European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 5, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday december 5,1993 Page 10 the stars and . 1 si.a., 519?j Quot a a a a Oil Quot la Quot a a. 1 a. Quot a. Girls Cross country tops injury list Seattle f apr girls who run Cross country arc More Likely to be injured than High school athletes participating in any other sport including varsity football a study has found. A one out of three female Cross country runners is injured in some Way during practice Competition according to the findings of or Stephen Rice a paediatrician and sports a a a a a a the a a a Hoot All was the s _. Thing was third and girls soccer fourth the research Medicine specialist at the University of Washington a a Arball was the second most dangerous sport Wres showed. Boys Cross country was fifth. Overall fall sports appear to be that _ Rice said. Quot the tact that fall sports have such a High level of injuries suggests that we need to be doing a better Job of keeping the kids on a summer fitness program Quot Rice said in a Telephone interview Friday night. Tendinitis of the knee Shin splints ankle sprains and stress fractures of the leg were the most common injuries the study  injury incidence in girls Cross country was 61.4 injuries per 100 runners. Injured Girts averaged two injuries apiece. Tie sport had an Overall injury rate of 17.3 per 1,000 athletic exposures defined As one athlete participating in one practice or contest. Football had an Overall injury rate of 12,7 per 1,000 athletic exposures. Rice director of the University of Washington a athletic health care system began interviewing coaches in the late 1970s As part of a program to prevent High school sports injuries. The research was funded through the . Department of education. The data collected from High school coaches at 20 puget Soi ind area schools from 1979 to 1992, involved More than 60,000 High school athletes in 18 team sports. In sports played by both girls and boys girls have a higher Rale of injury the study concluded. Rice speculated that the High rate of injuries for girl harriers stems in part from the female skeletal Structure girls hips tend lobe wider throwing off the skeletal alignment. The injuries also might Stem from poor nutrition of girls with eating disorders he said. Stress fractures which can require lengthy recovery also Are associated with a woman oestrogen level. A a pre pubescent girl has a Low oestrogen level and has not developed maximum Bone density a or. Mona Shan Gold Tot Shangold is director of the sports gynaecology and women s life Cycle Center at Hahnemann University in and Shangold said Girts who train heavily menstruate keeping their oestrogen Levels Low. Philadelphia both face r often do not menstruate Slayer of 4 spent 7 years trying to get Oxnard Calif. Api Alan Winterbourne wanted a Job and even tried to become a congressman because the pay looked Good. His Job search evolved into a Long Battle with the bureaucracy however and it ended in an explosion of violence at a state unemployment office that left three state employees a police officer and himself dead. Police said Friday that they were Uncertain what triggered Winterbourne a shooting rampage. They were reviewing documents no left at a newspaper just 30 minutes earlier detailing a seven year Campaign for work. Quot we be got thousands of things to look at. Our first review of those dec ments reveals nothing that gives us insight As to motive Quot said Oxnard police spokesman David Keith. Winterbourne armed with a handgun and Shotgun calmly walked into a state employment development department Gina out workers Onue ignoring ers witnesses said. Winterbourne fled in a car after a Brief shootout with police. During a Pursuit Winterbourne killed an Oxnard police officer and then was killed by police outside another unemployment office in nearby Ventura. Five other people were wounded one by police. Winterbourne had no record of arrests and despite a reputation As a civic gadfly no one had Ever filed a complaint against him Keith said. Avilina Villalobos the Oxnard employment development departments office manager said she did not remember seeing Winterbourne in the office before the shooting or seeing his Case. Asked if any of the victims had worked with him she said Quot to my knowledge nobody had anything to do with  a half hour before the rampage Winterbourne left documents with the Ventura Star free press detailing a seven year spectators lit Oxnard Calit gather to see Bullet riddled windows Friday at the state employment Orlyce where a former congressional candidate opened Are. Search for work he said he would Call later to discuss them with an editor. The documents included want ads Job applications and 288 tetters addressed to every major employer in the county Winterbourne had been unemployed since 1986 after resigning As a computer Engineer at Northrop corp., citing an inability to adapt to a change in assignment. Six months after quitting Wunter Boule filed for jobless benefits at the Oxnard office but was denied them after Northrop argued that he had left voluntarily. Later Winterbourne lost a Republican primary to . Rep. Robert j. Lagomarsino garnering u percent of the vote. His platform reduce the deficit and eliminate the 55 Mph Speed limit. Winterbourne said before the primary that he was attracted by a congressional salary of More than $100,000, a i think it  a he said. Hollywood Madam Case May target clients by the los Angeles times los Angeles a a prosecutor in the Case against reputed Hollywood Madam Heidi Fleiss said Friday that he was considering filing charges against some of Fleiss alleged male clients. This raises the Prospect that the names in her so called Quot Black books might one Day be made Public. Deputy District attorney Alan Carter made the comment in open court during a hearing. The hearing was on Fleiss Contention that she was a victim of discriminatory prosecution because no charges have been filed against her alleged clients. Later outside court Carter said that he was not yet sure such prosecution was feasible and that he had not broached the Issue with his Boss District attorney Gil Garcetti. Testimony ends in trial of Brothers by the los Angeles times los Angeles with a videotaped tour of the Beverly Hills mansion where Lyle and Erik Menendez killed their parents on aug 20,1989, the presentation of evidence and testimony finally came to a dose Friday in the Brothers murder trial. There were 101 witnesses 405 exhibits and 85 Days of trial stretching across 20 weeks. And As both sides sought to leave no Stone unturned jurors were treated to pictures taken All around the outside of what was once the Menendez estate a even shots of the Back Alley. The trial though is far from Over this week a prosecutor and Lyle Menen Dezs lawyers will argue his Case to his jury. Next week another prosecutor and Erik Menendez a attorney will make closing arguments in his Case to a separate panel. After court ended Friday both the prosecution and defense indicated that their closing arguments will step Back from the Small details that dominated weeks of testimony a and try to win Over jurors with Broad simple strokes. Quot for a Case with a simple theme which is Why these boys kilted their parents it has a tremendous amount of Overly complicated evidence uselessly complicated evidence in some ways a defense lawyer Leslie Abramson said. The time has come she said to Quot get Back to the big picture which is answering that question Why the Brothers killed Quot and in a optimistic a she added Quot that we have presented the answer to that question. Now whether the jury accepts the answer or not i never Ever  Quot we Haven to talked about the crime itself for a Long time a said Deputy District attorney Pamela Bozanich. "1 think we might Point out that there Are two dead bodies involved in this Case. That might be part of our  judge oks videotaping of killer s execution by the Baltimore Sun Baltimore a a Federal judge ruled Friday that the execution of John Frederick Thanos May be videotaped and that his brain Waves monitored As possible evidence to determine if death by lethal Gas is cruel and unusual punishment. . District judge Marvin j. Garbis said the constitutionality of the Gas chamber is a Quot serious questions that should be decided on Quot the Best possible evidence a Thanos who confessed to killing three teen agers during a we Klong crime spree in 1990, has said he wants no More appeals which could make him the first person executed in Maryland since 1961-he has agreed to the monitoring