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Jenny strikes again Jenny Chuasiriporn won her second straight ACC individual title, leading THE CHRONICLE Duke to the overall win. See SMRTSWMP. MONDAY, APRIL 21. 199 DUKE UNIVERSITY DURHAM. NORTH CAROLINA CIRCULATION: 15.000 VOL. 92. NO. 133 Women's Conference draws top tennis arms control experts By HELEN WOLFF fundamentally achieve the same A conference titled, "Contem­ thing," he said. "Defense deters tops ACC porary Issues in Controlling threats, and arms control takes Weapons of Mass Destruction," them away more quietly." brought top scholars and policy Holum also spoke about re­ By NEAL MORGAN makers from all over the country cent events that will have an ef­ NORCROSS, Ga. — To to the Washington Duke Inn this fect on issues of arms control many, single-elimination tour­ weekend. The conference, which and disarmament. He drew naments conjure up images of registered 120 participants, was laughter from the crowd with an shocking upsets and nail-bit­ sponsored by the University's analogy between the State De­ ing finishes. The woman's ten­ Center on Law, Ethics and Na­ partment's past attempts at re­ nis team denied fans this type tional Security and the Univer­ structuring and a humorous tale of drama, however, by steam- sity of Virginia's Center for Na­ of two hunters who never learn rolling the competition this tional Security Law. from their mistakes. He was weekend en route to its tenth John Holum, director of the supportive of the most recent consecutive Atlantic Coast U.S. Arms Control and Disar­ plan, however, saying, "I don't Conference championship. mament Agency, delivered the think well crash this time." No. 3 Duke (22-3, 11-0 in keynote address during the Fri­ The proposed chemical the ACC) defeated No. 8 Wake day dinner. Holum said there is weapons treaty, which would Forest (19-6, 9-2) 5-2 Sunday an important, and often ignored, regulate chemical weapons in afternoon at the Racquet relationship between arms con­ the same way as biological and Club ofthe South in Norcross, trol and defense. "Arms control nuclear weapons are now, was Ga. The match marked the VICTOR CHANG/THE CHRONICLE and defense are often presented another of Holum's concerns. He third year in a row in which John Holum joined in the debate on arms control policy. as opposing, but I believe they See CONFERENCE on page 4 • the Blue Devils and Demon Deacons competed in the fi­ nals of the ACC Champi­ onships. The path to the Survey reveals futility of state tobacco laws Deacs went through Tobacco Road for the Blue Devils, as By BEN VON KLEMPERER family medicine at the Universi­ nearly three out of four officers difficult in a state like North Duke demolished N.C. State Ask 17-year-old Jeremy ty of North Carolina at Chapel cited impediments to upholding Carolina where tobacco has 5-0 and North Carolina 6-0 on Pyron how he gets his cigarettes Hill, found that nearly 85 per­ the law such as lack of manpow­ been a long-time money maker. Friday and Saturday to ad­ and he will give you a fairly sim­ cent of respondents said the er, a poorly written law and lack 'The enforcement of it is a fairly vance to the finals. With the ple answer. state laws did not reduce or only of funding. new philosophy for law enforce­ tournament win, the Blue "I just walk up into a store slightly reduced tobacco sales to Goldstein estimated that in ment in North Carolina," he Devils set an all-time confer­ and buy them," said the Bunn minors. Of the 166 officers who 1991 there were 80,000 smokers said, adding that many officers ence record for most consecu­ resident who has smoked since participated in the survey that between the ages of 12 and 18 in feel political pressure in a state tive league titles by any he was 11, and now knocks off was taken at a teen smoking North Carolina, and that num­ where the tobacco industry is­ woman's sport. half a pack of Newports a day. prevention law enforcement con­ ber has probably risen 10-20 sues many ofthe residents' pay­ "It feels great," sophomore Many area teenagers and ference last fall, 80 percent said percent since then. This breaks checks. Vanessa Webb said. "It's great vendors view state laws pro­ they had never issued citations down to about 12,000 packs of "No police department wants to be a part of the team that hibiting tobacco sales to minors to merchants selling tobacco cigarettes that are being sold il­ to look like the adversarials won it for the tenth time in a as toothless. Now, according to a products. legally to minors in the state within a community," said row... I wasn't a part of eight survey released April 17, so do "We were surprised that they each day, he said. Hoina, who added that it is hard of them, but it feels nice to be many police officers. identified so many barriers in Lt. Chris Hoina of the Cary for officers to gain the respect of a part ofthe last two." The study, conducted by Dr. being able to enforce the law," Police Department said enforc­ area residents when it looks as See SPORTSWRAP page 3 • Adam Goldstein, professor of Goldstein said, adding that ing anti-smoking measures is See SURVEY on page 4 • Researchers discover new method for drug delivery By CHLOE ESTRERA When filled with a drug and inserted By pill, liquid or powder, people have Bead system may benefit cancer patients into the bloodstream, the beads will vio­ taken drugs in several forms for years, lently swell and burst, releasing the drug but researchers at the Medical Center these beads, which are made of hydro- The idea for this bead technology, inside. and Access Pharmaceutical Inc. of Dallas gel—a material commonly found in soft Kiser said, developed from observations Needham said the research teams had revealed last week at the American contact lenses. Researchers have also of the way in which the human body se­ to research how to coat the beads in order Chemical Society's national meeting in been loading the beads with certain cretes hormones. to prevent this uncontrollable bursting. San Francisco a new method of drug de­ drugs, such as doxorubicin, a potent anti­ The beads are like "artificial secretory Lipids, the same material found in cell livery that may be more effective, espe­ cancer drug. granules," Needham said. Granules are membranes, seemed the best choice, said cially in cancer treatment. These beads have been designed to de­ found in each cell and are known to con­ Needham, whose research has involved This new form consists of tiny coated liver drugs directly into a tumor, Kiser tain some of nature's own "drugs," such more than a decade of analysis on the beads one thousand times smaller than a said. The cancer patient could take the as histamine, which is released when the strength ofthe lipid membrane. strand of hair and filled with a particular beads by injection, he added, but the drug body comes in contact with pollen. "Na­ "For a coating, you choose the same drug. delivery has not yet been tested in ani­ ture's found a way of packing its own thing nature uses," he said. "Nature has "No one's ever done anything like this mals or humans. drugs," Needham added. figured out the best way to form a capsule before," said Patrick Kiser, graduate stu­ "These beads are really sophisticated," The beads work much like these gran­ and we copy that. Lipids are the most bio­ dent in mechanical engineering and ma­ said David Needham, associate professor ules. In the body, hormones are produced compatible material. [They are] just like terials science and Access Pharmaceuti­ of mechanical engineering and materials and delivered locally. "If we can mimic all the other cells in your body." cals employee. "This research is being science. "At this stage in the research, this motif and deliver drugs the way the Since the body's immune system tends presented as a novel idea." we're not sure it's going to work, but we body does, we feel that we can have a to encounter foreign particles as waste Kiser said research teams at both in­ hope so and are looking to prove the con­ large impact on anticancer therapy," material, however, researchers needed to stitutions are working together to make cept in a year." Kiser said. See BEADS on page 11 • THE CHRONICLE MONDAY, APRIL 21. 1997 World and National Newsfile Israeli prosecutors fail to charge Netanyahu From wire reports By SERGE SCH MEM ANN insured that what has come to be Air Force finds: A helicopter wing politicians said they would file a crew hovering beside a sheer cliff in N.Y. Times News Service known as the "Bar-On Affair" would suit with the Supreme Court to reverse the central Rocky Mountains found JERUSALEM — Israel's top state continue to bedevil Israeli politics. the state attorney's decision regarding what is likely the wreckage of a prosecutors announced Sunday that The affair erupted in January when him. missing bomb-laden warplane, but they did not have enough evidence to television reports charged that a In a brief television appearance, Ne­ saw no sign ofthe pilot, Air Force of­ press charges against Prime Minister lawyer with close ties to Netanyahu's tanyahu conceded that he had made ficials said Sunday. Benjamin Netanyahu in a scandal over Likud party, Roni Bar-On, was ap­ mistakes and promised to correct the appointment of an attorney gener­ pointed attorney general in order to se­ them.

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