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MONDAY, A-UGUSTj£8, 1978
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L. ‘Bonus’ used
to improve
education
United Press International
LITTLE, Okk. — The reading lab
in a rural school district will have a
display of bicycles, watches and sad
dles — all purchased with state edu
cation funds — that students can win
if they sufficiently improve their
reading skills.
The Strother School is the first in
the state to award bonus gifts to stu
dents in the seventh through 10th
grades as motivation.
Superintendent Boyd Linduff said
the gifts for the sweepstake-style ap
proach to education will be pur
chased with funds from a $13,000
grant from the state Department of
Education.
“They call it reading for profit,” he
said. “It will give us something to
take a look at to see if kids can be
motivated.
Morning-evening people differ
Most people can easily classify
themselves as “morning people”
or “evening people” based on
their daily habits, said Debby
Johnson, a family life education
specialist with the Texas Agricul
tural Extension Service of the
Texas A&M University System.
A recent study was conducted
to find out how marriage relation
ships functioned when spouses
were both night or morning
people, or when one spouse was a
morning person and the other a
night person.
The findings of this preliminary
study indicate:
(1) Couples are aware of how
the morning vs. night orientation
affects their marriage.
(2) Morning people like to go to
bed by 10 p.m. and get up early,
while night people stay up late
and have trouble getting up in the
morning.
(3) Morning people are more
physically active and enjoy out
door activities. Night people are
either homebodies and like to
stay up late, watch TV, or talk; or
they like parties and an active
night life.
(4) Morning people value the
morning and look forward to sun
rise, breakfast, and morning ac
tivities. On the other hand, night
people do not express a real value
for the night hours.
"Matched couples report that
this helped stabilize their mar
riage, making daily routines and
preparation easier, Johnson
said. Further, their sexual rela
tions were more compatible, fam
ily activities more coordinated
and job satisfaction greater.
“Mismatched couples reported
more conflict, arguments, and
the need for compromise tosettU
differences, Johnson said.
Several mismatched spou$ t
noted that they had little timef (
conversation, irregular sleep lia^
its and a less-than-ideal sexual re
lationship. They were also mart
likely to have poor overall mania]
adjustment, unmanaged conflki
and potential for stress.
However, mismatched couplei
who had satisfying marriagesliaj
to be flexible and adaptable in
order to work out difficulties.
Several said they took naps ig
order to keep up with their
“night” spouses.
Undoubtedly, couples whoart
on different time clocks have
realized the strains this can putoi
a marriage. If they recognize this,
they can work out their differ
ences in time and still haveasatis-|
lying marriage, Johnson said.
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Autopsy on dead
may lead to cure
United Press International
CHICAGO — The scientists pro
bed a needle into the body extracting
tiny specimens of bone material.
An analysis of the specimens
showed tell-tale chemicals indicating
the patient died of ochronosis — a
hereditary disease that causes a buil
dup of acid in the body and agonizing
arthritis.
For Dr. Frederick Stenn and a
team of Northwestern University
scientists, it was no ordinary "au
topsy. The patient had been dead
for 35 centuries.
He lived and died in ancient
Egypt, possibly near Thebes. Mark
ings found with his mummified body
indicate he was the caretaker of a
grain storehouse.
The scientists believed he died at
about the age of 30 in terrible agony.
Stenn said mummies in museums
around the world may help 20th
Century man battle disease.
He said an increasing number of
scientists are practicing paleopathol
ogy — the study of ancient man or
animal remains to learn about dis
eases of antiquity. They analyze pre
historic hones and examine mum
mies with X-rays, three-dimensional
scanners, sonar devices and conven
tional surgery.
Through paleopathology, he said,
scientists can learn the medical his
tories of ancient Egyptian workers as
well as the arthritic conditions of an
cient hears and crocodiles.
"A German pathologist once
we should learn from the* dead,
Stenn, a medical historian
specialist in internal medicine.
Through the study of andent
mains, scientists can trad
changes in diseases and thdr
tionship with man throughout!
lory, Stenn said. 'Ur is could In!
new clues to help man cope
adly diseases, he said.
For instance, he said, nodta
strable cancer has been fousi
thousands of mummies studied
scientists.
"Now we have such a previ
of cancer, leukemia and llodd
Disease, but we have notnceoii
the ancients, he said. Pollution
chemicals could account forth
ference, he said.
Stenn said paleopatholgyal
shed more light on the caused
teriosclerosis — hardening of Ik
teries. High stress and a hea 1
diet are often listed as causcsid
disease. But paleopathologisbk
found arteriosclerosis inane
Egyptians — who may noil
eaten as richly as 20th Centuiyi
Stenn said. That could possible!
cate the condition is hereditar
said.
Paleopathedogy has been pi
ticed over the hist two centuries!
small group of scientists, Stenn
but it is still considered On the li
of medicine.
Americans postponm
marriage, study sat}
Unifcd Press International
WASHINGTON — The number
of single Americans lias grown so fast
in the 1970s that more than one in 10
households is now headed by some
one who has never been married,
says a new Census Bureau study.
Most single Americans belong to
the 20 to 34 age group where, the
report said, a rapidly growing
number of men and women are
either postponing marriage or
forgetting it entirely.
According to the report, there are
now 52.7 million singles between 20
and 34 in the United States, up 28
percent from the 1970 total.
The highest proportion of singles
are in the 20-24 age bracket where 66
percent of the men and 48 percent of
the women have never married.
Comparatively, 55 percent of the
men in that age group and 36 percent
of the women were single eight years
ago.
“This change is apparently related
to an increasing tendency for young
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later ages, or perhaps not man'
all, the report said.
The report said "most oltt
and women in the 20-24 agfU
“will probably marry ever
How ever, it said there isle'
spending increase in singleltt'
holds in the 25-29 and 30-))
brackets, which suggests "mon
more young adults are pursufe
ternatives to marriage lor I"
periods of time.
The increase in the nuirilw
singles has “contributed sulw
tially to the decline in thesizerf
average American household.
Eight years ago it was 3.1-1
sons. Now it is 2.81 persons,in
of 10.5 percent.
"Other factors contributing to
decline in the householdsizej®
a period of relativ ely lowbirtlu
and a comparatively high levt
separation and divorce, which*
had the effect of splitting onelf
household into two smaller*
the report said.
The report said the proportifl
households maintained by as*
person who has never married#
11 percent compared with
cent in 1970.
Meanwhile, the numberofk
holds headed by married coupli
dined from 70 percent in 19701
percent this year.
During the same period, tkf
portion of households maintain^
a divorced or separated §
climbed from 8 percent to 12f
cent.
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