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Thursday, January 20,2000 IRE Continued from Page 1 “There’s not much you can say at is time,” Newark Archbishop teodore McCarrick, who came to Ter support, said. “We're glad we're will b-Kople of faith. The mystery of God’s bb;. i' r. \»ork is always a great mystery.” side efi Patel, who lives on the third floor nterestjl'wn the hall from the lounge where I diSCtiW blaze broke out, said he pul a wet iibilittej t( .vel under his door, kicked out his s. IhcsrBindow screens and threw his mat- ) bfinf Besses on the ground in case he had to ‘(Idles. Himp. I At least two students did jump, itnesses said. Tim Van Wie, 18, of anders, said a friend jumped from &{J 0c tpe third floor and suffered a broken rist and sprained ankle. Others tied beets together to climb down from window's, but firefighters arrived Hi time and rescued them by ladder. I keara Sauber. IX, saw one fellow Hudcnt shivering in a T-shirt and box- Hrs. his skm completely blackened h\ Bums. "1 lis skin was, like, smoking,” pie said. Two of those killed were found in (ic lounge and one was found in a edroom nearby. Their names were it released. It was not immediately now n whether they were students. Two firelighters and two police of- ccrs were among those hurt, flic in- jries ranged from exposure mid Imokc inhalation to bums. The blaze w as largely confined to Hie e. Students said the}- fre- iiiently saw people smoking in the lounge, though it is prohibited. Essex County Prosecutor Donald H. Campolo would not comment on whether careless smoking may have K a used the fire. The Bureau of Alco- Hiol. Tobacco and Firearms was assist- ■ng in the investigation. The 48-year-old building was Ktiuipped with smoke alarms and ex- ■inguishers but did not have a sprin- Bder system because it was built before ■hey were required, Campolo said. j Fire hoses inside the building had Heen disconnected because the equip ment was obsolete, Seton 1 fall spokes- ■voman Lisa Grider said. Campolo said ■irefighters generally use their own ptoses. The smoke alarms and extinguish ers had passed inspection recently and tit least one extinguisher was used dur ing the blaze, he said. After the fire, soot-faced students lined up in frie s,Indent center to cora- Jort each other and call parents. Three roommates on the ground loor slept through the fire and were not nirt. They woke up more than two [hours later. ; t'KW [ i tmtt American Wholesale Mattress oin P# \||-Ani4 i.fH * Futons * Twin Beds 4 Frames * Waterbeds/ part I 693-2822 ♦ Delivery * Fin.uKe + Layaway itent i Vu<alt minded 5 : butc® he« if even- 1663 S. Texas Ave The Brazos Valley Softball Umpires Association is seeking people to officiate youth and adult softball. Previous experience is not required. A fast pitch ctlntL will be held Saturday January' 22. a slow pitch clinic oh Jjnunty 23. Game feci? are '9-\30 per game. 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RIPLEY (R) 12:50 3:50 7:05 10:05 12:45 THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH (PG13) ENDS TODAYI 4 20 9 55 TOY STORY 2 (G) 12:00 2:25 4:50 7:20 9:45 12:15 4-DAY ADVANCE TICKET SAIES 4 NO PASSES-N0 SUPERSAVEBS cinemark.com NATION THE BATTALION A little extra oxygen can halve risk of post-surgical infection (AP) — Talk about an ounce of prevention: A study found that a few pennies’ worth of oxygen can cut the risk of sur gical infections in half. That can mean thousands and thousands of dollars less in medical bills. Air is about 21 percent oxygen. But patients rou tinely get 30 percent oxygen during and after surgery, because the lungs do not work well under anesthesia. The study tested whether a richer mixture would im prove the outcome. Boosting the oxygen level to 80 percent made a big difference. Twenty-eight of250 patients on the standard mix developed infections, compared with only 13 out of 250 who got extra oxygen. The study w r as published in Thursday’s New' England Journal of Medicine and was led by Dr. Daniel L Sessier of the University of California at San Francisco. The study is significant because it shows an easy, inexpen sive way to make a big cut in medical bills, said Dr. Avery Tung, an assistant professor of anesthesia at the University of Chica go’s medical school. According to another study, postoperative infections add an average of $ 12,500 to the cost of cancer surgery. The only cost to the richer-oxygcn treatment is about three cents’ worth of oxygen. “It’s just a matter of setting two knobs in difterent positions. Both knobs need to be set anyway, and you just turn them a lit tle more to get more oxygen,” Sessier said. Doctors have worried that extra oxygen might make the lungs more likely to collapse. I iowever, he said, a study of his last year in the journal Anesthesiology found no difference in the percentage of such collapses on high and normal doses of oxygen. There was also an unexpected benefit — patients who got extra oxygen were half as likely to be nauseated after surgery. The study was conducted at the Donauspital in Vienna, Vienna General Hospital and University Hospital Eppendorf in Hamburg, Germany. Scientists already knew that the white blood cells known as neu- tophils use oxygen to kill germs. And they knew that high levels of oxygen in body tissues help prevent infection and that breath ing higher levels of oxygen put more oxygen into the tissues. What the}’ did not know was whether it made a difference in patients’ healing. "This shows it’s not just a theoretical benefit but a real ben efit. and that it’s much greater than you might have expected.” Sessier said. "It’s an enormous benefit for no cost and effort and risk.” "This shows it's not just a theoretical benefit but a real benefit, and that it's greater than you might have expected." — Dr. Daniel I. Sessier University of California at San Francisco Mother to serve 30 year sentence TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A young mother accused of killing her baby by putting him in a plastic bag to stop his crying pleaded guilty yes terday in exchange for a 30-year prison sentence. In an arrangement with prosecu tors, 22-year-old Crista Decker plead ed guilty to second-degree murder. Decker had been charged with first-degree murder in the Aug. 27 death of her 6-month-old son, Gabriel Ellis Decker. She initially told authorities that Gabriel van ished from her minivan in a shop ping center parking lot as she looked for a shopping cart. Detectives became suspicious, and Decker later confessed that she put the baby in a plastic bag to quiet him, then tossed the bag, with the baby inside, into a trash bin. Kennedy nephew: murder suspect BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) — A nephew of Robert F. Kennedy was News in Brief charged yesterday with bludgeoning a girl to death with a golf club in 1975 when he was 15, providing the long-awaited break in a case that frustrated police in wealthy Greenwich and raised suspicions of a Kennedy cover-up. Michael Skakel, 39, flew to Con necticut from his home in Florida and surrendered at Greenwich po lice headquarters after a warrant was issued for his arrest in the slay ing of Martha Moxley. Because of Skakel's age at the time of the crime, the case will be handled, at least initially, in juvenile court. "Michael has stated all along he did not do this,” said his lawyer, Michael Sherman. "He had no knowledge of it. He had no part in it. He is not guilty." Sit-in spreads in Florida’s capital TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A sit-in started at the state Capitol by two black lawmakers protesting Gov. Jeb Bush's ban on affirmative action was joined yesterday by 20 other legislators and about 100 protesters. Sen. Kendrick Meek and Rep. Tony Hill, both Democrats, parked themselves in Republican Lt. Gov. Frank Brogan’s office Tuesday and spent the night there after trying to persuade Brogan to get Bush to relent. The protest escalated yester day with more lawmakers and about 100 protesters, including students from mostly black Flori da A&M University. They crowded the Capitol hallways outside the governor’s office. The Republican governor met with the lawmakers briefly yesterday. At a news conference, he de nounced the sit-in and said it would not change his position on affirmative action. He said the lawmakers haven’t presented “constructive alternatives." Meek and Hill said they would remain “as long as it takes.” “The governor spoke to us as if we were children today,” Meek said. “And we’re grown men. This is America. And it’s a shame in the year 2000 that we have to fight the battles of the '50s and ’60s.” State authorities said they had no plans to remove the protesters. 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