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Page 14 • Thursday, September 3, 1998 N ation Battalion The morning after FDA approves sale of emergency contraceptive pills to be taken ni'PA XTr "” TA x ’ 1 ' AT ^ first time, allows a pharmaceutical sylvania. “Women now have more pean women btf • Company to advertise and to sell nntinn« and hav/#> Inna m <jrrilv»d fnr vpm i-Viociimm special morning-after packets that Taking the DAT this October ? reasons you should take The Princeton Review HOW 1 Four Full-length, Proctored Diags No one else gives you more opportunities to test your wits against the exam under realistic testing conditions. Current DAT Materials The Princeton Review's materials are based solely on DATs givenjn the last year. Learn the DAT as it is now, not as it was five years ago. Classes start wts CaU todaV\ THE PRINCETON REVIEW 409.696.9099 www.review.com The Princeton Review is not associated with NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration to day allowed the first-ever sales and marketing of a kit of emergency contraceptive pills that women can take the morning after unprotected sex to prevent pregnancy. The PREVEN kits will be avail able by prescription by the end of September, said Roderick Macken zie, chairman and founder of Gy- netics Inc. of Somerville, N.J., which won the first approval to ad vertise and sell morning-after pills. The FDA has long told women, and doctors, how to use standard birth control pills in this manner, and the agency last year gave out specific information about which pills and dosages were effective as contraception up to 72 hours after unprotected sex. But today’s approval, for the “It's not only a scientific but an ethical advance ” — Arthur Caplan Director, Center for Bioethics University of Pennsylvania women can keep in their medicine cabinets. “It’s not only a scientific but an ethical advance,” said Arthur Ca plan, director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Penn sylvania. “Women now have more options, and have long deserved to have the rights to prevent un planned pregnancies.” Anti-abortion groups, however, have criticized the method. The morning-after pills are dif ferent from RU-486, the French abortion pill, which actually ends a pregnancy several weeks after it has begun. Gynetics had said the company would market the emergency kit last year, becoming the first U.S. company to take action since the FDA approved using contraceptive pills for emergency birth control. In February 1997, the FDA said six brands of birth control pills were safe and effective as morn ing-after pills, the first federal ac knowledgment of the emergency birth control method that Euro pean women ;cribed for years Until now, howt live manufacturers sell the form of e: control here, cinnj political fears. The pills preve: lation, experts sa;: pills could possibi tilized egg fromiir uterine wall sotb into an embryo. If an embryo is; ed and growing, tb pills will have no with RU-486. The FDA said ft fective 75 percen: consists of taking) ceptive pills witto protected sex, an Late selling ends stock market rebo NEW YORK (AP) — A late bout of selling today cut short the Dow in dustrial’s bid to extend Tuesday’s re bound from August’s scary selloff. The Dow Jones industrial aver age, down 512.61 on Monday and up 288.23 Tuesday, fell 45.06 to close at 7,782.37. The average of 30 blue chips had been holding onto gains until the final minutes of trading. At one point, the Dow was up as much as 125.13 at 7,952.56, or 44 points above where it began the year, at 7,908.25. Some broader indicators rose, however, including the Nasdaq composite index, which added to Tuesday’s record point gain. Tliesday’s 288-point rise was the second-biggest daily point gain ever for the Dow and came on record trading of more than 1.2 billion shares on the New York Stock Ex change. TVading was heavy today, but volume of 891.6 million was well below Tliesday’s frantic pace, when the Dow gained 3.8 percent. Student Life Orientation Room 311 YMCA 843-3826 Alcohol & Drug Education Programs Room 222 Beutel Health Center 845-0280 Gender Issues Education Services Room 211A YMCA 845-1107 Student Conflict Resolution Services Room 201 YMCA 847-7272 Texas A&M University WELCOME BACK TO AGGIELAND, A COMMUNITY OF RESPECT! Now that you’re finally here, give us a call if you need anything, or just to say hi - we’d love to talk to you. We hope you have a spectacular year! VGe cannot live only for ourselves. A. thousand fibers connect us... and along these fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects. ” —Herman Melville— Today’s decline left the Dow 16.7 percent below its record of 9,337.97 set on July 17. TVading was a bit calmer today than during the past two sessions, which were buffeted by huge swings. At its low of the day, the Dow was off 59.73 points, or 185 points below its high for the day. In con trast, Tuesday’s turbulent session at one stretch of trading had the Dow rocket almost 588 points from its low point to its high point. Wall Street’s dramatic rebound Tuesday also sent Asian and Eu ropean stocks rising today, but some analysts had wondered whether the rallies could be sus tained against a gloomy outlook in many economies. New York traders were slow to recognize the potential fallout from the financial troubles in Asia and Russia, and uncertainty might hang on for some time in markets that now lack any firm sense of di rection, said Jeremy Batstone, an analyst at NatWest Stockbrokers in London. "Sentiment is finally beginning to crack," Batstone said. "The mar ket is beginning to wake up." President Clinton sought to reas sure investors during a joint Moscow news conference today with Russian President Boris Yeltsin. “The volatility in the world mar kets, including in our stock market, I think is to be expected under these circumstances," Clinton said. "The right thing to do is to try to restore growth in the economies of the world where there isn’t enough growth.” Clinton said "America must maintain a leadership role of ac tive involvement.” Some investors perceived the re cent price drops as good opportuni ties to buy quality stocks, analysts said, but many figured the markets are a risky proposition at present. In Tokyo, the 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average rose 6.99 points, or 0.05 percent, for a close of Tracking the Dow the summe is the Tap, < ednesdays llwinkles, c .ends, Nort and this se it is high for culture, lis semest ie first tin Jpera and )rming Art torial Stud I the stride m fee to a tration. he new op s an exciti t new way ting arts, he option, ents’ fees c vs student: r advance i tickets to aances of tl he fee opt ides stride ?t voucher n for ticke armances /ear. 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