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Show V 4 ' a . 9111 4A Tuesday March 20, 2001 Guest eoIudid Am Cwl : CureNcumioamiaMSN (LMMCUNM CUNWf CUtWH CURM OMM CUNWN CUIM aiKMOMM Family housing affects students Beyond the beltway ' 1 nice bouse. It looks out on a Our in friends nice houses too, as do most live pond. folk around here,, . Even many unpleasant peofrfe live in nice houses. a My family fives in ) (. mi cuNtNcuinbuattwN anren By WILLIAM COLLINS ' ItweillrUiliwJI aww OHM . cuMWHorwwaiairwN CUiWNaMWNCUIMtClMM houses feel terrible that so many hapless folk live in crowded, dirty, dangerous government apartments As a result, In some cities whole projects have .. were all m it together, rich and classes, weak counseling and low test scores taint everyone. Wei all lobby and march shoulder to been tom down, replaced by nice new units amounting to about a third of the numbenemoved. Thus a lot rtf these tenants, too, are set free to look far better quar- - should With bad schools, atcremajNNiamMt CUtfMaWMCUllWKaMM , noor' Bit : for relief. y. With housing, its the opposite. It's every family for " itself. If I have a nice place to tive, then others can V; look out for themselves.' . .. .ten elsewhere.' In fact its worse than that If too many people in luck. it the good Again, way just In the last seven years, 27,000 United States HousAll these nice houses make for some very nice : my town five in inferior housing, its bad for me, too. neighborhoods, and some very nice towns. Naturally, ing and Urban Development units have been demol- -: Theyll erode my property values, jaise my taxes, ' ished, while onlySOO haim been rebuilt Another 33,000'.; weaken my school, and increase my crime rate. weal want to Il06p AIM, so we alertly raise a r; : So while I may Join with them in muscling the mayor ; are waiting to be tom down..' ruckus when a developer wants to squeeze fat still more : and goyemor for better schools, Id just as soon theyd ! The results of ad this gentrification an plain ; nice houses, which would destroy a lovely pasture or. moveiway, woodland. Newspapers often report TL Least of aH, do we want any more moving In. Y We ruckus stiH louder 9 a developer, proposes nice Many families now spend half their income on rent ; condos rather than nice houses. And If, under state ; Homeless shelters are overtiowini There aren't enough : y This behavior is known as the American way. Ifs as American as, say, the west Nile virus! And its about, law, lie suggests including nice affordable units in with ; foster homes to care for all the kids from the dis-- ;; - ;'r.' as healthy.' the nice condos, we ruckus really loud, rupteotammes. Y . - This watchfiflnm is whist keeps our neighborhoods Some families double up: Some families leave their ; : In truth its ; ' V wiH actually be cured faster With more schools Our kids home alone;-..; - v." y so nice. ; y Schools teaching the rental refugees watch the ; apartments than with jnore teachers, with better nuAt the same time, we worry about our downtowns; ' trition then with bettenlghting, and with more health Along with their nice houses, many cities baibor both , students performance sag, for want of a home. : Mils become have cities at tenements. not.so care than with more computers. . ;; :.; r.V and Many especially adept private Theyre public housing ' It sounds crazy; but providing housings mourown sort of demolition. And most suburbs have become nice: But the tenements often cure themselves. v. V Theyre given to fires and to urban renewal. Thus tiieir equally adept at keeping new housing out altogether. enlightened , . Its much easier to teadi kids who conie to school numbers dwindle and their tenants are often set free That skiff tends to raise their property vtoues.:.' to look for better quarters elsewhere. Good luck. .. V 'The problem is, from a public policy standpoint,: ready to team than to by to jam knowledge down their that housing failure is eyen harder to. correct than. throats when their lives are centered on not having a Its getting that way with public housing, too. s Conscience-stricke- n Y' ? nice place to five, citizens who live in nice school failure:-- . f yv y:;- - r:Y. ! : V.' i i V: . ; '.. That - . , -- . ; V.i' ;. ; : v ; seff-inter- . . . - . Baest column Metro Drug ThskForce acts cm all submittals. resistant - ... . : t;. ...... -- it ... ...... , By CHUCK COLLINS ing human health. y.V--- , tanca, the Union of Concerned Scientists attempted Public health experts how recognize agricultural to estimate antibiotic use in UJS. agriculture. ; v The Tides Center : v'";use of antibiotics as the main Contributor to the do- - ; UCS used publicly available data on U5. herd sizes, in food borne patho- federal drug approvals and recommended dosages, . The World Health Organization reported last year velopment of ' and data on the percentage of Ameriastbod animals that we are entming ad ere where diseases cant be fens such as salmonella and Campylobacter. Y, Y of American Medical the Journal where are the sicker and for treated, :.. people longer given antibiotics effectively example, are at greater risk of dying and where epidemics are Association recently reported a rise in ceftriaxone- - Y The UCS then estimated the pounds of antibiotics ;. ' ' m we, prolonged. used in the three major livestock sectors: poultry, beef . resistant salmonella in the United States. . d swiner , : . The pause? Antibiotic resistance. :i "'v Ceftriaxone is considered a! drug p choicftflirtreat-an.. :Y. II U. 1 .L!IJ miilion The of poultry, bem number uiTdCuOiis cniKUoti Formerly curable diseases are rapidly becoming re--, SaunonQiia pounds; wiQi mi "" ' sistant to more and more available antibiotics - our '. ; Since fewer antibiotics are available ter use iji chit- -i and swine annually - is staggering!' esti- -; dreri, the loss of the antibiotic from the dodorl According to USC calculations, the' big guns for controlling the ravages of bacterial disnal would undermine the ability to fight serious mate fertile agricultural share of total antibiotics used eases. .V The rise 6f drug resistance results from simple in the United States at about 40 percent is a drastic children..;.. ;Yv:Y Y An obvious solution for reducing the rise of drug 'evolution. When a sick person receives an antibiotic,! underestimate. most of the disease-causiOur analysis, based on just resistant diseases is to reduce unnecessary uses of organisms are killed. Y drag ". But because of use in poultry, swine and cattle, puts the figure at more genetic variation, some of the germs; antibiotics. Are ad uses to agriculture necessary? like 70 percent of tobLY V v. : are not susceptible to the drug and survive. ; While rough, ours is the best available, most trans, This Adaptation, over many generations and with v What are. the best opportunities to reduce use? , ! Unfortunately, we dont know. Reliable date on anti- -, parent estimate of agricultural antibiotic use. repeated exposure to antibiotics, leads to populations , biotic use, including agricultural use, are not available Our numbers are as good as they get Brit they are ! of pathogens. Y'.4--in the United States.-- . Y y. not good enough. Y Simply put, the more in use antibiotics unwisely,: information on tin faster we can lose them, Y There rs no national effort to determine the amount Y Knowing and monitoring base-lin- e of antibiotics ted, sprayed, and poured on the.nations The major contribution to the erosion of antibiotics antibiotic use in the UnM States is necessary to " .; V .: is misuse in human medicine; but this Is an incomfarms. v . v determine how much and which antibiotics are used m ; r- 1: Name of suspected drug dealer i I' . ...i;- ce I I . v I: : . ii ;V V - - 1 oft-us- dis-eas- f . r-- ; I ng - PriccY ; Amount; list any other suspected illegal activities: : : drug-resista- May we contact you? YES j , . . plete diagnosis. The WHO; the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, and . the U.S. Food and Drug Administration agree that antibiotics are also misuud in agriculture., In agriculture, the vast majority are used not to treat illness, but to feed healthy pigs, chickens and : cows biorder to speed up the animals growth and fatten the bottom line of livestock producers. The overuse of antibiotics in agriculture is impac- t- ' The chemical and pharmaceutical industries regard the information as proprietary, while no federal tracks the amounts. Without basic information, puUic health workers and government regulators can not develop an effective national intervention strategy for reducing the use: JL or anuDicmcj. Because of the growing concern over agricultures contribution to the overall problem of antibiotic resis- - lwhcn'';: ' F ; Iv: I ; v ti ;Y;' IfwemC(mtactyoubymail,whatisyDuraddress7 YY..'Y ; While federal agencies such knowieted the need " "" If yes, then hpw: by mail or by phone " :V,'.. : food animals and how use patterns have changed over time'V'-YY- NO FDA have ac- such mfbrmation, I' as the for. collecting they have not yet done enough to champion the cause. ' We have a serious public'healtb problem and the federal government needs to move now to gather the - completed grams to: TIPS, Carbon Metro Drug Thsk T , Force, 91 East 100 North, Priae, UT 84501. J MaO Y j ' - - ' information needed for creating effective solutions to preserve the modem miracle of antibiotics ;(if Letters f o tlte editor should focus on public issues ratlier Uian private personalities or J entities. AU submissions must be verified prior to publication. 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