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Show 2 2002 FRIDAY, MARCH 29. THE DAILY UTAH CHRONICLE KSWMWll jJW j??. fPWib, EaraW?!sW UMLij MwweftwtiiiiM VWliM Instead of trying to be the daring heroine, "Marion, in "Raiders of the Lost Ark"... women should try to find what their personal limit is,-- . Li fl MATT CANHAM, EDITOR IN CHIEF CHRONICLE NEWS EDITOR JARfD WHITLEY JWHlTLEYJCHRONiCLE-UTAEDU CHRONICLE WifiE EDITOR MIKEL CAJKOWSKI MCAJKOWSKfJCHRONICLE.UTH.EDU ON THE INCREASED TREND OF WOMEN ,VENT BINGE DRINKING MARCH WASHINGTON Hie nation will have a lot more smallpox vaccine than previously thought in case of a bioterror attack: New research shows 15 million stockpiled doses can be stretched to make up to 10 times more and the government is negotiating to buy millions of doses discovered in a drug company's freezers. Both discoveries are important because, while the government has ordered 200 million new doses to be made by a British company, they won't arrive until at least year's end and then must pass testing to ensure they're safe and effective. Having more vaccine already on hand would buy more time to make sure the new production is done properly. The nation quit routine smallpox vaccination in 1972, and the disease was declared eradicated worldwide in 1980. The U.S. and Russian governments hold stocks of the deadly virus, and biotcrrorism experts worry that samples could fall into terrorists' hands and be used as a weapon. So the government has been working to get enough vaccine for every American, just in case. If an attack occurred, doctors would quickly vaccinate people in the vicinity, because inoculations up to four days after exposure still offer protection. There are no plans yet to resume routine vaccination, because the vaccine can cause some severe, even fatal side effects, and until now, there wasn't enough available anyway. That may no longer be the case. Some 15.4 million doses arc in a government stockpile. That vaccine could be diluted, turning each dose into five to 10 additional doses, and still be protective, say two studies released Thursday by The New England Journal of Medicine. The studies of more than 700 previously unvaccinated young adults found about 97 percent responded to diluted or undiluted inoculations, although some required two doses. One catch: A few people never responded, and blood tests suggest they had been vaccinated decades earlier but had forgotten. Thus, more study is needed to tell if diluted vaccine can boost the presumed waning immunity of millions vaccinated 30 years ago, wrote lead researcher Dr. Robert Belshc of St. Louis University. Aventis Pasteur has told the Pennsylvania-basegovernment it has 70 million to 90 million doses of smallpox vaccine sitting in its freezers, stocks federal health officials hadn't thought existed. Aventis now is checking whether that vaccine still is effective after so many years, and the govern d UNH UTAH AT&T Dismissed From Trib Suit SALT LAKE CITY-- A federal judge has dismissed AT&T Corp. as a defendant in a lawsuit over ownership of The Salt Lake Tribune. AT&T sold The Tribune to Medi-aNcin January 2001. Salt Lake Tribune Publishing Co. sued to reverse the sale, accusing of conspiring with the Deserct News and McdiaNcws to deprive Tribune Publishing of its option to buy The Tribune next AT&T August. ruling released late Wednesday, U.S. District Court Judge Ted Stewart said there was no evidence AT&T had a commitment to sell The Tribune to the managers or negotiated with them in bad faith. In a $7.5M Offered For Shelton's Injuries Gang Brawl Kills Canal Accident May Need Surgery Texas Prisoner RIVERDALE The Davis and Weber Counties Canal Co. has settled a lawsuit by Rivcrdalc homeowners who were flooded by the canal's breach three years ago for $7.5 million. Individual checks to 61 homeowners ranged from $10,000 to $400,000, depending on the damage incurred, said plaintiffs' attorney Dick Burbidgc of Salt Lake City. In 1999, a break in the canal loosed tons of water and mud on the neighborhood below, damaging 75 homes. The suit alleged gross negligence against the canal company in allowing the canal to deteriorate. The canal's last upgrade was between 1912 and 1918. UNIVERSITY WEATHER 6338 FRIDAY: MOSTLY SUNNY UTUiaiT: SUNNY SUIDIY: MOSTLY SUNNY mt: RAIN 10 SNOW TUESDAY: SUNNY Q 6440 6643 4627 5133 Siwi tvwi jrikm. nd Andv OiurcA. www.met.iitah.edujimiteenams Courti Scart Did You Know... The Utah Museum of Fine Arts currently hosting its "Athletes in Antiquity" sculpture exhibit Students can visit the museum, free of charge, Monday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and on weekends from noon to 5 p.m. CHRONICLE Since lc" THE DAILY UTAH CHRONICLE is an mappenient student newspaper published daily Monday through Friday during fin and Spr ir.q senesters (eicludmg test weeks and holidays! and weekly during Summer Term Chronicle editors and staff are University ol Utah students and are solely resport-S'ti- e tor the newspaper's content Funding comes from advertising revenues and dedicated student tee administered ty the Putucat.om Council Subscriptions must be prepaid Forward all subscription correspondence including change ol address, to the Business Manatjer. To respond with your questions. comTents or camp amis can ;80t) 581 7041 or visit chronicle utah tin on the World Aide web. in Chief MATT CANHAM mcanhjrn?crtrorsiclfuiahfdu JARED WHITLEY hitieyJcrvonicle utati edu News Editor Sports Editor Feature Editor ERIC "WALLY" WALDEN WYNNE PARRY Sen?chron.cif ulahedu prrcfvon!e thJu Opinion Editor LAURA B. WEISS !nss?chronicleglarieau RED Magazine Editor KATHRYN C0WLES ma, com Photo Ed.tor JEREMY HARMON utjhedu uht,ti (harmony-chronicl- - Production Manager WASHINGTON-Doct- are ors closely monitoring retired Army Gen. Henry H. Shelton, a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to determine whether he 'needs spinal cord surgery, a spokeswoman for Walter Reed Army Medical Center said Thursday. Shelton, who initially was partially paralyzed w hen he fell off a ladder at his suburban Virginia home Saturday, remains in serious condition in the hospital's intensive care unit. Beverly Chidel said. "We just don't know" whether his injury will require surgery, she said, and Shelton probably will remain in the hospital through the weekend. Shelton is having no difficulty breathing or speaking, doctors say. Shelton, 62, served 38 years in the Army, including four as the top military adviser to the president. He stepped down as Joint Chiefs chairman Oct. 1, shortly before the United States went to war in Afghanistan. LIVINGSTON, Texas One inmate was stabbed to death and another severely beaten Thursday in a brawl involving rival prison gangs. Corrections officers had to use chemical agents to break up the fight, which took place in a runway area outside one of the buildings at the Texas prison system's Polunsky Unit, prison spokesman Larry Fitzgerald said. Jessie Hernandez, 32, was stabbed with a sharpened metal rod believed to have been fashioned from a piece of a cooking sheet and pronounced dead at a nearby hospital, Fitzgerald said. He had been serving 30 years for delivery of cocaine and marijuana. The three other inmates were questioned by prison authorities. At least four of the men were gang members, Fitzgerald said. The Polunsky Unit, with a capacity of 2,900 inmates, was placed on The facility is about 80 miles lock-dow- n. northeast of Houston. is DmiUTAH luitor ment is discussing whether to buy it. "Those discussions are ongoing and nearing conclusion," said Kevin Keane, a spokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services. Details of a deal could be announced as early as Friday. Now that so much more vaccine seems available, "it's time for an open public debatc.on whether it makes sense to vaccinate the public preemptively," said Dr. Jeffrey Drazen, editor of The New England Journal of Medicine. If all Americans were vaccinated, experts estimate 180 to 400 people could die just from the inoculation's side effects. In the latest studies, no one became severely ill. lesions erupt over a But one person had blister-lik- e swath of his body. More than a third had pain bad enough to miss school, work or other activities. Fever, headache, nausea, muscle aches, lesions and swelling were fairly common. One expert argued in the journal that routine vaccination should begin, because waiting until an attack could cost more lives. Vaccinating in advance would better protect people with weak immune systems, who are most at risk from the side effects, and avoid the mass panic sure to ensue if smallpox ever appears, wrote William Bicknell of Boston DAVE HOWELL dhcflicrirofiKl v!ahu Online Editor MARK OCDEN roo;dr:chronir.i uUh tlu Business Manager ADAM WARD i'2J;h-om;i- f uijhfiu Accountant KAY ANDERSEN Hy:hr omcle u'th tin Advertising Manager JASON COOMBS KNbir,hfoicltaltiy VJ 4 V Russia Agree Political Changes On Iraq Sanction Surface in Cuba Moscow. The WASHINGTON The top U.S. diplomat in Cuba said Thursday that Cubans eager for political change are moverallying behind a grass-rooment to force a referendum on whether free speech and other rights should be permitted. Career diplomat Vicki Huddlcston said the movement is changing the political dynamic in Cuba, which has been under rule for decades. She said Cuban dissidents are attempting to take advantage of a provision in the 1976 constitution that permits a referendum if 10,000 signatures are collected. The movement is guided by Oswal-d- o Paya, a longtime Cuban dissident The referendum would ask voters whether they think guarantees of free speech and association are needed and whether they support amnesty for political prisoners. It would also call for new electoral laws and opportunities for private businesses in Cuba. ts one-par- ty program began in 1996 to help ordinary Iraqis so-call- cope with sanctions imposed after Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait. It initially provided food and basic humanitarian goods but has expanded to cover public services such as education and water supply. Funded by oil sales, the program has become the mainstay of the Iraqi civilian economy. Wolf said a stronger consensus on the sanctions would enable the U.N. Security Council to start drafting a resolution that could be passed as early as next month. U.S.-Russi- an University Bookstore is hosting a blood drive from noon to 4 p.m. Ail donors will receive coupons for reduced insignia apparel. host an election debate with the two final parties In the Latter-da- y Saint Institute lounge at noon. Lunch will be served. ASUU will The HonorsLEAP d Program-sponsore- debate will take Sill Center Field at the place at 1 p.m. The department of medicinal chemistry will feature a dissertation on "Mass Spectrometry of Isomeric and Their in Skaggs Hall Room 316 at 3 p.m. es Ollgsn-ocltotld- Mix-hire- s" The department of linguistics will host a lecture titled, "Some Reflections on Task-BasLanguage Performance Assessment" with speaker Lyle Bachman in LNCO Room 2110 at 4 p.m. ed The graduate school of architecture features "Mystery & Manners: Recent ' Works By Emery-MccluArchitecture," with Ursula Emery McClure In the UMFA Auditorium at 5:30 p.m. re APRIL 1 Students for Choice present a free screening of The Vagina Monologues In the Behavioral Science Theater at 7 p.m. The Intelligent Inquiry Educational Society will host speaker Scott Weeks In the address "Being a Free Thinker In Utah" in Union Room 323 at 7 p.m. The Hinckley Institute of Politics will host an ASUU preside ntlalvlce presiden- tial debate In OSH Room 255 at noon. election debatt take place In the Union Theater at 1 p.m. A ed Union-sponsor- will APRIL 2 U.S., MOSCOW Russian and US. diplomats said they are reaching a consensus on an program for Iraq, clearing the way for quick approval by the U.N. Security CounciL "Our hope is that the council will act as soon as possible and it will act unanimously on this new resolution," U.S. Assistant Secretary of State John Wolf told reporters Thursday in 29 ASUU final tie ctfon voting begins via Internet. tie host Its dsbata In the Union theater at 1 p.m. ASUU wlil f;,-u- f on 'APRIL 3 Flnil election voting ends at 9 p.m. Allen Bale of the Yale University genetics department will present "Drosoph'b as a Modsl Of gsnlsm.to Study Human in the Eccles Auditorium of the Ztnctf Huntsman Cancer Institute at 4 p.m. Dawn Bunch from Southern California College of Optom- etry will ested speak to prt-opto- mt Inter- try stu- dents in Skaggs Biology Building Room 504 from 2 to 4 p.m. ADDITIONAL CVLKTS CM WWW.CSlYUTAHCKi?0K!CLEX0y |