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GREAT DAY FOR A COUPLE YOU SAID IT MAN.
COLD ONES BY THE POOL, SOAKING UP RAYS AND
EH, BUDDY? SUCKIN' DOWN SUDS.
EXCUSE ME SIRS, BUT WE HAVE A PROBLEM HERE. .
I WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF MY ADULT SWIM, AND WAS
TOTALLY INTERRUPTED BY THE PRESENCE OF AN
ANIMAL IN THE POOL!!
NOW BECAUSE I HAVE
LIVED IN THIS APART
MENT COMPLEX SINCE
'98, THAT MAKES ME A
SENIOR MEMBER. AND
THAT GIVES ME THE
AUTHORITY TO
ADDRESS RULE
VIOLATIONS TO NON
SENIOR MEMBERS LIKE
YOURSELVES
NOW, EITHER
REMOVE THE
ANIMAL OR
I WILL BE FORCED TO REPORT
YOU TO THE MANAGEMENT
SORRY DUEY, BUT THAT OUY REALLY
WANTS YOU OUT OF THE POOL. .. PLUS,
HIS OLD MAN NIPPLES REALLY SCARED
IT'S COOL, I KNOW HOW IT IS... I
JUST WANTED TO TRY OUT ALL
THIS CRAP I BOUGHT AT
ACADEMY...
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Pataki: WTC site to have no
commercial development
NEW YORK (AP) — Relatives of World Trade
Center victims welcomed Gov. George Pataki’s
promise that there would be no commercial devel
opment on the footprints of the 1 10-story twin
towers.
“I’m very happy with that stand,” Joseph
Maurer, who lost his daughter in the attack, said
Sunday.. “I don’t think anything should ever be
even thought about being built where Tower 1 and
Tower 2 stood. ... That to me is like sacred
ground.”
Pataki told a gathering of about 400 victims’
family members Saturday that there would be no
commercial construction on the land on which the
towers stood.
“We will never build where the towers stood,”
he said. “Where the towers stood is hallowed
ground.”
Fonner Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, who also
spoke at the ceremony, said his vision is of “a
soaring, dramatic, beautiful memorial that draws
people there 100 years, 150 years, from now.”
The size and location of the monument to the
more than 2,800 victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist
attack has been a contentious issue, with some
family members originally wanting the entire 16-
acre trade center site to become a memorial. Each
tower occupied about 1 acre.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who did not attend
Saturday’s ceremony, has suggested a small,
graceful memorial might be preferable to a large
one.
Saturday’s remarks from Pataki were the clear
est signal yet that the site of the towers could be
left without commercial development.
“We’re happy to hear him address the twin
towers, but that’s not all of what the families
want,” said Bill Doyle, who lost his son in the
Sept. 1 1 attack. “We’d like as much acreage as
possible.”
A committee of victims relatives that is advis
ing the Lower Manhattan Development Corp.
released a draft of its vision for the World Trade
Center site last week. The panel would like to see
a memorial complex that includes a visitors’ cen
ter, a museum about the attack, a children’s area,
an eternal flame and a private area for victims’
families.
NEWS IN BRIEF
Two men escape from
Cameron County prison
BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Two men escaped
from Cameron County's maximum-security deten
tion center near Olmito on Sunday through an
opening in their cell's plumbing that led to the roof.
The escapees were identified as Jose Luis
Mendoza, 29, of Brownsville and Benjamin Leal,
18, of Harlingen.
Leal is charged with two counts of aggravated
kidnapping and one count of aggravated
assault, county officials said. Mendoza was
awaiting trial for charges of auto theft and some
misdemeanor drug charges.
The escape was the first from the new jail since it
opened late last year.
Capt. Rumaldo Rodriguez said he could not offer
detailed information about the breakout for fear
other inmates would imitate the route used.
'The pods in the facility are almost identical to
each other," he said in a story in Monday's editions
of The Brownsville Herald. 'They (inmates) have
nothing but time to think about how to get out of
there. Our job is to figure out how to keep them in."
Obese kids pose dilemm
for many doctors today
CHICAGO (AP) — Many children are not
being adequately treated for weight problems
because many pediatricians and other health
workers lack expertise in helping them slim down,
a survey suggests.
Though faced with an increasing number ot
overweight children, many pediatricians anti nurse
practitioners say they need more training to over
come weight-loss obstacles including a lack of
patient motivation, insurance and parental
involvement, according to the survey.
The eight-page survey involved 940 pediatri
cians, pediatric nurse practitioners and dietitians
nationwide. Several reports about it are published
as a supplement to the July issue of Pediatrics.
The 1999 survey is part of an effort by the fed
eral Maternal and Child Health Bureau to examine
the growing problem of obesity in children and to
assess how doctors are dealing with it.
National data indicate that about 14 percent of
children aged 6 through 19 are severely over
weight, a near-tripling since the 1960s.
“A lot of pediatricians around the country don’t
feel confident that they know how to treat this
problem — so they don’t (treat it),” said Dr.
William Dietz, who chaired a committee, con
vened by the bureau, that initiated the survey.
“It is a hard problem to treat,” especially if doc
tors don’t start addressing it until their patients
become obese, said Dietz, director of the division
of nutrition and physical activity at the federal
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Most survey participants said weight problems
in children are a serious medical issue,
patients at risk for chronic diseases includiti;
betes and heart ailments later in life. The bad
is that many may be inadequately addresM:
said St. Louis University’s Dr. Sarah Barb I
of the researchers.
“It’s a very sensitive topic for pediatricia
bring up. They worry about offending thefe
ly” and causing self-esteem problems
child, she said.
More than a third of pediatricians andr.J
and about half of dietitians said they didn’t
treatment in overweight children withnookj
related medical problems. And most said the;
n’t initiate treatment in youngsters whoi
want to control their weight.
Dr. Elena Fuentes-Afflick, a San Fran;
pediatrician, said it’s not unusual to see;
patients’ weight balloon from visit to visit -
their parents swear to you that they're not;.]
fast-food and that they’re exercising.”
“This is clearly not a medical problem!
give them a pill and it will go away,” Fid
Afflick said. “It's much more complicates;
whole family has to be involved. Ifsaven jT
trating problem and there is no magic bullet i"
More than a third of pediatricians sur l
said they had low' proficiency in behavior e
agement techniques to help patients loseu;.;
25 percent said they lacked expertise in get
parents to help their children lose weighti
nearly 20 percent said they were ill-equipi*!
help patients become less sedentary.
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that our two universities are
partners in competing for Texas
in the national arena of knowl
edge,” Faulkner said. “It’s very
important to realize that the
past of Texas was built to a
large degree on her physical
assets. The current economy is
to a much greater degree
dependent on brain power and
knowledge, and that doesn’t
have to be from Texas.”
Bowen added that in accom
plishing these goals, both
schools face many of the same
financial and recruiting prob
lems associated withbeinp
state university.
Both presidents enjoyehD |
visits so much that Bower? | !
joked about staying inAusti
a bit longer.
“I think I’ll just
Austin],” Bowen said.Ij
about you [Faulkner] sta;
College Station] for a m
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is printing millions of 3-cent stamps to help peo
ple use up leftover 34-cent stamps.
The stamps also can be purchased at post
offices, online at www.usps.com/shop or by call
ing toll free l-80()-S CAMP-24.
The increases affect only domestic mail. The
international letter rate of 60 cents for the first
ounce to Mexico and Canada and 80 cents to other
countries remains unchanged.
Besides costs from the anthrax attacks and the
Sept. 1 1 terrorism, mail volume has been declin
ing in the soft economy, reducing income for the
agency that does not receive taxpayer funds for
normal operations. However, Congre'
approved $675 million for damage and tot:
for sanitizing government mail.
In an effort to cut costs, the post offi
new construction and reduced staff by 1.
year and another 8.000 this year.
The agency also sought changes in
governs its operations in an effort \o get more (l*
ibility in changing rates and offering new setvtt
However, the House Government Rd
Committee rejected proposed legislation by
6 vote last week.
Following that defeat the Mailers Council
organization of the mailing industry, H
President Bush to create a commission toeva-
the post office and make recommendation
change.
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future storms.
“There is great uncertainty
where the storm might make
landfall and how much it might
intensify,” Lindell said. “The
NHC has a pretty good proba
bility of being right when they
are forecasting within about 24
hours, but local decision mak
ers need to know what’s going
to happen 30 hours in advance
so they can issue an evacuation
alert.”
EMDSS is being built in
order to address these problems.
“Sometimes [the decision
makers] cannot even access rel
evant information [from the var
ious weather service organiza
tions],” Lindell said. “Our pro
gram is going to compile the
most recent data on specific
storms from these organizations
and historical data on similar
storms.
“With this data we can pro
vide probability numbers on
how much the current storm is
likely to intensify and where it is
going to strike in an easy user-
interface for the decision maker.
They’ll be able to see the dis
play with the information they
need. All they have to do is point
and click.”
Prater added that the actual
evacuation logistics will also be
taken into consideration.
“We’re going to include
detailed Geographic Information
System maps in the database so
that local authorities can guide
residents to taster alternate
routes,” Prater said. “In large
urban areas, residents often are
unaware of the back roads.
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