Dr. James E. Jennings of Atlanta, Ga., head of a U.S. academic delegation to Baghdad and former history professor at Illinois University, speaks to parents of sick children at Saddam Children's Hospital in Baghdad, Iraq, on Monday, Jan. 13, 2003. 35 U.S. academics arrived in Baghdad Monday on a peace and fact-finding mission and also to open channels of dialogue with their Iraqi counterparts at Baghdad University. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)