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The. TeKae flmiahofUUersiii&cim presents . . . i (tlMui Hi li TALENT SHOWCASE TALENT AUDITIONS: ^ %r/3(M Prose & Poetry: ^ 7:30p.m.taf 0.00 fim Tues., Apr. 6th 7:30 p.m.-9 Student Rec flrchertf Room MSC262 Musical Talents: Ticket Sales be 8 ln Wed,Apr.7th 7:00p. m .-9 A P ri1 '7th in MSC MSC216T '6.0(1 presale Prose, Poetry, Music, Misc: '8.00 at the door Thurs., Apr. 8th 7:00 p.m.-9 ‘5.00 after party only MSC216T For Scheduling iind more info: blistalentshow@yahoo.com CTI inUMT TRAVEL London $627 Page 12 • Wednesday, April 7, 1999 Prof to host workshop in France BY NONI SRIDHARA The Battalion Amateur and professional writers will spend two weeks participating in intensive writing workshops in Provence, France, at the first Provence Writers’ Work shop, created by Paul Christensen, professor in the De partment of English at Texas A&M. The two-week program will host 20 writers from May 15 to May 31. The writers will be the guests of the owner of a country inn. The owner is a writer and the mayor of the village. Christensen said the writers will typical ly participate in activities for 15 hours each day. They will spend each morning in workshops conducted by Christensen and Luis Urrea, a writer in residence at Southwest Louisiana State University. They will spend the afternoons writing about various assigned topics. Christensen said they will visit historical authors’ homes, villages and monasteries for inspiration. In the evenings, they will participate in readings and con versations. He said the workshops will focus on three main genres of writing: prose, fiction and creative non-fic tion. Christensen said the workshop will target people in different stages of their writing careers. “Our main goal is to help these participants get launched or re-launched into their writing careers,” he said. “We want this to be not only instructional, but it should also be therapeutic.” Teen smoking increases cancer risks Paris ...$784 Madrid $841 Brussels $766 Frankfurt $813 All fares are round-trip. Tax not included. Some restrictions apply. (800) 777-0112 SF/I STA TRAVEL WE'VE BEEN THERE. BOOK YOUR TICKETS ON-LINE www.statravel.com THE BATTALION CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING CALL FOR MORE INFORMATION 845-0569 WASHINGTON (AP) — Smoking in the teen-age years causes perma nent genetic changes in the lungs and forever increases the risk of lung can cer — even if the smoker quits, a study finds. And the younger the smoking starts, the more damage is done. The research, at a time when more than a third of teens take up the smoking habit, shows “there is something uniquely bad about start ing young,” said John K. Wiencke, a genetics expert at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine. The research gives powerful lab oratory evidence of why starting smoking before the age of 18 can be particularly harmful to long-term health, said Wiencke, author of a study Wednesday in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Youthful smoking on a daily ba sis apparently causes lung damage that lasts a lifetime, he said. Such damage is less likely among smok ers who start in their 20s. “It looks like it is the age when smoking starts that is important,” Wiencke said. “It didn’t matter if they were heavy or light smokers — what mattered is that they started young.” Earlier studies have indicated that young smoking stunts the lungs’ full development and increases the risk of breathing problems later in life. Studies have also shown that smok ing in the teen years is more addic tive and that smokers who begin young are less likely to break the habit. But Wiencke’s study for the first time shows dramatic and enduring DNA damage caused by youthful smoking. “This reinforces the idea that we need to stop young people from smoking, not only from the addiction standpoint, but also from the cancer risk standpoint,” Wiencke said. Surveys by the Centers for Dis ease Control and Prevention indicate that 34.8 percent of high school stu dents were regular smokers in 1995. That number rose to 36.4 percent in 1997. Of smokers ages 30 to 39, 62 per cent had tried smoking by the age of 16, and 24.9 percent had taken up the smoking habit permanently by that age, the CDC found. About 3 million teen-agers now smoke, the government estimates. And about a third of all smokers will die of smoking-related illnesses, in cluding lung and other types of can cers, heart disease, stroke, emphy sema and chronic pulmonary obstruction. In their study, Wiencke and col leagues tested for DNA alterations in the nontumor lung tissue of patients being treated for lung cancer. The group included 57 people who were current smokers, 79 who were for mer smokers and seven who had never smoked. The healthy lung tissue was test ed for the number of DNA alter ations per 10 billion cells. Some al terations occur with age, but the number of gene changes was much higher among smokers — and high est of all among those who started smoking at a young age, Wiencke said. Deal’icious Dining Discounts Every Wednesday in The Battalion BY RAC Tl he CEO of Yugoslav leader declare! cease-fire for religious hoi : said in an MSC last night that i eas and who iselves as s r. Mark W he joining of S :o Inc. and San BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) — Yugoslav President Slobodan Milo sevic declared a unilateral cease fire Thesday in his campaign to crush rebels in Kosovo, saying he wanted to honor the Orthodox Easter holiday this weekend. West ern leaders called the move a sham and pledged to press ahead with airstrikes. Moments after the cease-fire took effect at 8 p.m. (2 p.m. EDT), air-raid sirens wailed in Belgrade, heralding new NATO attacks. The Yugoslav declaration was clearly aimed at staving off further NATO attacks and at presenting Milosevic’s government as inter ested in resolving the crisis without capitulating to the West. President Clinton and NATO in sisted that half-measures would not end the NATO air campaign that began March 24, while British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s office said Milosevic’s announced truce “doesn’t go nearly far enough.” A rebel spokesman also rejected the cease-fire, which was an- n , . l.S. 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