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Page 5
Signing of historic accord may end Mideast violence
phe Associated Press
CAIRO, Egypt — A historic ac
cord to launch Palestinian self-rule
on land held by Israel is due to be
signed Wednesday if a few remain
ing sticky disputes can be settled.
For the Palestinians it will be
the first step toward what many
hope will be a state. For Israel it is
a chance to end bloody conflict
between two peoples who claim
the same land.
"It’s the end of a long voyage
and the beginning of a new chap
ter in relations between the Pales
tinian people and ourselves,” said
Israel’s foreign minister, Shimon
Peres, long an advocate of concilia
tion toward the Arabs on all fronts.
The date was set by Egyptian
President Hosni Mubarak, who
played a pivotal role in the break
through, even as Secretary of State
Warren Christopher abandoned a
passive U.S. stance to help Peres
and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat
narrow their differences.
Christopher said he would re
main in the region "to assist in
any way I can.’ He then flew to
Tel Aviv for a meeting Friday
with Israeli Prime Minister
Yitzhak Rabin. Their agenda in
cludes the stalled peace talks Is
rael had been holding with three
Arab countries, Syria, Jordan and
Lebanon.
Rabin will go to Cairo to see
Arafat Tuesday night. That is the
eve of what Mubarak said both
sides had approved for signing
the accord to implement the
Palestinian self-rule declaration
Biological clock gene finding may open drug possibilities
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — A gene for the internal
clock that sends the body wake-up alarms in
the morning and brings on slumber at night
has been located in laboratory mice, a find
ing that may prompt a similar discovery in
humans.
Joseph Takahashi of Northwestern Uni
versity, senior author of a report to be pub
lished Friday in the journal Science, said the
research could lead to drugs that will over
come jet lag, keep night workers from
falling asleep on the job and solve narcolep
sy, one of the most common sleep disorders.
The biological clock, located in the brain,
controls the daily, or circadian, rhythms of
life. It somehow triggers changes that invig
orate or slow down the body on a 24-hour
cycle. It is the circadian rhythm that is dis
rupted by rapid flight across time zones,
causing jet lag.
Circadian rhythms have long fascinated
and confounded scientists, prompting re
search into sleep and into how humans
adapt to daylight and darkness. But the
work by Takahashi and his group is the
first to locate in a mammal the gene that
pljays a key role in the cycle.
Takahashi said researchers in his lab lo
cated the gene by finding and then breed
ing mice that lacked the gene.
“We isolated the mutation which affects
the circadian clock in the mouse,” he said.
“With this mutation, the mouse loses (its)
circadian rhythm completely.”
The gene was located by an ingenious
system that measured the circadian rhythm
of 300 mice automatically at the same
time.
Takahashi said that exercise wheels in
each of the mouse cages were connected to
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It will send 8,000 Palestinian
policemen, some armed with
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a computer. When each mouse awoke and
started exercising, a switch was thrown
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"They all started within a minute or
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Researchers discovered that this rodent
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By comparing the genetic pattern of the
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