish a set of short-term and longer-range goals for the Center. A strategic Center Advisory Board comprised of important business, community, and university figures will play a powerful role in establishing connections to university, community, and philanthropicBy Lesley Wroughton

TAN AN TAY VILLAGE, Vietnam (Reuters) - As John Kerry's boat winds its way along the turbid waters of the Cai Nuoc river in Vietnam's Mekong Delta, the U.S. Secretary of State is taken back to the time he spent here as a commander of an American patrol boat during the Vietnam War.

But it is not only the past that brings Kerry to this remote part of the Mekong, the 12th largest river in the world. He is here to deliver a message about the growing threat of climate change and the impact it will have on the delta and the millions of people that depend on it for food, water and transportation.

It is the first time that Kerry has returned to the Mekong since 1968