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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2007
SCIENCE
Stressful marriages can hurt your heart
CHICAGO — A lousy marriage might literally make you sick.
Marital strife and other bad personal relationships can raise your risk for heart disease, researchers reported Monday.
What it likely boils down to is stress — a well-known contributor to health problems, as well as a potential byproduct of troubled relationships, the scientists said.
In a study of 9,011 British civil servants, most of them married, those with the worst close relationships were 34 percent more likely to have heart attacks or other heart trouble during 12 years of follow-up than those with good relationships. That included partners, close relatives and friends.
The study, in Monday's Archives of Internal Medicine, follows previous research that has linked health problems with being single and having few close relationships. In the new study, researchers focused more on the quality of marriage and other important relationships.
"What we add here is that, 'OK, being married is in general good, but be careful about the kind of person you have married.' The quality of the relationship matters," said lead author Roberto De Vogli, a researcher with University College in London.
De Vogli said his research team is doing tests to see if study par-
"OK, being married is in general good, but be careful about the kind of person you have married."
ROBERTO DE VOGLI Researcher
ticiptants with bad relationships have any biological evidence of stress that could contribute to heart disease. That includes inflammation and elevated levels of stress hormones.
Another recent study also looked at quality of relationships
but had different results. There was no association between marital woes in general and risks for heart disease or early death. But it did find, during a 10-year follow-up, that women who kept silent during marital arguments had an increased risk of dying compared with wives who expressed their feelings during fights. What appeared to matter more for men was just being married; married men were less likely to die during the follow-up than single men.
That study, of nearly 4,000 men and women, was published online in July in the journal Psychosomatic Medicine.
In De Vogli's study, men and women with bad relationships faced equal risks. Volunteers filled out questionnaires asking them to rate the person to whom they felt closest on several measures. These included questions about to what extent does that person "give you worries, problems and stress?"
They also were asked about whether they felt they could confide in that person, or whether talking with that person made them feel worse.
Over the following 12 years, 589 participants had heart attacks or other heart problems. Those with the highest negative scores on the questionnaire had the highest risks, even taking into account other factors related to heart disease such as obesity, high blood pressure and smoking.
James Coyne, a University of Pennsylvania psychology professor who also has examined the health impact of social relationships, said De Vogil's results "make intuitive sense." But he said the study found only a weak association that doesn't prove bad relationships can cause heart disease.
"It is still not clear what to recommend," Coyne said.
Sprint Nextel CEO Forsee resigns
BUSINESS
ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — Sprint Nextel Corp. Chairman and Chief Executive Gary Forsee resigned Monday as the board expressed disappointment with the financial results of the nation's third-largest wireless carrier. Sprint also lowered its financial forecast for the current quarter.
"It is the right time to put in place new leadership to move the company forward in improving its performance and realizing corporate objectives," board member Irvine Hockaday said in a company statement.
The board said it was searching for a replacement for Forsee, who was also president. In the meantime, Director James Hance Jr. will be acting nonexecutive chairman, and Chief Financial Officer Paul Saleh will serve as acting CEO.
Sprint Nextel Corp., the nation's third-largest wireless provider, said Monday that Gary Forshe, its chairman, and CEO, was stepping down, effective immediately. Sprint Nextel also said it expected to report a net loss of approximately 373,000 monthly subscribers in the third quarter.
Also Monday. Sprint Nextel said
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Also Month it expected to report a net loss of approximately 337,000 monthly subscribers in the third quarter. Its operating income, excluding some items, is expected to fall below the previously forecast range $11 billion
or 2.7 percent. In extended trading, after the announcement of Forsee's departure, the shares gained 45 cents.
The resignation confirms newspaper articles, citing anonymous sources, that said Forsee's departure was imminent. USA Today reported in Monday's edition that Sprint's board, spurred by disappointing second-quarter earnings, had decided to speed up efforts to replace Forsee after its work to find a replacement was made public last week by The Wall Street Journal.
Forsee took over the nation's third-largest wireless provider in 2003 and was a driving force behind the acquisition of Nextel Communications Inc. in August 2005.
However, the company has struggled after the merger, and its stock price has dropped 27 percent. Amid technical prob-
"It is the right time to put in place new leadership to move the company forward in improving its performance."
to $11.5 billion. Revenue is expected to fall below the earlier forecast of $41 billion to $42 billion.
Sprint Nextel shares closed Monday at $18.50, down 51 cents
IRVINE HOCKADAY Sprint Nextel Corp. board member
lems and a sometimes unfocused mark eting strategy, Sprint Nextel has steadily lost ground to competitors AT&T Inc. and Verizon Wireless in attracting and retaining customers. Nextel's phones, known for their "push-to-talk" feature, aren't directly compatible with Sprint's network.
Most recently, Forsee has hung
the company's future on the development of WiMax, a fourth-generation mobile data network the company claims will provide wireless download speeds comparable to DSL or cable modems. It aims to connect not only cell phones but computers, video cameras and other gadgets. Wide-scale commercial application is still years away.
The Wall Street Journal said company directors began looking for Forsee's replacement in August, about the time Sprint Nextel announced smaller second-quarter
profits and that it would continue to struggle in the second half of the year.
Sprint Nextel is formally based in Reston, Va., Nextel's old base, but maintains operational headquarters in Overland Park, Sprint Corp.'s hometown.
Acting CEO Saleh, 50, comes from the Nextel side, where he was the chief financial officer. Before that he was treasurer of The Walt Disney Co. and Honeywell International Inc.
Acting chairman Hance, 63, is
the former vice chairman of Bank of America Corp. He has been on the Sprint Nextel board since February 2005.
Forsee joined Sprint after its top two executives were pushed out following a scandal about their use of tax shelters. Before that, he was vice chairman of BellSouth Corp. In that role, he was responsible for all of BellSouth's domestic operations and was chairman of the Cingular Wireless joint venture.
Before joining BellSouth, Forsepr spent 10 years with Sprint.
NATION
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Steve Fossett, left, and Barron Hilton pose at Hilton's Flying M Ranch near Yerington, Nev., in 1998. Experts said they doubted the adventurer could have survived more than a week in the rugged desert since his plane vanished after taking off from a private airstrip at the Flying M Ranch.
NATION
Three charged in Memphis shooting
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Three men were charged with murder on Monday in the shooting of a football player on the University of Memphis campus during an attempted robbery, authorities said.
Taylor Bradford, 21, had won more than $3,000 at a nearby casino the night before police found him Sept. 30 in his car, which had crashed into a tree a few blocks from his campus apartment.
Memphis Police Director Larry Godwin said the attackers intended to rob him, but didn't get what they had come for.
"He was targeted because there was some information that was out there and they believed he had some cash," Godwin said.
"The investigation is ongoing, and we do expect additional arrests."
The Memphis men, who are not students at the university, were identified as DaeShawn Tate, 21; Victor Trezevant, 21; and Courtney
Washington, 22.
All three were in police custody. It was not immediately known whether they had attorneys.
After the shooting, university officials told students, faculty and staff that the suspects had fled the campus, but
Samford University, was buried over the weekend.
In Mississippi, a man was charged Monday with capital murder in the shooting death of Rodney Lydale Lockhart, a University of Mississippi
"He was targeted because there was some information that was out there and they believed he had some cash."
the school canceled classes as a precaution.
Bradford, a Nashville native who transferred to Memphis from
LARRY GODWIN
Memphis police director
sprinter, police said.
Christian C. Bonner, 20, is accused of killing Lockhart, 20, who was found dead Sept. 29 at his apartment near campus, Oxford Police Chief Mike Martin said.
The junior
psychology major was a member of the gold medal-winning U.S. 1,600-meter relay team in the 2006 World Junior Championships in Beijing.
Officials stop hunt for missing aviator
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CARSON CITY, Nev. — With winter closing in, efforts to find aviator Steve Fossett have dwindled — along with hopes that his proven ability to cheat death enabled him to survive a plane crash in the rugged desert of northern Nevada.
More than a month after he left for a short flight, no one has found any trace of him, and authorities have suspended the search, although some private efforts financed by Fossett's friends and family continue.
"My gut feeling is that he didn't survive the impact. It's so unlikely," said Maj. Cynthia Ryan of the Nevada Civil Air Patrol. She said if Fossett were alive but too injured to walk, he would have tried to signal searchers in some manner.
"He's not the kind of guy to just sit and wait for help to show up," Ryan added.
Lyon County Sheriff Allen Veil said Fossett's disappearance remained under investigation as a missing-person case, and authorities were not prepared to presume the aviator was dead.
"We will try to come to a conclusion, but we're not there yet," Veil said.
Fossett, 63, had previously survived a nearly 30,000-foot plunge in a crippled balloon, a dangerous swim through the frigid English Channel and hours stranded in shark-infested seas.
Fossett's friends are still looking for him, flying out of hotel mogul Barron Hilton's sprawling ranch, about 80 miles southeast of Reno. That's where Fossett and his wife had been staying on Sept. 3, when he took off alone to scout possible locations for an attempt to break a land speed record in a rocket-propelled car. The cost of the private search has not been disclosed.
Fossett, who made millions as a commodities broker in Chicago, also completed the Iditarod sleddog race, scaled some of the world's best-known peaks, sailed and flew around the world, and set more than 100 aviation and distance records.
"Only because of Steve's character do we hold out hope," Hilton spokesman Pat Barry said.
At one point, more than 40 CAP, military and private planes and helicopters were aloft over an area that covered 20,000 square miles, and scores of searchers went on foot into deep, brushy canyons looking for Fossett.
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