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th you,’and not going to ading matt- Hands quicker than the camera asketball, 1 t very likel Cliff Rice, a doctoral candidate in wildlife studies, juggles on the lawn in front of the Academic Building. Rice, who was finishing lunch with friends, says he juggles often" to keep in practice. Battalion photo by every so Lynn Blanco rials suchai i students ill r eart disease deaths not related o coffee drinking, study reports United Press International WASHINGTON — A new study iers good news to coffee drinkers (to may have heard of a possible nk between heavy coffee drinking id heart disease. A follow-up survey of 2,530 men id women, blacks and whites, in vans County, Georgia, found no insistent differences between the art disease death rates of heavy fee drinkers and those who drank ss or none at all. The reassuring statistics will leer the coffee drinker as well as leabstainer," said Dr. Samuel Vai- ub, associate editor of Archives of ternal Medicine, a doctor’s jour- al published by the American idical Association. After all, coffee is no ordinary ink such as chocolate soda and the he wrote in an editorial ac- impanying the Evans County re lit. “It is a way of life." iThe possible relationship be- reen coffee and heart attack has been controversial since a report from Boston University in 1972 suggested that heart attack risks in creased by 60 to 120 percent for those who drank coffee regularly, with the risk increasing with coffee consumption. That conclusion was based on studies of hospitalized people. Two other studies comparing people who died of heart disease and those who did not found no as sociation between heart disease and heavy coffee drinking although a Finnish study reported last year did find such a link. The Evans County study is the latest of seven prospective surveys following coffee drinkers to see if they develop an abnormally high rate of heart disease. All were nega tive outright, or after deleting any effects caused by cigarette smoking, a known heart disease risk factor. The new report, published in the October issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine, was prepared by a team of doctors led by Dr. Sieg fried Heyden of the Duke Univer sity Department of Community and Family Medicine. They identified those who were heavy coffee drinkers — drinking five or more cups a day — and those who drank less than five cups daily or those who didn’t drink coffee. The group then was followed for four-and-one-half-years. A total of 339 deaths occurred among the group and 130 were at tributed to either heart disease or stroke. When deaths from heart disease were singled out, the report said there were no significant differences between those who drank coffee and those who did. “Lack of systematic differences in vascular mortality among the four race-sex groups led us to the conclu sion that there was no evidence of an association between coffee- drinking habits and mortality, either h orn all causes or from specific vas cular diseases, the report said. PtDOll (2Gf2BB<i7 IN CONCERT MONDAY NIGHT NOVEMBER 6,1978 RUDDER THEATRE TEXAS A&M 7'30 p.m. Dazzling melodic. Keaggy was the lead guitarist for Glass Harp until 1972 when . . he left the group just as he was gaining recognition as one of the best new rock guitarists . . By this lime, Phil had developed the speed and dexterity for which he laler became known." - Guitar Player Magazine Guitarist extraordinaire . . . one of music's finest composers, vocalists, and guitarists . . . 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Industry officials want the Environmental Protection Agency to accept the new system as a re placement for the bulky, complex, problem-plagued equipment it now is testing in California and the Dis trict of Columbia. The EPA, responding to the Clean Air Act, is expected to decide soon on how to control gasoline vap ors at service stations. There are two major differences between the two approaches to vapor control — where the control equipment would be installed, and who would pay for it. In the system now being tested by the EPA, the equipment is built into the filling station pump and the station operator would pay the cost. Operators might raise the price of their gasoline slightly to recover their expenditures. But in the new system developed and tested by the American Petro leum Institute, the equipment would be built into individual vehi cles and car owners would bear the cost. The API estimated the cost at less than $10 per vehicle. Unlike equipment on service sta tion pumps, which in theory could stop fillup vapor emissions from old cars as well as new, the system pro posed by the API would be limited to new cars because it would have to be installed during vehicle manufac ture. The system the EPA is now test ing involves a bulky nozzle designed to fit tightly into a vehicle’s fuel tank, plus a double hose from the pump. One hose supplies gasoline to the vehicle, while the second hose sucks vapors out of the vehi cle’s fuel tank and returns them to the service station’s storage tanks. The Athletic Attic is Coming! Tests of that system have turned up several defects including fuel spills caused by poor-fitting nozzles and cases where the pump con tinued running after the car’s tank was full, simultaneously putting more gas in the tank and sucking it out. 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