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 Subject: Inside Illinois -- July 24, 2003

Today's issue of Inside Illinois online is now available at
http://www.news.uiuc.edu/ii

July 24, 2003, Vol. 23, No. 2

IN THIS ISSUE:

CAMPUS NEWS:
* UI Board of Trustees: University employees in same-sex 
relationships will soon be able to obtain health and dental insurance 
benefits similar to those provided to their married colleagues under a 
program approved by the UI Board of Trustees at its July 17 meeting 
in Urbana.

* On the Job: Mark Hurt is an UI agricultural gardener and reigning 
champion in the International Chili Society's chili verde division for the 
state of Illinois and for western Kentucky.

RESEARCH NEWS:
* Thanks in part to new spectroscopic technology, researchers have 
solved a great mystery concerning some of North America's oldest 
pieces of sculpture.

* Biologists studying early pregnancy in ferrets have isolated a 
protein vital to embryonic implantation. The UI discovery eventually 
could enhance assisted-reproductive efforts in many threatened 
species.

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