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8 IF YOU ORDERED a 2002 Aggieland and will not be on campus next fall to pick it up, you can have it mailed. To have your yearbook for the '01-02 school year mailed, stop by room 015 Reed McDonald Building or telephone 845-2613 (credit cards only) between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday and pay a $7 mailing and handling fee. Cash, Check, Aggie Bucks, Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover accepted. Oakwood Mobile Home Park 979-779-2123 We welcome... Students * Roommates * New & Used Homes * Approved Pets Stop paying rent! Build equity, create rental income and achieve tax benefits by purchasing a mobile home. Wednesday, August 7, 2002 the battj] Do you suffer from Constipation? Constipation is one of the most common chronic digestive disorders in the United States, affecting 1 of every 5 individuals. If you suffer from constipation, you may qualify to participate in a clinical trial. • Must be 18 to 74 years of age; • Up to $100 paid for time and travel. 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Department of Residence Life Housing Assignments Office Legett Hall Room 003 845-4744 Got Insurance? 2002 raisss—- H E A U T H ’TVvo m UmVEOSTTY SYSTEM CENTER yi UNIVERSITY 5 UNIVERSITY [JVERS1TY - K1NUO UVERSITY-TEXARKANA V&M UNIVERSITY cvstem Chancellor University .074-002 9 I N S u R A N C E Contact us at (800) 452-5772 or via email at office@a-i-p-i.com or visit the web site: www.associatedinsuranceplans.com/TA&M_System.htm Egg-cited about eggs olume NEWS IN Young Democrat) first black pre* AUSTIN (AP) -The ne , dent of the Texas Democrats is the first• leader of the group, the Democratic Party antic. Tuesday. Sean Bradley also is It Texas field director fori Sanchez gubernatorial car: Bradley's goals are me; . the youth vote for Der candidates this Novembt encouraging Texas youth;, ticipate in the political prod Families ; The group's political: suits surroun ftollapse are proving that jespite recen Last mot voluntarily c< |he Texas Bo [hat any tutu By committee raises money; for young people to internships with legisl; congressional candidates) Texas. Last year, the program t more than $40,000 !o internships. "It's a great opportuir young people to learnak. political process up dos; personal,'' Bradley said. Marathon Oil to start expensing stock options HOUSTON (AP) - Mara!: Corp. announced Tuesday;; 2003 it will join a hand Sp< for By Ke THE Over 2d other companies coir^rarhmtes \ diplomas Au University P the Houston-based cm Gates. The s employee stock opte expenses in earnings repot was the latest to volunfr adjust its accounting, aiK expense stock options ov? period in which they vest, based on the value! day they were granted. The change responds tol w. Wendler sure from investors foi BRIAN RUFF • THE BATTALION be addressed first family c ime Texas A Texas firs and Southern arbondale address grac ceremonies tc n Reed Arei speakers we week, but du the Texas A< Incoming freshman poultry science major Ross Windham gathers eggs from a nest- box at the Poultry Science Center on FM 2818. Students gather more than 300 eggs each day to be sold or used for teaching and research. Medical center recalling body pari GALVESTON, Texas (AP) — A medical center is recalling body parts from research facili ties around the country that might not have been properly tested for infectious diseases, such as HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Embalmed body parts, which carry no risk of infection, are pri marily used to train doctors in surgical techniques, but University of Texas Medical Branch officials said Tuesday that unpreserved parts, such as feet, knees and elbows, might have been sent to researchers at 60 programs around the country. Officials didn’t have figures on how many parts might have been shipped. They said they could not guarantee the parts did not pose a risk to transplant patients, but said the school’s tissues typically are not sent to programs that would use them in transplant patients and the risk to public health is “negli gible and proba bly zero.” The school has asked research pro grams and pri vate clinics that received parts from its Willed Body Program during an 18- month period to either destroy the parts or send them back at UTMB’s expense. Letters were mailed over the weekend and With these pre- cautionsy the risks go way down. The im pact on public health is negligible and probably zero. — Steven Lieberman UTMB associate dean notifications continued arriving Tuesday, officials said. “We deeply regret this has happened. We make no excuses for it,” said Steven Lieberman, UTMB associate dean for educa tional affairs. “We’ve been very proactive in letting people know what happened. We’re not trying to hide anything.” Lieberman said he could not account for how many body parts had been shipped during the period from November 2000 transparency in financial graduates at I ing after shady or questr accounting fueled implosion Enron Corp., WorldCom Int other companies. Only a few companies! stock options as expenses updated yestc others that recently annoir fspeakers. plans to do so include Coca Wendler is Co., General Electric and was a dec Amazon.com and BoeingC: jArchitecture Inamed chant Illinois. He w lin the colleg engineering, g [arts, medicine commencerm Aug. 16 at 7 i Perry has as an advoc health care it activism for for young T speak at the < until May 2002. He saidl is not legally required tote parts for infectious dis However, he said, the an expectation within the ical community. UTMB officials were not whether any researchers received the body p ar j s exposed to, or infected with gerous viruses, such as hepatitis B and C. They : researchers to take prec®- and protect themselves ’ handling parts from UTM “With these precaution^ risks go way down. The ® on public health is neghgi probably zero,” Lieberman “Any risks to individuals handled these tissues extremely low.” 'AT- WOLF PEN CREEK A Perfect Place to Call Home Located in the prestigious Wolf Pen Creek area. You’ll appreciate the easy access to Highway 6, Texas A&M, shopping, dining, and entertainment. 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The vaccination series in the study includes four doses of diptheria-tetanus-acellular pertussis (DTaP), three doses of polio and one dose of measles-mumps-rubella (MMR). “It is very good news that we are coming up in our immu nization levels,” said Linda Linville, chief of the Texas Department of Health Bureau of Immunization and Pharmacy Support. “Having been ranked last, it’s good to move up some points.” The national immunization rate was 78.6 P ercent- ^ v | 77.6 percent in 2000. L said Tuesday that the ment’s goal for next ye at least meet the average. . , Dr. Eduardo Sanchez, Texas Comm iss ' oner Health, said some facto led to the increased^ were the depa ^ enhanced involvemen local immunization • an additional 200 cl’ nl ^ Texas Vaccines for c Program and an inC ^ ce awareness of the import immunizations. Gov. 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