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6 ATTENTION: FALL 1998 Student Teachers except HLTH & KINE and AGED WHAT: WHEN: Pre-Student Teaching Informational Meeting Thursday, February 5, 1998 TIME: 7:00 p.m. WHERE: Rudder Tower Room 601 This meeting is MANDATORY! Tuesday • January 20, FDA warns against illegal doning Poiiponni mixed vienj on abortio FREE SCREENING Thursday, January 22, 1998 ik 7:30 p.m. Carmike Cinema Post Oak Mall • 1500 Harvey Rd. For your free passes stop by The Texas A&M Bookstore (located in the MSC) or Freebird’s World Burrito’s t-y “VICIOUSLY FUNNY!” - Janet Maslin, THE NEW YORK TIMES “FUNNY AND SMART!” - Roger Ebert, SISKEL & EBERT “ONE OF THE YEAR’S BEST PICTURES!” - Jeffrey Lyons, WNBC A TRIUMPH! - Gene Shalit, TODAY, NBC-TV CAROLINE AARON BOG BALABAN BILLY CRYSTAL MARIEL HEMINGWAY ERIC LLOYO DEMI MOORE ROBIN WILLIAMS WOODY ALLEN RICHARD BENJAMIN JUDY DAVIS AMY IRVING JULIA LOUIS-DREYFUS ELISABETH SHUE KIRSTIE ALLEY ERIC BOGOSIAN HAZELLEGOODMAN JULIE KAVNER TOBEYMAGUIRE STANLEYTUCCI Deconstructing ifJEETYV' Harry Block wrote a bestseller about his best friends. Now, his best friends are about to become his worst enemies. % A Fine Line Features Reiea.« Swectland Films Presenis a Jean Doumaman Production "Deconstruclmg Flarry" casing b» Juliet Taylor costume Designer Suzy Benzmger Ffliitx Susan E. Morse, ac i Production Designer Santo Loquasto Drrecior otPhoiograpny Carlo DlPalma, AIC nnuser Co Producer Richard Brick cotxecuiive Producers Jack Rollins Charles H, Joffe Letty Aronson (tj;- f xocuirve Producer J-E. Beaucaire Produced tiy Jean Doumanian wniten and Directed by Woody Allen —- Starts Friday exclusively at Carmike Cinema Post Oak Mall • 1500 Harvey Rd. • 693-2796 Call for showtimes WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration has a warning for the Chicago physicist who wants to clone a human: The agency will shut down anyone who tries without its permission. Richard Seed’s cloning plans have sparked a public outcry and a race by Congress and more than a dozen states to ban cloning. With the FDA filling what critics had called a regu latory vacuum, scientists say law makers should take more time to en sure vaguely worded anti-cloning bills do not also ban lifesaving med ical research. “It’s been a public and media assumption that there is nothing on the books that would even slow or stop Dr. Seed,’’ Carl Feldbaum of the Biotechnology Industry Or ganization, which represents biotechnologists involved in cloning research, said. FDA inter vention “creates at least some breathing space.” FDA investigators plan to make clear to Seed that federal regula tions require he file for FDA ap proval to attempt cloning — per mission highly unlikely. “We’re not only able to move, we’re prepared to move,” said Dr. Michael Friedman, FDA’s acting commissioner, noting the agency can go to court to stop unautho rized cloning attempts. “The scientific issues are far from clear and... there are some sig nificant ethical concerns that have to be dealt with,” Friedman said, noting that the first cloning success — the Scottish sheep Dolly — took 277 tries. For safety reasons, “we’re more interested in the 277 failures than in the success.” i “The scientific ■■■■■■■■I issues are far from clear and...there are some significant ethical concerns that j have to be dealt with” MICHAEL FRIEDMAN FDA ACTING COMMISSIONER Seed did not return a call for comment, but has said he plans to clone a person within 18 months. A physicist, Seed has no med ical degree, no laboratory backing and little money, so scientists are not taking him seriously. But President Clinton urged Congress to ban human cloning, congres sional leaders have pledged quick action after they return next week, and bills are pouring into state legislatures. Scientists say broadly worded bills already pending in Congress would ban cloning-related research that could one day grow replace ment organs, mend spinal-cord in juries and better treat infertility. The key, they say, is banning only baby making by cloning. “One man who’s on the fringe has drawn a lot of attention in Washing ton and state capitals,” Dr. Benjamin Younger of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine said. “If they are going to do this, come up with legislation that bans cloning but pro tects research.” But scientists' biggest alarm came from Florida, where a bill proposed making any cloning of human DNA a felony — even though cloning hu man genetic material is standard practice in genetics research, the making of critical medicines and even police DNA fingerprinting. The bill was withdrawn after its authors “realized this would have stopped biomedical research in Florida in its tracks,” Feldbaum said. After Dolly’s creation last year. Clinton proposed a narrow ban: a five-year moratorium on creating humans through “somatic cell nu clear transfer technology,” the Dol- ly method. That involves creating a preg nancy solely by replacing an egg cell’s nucleus with the nucleus of another cell. No lawmaker is yet sponsoring Clinton’s bill, and Congress didn't act last year because few members then thought human cloning at tempts were close. GOP gives education leading role in Congress’ 1998 agenda WASHINGTON (AP) — Hoping to wrest the offen sive from President Clinton for this congressional election year, Senate Republicans are ready to unveil an education package that includes an initiative to boost reading skills and $2.6 billion in tax breaks for parents who save for private school tuition. The multibillion-dollar plan will get a starring role in the congressional leadership’s agenda for the compact 1998 session, which begins next week. With the entire House and one- third of the Senate facing re-election in November, Republicans also plan to focus on cutting taxes, revamping the unpopular Internal Revenue Ser- vice, fighting illegal drugs and an ac- | t celerated effort to balance the budget this year or next. When Senate GOP leaders an nounce their education proposal at a Gingrich Tuesday news conference, it will be one of the rare times they have grabbed for the spotlight since Congress adjourned in mid-November. Since then, Clinton has dominated with an- W nouncements that he plans to balance the budget next year, expand access to Medicare and child care and other initiatives. Senate Majority Leader Trent lx>tt. R-Miss., tried to turn that to his advantage Sunday, saying on CNN's “Late Edition” that he cannot see how to balance the budget this year “with all these proposed increased spending initiatives” from Clinton. 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