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DALLAS (AP) — If you thought Mon
days couldn’t get any worse, consider this:
a researcher has determined that working
people are more likely to have a heart at
tack on Monday morning than any other
day of the week.
Results of the study, led by Dr. Stefan
Willich at the Free University in Berlin,
were reported in the July issue of Circula
tion, an American Heart Association scien
tific journal.
“Assuming that Monday is usually a day
of more stress for more people, we may ex
pect a higher occurrence — a higher risk —
of heart attacks,” Willich said Monday.
Willich, a visiting assistant professor at
Harvard University, said the researchers
analyzed 2,636 heart attack victims in Augs
burg, a mid-sized city in Germany. The vic
tims, 75 percent of them men, were hospital
ized between 1985 and 1990.
Among the working population, heart at
tacks occurred 33 percent more often on
Mondays than on other days of the week.
The occurrences were evenly distributed
throughout the rest of the week, with a
slight dip on Sundays.
Previous studies have shown that heart at
tacks are more likely to occur in the morning.
Willich said he would like to study anoth
er culture in which the workday begins on a
different day of the week to compare results.
In the meantime, he said his findings are
merely an “interesting phenomenon.”
Stress, affected by a person’s moods and
thoughts, can cause changes in hormones
and adrenaline levels. That, in turn, can af
fect blood clotting, cause spasms of the coro
nary arteries and increase blood pressure —
all factors in causing heart attacks, Wein-
garden said.
“It’s not a huge leap of faith to see per
haps Monday morning would be higher
than any other morning because of stress,”
he said.
Dr. Bedford Williams, director of behav
ioral medicine research at Duke University,
agreed that Willich’s theory appeared sound.
Williams, author of “Anger Kills: 17
Strategies For Controlling the Hostility
That Can Harm Your Health,” suggested
that people at risk for heart disease take an
aspirin before they go to bed Sunday night.
Aspirin has been shown to thin the blood
slightly and reduce the risk of blood clots.
He also recommended that people avoid
letting their work pile up Friday afternoons;
schedule quiet Monday mornings and take a
midmorning relaxation break; and get to bed
early Sunday night.
You can take Monday mornings off, “but
you may just be postponing it,” Williams
joked.
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U. S.
service seeks higher rates
WASHINGTON (AP) — When
the post office seeks a rate in
crease, it usually goes toe to toe
with some of its biggest cus
tomers for months of sparring.
But this time around, the two
sides are entering the ring hand
in hand.
There will still he chal
lengers when the independent
. Postal Rate Commission consid
ers higher mail charges, expect
ed to take effect early next year.
But for the first time, many
of the most powerful commer
cial mailing groups are lined up
on the side of the U.S. Postal
Service.
At stake is a series of pro
posed rate increases averaging
10.3 percent, including a three-
cent rise in first-class stamp
prices, to 32 cents.
That rate was suggested ear
ly in the year by a coalition of
major mailers. These groups
said that if the post office
adopted it as its formal propos
al, and imposed it equally on
just about everyone, they
wouldn’t fight the plan.
The Postal Rate Commission
must pass on proposed rate in
creases.
Council.
The process costs the post of
fice and the groups involved as
much as $100 million, much of
which could be saved by if all
sides could agree on a rate in
crease that affected everyone
At stake is a series of proposed rate increases
averaging 10.3 percent, including a three-cent
rise in first-class stamp prices, to 32 cents.
Traditionally, the 10-month
review involves extensive legal
sparring as various groups try
to get lower rates for one class
of mail or another and shift
costs to other mailers.
Normally about 75 business
es and organizations join in the
battles over postal rate increas
es. This time, 60 have shown in
terest, with more than half
backing the post office, said
Arthur Sadder of the Mailer’s
the same.
On March 8, the post office
accepted the idea suggested by
the major mailers and sent a
10.3 percent rate proposal to
the commission.
Now the Postal Service has
reached a “stipulation and
agreement” with 33 major mail
ers, who are backing it before
the commission.
Sackler said the deal is being
supported by people who “are
usually trying to knife each
other in the back,” in postal
rate cases.
“The level of support for our
general rate proposal in this
case is unprecedented,” said
William J. Henderson, chief
marketing officer at the Postal
Service.
Both postal officials and
Sackler said they expect addi
tional groups to join the agree
ment. ^
There is another side, of
course.
The proposal calls for a rate
increase of about 10.3 percent
for first- and second-class reg-
ular rate mail, 10.2 percent for
third class and 13.2 percent for
fourth class. '
First class is cards and let
ters, second is magazines and
other periodicals, third class is
advertising and fourth class is
parcels.
NEW YORK (AP) — He’s been a New
York cop, a New York bank robber, a New
York drug dealer and a
New York godfather. How
about A1 Pacino as a New
York mayor?
Pacino is close to signing
a deal to play the mayor in
a political drama called
“City Hall,” the Daily News
reported Sunday. In the
movie, the deputy mayor
discovers his boss is in
volved in wrongdoing.
The film will be directed
by Harold Becker, who last
worked with Pacino in “Sea of Love,’
News reported.
said in Sunday’s Houston Chronicle that Ms.
Cerrato’s May 27 lawsuit is a $2 million
“celebrity shakedown.”
Ms. Smith filed a slander lawsuit May 19
against Ms. Cerrato that also asked for re
payment of a $25,000 loan.
On Thursday, Freydl filed a request to
move Ms. Cerrato’s lawsuit from state to fed
eral court because Ms. Cerrato lives in Hous
ton while Ms. Smith lives in Los Angeles.
Ms. Smith, a 23-year-old former Playboy
Playmate, married 89-year-old oil tycoon J.
Howard Marshall on June 27.
Apollo 11 mission and Neil Armstrong’s walk
on the moon.
Diffie’s hit records include “Prop Me Up
Beside the Jukebox” and “John Deere
Green.”
Pacino
the
HOUSTON (AP) — A former household
worker is suing Guess? jeans model Anna
Nicole Smith, alleging sexual harassment,
sexual assault and false imprisonment.
Ms. Smith is suing the former employee
for slander.
Maria Antonia Cerrato worked for Ms.
Smith from 1992 until last year as a house
keeper and baby sitter for Ms. Smith’s 8-
year-old son.
Ms. Smith’s lawyer, T. Patrick Freydl,
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Joe Diffie
sings about the “Third Rock From the Sun,”
but he’ll be thinking of the moon Wednesday
when he helps celebrate the 25th anniver
sary of the first lunar walk.
Diffie is the honorary host of the celebra
tion at Space Center Houston, a recreation
and educational complex next to NASA’s
Johnson Space Center.
“This is a dream come true for me. I have
followed the space program since I was a
kid,” the 35-year-old country star said.
He will present the first pressing of his
“Third Rock From the Sun” album to Space
Center Houston. He also is scheduled to help
unveil a postage stamp commemorating the
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Susan Sarandon
has never taken home an Academy Award,
and she isn’t expecting one
anytime soon.
“I kind of assume that
the Oscar is not going to
come my way unless I live
to be 120 and they honor
me for surviving,” Miss
Sarandon said in an inter
view on “Entertainment
Tonight.” The interview
will be broadcast Tuesday.
Miss Sarandon has been
nominated thred times for
an Oscar — “Atlantic City”
in 1980, “Thelma & Louise’
“Lorenzo’s Oil” in 1992.
She said her role as an out-of-her-league
lawyer in “The Client,” released nationwide
on Wednesday, isn’t Oscar material.
“I don’t know if this is really the kind of
movie that people will ever take seriously
enough to give them an Oscar,” she said.
Sarandon
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made the significance of the
statement even greater to A&M
employees.
Dr. J. Malon Southerland, vice
president of student affairs and
another employee charged with
tampering, said the memo
showed a deep level of under
standing throughout the Univer
sity relating to the issue.
Wally Groff, A&M athletic di
rector and one of the employees
indicted for tampering, said he
was pleased to see the support of
the administration.
“I think Dr. Bowen was sup
portive from the beginning, but it
was good to receive the support
from all the administration,” he
said. “I’m glad they have spoken
out as a group.”
In the memo A&M adminis
trators claimed accountability for
University practice.
“We want to make it clear that
in our opinion, it is the institu
tion, not its employees, which
should be held accountable for
any wrongdoing,” the memo said.
“We deeply regret that these fine
employees became caught up in a
flawed system .... We are anxious
to move all concerned beyond this
issue and to refocus our energies
on the missions of Texas A&M
University.”
WASHINGTON (AP) — In
stead of three squares, the
American daily diet of the future
may consist of a five-snack rou
tine — “daystart,” “pulsebreak,”
“humpmunch,” “holdmeal” and
“evesnack,” a Chicago food
writer suggests.
“Whether you call it grazing,
mouth-surfing or refueling, it’s
evolving as a result of our dual-
income, fast-paced lifestyles,”
Christopher Wolf says in an arti
cle in the current issue of The
Futurist magazine.
“In the future, this grazing
phenomenon will be formalized
into a recognized pattern of five
meals a day.”
Wolf and others attribute the
trend in part to the premium
people put on leisure time and
hassle-free lives and the food in
dustry’s success in making it
easy to eat at any time.
More women working outside
the home means fewer of them
making meals from scratch;
hence, the popularity of single
serve portions, drive-through
lanes at restaurants, take-out
food and microwave dinners.
“With two working parents
and kids having all kinds of ac
tivities and people with different
time schedules in the morning ...
people eat when they can,” said
Lawrence Stifler of Health Man
agement Resources in Boston.
Vending machines and side
walk food carts also contribute.
“Easy accessibility is at the
bottom of this,” said Graham
Molitor, vice president of the
World Future Society and former
food company employee. He said
grazing originated with cave
men, who picked at food all day
because they couldn’t get enough
edibles in one sitting.
Surveys by the Agriculture
Department and the Food and
Drug Administration have con
firmed that young adults are
eating more often during the
day, said John Vanderveen, di
rector of the Office of Plant and
Dairy Foods and Beverages at
the FDA’s Center For Food Safe
ty and Applied Nutrition.
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