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RESEARCH
Skin Infection Study
VIP Research is seeking individuals 12 years of age or older with
uncomplicated skin and skin structure infections. If you have a skin
infection, you may qualify for a four week research study using a currently
available antibiotic medication. Participants who qualify and complete
the study will be paid $200.
Genital Herpes Study
Individuals with genital herpes infection are being recruited for a 3 week
research study of an investigational anti-viral medication. If you would
like to find out more about this study, call VIP Research. $400 will be
paid to qualified volunteers who enroll and complete this study.
Anxiety Study
Individuals are being recruited for a research study on Generalized
- Anxiety Disorder. If you experience anxiety or would like to find out more
about this study, call VIP Research. $200 will be paid to qualified
volunteers who enroll and complete this study.
Angina Study
VIP Research is seeking individuals 10 years of age or older with angina.
If you have physician diagnosed angina, you may qualify for a nine week
research study using a currently available antiana in a medication.
Participants who qualify and complete this study will be paid $600.
Acne Study
VIP Research is conducting an ACNE research study with a
reformulation of a currently available topical anti-acne medication in gel
form. If you are 13 to 40 years old and have mild-to-moderate facial
acne,you may qualify for this study and receive up to $150 for your
participation. No blood drawn.
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Analysts cite
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — Industrial production
declined 0.5 percent in August, according to a
government report Wednesday that analysts
cited as the latest evidence that the locomotive
once pulling the economy out of recession had
lost its steam.
The Federal Reserve attributed part of the
decline to the effects of Hurricane Andrew and
a strike at a General Motors parts plant. But
overall output at the nation's factories, mines
and utilities still fell even when the impact of
those events was excluded.
“Our economic growth path is now a flat
line, at best," said John M. Albertine, head of a
Washington economic forecasting firm. “The
declines ... were widespread. With no strong
sector to hitch a new recovery to, we are likely
to have to endure a stagnant economy for at
least the rest of the year."
Industrial production had risen for four con
secutive months through May, leading many
stagnant economic futun
analysts to believe it had assumed the role of
leading the economy while other sectors were
flat.
Evelina Tainer of Prime Economic Consult
ing in Chicago noted that output then declined
0.4 percent in June, rose just a modest 0.6 per
cent in July and then fell again last month.
“What's discouraging is the trend in pro
duction," she said. "We're looking at ... a very
low trend line."
In a section of the report on capacity utiliza
tion, the Fed said the operating rate of the na
tion's factories, mines and utilities fell 0.5 of a
percentage point to 78.5 percent.
"When you have a high capacity utilization
rate, it suggests a need for capital spending
and investment" in new plants and equip
ment, Tainer said. “This suggests the need is
not very strong."
A second report Wednesday also suggested
little need for increased production and em
ployment.
The Commerce Department said business
inventories rose 0.1 percent to a seasonally ad
justed $832.9 billion in July, the highest
since they reached $838.5 billion in Feb,
1991. It was the fifth increase in sixmontlis
At the same time, business salesros?
percent in July to a record level of
lion. But while sales were up in all major
gories — manufacturing, wholesale and
— the department reported earlier
that retail sales had fallen back 0.5 percert
August.
It often is difficult to tell whether a
in inventories is voluntary or involuntan
if it is involuntary, it could meanalackoi
tomers, which could lead to falling produi
and a loss of jobs.
The report also found that:
— Manufacturing output fell 0.3 perca
August, erasing a 0.3 percent increaseat
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— Production at factories making usual?
pensive and long-lasting durable goods;;
as cars and computers was unchangedinl
gust after advancing 0.5 percent a monthej
er.
Parents remove kids from schoo
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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ODESSA —Some parents pulled
their children out of school after
learning that an elementary
school teacher forced some pupils
to scrub a restroom floor soaked
with urine.
The incident occurred Friday at
Cameron Elementary School
shortly after a first-grade instruc
tor granted her students a break
to use the restroom. But parents
were still outraged this week.
Veda Clanton, legal guardian of
7-year-old Heather Stacy, said she
was pulling Heather out of the
school.
“It happened once. Maybe it
won't happen again, but I just
don't want to take another
chance," said Ms. Clanton, who
claims Heather had an upset
stomach after cleaning the bath
room. The teacher, who school of
ficials declined to name, discov
ered a puddle of urine in the girls'
restroom after the class break Fri
day and questioned all seven of
her female pupils.
Although a second class also
uses the bathroom, the teacher
handed out paper towels to her
girls and ordered them to clean
the floor when no one confessed
to making the mess, students said.
The boys in the classroom were
told to sit quietly. Cameron prin
cipal Janice Brown said the
teacher's response to the incident
Balloons compete
in race to Europe
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BANGOR, Maine (AP) - Af
ter a month of waiting for just
the right winds, up, up, up, up,
up and away went Don and
Rob, Wim and Bertrand and
three other two-man crews in
the first-ever trans-Atlantic bal
loon race.
The high-tech balloons,
bulging with helium and
adorned with the flags of five
nations, lifted off in the moon
light early Wednesday on a per
ilous voyage to Europe.
The finish line is any paved
road — 3,000 miles away.
Ground teams guiding the bal
loonists from the Netherlands
expect the first team to arrive by
Monday.
“Right at this moment, we
expect it to be five days," coor
dinator Gees Fock said from the
control center at the Rotterdam
airport.
The race began at 3:04 a.m.,
when the Belgian team lifted off
from Bass Park racetrack in
Bangor.
The teams of Germany,
Britain, the Netherlands and the
United States followed, at five-
minute intervals.
Each team's national anthem
was played on a synthesizer as
the white, nine-story balloons
floated into the air in front of
hundreds of spectators.
“We feel very confident, and
we're anxious to go," said U.S.
crew member Troy Bradley.
“We've had a lot of time to
think about it and get ready."
At 1 p.m., the balloonists
were over Nova Scotia, Canada,
traveling in a group at an alti
tude of about 5,000 feet and
speeds ranging from 23 to 35
mph, Fock said.
They were not expected to
drift out over the open ocean
and beyond Newfoundland un
til Friday.
The prize is a 2-foot bronze
trophy. The main sponsor,
Chrysler International, picked
up nearly all of the tab. A
spokeswoman in Detroit, Erika
Fiuyck, declined to say how
much the venture cost.
The crossing is considered
treacherous despite high-tech
navigational and safety equip
ment aboard the balloons.
The balloons use both helium
and hot air and soar up to
24,500 feet, where temperatures
can drop to minus 30, said Jim
Howard, a reserve pilot for the
British team.
Propane torches are used at
night to keep the balloons aloft.
The balloons are identical.
They were produced by a com
pany owned by Don Cameron,
captain of the British team.
The gondolas are made of
lightweight composite plastics
and Kevlar, which is used in
bulletproof vests. If it tears, an
inner lining is designed to turn
into a parachute and each crew
member also has an individual
chute.
If the balloonists must ditch
over the ocean, the gondolas
float and are equipped with
heating, air conditioning and
extra food supplies.
An emergency beacon emits
a radio signal to guide searchers
if the balloon goes down.
The balloonists had been in
Bangor since mid-August
awaiting the optimal weather
conditions to propel them swift
ly across the ocean.
The first balloon crossing of
the North Atlantic, by the heli
um-filled Double Eagle II in
1978, began in Presque Isle,
Maine, and ended 137 hours lat
er in Normandy, France.
The first solo trans-Atlantic
crossing in a helium-filled bal
loon was completed in 1984,
and the first hot-air balloon
crossing was in 1987.
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Located in the basement of the Memorial Student Center
was a mistake.
Ms. Brown declined to specify
how the instructor would be pun
ished, saying it was an internal
matter. She said she notified all
the parents who have children in
the class about the incident.
"Certainly it was inappropri
ate," Ms. Brown said. "We have
ways of handling discipline and
that is certainly not part of it."
Patricia Haddock, whose 6-
year-old daughter, Michele Had
dock, was one of those forced to
clean the restroom, said she was
seeking a class transfer for her
child.
"I'm upset about it and I don't
think it will happen again," Mrs.
Haddock said. "She will not go
back in that classroom, butiij
not take her out of school."
"If nothing is donetopre
this 1 will remove my daugfe
from school," said Donna!
driguez, whose daughterCn:
Rodriguez, 6, was also forcri
clean the restroom. Chuckli
nung, spokesman for the Ed
County Independent School!
trict, said he believes the inda
was an isolated mistake.
"This is a very regrettable:
dent and one that is notsost ^
thing that we subscribe toinW*. 6 ^ e P‘
day-to-day operations of^
schools," Hornung said.'Tmwrence :
this teacher is very remorsasafest ii
and in hindsight, she wouldlcrimes r
do it again." | hool }
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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HOUSTON - Food Lion has
agreed not to build a low-cost
grocery store in northeast Hous
ton and has offered to sell the
nearly 4-acre lot to a community
association, group members said.
Residents of Deerfield Village
had opposed the new store,
claiming it would lower property
values and cause security prob
lems in the subdivision where
homes range from $140,000 to
$250,000.
Food Lion now says it will sell
the 3.9618 acres it bought for the
store to the Deerfield Village
Community Association, an asso-
ciation official said Tuesday.
But Mike Mozingo, spokesman
for the Salisbury, N.C.-based gro
cery chain, said Wednesday he
could not confirm the offer or the
change in plans. per 1,00
"Our policy is not to com j] aces ^
on real estate deals/'Mozir] L,tj
said. "We own some prop® f ^ nC
there adjacent to the Deerfii I '4 ur c
Village. ... I have not heardtl§^ e probl
we have, decided not to
there."
Association members to
Houston Post that James E. Mi [2 S jp ors ,
tin, owner of JEM Developing | ,
which handles real estate acflili
reported
which handles real estate acqu
tions for Food Lion, offered f
group the land for $817,402.t
a Sept. 8 letter.
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rate is n<
A telephone call to Marti! campi
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tion take
business from The Associati
Press was unanswered Wedi* f ,
day. Association offidalssayf ^
price tag is too steep. P W '
“The price is way above marl I
value," said Ann Roberts,ainc jL
her of the association's develop
ment committee.
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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HOUSTON- Lufthansa Ger
man Airlines and Los Angeles fi
nancier Marvin Davis became the
latest bidders for Continental Air
lines, submitting a $400 million
joint proposal Wednesday for the
troubled carrier.
It was the fourth offer made for
the Houston-based carrier, which
is in the midst of bankruptcy reor
ganization. It is the same amount
as a third proposal submitted in
late August, which has been the
highest bid.
Lufthansa issued a statement
saying the joint qualifying bid
“allows both parties to now con
duct a detailed financial analysis
of Continental Airlines Holdings
Inc. to determine if they will seek
an ownership stake in the carri
er."
The bid submitted to Continen
tal's board would invest $100 mil
lion in cash for equity of the new
ly reorganized Continental and
arrange the purchase of $300 mil
lion in debt securities that will
covered by certain Continental as
sets.
“We believe our proposal is su
perior to the others the company
has received in that Lufthansa
and Davis represent a unique
combination of airline expertise
and financial wherewithal," said
a statement issued by Davis' pub
lic relations firm in New York.
“This should give all of Conti
nental's constituents confidence
that our transaction can be con
summated in a timely manner
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and that the airline will
from bankruptcy as a strong col
petitor in the worldwide aii"
market."
Continental, which has been
Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorj
zation since December 1990,
received the documents and"'
review them “to determine if il*
constitute a qualifying bid,"
spokesman Dave Messing said
The bidding began in ]ul
a $350 million offer from a
led by financier Charles Hun* 1
chairman of Houston'
Maxxam Inc.
Next came Houston finand
Alfredo Brener, a Mexican nadf
al, with a $385 million offer,
lowed by the $400 million^ 1
submitted by Air Canada and
group led by a pair of FortWod
Texas, investors.
In August, U.S. Bankrup 11
Judge Helen Balick urged '
would-be bidders to come
ward, saying she wants toci>
firm Continental's bankruptcy'
organization by December.
U.S. law forbids foreign cc
panics from owning more than
percent of an airline's stock an
25 percent of its voting shares,
Davis' involvement apparej 11
would circumvent that prT'
Davis is chief executive 0:
Davis Cos.
It isn't the first time Davis
shown interest in buying an
line. Several years ago, Da',
made separate, unsuccessful ^
for the parent companies
Northwest Airlines and Uni 1 *
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