U.S. ‘ignores’ cure for TB
United Press International
ATLANTA — The incidence of
tuberculosis in the United States is
declining at a slower rate than in re-
cent years and one of the reasons
may be that people with active TB
are not taking their medications
properly, the national Center for
Disease Control reports.
The CDC said Saturday that
provisional figures for 1978 show a
case rate of 13.4 per 100,000, a de
cline of only 3.6 per cent from the
previous year.
Since 1953, the annual case rate
has decreased {ft approximately 6
percent per year. Federal health of
ficials said that although corrected
data may change the 1978 case rate
slightly, a 3.6 decrease “is one of the
smallest in the past 25 years.”
Preliminarly figures reported to
the CDC’s tuberculosis control divi
sion show there were 29,253 cases of
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John Seggerson, director of pro
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culosis control division, said if
people with active cases of the dis
ease “take their medications inter
mittently, then their organisms get
a chance to build up a resistance to
the drugs.”
“We think that the development
of resistant disease is an indication
that tuberculosis is not under con
trol,” Seggerson said.
The prescribed routine, Segger
son said, is for patients to take sev
eral drugs daily for 18 months. Pre
ventive treatment consists of taking
the antibiotic, isoniazid, for one
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Seggerson said there may be as
many as 15 million people in the
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SEATTLE — St. Valentine or
Don Juan probably could have
learned a thing or two from David
Givens.
Givens spent a good part of the
last three years scrutinizing the
getting-to-know-you rituals of males
and females in student dining rooms
at the University of Washington.
Givens is not a spy, nor a voyeur.
He’s not even a romantic. He’s an
anthropologist and he kept a close
watch on coquetry in the interest of
science — and a doctor’s degree.
What he learned about love
among the coffee cups and salt shak
ers is as old as Adam and Eve. And
it is not likely to change despite
women’s lib or any macho renais
sance.
Givens, who chronicled his find
ings in an article published in the
Psychiatric Journal, said flirtation,
seduction and courtship fall into pat
terns regardless of how magical it
may seem to the participants. In
fact, he said, the processes are so
invariable they can be categorized.
A cafeteria conquest usually starts
with a girl sitting alone. The male
enters and sits at the farthest corner
of the same table, and the attention
phase commences.
The male turns so the front of his
body faces the woman, but not his
head. He looks at the table, then off
to the side. Before long his gaze be
gins to sweep across her gaze.
If the glance is returned, both
begin tossing their heads and smil
ing as they adjust the muscle tone of
their bodies. Stomach is sucked in,
posture improves and the chest is
expanded. Both begin stretching
and they casually groom them
selves, hands touching clothing,
face and hair.
If all is going smoothly, the rec
ognition phase begins. The two look
at each other and then down, in un
ison. They smile at the same time.
They toss their heads and tension
builds.
This once was called “love at first
sight,” Givens said. Then both
move into submissive postures.
Shoulders come up and forward,
heads tilt to the side, feet go into a
pigeon-toed stance and they clasp
themselves.
According to Givens, this body
language was designed by nature to
show that a person is harmless, re
gardless of intentions.
If at this point and neither has cut
off the process by going blank or re
fusing to return glances, the two
now enter into the introduction
phase. They talk to each other.
What they talk about doesn’t mat
ter, Givens said, because the non
verbal language continues. Voices
become pitched higher than normal
and softer. , i
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at each other in unison and k: >ames
motions are rotations of the pak e ^
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tinues to build. They stretch. Hi? °8 e ,
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. — The popular image of the angry young
man — or the angry young woman, for that matter — largely isi
myth, reports a top University of Michigan psychologist
In fact, social scientists know precious little about adolescents ii
general, said Professor Joseph Adelson, director of the Universit}«
Michigan Psychological Clinic. j.
“Adolescents as a whole are not in turmoil, not deeply ^' stlir j* rese£U
not at the mercy of their impulses, not resistant to parental values an. i
not rebellious, ” said Adelson, editor of the Handbook of Adolescent ^ ^
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body of the young — on addicted, delinquent and disturbed young
sters; on the ideologically volatile, or on males, who are far wort
impulsive and rebellious than females,” he said. rl.n 1Q
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Social scientists are just starting to
know about the period of adolescence
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