In Print Photo by Steve Gilbert Focus: Accomplice Fingered In Cholera Toxicity The cholera toxin performs a Houdini-like escape act inside the cell, allowing disease progression. Tom Rapoport and colleagues think they have identified the molecular partner that facilitates the toxin's mischief. BBS Bulletin HSTconnector MedEd News Mentations On The Brain

Headlines Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary Researchers Discover Gene that Causes a Form of Blindness From Birth Measures of Hair Nicotine Show Non-Smoking Bar and Restaurant Workers Inhale Smoke Equivalent to Active Smokers Upcoming Cabot Primary Care Series Beyond Prohibition: A Case for Drug Legalization Gary Johnson, New Mexico governor Tuesday, April 17 6:00 p.m.

Student Scene Photo by Jeff Cleary Love in the Time of Medical School As a medical student, Tarayn Grizzard views love and marriage—and the high risk of divorce among doctors—with trepidation. To ease the strain on medical families, she encourages hospitals to strengthen the social support they provide. Call for Writers Are you an HMS student and a natural writer with few outlets for your creative mind and journalistic eye? Consider writing for Focus and WebWeekly. Several of our veteran columnists will be graduating this year so we're looking for MD and PhD students to fill their vacancies. The job requires producing about a half dozen columns a year for the Forum and Student Scene sections. Candidates must be skilled and motivated writers though do not have to be previously published. The biweekly Focus goes out to 18,000 faculty and staff across HMS and the affiliated hospitals, and every issue of WebWeekly receives thousands of visitors. If interested, please contact editor Robert Neal, 432-0448 or e-mail rneal@hms.harvard.edu.

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