European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 14, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday August 14, 1993 . The stars and stripes Page 7 research links Gene to alzheimer s sync woday. V collaborating brain scientists have found new evidence that the most com Mon form of alzheimer s disease is inherited. Alzheimer s disease involves degeneration of the brain leading to memory loss disorientation and death. Diagnosis is difficult except by autopsy and there is no cure. The disease afflicts about 4 million americans. The research published Friday in two scientific journals shows that late Onset alzheimer s disease is closely linked to Agene involved m Normal fat metabolism. The Gene Apo-e4, makes a protein that May help damage brain cells causing the disease. The researchers said the risk of Alz Heimer s disease increased from 20 per cent when the Gene is absent to 90 per cent in someone inheriting two copies of the Gene. In addition the average age of Onset for alzheimer s decreased from 75 with one copy to 68 with two copies of the Gene. The Apo a genes make proteins that help transport fat molecules or lipoproteins within the body. Neurologist or. Allen roses said the discovery May Speed research on therapy. Since the genes that make Apo a have already been studied closely roses said we be already got a leg up. I think it the search for therapeutic drugs is going to go very the team s conclusions arc based on two studies of two different populations of alzheimer s patients and their rela Tives involving More than 700 people. It was already known that everyone in Herits two copies of the Apo Gene and that three versions of this Gene e2, e3 and e4 exist. The culprit in alzheimer s seems to be the e4 version the scientists said. When a person inherits one or two co pies of Apo-e4, As opposed to the other a items from Russia to go on Sale new York a. Here s your Hance to own a Yuri a. Gagarin Origi Nal the training gear worn by the Firstman in space. Or How about a rare Alexei a. Leonov his circa 1975spacesuit from the joint .-soviet Mission about 400 space oddities collected from More than 30 cosmonauts and what s left of the soviet space program go on the auction Block dec. 11. The death of communism has cleared the Way for capitalism All involved including rotheby s auction House stand to make a Good Buck. While nobody s exactly sure what the space stuff is Worth the people at so theby s who ordinarily Deal in Picas sos and the like said the interest is impressive. This is rather like having the com pass Columbus used said David n. Redden a rotheby s vice president Orthe boat that Leif Ericson was other items include the first Fork and can opener in space used by cosmonaut Gherman s. Titov the second Man to make an Orbital spaceflight. There s also a three Man capsule once used to ferry equipment Back to Earth. And a life size mannequin named Ivan Ivanovich sent twice into space during Russia tests. None of these items was Ever on Public display in the soviet Union Redden said. Like just about All things in the for Mer soviet Union the space program needs the Money. The russians Are dismantling their space program to concentrate on such commercial Ven Tures As launching communications a. Leonov s spacesuit which he wore while training for history s first spacewalk is among the items to be auctioned. He made the walk on March 18,1965. Redden came up with the idea of Selling the items and it was All systems go when the space Agency heard the proposition. The space stuff is now in a weather beaten warehouse in Manhattan s Spanish Harlem. The space capsule sits in the Middle of the floor the scattered spacesuits resemble a scene from an intergalactic locker for auction estimates rotheby s is boldly going where no Man has gone before. How much is a 1961 russian space Dummy Worth hiring ban on fired air controllers abolished Washington a in a largely symbolic gesture toward organized labor the Clinton administration lifted a ban thursday on rehiring air traffic control lers fired by president Reagan. While the administration does not condone illegal Job actions in the Federal government reasonable people would agree that after 12 years former air traffic controllers should be Able to apply for employment said a one Page statement signed by three officials. The statement noted that the decision would affect Only a limited number of jobs because there Are few vacancies. The Federal aviation administration said the former controllers will be subject to the same stringent employment training and certification requirements As any current the National air traffic controllers association the Union that now rep resents controllers estimates 3,000 of the h.400 fired workers would like to return. The workers fired by Reagan in 1981 for conducting an illegal strike belonged to the defunct professional air traffic con trollers organization or Patch. Letting the fired controllers apply for reinstatement would be largely symbolic because the Federal aviation administration has a hiring freeze for other than government employees. The Faa expects to end the freeze by 1994, but then Only to hire about Tio controllers a year. Before Thoai Rike there were 16,234 air traffic controllers including 13,170 full performance controllers capable of handling any Job at their facility without fur ther training. Now there arc 17,728 con trollers and about 12,500 full performance controllers. The new Union supports lifting the ban so lung As current controllers do not lose promotions due them. Al Cio president Lane Kirkland said president Clinton did the right thing Patch members have at Long last gotten government off their possible combinations the result is in creased risk for alzheimer a they said. About 30 percent of those studied had one copy of the e4 version while 2 per cent or 3 percent had two copies of e4, those with two copies were eight times More Likely to have alzheimer s than those with no e4 copies. Roses who Heads the Joseph an Kathleen Bryan alzheimer s disease re search Center at Duke University in Dur Ham n.c., also said that anyone with two copies of the Gene was virtually certain Roget alzheimer s by age 80, the research ers said. From 80 percent to 90 percent of Alz Heimer s cases occur after age 60. Wife wins wide support in mutilation by the Washington Post Manassas a. Seven weeks after Lorna Leonor Gallo Bobbitt took a Kitchen knife and Cut off her husband Penis following an alleged rape the woman has become something of a Folk heroine. She has gotten dozens of Calls and let ters of support mostly from women of Fering everything from simple encourage ment to help with Legal fees or researching her court Case said her attorney James Lowe of Alexandria a. The Man in this situation basically got what every woman who has been abused would like to have done but just was t Able to do said Elic Petrakis 37. Petrakis and six co workers in a Washington d.c., dress shop including one Man wrote a letter to Bobbitt and sent a copy to newspaper reporters. Bobbitt s husband John Wayne Bob Bitt 26, was charged last week with Mari Tal sexual assault and faces a sept. 27 jury trial. She was charged shortly after the june 23 incident with malicious wound ing. A trial Date is to be set in Early sep tember. Bobbitt s Penis was surgically cat Tach cd and his doctors report that he is making a Good recovery. Gregory Murphy John Bobbitt s attorney in Alexandria said his client has received fewer phone Calls of support five to be exact four of them from women. Murphy said he is not surprised that Lorna Bobbitt 24, has gotten More sup port than her husband who denies that he abused his wife and says he in fact was the abused partner. It s a visceral reaction to a very serious Issue in this country whereas John Bobbitt has been very quiet and silent in All this. Also the women s movement i general is much More organized Mur Phy said. Murphy likened the polarization of opinion about the Bobbitt to a gender but sentiment in this Case crosses Gen Der lines. It reminds me of Thelma & Louise said educational consultant Joseph Wein Berg referring to the movie in which two women travelling Cross country get even often violently with the men who abuse or insult them. Weinberg s firm in mad Ison wis., specializes in talking to men about rape and masculinity among other subjects. I m a Man and i certainly Don t sup port penises being Cut off. I5ut i Hope this will not be a smoke screen to really mask the incredible violence that men Are doing to women Weinberg , there Are some men who de serve t
