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Battle against cancer hits Northwestern trees, owls
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GRANTS PASS, Ore. — The battle against cancer is about to collide with the drive to protect the habitat of the northern spotted owl, the focus of a dispute about the use of the Northwest's oldest forests.
The National Cancer Institute wants 720,000 pounds of bark harvested from the Pacific yew this year to produce 55 pounds of a sound called taxol for intensive clinical testing as an anti-cancer drug.
But harvesting that much bark would mean intruding into forests set aside as sanctuaries for the northern spotted owl, which was listed as a endangered species. In those forests has undercut the Northwest's powerful timber industry.
Taxol has shown promise against ovarian cancer, which claims 12,000 victims a year. It is also been tested against breast, lung and colon cancers, said Saul Schepartz, a biochemist in the National Cancer Institute's therapeutic development program.
Until now, foresters have treated the Pacific yew as a weed. It has never been replanted on national forests, and the bark collected in forests came from trees cut down during the logging of other species.
No other natural source of taxol has been found. But the Florida State Office of Research, on behalf of university professor Robert Holton, has identified potent applications for a process that can produce taxol without the bark.
Holton's process joins two chemicals to form the drug. One of those chemicals can be synthesized easily in the lab, he says. The other is more complex, but a team of French scientists recently found that it can be extracted from the leaves of the English vew.
Harvesting yews at a rate of 36,000 trees a year from an inventory of 1.2 million mature trees would put heavy pressure on the species, which takes 200 years to grow to a trunk diameter of 12 inches.
"If we do that, we will kill the goose
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service this month rejected a petition from the Environmental Defense Fund to declare the Pacific yew a threatened species. But the issue is likely to come back.
The Forest Service, the National Cancer Institute and other interested parties met in Washington this week to discuss meeting the growing demand for taxol.
"I don't think there is any question that we are going to have to have access to virtually all acre of yew to sustain that kind of harvest level," said Boke Lease, head of timber sale preparation and evaluation for the Forest Service in the Northwest. "That waves a big flag at timber folks as well as those opposed to logging old growth."
New York court refuses to dismiss Times' case for discriminatory ads
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — In a case closely watched by the newspaper industry, an appeals court refused to throw out a lawsuit that accuses The New York Times of violating its legal law by featuring mostly white models in its real estate advertising.
The ruling by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan means the case can proceed to trial.
The lawsuit, filed in January, 1989,
claims the real estate advertising
published in the Times over the past
20 years has sent a message of racial
force because the ads have contained
almost exclusively white models.
It was brought under a section of the federal Fair Housing Act which prohibits the publication of real estate ads that state "any preference based on race."
The Times had sought a dismissal of the case on the grounds that the law was overly vague and violated the paper's First Amendment right
to free speech.
"All the statute requires is that in his make-up your-world (of advertising) the creator of an ad not make choices among models that create a suggestion of a racial preference," the court said.
But the three-judge appeals panel in a unanimous decision Wednesday rejected the arguments, ruling that it would not be an unconstitutional burden for the Times to monitor its advertising.
Times representative Nancy Neilson said the newspaper was disappointed with the decision.
"We believe that under our Constitution, it is improper for The New York Times to be placed in the position of enforcing a law which, without guidelines and standards, makes the publisher monitor the content of the ads of its clients on an ongoing basis." she said.
frey said the appeals court ruled that newspapers could be held liable if advertising were found to be racially discriminatory "regardless of the intent of the advertisent."
"The court said newspapers must monitor real estate ads they publish." Comfrey said. "They cannot sit back and just assume that responsibility for screening out discriminatory ads is in the hands of the individual advertisers."
The lawsuit was brought by the Open Housing Center, a nonprofit housing advocacy group, and several Americans who were looking for housing.
A friend-of-the-court brief in support of the Times was filed on behalf of The Dow Jones Co., which owns The Wall Street Journal, Gannett Co. Inc., New York Inc, New York Dial Corp., and the New York Newspaper Publishers Association and the American Newspaper Publishers Association.
Plaintiff attorney Kathleen Com-
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