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FSU CANCER LAB MAY SAVE LIVES
When cancer is not such a certain killer - some say as soon as five years from now - many of the survivors may owe their lives to researchers on the Florida State campus.
Like other American scientists who are currently creating hope and excitement, FSU biologist Kurt Hofer and his colleagues have, so far, saved only mice.
But they're saving mice from human breast and prostate cancers. They have a patent on the drug they're studying - diamine metronidazole - and they have a contract with pharmaceutical companies to test and develop it for treatment of humans.
JOURNALIST SPENT 3 YEARS IN PRISON
Florida State graduate Christiana Anyanwu, 47, walked out of Kadu Prison in central Nigeria on June 15, suffering from lack of medical care, but apparently undaunted by her ordeal.
Anyanwu's release came four days after American journalists, including another Florida State alumnus, made forceful appeals for her freedom.
Anyanwu had been in prison for three years for publishing articles critical of the government.
FSU MAY OPEN A CAMPUS IN VIETNAM
Imagine a country where most of the population is younger than 25.
Imagine a country where few adults know how to run a business for profit, and eager students are turned away from schools for lack of room.
Now imagine what Florida State University could do to help, even if that country should be an old enemy: Vietnam.
ARTS FESTIVAL COMING TO TOWN
You might think it's a week in New York or Los Angeles. But it's all happening in Tallahassee.
Well-known actors, dancers, artists and musicians will perform in a celebration that organizers are planning to call "Tallahassee: Seven Days of Opening Nights." It will kick off February 19.
SHE'S A PROFESSOR, A TRAVELER AND A PHILANTHROPIST
Planning last summer to fly to Africa, raft down the wild Zambezi River and see hippos and crocodiles up close, Sandra Schultz wasn't sure she'd make it back.
She went anyway, but made sure of one thing: Florida State's education students would have more scholarships and more exposure to the nation's top educators.
And Schultz survived a splendid adventure.
SHE TAUGHT FSCW TO LISTEN TO A DIFFERENT DRUMMER
When Nellie-Bond "Bondie" Dickinson stepped from the passenger train that brought her to Tallahassee to teach dance, Tennessee Street was a dirt road, horses grazed where the Bellamy Building now stands, and few Southerners had seen Dickinson's kind of dance.
Dickinson, who brought modern dance to Tallahassee, arrived dreaming of a world that would love the new art form. Through hard work, perseverance and a big dose of stubborn gumption, the vision became real.
FSU HAS A CAR AND A PIT STOP IN THE GREAT "99 SOLAR RACE
When 40 race cars pull into Tallahassee next June, there won't be any fill-ups at gas stations. And there won't be any black smoke from exhaust pipes, loud engine roars or backfires.
All the cars will be solar-powered, fueled by car-topping arrays of hundreds of shiny, dark-blue 4" squares - photovoltaic cells that convert sunlight to energy.
IF HE'S EXPLAINING BEAUTY HE'S JUST DOING HIS JOB
When Myles Hollander talks about mathematical theories in statistics, he uses words such as "elegant" and "beautiful."
You might think he was describing a flower or a person. But this year's Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor is talking about statistics and mathematical equations that can help predict anything from how long a machine might last to how long a person may live after a heart transplant.