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Page 2 NEWS THE BATTALION Monday, June 2?,: Dii?to Rpes PM l?.DE:LUnfl Faculty X SEE TtiousAAJb ToKToZtb Souls SCREAMMG )A^ Deep The AJETHEZ IJoRLD... LOELL, AJotHi/vG OUT of THE O^Dl/0/)E:y X C/)A) TELL. Continued from Page 7 supposed to [just] get married,” Grimes said. “But we try to ex pose them to individuals who have ventured out.” Aside from hosting events to help the community, Winder hosts four annual etiquette training dinners for A&M stu dents. “Basically the dinners are de signed to teach students to feel better in dining interviews,” Winder said. “Companies equate good etiquette to busi ness competence, so if you do The Rintastico Chronicles BY J. GOLDFLUTE spy HECTOR Y PEDRO Adrian Taste comes before health to consumers, survey says NEW ORLEANS (AP) — French fries might lower cho lesterol if they are cooked in the right kind of shortening, but most consumers may never get a chance to eat them. The shortening, known as Appetize, is one of a series of healthier food products that have struggled as public concern about fat has declined in recent years, even as obesity has reached epidemic proportions. “Elealth is not a primary driv er in our food selection. You must have taste first,” said Robert Brown, who follows in dustry trends for snack-food gi ant Frito-Lay. Food scientists gathered here for their annual convention this week have not given up the search for their holy grail — a healthy, tasty, affordable substi tute for bad fats — but they are scratching their heads over the declining consumer interest. Among supermarket shoppers who said they are very concerned about nutrition, only 46 percent of consumers say they are wor ried about the fat content, down from 60 percent in 1996, ac cording to a poll last year by the Food Marketing Institute. Olestra, a fat substitute devel oped by Procter & Gamble Co., is one of the leading disappoint ments. Sales of Frito-Lay’s In marketing, the bottom line is taste.” — K.C. Hayes inventor of Appetize Wow! potato chips, which are made with olestra, dropped 36 percent in 1999, a year after they were introduced. Nabisco’s low-fat Snackwell cookies also have been a disap pointment, as was Benecol, a cholesterol-lowering margarine. Frito-Lay added fat to its baked potato chips to improve the taste, Brown said. Meanwhile, sales of meat snacks, pork rinds and fat laden energy bars are soaring. “In marketing, the bottom line is taste,” said K.C. Hayes, a Brandeis University scientist and one of the inventors of Appetize. Fat affects not only the fla vor, but also the color and tex ture of foods. Not all fat substitutes have flopped. Half-and-half has been made fat-free by substituting corn syrup and removing water from skim milk. In yogurt, tapio ca starch is used as a fat substitute. Fat has also been removed from mayonnaise and salad dressing. Appetize, which is marketed by a spinoff of General Mills, is a blend of corn oil and beef tal low that has been stripped of its natural cholesterol. Research suggests its unique chemistry may actually lower blood cho lesterol in consumers because of its interaction in the body. It’s designed to replace the ar tery-clogging shortenings, or hydrogenated vegetable oils, that are now widely used in the restaurant and baking industries. The trans fatty acids may be worse for the heart than saturat- O a Q 0 # liiesday Night’s about to get real fun! Post Oak Mall Beall's, Dillard’s, Foley’s, JCPenney, Sears, Die Food Court & Over 100 Specialty Stores. postoakmall.com CBL & ASSOCIATES PROPERTIES, INC. (NYSEOBL) . Shopping i 5-Tpiace! Cameron Reynolds Attorney At Law Licensed by the Texas Supreme Court Not Board Certified Class of‘91 Jim James Attorney At Law Board Certified Criminal Law Class of ‘75 r v SPECIALIZING IN THE DEFENSE OF CRIMINAL CHARGES INCLUDING: • Driving While Intoxicated • All Alcohol and Drug Offenses • All other Criminal Offenses J/ 979-846-1934 e-mail: jim@tca.net website: http://jimwjames.wld.com Continued from Page 1 operation, and said Montesinos would be tried “like any other delinquent in our country.” Montesinos was considered the power behind former presi dent Alberto Fujimori’s admin istration. The Waisman report, an investigation into alleged corruption in Fujimori’s govern ment, accused Montesinos of heading an intricate web of bribes, drug trafficking and arms dealing. He was accused of tak ing more than $265 million, which now sit frozen in Swdss and other foreign banks. Montesinos also has been charged with human rights abuses, including running death squads and ordering the torture and execution of those who op posed him. Montesinos secretly filmed meetings in his office — a col- Donations Continued from Page 7 ed fats, scientists say. The Food and Drug Administration is pro posing to require trans fats to be listed on food labels. The Mayo Clinic uses Appe tize, which has been on the mar ket for six years, in its employee cafeterias and it also is in a few university and department store restaurants. But no fast major fast-food chains have bought it. Bill Norton, executive vice president of Appetize-maker Source Food Technology Inc., says it will probably never be any thing more than a niche product. The company is currently selling about 5 million pounds a year, a tiny fraction of the 6 billion pound a year market for cooking oils and shortening. Part of the problem for prod ucts like Appetize is consumer confusion about shifting health claims and research findings, say food scientists. Consumers have been warned for years to stay away from saturated fats, such as the beef tallow used in Appetize, but now there are concerns that the trans fats are worse. not have good manners they incide that with incompete: Winder, who attended International Protocol Scl of Washington to becom certified business etiquette sultant, said he has seen the quette training classese.^ from 150 participants eat: mester to more than 2,1 ticipants each semester. Winder said that er Faculty Club staff are rently working withtheH of Information and Tech gy Exchange, Susan Lanca to make a etiquette trai video for all A&Mstuden: Monday, June 2: Ag Seven lection now known as the mous “ Vladivideos. videos show Montesim legedly bribingcongressir; cross over to Fujimori’s] cal party, as yell as mei with generals of the ai forces that have linked with arms trafficking. Caracas daily El Unm ported that accordin; Venezuelan minister Dt Cabello, Montesinos ha: undergone plastic surge: had been reported form •: Peruvians are less ope that Fujimori can be bn back to face charges of ting death squads too; along with other humar abuses. He fled tojapan vember and faxed in hi< Seven mf women’s tr class comp USA Outd from June t mer A&M competitio Senior B pion, comp jump and ti Ramzyc 16th oven time of 14, jump with 'n today difficult .fession: from paycl have Utde < who are m for doing s ■ consider ei nation as {^resident. Fuji: • i r- also a Japanese citizen. Patrick b.v makes it impossible ^ Japanese law for himtol tradited. Looking for dollars, Powell said President Bush made “a rather passionate” pitch for more AIDS fund contributions during his recent meeting with European Union officials in Goteborg, Sweden. At that same meeting, Powell de scribed what he saw during a visit to Africa last month. “I was very candid,” Powell said. “I said, ‘You’ve got to find a way quickly to show your commitment to this. The EU has to give a lot more.’ ” T he fund, kicked off with $200 million by the United States last month, now contains $582 million. France and Britain, fonner colonial powers in Africa, offered $127 million and $100 million respectively, with the rest coming from private entities such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which matched Britain’s donation. “That’s not a bad start but it is nowhere near meeting the need,” Powell said. “I also don’t think we should just restrict it to the big, affluent, former colonial powers. We really need to en gage everybody.” As for the United States’ con tribution, Powell admitted scraping together the $200 mil lion seed money was difficult. “But as the president prepares the 2003 budget, I’ll make a case for finding more money and adding more money,” he said. Secretary General Kofi An nan and some African leaders have estimated that the fund will need at least $7 billion annually to begin having an impact on the African AIDS pandemic H port in the latest issue journal Science estimat; the world’s poorest cot will need $9.2 billiona\r of which would go to sub |l ran Africa. Citing President V Museveni of Uganda a: ample, Powell urged ! heads of state to get per' involved in AIDS educat forts — down to delive: strong message in unfli: terms. “To listen to (Musew cuts no slack,” Powell sai says, ‘This is what is causi:. it is irresponsible hetei sex.’ It kind ofjarsyoinv hear it, ... but that is the leadership message that be given.” Other world nations, said, should help by pro' AIDS drugs, lowering prices, putting health®' livery systems in place They se most importantly, pro' 1 ! AIDS education to chili young as 7, “drilling i' them just like we do here anti-smoking and other of campaigns.” Sheffield a underappr gross natic could caus receive a n In that the NHL former su has beeni lion dolla stead of c Yashin a t || ing him o In 199 ( | mainder < 1 The Sen; IS to sit out - ty vacant Yashin to P contract ■ ing a bre: Yashin forcing h also lost; Forced t< outstand out of th The S the first Maple L during tl better if tell Yash Quake Continued from, was one of tire-sized pi concrete walls blocldnc streets. The press conference dress disaster relief issur largely overshadowed by tions concerning the cap'- Peru’s fugitive ex-spy Vladimiro Montesinos. 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