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Week of 12 February 1999 Vol. II, No. 23 News & Features BUSM findings suggest antibiotics may reduce risk of heart attack Nationwide search initiated ENG Dean DeLisi to step down, return to full-time teaching and research BU clinician to make house calls in remote Peruvian villages Helping Cuba's chemists Hoffman travels 1,700 miles -- and 40 years BU makes Beanpot history with 5 straight titles Looking homeward NASA speaker urges students to view Earth as a system Feature Photo: BURCS Pawned: At the Time Well Spent Conference's human chess match February 5, white pawn Jen Tracy (SMG'01) (second from right) eliminates black pawn Mary Ellen Osburn, operations coordinator for the George Sherman Union -- but not without some resistance. Actually, Osburn had no choice: two players with an actual chess board called out the moves. Other players include (from left) Craig Mack, director of orientation and off-campus services, Leila Saad, director of the University Resource Center, West Campus Residential Life Director Denise Burford, and (far right) Tracy's teammate and fellow Alpha Phi sorority sister Tara Shaffer (COM'00). Photo by Vernon Doucette