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It is spread through mos quito bites and contact with bodily fluids from an infected animal. The HSD is now accepting appli cations for a fourth center, focusing on behavioral and social aspects of terrorism and counterterrorism. Ridge said centers like these are vital to the national defense effort. “In every area of human en deavor, research and develop ment is the engine that drives our nation to a better and brighter fu ture,” Ridge said. “But the government can’t do it alone. In each of these cases, part nerships between the government and academics, business and scien tists produce together what would be impossible individually.” American life, such as adobe houses in the Southwest, icy rivers with snow banks, plains landscapes and the flora and fauna within them. The collection is not limited to just American scenes of life. One of the latest works in the collection features a style that includes the artist stamp in red, which is commonly seen in Japanese works. The artists started with the gift print because during that time people did not have money to spend on art, Hastedt said. To stay within the financial constraints of the Depression, The Prairie Print Makers trav eled across the United States selling its new works, he said. “Because they were based in Kansas, The Prairie Print Mak ers proved to the rest of the country that there was a hunger for that kind of art in the Mid west,” Hastedt said. Upon viewing “The Prai rie Print Makers” display, art enthusiast Ann Harper said “I think it’s an excellent exhibit.” Harper’s friend and artist Linda Guinasso said she thinks that the different styles by which the prints were mac] also noteworthy. “The process in itselfisj teresting as the subject r Guinasso said. “The com is fortunate to have theses shown here." Aggies are encourage! view the exhibit becausef “a good chance for stq to study different prinlm techniques,” Hastedt said. There is no admissionctl to view the works Stark Galleries. The erl will be open for viewinga day-Friday 9 a.m. to 81 and Sunday-Saturday 12 J until Aug. 15. Hostage Continued from page 1 Senate Continued from page 1 July Special Why bother with parking when you can walk to TAMU? - New LOWER prices - Only 2 blocks from TAMU - Now preleasing for summer/fall Casa Del Sol 696-3455 aggie.inn@verizon.net Texas A&M Univers Church ty Dr St Stasney © Cross Sr Casa Del Sol of the approval for a life sci ences building. Casone is part of the six-person committee for the building to house interdisciplin ary faculty and to fulfill the needs of the biology department. The idea for the building has been around since 1997, Casone said. “It has created a lot of inter est, concern and controversy,” Casone said. “But the University has fallen behind in paying for infrastructures. If you compare (other universities), we have much less financial support.” So far, the project has $100 mil lion to start out, which Casone de scribed as “coming out of the sky.” The building would likely be lo cated in the current Microscopy and Imaging Center. The Life Sciences Committee is asking for themes for the building to present to A&M President Robert M. Gates. Cur rently, they are considering neuro sciences, genomics and micromac- ular structures as possible themes. “This is a positive develop ment that the University has de cided to build this facility. We haven’t identified how it will be supported. We need to figure it out and bite the bullet,” Casone said. “Without it, it will be hard to attract faculty. It’s a catch-22.” shot back and killed the driver, the military said. A soldier and a civilian traveling behind the patrol were’killed. A second soldier was injured and evacuated. Thick black smoke enveloped the area from an oil tanker set ablaze in the attack. The deaths came a day after four U.S. Marines were killed in a vehicle accident near Camp Fal- lujah in western Iraq. At least 875 service mem bers have died since the military operations in Iraq began last year, according to the U.S. De fense Department. Of those, at least 651 died as a result of hos tile action. Also Sunday, insurgents fired mortar rounds at the Abu Ghraib prison, the center of a scan dal involving alleged abuse of Iraqi detainees by U.S. guards. One person was injured. The attack was the third by insurgents on the facility since a mortar attack on in April killed 22 Iraqi detainees and wounded over 100, the mili tary said. Coalition forces are now holding over 2,300 Iraqis for taking part in activities threaten ing the coalition forces and their Iraqi allies. Militants from a group calling itself The Iraqi Islamic Army-Khaled bin Al-Waleed Corps ex tended their deadline for the Philippine govern ment to agree to withdraw its 51 peacekeepers. Initially, the group gave Manila until Sunday night to agree to a July 20 pullout or it would kill Filipino truck driver Angelo dela Cruz. That July 20 pullout would be a month earlier than scheduled. The Philippine government said Saturday it was sticking to the scheduled Aug! 20 date be cause of “our commitment to the free people of Iraq.’’ The government also said de la Cruz had been freed, but the militants denied that in a mes sage broadcast by Al-Jazeera television. On Sunday, the group said the government had until Tuesday to change its mind. “There are good signals that the exte of the deadline has been given (for) anoilt hours,” Labor Secretary Patricia Santo Ti told ABS-CBN TV on Monday fromDuk she accompanied dela Cruz’s wife and bn on a trip originally destined for Baghdad. When the delegation arrived in Amman dan, later Monday, Santo Tomas said it w not be going to Baghdad. She did notelabor; Foreign Secretary Delia Albert said Mi that discussions to obtain dela Cruz’s itl were continuing “through the efforts of close friends and contacts.” In a video purportedly from the mill broadcast Sunday on the Arab television tion Al-Arabiya, a masked man holding as« said dela Cruz will no longer be a hostage if Philippines complies but instead will behd 1 ! a protected prisoner of war. After Filipino troops leave, he would be leased, the man said. A militant deadline for two other — Bulgarian truck drivers held by a group demanding the release of all Iraqideiaf ees — expired Saturday morning. Th'emik: had threatened to execute the Bulgarians! U.S. military did not release all Iraqi dela by the deadline. On Sunday. Bulgarian Foreign Minister Si' mon Pasi said he had unconfirmed infomtf the hostages were still alive. Pasi appealed to the hostage takers, sayinii lam calls for “mercy for the poor, the hungry! the sick.” He said one hostage, GeorgiLf had diabetes, while the other, IvayloKepov, suffered a stroke. 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