European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 31, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday March 31 2007 stars and stripes Pace 11 there More behind us this time americans memorialize fallen troops As fighting continues by Scott Lindlaw the associated press san Francisco it took seven years after the fighting had ended for the United states to dedicate the Vietnam veterans me Morial in Washington this time around americans Are not wait ing for the shooting to Stop on beaches and bases town squares and veterans clubs they Are building their monuments to americas fallen As the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan grind on Vietnam in one Way or another looms Large Over this impulse to memorialize the War dead in real time some Are erecting these monuments As Antiwar statements against what they re Gard As another Vietnam others Are doing it to express their gratitude to the troops now rather than later As was done with the Vietnam veterans the sentiment of the nation there More behind us this time they saw what happened in Viet Nam they didst want to do that again to soldiers said fort Stew Art a spokesman Kevin Lar son emphasizing that he was speaking for himself not for the army base the names of the dead Are engraved on the rocks in a rambling Stone Wall in Asheville no they Are etched in Black Marble at a Mil itary club in san Francisco and in Black Granite at the state Capitol in Salem Ore in Santa Monica Santa Barbara and Lafayette Calif the Iraq toll is measured in thousands of White crosses veterans for peace in North Carolina an Antiwar group helped raise Money for the Asheville Monument some of us Are still Young enough to remember the Vietnam War and we see this War in Iraq As being very much the same sort of misguided adventure said past president Ken Ashe who served two Tours of duty in Vietnam Oregon taxpayers and other Pri vate donors financed the of gha iraqi Freedom memorial in Salem it consists of a Bronze statue of a kneeling Soldier and a Black Granite Wall engraved with Ben retired Marine maj Gen Michael Myatt touches a War memorial Wall bearing the names of us Bers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan last thursday at the Marine memorial club in san Francisco the names of More than 70 sol Diers and marines with Oregon ties who have died in the two wars with no end to either War i sight the designers left most of their Wall Blank so future deaths can be added in fact one grim common theme among Many of the shrines is that they Are running out of space plans Are already being drawn up for an expansion of the memorial in san Francisco built and maintained by the marines memorial club retired maj Gen j Michael Myatt president of the marines memorial club helped conceive the san Francisco Monument which resembles the Vietnam Wall pointing to one Section of names he noted they were All enlisted most of them probably Young its the youth and old men sending Young men to die Myatt said you  be Able to Send Young people into Battle and die unless youve had someone die in your arms As a result of an order youve Given study finds make new c global warming May images purge others National zoo vet crosses us to help pandas Breed by Randolph e Schmid the associated press Washington climates that have existed in some parts of Earth May disappear while novel new types of climate could develop in other areas As the planet continues to warm according to a new study such changes could endanger plants and animals living in affected areas although there also May be new opportunities in some re Gions said John w Williams an assistant professor of geography at the University of Wisconsin Madison using global change forecasts prepared for the intergovernmental panel on climate change a team of researchers led by will iams used computer models to estimate How climates in various parts of the world would be affected their findings Are being published in this weeks online Edi Tion of proceedings of the nation Al Academy of sciences the Picc representing the worlds leading climate scientists reported in february that warm ing of the climate system is unequivocal As is now evident from observation of increases in global average air and Ocean tempera Tures widespread melting of Snow and ice and rising global average sea level tropical regions in particular May face unexpected changes particularly the rain forests in the Amazon and Indonesia Williams researchers concluded this was surprising Williams said in a Telephone interview since the tropics tend to have Little variation in weather that also Means temperature changes of 3 or 4 degrees fahrenheit in these regions might have More Impact than a change of 5 to 8 degrees fahrenheit in a Region that is accustomed to regular changes species living in tropical areas May be less Able to adapt he said but said that is speculative and needs further study areas like the Southeastern United states and the arabian Peninsula might also be affected the researchers said and they said Mountain areas such As in peruvian and colombian Andes and regions such As Siberia and Southern Australia face a risk of climates disappear ing altogether by Darragh Johnson the Washington Post Washington flying Back from California to the District of Columbia Josayle Howard carried into the san Diego Airport a 2foottall tank that looked like a Metal bomb inside the dry ice gave off a swirl of what looked like smoke Howard had already enlisted the help of Homeland Security officials who ushered her men acing looking Container into the hands of special screener lest the xray machines radiation destroy its cargo by the time she boarded her redeye flight flight attendants were cooing Over the Container wrapping it in blankets and Pil lows and asking that any future babies be named after them such is me attention to detail afforded by airline Industry work ers when they know youve just collected and Are transporting one of the most valuable commodities in the zoo world fro zen Panda semen the sperm went Howard a National zoo vet noted wryly i did not the sperm flown with such fanfare to Washington last month was for the sole purpose of creating another cub after meticulous study by animal geneticists a giant Panda from san Diego with beckoning eyes and unquestioned virility was deemed the perfect donor for an offspring with the National zoos Mei Xiang two years ago artificial insemination using sperm from Tian Tian Mei Xiang male partner at the zoo resulted in the birth of Tai Shan this time if All goes As planned the father will be the Hearty Gao Gao pronounced Gow Pride of the san Diego zoo aspirin May extend lives of older women study says by Carla k Johnson the associated press Chicago aspirin in Low to moderate doses May lower the risk of death in women particularly those who Are older and prone to heart disease a 24year study of nearly 80000 women suggests however experts cautioned that the re sults Are not definitive and that women should not take aspirin As a health Preven Tive without talking to their doctors in the study of nurses who were mid dle aged and older women who took aspirin had a 25 percent lower risk of death com pared to those who never took it aspirin Tak ers had a 38 percent lower risk of death from cardiovascular disease and a 12 per cent lower risk of death from cancer Many doctors advise people whole had heart attacks and strokes to take a daily 81milligram baby aspirin costing less than 50 cents a week the new study suggests aspirin May help healthy women too no Bene fit was found for High doses which the study defined As two or More Standard 325milli Gram aspirin tablets a Day this confirms what we already know aspirin is Good for you whether youre a Man whether youre a woman said or Jeffrey Berger of Duke University medical Center who studies aspirins effects however since aspirin can cause ulcers and bleeding Berger said women should talk to their Doc tors before taking it to prevent disease the average age of the women was about 46 at the Start of the study and about 70 by its end the women at risk for heart attacks and strokes and older women got the most Benefit data from the nurses health study appearing in mondays archives of internal Medicine was observational meaning the women chose whether to take aspirin rather than being randomly assigned to take it the aspirin takers could have been health Ier than other women for reasons the re searchers didst take into account the Aspi Rin takers also could have been More Zeal Ous about How they took other Medicine for example we cannot prove a Ausean effect relationship and the results should be interpreted with caution said study coauthor or Joann Manson at Harvard affiliated Brigham and women Hospital we dont want people hearing about the study and be ginning to take aspirin Lon term without having a discussion with their doctor the researchers matched 9477 women who died Between 1980 and 2004 with women who didst die they looked at which women reported taking aspirin and took into account other risk factors such As High blood pressure diabetes smoking and weight