INSIDE THE "USDA NEWS"

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1. USDA's 2003 Budget Calls For Increases In Key Areas
   
   
2. We Helped Move The Olympic Flame To Salt Lake City
   65 Days, 11,500 Torchbearers
   
   
3. Secretary Ann M. Veneman
   
   
4. Administrative NUGGETS
   
   
5. Celebrating Black History
   
   
6. Employees Make These Things... Happen!
   
   
7. Headlining Some Of Our Recent Initiatives
   
   
8. Letters
   
   
9. USDA.... Sponsored Calendar Highlights
   
   
10. PROFILE PLUS.... More about: Eric Bost
    
    
11. Editor's Roundup -- USDA people in the news

• Mark Rey was sworn in as the under secretary for natural resources and environment.
  
• Bobby Acord was selected as the administrator of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
  
• A.J. Yates was named as the administrator of the Agricultural Marketing Service.
  
• Hilda Legg was sworn in as the administrator of the Rural Utilities Service.
  
• Alisa Harrison was named the deputy director of communications and press secretary for USDA.
• Gary Cunningham was selected as the associate administrator of the Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service.