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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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