European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 06, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday May 6,1989 the stars and stripes Page 9 Thermal vents found on floor of med Boston a Sci nuts from the Woods Hole oceanographic institution say they have found the first known Thermal vents in the Mediterranean sea. A discovery with Broad implications in Marine biology and geology. Thermal vents Are deep cracks where hot Miner als Well up from the Earth s Core. Marine biologists previously have discovered exotic creatures including Foo Long clams and 12-foot tube Worms living near such vents on the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean floors. The Woods Hole team said thursday that it expects previously unknown creatures also will be found near the Mediterranean vents discovered about 120 Miles from where a camera equipped robot will explore a sunken roman ship in 2.100 feel of water Olathe coast of Nlaly. Each place where Thermal ends have been found before we be come across new animals. And each place they be been different said Shelley Lau on. A spokeswoman for the oceanographic institution on Cape cod. The Robol Jason will transmit live pictures of the roman trading ship and Ocean floor to an estimated 250.000 schoolchildren at 13 museums from British Columbia to Florida. Robert Hallard. Oceanographer in charge of the $7 million Jason project found the first known undersea vents near the Galapagos islands in the Eastern Pacific in 1976. Since then researchers have found similar vents in the Western Pacific and mid Atlantic. Lau on said All the vents have been surrounded by chem synthetic bacteria unusual organisms living in darkness and feeding on chemicals that Are toxic to virtually All other forms of life the bacteria in turn Are believed to Start the food Chain that supports exotic animals found nowhere else including fool Long clams and mussels in the Eastern Pacific and eyeless shrimp and hairy snails in the Western Pacific. The fact that vents have found in the Atlantic tin Pacific and the Mediterranean suggests that they May be in All the oceans which implies that the diversity fireworks illuminate the night sky Over Versailles pal Ace in France following a re enactment of the 18lh-Cen Lury opening of the estates general one of he major blazing Bicentennial events that led to the French revolution. The full Cus Lume re enactment one of Many Bicentennial events this year Drew 500,000 spectators on thursday. Rubella vaccine warning renewed Atlanta a seventeen years of study of rubella vaccinations on pregnant women show chances of fetal infection Are Small but health experts warn that women still should be vaccinated Long before they get pregnant. Although rubella once known As German measles is mild in most cases congenital rubella syndrome rubella at birth can cause blindness retardation and heart defects. Since the rubella vaccine was licensed in 1969. The National centers for i Csc control Lus recommended against pregnant women getting the vaccine because of the possible risk of passing rubella on to their babies no cases of congenital rubella were detected in the children of 305 women who participated in a study from 1971 to 1988, the cd said. The women were susceptible to rubella and received rubella vaccine within three months of Conception. The observed risk for cos. Following rubella vaccination continues to be Ero the Atlanta based cd said. Adding that researchers in West Germany and great Britain also have found no vaccine related con genital rubella syndrome. However the virus in rubella vaccine has been known to Cross the Placenta and infect the fetus one study shows in infection rate of 3 percent. Rubella a once common childhood disease was re ported in Only 221 cases in the United slates last year. There was Olie Case of congenital rubella syndrome in 1988. Of deep sea life May be far greater than anticipated  said. Some scientists also have said that the discovery of  bacteria and organisms that feed on them makes it More Likely that life could exist under extreme conditions on Distant planets. David Gallo. Jason project coordinator and Assisi and director of the Center for Marine exploration at we ids Hole said thursday s discovery also was a significant technological Advance. In the past such explorations required scientists to spend a month or More at sea. He said viewing the Ocean Bottom second hand through the use of video Lapes taken from a submersible Craft. On thursday satellites enabled scientists at Woods Hole to see the Ocean floor As the camera saw it and to summon colleagues who could look and offer their opinions. Gallo said. This is remarkable that i could get an authority Here in two or three minutes who did t have to dedicate a whole month at sea to participate in this event he said. Study links Pill to greater risk of breast cancer London a Young women who take birth control pills for More than four years run a significantly increased risk of breast cancer according to a major British study published Friday. The researchers said that among women younger than 36. They found a 43 percent increase in the risk of breast cancer after four years of Pill use and a 7-4 per cent increase after eight years. They called on doctors to Tell women about the pos sible risks of breast cancer before they prescribe contraceptive pills but they did not advocate avoiding Oral contraceptives. The study published in the prestigious medical weekly the lancet is the most comprehensive look at the Pill and breast cancer Ever undertaken in Britain and one of the largest in the world. Clair Chilvers of the Institute of cancer research in London one of the study s authors advised women to use the lowest dose Pill available and slay on it for the shortest possible time. Women who Are not having Intercourse should Stop taking it she said. The authors said the risks had to he kept in Crsp Cliv e. Breast cancer is uncommon below age 36, the age group that was studied the study said. Only one woman in 500 develops the disease before age 36. So even a 70 percent increase in risk would Only put the chances of developing breast cancer by this age up to about one in 300." earlier studies on the relationship Between the Pill and breast cancer have reached conflicting results. List Jan uary a . Food and drug administration committee of experts declared that recent research on possible link Between the Pill and breast cancer was inconclusive. The new British study involved 755 British women under age 36 who were diagnosed As having breast cancer Between the beginning of 1982 and the end of 1985, compared with an equal number of similar but cancer free women. The researchers from Oxford University and two leading British cancer charities said they still could not answer the crucial question of whether the in creased risk persisted after the age of 36. They said they were undertaking a study on women aged 36 to 45 to help resolve this vital  the researchers said their study included Only those women with breast cancer who had the Opportunity to use Oral contraceptives from the Start of their reproductive lives. Since the Pill has Only been available in Britain since the Early 1960s, they decided to include Only women aged 36 and under at the time their breast cancer was diagnosed. The researchers said 91 percent of the women with breast cancer and 89 percent of the comparison group had used the Pill at some Lime. The relative risks were similar for women who used the Pill before and after their first full term pregnancy the researchers said. Britain s family planning association and National association of planning doctors said they were advis ing women now on the Pill who Are concerned about the findings to discuss the Issue with their doctors. They said the risks had to be balanced against the Pill s benefits in protecting women against ovarian and other types of cancer