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The Battalion lassified i end to 0! with /ANTED r (Classified countinued from page ROOMMATES a sublease wanted for spring semester. 2bth duplex, on bus-route, $307/mo. +1/3bills. Call Michelle at 823-2823. ^■ng Married!! Need to sublease 1-bed in 3-bed duplt ■ Private bath, parking Sentrance. On bus-route. Willing to deal. Call Cayse 268-4308/ 774-3095. Eating for roommate to share 2bdrm/1bth townhouse with garage, $325/mo. +deposit, 1 futilities. Pets ok. [able Dec.20 693-4013. Rfcleeded Spring/ Summer 2bdrm/1.5bth 4-plex f1/2ult., bus route. 693-5424. JMMERDK; I Appicans ess a va: : :^Hommate needed for spring. 3-bedroom house, 1 - jrking, from campus. Call 680-1234 ■nemor,-. ,dabl373@unix.tamu.edu lommate needed for spring. 4bdrm/2bth, own room, .+1/4 bills. 268-8176. affftsui lommate needed spring'01 only. $299/mo+1/3bills, B'oute, W/D, 3bdrm/2bth. Call Travis 695-1882. ...imate needed spring semester 2bdrm/2bth on i|)lJS ' ,le on| y SI 80/mo +1/3bills. Call 696-9536 or |il coloneLwavey@hotmail.com. ommate needed spring/ summer. 3bdrm/3bth :ment, master bedroom, personal bath. $270/mo. +||3utilities. Jacob 822-8280. ’hone 5,4 ‘■' ■^■oommate wanted spring semester 2bdrm/2bth 4- Le rr, ° ^tex behind Hilton $289/mo +ult. 268-3280. —^Bommate, own bedroom with shared bath, 10-mins. campus, available immediately, $212.50/mo., he Sprr:;.: xyj mmes. 691-8106, Mustafa. directly a: ommates needed for spring semester /2bth house. $400/mo. +1/3bills. Call 693-9253. 1-bedroom available in 3bdrm/1.5bth house, walk to Dus, W/D, hot tub. 979-691-8206. roomie for spring+. Large 2bdrm w/fireplace, /mo. +1/2 electric. Call 823-4734. roommate wanted. Duplex off 2818, $280/mo lutll. 823-8682. Pets okay! fully furnished duplex, iy 777-1605. $275/mo. +utilities. Call 1 Spring E roommate needed for spring 4bdrm/2bth. NICE ISE lots of room. $300/mo Matt or Nate 680-9126. late roommate needed for spring. 3bdrm/2bth duplex. Hilable immediately. 696-4395 le- 4bdrm/2bth house close to campus, w/d. lO/mo.+1/4bills. 823-8718. pd roommate. Dexter Place Duplex. TAMU bus Great price. Contact Meike 512-825-2621 or ■693-2709. ROOMMATES Roommate needed for Spring. 2bdrm/1.5bth, w/d, back yard, $270/mo. +1/2bills. Call Kris 695-1174. Roommate needed Jan.-Aug. sublease. $250/mo. +1/3bills, w/d, on shuttle, available ASAP. 823-4206. Roommate needed to share 2/bdrm apartment in College Station. Prefers non-smoker, female. Call 695- 6616. Roommate needed, 3bdrm/2bth new trailer, Rolling Ridge Trailer Park, $225/mo. +%bills. 695-0420. Roommate wanted for Post Grad. C.S. house near TAMU, walk or bike, big yard, washer, hard-wood floors, CH&A. Lisa 979-693-7115. Roommate wanted. 2bdrm/1.5bth townhome near cam pus, $315/mo. +1/3util. Includes on-site w/d. For more info, call 485-8961. Roommate wanted. 3bdrm/2bth on shuttle $230/mo +1/4bills Call 779-3369 Roommate wanted. 4bdrm/2bth, fully furnished, w/d, on bus route, fitness center, 2-pools, computer lab, $315/mo. +1/4utilities. 7648999. Spring &Summer sublease 4bdrm/2bth furnished, University Commons Apts, $321/mo. Call 695-0864. Spring sublease, $275/mo., master bedroom, own bath room+1/3bills. Call 696-1394. SERVICES AAA Texas Defensive Driving. Lots-of-fun, Laugh-a-lotM Ticket dismissal/insurance discount. M-T(6pm-9pm), W-Th(6pm-9pm), Fri.&Sat- Fri(6pm-8pm) &Sat(10am- 2:30pm), Sat(8am-2:30pm). Inside BankofAmerica. Walk-ins welcome. $25/cash. Lowest price allowed by law. 111-Univ. Dr., Ste.217. 846-6117. Show-up 30/min. early. (CP-0017). GRE Mastery Course $245. Classes start frequently throughout the year. This course is the best and most affordable way to prepare for the GRE. Contact us at 979-764-0080 or www.masterycourse.com Looking for a place to live? www.housing101.net... Your move off campus! 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Cash, Check, Visa, MasterCard, Discover and American Express accepted. Tuesday, December 5, 2000 NEWS THE BATTALION Page 5B Drug war focuses on regional issues WASHINGTON (AP) — With cocaine use waning, authorities waged the war on drugs this year with strategies tailored to the region al battlegrounds: Marijuana in the Appalachian states, methampheta- mine in the Rocky Mountains, co caine in South Florida. “There is no longer any one drug that consumes America as cocaine did in the 1980s,” said Barry McCaffrey, director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. “We need to be ready to defend against emerging threats of a wide variety by region, as well as increas ingly sophisticated changes in the op erations of drug traffickers,” he said. McCaffrey’s prepared remarks accompanied his annual report on drug threats and strategies, to be re leased Tuesday. It outlines the government’s war on drugs in 26 “High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas,” where drug man ufacturing and sales flourish and where federal, state and local law en forcement agencies cooperate. HID- TA spent more than $191 million in fiscal year 2000, up from nearly $ 187 million the previous year. McCaffrey reported that the co operating agencies destroyed $787 million worth of marijuana in Ken tucky last year, a value greater than the state’s tobacco crop. Authorities eradicated another $700 million in Tennessee and West Virginia. They also battled against “a gen eral judicial sentiment within some of the state judicial circuits that traf ficking marijuana was a less serious offense than trafficking other sub stances.” Marijuana is also the most preva lent illegal drug in the Atlanta area, but cocaine, methamphetamine and hero in are also widespread, the report said. Heroin is the principal problem in central Florida, though the region is also favored by drug traffickers be cause of its air, land and sea trans portation networks. Hawaii, Hous ton, Los Angeles, New York and the Gulf Coast are other hot spots for drug smugglers. The New England states are see ing “unprecedented” increases in heroin-related deaths and overdoses, according to the report. The cen tral California valleys are favorite lo cations for methamphetamine labs, which are proliferating at an “alarm ing” rate, the report warns. The re gion’s two international airports, hun dreds of private airstrips and interstate highways make it a clearinghouse for movement of all types of drugs. Chicago remains another “major distribution hub of narcotics and oth er controlled substances for the entire heartland of the United States.” Mexican, Colombian and Niger ian drug cartels distribute drugs throughout the city and the entire Midwest. Ecstasy and other “club drugs” are growing in popularity among suburban residents. Experimental drug causing excitement for cancer doctors SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A leukemia drug that brought cancer into re mission in most patients in clinical trials is generating extraordinary excite ment among cancer specialists and patients as a gentler, more effective treat ment that may mean cancer researchers are on the right track. “This drug is a major breakthrough. It will change the way we treat pa tients with CML,” said Dr. Hagop Kantarjian, who oversees trials of the drug at the MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. In manufacturer-financed clinical trials, more than 90 percent of patients in the first phase of chronic myeloid leukemia saw their cancer go into re mission within the first six months of taking the pill, according to results pre sented Monday at the American Society of Hematology convention. The drug also appears to be effective in patients in more advanced phas es. A study of patients in the second phase of the disease showed more than 90 percent responded positively to treatment, and in 63 percent, the cancer went into remission. The trials involved 530 first-phase and 230 second-phase The success of early trials of No vartis AG-manufactured drug STI- 571, or Glivec, has propelled re searchers to test the drug on almost 3,000 patients around the world; CML affects about 10,000 adults each year. Anyone diagnosed with leukemia should make every effort to get the new pill, said Edward Benz, president of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute at Harvard Medical School, who was not involved in the research. “This is not a miracle drug,” he said, but it is a model for future cancer study because it targets the cause of the disease without damaging other cells. CML, caused by an abnormal protein that is the product of an abnormal chromosome, leads to a huge increase in the number of white blood cells in the body, which can interfere with the functioning of other organs. Glivec blocks a signal that protein sends out and effectively prevents the abnormal growth and production of other cancerous cells. “The whole of cancer research has been to identify the differences between cancer cells and normal cells. That’s been the goal of cancer research and here it is,” said Brian Druker, an Oregon Health Sciences University re searcher who was the drug’s principal developer. “I view it as a new era of cancer therapeutics. It’s the most effective treatment we know of for CML.” Researchers chose CML because they knew about the abnormal chromo some and its abnormal protein. They are hoping to transfer the model — tar geting a specific abnormality with minimal effect on healthy tissue — to oth er cancers, but first they must isolate those cancers’ causes. “This drug is a major break through.” — Dr. Hagop Kantarjian MD Anderson Cancer Center DON'T FORGET! Texas A&M vs Texas GT Bicycle Airshow @ Halftime January 17 • Wednesday 8:30 p.m. Want A Quickie Cuss? Squeeze in one of our Winter Term courses DURING YOUR HOLIDAY. • Microsoft Networking •Intro to Computers •App. Problem Solving •American Literature •College Algebra •Shooting/Firearms • Intro to Psychology • Intro to Sociology •Intro Speech Communication ■ CedaryalleyCollege You're Closer Than You Think 3030 N. Dallas Ave. • Lancaster, TX 75134 www.dcccd.edu/cvc/ CedarValley@dcccd.edu 972.860.8201 Thanks to the ladies of Delia Gamma and OF'' Alpha Kappa Alpha for sponsoring a holiday parly benefiting the teens from Sheltering Arms. The Perfect Gifts for Your Aggie Graduation or Christmas! 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