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Thursday - June 26,199
Health
Briefs
'Low-fat' food labels
may mislead dieters
Does “low-fat” on a food label
tempt you to overeat? Selecting
foods labeled low-fat should not
be interpreted as freedom to eat
as much as you want, or to eat
more later.
Eating more low-fat foods
should apply to ample servings
of naturally low-fat, high-nutrient
foods like fruits, vegetables and
whole-grain products, not
processed foods like low-fat
cookies and desserts. Overeat
ing anything may result in ex
cess calories and weight gain.
"Low-fat” is defined as having
less than 3 grams of fat per
serving. “Reduced-fat” items
contain at least 25 percent less
fat per serving than the original
product. “Fat-free” means a
product has less than 0.5
grams of fat per serving.
Take advantage of the low-fat
versions of high-fat foods when
you can, but focus on foods nat
urally low in fat and high in oth
er nutrients.
If you want to have a nutrition
consultation with a dietitian at
the A.P Beutel Health Center,
call 845-6111.
— contributed by Jane W. Cohen, Ph.D., R.D.
A.R Beutel Health Center
Free tests offered
for HIV Testing Day
HIV testing will be available
to Texas A&M University stu
dents and other Bryan-College
Station residents tomorrow and
Friday as part of National HIV
Testing Day.
Tests will be offered Friday at
the A.P Beutel Health Center for
$18, and results should be
available in two to three days.
Both appointments and walk-
ins are welcome.
Pre-test counseling and free
HIV testing also will be avail
able today and Friday in Bryan
at Planned Parenthood and
AIDS Services.
Jacques Cousteau dies at age SI
Undersea pioneer was famous for his explorations, popular TV sent
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PARIS (AP) — He shared his undersea ad
ventures with millions of TV viewers world
wide, revealing the enchanting, hidden life
that lay beneath the waves. Jacques
Cousteau died Wednesday at 87, having left
his mark on generations.
Cousteau often evoked the heavens to ex
plain his connection to the sea. “When you
dive,” he once said, “you begin to feel that you’re
an angel. It’s a liberation of your weight.”
Cousteau’s foundation referred to one of
his most noted documentaries in an
nouncing his death. “Jacques-Yves
Cousteau has rejoined the Silent World,” it
said in a statement.
His wife, Francine, said Cousteau died at
home in Paris before dawn after suffering a
respiratory infection and heart problems.
Cousteau reportedly had been ill for months.
“But his voice continues to be heard,”
Francine Cousteau said, vowing to “continue
his struggle” by finishing the Calypso II, the
research ship he was
building to replace his fa
mous boat, the Calypso,
which sank last year.
Cousteau — wiry, be
spectacled and often wear
ing a trademark red wool
cap — became a house
hold name primarily
through his hugely popular
television series, “The Un
dersea World of Jacques
Cousteau,” and his many documentaries. He
narrated the shows in English with his sooth
ing voice and heavy French accent beloved to
generations of viewers.
Cousteau
But Cousteau’s 60-year odyssey, much of it
on the Calypso, involved more than his life as
a filmmaker or great adventurer. He was also
an environmentalist and inventor who co-de-
veloped the aqualung, created a one-man jet-
propelled submarine and helped start the
first manned undersea colonies.
Cousteau, said French President Jacques
Chirac, was a legend who “represented the
defense of nature, modern adventure, inven
tion of the possible.”
He won three Academy Awards for best
documentary: The Silent World (1957), Le
Poisson Rouge (1959) and World Without
Sun (1965). The Silent World, also won
him the Grand Prize at the 1956 Cannes
Film Festival.
In the past 15 years, Cousteau became an
eloquent advocate of environmental protec
tion and maintaining the delicate balancf
the ecosystem.
“The future of civilization depends on
ter,” Cousteau said in Florida in January, wl
receiving one of his many awards. “I beg; H
all to understand this.”
Ever the innovator, Cousteau dreamed ^
solving the world’s energy crisis by chann iyni
ing the sea’s tides and temperatures,
extracting essential raw materials fromiemt
ocean floor. He foresaw a day when I sas
world’s population could be fed by plain
tions hundreds of feet beneath the surface; ion’s
Cousteau was “a giant of a maninpn
moting development and environmenti rd ml
sues,” U.N. General Assembly President Rai Tlf
li Ismail said in opening Wednesday’s sessii teto
of the week-long Earth Summit at U.Nhea
quarters in New York.
Ruling invalidates religious-freedom law
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a landmark decision that re
buked Congress and enraged religious groups, the Supreme
Court on Wednesday struck down a law that made it harder
for government to interfere with how Americans practice
their faith.
The court voted 6-3 to invalidate the Religious Freedom
Restoration Act, making important statements on religious
freedom and the competing powers of Congress, federal
courts and the states.
The ruling in a dispute between a small Texas city and
the local Roman Catholic church left religious groups wor
rying about government intrusion and promising to revive
the protections.
“This decision is a catastrophe for religious liberty in
America, but it is more than that,” said Kevin Hasson of the
Becket Fund for Religious Liberty. “It is a classic conflict be
tween the courts and Congress over the allocation of power.
It sets the stage for a constitutional amendment.”
Reaction in Congress was immediate but those opposed
to the court’s ruling seemed more inclined to seek new leg
islation than a constitutional amendment.
“Sadly, with this ruling citizens will be forced to choose
between their government and their God,” Rep. Charles
Schumer, D-N.Y, said as he pledged renewed efforts to en
hance protection for religious expression.
Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, added, “The Supreme Court has
thrown down the gauntlet, and we intend to pick it up.”
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ing religious freedom, but concluded that its sweeping 1993
law went too far and usurped authority from federal court
and the states.
The law required that any federal, state or local law
posing a “substantial burden” on someone’s religious beliefs
must serve a “compelling” government interest in the least
intrusive way.
That standard would let government protect public health]
and safety but also would give religious minorities far motel
legal clout.
Marc Stern of the American Jewish Congress said that throw
ing out the law “means that there’s no realistic federal protec
tion for religious believers anymore. States and local govern
ments can intrude, as long as they don’t single out any faith.”
House, Senate drive toward approving budget-balancing bill:
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress drove
Wednesday toward historic legislation that
promises the first balanced budget since the
Vietnam War by extracting nearly $140 billion
in savings from Medicare recipients, hospitals
serving the poor and other federal programs.
At opposite ends of the Capitol, the House
and Senate neared approval of bills that broad
ly mirrored each other yet left battles over details
for later. Both versions claim to eliminate deficits
by 2002 — which would be a first since 1969 —
mosdy by targeting federal health care pro
grams, selling slices of the broadcast spectrum
and nicking benefits for veterans and others.
But there were key differences between the
chambers, including Senate proposals to
charge better-off Medicare recipients higher
monthly premiums and
to slowly raise the pro
gram’s eligibility age to 67
from its current 65. The
House embraced neither.
Both packages largely
Uack the budget-balancing
deal struck by President
Clinton and congressional
leaders in May, but weeks of
bargaining lie ahead for a
compromise Clinton will
sign. The White House wants the changes in
Clinton
Medicare eligibility age and premiums removed.
It also wants language ensuring that billions of
dollars for children’s health-care coverage are
spent properly and that welfare is provided to le
gal immigrants who become disabled.
“We certainly understand that we need to
improve the legislation further,” Clinton
wrote Wednesday to House leaders.
Despite the work ahead, the day was one for
many members of both sides to claim victory.
The White House and Democrats claimed
credit for expanding health-care coverage for
children, increasing job training for welfare re
cipients and adding money to help poor
Medicare recipients pay their monthly premi
ums. And the legislation marked a majortri-
umph for Republicans, whose budget-balanc
ing agenda has dominated Washingtonsii
they captured Congress in 1994.
"Today and tomorrow we are at a
moment,” House Speaker Newt Gingrich toll
cheering House Republicans, also referring 1
Thursday’s planned votes on a tax-cuttingbj
Though conservative and moderate!^
publicans alike strongly supported the nil
sure, Democratic support for the spending
duction was mixed. It was especially wealii
the House, where opposition was lec/ifM-
nority Leader Dick Gephardt, D-Mo.,apossi-
ble presidential contender in 2000.
Former executive
fired for discussing
MILWAUKEE (AP) —A former Miller Brewing exec
utive is suing after being fired for telling a woman co
worker about a “Seinfeld” episode in which Jerry tries
to remember a girlfriend’s name that rhymes with a fe
male body part.
The beer company says the conversation Jerold
Mackenzie had was the last straw in a pattern of inappro
priate conduct. Mackenzie contends he never actually ut
tered the word for the body part that rhymes with Dolores
but pointed it out to her from a page in the dictionary.
“Did you ever use the word clitoris?” his attorney
Gerald Boyle asked him Wednesday.
“No,” Mackenzie replied, explaining, “I looked the
word up in the dictionary and made a copy of it so I
wouldn’t have to say the word.”
Mackenzie said he discussed the show with several
co-workers the morning after the March 1993 broad
cast, not to titillate, but because “I was surprised that
passed through the censors. How could they do that?”
After a brief discussion about the show with co
worker Patricia Best, he made the copy of the dictionary
page and showed it to her. “Patty, look at this. This is the
word in question,” he recalled telling her.
■ 1 “She said, T don’t want to talk about it,’ and turned
sues after being
‘Seinfeld’ episode
around and walked out of my office,” Mackenzie said.
Best said she was uncomfortable with the discussion
and told Mackenzie he had crossed the line. She also
told a superior, and within a week Mackenzie was fired.
In the episode of the NBC sitcom, Jerry Seinfeld’s char
acter is dating a woman but can’t remember her name
and is too embarrassed to ask. She hints that it rhymes
with a female body part, and Jerry wracks his brain, com
ing up with such possibilities as Mulva. Only after the
woman realizes Jerry doesn’t know her name and runs off
does he remember and screams out “Dolores!”
Mackenzie, who was 51 when he was fired, was mak
ing about $95,000 a year as a distributor information
manager for the brewer and said he has been unable to
find a job since.
Miller attorney Mary Pat Ninneman testified that
Mackenzie had been lectured about inappropriate be
havior after his secretary accused him in 1989 of sexu
ally harassing her.
Mackenzie testified that the lawsuit was settled out
of court, and he denied harassing the secretary.
Ninneman testified that Mackenzie acknowledged
that his actions toward his secretary were inappropri
ate, cried and promised never to behave that way again.
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