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Kim D. Janda
Scripps Research Institute
Departments of Chemistry and Molecular Biology
10550 North Torrey Pines Road (BCC582)
La Jolla, CA 92037
Web site: http://www.scripps.edu/chem/janda

S. Michael Owens
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
College of Medicine
Departments of Pharmacology and Toxicology
Slot 611, 4301 West Markham Street
Little Rock, AR 72205
Web site: http://www.uams.edu/pharmtox/mowens.htm

Frank Vocci
National Institutes of Health
National Institute on Drug Abuse
Medications Development Division
Bethesda, MD 20892

From Science News, Vol. 156, No. 9, August 28, 1999, p. 134. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.