European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 4, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 b the stars and stripes thursday june 4, 1992 a new kids in biosphere 2 a Jane Poynter part of the biosphere 2 team holds african pygmy gout triplets born sunday inside the biosphere Structure near Oracle Ariz. Poynter said the kids arc doing Well despite a shaky Start for the smallest one. The biosphere 2 is a two year venture by four men and four women who Are scaled inside a 2 4-acre geodesic Frame. Their experimental environment recycles air water food and wastes and includes a mix of plants and animals. Poynter and the baby goats were photographed through a window. . Health practices improve but plates too full study says Washington apr americans Are taking better care of their health by doing things such As consuming More nutritious foods buckling seat belts and installing smoke detectors according to a Survey. But most still eat too much said the prevention Index report on health practices. The Overall Index score was 66.5 out of 100. Highest in the nine years the annual Survey has been compiled according to the Magazine. However the Index which was announced wednesday showed Only 19 percent of adults were Able to maintain the proper weight for their height age and sex. That s 4 percentage Points Tower than the Index found in 1983. The 1992 Index was based on a nationwide Louis Harris amp associates Telephone Survey of 1,256 randomly selected adults from nov. 20 to dec. 5, 1991. The Survey found that about 65 percent of respondents were Over their recommended weight Range with 55 percent at least 10 percent Over that Range. The weight control problem should not be surprising a despite billions spent annually on weight log a gimmicks a Rise in drunkenness among students reported Chicago apr More College students got drunk in the late 1980s than their counterparts a dozen years before researchers said tuesday. Hard drinking College men still outnumber women but people of both sexes increasingly get drunk researchers at Harvard University in Cambridge mass., reported in wednesday s edition of the journal of the american medical association. A half of the men and a third of the women report having consumed five or More drinks in a Row on at least one occasion in the past two weeks a a they said. The Survey was limited to 1,669 first year Massachusetts students in 19s9, but the findings Are similar to recent nationwide data. About 50 percent of men and 13 percent of women often drank heavily the study found. Almost 41 percent of men reported getting drunk one to three times a month and 57 percent of women admitted similar frequency. That compares to 25 percent of men and 14 percent of women in 1977. A a in Given some of the Survey s other f r.2 r a fat intake has remained it c it nine years. A Only 43 percent said they a1-i-ta no sugar and Sweet foods a about 48 percent avoid eating too much Salt or sodium also Down 5 percentage Points meanwhile among significant improvements a More than two thirds of the respondents 69 percent said they Wear seat belts when they Are in the front seat of a car up 50 percentage Points from 1983. A eighty eight percent said they have smoke detectors in their Homes up 21 percentage Points. A almost four fifths of Drivers. "9 percent said they never drive after drinking or Don t drink at All up 11 percentage Points. A half said they try to avoid eating too Many High cholesterol foods an increase of a  Points since 1955. A three quarters said they smoke cigarettes up percentage Point free time More important to workers employers say new York apr employers believe their workers Are less willing to sacrifice family and Leisure time for their careers than they were five years ago a Survey says. A poll of 578 companies by Olsten corp. A temporary personnel firm said 46 percent of employees were less willing to give up free time and 15 percent said they were More willing. Thirty six percent reported no change and 3 percent did not respond. The comparison with five years ago was based on the employers perception of a change in worker attitude. Faced with a Job Transfer that led to More pay but eroded Leisure time 28 percent of companies said they believed employees would accept the move 19 percent said employees would not. In another finding 63 percent of companies said employees exhibited Normal or severe Levels of stress and 72 percent said stress Levels had increased in five years the Survey was conducted in april. Olsten based in Westbury n.y., sent out 3.500 surveys to human resource executives nationwide at companies ranging from Small firms to Fortune 1000 companies. Quot Quot  rejects new trial in fatal vision murders from wire reports Richmond a. A Jeffrey r. Macdonald whose murder Case inspired the Best Selling Book fatal vision has lost his bid for a new trial. A three judge panel of the 4th . Circuit court of appeals ruled unanimously tuesday that newly identified evidence raised by Macdonald a lawyers Quot neither supports Macdonald a account of the murders nor discredits the government s theory of How the killings occurred. Macdonald a wife Colette and their two daughters were clubbed and stabbed to death on feb. 17, 1970, in the family a Home at the fort Bragg n.c., army base. Macdonald a physician was convicted of the crimes in 1979 and freed by an appellate court in 1980. He went Back to prison in 1982 when the supreme court reinstated his convictions.6 injured in guard crash fort Indiantown Gap a. Six people were injured tuesday when a National guard air plane crashed during a training flight at an army facility in fort Indiantown Gap. Three of the injured were passengers and three were Rescue workers who suffered Burns while pulling the victims from the wreckage. The Pilot maj. Wayne Springa of Pine Grove was listed in critical condition at Lancaster general Hospital. Army officials identified another injured Man As warrant officer William Harrison of Jonestown. Officials said the other injured guardsmen whose identities were not released Are from new  rams vegas Casino Las vegas a a bus crashed into a Casino restaurant tuesday evening injuring at least 13 people authorities said. The bus rammed into the Side of the restaurant at Barcelona hotel Casino ending up nearly Halfway inside the Small building said a Clark county fire department spokesman. At least 13 people including the Driver were taken to four hospitals. None of the injuries was believed to be life threatening paramedics  hits la Guardia area new York a fire closed the main terminal at la Guardia Airport for More than an hour tuesday night. Thirteen people suffered smoke inhalation police said. No flights were diverted or held in the air said Kirk Nelson an Airport operations agent. The fire broke out in a freight ramp area under construction in the main terminal. It was brought under control within a half hour said sgt. Stephen Prospero of port authority  s harasser confined Santa Ana Calif. A a Man who bombarded German skating Star Katarina Witt with threatening letters Ana nude photos of himself has been sentenced to More than three years in a mental Hospital. . District judge Gary Taylor said monday that he Felt compelled to take Harry Veltman Illus psychiatric problems into account even though Veltman was found competent to stand trial. Veltman 47, of Westminster also was ordered to avoid contacting  of for trial new York a a subway Motorman a admission to police that he drank alcohol before taking the controls of a train that crashed killing five people can be used at his murder trial a Tudeen ruled tuesday. Justice Daniel Fitzgerald said Robert Ray was properly told his rights understood them and was not so drunk that he did no to know what he was doing or saying. A a when Ray was questioned after the aug. 28, 1991, wreck under Union Square he told police he believed he was an alcoholic that he drank before and after the crash and that he dozed off at the trains controls. Ray 38, faces trial on five counts of murder a crime punishable by 25 years to life in prison