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HERPES VACCINE STUDY VIP Research is seeking couples to participate in a 19 month research study of an investigational herpes vaccine. To be considered for study participation, one partner must have genital herpes while the other partner must not carry the virus which cause genital or oral herpes (cold sores/fever blisters). $500 will be paid to each qualified couple that enroll and complete this study. VIP Research, Inc. For more information call (409) 776-1417 Women In Science and Engineering (WISE) Invites the faculty^, and students to the Women’s Ilea I th Month^eminar series. What Every Woman should Know About Breast Cancer 5 Susan Golden Biology Department, TAMU Monday, October 30,1995 Time: 5:00 p.m., 212^ Chemistry Building Everyone is welcome. Refreshments will be served. mehiete*™ Discount Mufflers EXHAUST • BRAKES • SHOCKS • STRUTS SPRINGS • CV. JOINTS • TRAILER HITCHES I All Parts Does not apply to labor. One Coupon Per Vehicle Bryan 408 S. 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At least 200 others were injured. Unable to escape from the packed cars, most of the people who died were killed by carbon monox ide poisoning from burning toxic materials in the train carriages, officials said. Azerbaijan declared two days of mourning for the dead. Officials blamed the tragedy, the worst underground railway accident in the former Sovi et Union, on the Baku subway’s “outdated Sovi et” equipment. “As soon as the train entered the tunnel, I saw a flash,” said Tabil Guseinov, age 45, a passenger. “Then the flames enveloped the train car; there was a sound of breaking glass, and the lights went out. “People started breaking windows to get out. We were starting to suffocate,” he said. The fire broke out between two subway stations in central Baku on Saturday afternoon because of a malfunction of the train’s electrical system, offi cials said. Survivors described sparks flying from high- voltage cables just after the train left the busy Ul- duz station. Rescuers battled the blaze until early Sunday, then pulled the injured and the dead, wrapped in rugs and blankets, from the tunnel. Police and secu rity forces sealed off the area, barring journalists. Authorities initially said only two people had died in the fire, but the death toll climbed steadily overnight as more bodies were found. Interior Minister Ramil Usubov told The Associ ated Press on Sunday morning that at least 289 people had died, including 28 children. Morgue officials said they counted at least 303 bodies, and the independent Azerbaijani news agency Turan quoted medical officials as putting the death toll at 337. Azerbaijan’s health minister, Ali Insanov, said 269 people were injured. Of the injured, 62 re mained hospitalized Sunday, most of them in seri ous condition. Amy Browning, Tim BATTALION Feathery friend Terra Hausenfluck, age 5, holds a chicken in the petting zoo section of the Pet Show and Carnival held at the Messina Hof vineyards Sunday afternoon. Over 200 school bus drivers on road with traffic convictions □ Accidents have risen more than 20 percent, and injuries to children are up more than 55 percent. HOUSTON (AP) - More than 200 certified school bus drivers in Texas have traffic convictions, the Houston Chronicle reported Sun day in a copyright story. Some 150 were convicted of speeding, according to the Chroni cle’s computer analysis of records belonging to the state’s 55,000 certified school bus drivers, dur ing a three-year period ending Aug. 31,1994. Another two were cited for drunken driving. Fifty more were ticketed for accidents. School bus accidents in Texas have risen more than 20 percent in the past four years — from 1,198 in 1991 to 1,449 in 1994, ac cording to the Texas Department of Public Safety. Injuries to children are up more than 55 percent — from 826 in 1991 to 1,282 in 1994, state records show. The news comes on the heels of last week’s accident in Chicago, in which seven high school students died and dozens were injured when a train struck a school bus. Investigators believe a signal problem may have contributed to that accident, but the driver’s ac tions are also under scrutiny. In Texas, drivers can be certi fied to drive a school bus after completing a 20-hour training course at the Texas Education Agency’s regional service centers. The certificate must be re newed every three years with an eight-hour refresher course. In September, new legislation transferred the bus driver certifi cation program from combined enforcement by the Texas Educa lion Agency and the DPS to the DPS alone with the idea of pro moting more efficient monitoring. Bush Continued from Page 1 “Thank you for this high honor,” Bush said. “I’m thrilled to be back on this cam pus, and I’m privileged to have this school named for me.” At the Board meeting, Dr. Ray Bowen, Texas A&M president, said the school was named for Bush to honor his tenure as president and his decision to locate the presidential library on the A&M campus. The George Bush Presidential Library Center will feature not only the presidential library, archives and museum, but an acade mic building that will house the political sci ence and economics schools, as well as the School of Government and Public Service. Bush said the school should serve to con vince “young people that civil service is a noble cause and an honorable cause.” Dr. Barry B. Thompson, Texas A&M chancellor, said the library center will serve not only the students, but also the Bryan-College Station community. “One of the uses of this library, which a lot of people are overlooking, is that every one from this area will be able to come and use this library,” Thompson said. “We’re in a generally rural area, and people from all around can come and read all of these im portant documents.” By educating others outside the Univer sity community, A&M is serving its teach ing mission, Thompson said, and this effort will help the University with funding from the Texas Legislature. Bush, who will also teach at the Universi ty, said his classes will involve “learning a lot from the young people at Texas A&M.” Mary Nan West, Board of Regents chairman, said Bush should have no trou ble teaching. “I consider him a gentle man, and a gen tleman,” West said. “I think he will be an ex cellent teacher, and I think any student who takes one of his classes will be honored.” ■ \ 0 c \ i ) E 1 s i 1 \ i ( t I c r f 1 £ C i i c ( £ i t g 1 1 t I I c 1 I t 1 □ V a B' T d. ai S; fi] I ti c MONDAY NIGHT FDOTOAU. Each Monday, come watch your favorite football teams and enjoy 99<£ pints of our handcrafted beer. Happy Hour: 2-7 EM. & 9-11 EM. Daily Hours: Sun.-Thurs. 11A.M.-11 EM. firi. - Sat College Station, Texas 11 A.M. - Midnight 201 Dominik (Just off Texas) 693-4148 Located at 700 E. University Drive, next to Sidepockets, behind the Golden Corral. 7-9 pm 4-6 pm 4-6 pm 6-8 pm 6-9 pm 10 pm - 12 am Sun Oct-29 MATH 152 Quiz Prep. Slifll! 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