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Representatives from Lexicon Genetics Incorporated will be hosting
an informational meeting on Monday, March 4 at 5:30 pm in Rudder
Tower, room 510. Life Sciences and Veterinary Medicine graduates
and undergraduates who will be available for full time employment
in 2002 are encouraged to attend.
Lexicon Genetics Incorporated is a bio-pharmaceutical company
located in The Woodlands, Texas. Through the combination of
Lexicon's novel in vivo validated drug targets, and the innovative
drug discovery chemistry at Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, we have
established a superior position from which to rapidly implement an
integrated gene-to-lead drug discovery platform.
Presently, we have career opportunities for Scientists, Research
Associates and Research Assistants in several departments. For
additional information on our company and available full time
opportunities, please visit our website at www.lexicon-
genetics.com.
Students interested in attending this informational meeting are
encouraged to RSVPto mvoigt@lexgen.com.
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INTERNATIOj
THE BATM
Permanent detentioi
center being built
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba
(AP) — Navy workers hammered and hoisted
wooden planks Wednesday, building the first units
of a pemianent detention facility at the U.S. base
for hundreds of prisoners in the war on terrorism.
“The good news is that we have received...con
gressional authority to proceed on the detention
and security facilities,” Marine Brig. Gen.
Michael Lehnert, who is in charge of the detention
mission, said Wednesday.
Naval construction workers w'ere building 16-
by-32 feet wooden huts. The permanent prison
will have 75 of them for military guards; a large
white recreation tent and nine facilities w ith show-
will be ventilated, but not air conditioned
will also be a concrete deck where inm;
stretch and exercise.
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rums!: 4
Tuesday U.S. interrogations of al-Qa
Taliban prisoners have begun focusing0
— if any - of the detainees being held
Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay ma\ he
a U.S. military tribunal.
“Some may very well be,” he said,
was to get ready and be prepared," RunK
adding that he would be ready soon.
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) —
Despite a ban on cultivation of
opium poppies by Afghanistan's
new' interim government, poppies
have started blooming every
where and the country remains a
key supplier of heroin, the U.S.
member of the International
Narcotics Control Board says.
Herbert Okun said
Afghanistan’s leader Hamid
Karzai is not to blame because
Afghan farmers need to grow
something to survive and at the
moment there are not any alter
natives to poppy production.
“We need to wean the peas
ants of Afghanistan away from
growing the opium poppy so
crop substitution is required,” he
told a news conference on
Tuesday. “It has to be serious
and it has to be sustained. We
hope it will happen soon, and
we hope it will be successful.”
The Vienna-based board has
called on the U.N. Security
Council to promote U.N. pro
grams that would substitute
crops like wheat, cotton and
sorghum for poppies, and to
assist Afghanistan in preventing
production and trafficking in
opium and heroin.
We need to wean
the peasants of
Afghanistan away
from growing opium
poppy so crop
substitution is
required.
— Herbert Okun
International Narcotics
Control Board
Afghanistan became the
world’s leading source of opium,
from which heroin and morphine
are produced, in the early 1990s
and remained so under the
Taliban that took powtnl
and was ousted by IM
forces late last \c,ir. AiH
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cent as some claim. (X.
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for them." he said.
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markets primarily
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never a drug stizs
Afghanistan — not ok
case of a recorded <
heroin,” he added at t'
conference to launch ik
annual report.
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made available frotri
stocks” in Afghanis®
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on the United States.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan
does not object to handing the chief suspect in
the abduction and killing of Wb// Street Journal
reporter Daniel Pearl to the United States, but
certain legal issues must be resolved first, a
high-ranking Pakistani diplomat told The
Associated Press on Wednesday.
“We have no objections” to confessed kid
napper Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh being hand
ed over, said the diplomat, who spoke on condi
tion of anonymity.
The diplomat said Pakistan is considering
whether to first try Saeed here before to
him over. He said Saeed could be transfe'
American custody by classifying him ass
batant fighting against the U.S. war on ter:
thus allowing the two countries to hyps
issue of extradition. The United State
Pakistan have no clear extradition treaty.
Pakistani Interior Minister Moinuddin:
vowed Wednesday to bring Pearl’s killer
tice, and said allegations about a link to
Saeed and Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intel!
agency were “malicious and wrong propas-
Th ere's Something
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Funnyman
Michel
Lauziere
That something is comic genius! Equal parts musician, inventor, acrobat,
juggler, and, of course, comedian, Lauziere will delight OPAS JR audiences
this Saturday with his hilarious one man show. In addition to the stunt you
see in this photo (yes, his body is inside a balloon), one of Lauziere's many
other gags includes performing classical and popular music with his famous
suit of horns. If that doesn't entice you to get a ticket, nothing will!
FUNNYMAN MICHEL LAUZIERE
Sun, March 3 • 2 PM & 4 PM
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