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The University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, January 18, 2000
Nation
McCain, Bradley capture lead in race
New Hampshire poll shows Gore, Bush losing voter support
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Republican John McCain and Democrat Bill Bradley captured the lead in a New Hampshire poll as likely voters in the nation's first presidential primary began paying more attention to the 2000 campaign.
McCain and Bradley, who both trail nationally, gained support from women in New Hampshire in the past two months, giving both a slight overall edge, according to a Dartmouth College-Associated Press poll.
Both Vice President Al Gore and Texas Gov. George W. Bush, the national Democratic and Republican front-runners, respectively, had the advantage in a November Dartmouth-AP poll of New Hampshire voters.
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In the latest poll, taken Jan. 9-12, McCain had 42 percent support to 33 percent for Bush in the Republican race; Bradley was at 49 percent to 43 percent for Gore.
The previous poll, conducted Oct. 31-Nov. 3, had Bush in the lead, 44 percent to 31 percent, and Gore had an edge ahead of Bradley, 48 percent to 41 percent.
Bradley: Took the Democratic lead in a New Hampshire poll
The margin of error for the sample of 518 likely voters in the Republican primary was 4.5 percentage points, while it
was plus or minus 5 percentage points for the 418 likely voters in the Democratic primary.
Both the Republican and Democratic races are very close, with many New Hampshire polls showing a tilt toward McCain and Bradley, and others showing the races too close to call or with an edge for Bush and Gore.
The poll included 498 likely voters who were first contacted in early November and were reinterviewed from Jan. 9-12.
Among that group, one out of three Republicans and one in five Democrats had switched candidates.
The differences were most pronounced among Republicans—with 80 percent of the switchers from Bush going to McCain, a senator from Arizona, and Bush getting 20 percent of former McCain supporters.
McCain pulled slightly ahead of Bush on the questions of who is perceived as most trustworthy and as providing the strongest leadership, according to the
2000 Race for President
poll.
"I think that basically McCain has been able to establish himself with voters," said Linda Fowler, professor of government and director of Dartmouth's Rockefeller Center. "People were responding to names, now they're responding to a more substantial picture of the candidates.
McCain improved his appeal with women by 16 percentage points since November, and now is supported equally by men and women — 42 percent among each group, the poll showed.
The changes in voters' perceptions of the candidates weren't as pronounced on the Democratic side.
Trump wants nomination
The Associated Press
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He told reporters earlier he would make an announcement in mid-February, and the event likely would take place in New York City's Trump Tower.
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Trump: Ready for Reform Party nomination
in the party of Ross Perot and Jesse Ventura," Trump said as the crowd applauded and cheered.
Perot's right-hand man, former national chairman Russell Verney, said he welcomed Trump into the race.
Even a rich candidate can reach out to the disaffected voter unaffiliated with any party and inspire them to get back involved in politics. Verney said.
But some in the crowd greeted Trump with skeptical questions rather than open arms, probing whether his interest in the race is in the Reform Party or his own future.
One woman pressed him on whether he would attend the Florida Reform Party's convention next weekend in Tampa. Trump said he was looking at that very seriously.
"I am focused on making a good decision regarding whether I should seek the Reform Party presidential nomination." Trump said in a statement Thursday, a day before he flew some of the party's leaders to Florida aboard his plush Boeing 727.
For their part, Reform Party members said they were eager to meet the wealthy developer.
McCain letters in question
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — At least 15 times since 1997, Sen. John McCain wrote federal regulators in his capacity as Commerce Committee chairman on behalf of major donors from airlines to telephone companies, hundreds of memos obtained by The Associated Press show.
In one such letter, McCain urged the Federal Communications Commission in the fall of 1998 to give serious consideration to BellSouth's request to offer long-distance service. BellSouth employees are the third-largest contributor to his presidential campaign.
And two weeks after Ameritech's chairman held a fund-raiser for him last spring, McCain sent a stinging letter to federal regulators accusing them of being unfair toward the phone company's proposed merger with another Bell company.
stricter, burden of proof in this merger proceeding than the commission has applied in evaluating other matters.
The letter accused the commission of applying a different, and much
At a debate Friday night, McCain was questioned about the Ameritech letter and said, "All the times when I have weighed in, I have asked them to do their duty and to expedite the procedures as they're laid out
under the law and according to existing regulations."
His campaign manager, Rick Davis, called on the other candidates to release letters showing their intervention on behalf of donors.
McCain: Questioned about letters concerning campaign donors
Cure for cold could hit stores within the year
The Associated Press.
EXTON, Pa. — Certainly a cure for the common cold would be a big story all by itself. But how about a medicine that also stops viral meningitis? The summer flu? Deadly newborn infections? Even polio?
One drug that does all of this is surprisingly close. It is called pleconaril, and it could be in drugstores within a year.
Pleconaril (pronounced plah-CONN-ah-rill) is the latest in a short list of medicines that kill viruses. This drug blocks a collection of 169 distinctly different nasties that together cause more human disease than any other.
Almost as remarkable as what pleonaril does, however, is how it came to be. This drug was not so much discovered as designed.
Once, drug development was a kind of organized serendipity, screening thousands of random compounds to see what happens. Now, scientists explore the shape and innards of their target right down to the last molecule.
The drug fits neatly into a groove on the surface of the virus, gumming up the machinery it needs to infect the body's cells.
"Plecanaril represents a class of drugs that were designed with the knowledge of the three-dimensional structure of the virus," said Catherine Laughlin, chief of virology at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
Pleconaril is made by ViroPharma, Inc. The publicly traded company is sponsoring two large studies, due out in the spring, that will determine whether the drug works well enough to win Food and Drug Administration approval.
The medicine can shorten a bad cold by three or four days. Pleconaril does this by disabling the rhinovirus, the most common human virus. It also neutralizes the second most common human virus, the enterovirus.
This one drug can stop both rhinoviruses and enteroviruses because they are close cousins, members of a large family called the picornaviruses.
ViroPharma plans to charge between $50 and $100 for enough medicine to cure one infection.
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