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Agriculture Peace Corps needs Americans with skills in Environment Educa tion Business Peace Corps needs 5,500 graduates with skills in agriculture, business, education, environment, health and information technology. All majors are welcome. Benefits include medical, dental and housing, as well as a monthly stipend and 24 vacation days a year. Graduates can defer student loans while serving. Visit the TAMU Career Center 209 Koldus Building to pick up a Peace Corps Catalog. LACOSTE ONLY @ 520 University Dr E • 693-0995 8 ; Wednesday, March 10, 2004 Pennsylvania to participate in anti-huff program PITTSBURGH (AP) — Pennsylvania will be among six states that will participate in an anti-huffing program for teenagers who use inhalants to get high. The experimental program was to be announced Tuesday in Washington, D.C., the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported, and will provide schools with information about inhalant abuse. The Alliance for Consumer Education and the American School Counselor Association are sponsoring the program. The organizations estimate that nearly half of parents mention the abuse of inhalants — more commonly known as huffing — when discussing drug abuse with their children. About one of every five students has abused inhalants by eighth grade, according to the Alliance for Consumer Education. Though deaths are relatively rare, huffing can cause brain, heart, lung, kidney and liver damage. Pennsylvania was chosen in part because the state’s new driv ing under the influence law addresses huffing, according to pro gram spokesman Edward F. Tate III. “We wanted a state that had an awareness of the problem and a strong interest in it,” said Tate. C. Stephen Erni, executive director of the Pennsylvania DUI Association, said the group supported the addition of inhalants to the recent DUI law revisions. The group is scheduling workshops to teach law enforcement officers how to detect inhalant abuse, “Unless the suspect is vomiting or there is a strong chemical odor, inhalant abuse is hard to spot,” Erni said. Ohio, Virginia, Texas, Alabama and Alaska will also partici pate. As many as 90 percent of elementary-school children in Alaska have at least tried huffing, according to some estimates, Tate said. NEWS IN BRIEF Preventable obesity deaths on the rise WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans are sitting around and eating themselves to death, with obesity closing in on tobacco as the nation’s No. 1 underlying preventable killer. The government is offering constructive, even lighthearted, advice to fight what it calls an epidemic of expanding waist lines. 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Although advance word to India averted a crisis, the launch of the Shaheen 2 is a vivid reminder of the stakes at play as South Asia’s traditional enemies try to cement a fragile peace. The missile has a range of 1,250 miles, meaning it could easily hit Bombay, New Delhi, Lucknow, Jaipur and other major Indian cities. “Pakistan today successfully carried out the maiden test fire of the Shaheen 2 surface-to-sur face ballistic missile,” a military statement said. Pakistan made certain to inform India in advance, and the test was not likely to damage relations that are rapidly improving. India’s external affairs and defense ministries declined comment on the test. The timing seemed more linked to internal Pakistani poli tics, with President Gen. Pervez Musharraf facing anger at home over an investigation into a black market run by rogue Pakistani scientists that alleged ly sold nuclear know-how to Iran, Libya and North Korea. Many Pakistanis feel the sci entists have been made scape goats and accuse Musharraf of jeopardizing the nation’s nuclear program under pressure from the West. The president, a key ally in the U.S.-led war on terror, announced plans to test-fire the Shaheen 2 at the same Feb. 5 news conference in which he pardoned Abdul Qadeer Khan, the father of Pakistan’s nuclear program, who Pakistan tests In; range missile On Tuesday, Pakistan tester Shaheen 2 surface-to-surfac! ballistic missile, capable of carrying a nuclear warhead^ hitting targets deep inside!^ , ) / KAZAK. CHINA; j IRAN AFG.y PAR. v\ ^ INDIA j i.. Arabian * Sea / Range: 1,250 miles huliati OJN (2,000 km) Ocean oscoks i SOURCES: ESRI; GlobalSecurity.wg confessed to heading thenucla proliferation ring. Khan has been under vim house arrest since the pardons at least six other scientists s administrators are in custody, “This is internal polititsi said Shahid ur-Rehman, ill author of a widely read tad about Pakistan’s nuclear pit gram. “It was basicallyaimdi quieting the Pakistani pqdi who have been accui Musharraf of rolling back tii nuclear program." The tests did cause im abroad, however. Japan said it “regia Pakistan test-firing a ballisa missile amid the intemaiion community’s efforts to pros the proliferation of weapons! mass destruction and ballisi missiles,” the Kyodo new agency reported. There was no immeda reaction in Washington or i Israel. 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