®frl glpM ■ §sgmjs4 Celebrate Graduation or Holiday Parties at A’ The Black Forest Inn 1 Slack l Continental Cuisine with a Gourmet Touch l jfbrwrtJ Highway 30 between College Station and Huntsville (409) 874-2407 Reservations Required Page 8 • The Battalion FREE PREGNANCY TESTING Centuries of aches, pains for Tee Man’ gATTALION Stick Thursday • December 1, By Alvaro • Confidential Counseling Information & Referrals Available Good Samaritan Pregnancy Service, Inc. 505 University Dr., Suite 602 846-2909 Call for an appointment ~7 & 7* *7tcmce„0rts Society^ Invites you, Ho y Sunday, December 4, 1994 7:00 pm ({iidder "Theater Students x 2 00 Non-Students $ 3 Tickets Available at MSC Box Office CHICAGO (AP) — Though he lived two centuries before King Tut, his aches and pains were a lot like yours and mine. The 5,300-year-old “Ice Man,” whose well-preserved body was discovered in a glacier three years ago in the Alps, had arthritis, hardening of the arter ies and broken ribs that healed slowly over time, researchers re ported Wednesday. “When you think of 5,300 years, it seems like an enormous time to any of us who maybe have a life span of 70 years. But in evo lutionary history, it’s just the wink of an eye,” said Dr. William A. Murphy Jr., head of diagnostic imaging at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. Murphy reported on the med ical miseries of the mummy, dubbed “Otzi” because it was found in Italy’s Otzval Valley, at the annual meeting of the Radio logical Society of North America. “It’s really not much different from modern man,” Murphy said. “There are just very impressive similarities.” Researchers believe the gap- toothed Otzi was 25 to 40 when he died, but he already had devel oped fairly severe osteoarthritis — the kind believed to result from wear and tear — in his neck, low back and one hip, Murphy said. Osteoarthritis in one little toe also suggests he may have suf fered from a bout of frostbite, Murphy said. Calcium deposits were discov ered in the blood vessels of Otzi’s chest, pelvis and neck, indicating heart disease stalked the Stone Age man despite his almost cer tainly rigorous existence. “Fie had hardening of the arter ies — arteriosclerosis,” Murphy said. But researchers have no way of knowing whether this was un usual for men of Otzi’s age in that era. “He’s the only reference point we have for 5,300 years ago.” Eight or so fractures were dis covered in Otzi’s ribs, but no one can say whether they occurred all at once or at different times, Murphy said. “It’s the kind of thing that might have hospitalized modern man. It certainly would have sent modern man to the emergency room,” he said. “He did very well with these; he certainly lived well beyond the injuries.” Murphy was part of an inter national team assembled at the University of Innsbruck, Aus tria, to examine the mummy with modern X-ray techniques. They have taken more than 2,000 images of Otzi since, he was found, Murphy said. Otzi was found in the ice by hikers. The corpse is the best preserved European known from an age 4,000 to 6,000 years ago, when humans were just starting to use copper for tools and weapons. TODAY IS FAN MAIL. DAY 1 YEP A TlME TO - RE.AD ALL the LerreFts u £ u/E have REceiven ucT*T>fE loo VlOOlD Tb Do TAt5,...TMis l"? cotWbN, YeT PULING ATI since, Md PU2 , . TVE IS HO vM TO fANCfi- VM All A^OOtlP MXSftPEESENTft /^MoXINt, PpoPLE VJH0 TALK Adventures in Aggieland By Gkeg DO You OWN ONE Of THESE 80’s OR EARLY qo's CHRYSLER PIECES Of SHEER GENIUS AND DETROIT ^ ENGINEERING? Xf YOU OvJN, HAVE EVER OWNED, OR KNtWSOMEOME WHOOWNSAPODSE OMNI OR PLYMOUTH HORIZON,THEN THIS MESSAGE IS FOR YOU! TEXAS AIM PROUDLY ANNOUNCES ITS NEWEST organization-. Aggies for omnis Hello,x’MTASOt* E1 feCiS,eoukdc* PRESIPENTOf THIS PRESTIGIOUS DRIVERS' /WD OWNERS CLUB, you TOO CAN JOIN THE PRIVILEGED FEW OF US WHO OWN THESE EXTRAORIHNARr CARS.OOR MEETINGS will BE AN/Vouwced SOON, AND...FOR A LIMITED TIME ONLTl Nnewill HAVE FRESUENT NVEETINGS where weT-fbe discussing upkeep AND DRIVING TlPS.OmoNS FOR OR SUPERCHARGING VOUR OMNI OR HORIZON, AND WE'LL BE MAKINfi-y ^Special A.f.o. HATS,T-shirts^ Membership i_apel pinstctc& s4cowie*te&