European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 15, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Its a natural improvement Mechanic Tim Lane of Consumers Power co. Inspects natural Gas tanks on a still size pickup wednesday at the Utility a Pontiac mich., service Center. Consumers by new Day three factors strongly predict which women will get breast cancer after menopause a a family history of the disease late age first pregnancies and having an Apple shaped body according to a report. Most women have Pear shaped bodies meaning they have Clear waistlines and tend to Deposit excess weight in their hips and buttocks. The woman with an Appl shaped figure has a less pronounced ratio of Waist to hip size and tends to Deposit excess weight above her hips in a manner More commonly seen in men. Researchers from the University of Minnesota school of Public health surveyed More than 37,000 White women in Iowa Between 1986 and 1989, 493 of whom developed new cases of breast cancer during the study. They confirmed studies that have shown a woman is More Likely to get breast cancer later in life if an immediate relative a an aunt Niece Mother sister or grandmother a had the May help the sight impaired Baltimore up space age video headsets to enhance poor vision will be offered to volunteers at veterans affairs medical centers in preparation for marketing to 3 million victims of Low vision within three years researchers say. Looking through the Low vision enhancement system glasses is like watching an image on a 60-Inch television screen from 4 feet away. Under Normal circumstances a person with Low vision often cannot even make out the features on another persons face. A flow vision is a rather Large problem a said Robert Massof director of the Wilmer Eye institutes Lions vision Center at the Johns Hopkins medical institutions. A these Are visual impairments that Are not corrected medically surgically or with corrective Eye Wear. The problem in the past has been the limitation of the goggles a collaborative Effort Between the Wilmer Eye Institute and the National aeronautics and space administration use a miniature camera mounted in a wrap around Headset. The images Are in Black and White because color makes the product expected to be marketed at about $3,000, Cost prohibitive. Massof said the system cannot help people who Are totally or legally Blind. Power owns five trucks that run on Dean burning natural Gas. The vehicles get about 200 Miles per tank at an equivalent Cost of 65 cents per gallon of gasoline. The researchers reporting in thursdays new England journal of Medicine also found that All other risks for breast cancer were magnified greatly in women with the family history of the disease. For example having an Apple shaped body increased a woman a risk for breast cancer by 20 percent. But women with both a family history of the disease and an Apple shape were three times More Likely to suffer the disease. Delaying first pregnancy until after age 30 doubles an average woman a breast cancer risk but makes the woman with a family history of the disease six times More Likely to get breast cancer. Never having children mildly increases breast cancer risk for most women but More than doubles the Odds for women with family histories of the disease. Finally obesity was a risk for All women but for those with family histories of breast cancer it increases the risk of getting breast cancer by 2vi products a must . Companies told by the new York times Salt Lake City a from its subways to its spacecraft America is being deafened by noise experts gathered Here say. In Europe said or. Klaus Brinkman of the German Federal Institute of standards some 380 million people in a score of countries can eventually expect Protection under a uniform set of environmental standards now being negotiated including those dealing with noise. Unless the United states begins making quieter machinery to comply with the standards being worked out in Europe he warned at a meeting of the american acoustical society americans sales in the european Market could sharply decline. Some speakers noted that permanent hearing loss some of it caused by dangerously amplified music had become a widespread affliction in this country. Or. Patrick e. Brookhouser an audiologist from boys town National research Hospital in Omaha neb., reported clinical details of 114 children who had suffered noise induced hearing loss. He urged a psychosocial measures to induce children to use ear protectors. But there seems to be some Hope the use of a anti noise to cancel noise. If a Loudspeaker or some other device can be made to Emit a pattern of sound exactly opposite to the first one in terms of pressure fluctuations the two sounds a destructively interfere a cancelling each other shows White kids More Likely to use drugs from wire reports Washington a White children Are More Likely than Black children to use illegal drugs and alcohol health and human services Secretary Louis w. Sullivan said wednesday. A the time has come to put an end to the misconceptions about the extent of drug use among Brack youth a Sullivan told students in the capital. National High school senior surveys from 1985 to 1989 found that 88.3 percent of White males had used alcohol in the last year while 72.5 percent of Black male High school seniors had the department said. For cocaine use the figures were 12 percent for White seniors and 6.1 percent for Black seniors and for marijuana the figures were 40 percent for Whites and 29.8 percent for offers Reward Newark . A Exxon co. International on wednesday offered a a a substantial Reward for information leading to the Safe return of its president Sidney j. Reso who has been missing since april 29. No amount was specified. Law enforcement officials have confirmed that a Ransom demand was received soon after the disappearance of the 57-year-old executive. But they said those who made the demand had not tried to make further Contact. Company workers will be staffing telephones around the clock to receive information. The numbers Are 201 538-8237 and 201 538-8345.no penalty for drawings Cincinnati a a surgeon who used a Marker to draw a Happy faces on the genital areas of two patients Saia wednesday an investigation has cleared him of misconduct. Or. Glenn d. Warden chief surgeon at the shrines Burns Institute said Hospital officials declined to show him the report but told him it found no problems. The Ohio surgical panel inc., an Arm of the american College of surgeons investigated wardens actions at the request of Ronald Hitzler administrator of the sinners Hospital. Warden acknowledged using a marking pen to draw a a Happy face on a Many a genitals and a woman slower Abdomen to ease their tension Over the surgery. He said the patients had consented to the chief probed san Francisco a the mayor has asked for an investigation into claims that police chief Richard Hongisto ordered officers to pull thousands of copies of a newspaper from Racks because of a Story criticizing him. Hongisto chief for just six weeks denies ordering Nis officers to pick up copies of the twice monthly san Francisco Bay times a free new paper serving the Gay and lesbian Community. The newspaper criticized Hongisto for mass arrests at demonstrations protesting the acquittal of four White men charged in the police beating of Black Motorist Rodney g. King. Mayor Frank Jordan said he had asked the police commission to investigate. He said he also asked for an internal police investigation.102 on Jet had cholera i los Angeles a at least 102 people were infected with cholera on an Aero Lineas Argenti Nas flight to los Angeles earlier this year a health official said wednesday. A we know there were More but we did no to Contact All of the passengers a said or. Shirley Fannin disease control director for the los Angeles county department of health services. Officials previously said at least 76 of the 356 passengers and Crew members contracted the bacterial disease on the feb. 14 flight from Buenos Aires to Lima Peru and to los Angeles. One person died. I Fannin has said the cholera outbreak most Likely was caused by contamination of a cold i food salad made by a peruvian caterer and i loaded onto the plane in Lima. The catering company Cotinas de Vuelon Docampo s.a., Dei Nina it was responsible. Breast cancer More Likely in Apple shaped women
