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Advertising and Public Relations Panel Uiscussion Bates Southwest GSD&M Tracy Locke Partnership Tuesday, April 1 • 4:30-6:30 p.m. • Rudder 301 Career Center Texas A&M University With you every step of the way Looks Like a Rock Star, ♦ 1 /V Plays Like a Classical Star K 4 ' f & i ' & * V r « 'A * ■ ?*■* . / ^ I ' ^ w ' f'. , y - - ci If a rock star like Bruce Springsteen or John Mayer decided to trade in their vocals and guitar and replace them with a viola, the result would be Yuri Bashmet. Bashmet will astonish audiences with his inventive play when he is joined for a one-night-only concert by the Moscow Soloists. THE MOSCOW SOLOISTS with YURI BASHMET, violist Thursday Night, April 3 7:30 PM Rudder Auditorium TICKETS Call 845-1234. Order Online at www.MSCOPAS.org. A concert of this caliber might cost $100 in NYC, London or Prague. With MSC OPAS, you can witness this piece of classical music history for less than $30! (And, there's no airfare!) MSC OPAS Three Decades of Performing Arts From Rudder to Carnegie! Shortly after their performance in Rudder Auditorium, the musicians will head to NYC to answer a concert invitation from Carnegie Hall. 10 Tuesday, April 1, 2003 WOK THE BATTALi Mystery illness spreading fas Canadian province declares state of emergen^ By Dirk Beveridge THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Illness spreads despite quarantines HONG KONG — Health offi cials sealed off an apartment building and quarantined all 240 residents Monday after reporting an alarming jump in new cases of a mystery flu-like disease. More than 600 people in this city are believed to have the dan gerous respiratory infection, and almost half of those live in the Amoy Gardens apartment com plex. Officials reported 92 new cases in the complex on Monday. Severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, has prompted officials in Asian countries to enforce little-used quarantine laws, close schools and impose new health screen ings on travelers. The disease, which has no proven treatment, also contin ued spreading in other affected hot spots, such as Singapore and Toronto. Doctors and nurses in Singapore donned special respi rator suits designed for handling germ warfare attacks so they could get close to patients infected with SARS. In Canada, where a health emergency has been declared in Ontario province, Toronto authorities reported that at least two children had been hospital ized with the disease, and three others were showing symptoms of it. But they would not give details. Worldwide about 60 people have died — at least 15 of those in Hong Kong. Government officials are pondering setting up quarantine centers if the dis ease cannot be contained. The World Health Organization said Monday that experts hope to pinpoint the Severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, has rapidly spra to more than 1,600 reported cases worldwide. With about 60 reported deaths, mostly in Asia, thousands of people are unde quarantine as health officials search for the cure of the outbrej Br Number of reported SARS cases Canada 44 — Ireland-2-i Brltain-3 - Switzerland 4 1 deathi Germany- China-#} eeaaatt ee*aa«i ##•••«• eeeaait • ••••« United State s-69 Calif 14 N.C. N Y. 10 N.J. Utah 4 Wis. Va. 3 Ala. Hawaii3 Conn. 1 Minn. 3 Ga. 1 Pa. 3 Kan. 1 Texas 3 Miss. 1 III. 2 N.H. 1 Maine 2 N.M. 1 Mass. 2 Ohio 1 Mich. 2 R.l. 1 Mo. 2 Wash.1 France-1 Italy-2 Romania-3 Cens w om A& Fo> Taiwan- a recent Cens Hong rebort, declar Kong'-} w ii e n educatf • ••Ml* •••••• j n t 0 account. Thalland- SOURCES: World Health Organization: Center* for Disease Control and Pravsn cause soon, and signs continue to point the coronavirus, which causes about one-fifth of all common colds. Hitoshi Oshitani, the WHO coordinator for SARS, said he believes scientists will deter mine the cause soon, possibly within days. “But this doesn’t mean we will find the specific treatment for this disease within the short time period,” he said. In fact, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Saturday that no current drugs were working against the disease. In a new and perplexing twist, the germ inside the Hong Kong apartment building seemed to be spreading upward, a WHO official said Monday. “They are finding that the infections are in people living in apartments on top of each other, only in one area of this apart- Vietnzm mike less mo •••• men. Apparer Singapore feminist ^ B 1960s anc III Pay Equit} Bril 15 this B>. Currentl gests that woi ment block. It s only two cem of what i * One death attributed to Hong Kong occurred In a medically transferred from Vietnam International figures as of March 31, 10 a.m EST; National data reported March 30 ments, but from floor zero! j ast 40 y ears Not all of those apartmea facts and ove ’ affected, but most of the . lies affected are livimi r .. e H distort the fac small area of that apair ... , building,” virologist i c f ^ducatio Stohr said at WHO headqu studies have 1 in Geneva. eactl was wor Thai ill Hois trom !lie c °ll e g e e ' seen earlier at the Metn*qi'al. One nt Hotel, where the disease College of Ed spread to Hong Kong. Tupon graduati guests staying on the nintti salary as a sti became infected. Engineering. “That was horizontal hat a petrolei now you have a vertical cosher salary tion “ Stohr said. “You carwjLther this about water pipes and se- But where pipes, aboul drafts which :* iel E He( up and down - that s ,T ishf , d in speculation. These are hyp, , 1 1 > • he difference ses that are being looked in vomen with t The 240 residents under, apartment quarantine have 118 stud y SU S1 ordered to stay inside until n< ^ eed P reserl night on April 9. Towever, win lared. Heckle U.S. farmers grow more biotech crops NEWS IN BRIEF /eyed earned ned. Moret discrepancy d Regulators approvC'-:^ to unite aiifeldy even w< plan .that women v By Emily Gersema THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON — Europe’s opposition to biotech food isn’t stopping U.S. farmers from planting more genetically engi neered crops. This spring, they’re devoting fewer acres to growing corn and soybeans but intend to plant more biotech crops than ever — part of a growing trend, the Agriculture Department said Monday. “This is only the fourth year that we’ve been tracking it, but from that, it is the highest it’s been,” said Darin Jantzi, a depart ment statistician. While U.S. consumers gener ally accept biotech foods, Europeans doubt their safety. That concern prompted the European Union to put a morato rium on U.S. biotech imports. It’s been in place for four years, cost ing the United States $300 mil lion annually in com exports. However, an Agriculture Department survey says 38 per cent of the 79 million acres of corn planted this year probably will be genetically engineered. That’s up four percentage points from last year and 13 percentage points over the 2000 crop. Total com acreage is project ed to be almost the same as last year’s 79.05 million acres — just 32,000 acres less. U.S. fanners like biotech crops because they require fewer chemicals for killing insects and weeds. They have been planting two main varieties, one of which is known as Bt, or bacillus thuringiensis. It is genetically engineered to fend off insects. The other variety, Roundup Ready, allows farmers to spray and kill weeds with Monsanto Co.’s Roundup herbicide with out killing the com plant. Growers likely will plant more biotech soybeans, too. The department predicts 80 percent of this year’s 73.2 million acres of soybeans will be a biotech variety engineered to tolerate Roundup. That’s up five percentage points from last year’s biotech soybean crop and 16 percentage points over the 2000 crop. The department predicts the soybean crop will be the smallest since 1998, down 1 percent from the 73.8 million acres grown last year. Many growers are switching back to com because wet weather last year prevented them from planting it, forcing them to raise soybeans instead. WASHINGTON (AP) - faf 1 . . regulators gave the go-apf *'f e sc i enct Monday for Delta, Northwest bio re than me Continental airlines to sell sinfamous wajt on each other's flights. The Nos. 3, 4 and 5 ait!_ reached an agreement Transportation Department I dais after regulators expreConoleV concerns that the "code-ill . ^ plan would stifle competitiorlciQJlty tC The airlines agreed to give airport gates and agreed to so In response but not all, restrictions on March 3 / col they can market joint contrac travel agents and corporatki Everyone al M ilosevic's wife ^"7^, wanted for murdei I do have a BELGRADE, Serbia-Monten(° ne ' hk ® Con (AP) — Police sought an intc' 1er ri 8' ,t to tional arrest warrant Mondai suc h as Crou: Slobodan Milosevic's wife, a!i^y correct ing her involvement in the ki their own, es of a political rival, but lates a certaii denounced the warrant f'by said perso Russia as a political ploy. Asking Dr. Mirjana Markovic, believeO an d celebrat be hiding in Russia, wrotealf |jf es ty| e WO ul denying she had any part in to promote a 2000 slaying of Ivan Starring| sex whose body was found in al' . p.., covered grave in northern Sef last week. 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