CAMR LONGHORN
Inks Lake and Indian Springs
LOOKING FOR: Counselors, Nurses, Nursing Assistants, Office & Photographers
Want a
REWARDING
summer job?
For June, July,
August?
1999
1st Term: May 29-June 12
2nd Term: June 12-July 3
3rd Term: July 3-July 24
4rd Term: July 24-Aug. 7
We will be interviewing Tuesday, February 2nd
11:00a.m. - 2:00p.m., table in MSG
3:30 - 5:00p.m., Community Center, 1300 George Bush Dr.
The Executive Lecture Series informational:
Eilmi
Wed. Feb. 3,1999
MSC 203
CREATE THE TECHNOLOGY THAT COMMANDS
THE WORLD’S LARGEST ATTENTION SPAN
We’re among Silicon Valley’s “Fast 50 Companies,” and
have the number one slot in the global hospitality
entertainment and information services market. Right
now, our proprietary programming, software technology,
and services are accessed in nearly a million rooms in
some of the world’s most prestigious hotels. Now you
can join us as we develop new breakthroughs in inter
active services such as digital on-demand movies, video
games, information services and Internet access. Bring
us your engineering creativity and we’ll give you the
environment and freedom you need to deliver the
industries most cutting-edge applications.
We have the following full-time positions available:
Jr. Software Engineers
Jr. Multimedia Designers
Advanced Technology Engineers
Information Session Monday, March 8
5:30 p.m. - 6:45 p.m., Rudder 507.
(stop by for pizza and refreshments)
On-Campus Interviews Tuesday, March 9
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For job descriptions and more information about
OnCommand Corporation, visit the Career Center
or contact Robert DeMartini at 408-360-4884. Fax:
408-360-4666. E-mail: employment@ocv.com.
All interested candidates must submit resumes to the
Career Center by Feb. 16, 1999 or to OnCommand
Corp. by Feb. 19, 1999
OnCommand Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer
Two World Class Companies.
LEADERS IN THE CO^MMUNITY.
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WHIlhV yf\ February* 25 and 26, 1999
POSITIONS: Marketing and Transportation Engineering *
"Co-ops and Health, Environment, and
Safety Co-ops
MAJORS: Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, -
Electrical Engineering, Agricultural
* Engineering, Industrial Engineering, ,
* Chemical Engineering anddSiffety
* Engineering
Contact Texas A&M’s Cooperative Education Ollice for additional information.
Visit our web site^t WWW.MARATHONTOM and WWW.MAPUCCOM
Marathon
Oil Company
MARATHON ASHLAND
Petroteom U<
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New gene treatment cures liver cirrhosis in ra
NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists wiped out liver
cirrhosis in rats by injecting their muscles with a
human gene, raising early hopes for a new treat
ment for people.
The gene made the rats pump out high quan
tities of a protein that promotes liver regeneration
while reducing cell death. That cleared up serious
cirrhosis in the animals, researchers reported.
A liver expert called the work exciting and said
such treatment might someday be able to prevent
cirrhosis in people at risk for it, and possibly re
verse the damage in patients who already have it.
Cirrhosis devastates the liver with widespread
scar tissue. It is caused most often by alcohol
abuse, but chronic viral hepatitis and other dis
eases can also create it. Severe cases cause liver
failure and can require a transplant.
About 25,000 Americans die from cirrhosis
every year, according to the National Institute of
Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.
The new work is reported in the February is
sue of the journal Nature Medicine by Dr. Jiro Fu-
jimoto of the Fiyogo College of Medicine in Nishi-
nomiya, Japan, and others.
There is no guarantee the treatment would
work in people. The researchers are studying it in
dogs and hope to get permission for human test
ing, Fujimoto said.
The treatment was based on a protein called
hepatocyte growth factor HGF. Previous work has
shown HGF can promote liver regeneration and
suppress cell death while blocking a second pro
tein that encourages scar formation.
The researchers created cirrhosis in the rats by
injecting them with a drug. Once cirrhosis was es
tablished, they injected some of the rats weekly
Internet search site offers
quick links to digital music
BOSTON (AP) — In a move that
could hamper the music industry’s
efforts to thwart Internet bootleg
gers, the popular Website Lycos
said Monday it is starting a new
search service that offers easy ac
cess to a half-million high quality
recordings.
The search service looks up ti
tles on the Internet that use a tech
nology called MP3, a method of en
coding music that allows computer
users to transfer an entire album
from a Website in about two hours
and listen it on a Walkman-like
player.
All a person has to do is type in
the name of an artist to find links
to MP3 files.
The proliferation of MP3 files on
the Web is a growing headache for
the recording industry, as many of
the songs are illegal copies made by
those who sell or give them away
online.
Lycos is mindful of the situation
but decided to offer its new search
service anyway, noting that it has
no way to determine the copyright
status of any site that its search en
gines discover.
“It’s certainly not our goal to
support the unauthorized distribu
tion of music,” said Brian Kali-
nowski, the company’s product
manager for multimedia. “Unfor
tunately, what we do is index and
catalog information.”
Illustrating the high demand
for digital music, Lycos said the
letters “MP3” are among the five
most frequent search phrases
asked for on the Lycos.com site
and on hotbot.com, another
search engine operated by the
company.
Some budding musicians use it
to market their songs directly to
consumers, bypassing agents,
record companies and distributors
by putting audio files on their own
Websites.
Some record companies and es
tablished artists offer free samples
online to drum up interest in their
music.
But bootleggers also use MP3,
and they have flooded the Inter
net with illegally distributed mu
sic, much of it copied directly
from CDs.
“It has become associated
with piracy because it’s a simple
and free way to distribute music,”
said Nicholas DiGiacomo, a vice
president of Scient Corporation, a
consulting firm that has worked
with the Recording Industry As
sociation of America. “You look
out there and there is a genera
tion of people that think wrongly
that music is free.”
One killed, several i
in explosion at Ford plilf;;
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“Most people don’t know how technological India is,” Jayaram said.
“We want to reach out to the American audience and make sure people
see past our traditional side.”
The Colombian Student Association will be collecting food, medicine,
clothes and toiletries until Feb. 3 for earthquake victims devastated in Ar
menia. Supplies can be dropped off at 107 Bizzell Hall West, 154 Bizzell
Hall East and Saint Mary’s Catholic Church in College Station.
Pedro Padilla, president of the Venezuelan Student Association and a
junior industrial engineering major, and Emiliano Roman, president of
the Costa Rican Student Association and a sophomore business admin
istration major, said they promise big surprises as far as events go for the
DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — An
explosion and fire Monday at a
power station for a Ford Motor Co.
plant killed one worker and in
jured several others as crews bat
tled the blaze for hours.
Three workers were unac
counted for, the company said.
“It’s awful,” Chairman
William Clay Ford Jr. said.
“Everyone who works at Ford is
an extended member of the fami
ly. This is the worst day of my
life.”
Fire broke out about 1 p.m. at
the coal-fired plant at Ford’s huge
Rouge River Complex.
The plant produces electricity
for the entire complex. It gener
ates enough power to serve a city
the size of Boston, Ford
spokesman Michael Vaughn said.
Hours after the fire began,
thick smoke and flames were still
visible from the building.
Oakwood Hospital treated 11
patients from the fire and trans
ferred 10 others elsewhere because
of the severity of their burns, said
Dr. Gary Christopher, director of
emergency services at Oakwood.
Of those treated at Oakwood,
six to eight had severe burns over
60 percent to 80 percent of their
bodies.
“Several of these gentlemen
were thrown by the blast and suf
fered various head injuries,”
Christopher said.
Garden City Hospital received
one patient, public relations di
rector Terry Carroll said. Universi-
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