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Honors Week
April 8-13, 2002
Celebrate Honors at Texas A&M University!
Schedule of Activities
Forum: The Effect of 9/11 on the American Community
6-7:30 pm - Rudder Tower 401
Pizza provided. Bring your appetite and your opinions.
Future of Higher Education Lecture Series
Dr. Peter Bishop:
“Forces Affecting the Future of Education”
7:00 pm - MSC 201
Peace Corps - talk to a former volunteer and Aggie
Kimmi McMinn
8:30 pm - Clements Hall Conference Room
Open to the public
Lechner Lecture Series:
Craig Dupen: “The Electoral College”
7:30 pm - Lechner Hall Seminar Room
Open to the public
Open House - 9:00-11:00 am -101 Acad.
Drop by for donuts and coffee
Register fora,
April 10:
April 11:
April 12:
Honors Day - wear an Honors Shirt
Rudder Fountain from 12:00-1:00 PM
Come see what we’re up to!
Honors Week is sponsored by the University Honors Program
Wednesday, April 3, 2002
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THE BATTALIO
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at a display regarding accident avoidance displayed by Hilton Hotel through the weekend.
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Bush wants to ensure early reading
President suggests extra training for Head Start teachers
PHILADELPHIA (AP)
President Bush promised on
Tuesday to give American
children a chance at “the life
long gift of early learning”
through better training for
teachers in the Head Start pre
school program.
In a speech before a nearly
all-adult audience at a Penn
State University campus in sub
urban Delaware County, Bush
said he would direct the
Department of Health and
Human Services to begin train
ing almost 50,000 Head Start
teachers on the best techniques
to teach the rudiments of read
ing to preschoolers.
“Reading is the foundation
for all of learning,” Bush said.
“Reading to a child early and
often can change a child’s life.
“A child who cannot identi
fy the letters of the alphabet in
his or her first year of school
runs a real risk of staying
behind in school throughout
her or his career. We cannot
accept this in America.”
Bush’s proposal immedi
ately drew criticism from
members of Congress who
challenged him to put more
money into his ideas.
“The president proposed no
additional resources to help
states and local communities
provide the vital support to fam
ilies and children,” said Sep- Jim
Jeffords, I-Vt. “The president's
is a good first step, but we need
to do so much more.”
The president announced the
proposal during a visit to
Pennsylvania in which he also
helped raise $l million for state
Attorney General Mike Fisher,
running unopposed in the
Republican gubernatorial pri
mary. Former Philadelphia
Mayor Edward Rendell is bat
tling state Auditor General
Robert Casey Jr. for the
Democratic nomination.
“It's time to make it three
governors in a row,” Bush said,
referring to former GOP Gov.
Tom Ridge, whom he tapped for
homeland security director after
the Sept. 11 attacks, and Ridge’s
successor, Mark Schweiker.
Bush defended the massive
tax cut he engineered last year.
“History will prove us right: By
cutting taxes, we saved the
country from a significant
recession,” Bush said.
Of Fisher, he said: “Mike
believes in lower taxes, and so
do I.”
Bush has traveled to
Pennsylvania l l times since
taking office, more than any
other state. Pennsylvania is the
nation’s fifth largest in terms of
electoral votes, and Democrat
Al Gore won it in 2000’s
skintight presidential election.
Bush said he wants to dedi
cate $45 million for research
into early literacy programs and
practices that work, the same
basic goal as another proposal
that cropped up Tuesday on
Capitol Hill.
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Mass., said he and a
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eggs should be regulated
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - The U.S. Food
and Drug Administration has accused a
biotech company of selling unapproved drugs
in the form of eggs containing antibodies
produced from vaccinated hens.
A federal grand jury in Columbus is investi
gating Ovlmmune Inc. after the FDA accused
the company of developing and selling unli
censed drugs and vaccines for diseases includ
ing AIDS, pneumonia and yeast infections.
Company president Marilyn Coleman said
antibodies in the eggs could boost the
immune systems of people who ate them.
NEWS IN BRIEF
‘‘The eggs are not drugs; they are dietary
supplements,” said Coleman, an assistant
professor at Ohio State University from 1976
to 1980. “The chickens are vaccinated like
all chickens. All you do is dry the eggs and
sell the powder. There's nothing added to the
eggs,” she said.
The FDA said the company, headquartered
at a farmhouse in Richwood, about 35 miles
northwest of Columbus, sold its egg products
across the nation over the Internet.
The agency said the company described
the eggs as “magic bullets ... to target and
destroy unwanted biologic entities such as
cancer.” The Website is no longer operating.
The FDA said the company also sought to
use Richwood residents in unauthorized
medical experiments.
It said in court documents that Coe
approached the nurse of the North
County School District last year seeking
mission to serve the eggs to schoolc i _
Coleman wanted to monitor s u
according to an FDA search warr ^ n , , ra i
Wiley, the school nurse, alerted
authorities.
Coleman said Monday she had can k
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