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Patients ask for detector approval
The Associated Press
ROCKVILLE, Md. — Breast cancer patients pleaded with government regulators yesterday to allow the sale of a simple gadget that they contend will help thousands of women detect lumps in their breasts.
But a panel of outside scientists advised the Food and Drug Administration to force the inventor of the Sensor Pad to prove the device doesn't actually hide lumps that a woman might feel with her fingers alone.
"The American woman is not so stupid that she doesn't know whether it works," a bitter Earl Wright, who has been seeking FDA approval for his Sensor Pad for nine years, told the panel after its decision. "They'll return that pad in an minute if it doesn't work."
"I feel like it saved my life," said Mary Gorman of Chevy Chase, Md., whose doctor could hardly feel the lump she discovered using the Sensor Pad. one a mammogram four months earlier hadn't detected, either.
Breast cancer strikes 180,000 U.S. women every year and kills 46,000. All women are advised to examine their breasts every month for humps.
But the friction of dry skin makes tiny lumps difficult to detect, so many women examine their breasts in the shower, where soap and water ease the friction.
That's the premise behind Wright's Sensor Pad, silicone gel sealed between two sheets of plastic that he acts as acts a "dry lubricant."
"Whatever we can do to promote awareness and self-examination, coupled with mammograms, we must do," said Illinois state Sen. Penny Severn, who found a small lump in July. Her two sisters, one of whom died of the disease, had breast cancer.
Service will let public follow votes
WASHINGTON (AP) — Voters need only punch a few personal computer keys to learn if their representatives' rhetoric on spending cuts matches their votes in Congress, under a system unveiled Thursday by a conservative taxpayers' group.
Among the "Votetally" findings that will be available in mid-September to the estimated 2.3 million users of CompuServe: Many self-professed fiscally conservative Democrats often vote for spending; members elected since 1900 generally are the most frugal, and lawmakers are twice as likely to vote for spending increases as for cuts.
The information, which by next year will be updated frequently.
equals 30 megabytes of computer storage space. That's the equivalent of two Manhattan-size telephone books.
"This is a technology that will permanently change the relationship between the governed and their government," said Paul Hewitt, executive director of the National Taxpayers Union Foundation. "What we're going to be doing is giving the average member of the unsophisticated public better access to Congress than any lobbyist."
At a cost of $550,000 over the last 18 months, the taxpayer group added up results from 185 Senate votes and 341 House votes between January 23, 1993, and June 30 of this
The group ranked lawmakers by subtracting the amount of spending cuts they approved from the amount of spending they voted for.
Sen. J. Bennett Johnston, D-La., ranked highest in the Senate with a total of more than $70.3 billion, just ahead of Nevada's two senators — Democrats Richard Bryan and Harry Reid.
year. Lawmakers and their staff reviewed the data for two months.
"This group's numbers are a bunch of baloney," Johnston representative Scott Trahan said. "Sen. Johnston's votes last year against higher taxes weren't considered, nor were his votes to cut billions in waste."
More students paying back loans
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Defaults on student loans are declining as indebted graduates scramble to "do what's right" and the government uses new tools to dig into their wages and tax refunds.
"After years of rising defaults, it's going the other way," he said.
Taxpayers are expected to spend $2 billion this year paying off uncollected student loans, down from a peak of $3.6 billion in 1991, Education Secretary Richard Riley said yesterday.
"What it demonstrates is that the country is not made up of a bunch of people trying to con the federal gov-
The proportion of loans in default dropped to 15 percent in 1992 — the most recent year for which figures are available — from a high of 22.4 percent two years earlier.
The 1992 default rate for federally backed student loans at the University of Kansas was 6.2 percent. Statewide, the rate was 13.2 percent.
emment," said Leo Kornfeld, deputy assistant education secretary.
"The large majority of people are trying to do what's right."
As usual, federally backed loans for students of beauty, hair and cosmetology schools were among the hardest to recover.
The government took its biggest gamble in Nevada, where three gaming schools joined a long list of other institutions to drive up the state's default rate on student loans to 34 percent, by far the country's highest.
(20.9) and California (20.1) were the other states where more than one in five student loans was in default.
Louisiana (23.1 percent), Connecticut (22.3), Alaska (21.1), Florida
Borrowers in Montana, North Dakota and Vermont were the best at paying up. Less than 6 percent of students in those states defaulted on their loans — defined as going at least six months without a payment.
The government has toughened student loan rules in the last few years, lowering the benchmark for penalizing schools with high default rates, garnishing the wages and income-tax refunds of delinquent borrowers and making it harder for them to get credit cards and other loans.
"We can see substantial progress through the cooperative efforts of Congress, schools and the Education Department," Riley said in releasing the default rates. "Yet, more progress needs to be made."
CHICAGO — His nickname was "Yummy." In a short life filled with abuse, he was prosecuted at least eight times for felonies before police sought him in a shooting spree that left one teen-ager dead and two others wounded.
Child murder suspect found dead, possibly a victim of his own gang
The Associated Press
Officers found Robert Sandifur in a pool of blood beneath a railroad overpass yesterday. He was 11.
Sandifur's body, not yet 5 feet, not quite 70 pounds, lay about seven blocks from where police believe he opened fire Sunday at two different groups of boys, fatally hitting a 14-year-old girl, Shavon Dean, about 10 yards from her home.
He was suspected of having gang ties, and two gunshot wounds, one to the back of the head, one to the top, led police to suggest fellow gang members had killed him. Authorities had a suspect in the boy's slaying.
Solenn neighbors gathered around the pool of Sandifir's blood in the South Side neighborhood of neat yards and well-kept homes. Adults showed young children the still-wet blood, as a warning.
"This is our problem," Valerie Jordan said. "The authorities and the system have failed. This is our child. The young lady that was killed, that was our baby."
In the past two years, Sandifur was prosecuted for felonies including robbery, car theft, arson and burglary. He was convicted twice and received probation, although one judge sentenced him to three weeks of detention for probation violations.
The boy was no stranger to the state's child welfare agency, either.
A 1986 investigation by the Department of Children and Family Services found scars on Sandifter's face, cord-like marks on his abdomen and leg and cigarette burns on his buttocks.
He was taken from his mother and placed with his grandmother, who nicknamed him "Yummy" for his love of cookies. Complaints that she was not supervising the boy led to his placement in a juvenile facility in 1993, but he ran away.
In July, a judge returned Sandifu to his grandmother until the boy could be put in an out-of-state detention center that permits locking in or physically restraining children, both of which are forbidden in Illinois.
"This kid got missed a number of times in the system," said Dr. Elva Poznanski, chief of child psychiatry at Rush Presbyterian St. Luke's Medical Center in Chicago. "It points out the fact that there is just simply not enough placement available for kids."
Poznanski said she was seeing more violence among young children, many the products of abusive homes.
"If you don't provide some way to raise these kids to be useful citizens, you're going to spend a hell of a lot of money on the other end," she said.
Sandifur's grandmother, Janie Fields, became hysterical before she shut the door on reporters.
"I really can't say what I'm going through," she said. "But I know my baby's not here anymore, and I can't say 'I love you, Robert' anymore."
Police Superintendent Matt Rodriguez said the boy's death should send a message to other youths that "the promises of the gangs ... are not promises of things that are good."
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