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Major excavation of UA Mall gets underway tonight
	The Integrated Learning Center construction project will enter its first major phase later tonight with the major excavation of the UA Mall. For the next few weeks, construction efforts will be primarily focused on removing the dirt from the 85,944 square-foot area, University of Arizona spokeswoman Sharon Kha said.

A team in turmoil
	It wasn't pretty. Again.For the second time this season, the Arizona football team was demolished by an opponent. But unlike the 41-7 opening loss to Penn State, this loss came at home to an unranked Stanford team in the Pacific 10 Conference opener.

Editorial: Likins should rehire fired researcher
	Since July of 1998, faculty and administrators at the University of Arizona have remained divided over the firing of Alzheimer's researcher Marguerite Kay. Some, like UA President Peter Likins, have sided with a Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure, which insists that Kay falsified and manipulated data in her research. In response to CAFT's findings, Likins terminated Kay last July, and refused to pay her last two weeks' salary.

Water works
	Junior scientist Jim Eliopulos hails from Reno, and one way or another, he's going to let you know soon after he meets you. "After I graduate, I'm going to make sure that the world's water supply is safe," Eliopulos said. "I'll start with Reno, of course. That's the center of the universe." In case you haven't figured it out just yet, Eliopulos is kind of an odd person. And he's got an odd job to match.

Quotable: "Whoever betrays Indonesia and East Timor should be killed. Whoever betrays us, we will kill, whether they are our fathers or mothers." -Fernando dos Santos, commander of the 1st Battalion of the notorious Aitarak militia. Dos Santos took refuge on the island of Sulawesi, ahead of the advancing peacekeepers.

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