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users rarely admit it. Their chil-
dren fall down the stairs or hit
their heads on radiators. Or they
just haven’t been feeling well
lately.
"They don’t come in and tell
you, ‘We lost our temper, we lost
control,' says Dr. Robert Zim-
merman. “They say, ‘he has a
of the developing nations.
West Germany, Denmark,
Austria and Hungary have de-
creasing populations and if cur-
rent fertility trends continue,
other European countries may
America, Europe and the Soviet
Union and that percentage is ex-
pected to continue to decline.
The bureau also said half the
world's population will live in
urban areas by the year 2000, up
from the current rate of 42 per
cent and just 29 percent in 1950
Tokyo Yokohama, currently
the largest urban area at 25.4
million people, is likely to be
overtaken by the Mexico City
area in about 20 years.
lation is expected to more than
quadruple from its 1985 total of
103 million.
Only 21 percent of the world's
estimated.
The world population stood at
4.9 billion in mid 1965, the bureau
said, and gained another 79 mil-
lion people through mid 1986 —
even though the growth rate
dropped to 1.6 percent from an
annual rate of 1.7 percent be-
tween 1975 and 1985.
The total population is ex-
pected to reach 5.3 billion in 1990
and 5.7 billion in 1995. In 1980, the
world’s population was 4.8 bil-
lion, up from 3.7 billion people in
1970 and 3 billion in 1960.
Nearly half the world’s popu-
lation lives in China, India, the
Soviet Union and the United
States.
But Nigeria, with the eighth
largest population, may be the
third largest by 2035, behind
WASHINGTON (UPI) - De
veloping countries will add a
whopping 828 million people to
the world’s population by 2000,
and an average 4% people will
be born every second, the Census
Bureau estimated.
In a new profile of world popu
lation figures, the bureau said
the Earth will hold 6.2 billion
people at the turn of the century.
From 1990 to 2000, 828 million
people will be added to the popu
lation from developing countries
— more than three times the cur-
rent U.S. population.
The bureau said the population
head injuries but can find evi-
dence of previous, possibly abu-
sive traumas.
“If we have a suspected case
(of child abuse), we can see if it’s
happened before,” Zimmerman
says. “If a parent or guardian is
claiming an injury was just an
accident, this can provide
powerful evidence to dispute
that."
Zimmerman, a professor of
radiology at the University of
Pennsylvania, spoke at a con-
ference recently on the use of
magnetic resonance imaging, or
MRI, to detect head injuries that
may have occured weeks and
months earlier.
NEW YORK (UPI) - Despite
a growing taste for wine, Am-
ericans have cut their overall
consumption of alcohol, with
Washington, D.C., leading the
nation in drinking and Utah re-
igning as the capital of sobriety,
a new study shows.
The survey released Monday,
based on previously unpublished
1984 data from the National In-
stitutes of Health, found that the
per capita consumption of alco-
hol dropped about 4 percent be-
tween 1980 and 1984.
The report showed that 10
percent of the population drinks
half of all liquor consumed and
that Americans are starting to
drink at a younger age — with 30
percent of high school seniors in
1984 saying they had tried alco-
hol by age 13.
The NIH data were based on
liquor sales and state con-
sumption figures for 1984, the
latest available numbers.
Margaret Mushinski, an epi-
demiologist who prepared the
report for the Metropolitan Life
Insurance Co., said two-thirds of
American adults drink alcohol
on a regular basis, but overall
consumption is falling.
From 1980 to 1984, annual per
Is Projected By The Year 2000
at the millenium will be 27 per lion people in the 1990s and their China and India Nigeria’s popu
cent larger than in 1985, when the
birth rate was four people a sec-
ond.
In 2000, the birth rate will be 41/
2 people a second, the bureau
said.
Developing nations — which
presently account for three-
fourths of the world’s population
— will be growing at least three
times faster than the developed
nations at the end of the century,
the bureau said.
The industrialized nations —
join them in experiencing a de-
cline in population, the bureau
newsprint, even with glasses or
contact lenses. Of those people, I
percent could not see the words
or letters at all.
—About 7.7 million people
could not hear a normal con-
versation.
—2.5 million had a speech im-
pediment.
Of those who had trouble per-
forming those functions, 21.8
million were under 65, and 15.5
million were 65 or older.
The bureau said disability was
more prevalent among females
than males, and blacks were
more frequently disabled than
whites or Hispanics.
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The proclamation touched on
themes expressed by McAuliffe,
the high school teacher who said
before her fatal flight that she
hoped her presence aboard Chal-
lenger would “elevate the teach-
ing profession in the eyes of the
public and of those potential
teachers out there."
It was Reagan who announced
Aug. 27, 1984, that NASA’s first
private shuttle “spaceflight par-
ticipant" would be a teacher.
The announcement was made
during the heat of his re-election
campaign and some critics
viewed it as a bid to win votes
from educational organizations.
McAuliffe, a mother of two
from Concord, N.H., was selec-
ted in July 1985 from more than
11,000 applicants. At a news con-
ference before the launch, she
said one of her goals was to ex-
plain the purpose and sig-
nificance of the shuttle system
“because I don’t think the gen-
eral public is aware of that. ”
In cruel irony, Challenger’s
destruction 73 seconds after
blastoff Jan. 28 and the deaths of
McAuliffe and her six cre-
wmates inadvertently accom-
plished that goal in excruciating
detail.
McAuliffe was aware she was
serving as a role model to thou-
sands of children and she clearly
relished the chance to focus on
the importance of education.
“Hopefully, one of the maybe
secondary objectives of this is
students are going to be looking
at me and perhaps thinking of
going into teaching as pro-
fessions,” she said in an inter-
view before the fatal launch.
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AUGUSTA, Maine (UPI) — A
life-size statue of Samantha
Smith, petting the dove of peace
she symbolized with her goodwill
visit to Russia, was unveiled at
the Statehouse to honor the child
peace crusader who “warmed
the hearts of the coldest diplo-
mats.”
Smith’s somber classmates
gathered Monday for the un-
veiling of the bronze statue of
their friend, who at age 10 took
her plea for world peace to the
highest level of the Soviet Union.
She died in an August 1985
plane crash with her father and
six others, then became a hero in
Russia as well as in her home
state.
Maine Gov. Joseph Brennan
called Smith a "shooting star, or
more fitting to this season, a
Christmas star in the night, guid-
ing the way for the three wise
men.” “Samantha will never be
‘‘The memory of a very special
teacher inspires us," President
Reagan said Monday in signing a
proclamation that also declared
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capita consumption of alcohol in
America dropped from 2.76 gal- 4
ions to 2.65 gallons — a 4 percent I
decline, she said. The 1984 data
also reaffirmed a previously ’
published trend away from hard
liquor.
"Wine is on the increase and
beer and especially hard liquor
are declining,” Mushinski said.
“In 1968, beer and hard liquor
were neck and neck, but that
year beer consumption started
to pull away by a wide margin
In 1984, beer accounted for 51
percent of alcohol consumed,
spirits for 35 percent and wine
for 14 percent.
In the nation’s capital, con-
sumption declined by just .04
percent, leaving Washington
cold.”’
Zimmerman, who like many
other doctors has been frus-
trated for years by such sus-
picious but inconclusive injuries,
is beginning to fight back. And
the Philadelphia radiologist has
a powerful weapon: a high tech-
nology diagnostic device that
Mother Ends Strike
INDIANAPOLIS (UPI) — A striking mother who refused to
cook, clean or talk to her children for eight days is back on the job
with a contract that meets her demands for more respect and
better working conditions.
Michael Dunlap took down the “On Strike” sign in front of her
house Monday after her three youngest children signed a pact
promising to do their chores without being told more than once and
to "watch the tone of voice we use."
Her children — Robert, 10, Christine, 11, and Andrew, 14 — said
the experience of going it alone taught them different things.
Christine said she signed the contract “because my mom per-
suaded me to. We talked about it Sunday night.” She said she
learned that "to be treated with respect, you have to treat others
with respect.”
Andrew said he signed it “because I like food.” He said the
strike taught him "I can’t cook,” and he was tired of sandwiches,
cereal and spaghetti.
Dunlap, 45, said the household labor dispute raised her con-
sciousness as well.
“I probably learned more from the strike than they did,” she
said. "Maybe I do expect too much from them. They are still kids,
and they are each one an individual."
Dunlap also has three grown children and 17-year-old daughter
who also lives at home but was not a target of the strike Dunlap
walked off the job Dec. 14, refusing to cook meals, do laundry or
pick up after her three youngest.
“I think what really got to them was I quit talking to them," she
said. “That really bugged 'em.”
She also had threatened not to buy Christmas presents for the
children ifthe strike continued.
Dunlap and her husband, a bystander during the strike, now
plan to give each child one gift on Christmas Day, and the family
will exchange more gifts on New Year’s Day.
Dunlap said she wants her children "to realize Christmas is
sharing, not getting.”
Included in the contract signed by the Dunlap children were
provisions requiring them to:
—’’Watch the tone of the voice we use, especially when speaking
with our mother."
—Agree to follow rules and regulations “with noexceptions."
—Do their assigned chores and jobs without being told more
than once.
— Acknowledge “we are younger than our parents and our
parents are the final say on anything pertaining to our education,
chores, playtime, etc.”
—Not scream and yell at their siblings.
says. “And the ability of some-
one this age to express them-
selves is quite limited, so the
pediatrician may not always be
able to assess when or how seri-
ous the injury has been. ”
MRI is similar to an X-ray, but
uses a magnetic field rather than
radiation to take a picture of in-
ternal structures and injuries.
CT scans — cross section X-rays
— have been used in the past to
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WASHINGTON (UPI) -
National Teacher Appreciation
Day will be marked Jan. 28, the
anniversary of the Challenger
shuttle disaster that claimed
New Hampshire schoolteacher
Christa McAuliffe among its vic-
tims.
forgotten," he said. “The inno-
cence of her youth, the sincerity
of her beliefs, and the magic of
her smile, melted barriers be-
tween nations and warmed the
hearts of the coldest diplomats.”
Brennan compared Smith with
Maine women like former Sen.
Margaret Chase Smith and
Olympic gold medal marathoner
Joan Benoit.
“In this distinguished com-
pany of adult women, Samantha
Smith is an unlikely hero,” he
said.
As a 10-year-old girl, Smith sat
at the kitchen table of her Man-
chester home and wrote a letter
to then Soviet Premier Yuri An-
dropov, telling him of her
worries about Russia waging
war against the United States.
She became an international
celebrity when Andropov an-
swered her letter and invited her
to the Soviet Union.
less at $400 $600 and has one dis
tinct advantage.
“Blood is very easy to see with
MR, and it’s not as easy to see
with CT,” Zimmerman says.
“And with MR, you’re able to see
blood beautifully for weeks,
months and sometimes even
years after the initial bleed. ’ ’
MRI is thus ab e to detect old
blows to the head in which out-
side bruises have healed, as well
as “shaking" injuries, a com-
mon and serious form of child
abuse in infants.
“In these (shaking) cases,
there’s no obvious stigma, be-
cause nobody has hit the child;
they have held him by the
shoulders or feet and shaken him
back and forth," Zimmerman
says. “But the damage is there
and it can be quite severe.
“The head in an infant like this
is relatively large compared to
the body mass,” he says, “so the
head is able to whip back and
forth, and as a result what we
think happens is the brain moves
relative to the skull and tears
WASHINGTON (UPI) - One
out of five Americans aged 15
and over has difficulty per-
forming basic physical activities
such as seeing, hearing,
speaking and walking, the Cen-
sus Bureau said Monday.
A survey by the bureau showed
that in 1984 , 37.3 million people
were unable, or needed help, to
see, hear, speak, walk, use
stairs, lift or carry objects, get
around outide or inside and get in
or out of bed.
Among the survey’s key find-
ings:
—12.8 million people had
trouble seeing words or letters in
population live in North
Latin America’s annual
growth rate was 50 percent
higher than Asia’s in 1985, the
bureau said, and between 1950
and 1970 its population grew
faster than any other region.
Since 1970, the report said,
Latin America’s growth rate has
dropped to 2.3 percent and by the
year 2000 its population growth
rate should be considerably
lower than it is now if present
trends continue.
New Technology Detects Child Abuse
CHICAGO (UPI) — Child ab can not only guide treatment of The advantages of this tech detect brain traumas, but MRI
nique to detect child abuse are costs several hundred dollars
obvious.
"(Parents) don’t always bring
(their children) in at the time of
the abusive episode. They wait
until they have to,” Zimmerman
away.
He adds: “We can see evi-
dence of this with MRI. ”
In six cases Zimmerman has
investigated thus far, five have
shown evidence corroborating
earlier abuse and one was able to
verify an accidental injury.
While none of the cases has be-
come a legal issue, Zimmerman
said he suspects MRI evidence
will soon begin finding its way
into court.
“That’s not really my concern
as a physician,” he says. "But if
this evidence can get a child out
of an abusive situation, then
that’s part of my job.”
with the highest drinking rate of
5.34 gallons of alcohol per person
per year. Much of it was wine,
the survey said.
“For every glass of wine drunk
on average in the United States,
people in Washington, D.C., had
three,” Mushinski said.
Utah remained the driest
state, with an alcohol con-
sumption rate of 1.53 gallons, 40
percent below the national aver-
age. West Virginia was next to
last, with an apparent con-
sumption rate of 1.58 gallons.
“I say apparent because the
figures are based on liquor sales
and state reports," Mushinski
said. "They do not include
home-brewed beverages or bev-
erages purchased in one state
and used in another ."
Nevada, which has a large
tourist population because of
legalized gambling, and New
Hampshire, which has low liquor
prices, finished second and third
on the list, she said.
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the current academic year, Sep-
tember 1986 to May 1987, as
“National Year of the Teacher.”
“May all America comm-
emorate Sharon Christa
McAuliffe and her brave com-
panions,” Reagan said. “May
we also express our gratitude to
everyone who continues the leg-
acy of devotion and excellence
that she and the rest of Am-
erica’s teachers have given us
through the years.”
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