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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face="Book Antiqua"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:navy'><a
href="http://www.stopanimaltests.com/f-worstlabs_07.asp">http://www.stopanimaltests.com/f-worstlabs_07.asp</a>
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face="Book Antiqua"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:navy'>I thought others
on the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Charles</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Village</st1:PlaceName></st1:place> list might be interested in this
info from PETA.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face="Book Antiqua"><span
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:navy'>Christine Gray <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<h1><font size=5 color="#660000" face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:16.5pt'>PETA’s
‘10 Worst Laboratories’ List <o:p></o:p></span></font></h1>
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<p style='line-height:11.25pt'><font size=1 color=black face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:black'>7.<strong><b><font
face=Tahoma><span style='font-family:Tahoma'> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Johns</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Hopkins</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType>
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In February 2005, Johns <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Hopkins</st1:place></st1:City>
University (JHU) agreed to pay $25,000 to settle USDA charges concerning
repeated and egregious violations of the AWA. JHU is the most prestigious
university ever to receive such a major fine, and USDA charges were only
pressed in this case because of JHU’s baffling refusal to correct
violations year after year. USDA inspectors charged that animals were not given
anesthetics or proper veterinary care during painful experiments. At least 37
primates were kept in cages that were too small or failed in some other way to
meet even the most basic humane standards.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='line-height:11.25pt'><font size=1 color=black face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:black'>PETA brought public
attention to JHU’s negligence in <a
href="http://www.peta.org/feat/Hopkins" target="_blank"><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>ecstasy
studies</span></font></a> that led to the gruesome deaths of several primates.
JHU experimenter George Ricaurte “accidentally” injected the
animals with “speed” instead of ecstasy, killing them and
invalidating his own research. Unbelievably, Ricaurte continues to waste about
a million taxpayer dollars each year on his illicit drug studies on monkeys and
baboons. It is utterly shameful that JHU receives more National Institutes of
Health (NIH) money for experimentation than any institution in the world (about
$600 million each year) yet cannot spare the time and effort needed to provide
basic care to the thousands of animals it uses.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='line-height:11.25pt'><font size=1 color=black face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:black'>In addition to its poor
record of animal care, Johns Hopkins has a penchant for cruel and bizarre basic
research. For example, Lloyd Minor studies “vestibular compensation”
in squirrel monkeys. In lay terms, Minor studies how eye movement reacts to
sudden high-speed head movements and rotations by implanting metal coils in the
monkeys’ eyes. He then surgically installs steel poles in the
monkeys’ skulls, which lock into a special restraint chair. The chair is
rapidly spun and propelled, exerting tremendous force on the immobilized
monkey. In variations of this experiment, Minor cuts out pieces of the
monkeys’ brains, hoping to see if these “lobotomized” monkeys
respond differently to the chair spinning. Minor does not even pretend that
this research has any clear application to human health, but he continues his
torture chamber-like work on innocent monkeys as well as chinchillas.
Shockingly, this project receives almost $500,000 each year from the National
Institute of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='line-height:11.25pt'><font size=1 color=black face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:black'>Please write, call, fax,
or e-mail the head of the university and politely ask him to stop these
atrocities:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='line-height:11.25pt'><font size=1 color=black face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:8.5pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:black'>William Brody, President<br>
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Johns</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Hopkins</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place><br>
Office of the President<br>
242 <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Garland</st1:place></st1:City>
Hall<br>
<st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">3400 N. Charles St</st1:address></st1:Street>.<br>
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Baltimore</st1:City>, <st1:State
w:st="on">MD</st1:State> <st1:PostalCode w:st="on">21218</st1:PostalCode></st1:place><br>
410-516-8068<br>
410-156-6097 (fax)<br>
<a href="mailto:wrbrody@jhu.edu"><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>wrbrody@jhu.edu</span></font></a>
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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