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Abortion bill revived
Republicans push for late-term ban after lie admitted
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Emboldened by the admitted lie of a key abortion rights supporter, congressional Republicans renewed the push yesterday for legislation banning a certain late-term abortion procedure.
A principal GOP leader in the anti-abortion movement said President Bill Clinton, who vetoed the bill last year, should have a chance to get it right now that activist Ron Fitzsimmons said that he lied.
Abortion rights supporters pledged to keep fighting the bill.
"The facts have not changed; they've just been discovered by the media and now the general public," said Rep. Charles Canady, R-Fla., the prime House sponsor. "And the outrage about partial-birth abortion which began as a strong current is
Fitzsimmons, executive director of the National Coalition of Abortion Providers in Alexandria, Va., said last week he had lied in 1995 when he said that just a few hundred of the abortions were performed annually — and then only to save the mother's life or abort deformed fetuses.
now at flood stage."
Now, congressional Republicans are calling on Clinton, who supports a woman's right to an abortion, to reverse course and agree to the ban.
He now says that several thousand are performed yearly, and not only in the third trimester, but on some healthy women in the middle of pregnancy.
"I think we ought to give the president another chance to get it right," said Rep. Henry Hye, R-ill, a long-time abortion opponent.
Clinton said he vetoed the bill because it didn't make an exception for the mother's health. But the ban's sponsors said there was no health reason to perform the procedure, in which the fetus is partially delivered through the birth canal and killed when a doctor removes its brain.
"I think we ought to give the president another chance to get it right."
Henry Hyde Illinois State Representative
The new bill, which is identical to what Congress had passed, does permit use of the procedure if there is no other way to spare the mother's life.
White House representative Mike McCurry said Clinton had insisted that the bill safeguard a woman's health and life. He recalled that Clinton issued the veto in the presence of women who said the procedure saved them and said that those memories were still fresh in Clinton's mind.
Kansas City portly but proud
Cow Town ranked as fourth-fattest city in United States
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — There's the Scarsdale diet and the Beverly Hills diet — but how about the Kansas City diet?
It appears to contain more fat than most, since a recent study placed the Cow Town, known for its red meat, fourth on a national list of cities with the highest percentage of obese adults.
It's no wonder, says Kansas City Star food critic John Martellaro, whose column yesterday extolled the richness — and fattiness — of the Kansas City victuals.
"Why is Kansas City the fourth-fattest city in the country? Two words: Stroud's, Gates," said Martellaro, referring to two of the city's most famous eateries — one known for fried chicken, the other for barbecue.
"Sure, Los Angeles and San Francisco have terrific restaurants. But they're 25th and 26th on the list because their
specialties depend heavily on healthful, low-fat foods such as seafood and vegetables," he said. "In Kansas City, cauliflower is something you deep fry to serve as an appetizer."
The National Weight Report classified 32 percent of Kansas City adults, ages 20 to 74, as obese. New Orleans ranked first with 38 percent. Denver had the lowest percentage of the 33 cities surveyed with 22 percent.
The heaviest cities tended to have higher unemployment rates, a larger proportion of African Americans, lower per-capita incomes, more rain and snow, and more food stores and restaurants. That doesn't describe Kansas City, so other factors may be involved.
"Kansas City suffers from the Midwestern complex," said Karen Miller-Kovach, general manager of program development for Weight Watchers. "Just good, hardy farmer food in a time when most people don't live on the farm anymore—and it shows."
Many of the low-fat cities were in areas known for active, body-conscious lifestyles, such as Los Angeles and Miami.
But Kansas Citians might not be as active as residents of slimmer cities.
"Six months out of the year, I have people telling me it's too cold for them to exercise," said Carrie Lehr, a physician with the Medical Weight Management program at Research Medical Center.
"Maybe they're out shoveling snow," Lehr said.
But what about residents of Minneapolis, Minn., the second-thinnest city on the list?
"It could be that it's not as important to the self-image of Midwesterners to be fit and trim," said Loy Edge, owner of two restaurants. "Wherever you can find the haute couture and the Mercedes-Benzes and a location near the ocean and mountains, you're going to find slim waistlines."
Local restaurateurs who specialize in high-calorie, fat-laden menus said that they were just catering to Kansas City's tastes.
"It's trendy on the coasts to eat roots and bark and run around," said Gary Cooper, general manager of Gates Bar-B-Q. "Here, people just want to eat a good meal."
Transplant makes chickens like quail
The Associated Press
SAN DIEGO — When is a chicken not a chicken? When it sings and bobs its head like a quail, thanks to an experimental brain-cell transplant.
In what sounds like something out of a B horror movie, Evan Balaban, an experimental neurobiologist at the Neurosciences Institute in San Diego, carried out the switch.
"The larger implications are what this will teach us about the development of brain circuits that produce
behavior," Balaban said yesterday. "It could eventually help people who have brain damage or mental illness or even brain diseases."
His research on Plymouth Rock chickens and Japanese quail was published Tuesday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Although different from cloning, his work is adding to the furor over genetic experimentation.
Balaban does not see his work as opening the way for people with socially unacceptable behavior being forced to undergo brain surgery.
"There's no good reason to do this in humans," Balaban said. "It's not technically possible to do this in mammals anyway. There are some enormous obstacles that would have to be overcome."
Balaban incubated fertilized quail and chicken eggs for 48 hours and then cut tiny windows in the shells. Cells in the chicken embryo were removed and substituted with corresponding quail brain cells.
The chickens were killed after 14 days to further document the results with brain examinations.
Albanian revolts lead to bombing
The Associated Press
SARANDA, Albania — Government jets bombed a southern town yesterday, and anti-government militants commandeered tanks and fired anti-aircraft guns as weeks of unrest erupted into an armed revolt in southern Albania.
The two sides fired at each other across a river east of Vlora, the city at the center of the conflict. Albania's foreign minister, meanwhile, said that the situation in Vlora, Saranda and Delvina was out of control.
Yesterday's bombing and a major security operation launched by the government reflected President Sali Berisha's determination to quickly end the growing insurrection.
In Rome, Italian Foreign Minister Lamberto Dini said his Albanian counterpart, Tritan Shehu, had told him the insurgents had captured three tanks and many other weapons and aimed to seize Tirana, the capital.
Southerners warned the government not to provoke them.
Ilias Sideris, an armed protester, said, "If they move into Saranda, Albania will see the worst bloodshed ever."
Two months of protests by Albanians who lost savings in shady investment schemes culminated in anti-government violence, which led Berisha to declare a state of emergency Sundav.
U. S. Secretary of Defense William Cohen said there was no need yet to evacuate Americans
in Albania.
in washington, D.C., White House spokesman Mike McCurry said President Clinton was concerned about the situation in Albania and viewed with some alarm Berisha's re-election earlier this week by parliament.
British Foreign Secretary Malcolm Rifkind said Berisa must respect the rule of law if he wanted to get crucial financial aid from other European nations.
"We are not prepared to give support when he acts in an authoritarian and dictatorial way and that, sadly, has been an increasing feature of his regime," Riffkind said yesterday.
The air attack came early yesterday, when MIG-15 warplanes dropped a bomb next to two houses in the village of Delvina near Saranda. Journalists witnessed the bombing and saw smoke from two bombs dropped on nearby mountains.
About 400 families, mostly ethnic Greeks, live in Delvina. It was not clear if anyone was hurt. Anti-aircraft guns overlooking Saranda fired at the jets that flew over the port.
The Associated Press
Breast implants riskier for cancer patients with mastectomies
Women who get breast implants after mastectomies for cancer are nearly three times more likely to have surgical complications than those who get implants for cosmetic reasons, a Mayo Clinic study found.
Dr. Sherine E. Gabriel, the lead researcher, said that the findings were no surprise.
"Women with breast cancer ... have a serious underlying condition. They would have more problems with any kind of surgery," she said.
In addition, because of the cancer surgery, the implants cannot always be put in the best place; they have to be put where the breast tissue was cut out, Gabriel said.
In the latest research, Mayo Clinic researchers looked at women who had breast implants from 1964 to
1991: 532 for cosmetic reasons, 125 after breast cancer surgery and 92 after breast removal to prevent cancer. They published the results in today's New England Journal of Medicine.
Overall, 24 percent of the women had at least one complication requiring further surgery. Scar tissue formation that deformed or hardened the implant was by far the most common problem, affecting 18 percent of the women.
Implants ruptured in 6 percent of the women and leaked in 2 percent, while fewer than 1 percent had a malfunction in an inflatable implant.
After five years, about 12 percent of women with cosmetic implants had a complication requiring further surgery. Women who had implants after breast cancer surgery had a 34 percent risk of complications, while those who had a preventive mastectomy had a 30 percent risk.
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