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r Recent Discoveries
and the Future of
ARCHAEOLOGY
IN SYRIA
a public lecture by
Dr. Sultan Muhesen
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Professor and Director General
of Antiquities and Museums
Republic of Syria
Friday, 1:00- 2:00 p.m.
April 15, 1994
Evans Library Conference
Room 204C
This lecture is sponsored by:
the Department of Anthropology;
Institute for Nautical Archaeology;
and funded in part by the Memorial
Student Center L.T. Jordan Institute
for International Awareness.
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By Boomer Cardinale
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San Antonio gangs to ‘increase the peace,’
three—day summit ends with cease-fire pact
The Associated Press
SAN ANTONIO — Mediators of a cease-fire
among four warring street gangs say it’s too early to
know if members will honor the agreement when
the^ return to their turf.
‘We’re not asking them to put down their colors,”
said mediator Wayne Crooks, director for My Father’s
House of Ministries in San Antonio. “The colors rep
resent camaraderie and loyalty. We’re saying, ‘Put
down your arms and let’s work toward a better com
munity,”’ he said.
A dozen teen-agers representing gangs comprising
100 to 150 members reached the pact Sunday after
three days of peacemaking at Grace Lutheran Church.
“Right now, they’re in a cease-fire. They’ve never
ever been used to that,” Crooks said. “We’re trying to
help them cope with what that means and how to
deal with others who will try to test their fortitude.”
More than 100 gang members packed the church
to announce their agreement.
“We’re fighting just to die for no reason,” said a
^oung man who identified himself as a gang leader.
‘We want to have a better life.”
Another gang leader said the cease-fire won’t work
unless community leaders come through with
promises of help with jobs and education.
“We’ve wanted this for a while,” he said.
Althoxigh four other gangs involving 100 youths
from other areas of the city failed to reach a truce,
police Chief William O. Gibson called the conference
a “significant first step.”
But he said it’s too early know whether the cease
fire will help reduce San Antonio’s record number of
homicides during the past two years.
“If they mean what they say, obviously the statis
tics will change. I think we need to wait and see how
this plays out, ’ the chief said.
Stopping a deadly disease
Broccoli may block formation
of breast tumors, researchers say
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Broccoli con
tains substances that can block or
retard formation of breast tumors in
rats by promoting anti-cancer en
zymes, Johns Hopkins medical re
searchers report.
In a study to be published in the
Proceedings of the National Acade
my of Sciences on Tuesday, the Hop
kins scientists said that doses of
compounds that are found in broc
coli and in some other vegetables
provided cancer protection for a
group of rats that had been exposed
to powerful cancer-causing chemi
cals.
Dr. Paul Talalay, a Hopkins re
searcher who is co-author of the
study, said Monday that sul-
foraphane and some related com
pounds are apparently able to am
plify the body’s own defenses
against chemicals that can lead to
cancer.
“Most cancer-causing chemicals
are themselves innocuous until they
enter cells where they are converted
to enzymes which are highly reac
tive and are capable of initiating tu
mor formation,” said Talalay.
Sulforaphane and its chemical
cousins, he said, cause the body to
produce another type of enzyme
that blocks the cancer-causing ac
tion of the first enzyme.
In the study, Talalay and his col
leagues exposed 145 rats to a pow
erful cancer-causing chemical called
DMBA. Twenty-five of the rats were
used as controls and received no
drug treatment. The rest received
various doses of sulforaphane and
related compounds. The drugs were
synthetic copies of the compounds
found in vegetables.
At the end of 50 days, 68 percent
of the control rats had developed,
mammary tumors, but only about
26 percent of those receiving high
doses of sulforaphane developed
cancer. Similar results were found
for another substance, called com
pound 2, that is related to sul
foraphane. Other related com
pounds also were effective, but to a
lesser degree.
Talalay said the studies showed
the sulforaphane-type chemicals
tended to either prevent or delay tu
mor formation, and that when can
cer did develop, the tumors were
smaller and less numerous. .
Talalay emphasized that the veg
etable compound seems to work
only as a cancer preventer and has
no effect on tumors that have al
ready started. As a result, he said,
cancer patients should not expect
benefit from broccoli binges.
The experiment, which follows
an earlier test-tube study by the
Hopkins group that identified sul
foraphane as a possible cancer pre
venter, is the first by the laboratory
to prove that the vegetable com
pound can work in animals. Talalay
said a clinical study with human
volunteers is planned.
Sulforaphane and related com
pounds are found in what are called
cruciferous vegetables. These in
clude broccoli, cauliflower, brus-
sels sprouts and cabbage.
Earlier studies have shown that
people who regularly eat these
types of vegetables tend to develop
less cancer than those who avoid
this type of food.
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Spamfish anyone:
Pans gather at
19th Spamarama
Tuesday,
'Flic Associated Press
It was a Spam Ion
AUSTIN
dream.
Blackened Spamfish and
etoufee were just a coupleofil<
dishes created with the famoi
canned pork product at the l)i
annual Spamarama over the wetj.
end in downtown Austin.
Spam was cooked, chillti
crammed, sculpted, tossedn
revered by roughly 2,000 peof
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meat. Not only cai
you eat it, you
mold it.
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who gathered to celebrate
lunchmeat.
“Spam is in the commonua
consciousness of the Americu
public,” said David Arnsbergei
the founder of the event no*
known as “The Potentate ofPo!
ted Pork Parties.”
“It’s a malleable meat. Nt
only can you eat it, youcanmol
it,” said Arnsberger, explain^
the appeal of Spamarama.
Judges wandered through
aroma of the potted porlt ani
sampled such dishes as Spamalt
maaingdong, a bite size Spairi
sandwich covered by chocolait|
and packed with whipped creait
in the middle.
“I can’t make ’em fast enoujl
These people are chewing it up,'
said Kevin Rollins of Austin.
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for seconds.
"It was the worst thinglhai
ever put in my mouth—at
solutely horrible,” said Bob Fin
ley of Dallas. “I may hurl an]
minute.”
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John Hutto of Austin, who pd
died Spam chili.
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Spam Olympics. There was tkl
Spam throw, the two-persot
Spam toss, Spam calling and tk
Spamcram (speed-eating). L
Rich Holmes and Kim Barr)
came away slippery-handed aftei
hauling in toss-and-catch honors
with a 45-foot throw.
“You have to become out
with the Spam,” explained
Holmes.
“See the Spam. Feel the Spam
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upon his return as Christ.
“fie would be returning as a vic
tor, not a victim, to restore the
Kingdom of Israel,” Tyson said.
A final answer was presented in
the prophetic scriptures of the He
brew Bible.
“As early Christians began to di
vert attention from Apocalyptic
scriptures to the Hebrew Bible, they
found a remarkable correspondence
between what the books said and
what Jesus did in his life,” Tyson
said.
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“Separation of early
Christians from early
Jews led to a parting
of the ways between
these two great reli
gious traditions.”
— Professor Joseph B. Tyson,
Southern Methodist
University
Tyson said most apocalyptic
Jews couldn’t accept the Christian
claims.
"Jews that didn’t accept the
Christian message concluded
delity to scriptures and fidelity to
God required rejection of Christ
ian claims,” Tyson said. "Separa
tion of early Christians from earl)
Jews led to a parting of the ways
between these two great religious
traditions.”
John Lemmons, a sophomore
bioengineering major, did not
agree with the view presented.
“I have never been presented
with this idea, and off the top of
my head I would have to disagree
with him,” Lemmons said.
On the other hand, Lisa Rush, a
senior English and journalism ma
jor, said the speech was encourag
ing to her.
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religion more as a history and
look into the social aspects of it,
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