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Show The Daily Herald Tuesday, October 3, 1995 ief Nunn reaches verdict on future ATLANTA (AP) Sen. Sam Nunn apparently has reached a personal verdict on whether to retire or seek next year, but he didn't want it competing with the O.J. Simpson verdict. Nunn had scheduled a news conference this morning to reveal his decision, but abruptly canceled it Monday after Judge Lance Ito announced the Simpson jury had reached a verdict and would announce it today. "Given the developments in the O.J. Simpson case, Senator Nunn has been persuaded by friends and members of the Georgia media not to hold a press conference tumor-row,- " said Cathy O'Brien, Nunn's press secretary, 'it will likely be held early next week." Like the Simpson jury, which listened to evidence for nearly a year before deciding Simpson's fate, Nunn has been listening for nearly a year to supporters and detractors debate the pros and cons of his staying in the Senate or seeking a more lucrative life elsewhere. "The dominant factor, more than anything else, is whether I want to do something else in life," he said recently. Meanwhile, House Speaker Newt Gingrich suggested that Nunn would be better off switching to the Republican party. FDA OKs artery plug for catheter WASHINGTON (AP) A plug to stop bleeding in patients who have undergone balloon angioplasty has won approval from the Food and Drug Administration. The plug is inserted into the groin artery that doctors use for threading catheters into cardiac vessels. More than a million patients a year undergo cardiac catheter procedures. In angioplasty, doctors use a catheter to place a balloon inside a blocked artery and then inflate the balloon to collapse the blockage. In another procedure, called angiography, doctors use a catheter to take pictures of the inside of heart arteries. Bleeding from the leg artery can be a problem from either procedure after the catheter is removed. Usually doctors must apply manual pressure to the groin artery for more than a half hour to stop the bleeding. Use of the new plug halts the bleeding w ithin minutes and keeps it from restarting. The plug is left in place and is absorbed into the body in about six weeks. It was among a number of medical device approvals announced Monday. University sued over stomping ANCHORAGE. Alaska (AP) The family of a man stomped to death by a moose that roamed the University of Alaska campus has sued the school, claiming officials should have shooed the animal away. Myong Chin Ra. 7 1, was killed last January after trying to walk past a moose and her calf on his way to the university's gymnasium sauna. Witnesses said the moose had been taunted by student shouts and snowballs for hours. Bill Aar. the attorney for the family, said the university had been informed the moose was on campus and had a duty to lemove it. "If they had done thai, this terrible accident would not have occurred." Azar said in interview with KTUU. 250,000 ieave food stamp rolls More WASHINGTON (AP) than 250.000 Americans left the food stamp rolls in July, continuing a yearlong trend in the nation's most expensive welfare program. The Agriculture Department milreported Monday that 26.04 food were collecting lion people from 26.31 damps in July, down rnillion lecipients in June and down also from 27.31 million Tempers flare in Medicare " Oty?; - r- 'Mil debate ByPAULRECER AP Science Writer By CHRISTOPHER CONNELL Associated Press Writer m ...... : yga.-'K- vz. .mvvf r1 WASHINGTON Angry words, flashy props, a staged walkout. It's all part of the congressional battle over who has the non-hormo- best plan to save Medicare. In the Senate, Majority Leader Bob Dole rejected a new Democratic Medicare proposal out of hand. Over in the House, most Democrats walked out of a Com- merce because WASHINGTON Osteoporobrittle bone disorder that affects about 20 million American women, now can treated for the first time with a drug. The Food and Drug Administration announced Monday that it was approving the marketing of alendronate, a hormone-fre- e drug that can be used by women unable to tolerate estrogen. The drug also can be used to treat Paget's disease, another type of bone disorsis, the If Committee meeting of the Republicans' hold public hearings on der. Studies of alendronate show it .can stop the loss of bone density refusal to the GOP Medicare overhaul. AP Photo rehearses the Handel aria Feed His Flock" at St. Michael's Church in Brooklyn on Friday. The Gregory Rodriquez "He Shall n. But Senate Democrats promised to give America's elderly new choices in Medicare without the pain of the Republicans' major surgery on the program. They offered only a bare outline on Monday, saying it would include new Medicare coverage arrangements and managed care programs. Senate Minority Leader Tom said the plan Daschle, would save $89 billion by holding down the growth of payments to hospitals and other much as the controversial Republican plan would do. But the GOP is seeking to save three times as much $270 billion over seven years including more than $71 billion in higher premiums from Medicare's 37 million elderly or disabled beneficiaries. The Democrats said they also would seek to change the way Medicare pays health maintenance organizations. They now get 95 percent of average payments, although HMOs tend to care-give- attract healthier rs seniors who require less care. In the House, the war over Medicare produced angry words and theatrics. The GOP Grand Old Party "now stands for 'Get Old People.' Tip 'em upside dow n and shake money out of their pockets." Rep Edward Maikey. said before stomping out of the Commerce Committee meeting. a Rep. Billy Tauzin. recent convert to the GOP. said Democrats used to stand for democracy. "Now it means dema-goguery- ." Commerce Chairman Rep. Thomas Bliley. presided with an electronic "Medicare Countdown to Bankruptcy" clock mounted behind him. The clock started ticking at 197.394.924 seconds marking how long it will take until Medicare's hospital fund ioes dry in 2002. MilWASHINGTON (AP) lions of men who don't produce enough testosterone may soon get a boost of the hormone from a skin patch made by a company based in Salt Lake City. The Food and Ding Administration late Friday approved the Androderm skin patch to treat the condition known as hypogonadism. Symptoms include sexual dysfunction, fatigue, depressed mood, muscle atrophy and osteoporosis. Secondary sexual characteristics such as deep' voice, facial and chest hair and muscle development also may be checked. When applied to the back, abdomen, thigh or upper arm. the patch delivers doses of the naturally occurring hormone responsible for developing male characteristics during and after puberty. soprano, whose voice is changing, will perform the aria for Pope John Paul II at Aqueduct Race Track this Friday. By RICK HAMPSON Associated Press Writer the Holocaust. This papal performance finds Gregory on the doorstep of adolescence, old enough for braces but not for acne. He is short and slim, with soft brown eyes that shine when he smiles, which is often. He arrived at an interview before a rehearsal wearing a cotton shirt buttoned at the neck, slacks, and basketball shoes as big as ski boots. He was asked about his decision to cut back on his singing this year to play Little League baseball. "1 want to be an guy." he said, "to do a lot of different stuff." He wants to play more basketball and tennis, and to learn the keyboards. "Maybe he's getting tired of being pulled in all directions. Everyone wants part of him." say s Sister Ethna Egan. principal of the school where Gregory maintains an A average. "He's an eighth grader. He doesn't want to be known as the singing celebritv of the school." The soprano NEW YORK who will sing a Handel aria for the pope and 75.000 others might have a problem, and it's not nerves or rain or the sound system. it's changing. It's his voice Gregory Rodriguez, w ho is to perform "He Shall Feed His Flock" at the papa! Mass at Aqueduct Racetrack on Friday, is 12 going on 13. Although he still sings soprano., his voice is getting lower. "It's risky." Gregory's former choir director. Donald Barnum. says of the performance. "His voice could crack at any moment. It's like walking on thin ice." If anyone can stay dry. it's Gregory Rodriguez. He's a veteran of the Metropolitan Opera Children's Chorus, and sang a role in "Tosca" along with Luciano Pavarotti. Last year he sang a solo for John Paul II at a Vatican serv ice t commemorate "It's At 49. 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"We're sioinn to continue fisiht- imi in the courts." said Wadleisih former computer executive wh O the (. ommittee of 10.000. an organization of hemo- blood-clottin- Glass Act students resented the celebrity's ability to skip class to perform; although that appears to have been replaced by pride. Gregory narrowly lost a recent election for student council president. His mother. Ana Martinez, came here from El Salvador in 1973. She is devoted to Gregory, and has spent the past few years schlepping him from home to the opera, baseball games, church and choir rehearsals. Along the way. she taught him that his voice was God's gift, to be used to lift his audience's spirits, not his ow n ego. And so Gregory is rellexively his about modest. Asked he as a strengths ballplayer, says. "I rely on my teammates." He won't even give his batting average, which is said to be high. Having faced the curve ball, he s not worried about Handel. s for the voice change, he said. 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