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P age A 5 I m P ori laño O bserver • N ovember 20, 1996 kids really do listen New Oregon research confirms what most adults will tell you about theirow n childhood; even ifw didn’t acknowledge it as kids, wha, our parents said did influence how we behaved, what we believed and how we turned out. Let’s start with two conclusions drawn from a survey of more than 12,000studentsin 12 8 oregon pub lic schools: • Kids hear their parents Among eighth-graders w ho said their par ents believe marijuana use is “very wrong, " only 9 percent used it But am ong those who believe their par ents view marijuana use as “not wrong, " 75 percent reported using it • Friends ’ behavior counts Few er than ! percent o f eighth-graders who have no best friends using mar ijuana use the illegal drug them selves. But i f the eighth-grader has even one best frie n d using it, then the likelihood that he or she will use marijuana grows ID-fold The trend was similar fo r cigarette use, which correlates highly to later marijuana use. Parents who send firm, consistent messages against tobacco, alcohol and other drugs influences their chil dren’s behavior Likewise, parents who want clean and sober children should influence who their kids associate with and supervise social gatherings in which their kids are involved. H ere’s another persuasive fact: The survey asked eighth-graders whether they had even one friend who used marijuana, whether they knew neighborhood adults who use tobacco, alcohol or other drugs, and what their parents believed about marijuana use. Only two-tenths o f 1 percent of students (that’s 2 students out o f 1,000) used marijuana if their best TLC, The Learning Channel: A stinging look at Killer Bees follows the route o f these ravenous swarms as they buzz their way from South to North America. Premiering Wednesday, December 4, this program also tells the personal tale o f conscience o f geneticist Warwick Kerr, the man who brought aggressive killer bees from Africa to South America in hope o f improving the honey crop. In the m oist Brazilian tropics, the bees spread, killing hundreds throughout South America. Now Kerr breeds “stingless" bees and comes to terms with the destruction he never m eant to wreak. Killer Bees plots the bees' path o f destruction from Africa to South America. Killer bees have been blamed for two deaths in Texas and two in Arizona, and have recently turned up in New Mexico and California. Killer Bees premieres from 10:00- 1 1 :0 0 pm (ET). Pictured: Beekeeper. Credit: Windfall Films. friends didn’t, ¡{'neighborhood adults didn’t, and iftheir parents held strong anti-marijuana views. But among those with a best friend using mari juana, who knew neighborhood adults using drugs, and whose parents were perceived as not caring about mari juana use, 60 percent said they used marijuana (that’s an alarming 600 students out o f 1,000) Among 11 th-graders who report ed using alcohol any time in the past year, 45 percent said they had also ridden in a car with a teen-age driver who was under the influence o f alco hol or drugs. Among students who reported that they hadn’t consumed alcohol dur ing the past 12 months, only 7 per cent had had such a dangerous expe rience. A copy o f the statewide stu dent drug-use report is available by writing the state Office o f Alcohol and Drug Abuse Programs, 500 Sum mer St., N.E., Salem 97310-1016. Hilton: Higher Education m D r . K eith O rlando H ilton I recently came across an issue of The Black Book Review and was struck by the solid depth and scope o f its content. Actually the first time that I real ly took note o f it, and its publisher, Max Rodriguez, was in The Net work Journal, a tabloid newspaper based in Brooklyn, New York, and p u b lish e d by A ziz G u ey e Adetimirin, a Nigerian. I now regularly follow the QBR top Ten Books in each edition o f Black Issues in Higher Education According to Rodriguez, “Never before have Black themed books come to press in such numbers. In nonfiction every possible theme is being exploited: Black hair, Black love. Black food, even Black astrol ogy” There were several letters to the editor in the edition That I read, which, in our opinion, is a good sign. Discourse is always a very good sign o f communication. One letter even dealt with trou ble between Black writers and Black publishers. Another letter was a reaction to QBR on the worldwide web. Its w e b site a d d re ss is: h ttp :// www.qbrculture.com. The e-mail address is: qbrbookweb@ aol.com. It co n tain s m any review s o f w eighty n on-fiction and fiction throughout. The reviewers, some very acclaimed, are learned and provide valuable insight. There are reviews o f books such as W alter M osley’s, “A Little Yel low Dog,” Terry M cM illan’s, "How Stella Got Her Groove Back” and even the autobiography ofthe Rever end Al Sharpton. There isalsoareview ofD eW ayne W ickham’s book, “Thinking Black.” We also did a review o f the book a few months earlier and titled ours, “ V ery C lo se B ut N o C ig a r: W ickham’s Book o f Essays by Black columnists" because although the writers are indeed some o f our best, they are not the only voices out there. It was an affront to the columnists who regularly write for this nation’s 200- plus African newspapers. Let the record show that I did get a few replies from some o fth e book’s es sayists after my column appeared. Like I said. discourse is always a very good sign. There was another feature that I really enjoyed and that was the one on the Go On Girl! Book Club Ac cording to QBR, it plans a series o f profiles o f various reading clubs in future issues. It will be refreshing to read about book clubs from around the country and world. A ccording to T arget M arket News, a Chicago-based, African- American marketing group, “Afri can Americans spend more than twice as much on books than on video games, hardware and soft ware combined.” In 1994 and 1995 respectively, African Americans spent $297 mil lion and $330 million on books. This is quite a statement, consid ering that the myth that African Americans do not read continues to float around. And once we add the fact that over 12 million people read African-American newspapers weekly, well... We wish Max Rodriguez, Susan McHenry, the executive editor, and the entire staff, the very best with this quarterly publication. Q B R ’s number is (212)475-1010. As always, we only hope that readers and writers o f these books are doing so to re-empower the African world community and not just for 'htist purposes. Now that (reempowerment) is the best way to get one’s “groove back in a Stellar kind o f way. Strep and rheumatic fever Serious group A streptococcal in fections for centuries were responsi ble for large epidemics o f rheumatic fever and a major cause o f infection- associated mortality among infants, children and adults. It has reemerged as a public health problem, accord ing to a June 1996 Supplement o f Pediatrics, the official publication o f the American Academy o f Ped iat- rics. Facts on strep infections and rheumatic fever ♦ A group A streptococcal infection in the throat is called streptococcal pharyngitis or strep throat. Strep throat is not caused by viruses It is caused by streptococcus bacteria. ♦ Strep throat should be diagnosed by a pediatrician or fam ily physician us ing a throat culture ♦ Strep throat should be treated with penicillin, as recommended in the June 1996 supplement o f Pediatrics and by the American Academy o f Pediatrics, the World Health Organization and American Heart Association Penicil- lin is also available as a single injec tion, which is preferable when adher ence to a ten-day regimen o f oral penicillin might be difficult. ♦ Strep throat can be distinguished from other sore throats by its sudden ness and trademark high fever (over 101), redness and swelling at the back o f the mouth, swollen, tender lymph nodes on the neck, and the possible absence o f a runny nose and cough ing. ♦ Strep throat can lead to rheumatic fever in as little as two weeks i f the strep is not property diagnosed and treated. Children between five and 15 are most commonly affected. Symp toms include fever with pam, inflam mation and swelling in one or more joints Heart damage candevelop slow ly, often resulting in a thickening and scarring o f the heart valves that can eventually require surgery. ♦ Symptoms o f rheumatic fever in clude continuedfever, swollen wrists, knees or ankles, a warm f eeling in the swollenjoints, and swelling migrating from joint to joint. ♦ Treatment fo r rheumatic fever in cludes penicillin and the bed rest fo r more than a month. To avoid another attack, a child must receive preventa tive treatment with penicillin once ev ery month until he or she is 18 years old or older. • Rheumatic fever and other compli cations o f group A strep infections are now more o fa concern fo r health care providers because serious group A streptococcal infections have re- emerged during the last ten years as a public health problem Many current strains o f group A strep may be viru lent and result in a higher risk o f mortality fo r both children and adults * Other complications o f group A strep include streptococcal toxic shock syndrome and tissue infec tions such as a necrotizing fascitis, the flesh eating virus, both o f which have a reported mortality rate o f 30 percent or higher In Only H alf A Year, Be Ready For A Job In Accounting Jobs in entry-level accounting positions ate plentiful in the Portland area. 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