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Attn Ad# 1476 6700 Hollister or 200 Quality Circle Houston, TX 77040 College Station, TX 77845 www.universalcomputersys.com UCS hires non-tobacco users only UCS NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Federal wildlife officials say they are drafting a proposal to take the brown pelican off the endangered species list in Louisiana — the Pelican State — and Texas, some 40 years after the bird was nearly wiped out by DDT. In the spring, more than 16,000 pairs of the big bird are expected to nest on Louisiana’s barrier islands, where 1,276 fledglings imported from Florida replaced the flocks that crowded the coast in the first half of the last century. “It’s really pretty neat, the way they’ve done so well,” said Tom Hess, the state biologist in charge of Louisiana’s nesting census. Last year, he said, 16,405 nesting pairs produced 34,641 young, compared with 13,766 pairs and 22,650 fledglings in 2000. In Texas, 2,400 pairs nested last year. While wildlife officials are seeking to have the birds removed from the federal endangered list in both states, Edith Ersling of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service office in Clear Lake, Texas, said similar proposals have been pushed aside by more urgent concerns. Like many other birds, pelicans were almost wiped out by the pesticide DDT. which caused them to lay eggs with shells too thin to protect developing embryos. By the middle of the 20th century, the only sustainable populations were in Florida, where the first national wildlife refuge was created in 1903 on Pelican Island. In 1968 — six years after Louisiana’s last wild nest had been found and four years before DDT was banned — the state began bringing fledglings in from Florida. Between then and 1980, Hess said, 1,276 fledglings were released at three sites. State workers went out every day and fed the birds until they could fly and catch their own food. By then, the islands*: their home. From 1984 to 1986, fledglings dev ed from those birds were taken (■ Queen Bess Island, one of the ■ colonies, to other areas. Twenty years ago, they were a rarev. Now' you can see one or more almost, time you cross the Lake Pontcharr Causeway or take a ferry across Mississippi. Scores crowd breakwater the lake’s north shore. In 1998, Hurricane Georges rippe: Louisiana’s barrier islands. The ? count the next year dropped by air half, but rebounded. “It’s not because the birds wereki it’s just because they’re very tradition: they like to go back to the same placo after year,” said Janies Harris, chief b gist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Sen. seven refuges in southeast Louisiana. Scientists to use processing power for anthrax research I WASH IN investigators ■onday for auditor whc accounting . 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This effort is being launched Tuesday to help Oxford University researchers find potential ways to treat anthrax that is beyond the stage at which antibiotics can work. It comes as fighting anthrax and other agents of bioterrorism has become an international priority. The project is based on the premise that the average personal computer uses between 13 per cent and 18 percent of its processing power at any given time. Like Napster, it employs “peer-to- peer” technology, in which millions of computers can share files over the Internet. Participants download a screen-saver that runs whenever their computers have resources to spare, and uses that power to perform computa tions for the project. When the user connects to the Internet, the computer sends data back to a central hub and gets another assignment. The company that designed the program, United Devices Inc. of Austin, Texas, promises that no personal information on participants’ PCs can be compromised while they take part. (he that :ins - uue s the anthrax - which are > after bind- With enough participants, the project givi researchers I0 times more power than the world best supercomputer, said Graham Richard Oxford professor leading the study. “The screen-saver doesn't cost you anything, and at least you’re taking part in something, adding your bit,” he said. Scientists have discovered toxin is made up of three prol not toxic on their own but bec< ing together. The Oxford scientists want to scan 3.5 billion molecular compounds to see if any can block the process and keep the (oxin from reproducing. The results, which could serve as blueprints for late-stage anthrax drugs, will be turned over to the U.S. and British governments. Richards said. The project is funded by Intel Corp. and Microsoft Corp. and supported by the National Foundation for Cancer Research. A similar program launched last April, to help Richards’ team find a molecule that might coun teract a protein involved in the growth of leukemia, is harnessing the power of L3 million PCs around the world. “We’re now in a new era of computing direct ed at improving the quality of life.” said Pat Gelsinger. chief technology officer at Santa Clara-based Intel. Half-Priced History! Cut-Rate Chemistry! Bargain Biology! Earn credit hours that transfer Four-week Credit Classes .r** ■£* S % # M m Classes begin February 11 Houston Community College System is offering discounted tuition on select courses offered at certain locations throughout the system as part of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board's Reduced Tuition Pilot Program made possible by the Texas Legislature's passage ofHB 1465. For a complete listing of reduced tuition classes, pick up a Spring 2002 Class Schedule or call 713-718-2000. Register Today for Reduced Tuition Classes! 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