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Fares will be lecturing and conduct ing research at the King Faisal Medi cal Research Facility at the Univer sity of Riyadh. "The Saudis have the most ad vanced facilities,” he said. The fa cility has four nuclear accelerators to produce isotopes that are used in treatment and production of radio- pharmaceuticals. A radio-pharmaceutical lab is a chemical lab in which drugs are pro- ing ‘ la dioactivity. Radio-pharmaceuticals are used in studies of biological pathways and physiological func tions of living tissues, such as tumors or cardiovascular blockages. Fares said he will be doing re search in tracer kinetics, as well as nuclear and physical chemistry. “Radio-pharmaceuticals specialize in localizing certain diseases such as tumors,” he said. “After the disease is localized, the pharmaceutical can be followed using tracer kinetics or imaging. This gives a much clearer idea of the progress of the disease or the crucial factors causing it.” Fares said, for example, that ra dio-labeled monoclonal antibodies may he the “magic bullets” that tar get cancer cells. He is a member of the Biosystems Research Group in the Fexas Engi neering Extension Station’s Indus trial Engineering Division. “We have engineering, operations research, chemistry, agronomy, plant physiology, physics and bio- mathematics all represented within the group,” he said of the 10-mem- ber group. Fares said the group has been re searching the physiological func tions of'living plants for eight years. With his colleagues John Goeschl and Charles Magnuson and scien tists at Duke University, Fares devel oped a national facility to produce and house short-lived isotopes to study living plant productivity. “We deal with the plant as a living system with millions of processes in teracting simultaneously,” he said. “By understanding what controls these processes, we will ultimately be able to produce plant varieties that can cope with different environmen tal conditions with maximal produc tivity.” The research has been supported Rice professor: abstract art conveys human emotions By KIM TREESE Reporter Dr. William A. Camfield, art his tory professor at Rice University, opened two art exhibitions spon sored by the Texas A&M University Art Exhibits and the MSG Arts Com mittee Wednesday night with a pre sentation entitled, “Spiritual Dimen sions in Spanish Realism and American Abstract ion. ” The exhibitions, Spanish Master Paintings and American Abstract Expressionist Paintings, will be at the J. Earl Rudder Exhibit Hall and the MSC Gallery until Nov. 23. Both ex hibits are from the collection of the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation. Although these works are differ ent, Camfield said, they do have one thing in common — their spiritual dimensions. American Abstract Expressionism emerged in New York City in the 1940s. Within ten years it was re sponsible for shifting the visual cen ter of art f rom Paris to New York. “It certainly continues to exert an influence in art in this country as well as in Europe,” Camfield said. The paintings are largely uncon- tioiled, prerational actions or events echoing the restless, perhaps even rootless, lifestyle of the postwar years, Camfield said. “T he artist is not interested in the relationships with color or form,” he said. “He is interested in conveying ordinary human emotions.” The Spanish Realists also were in terested in portraying very ordinary Creator ofsnowcones dead at 88 United Press International DALLAS — Samuel Bert, who came to be known as the “Snowcone King” for creating the shaved ice and fruit flavoring treat at the State Fair of Texas, died at Baylor Univer sity Medical Center. He was H8. The Springfield, Ill., native died Sunday of complications f rom a fall that broke his hip two weeks ago, his family said. He was buried T uesday. Bert was fresh out of the Army in 1919 when he showed up at the fairgrounds with a new idea — shave ice into crystals, put the crushed ice in a cup and pour liquid flavoring over it. Bert invented the snowcone ma chine in 1927 and the snowcone’s popularity spread across America. The Magical The Black Light Theater Poetry of Prague 0, MSC OPAS September 18 Tickets: MSC Box Office 845-1234 £★★★★★★ •S £ i 5- TTTT Aggie G.O.P. Republican Party of Texas A&M Voter Registration Tables Located at MSC - 1st Floor Blocker Bldg. - Lobby 9 A.M.-3 P.M. * * * * Together we can make a difference Next meeting Sept. 18 7:00 102 Blocker Speaker: T. Boone Pickens by various interests, including Sohio Oil Co., TEES and Duke University. Fares has a Ph.D in physical and nuclear chemistry from the Univer sity of Florida. He has worked at Giessen University in West Ger many, CERN Nuclear Laboratories in Geneva, Switzerland and at the Texas A&M Cyclotron. He has taught nuclear and physi cal chemistry and tracer kinetics in Egypt, the Sudan and West Ger many, as well as the United States. His wife Yvonne, who will join him later in the year, works as arts products coordinator in the Texas A&M Printing Center. Three of their four daughters are A&M graduates. Lila, the eldest, and her husband, Todd Lott, probably will travel to Saudi Arabia during the year. Their youngest daughter, Maran, a junior at A&M, will spend Christmas in Saudi Arabia. consiide* aim tk Regnant/ ataucs 0 FREE PROFESSIONAL COUNSELING Adoption is a viable alternative SOUTHWEST MATERNITY CENTER 6487 Whitby Road, San Antonio, Texas 78240 (512) 696-2410 TOLL FREE 1-800-292-5103 Sponsored by the Methodist Student Movement through the Wesley Foundation DOC 20C :x>c: * * | * ■k * Learn To Fly f At Executive subjects. Sacred subjects such as St. Matthew were portrayed as com mon, believable people, instead of being exhaited. The paintings were based on the specific individual, Camfield said. People have taken spiritual interpre tations from them sensing the in tense, dignified grace of the subjects. “All of these objects bear a sym bolic, spiritual content,” he said. Both exhibitions will be open daily from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. In addtion, films dealing with the subject matter of the exhibits will be shown daily beginning at 11:30 a.m. in the Ex hibit Hall, and Thursday evening beginning at 7:30 p.m. His wife, Mary, said her husband never told her how he came up with the idea of the snowcone. During his long career, Bert branched out to other concessions, selling hamburgers and popcorn and operating thrill rides such as the roller coaster and the Wild Mouse. Bert served in the Army in France during World War I. Style show, auction will be tonight A style show and auction to benefit the Brazos Valley Reha bilitation Center will be at 6:30 to night in the Brazos Center. Fashions from Cardeaux, CharB, Dillards, Lester’s, Palum bo’s, R. Rush and Shellenbergers will be modeled by some of the area’s high-profile people includ ing Jackie Sherrill, Executive Di rector Jim Thompson said. “We have a cross section of people involved in the show,” Frances Tieman, executive secre tary said. One of the highlights will he a silent auction. A bidder will write his or her name and bid on a piece of paper beside the item and if someone wants to bid I inner they can mark out the other name and put their own name and bid. The item will go to the highest bidder. An auction with Auctioneer Lloyd Joyce also will take place, Tieman said. A Mazda B-2000 SE-5 sport truck will be sold to the highest bidder. Tickets are $12.50 and can be reserved at the Brazos Valley Re habilitation Center. 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