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Show Thursday, September 19, 2002, THE DAILY HERALD, (www.HarkTheHerald com). Provo. Llah 3 than 3D0 research chimps, Wlnre 5m- i moneys retired f !4 ? Associated Press Writer ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. More than 300 chimpanzees and monkeys that have been used in medical research in southern New Mexico are being turned over to a Florida-base- d animal advocacy group. Frederick Coulston, who helped develop or test treatments for malaria, hepatitis and AIDS in a career, said he gave 288 chimpanzees and 90 monkeys to the Center for Captive Chimpanzee Care run by animal advocate Carole 72-ye- ar Noon. . .. w,-,- By RICHARD BENKE K 3hT W n $3.7 million for the land and facilities. "Our main objective now is just to improve their lives as best we can," she said. That includes feeding the man. m00 - animals fruits, vegetables and grains instead of "monkey chow," Noon said. "They had no nest materials, no blankets ... no toys, no little tasks to occupy their minds," she said. The animals will stay in the Alamogordo facility until Noon's group can build new facilities. "That may be a five- - or period. But maybe we can provide them with what they need here," While many BOSTON fainting episodes are harmless, some foreshadow dangerous cardiac or other medical conditions and call for careful follow-u- p by a doctor, government researchers say. The warning was published in today's New England Journal of Medicine. "Occasionally, it is an indication of a serious disorder and a harbinger of sudden death, particularly for people with a history of coronary disease," said Dr. William G. Stevenson, a cardiologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital in an Boston. He accompanying editorial. Known to doctors as syncopes, fainting episodes are common. About 6 percent of the U.S. population will faint in a period, according to the study by the National Institutes of Health. It is roughly as common in men as in women, contrary to the stereotype of women being more prone to fainting. Vasovagal and related the common fainting kind often precipitated by 10-ye- ar she said. 0? V J te 10-ye- ar , aft DALE FULKERSONThe Freed: A N.M., in Associated Press chimpanzee peers out through a steel grid at Holloman Air Force Base, near Alamogordo, this 1997 photo. The chimps are being turned over to Captive Chimpanzee Care. English police encouraged to take Big Mac breaks Associated Press Writer - LONDON Big Mac, fries and a burly police constable please. Officers are being encouraged to eat at McDonald's d and other outlets while on duty to help cut street crime, police officials said Wednesday. Police chiefs in Birmingham, central England, have issued officers vouchers to eat at McDonald's, in an effort to increase their visibility and save time in walking or driving back to the staff canteen. West In nearby Bromwich, officers have been encouraged to take fast-foo- meal breaks in public places. The force said the move had been warmly received by local outlets and police cars supermarkets parked on the premises helped deter thieves. Prime Minister Tony Blair's government, which has pledged that street crime will be under control by the end of September, said Wednesday it backed the initiative and was studying how to extend it nationwide. An ICM opinion poll published Wednesday by the British Broadcasting Corp. found 53 percent of respondents thought street crime had risen in the past six months and 28 percent said they had never seen an officer on the beat in their area. fast-foo- d see there will be benefits for the public too." Most respondents to the opinion poll believed street crime had become worse despite the government's "Sometimes you just need five minutes to yourself, but you are not going to get that if you are on show when you take a meal break." Glen Smyth, chairman, Metropolitan Police Federation The government has dedicated $168 million since April to target 10 crime hotspots. Earlier this month, it announced that street crime had fallen by 14 percent since April in those areas. Chief Superintendent Bruce Gilbert, who is based in West Bromwich, said the public had welcomed the initiative. Chairman of the Metro politan Police Federation Glen Smyth said he could see the benefits but wondered how police across the country would respond to it. "Sometimes you just need five minutes to yourself, but you are not going to get that if you are on show when you take a meal break," he said. "But having said that, it is maybe advantageous to officers in some cases, and I can crackdown. The poll suggested that 24 percent of people 55 and above were too worried to leave their homes at night for fear of being mugged, and 32 percent of parents with children ages 10 to 16 were too worried to let them out after dark. Responding to the poll, a spokeswoman for the Home Office said the latest figures indicate the crackdown is a success, but the public may not notice the difference until a sustained and long-terdrop in the offending rate. m Associated Press Writer - The GOLDEN, Colo. planters at the grotto at the Mother Cabrini Shrine have no flowers, just dirt. The e nuns are limited to showers. They go to a coin laundry to clean their linens. And the shrine's main considered holy by spring the faithful, who believe its is being water can heal with city supplemented water brought in by truck. Because of the worst drought in a century, conserving water has become common across the West. But at the shrine, it takes on a loftier purpose. Every year, about 150,000 people from around the world visit, many just for the water. "Because so many people seven-minut- Sept. 1 1 statue Associated Press Writer A statue NEW YORK of a falling woman designed as a memorial to those who jumped or fell to their death from the World was Trade Center abruptly draped in cloth and curtained off Wednesday because of complaints that it was too disturbing. - home with them," said director Sister Bernadette of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Mother Frances Cabrini, America's first saint, discovered the shrine's first spring the one now regarded as in 1912 when she holy the property to serve bought as a summer camp for an orphanage. Cabrini, a shrewd businesswoman who founded more than 60 schools, orphanages and hospitals, got the property at a bargain because no one believed water would be found there. But at a picnic with some girls and nuns, Cabrini is said to have touched a rock Cas-cian- o with her cane and asked someone to lift it, uncovering the spring. For 90 years, three springs have provided water at the shrine, which features hilla retreat and a overlookstatue of Jesus top ing Denver, 20 miles away. The nuns typically rely on two of the three springs for indoor use and irrigation. This year, though, drought has slowed the flow at all three springs. And all three have been pressed into service for everyday uses. Small paper cups are provided to pilgrims who want to help themselves to the holy water. A sign asks people to limit themselves to one quart each. Pilgrims must use portable toilets, and the only decorative flowers nearby are purple plastic ones mixed with real marigolds. -r- "We apologize if anyone was upset or offended by the display of this sculpture. It was certainly not our intent. The piece will be removed this evening," said Suzanne Halpin, spokeswoman for Rockefeller Center. Eric Fischl's bronze, "Tumbling Woman," depicts a naked woman with arms and legs flailing. It went on view about a week ago in pain explained the cause for 43 percent of 727 study participants. It was generally benign. But cardiac fainting, accounting for 10 percent of participants, doubled the risk of death. Fainting from a neurological cause, also accounting for 10 percent, lifted the death risk by half. An additional 37 percent of participants had fainting episodes whose causes were unclear. Such fainting is partly blamed on hidden and cardiac causes, increased the risk of death by a third. for "Particularly unknown syncope, there should be further consideration of cause and thought given to additional testing," said Dr. Daniel Levy, the NLH researcher who supervised the study. Pacemakers and implanted defibrillators are sometimes used to steady the heartbeat of people with cardiac fainting. Medicines can help control neurological fainting. - 22-fo- ot the lower concourse at Center and was supposed to remain on display through Monday. Numerous news photos captured images of desperate people leaping to their towy deaths as the ers burned. Some passers-b- y in Rockefeller Center complained that the sculpture was too graphic. Rock-fell- ' ;..- fin your natural gas furnace 1 and water heater do not a have this green sticker, they need to be inspected and, if necessary, adjusted to SAFELY and EFFICIENTLY burn new gas supplies entering Questar Gas's system. IN STICKER Service included With Complete 12 Point Furnace lune-Up- ! of falling woman covered after complaints By KATHERINE ROTH - come up to pray for peace and are looking for a cure for their body, it helps them to be able to take some water or anxiety IS THIS STICKER ON YOUR FURNACE? Colorado's Mother Cabrini Shrine adds city water to its healing spring By COLLEEN SLEVIN Research stresses risk from fainting The Associated Press Coulston in the past has The animals will never be been a target of animal used as research subjects groups, including Peorights again, Noon said Wednesday. ple for the Ethical TreatAt its peak in the 1990s, ment of Animals, In Defense the Coulston Foundation of Animals and Animal Prooversaw 650 chimps with tection of New Mexico, that about 100 employees at a oppose using chimpanzees primate lab at Holloman Air for medical research. Force Base and a nearby lab "They'll be in the hands of complex in Alamogordo. good people caring for the Noon sought the right to chimps," said Coulston, 87. care for the chimps when He had been studying the Holloman divested itself aging in the chimps, but said from research involving the the transfer "gives me a animals in 1997. chance to go back and do During the weekend, some of the things I'd like to Noon took over Coulston's do before I retire." The National Institutes of facilities, including offices, animal housing and a labo- Health insists on primate ratory, on the southwestern testing of new medicines edge of Alamogordo. Noon before they are authorized said her organization paid for human trials. By ED JOHNSON Page A9 er :ft1 I1 Spanish Fork 1TPIBI.P T"n American A AAA UU A L 110-stor- 798-771- 1 11 LJ I Fork756-2G9- A WMUIittVy ProvoOrem 1 "V V" 356-006- 5 |