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Agricultural Career Exposition
TODAY!
October 2.2002
Ktetern Atrium
8-.30 am- 2 pm
NORTHGATE DISTRICT ASSOCIATION
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EVERY WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON
IN OCTOBER
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12-1:30
Come eat at your favorite restaurant
and listen to live music on the promenade
-UPCOMING EVENTS: Boogate October 31 st
-PRE-GAME PARTIES: Fridays before games
-POST GAME SPORTS TALK SHOW: After Games
www.NorthgateTX.com for Details
The Vintage House at
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Introduces Three Great Weekday Evenings
Enjoy three special menus served in the
most romantic restaurant in the Brazos Valley.
Wednesdays...
An Evening In Tuscany
Every Wednesday evening, it’s just a short
drive to Tuscany. You’ll love the traditional Tuscan
cuisine served with a vineyard view. It’s four courses
for only $49.95 per couple, plus tax and gratuity.
Romantic Thursdays
Every Thursday evening from 5 to 10pm, the Vintage
House offers a new, special menu just for couples. You’ll
love everything, including the price. It’s four courses for
only $49.95 per couple plus tax and gratuity.
Fridays: Aggie Strip & Shrimp
Every Friday evening, get the very best Aggie made
strip and the very freshest Gulf shrimp...combined to
make this four course evening the highlight of your
week...just $59.95 per couple, plus tax and gratuity.
Reservations or more information,
www.messinahof.com or call 778-9463, ext. 31
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Wednesday, October 2, 2002
THE BATTALij
Heavy stuff
Blinn sophomore Josh Dietert works out at
the A&M Student Rec Center Tuesday after
noon. Dietert works out four times a weei
and has been doing so since high school.
Study: Minorities may be undei
more suspicion for child abust
CHICAGO (AP) — Black
and Hispanic children hospital
ized with broken bones suffered
in accidents are far more likely
than white youngsters to be
checked for child abuse, a study
found.
The findings suggest that
some doctors may be unfairly
suspicious of minorities and are
overlooking actual abuse among
whites, the researchers said.
“This study is a reminder to
be as thorough and objective as
possible in evaluating children
with injuries,” said Dr. Cindy
Christian, who led the study at
Children’s Hospital of
Philadelphia.
The researchers said the find
ings bolster suspicions that
abuse among white children is
underdiagnosed. They said it
also points to another area of
medicine where racial dispari
ties and possible bias may affect
health care.
They did not determine the
race of the doctors involved, but
they said they suspect that many
were white and that the doctors’
biases probably played a role in
the findings.
“All of us have personal
biases,” Christian said. “It’s
human nature not to be able to
see something negative in a per
son or group of people who are
like you.”
The findings were published
in Wednesday’s Journal of the
American Medical Association.
Minority kids’ fractures prompt suspicions
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to be checked for child abuse, a study said.
While
minority
children had
a higher rate
of abusive
fractures...
... they were also
more likely than
white youngsters
to be evaluated
and reported for
suspected abuse.
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White White
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Minority
children were
also more likely
to have X-rays
when abuse
was suspected.
Minority
52.9%
I 65.3%
White
31.3%
SOURCE: JAMA
The study involved 388 chil
dren under 3 who were treated
for skull, arm or leg fractures at
the Philadelphia hospital
between 1994 and 2000. Two
child-abuse experts reviewed the
injuries and determined which
ones were accidental and which
were caused by abuse.
Minority children 1 year old
and up with accidental injuries
were over three times more
likely to be reported to authori
ties for suspected abuse. They
were also more likely to be sub
jected to a detailed type of X-
ray often ordered when abuse is
suspected.
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common among black and
Hispanic children than among
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