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<sMus<^veninas Please join us tonight for an evening of music by the Oregon String Quartet 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. Performance at 6:00 p.m. Free University of Oregon Museum of Art Zy'lrt is ^Eivina Health: All women are at risk for cancer ■ Continued from Page 1 more risk factors for breast can cer. However, most risks are at such a low level that they only partly explain the high fre quency of the disease in the population,” according to an American Cancer Society brochure. “To date, knowledge about risk factors has not translated into practical ways to prevent breast cancer. "Since women may not be able to alter their personal risk factors, the best opportunity at present for reducing mortality is through early detection.” The American Cancer Soci ety recommends doing a monthly breast check. Women under 30 years don’t need to have a mammogram. Women from 40 to 50 years need to have a mammogram every two years and women over 50 years need to have one every year. It also recommends having an annual exam. Jones said, “These three things together are all we have and work better together than any one of them alone. ” THE FACTS Breast cancer risk factors ■ Increases with age ■ Higher with personal/fam ily history ■ Presence of some benign breast diseases ■ Late menopause ■ Lengthy exposure to cyclic estrogen ■ Never having children ■ Having the first live birth at a later age ■ Higher education/socio economic status ■ High fat diet ■ Exposure to pesticides/chemicals ■ Alcohol ■ Induced abortion ■ Physical inactivity Source: American Cancer Society, 1996. COURTESY PHOTO A UO student team will join other volunteers in the assembly and display of the NAMES AIDS Memorial quilt, pictured here in 1992. Project: Quilt now consists of more than 40,000 panels ■ Continued from Page 1 coordinator for the NAMES Project, said, “The quilt will gain national recognition and dispel the myth that AIDS is a gay disease. "The NAMES quilt gives a type of solidarity for people with AIDS. It’s going to uplift people who are survivors.” Mace agreed. “People stereo type that people get AIDS through IV drug use and gay sex, but it is being contracted through heterosexual sex, and there are many innocent by standers who are unknowingly contracting the disease. For Small, who is going to Washington, D.C. as a volun teer, the display of the quilt “gives AIDS a voice.” “It actually put a face to the people who have died from AIDS and gave it some real ism,” she explained. Mace, whose nephew is dy ing of complications of AIDS, said, “AIDS touches all of our lives in some way or another. Until we see it as a disease that affects people, we will not find a cure.” You want to be the first to Macintosh. More llexible than ever. We don't know how you’ll fill in the blank. That’s why we make Macintosh computers so flexible. To help you be the first to do whatever you want to do. And with word processing, easy Internet access, powerful multimedia and cross-platform compatibility, a Mac" makes it even easier to do it. How do you get started? Visit your campus computer store today and pick up a Mac. leave.j our mark. 'I9% •W*'' lllc “wrm/ ■W,<’ *• w*- «*• umlMadiDui ant n#M Imkmirks ot Apple Computer. Inc All Macintosh computers arc .ktighul to lie accessible to mil,,cl,oils will,,liability. To learn more (I v onlrt call H00-600-7808or ITT800 755-0601 ODE CLASSIFIEDS Sr 1 L l T , r 1 H D 1 T , fi li Y I T 346-4343