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17 A&M students renovating
facilities as on-job training
By LORRAINE CHRIS
TIAN
Reporter
After a month of work, the
New Trends Industry facilities
will be completed this week. But
New Trends isn’t an average in
dustry and the facilities weren’t
built by average construction
workers.
New Trends is an organiza
tion which helps mentally re
tarded adults find contract
work. And building construc
tion students from Texas A&M
have been renovating the indus
try’s facilities as part of a semes
ter on-the-job training pro
gram.
The 17 Texas A&M students
are painting, building walls and
building storage supply racks at
New Trends. They have been
working there every Tuesday
and Thursday for the past four
weeks.
Craig Colby, work shop su
pervisor at New Trends, said he
is extremely happy with the
work done by the class.
“I’m very pleased with the
quality of the work being done,”
Colby said. “I’m proud to be af
filiated with a student body like
this.”
Tony Marino, building con
struction graduate assistant,
said experience is why the
building construction class
works on a project every semes
ter.
Marino said he is pleased
with this semester’s renovation
project.
“This project includes more
activities than usual,” he said.
“It’s more versatile.”
Life expectancy
hits highest rate
for 1983 babies
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By PATRICIA FLINT
Stun Writer
At 3.5 million years old, Lucy
a little more than middle
d. In fact, she’s the oldest
It-walking human ancestor
an to be recovered.
* inl ° u. today at 7 p.m. in Rudder Fo-
ie warde "4,Dr.B. Thomas Gray, who
Biscovered the fossil, will
t illed 23 ' vea * ecllire an( * slide show on
Jnine whod e controversy surrounding
wo victims Ir' . .
“violence Gray found the remains dur-
at theprisoV 1 research excavation in Ha-
ow that Bufl
a graduate student. Until then,
the oldest human ancestor was
dated at 2.5 million years old.
Lucy is not only the oldest, but
with 40 percent of the skeleton
recovered she is the most com
plete humanoid ever found,
and the best preserved. Contro
versy has arisen over the accu
racy of date given to the site.
Gray is a professor of physi
cal anthropology at Southwest
Texas State University. He was
a key member of the Interna
tional Afar Research Expedi
tion to Hadar. Dr. Thomas Jo-
hanson, who co-discovered
Lucy with Gray, wrote a book
with Mail land Edey entitled
“Lucy: The Beginning of Hu
mankind.”
United Press International
NEW YORK — Babies born
last year can expect to live 74.6
years, an all-time high for the
United States and almost a year
longer than the 1980 life expec
tancy rate, statistics showed
Tuesday.
If the trend continues, the
average American will live into
his 80s by the year 2050, said
Stanley Kranczer, senior re
search associate for Metropol
itan Life Insurance Co.
“The improvement is due to
a combination of factors, but
primarily reflects the continued
downward trend in infant mor
tality rates,” Kranczer said.
Kranczer said the United
States is still behind the Scandi
navian countries, the Nether
lands, Switzerland, Japan and
Iceland in life expectancy.
Life expectancy rates are
compiled annually by Metropol
itan statisticians.
The life expectancy rate of
74.6 years for babies born last
year showed a slight increase
from 1982’s rate of 74.5 years
and a nearly one-year jump
over the 73.7 years of 1980.
The infant mortality rate fell
from 11.2 per 1,000 live births
in 1982 to an all-time low of
10.9 per 1,000 live births last
year. Infant mortality rates
have been steadily declining
since 1962.
Kranczer attributed “better
medical treatment, and a better
awareness of prenatal and post
natal care for risk groups” as
primary factors contributing to
the decline in infant deaths.
“There is a general aware
ness of the risks for certain
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papt. Michael CL McGuire and
bid Lt. Janies Witten, were on a
tine check ride when the
he went down in a field near
Smythe Ranch between
ilde and Klein.
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groups of women, and it is these
women who are seeking atten
tion earlier in their pregnan
cies,” said Kranczer.
“There’s also been im
provements in cardiovascular
categories that have helped
lengthen the life expectancy but
these are counter-balanced by
increased death rates from can
cers,” Kranczer added. “Lung
cancers are continually going
up.”
Kranczer said Metropolitan’s
projections going into the year-
2050 indicate a gradual im
provement in life expectancy
rates. Babies born that year may
live to be in their low 80s, he
said.
The average boy born last
year may expect to live 70.9
years and the average girl for
78.3 years.The news from lon
gevity statistics was not all good
last year.
Kranczer noted higher mor
tality rates for women are be
ginning to show up, believed to
be the result of more women in
the work force and contracting
heart diseases and cancers.
Among males, life expec
tancy increased 0.1 years in the
first year of life and also at ages
15, 35 and 65.
For females, life expectancy
remained the same at all ages
except at age 35, when it in
creased 0.1 years.
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