(MONEY Magazine) – FEBRUARY

17 GREENSPAN TESTIFIES BEFORE CONGRESS. Fed chairman Alan Greenspan will delineate his views on monetary policy in his biannual Humphrey-Hawkins address. Says Jim Glassman, an economist at Chase Securities: "People need an explanation for raising interest rates, particularly when the economy is doing well, we have subdued inflation and there's low unemployment."

28 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOODS. Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) representatives from Europe and the U.S. will gather for three days in Edinburgh, Scotland to hear expert scientific reports on biotechnology and food safety, and to discuss trade issues raised by so-called Frankenstein foods.

MARCH

1 NATIONAL CIRCULATION OF $1 SACAGAWEA COIN. The new, gold-colored coin bears the image of Sacagawea, the young Shoshone woman who accompanied the Lewis and Clark expedition across the West from 1804 to 1806. "We think this will become the workhorse of American coinage," says Philip Diehl, director of the U.S. Mint.

--JUDY FELDMAN