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battalioi,; THE BATTALION ■Sfednesday, August 22, 2001 Page 5B r §t)besity tied to naitype of APOLIS (A : p H p. accused CX.JL X W'W*' JL rp. in a l.,L. running ad\;- »HICAGO (AP) — falsely coJNty and inactivity may sig- ces with thos; ^ antl y increase the risk of Peer of the pancreas, a hard- Dare to Cor® eat disease that kills nearly (mart usesr ®00 Americans each year, a mpare its pi tudy found, er stores, inef, . The findings bolster evi- ■ce that the disease is aid the sir |ji e d to abnormal insulin id rife with :->roduction and diabetes, and based in uggest that lifestyle changes not imme: night help decrease the risk, for commen: |$earchers said, lid it hired at.The study by researchers at i firm to cob lar yard’s School of Public 98 Kman lealth and affiliated hospitals rget stores 4 based on data from two and it founiBeral health studies involv- of the Kmi-^ig more than 150,000 female ce compar|u , ses and male health work- trs nationwide followed for ■to 20 years. The findings appear in astound Wednesday’s Journal of the r I American Medical Association. of Jw pbesity and inactivity have wrongpKften linked to numerous health / WWtfJftJblems, including other s of cancer. now, cigarette smok- own i lintil f§. < • ■ . ng was the only convincing on rfmhwfiodifiable” risk factor linked 'eting TmvI pancreatic cancer, Drs. in *t even$flw m Gapstur and Peter Gann Df Northwestern University _ said in an accompanying com- Jame5 mentary. If additional research ar 9 et e)<ew confirms the findings, there vice prew f,,, ^ y. „ K could be a profound impact ~ ^on public health, n ,n 2 ™ B|“These factors could IJve , e ‘‘account for as much as 15 per- • cent of all pancreatic cancer coraparis. Vfyw? those auributablj the con said Gapstur and . ^ ^ r iGann. James T° i n t * le stud y’ researcher itive vice iral counse: inique Michaud and col- igues said 350 cases of pan- tic cancer occurred during follow-up. An increased isk was found in participants fith a body-mass index of at fast 25, which is considered 1st slightly overweight. I The biggest risk was in se participants, with a ly-mass index of at least 30, ho were 72 percent more kely to develop pancreatic mcer than normal-weight ople. o lub ae put in ACH. Fla. vo People{>| crowded IIV th Beach wM jesday, sevl ^ ie Source JOXCS tO Awards ft* said >, wasslashe- /as hospii ion. A 25-y as repealing! back andvCEV^^ wdX o cal conditio' in, who pc ATLANTA (AP) — After a was a stabh^month investigation of lought to bile Earnhardt’s death, while tryia*>CAR has decided not to de and scraf'jqire drivers to wear head ground, pfid neck restraints, but it will Bozasaid. j to improve safety by i.m. stabbmiUng “black boxes” simi- vel came a (to those used in airplanes, awards enc “We have committed to the gazine helistallation of crash data vards paitjeorders,” said NASCAR /e blocks tt^sident Mike Helton on eason Theiiesday. “Such devices will Is wereheldp drivers, owners, manu- of last venturers and NASCAR study , held at 'W impacts affect drivers .Au d itoriuit d' car s. cut short bpamhardt was not wearing brawl. and ne ck device when nifing was ^ as killed in a crash on the lence ovet*^ turn °f the Daytona 500 fcis year,B’^ e ^- Gse of the devices tntherim 1 s drarna tically increased ^ , J tce then. discord" Amon 8 ° ther findings . leased at a news conference, ^searching e a rcher said Earnhard p s _^mg od^t belt bj-Q^e during the ■ose i nv0 •eck, but did not immediately ^ had atI plwhether it played a role in ceremony _ seven _ t j m e Winston Cup Hb afterWampion’s death. Signing day STUART VILLANUEVA • THE BATTALION Four-year-old Paris Babers of College Station has her jersey signed by Kyle Field Saturday. Aggie fans came from all parts of the state to freshman wide receiver Terrence Murphy at Aggie Autograph Day at meet the 2001 Texas A&M football team. HEW$ IN BftifiF Judge orders casino ship to become more accessible to disabled MIAMI (AP) — A casino ship must make restrooms more accessible for passengers in wheelchairs, but will not have to make more extensive changes to accommodate the disabled, a judge ruled. Monday’s ruling by U.S. District Judge Shelby Highsmith came in what is believed to be the first trial targeting disabled access to passenger ships. An advocacy group for the dis abled had asked for widespread changes ranging from lower craps tables to installation of an elevator on the Casino Princesa ship, which sails daily from Miami. But the judge said those sug gestions were too expensive or would fundamentally alter the casino games. 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