Hip-Hop Summit riding waves for voter registration; Summit continues at UIC Pavilion

After registering a combined 85,000 new voters at summits in Houston and Los Angeles, Dr. Benjamin E. Chavis, President and CEO of the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network, discussed the objectives of the summit that begins Saturday at the UIC Pavilion.

Joined by Russell Simmons and a variety of entertainers from the Hip-Hop industry, including Chicago's own "Papa San," Wallace "Gator" Bradley, "Do Or Die," "American," Rev. Run from Run D.M.C. fame and politicians such as Clerk of the Circuit Court, Dorothy Brown and Dorothy Tillman, Chicago's 3rd Ward Alderman, Chavis declared, "We've come to lift up and celebrate Hip-Hop."

The New York City-based leader said thousands of young …

W.Va. gov to name Byrd Senate seat appointee

West Virginia's governor says he's ready to fill the seat vacated by the death of U.S. Sen. Robert C. Byrd nearly three weeks ago.

Gov. Joe Manchin plans to present his choice to succeed history's longest-serving senator Friday afternoon at the state Capitol.

Byrd's death June 28 at age 92 left Democrats with a diminished majority in the Senate.

Manchin's potential choices are believed …

EP MEDSYSTEMS REPORTS INCREASED SALES FOR 4TH QTR.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)

EP MedSystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: EPMD), Mt. Arlington, N.J., has announced sales for the fourth quarter totaled $2,967,000 as compared to $2,004,000 in 2000 and $2,483,000 for the third quarter 2001.

Loss from operations was $963,000 for the fourth quarter as compared to $1,486,000 for the comparable period in 2000. The basic and diluted loss per share was $0.07 per share for the fourth quarter and $0.14 for the comparable period in 2000.

Sales for the year ended December 31, 2001 were $9,933,000 as compared to $9,760,000 in 2000. Net loss for the year improved to $4,145,000 as compared to a net loss of $4,836,000 during 2000. The basic and diluted loss per share …

Multi-sample homogenizer.(Apparatus & Consumables: Product News)

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Omni Prep homogenizer processes six samples per cycle using Omni Tip plastic generator probes. The tips meet demands for high throughput homogenization while eliminating cross-contamination and minimizing sample loss. Optional 10 mm …

JURCZYNSKI SAYS HE IS LEAVING HOME IN HAMILTON HILL.(CAPITAL REGION)

Byline: MARV CERMAK Staff writer SCHENECTADY Republican mayor-elect Albert P. Jurczynski, who started his public life as president of the Hamilton Hill Neighborhood Association, will be changing his mailing address. -

Jurczynski said his wife, Maria, recently started looking for a house in various city neighborhoods outside of Hamilton Hill. The couple has two young children.

``I know there will be some political fallout from this news,'' Jurczynski said Wednesday night. ``But over the long haul, I'll prove that I won't ever forget this neighborhoodit'll always be my home.''

Jurczynski, 39, is a lifelong resident of Hamilton Hill, the census …

Peterson attorney wants $20 million bond reduced

Drew Peterson's lead attorney said he'll ask a judge to sharply reduce the former suburban Chicago police officer's bond from the current $20 million to "a reasonable level."

Joel Brodsky said at a news conference Sunday that a bond between $500,000 and $1 million would be within the range set in other murder cases in Will County.

"We are ... going to attempt to get this excessive bond down to a reasonable level and see that Drew is given the same bond as anybody who's accused of a similar crime," Brodsky said.

Peterson remains jailed on charges of first-degree murder in the 2004 death of his third wife, Kathleen Savio. Peterson …

Configurational Entropy Change of Netropsin and Distamycin upon DNA Minor-Groove Binding

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Binding of a small molecule to a macromolecular target reduces its conformational freedom, resulting in a negative entropy change that opposes the binding. The goal of this study is to estimate the configurational entropy change of two minor-groove-binding ligands, netropsin and distamycin, upon binding to the DNA duplex d(CGCGAAAAACGCG)-d(CGCGTTTTTCGCG). Configurational entropy upper bounds based on 10-ns molecular dynamics simulations of netropsin and distamycin in solution and in complex with DNA in solution were estimated using the covariance matrix of atom-positional fluctuations. The results suggest that netropsin and distamycin lose a significant amount of …