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Answer to Question 1: When did the New York Times announce that David Kessler would be leaving his post as head of the Food and Drug Administration to become Dean of the Yale University School of Medicine?

There are a couple of choices on how to proceed with this:

• Since you know that it is a New York Times publication, you could go to News and General News .
• Or, since it is about a person, you could choose Reference and Biographical Information.

1. If you choose News , try to structure the search terms like this. Use the w/3 to connect the words David and Kessler and the publication segment in the Additional Terms field:

 Keyword: david w/3 kessler

Additional Terms: yale and dean and publication(new york times)

Source: Major Newspapers

Date: Previous two years

2. If you choose Reference and Biographical Information,

Last Name: kessler

First Name: david

Additional Terms: yale and dean

Date: Previous five years

THE ANSWER: The article appeared in the February 14, 1997 issue of the New York Times, entitled "F.D.A. Chief to Become Yale Medical Dean", by Marian Burros.

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