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World AIDS Day theme emphasizes
importance of family, relationships
By Sharon Drumheller
A.P. Beutel Health Center
Since its inception in 1988, World AIDS
Day is the only international day devoted to
coordinating the worldwide efforts to stop
the spread of HIV/AIDS. According to a re
port from the American Association for
World Health, World AIDS Day is observed
annually, on Dec. 1, and serves to strength
en the global effort to face the challenges of
the AIDS pandemic, which continues to
spread in all regions of the world.
The 1994 World AIDS Day theme is
“AIDS and Families: Protect and Care for
the Ones We Love” and promotes the role of
families in the prevention efforts designed to
stop HIV/AIDS. The concept of family is a
broad one. It is not limited to relationships
bom of blood, marriage, sexual partnership
and adoption. The term family includes all
relationships built on trust, respect, love and
mutual bonds.
Earlier this year, the World Health Orga
nization estimated 13 million men, women
and children worldwide were living with
HIV and AIDS. While the burden is tremen
dous for those infected with HIV/AIDS, their
families suffer their own unique conse
quences. It is for this reason 1994 has been
devoted to AIDS and families.
Here at Texas A&M University and in
the Bryan-College Station community, sev
eral events are planned to observe World
AIDS Day.
The Division of Student Affairs HIV/AIDS
Committee is sponsoring a poster contest.
The posters may follow the 1994 theme,
AIDS and Families, the TAMU theme,
P.A.C.E. Yourself: Protect and Care through
Education, or the artists may create their
own education theme. All posters will be on
display in the Forsyth Gallery in the MSC
from Thursday, Dec. 1 until Tuesday, Dec. 6.
The winning poster will become the official
HIV/AIDS poster for the year.
Students, faculty, staff and members of
the community are invited to an education
fair which will provide participants with in
formation on several different aspects of
HIV/AIDS. The topics include HIV testing
and counseling, AIDS and women, babies,
and minorities, treatment of AIDS, living
with HIV, safer sex, abstinence, and
HIV/AIDS and drug use. The fair will be in
the MSC walkway from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m.
Wednesday, Nov. 30.
The Health Promotion Program will be of
fering a workshop for faculty and staff
Thursday, Dec. 1 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. in
Rudder 501. The topic of discussion will fo
cus on the impact of HIV/AIDS.
AIDS Services of Brazos Valley is spon
soring a candlelight vigil beginning at 6 p.m.
Thursday, Dec. 1 followed by an interfaith
service at 7 p.m. The climax of the evening
will be the unveiling of a local AIDS quilt
created by 10 families affected by this dis
ease. The quilt will be on display in the
MSC Forsyth Gallery.
World AIDS Day is for those who have
died of AIDS, those who have HIV disease
and for those who must prevent the spread
of this plague — everyone, everywhere.
Get educated.
The Nation’s health
dollar: 1993
Americans spent $844 billion on health
care in 1993, an average of $3,229 per
person. Where the money came from,
and how it was spent:
Where it came from:
Medicare
170
Medicaid
130
Private health
insurance
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Other
government
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Source: Health Care
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Kevorkian aids Michigan woman
in suicide by carbon monoxide
DETROIT (AP) — The possible expira
tion of Michigan’s temporary ban on as
sisted suicide had no effect on the timing
of the death of an ailing woman who in
haled a fatal dose of carbon monoxide. Dr.
Jack Kevorkian’s lawyer said Sunday.
“Our position is that the whole thing
has been unconstitutional since Day 1,”
attorney Michael Schwartz said. “He
wasn’t waiting for the law to expire. He
doesn’t time these things. It’s up to the
patients to decide.”
Kevorkian was present Saturday at the
death of Margaret Garrish, 72, who suf
fered from rheumatoid arthritis, colonic di
verticulitis, osteoporosis and other ail
ments. Both legs had been amputated and
she had lost an eye.
It was the 21st death at which
Kevorkian was present since 1990 but the
first since Nov. 22, 1993.
Oakland County Medical Examiner Lju-
bisa Dragovic ruled Garrish’s death a
homicide, saying she couldn’t have killed
herself without someone’s help.
Royal Oak police continued investigat
ing the death Sunday but declined to com
ment. Oakland County Prosecutor Richard
Thompson, who has charged Kevorkian
with murder in some previous deaths, de
clined to comment until after police com
plete their investigation.
Kevorkian left a “certification of medi-
cide” form at Garrish’s home, listing her
diseases, her diagnosis, her prognosis
and her family physician, Schwartz said.
Kevorkian wasn’t at the house when po
lice arrived.
Kevorkian didn’t talk to police Sunday,
Schwartz said. He refused to reveal
Kevorkian’s location but said he was in the
Detroit area.
Premature baby born on jetliner taken
off critical list, said to be doing well
WASHINGTON (AP) — A baby bom more than two months premature on a speeding
jetliner was removed from a ventilator and taken off the critical list Sunday, his happy
and relieved mother said.
“He’s doing quite well,” Theresa de Bara said in a telephone interview. “He’s respond
ing quite well to the medication, basically his biggest problem is his lungs.”
The de Bara family boarded TWA flight 265 in New York on Wednesday as a family of
three en route to a holiday trip to Disney World. Ninety minutes later the de Bara’s left
the plane in suburban Virginia an excited and anxious family of four — now counting
Matthew Dulles, weighing in at 4 pounds, 6 ounces and was 17 inches long.
On the way, Mrs. de Bara, nearly seven months pregnant, went into labor and, with
the help of a Long Island internist and two paramedics from Newburyport, Mass.,
Matthew Dulles de Bara was bom 90 miles outside of Dulles International Airport in
Chantilly, Va.
His parents decided Dulles should be a part of his name, given the role the airport
played in his safe landing.
“It was just unadulterated terror giving birth in an airplane where you know they can’t
possibly be fully prepared for this type of thing,” Mrs. de Bara said Sunday. “With the help
of God and the doctor and all those paramedics we just got through it. If I didn’t believe in
God at that time, which is not the case, I certainly would have called on him then.”
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Holiday season, final exams
challenge healthy eating hat
By Katherine Arnold
The Battalion
After spending the weekend
with relatives and stuffing our
faces with some home cooking,
eating right is the last thing
on our minds.
But the holiday season af
fects everyone, and so does the
crunch for fall finals. These
two events present unique
problems for students trying to
watch their weight.
The holiday season is fa
mous for a huge spread of
meats, starches and desserts.
Amy Tramm, a graduate stu
dent in nutrition, said people
have to find activities to keep
themselves busy in order to
eat right during the holidays.
“Keep your focus on family
and friends rather than eating,”
Tramm said. “Maybe even in
corporate some activity into the
day instead of sitting and eat
ing or watching football.”
It is also important to limit
the intake of fats, sweets and
alcohols, Tramm said.
“You also have to watch for
‘hidden fats,” Tramm said.
“You don’t often think about
the fats you find in salad
dressings, butter, margarine
and mayonnaise.”
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strikes, most students will be
pulling all-nighters,
caffeine and dragging out
last of the Aggie Bucks.
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toxic chemical tests in the wake of a poisonous release in Ai
that sent dozens of workers to the hospital, The Houston!
ported Sunday.
An internal JSC investigation shows poor training and
planning were seen as major contributors to the accident.
The report, obtained by The Post, detailed a par
mishaps, including a failure to call the JSC emergencyl®
stalled ambulance and no information at the JSC first-aid
on the deadly chemical.
Additionally, a space center guard saw a red cloud wafting
ward him, but his radio batteries were dead and the guard hi
had no working phone.
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skin and coughs. Two went to private doctors and 27 wentwj ^
hospitals, but none suffered permanent injuries.
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Greene, JSC associate director of engineering and the reptflf
principal author.
“It heightened our awareness that we have a lot of
here to take care of,” he said.
The release occurred April 21 when technicians in a remote.:
facility were evaluating a small rocket engine first developed fori
Strategic Defense Initiative.
One NASA manager and 10 contract workers prepared to fuel
engine by pressuring a line with one of the two fuels — a«
bustible, deadly poison called nitrogen tetroxide.
The report said technicians failed to notice low-pressure reai
that indicated a chemical leak and the facility control operator!
on personal business in the middle of the test.
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operator went outside to take a look, missing a data display sit]
ing that more toxic gas had reached an external vent.
Technicians then adjusted a knob and continued to pressmf
the nitrogen textroxide line. They inadvertently forced 20 gallon
gas out of the vent, forming a lunchtime toxic cloud that was
300 feet high and 150 feet in diameter when it drifted west off
space center grounds.
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sight. Once the emergency was clear, the response was “disorj
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