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With amenities to facilitate studying, relaxing and having fun, The Tradition provides a comfortable environment that encourages students to make the most of their college experience. A T radition NORTHGATE A donn with a difference, 301 Church Ave., College Station, Texas 77840 979-268-9000 Toll Free: 866-268-DORM www.traditiondorm.com SCIENCE THE BATTALION California faults could prodiAfC bigger earthquake than expectfor LOS ANGELES (AP) — Faults buried deep beneath the streets of California could produce larger earthquakes than previously thought, say researchers who studied India’s recent 7.7-magnitude quake. The type of fault that produced the deadly Jan. 26 quake — a blind- thrust fault — is also found in Cali fornia, including at least one running directly beneath the skyscrapers of downtown Los Angeles. A group that assesses the state’s earthquake potential previously as sumed Southern California’s blind- thrust faults weren’t capable of pro ducing earthquakes greater than magnitude 7.3. But its members said Tuesday they are now questioning that ceiling after studying the India quake, which left more than 19,000 people dead. The difference between the two measures is significant: A magnitude 7.7 earthquake releases about 2.5 times more energy than a 7.3 quake. By comparison, the 1989 earth quake that killed 67 people and caused $7 billion in damage in the San Francisco area registered 7.1. The 1994 Northridge quake, linked to a blind-thrust fault near Los An geles, registered 6.7. “It sort of raises the bar for what the maximum earthquake detection threshold is for blind-thrust faults,” said William Lettis, an earthquake haz ard consultant and member of the re search team sponsored by the Nation al Science Foundation and the Earthquake Engineering Research In stitute. “As a geologist, can you go out and easily find a fault that will produce a future 7.7 earthquake? The answer is no, and that’s an important lesson.” By definition, blind-thrust faults re main buried and do not break the sur face of the ground, making them more difficult to map. The India earthquake ruptured at a depth of about 12 miles. Preliminary findings from India suggests similarly large earthquakes could occur in areas of California where blind-thrust faults exist — and that those earthquakes could be much larger than anticipated. “The question here is, could an earthquake like this happen in Cali fornia? And if it could — and I am not saying it can — if it could, the fact that it did not break the surface could potentially be of great concern,” said Jonathan Stewart,anas®; DETRCZ3 sor of civil engineering: he Univej versity of California all. an does Earthquakes alongttaffinnativ e which one side movesovrdmission s as if on a ramp, tendtoac^medy the tically, which can desi|$cfiminat buildings and other ridge has n Quakes along strike-slipii U S. C as the San Andreas fail'atrick D u • move horizontally. j Decern Lettis cautioned thainchoofs urn are still studying thenalt iissions si dia earthquake and said!ince 1999, not be a direct analog ini jonkl way States to its tectonicseti erJity. Th may more closely resembl:H| earthquakes in 1811 and the New Madrid fault ii than any earthquake in Cat* :— i - Regardless, theblind-tb Lonf///u known to exist remainat j n i V ersity ifornia, said Thomas He Galley. The lessor of engineering se owart i gr the California Institutec:'5 ta q on g\. I le is not affiliated^:; . a j sc co that studied the Indiaea: yomen h “1 don’t think wer;. nen t s .” what the largest earthquai: Tj-, e U vva could happen on a blind :-ecognize under Los Angeles,” hesat&nen at eontributet _ _ _ - on car Scientists halt breast cancer spread in# (AP)—Scientists have figured out a key process by which breast cancer spreads to other organs, and they have successfully blocked it in mice. “The literature is littered with cures for cancer that worked in ani mals but haven't translated to hu mans,” said Jonathon Sedgwick, di rector of immunology at the DN AX Research Institute in Palo Alto, Calif. “But this has the potential to influence how we might think about treating cancer in the future.” The DNAX researchers found that pro.teins that normally help guide infection-fighting white blood cells to their targets also play a key role in breast cancer’s devas tating spread. They found that the proteins. called chemokines, are released in large amounts by the lymph nodes, bone marrow, lungs and liver. The chemokines then attract breast cancer cells circulating in the body. Those cells take root in the or gans and form new tumors. That explains why some organs become riddled with tumors in breast cancer patients, while other organs have few if any tumors, the researchers said. The team, led by Albert Zlotnik and Anja Muller in collaboration with researchers at the National Cancer Institute in Mexico City, studied human breast cancer cells and tissue from human lungs, lymph nodes, bone marrow and liver. They then took what they learned and used an antibody tosuppE interaction between dr'jE LECT I hiv.isi caiKiTiuniorce r ed into laboratory mice, j In mice treated with it Becaus body, the number of lung occurring was reduced 60 percent to mental Iss cent, with some mice dev; the Studei no tumors at all. tion (SGA All of the mice incom| sis semin; groups that received an ine: p.m. Ange antibody developed lungti tion awart The DNAX instituteisai sophomor of pharmaceutical maker L the semin: Plough Corp.’s research ami serve enerj The findings are “verjeM “We're and cim lead to additionalm Mcial/y on coveries, ” said Isaiah Hdlerdfl of cancer biology at the MD. ... son Cancer Institute in Hold Community . Continued from Page 5A school sent a copy of the posts to the principle. We did n’t hear from them again.” When people visiting the Bronze constantly harass or behave inappropriately, Gaston said, the members will trace the person’s Internet service provider and attempt to have the person’s Internet connection severed, “Just like any community, this can be dangerous or uncomfortable too,” she said. “In fact, sometimes it can feel even more dangerous because someone may seem to be invading even more so because he is doing it from the computer in your home. “The people in the community take this seriously, mostly because they have seen [harassing behavior] re ally affect people. So they use the law and the contract that people sign with their Internet service provider as protection.” There are times, however, when the definition of ap propriate comes into question. Gaston said that people often feel free to make ques tionable statements, saying that the right to free speech gives them the right to do so. Often, the statements are controversially removed. Differences between member’s geographical:] also sometimes create conflict.. “Sometimes, what you can say in the Unitei you can’t say in Germany,” she said. “Whatyou in Canada is sometimes not appropriate here. “For example, the age of consent is different, h one will say something about someone else’sdi and the father may end up calling the FBI.” Life after Buffy Gaston said she does not see the communityi any time soon, even after the show ends. “I expect a significant number of people tost: contact many years from now,” she said. “IfSts has taught us anything, it is that you canputast for a short period of time and people may gather about it until the end of time, and thereisaltt strong group here.” As for this type of cyber community becomk ^ popular as time goes on, Gaston said she foresees! I ations becoming more common as more people If, = the Internet. But there will never be another Buffy.