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The cloud of colorless poison gas
that drifted over the Indian city of
Bhopal early Monday acts much like
tear gas but is far more powerful,
causing the victims’ lungs to fill with
blood thus drowning them, said poi
son experts.
Less than lethal doses of methyl
isocyanate can cause permanent eye
damage and blindness.
The colorless gas burns upon con
tact with any moist parts of the body
exposed to air — such as the lungs,
eyes, nose and throat. Even in small
quantities the gas prompts seizures
in asthmatics.
Slightly larger quantities of the
gas, measured in a few parts per mil
lion, causes anyone exposed to go
into violent coughing attacks.
“The gas acts like tear gas,” Union
Carbide spokesman Stephen K. Gal-
pin said. “It is very toxic. It may
cause severe or permanent injury
when it comes in contact with the
eyes or skin.”
Robert A. Alberty, a chemistry
professor at the Massachusetts Insti
tute of Technology, said the chemi
cal, not related to cyanide gas, is one
of 500 chemicals controlled in the
United States by the Occupational
Safety and Health Administration.
“U.S. industrial regulations do not
allow any workplace to have more
than .02 parts per million of the gas
during any eight-hour period,” Al
berty said. “At very low concentra
tions it doesn’t seem to cause any
known eff ects. Of course in a spill of
that kind, the levels are exceeded.
Mail
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“The priority mail is good for the
last minute rushers,” he said.
Thirty-five percent of priority
mail packages are delivered by the
next clay and over 95 percent are de
livered within three days. The cost
lor a small package is not much
more than mailing by parcel post or
about one-third the cost or using
overnight services.
Customers also need to follow sev
eral tips to make sure their cards and
packages arrive at their destination
in good shape. First, they should be
properly addressed and have a re
turn address in the upper left hand
corner. Both addresses should in
clude the proper ZIP Code.
The postal service suggests other
tips for mailing packages:
• Make sure the contents are well
Cushioned.
• Brown wrapping paper and
twine cord are not necessary.
• Use sealing tape to close and
seal the box. Pressure-sensitive tape,
kraft paper reinforced with nylon or
glass and filament-reinforced pres
sure-sensitive tape is recommended.
Masking and cellophane tape are not
as effective.
• Use smudge-proof ink for the
address.
• Remove other labels or ad
dresses from the box.
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A&M CHRISTIAN FELLOWHSIP: util meet at 7:30 p.m. in
Sciences Bldg. A motithh rally will be
is invited. Call Calx* Samite/ at 208-
0723 for more tnlonmuum.
BETA PSIrwiH meet from H) p.rn, to midnight at
Bennigansdbr awards and Mxiali/mg.
COLOMBIAN STUDENTS ASSOCIATION; will meet at 7
Rudder for their last meeting of the fall,
DEL RIO HOMETOWN CLUB: will at 7 p.m. in 507 AB
pl;p! •. •••..Rtjdder, Next semesters activities will be discussed and new
Py , members are welcome. Call Javier Oastillou at 846-1151 for
.f. ;
MARANATHA CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP; will meet at
dhe Viking Apartments Clubhouse for Bible
OFF-CAMPUS Amm&i Will meet at 6:30 p.m. in 701 Rud-
InrTa Christmas- Study Break, there will be refresh-
• ... mehts, music, games and other .stress relievers. Calf St ace >
1& fbr more information.
OFF-CAMPUS CENTER: will hold a roommate session at 2
in 402 Rudder. Call 845-1741 lor more juforrnaiion.
STUDY ABROAD OFFICE: will hold two informational
Management - Scandivia will meet in
110 Blocker and Managcment/Psyehology - Orient will
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S^R^^p!^ :: -.&|«lifTTEE: will be selling Bonfire and
prints through Friday at the MSC tables all
TAMU CHESS CLUB: wilt meet at 8:30 p.m. in 410 Rudder.
are welcome.
UNITED CAMPUS MINISTRY: will meet from 6:00 p.m. to
■«■**■*H|-1 Presbyterian Church. There will
t a Christmas Party and Council
Bill Love at 693-2861 tor more informa
tion.
AGGIES AGAINST DRUNK DRIVERS: will meet at 7 p.m.
MSC CEPHEID VARIABLE: will meet at. 7:30 ami 0:45 pan.
in 701 Rudder. A movie, Santa Claus Compters the (Mar
tians* will be shown. Admission is $1 or bring a can of food
for donation to Twin City Mission and get in free. Tail
•.': Y : v ! od»eat-2S(h0l72 for more information.
CHURCH OF CHRIST STUDENT ORGANIZATION; will
meet from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. in the All Faiths Chapel Sanct
uary. John W. Leonard will speak on “Creation or Evolu
tion?’' Non-members and the public is invited lor this dis-
cussion/lecture. Call Connie Baig at 846*6139 for more
et at 5 p.m. on the bottom floor of the Pa-
dance. There will he caroling.
OFF-CAMPUS AGGIES: will meet at 0:30 pan. in the MSC
for the yearbook picture. All off-campus students
OFF-CAMPUS CENTER: will hold a roommate session at 2
Rudder. Call 845-1741 for more information,
t ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND NEW VEN-
1 meet at 8 pan. in the lobby of Xaehry for a
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fi will meet at 7 p.m. in 502 Rudder.
HRHHHRH • &i.rry will speak on astronaut training and
Doug Smith at 268-0717 for more
will hold a roommate session at 2
an. in 402 Rudder. Calf 845-1 7 11 for nmre information,
..ITED CAMPUS MINISTRY: wifi meet at 6:15 p.m. at
: '^^P;|^ri6sbyteria.n Church offices for Bible study. Call Bill
for more information,
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at doing this during an argument.
Men, on the other hand, tend to
hold their feelings in, so they have
more “bottled-up” emotions. They
are socialized not to express their
feelings. Krokoff says this could lead
to greater health deterioration for
males because it’s important to cope.
“1 think right now it’s popular to
say that men don’t communicate as
well as women,” Krokoff said.
“People say that men withdraw more
during a fight. I think it does men a
disservice to say this.”
The other side of the controversy,
some would say, is the biological dif
ference between men and women.
This could be one reason for the ear
lier mortality rate of men, Krokoff
said.
The “type A” person is more sus
ceptible to stress, Krokoff said.
“This is the person who is over-
ambitious,” he said. “These people
usually hold in anger and other ag
gressive emotions. When you are
working hard and you are a type A
person, socializing helps alleviate
stress.”
Life changes, such as marriage or
divorce, are another cause of stress.
According to “Stress and Its
Relationship to Health and Illness,”
by Dr. Linas A. Bieliauskas, clinical
training director at Rush-Presbyte-
rian-St. Luke’s Medical Center in
Chicago, “stress as it relates to health
and illness undoubtedly began with
anecdotal reports of illnesses that
seemed to occur during periods of
major change in people’s lives.” An
example given in his book is that the
recently widowed and divorced have
higher mortality rates than all other
segments of the population.
Krokoff agrees with this finding.
“People who have experienced big
life changes and who feel unable to
cope with stress or have no control
are at a higher risk,” he said. “People
are delaying marriage, and divorce
is more common, so that even once
people are married, they may be sin
gle again.”
The difference between the ef
fects of stress on men and women
show up once again. The mortality
rate for divorced men, under 65, is
double for strokes and lung cancer,
10 times as high for tuberculosis,
seven times as high for cirrhosis of
the liver and double for stomach
cancer, Krokoff says. Divorced men
are more at risk for sudden death
due to heart attack also. Both men
and women going through divorce
have a higher rate of car accidents
and home-related accidents because
they are usually preoccupied and
under stress, Krokoff said.
Ultimately, stress is reflected in
your circulatory system and even
tually in your heart. Stress has been
linked to heart attacks and other
health problems. Studies have found
that emotional stress is almost five
times as prevalent in heart attack vic
tims as it is in persons with normal
hearts. It has definitely been estab
lished by heart experts that a
relationship exists between emo
tional stress and heart seizures.
Edwards says we need to expect
some stress symptoms.
“Usually stress that’s not ex
pressed or taken care of some how
will find some kind of symptomatic
way out,” Edwards said. He said
some symptoms of stress include:
headaches, back aches, appetite loss
or becoming irritable.
Krokoff said one way to help pre
vent stress is to have a close friend to
confide in. This may be more impor
tant than some people think.
When more than 5,000 Californi
ans were randomly sampled over a
10 year period, it was found that so
cial contacts were very important.
The study showed that people lack
ing social and community ties were
more likely to die in the follow-up
period than those with more exten
sive contacts.
“The people without as many so
cial contacts were up to 300 percent
more likely to die,” Krokoff said.
“This was a random sample of every
age, including young people. Col
lege friendship studies show that the
more friends and social activities you
have, the more likely you are to live
longer, physically and emotionally.”
Closer research has shown that it
is most important to have someone
to confide in who is accessible. A
confidant can give you the opportu
nity to express your feelings while
giving you emotional support and
encouragement, but the quality of
the friendship is more important
than the number of friends.
Having a confidant isn’t the only
way to help alleviate stress. Edwards
said since some stressful situations
can’t be avoided, people should try
to learn to adjust to them. Taking
time out to relax can be one way to
adjust, he said.
“Everyone has a little bit different
way of coping with stress,” Edwards
said. “I think it’s helpful to have a re
integration period. If they can just
be quiet and rest, re-integrate.
Maybe read a paper, drink a cup of
coffee. Maybe everyone doesn’t
need that, but it helps some people.
Most people can learn to relax. It
can be helpful to a relationship.
Some people relax through rigorous
exercise, some might go shopping or
some might have a hobby. It’s always
difficult to balance this with all of the
expectations of your role in the
relationship.
“Because some can cope with
stress better than others, some are
taken back by it so much that it
causes trouble,” Edwards said.
Krokoff said he thinks that within
the next 10 years, there will be a de-
pa rt m e n t especially for
relationships.
“I think there is an emerging sci
ence of close relationships and that
the quality of relationships is impor
tant,” he said. “1 he two findings
haV'e been that good relationships
help buffer stress and bad ones can
intensify it. Relationships have a lot
of power.”
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