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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
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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.
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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-
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Boris Yeltsin as sayinf arthest.
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