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<base href=""> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" alink="#dddddd" vlink="#000000" link="#006699"> <table width="475" border="0"> <tr><td> <img src="http://www.buffalo.edu/reporter/images/blank.gif" alt=" " width="2" height="2" border="0"> </td> <td> <table width=99%> <tr><td> <font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="2"><b>VOLUME 30, NUMBER 33</b></font> </td><td align="right"> <font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="2"><b>THURSDAY, May 20, 1999</b></font> </td></tr> </table> <img src="http://www.buffalo.edu/reporter/images/Flag.gif" alt="Reporter" width="450" height="77"> <table border="0"> <tr><td><img src="Graphics/cover.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="210" alt=""></td> <td valign="middle"> <p> <font color="#006699" face="Arial, Helvetica" size="6">A family affair</font> <P> <font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="2"> Kristen Kinnear, left, joins her mother, Sandra, and her father,Ted, at Baird Point to celebrate their graduations. All three received UB degrees last weekend. Kristen earned a master's in music performance; Sandra, a doctorate in biochemical pharmacology, and Ted, an MBA. The family is from Chili, N.Y.</td></tr></table> <br> <p> <div align=right><a href="http://www.buffalo.edu/Reporter/vol30/commencement">More Commencement Photos</a></div> <P> <br><br> <font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="4"><f1mark><b> UB, ECC plan educational center downtown<br></b> <i> Partnership proposing relocation of Educational Opportunity Center to ECC's City Campus</i></font><br> The university and Erie Community College are moving ahead with plans for a partnership that would relocate the Educational Opportunity Center (EOC) to ECC's City Campus and create "an educational center" in downtown Buffalo. <br> <div align="right"><a href="f1.html"><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="1">FULL STORY</font></a></div> <p><br> <font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="4"><f2mark><b> Innovative pharmacy program a hit with patients</b> </font><br> An innovative program that operates community pharmacies jointly through the UB School of Pharmacy and Tops Markets, Inc., has resulted in better care for patients and better use of pharmacists' skills, and also is responsible for significantly increasing business in the pharmacies-in one case, more than doubling the number of prescriptions filled. <br> <div align="right"><a href="f2.html"><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="1">FULL STORY</font></a></div> <p><br> <a name="Top_Stories"></a><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size="3"><b>Top Stories...</b></font><br> <center> <table width="90%" border="0"> <tr><td> · <a href="n1.html"> Devices offer independence to the elderly: <i> Study shows low-tech, low-cost aids help frail elderly function, reduce health-care costs</i> </a><br> · <a href="n2.html"> World-class musicians to perform at 'June in Buffalo': <i> Festival to bring student composers from around the globe</i> </a><br> · <a href="n3.html"> Silver pledges $1 million for CAT </a><br> · <a href="n4.html"> High PCB levels found in breast milk of women who eat Lake Ontario fish </a><br> · <a href="n5.html"> Electronics to replace books? 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