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Thursday November 13, 1997
Around Charlotte
Continued from 13A
Saturday
• Preparing for the 21st century
- U.S. Senate candidate Ella
Scarborough will be the keynote
speaker at a seminar on women
developing a stronger self-
image. The seminar will be held
at the YWCA, 3420 Park Road
from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Registration
is $25.
• Cookout and rally - The
Crusade will host a Youth
Against Drugs and Violence
rally and cookout Parker
Heights Apartments, 1810 A
Remount Road. Free.
• Candlelight vigil - the
Alzheimer’s Association’s
Minority Task Force will host a
candlelight vigil for Alzheimer’s
patients and care givers at 6
p.m. at the Greenville
Neighborhood Center, 1330
Spring St. For more informa
tion, call 532-7390.
• Mississippi gathering -
Mississippi expatriates are
invited to a party hosted by Lisa
and Kevan Smith. The event
will be held at 1218 Andover
Road and begins at 7 p.m. For
more information, call 846-4913
or 377-9273.
• The Formula: Who Gets Sick,
Who Gets Well - Dr. Vernon
Sylvest will discuss alternative
and holistic healing at 7:30 p.m.
at Barnes and Noble, 4720
Sharon Road. Sylvest will be the
guest speaker at Unity
Charlotte, 1000 E. Woodlawn
Road at 1 p.m. For more infor
mation, call 523-0062.
Sunday
• Home buying fair — the Fannie
Mae Foundation and the
Charlotte Hornets will host a
fair for home buyers from 12:30
p.m.-3:30 p.m. at the Charlotte
Coliseum. Experts will be on
hand to answer questions about
financing and home listings.
Charlotte Hornets players and
the Honeybees will sign auto
graphs. For more information,
call (888) 753-7170.
• Meeting - the Fiber Artist
Guild will meet at 2 p.m. at the
Charlotte Art League Building,
1511 Camden Road. 'The guest
speaker will be artist Ann
Cowie.
• Political caucus meeting — the
Black Political Caucus vrill meet
at 7:30 p.m. at Oaklawn Baptist
Church, 1801 Oaklawn Ave.
Elections Supervisor Bill Culp
wiU discuss the recent election
returns. For more information
call 393-1200.
• Meeting - The Mecklenburg
Vegetarian Association will hold
its monthly covered dish dinner
at Seventh Day Adventist
Church, 920 N. Sharon Amity.
The event begins at 6 p.m. The
guest speaker will be organic
farming expert Mariposa
Linden. Cost: $2 with covered
dish; $5 without. For more infor
mation, call 399-3018.
Monday
• Meet Zelda and F. Scott -
Queens College professor
Charles Hadley will present
“Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald in
Person,” at 7 p.m. for the
Charlotte Writers Club. The
meeting will be held at Christ
Episcopal Church, 1412
Providence Road.
TViesday
• Meeting - Parkinson’s
Association of Mecklenburg
County will meet at 7:30 p.m. at
Community Health Services,
1401 E. Seventh St. For more
information call 375-0172.
Wednesday
• Orchids - Cloyce Matheny will
discuss growing exotic orchids
for the Charlotte Council of
Garden Clubs. The event begins
at 9:30 a.m. and will be held at
Council House, 1820 E. Seventh
St. For more information, call
553-8933.
Upcoming events
Nov. 20
• Human rights activist Harry
Wu, who was instrumental in
uncovering slave' labor in China,
will speak at Johnson C. Smith
University at 7:30 p.m. The
Ability may be genetic
Continued from 13A
cent, and we tried to explain it, 9
percent in one gene is a big
chunk,” Bouchard said.
However, in some people, the
benefit was stronger; in others, it
was weaker, and the reasons for
the difference are not yet known.
Bouchard cautioned that the
discovery of a region housing a
marker is not the same as finding
the mutation.
'The mutation apparently clears
what amounts to a genetic road
block in the path to aerobic
improvement, Bouchard said. 'The
CKMM gene seems to inhibit aer
obic gains, he said. So the muta
tion by inhibiting the gene -
allows people to benefit more from
aerobic training, he said.
The CKMM gene is probably
one of many involved in aerobic
capacity, Bouchard said. And
knowing how they work wiU even-
tuaUy help people know what
they can expect if they take up
aerobic sports, he said.
However, aerobic capacity - the
ability of the cells to use oxygen -
is only one benefit of aerobic exer
cise. So even people who turn out
to be geneticaUy incapable of
improving their aerobic capacity
may stiU gain from lower choles
terol and lower blood pressure.
Bouchard said.
A great deal is known about how
genes direct the growth of muscle
ceUs, said Eric N. Olson, chair
man of molecular biology at the
University of Tfexas Southwestern
Medical Center at Dallas.
Research already has produced
mice with large amounts of mus
cle tissue - “the Arnold
Schwarzenegger phenotype,” he
said. “Mighty Mouse.”
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• The Power of Poets vrill be cel
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Local poets Rickey Hood and
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evening will end with an “open
mic” segment during which
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• The Uptown Democratic
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Slug’s 30th Edition, Two First
Union Center. 'The guest speak
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But little is known about how
genes are involved in the response
to exercise, Olson said.
Helping people decide which
sport best fits them is only one
possible outcome of this Line of
research. Another could be the
development of drugs that could
overcome whatever metabolic
weakness is produced by the per
son's genetic material, he said.
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