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Get information & take a confidential screening test. Anxiety Disorders Screening will be from 3:00-4:00 in MSC 226. STUDENT COUNSELING SERVICE Texas A&M University Sponsored by the Student Counseling Service. The Student Counseling Service is a department in the Division of Student Affairs. 2 MILLION INVESTORS. 80 YEARS’ EXPERIENCE. 1 WEIRD NAME. TIAA-CREF has a long history of managing portfolios for the world’s sharpest minds. Contact us for ideas, strategies, and, at the very least, proper pronunciation. 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I’ll still be glad for the hands on work that I've done here already.” Cruse did not have enough information to comment on the merger, but she said any fears she might have about it con cern the area’s technological environment. “Bryan-College Station is constantly trying to become a more technological environ ment,” Cruse said. “It’s an excit ing program.” Cruse added the Center's five years in Bryan have already impacted the area’s technologi cal work. The Center will move from Bryan to a new building in Research Park on A&M’s West Campus in February, Cruse said. The merger, approved unani mously by both companies' boards, allows for Compaq shareholders to receive 0.6325 of a newly issued HP share for each share of Compaq. Investors who own HP shares will own 64 percent of the new comp: while Compaq shareholders! own approximately 36 perce: Five Compaq directors! join the board of directorso: new HP when the merge closed. Carly Fiorina. Chair and CEO of HP. will retair title in the new HP. Mic Capellas. Compaq chairman chief executive officer, wil the new HP’s president. The merger creates an billion technology leaa expected to rank firsi servers, imaging and prin and access devices like pen al computers and hani devices. Currid said. Taliban Continued from Page 1 Ovaries faxed to news organizations in Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad. Muslims everywhere, it said, “should prepare for jihad (holy war), and by the grace of God, victory will be Islam's.” Later, the Taliban’s leader. Mullah Mohammed Omar, appealed to Americans to “be wise” and urged Washington to reconsider its policies toward Islamic countries, as well as its next move. His statement also was faxed to news organizations in Islamabad. In the two weeks since sui cide attackers used hijacked planes to topple the twin towers of the World Trade Center and smash a wing of the Pentagon, many Islamic nations have agreed to support the emerging U.S.-led anti-terror coalition. But the prospect of American retaliation against Afghanistan has stirred anger in much of the Muslim world. In a drumbeat of rhetoric, bin Laden and his Afghan hosts have sought to exacerbate anti- American sentiment and portray the showdown over the exiled Saudi millionaire as a battle between the West and Islam. American and European offi cials, including President Bush, have worked equally hard to counter that view. Continued from Pay Oktay said the procedure could potentially benefit theestio B ed 40,000 to 5(),0(X) U.S. women diagnosed annually with cane; during reproductive years, who may require chemotherap) radiation that can damage the ovaries. The tissue could removed before treatment begins, then implanted in the araali chemotherapy has finished and kept out of the way of radiaw Thousands of others who take sterility-inducing drugs fori merits such as lupus and rheumatoid arthritis also could po*;' tially benefit, Oktay said. If pregnancy were attempted, it would be through in-vitrofc tilization, and eggs would be retrieved in a simple precede through a syringe, similar to drawing blood, he said. Other attempts at preserving fertility include freezingpatien: unfertilized eggs, but only a few such cases have resultediim cessful pregnancies. Whether tissue implants will provemoi successful is unknown, said Dr. William Keye. directorofrei ductive endocrinology at William Beaumont Hospital Oak. Mich. Some coup sharing good weekend, whil from class to t significant oth lives. Students ships may not like other cou same benefits c willing to worl Diana Song the University at college last summer to be i “Long-distar can be healthy, are insecure ab( Song said. “TT Still, Keye called the research "a pretty unique and e# new development.” “It’s certainly an important step forward in our understar: of this whole process,” Keye said. A few hundred women nationwide already have had owi tissue removed and frozen before undergoing cancer treats', hoping that a medical advance will allow them to use itsomed to become pregnant, said Dr. Michael R. Soules, presidentofii American Society for Reproductive Medicine. Soules said it is uncertain how long implanted tissue wil tinue to function. He noted that while Oktay’s patients show tioning for more than a year so far, their tissue was never fit®’ a procedure that could “traumatize” the tissue and make loot term success more doubtful. 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