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f TIME’S RUNNING OUT Buy now. Save $ 10. Texas A&M's Aggieland yearbook has been chronicling campus life for 101 years. It's the single best way to preserve your A&M experiences for years to come. If you did not order the '03 Aggieland as a fee option when you registered for Fall '02 classes, you may order one in the Student Media business office, 015 Reed McDonald Building. $30 plus tax. (Cash, Check, Aggie Bucks, VISA, MasterCard, Discover, American Express) Aggieland 2003 ENCHILADA WEDNESDAY *199 Lunch H99 Dinner FREE! FREE! FREE! Chill Con Queso Limited time only. 1912 South Texas Avenue 979-693-6684 www.elchico.com 10 Wednesday, March 5, 2003 THE BATTAIB t,, ^Women j n lime. Don’t miss out on the rest of the Women In Time week of programming! For complete program details, check online at www.tamu.edu/womenintime on exhibit February 28 - March 7 Intended for All: 125 Years of Women at A&M - Exhibit details achievements & contributions of women from 1 876 - present. (Cushing Library) Images of Achievement Part I: Women in Music Through Time Featuring books & recordings from notable women composers & performers. (Library Annex) Images of Achievement Part II: Keeping Time - Collages, artwork and projects from “Women In Music”, classes. (4th Floor, Academic Bldg.) Visible Work, Invisible Women - Photo Essay by Palagummi Sainath captures significant contributions made by rural women in India and transcends national borders. (Langford Architecture Bldg., Gallery A120) daily March 3 - March 7 Live Music - Various Performances. (12-1:00pm. Rudder Fountain) Wednesday 3/5 How Far Have We Come and Where Are We Headed: How The Climate for Women At Texas A&M Has Changed In the Last Decade - Panel Discussion. (2:30-4:30pm, Library 204E) thursday 3/6 Passive Politics: Women as Cultural Workers - Presentation of the overview of the life’s work of Elizabeth Farrell, the originator of special education in the US. (1-2:30pm, 504 Rudder) friday 3/7 Women in Higher Education with Children: Negotiating Personal & Professional Lives - Interactive presentation on the findings of Dr. Sarah Marshall’s study on women in higher ed with children. Discuss practical applications on balancing work and home. (10-11:30am, 501 Rudder) How Working Couples Mutually Support Career Success - Panel Discussion with working couples fromTAMU. (12-1:30pm, 501 Rudder) How Dads Develop Women Leaders - Panel Discussion with tamu women leaders and experts familiar with this field. (2-3:30pm, 501 Rudder) Peaceful protestors KRT CAMPUS Peace activist Alice Jarvis, 93, attends a rally Tuesday at the Boca Raton campus of Florida Atlantic University to protest a war Iraq. Jarvis also spoke at the rally. Texas to fund cow genome projec WASHINGTON (AP) — The state of Texas has pledged $10 million for research on sequenc ing the genetic makeup of cattle, the National Institutes of Health announced Tuesday. Another $ 15 million is needed to secure the sequencing in u project. The Cow Genome Project, touted as having possible benefits for biology and agriculture, will cost $50 million total. The National Human Genome Research Institute, part of the NIH, plans to pay half the c6st if $25 million is raised. Texas would pay out their portion over three years. The sequencing — essen tially documenting each of the billion pairs of genes in cattle DNA —. will be done by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston and Texas A&M University. Researchers are hoping the money can be raised in time to start the September. Sequencing of the cow genome will allow researchers to identify functions qf the cattle genes. The informa tion could assist producers in selec tively breeding cat tle for tenderness and marbling and making the ani mals more disease- resistant and less reliant on antibi otics. Producers also could use it to birth larger, health ier litters, scientists have said. Institute, said in a statement. Texas legislators are now session, struggling with a lion shortfall that is forcing sideration of We hope others... will lend their support to this pioneering endeavor. — Dr. Francis Collins, National Human Genome Institute director “We hope others in the public and private sectors will follow the lead of Texas and lend their sup port to this pioneering endeavor,” Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Human Genome in state serve The governor I not identified funding sc but officials said the n could come the educaii budget or Department Econoi Development. The Genome said the hot genome is si® in size to genomes of humans other mammals, with an estir ed 3 billion pairs. Texas A&M participated mapping to provide a rough t line of the cattle genome last); — BREA F F SPECIAL (ut/yfft/'e the ( f/fffi/iate {//oi '0 Also Specializing in: <§3 Massages European Facials Pedicures # Manicures Waxing and Much, Much More! 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