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Show Saturday, May 16, 1998 The Park Record A-7 Heard Around the West by Betsy Marston Maybe Denver International Airport was built to test the tempers of travelers. Flighty state-of-the-art baggage system? No backup. Access road blocked by snowdrifts? No backup. back-up. A busted concourse train? No backup so 30,000 passengers were stalled and enraged Sunday, April 26, some of them trapped for hours in darkened train tunnels without ventilation venti-lation or working doors or phones. "No one ever spoke to us, except for this Keystone Kop character that kept running back and forth along the catwalk next to the train," one traveler trav-eler told The Denver Post. "I heard him yell into his radio, 'I can't keep them in there any longer. They are losing their minds. What do I do?'" No one seemed to know. Despite all this, the city's sangfroid remained intact: Hours after escaping the maelstrom at DIA, a group of Nashville government and business leaders listened to Denver Mayor Wellington Webb . deliver a talk titled "Why Denver Works." "Kind of ironic, huh?" said a Nashville architect, archi-tect, who added that at least he could understand under-stand the words of the speech. When he was stranded at DIA, he said, the airport's public address system issued "garbled, incomprehensible incomprehen-sible messages. There was no plan at all." Cheeks fore and aft were red with blushes not anger over at the Crested Butte, Colo., ski area. "Happy Naked Day!" read a sign for skiers April 19 on the last day of the sport. Shedding everything but boots, sunglasses sun-glasses and the occasional wacky wig, a hundred hun-dred or so skiers whizzed down the mountain, causing some lift riders above to hastily shield the eyes of their children, reports the Gazette Telegraph in Colorado Springs. The mostly sunny day was filled with photo ops as wind-whipped wind-whipped skiers flashed by, many sporting "posterior raspberries" from spills on the hills. Clothes-free and free-admission skiing on the final day dates back to the 1970s at the resort, which does insist on a few rules. A sign for those waiting to ride a ski lift advised that "You must have pants or some form of loin cloth covering your nappy butts." Scandalous, some parents complained, after hearing what a Sesame Street "talking T-shirt" T-shirt" said at a Kmart in Denver, Colo. The shirt was supposed to teach the letter T; its instructional tape was hijacked by pranksters who substituted the letter F. That turned Cookie Monster's cheery "Time to truck" in a whole new direction. The bad-word shirt was discovered by the parents of 19-month-old Willie Medina, reports the Rocky Mountain News, after they heard their child repeating the new word he'd learned from his size 3T garment. Social news in the venerable Cody Enterprise, Enter-prise, founded in 1899, occasionally turns to the travails of a pack of five orphaned wolves. Under the headline, "Wolves moving closer," the paper reports that residents in the back-country back-country recently spotted the year-old Thoro-fare Thoro-fare pack apparently still together. The wolves were left to fend for themselves after another pack killed the dominant male, and the female either died in an avalanche or was also brought down by a competing pack. If life is rough for wolves in the wild, try enforcing the law in California. Police in Oak land spent two hours trying to subdue a man with a gun who had barricaded himself in his house. After firing 10 tear-gas canisters, reports R.J. Kalish, police discovered the man was standing beside them, shouting pleas to come out and give himself up. And in Fresno, a couple at a marriage counseling coun-seling session definitely failed the test of respectful listening: Michael Martin shot his wife; she shot back, then he emptied his pistol at her. Still married and in fair condition in the hospital, both were arrested and charged with attempted murder, AP reports. When it's on sale in New Mexico, it's been on sale a long, long time. Those "50 percent off!" tags for Native American jewelry and souvenirs have been common for 25 years, reports Associated Press. State Attorney General Gen-eral Tom Udall says he wants to crack down on the perpetual sale claims so that tourists, who account for a $2.9 billion-a-year gift business, get a more accurate sense of prices. In Austin, Texas, a champion of cemeteries continues to fight a lonely and losing battle. Karen Thompson says her group, Save Texas Cemeteries, finds graveyards wiped out in a single night by developers using bulldozers tot clear the way. "People will come and say, 'You' know, it's funny, but there are cemeteries on each side of such and such a road,'" Thompson told the Houston Chronicle. "Well, guess what? That road went right through a cemetery." Betsy Marston is the editor of High Country News, a newspaper based in Paonia, Colorado, covering natural resource and community issues in the West. Prostate cancer: It could affect your life by Joan Jacobson f The American Cancer Society reports that one in 10 men will , develop prostate cancer over a lifetime, more than 184,500 will - be diagnosed this year, and 39,200 will die as a result of prostate can-tcer. can-tcer. - This is the second leading cause of cancer death in males. It effects men from all walks of life, - including Olympic skater Scott . s Hamilton, actor Robert Goulet z and Senator Robert Dole. It is .i devastating for all men and their 2 families when a diagnosis of 2 prostate cancer is made, but there is good news when the cancer is -'detected early. According to David Bostwick, .i'MD, author of Prostate Cancer, c'the prostate is a walnut-sized, .finale sex gland located deep in " the abdomen at the base of the penis, below the bladder, and in front of the rectumrA'health care .' provider can feel the prostate gland duritfg a digital rectal k examination. The gland wraps 'itself around the urethrals tube 'that empties urine from the blad- der through the penis. The ' prostate is an essential male reproductive organ. It receives sperm, produced in the testicles, ' through the vas deferens tubes ' and seminal vesicles (small sacs) that contribute acidity-regulating 'liquid to the semen when ejaculation ejacula-tion occurs. Prostate cancer develops when - abnormal growth is triggered in the prostate gland. It may take a ' long time before any enlargement or interference with urine flow occurs - The PSA, prostate specific antigen blood test, can detect ' -prostate cancer in its early stages. Ultrasound is also used to determine deter-mine the presence of tumors that may not be felt during digital exam. Needle biopsy of the tumor Ijis the main method of diagnosis. Most prostate cancer is very slow growing and may go undetected unde-tected for many years. There are some fast growing prostate cancers, can-cers, however. These are difficult to diagnose and may spread the cancer to other organs of the body including the blood and the lymphatic system. When the gland does become enlarged, besides a limited urinary uri-nary flow, the patient may feel generalized illness and even lower back or pelvic area pain. An in-depth physical will determine deter-mine whether there is a cancerous or a non-cancerous enlargement of the gland. Non-cancerous causes caus-es of prostate enlargement are benign hyperplasia (BPH) and prostatitis in which the gland simply sim-ply becomes inflamed because of bacterial infection, or another unknown cause. Finally, there is prostodynia that is caused by muscle spasm in the . structures near the prostate. Symptoms of these' benign' conditions may include pain, fever, discharge from the penis, or blood in the urine. These acute symptoms respond well to treatment with antibiotics (in the case of bacterial bacteri-al infections), anti-inflammatory drugs, sitz baths and drugs to relax the muscles in the area around the prostate. Several risk factors such as age, race, genes and dietary factors fac-tors have been identified by the Cancer Society. But, there is no known cause of prostate cancer. More than 75 percent of all prostate cancers are found in men over 65. African-American men have the highest rates in the world; Asians, Africans and South Americans, the lowest. Genetic predisposition is found in 5-10 percent of all cases. Excess fat in the diet is also implicated. The age of the man, stage of the disease and other medical conditions determine the treatment treat-ment for prostate cancer. The (SB TNM system (Tumor size, Node involvement, Metastasis to other parts of the body) is most commonly com-monly used to identify the stage of the disease. When all of the parameters of the TNM are analyzed, ana-lyzed, a treatment plan can be suggested. Surgery, radiation, hormone therapy and chemotherapy chemother-apy are the options. In the case of early-stage prostate cancer, there is watch-ing-and-waiting expectant therapy. thera-py. Treatment options are extensive exten-sive and must be decided on the basis of the stage of the tumor and age of the man. The good news is that over half of all prostate tumors are discov ered before they spread to other areas of the body and the survival rate when the tumor is found early is 100 percent. The Cancer Society reports that 67 percent of men with prostate cancer survive 10 years, and 50 percent survive 15 years. 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