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http://www.thecharlottepost.com ^\\t CI)avIotte ^osit LIFE THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2005 Religion SB Section Left-handed students say they learn to adjust THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MINOT, N.D.-Left-handed youngsters say they have to get used to living in a right-handed world. “I can throw a ball ri^t-hand- ed,” said Danielle Bloms, a left- handed fifth-grader at Minot’s Edison Elementary School — though she said she can’t throw it as far as with her left hand. “When you drive a car, it feels like you need to put your left foot on the brake,” said left- handed fifth-grader Brian Bloms, who has driven a tractor in a relative’s field. Left-handed fifth-graders Owen Kusick and Kali Sivertson said they sometimes find it fiiistrating to use a com puter mouse, which is usually on the right hand side of the (X)mputer. None of the children said they had trouble learning how to write, but Brian said he’s fins- trated because the way he holds a pen or pencil means he some times leaves ink smears on the paper or his hand. And all of the children know what it’s like to have to maneu ver at a dinner table, either eat ing with their right hands or sitting on the left, outside edge so they don’t bump a ri^t- handed family member while they’re eating. Lee Ellis, a sociology professor at Minot State University has done studies on left-handed ness. ‘Left-handedness is always a minority,” Ellis said. He knows of no society in which ri^t-han- ders were not a majority Statistics show that about 10 percent of the population is nat urally left-handed, with more men being left-handed than women. Ellis said more male left-handers are “mixed-han ders” with an ability to use their right hand for some tasks, too. First-grader Derek Bartsch, at St. Leo’s Catholic school, said he writes with his right hand but prefers to use his left hand in sports. Seven-year-old Kasey Chorlton, a second-grader at St. Leo’s, is left-handed, while her fi*atemal twin sister Breanne is right-handed. Some studies suggest that twins may prefer to use different hands because they developed on different sides of thdr mother’s womb. Genetics may also have some-. thing to do with it. “There’s a lot of evidence that handedness runs in the family” Fillia said Two of the left-handed Edison fifth-graders also have a left- handed parent. Kali’s moth^ is also left-handed and so is Danielle’s father. The Chorlton twins said their mother is left- handed, while their father is ri^t-handed. One of their two brothers is right-handed and the other is another lefty ^\^th both right-handed and left-handed members in a fami ly, some adaptations are need ed The Chorlton twins said their seats are assigned more to keep them fi*om squabbling or watching cartoons while eating. If left-hand^ Kasey accidental ly bumps her r^it-handed twin while eating, Breanne said she will bump her back. Breanne eats only with her right hand, but Kasey sometimes eats with her right as well as her left, c epending on the food. “When I eat chicken, I eat with both hands,” Kasey said Some teachers years ago were known for forcing left-handed Rease see LEFT-HANDED/2B PHOTO ILLUSTRATIONWADE NASH Point out that cheatin’ man and tell his next victm “don’t date him girl.” At www.dontdatehimglrl.com, women are forewarned about his cheating heart. Catch a cad, go online Web site alerts women to boyfriends who cheat By Chens F. Hodges cherl>hodges®thecharlottepostjcom Ever meet a man and wonder: Is my heart safe with him? Will he cheat on me? At www.dontdatehimgirl.com, you can verify if he’s a cheater. Though the site can’t tell you if your new man is crazy deranged or a stalker, it will let you know if he’s a cheater. Tasha Joseph, foimder of the web site, said she and her girlfiierids were sitting around talking about relationships and men and thought, “wouldn’t it be great to see if a guy was a cheater,” she said. Joseph picked up the ball and ran with it. She and her girls ■ kicked around a name for the site and ‘D(Mi’t date him girl” stuck. “This is a forum for women to talk about dating and that has never been done before,” she said. The site works this way It’s fi^ for women to join and post about exes. It’s fi^ee to browse, too. Lb post about a cheating man, a woman sends an e- mail with all of his vital statistics and a Joseph picture if she has one. Joseph said in order to protect herself finm lawsuits, women who use the site have to attest that what they are saying is true. There are about 225 men on the site, Joseph said. And in the name of fairness, she offers men a chance to rebut what their ex-girlfii^ds have said about them. In this lawsuit-happy society Joseph said she has been threat ened with a lawsuit but the guy never followed through ‘L have one guy who called and said he was going to sue, but he never disputed that he was a (heater,” she said Joseph, who splits her time between Los Angeles and Miami, said that since the site has been on line, it receives about 2,500 hits a day She’s been featured in the New York Limes and her site shows up in e-mails forwarded to girlfiiends across the country Of the men on the site, only one is fi*om Charlotte. Eric Benet, Halle Berry’s ex., is listed and so is Jude Law, the actor who slept with his nanny “Dontdatehimgirl.com is revolu tionizing the dating game for women,” Joseph said On the Net: wwwdontdatehimgirl£om Oprah revisits feud with Paris boutique THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK—Oprah ^Lnfiey didn’t waste any time in the new season of her syndicated TV show to revisit her summer feud with luxury store Hermes. Halfway through Monday’s premiere of “The Oprah \\hifi^y Show,” the talk- show host addressed the incident in June when she was turned away fix)m Hermes’ Paris boutique. Winfi*ey was denied ^try after arriving at the pc»h store 15 minutes after closing time—even thou^ otheis continued shopping inside. ‘L just want to say shame on einybody for thinkmg that I was upset for not being able to get into a clothes store and buy a purse,” said ^Infiey “Please, please.” “Everybody who’s ever been snubbed because you were not chic enough or the ri^t dass or the right color Winfrey or whatever—I don’t know what it was—you know that that is very humiliating and that is exactly what hap pened to me.” ‘L would hke to say we’re really' sorry” said Robert Chavez, the chief execnitive officer of Hermes USA, who was a guest on ^^nfie^s show. ‘You did meet up with one vCTy very rigid staff person.” “Rigid or rude?” ^\Lnfiey challenged “Rigid and lude, Pm sure,” Chavez replied ^^nfi^y said she wasn’t playing "the celebrity card” and that she knew “the difference between the store being dosed and the store being dosed to me.” Nevertheless, ^hifi^y complimented Henries cm its handling of the inddent (induding “sensitivity training” for employees), and urged viewers to again buy Hermes products. On the Net: www£>prah com Duke doctor studies heart to fight cancer THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON -The tumors looked fike five large mosejuito bites dot ting Alison Williams’ chest. The cancer that already had cost William.^ her breasts was back again, this time in the wall of her chest, an ominously hard-to-treat spot. Her doctor tried an experiment, beaming microwaves onto the North Carolina woman’s chest to heat it to about 109 degrees. The hope; that the heat would help radiation treatment attack the tumors —and they disappeared Scientists have, long thou^t that simple heat could increase the effec tiveness of some cancer therapies. But just how much to cook the tumor, and which cancers are susceptible, have stymied the field. Now, backed by tantalizing new evidence, a growing number of stud ies are enrolling patients in hopes of finally settling whether it’s time to turn u£ the heat. “We need to keep push ing ahead on this,” says Dr. Ellen Jones of Duke University, who recently published research that showed heat significantly helped patients like Williams and has a major study under way to test its effects against (»rvical cancer as w^. Hyperthermia involves gradually raising the tem perature of cancer-riddled tissue to anywhere fiY)m 105 to 113 degrees—not enou^ to bum, but like there’s a hi^ fever in that body part. There are dif ferent methods; beazhing microwaves or ultrasound onto tumors near the skin’s surface, inserting probes that emit microwaves or radio waves into the tumor itself or the affected ergan, or even using a giant heating machine to raise the entire body tenperature. Here’s the quandairy: Some studies have found hyperthermia could help certain patients with breast, cervical, head and neck cancers or melanoma. But others show no effect. Jones, a radiation cmcol- c^ist, thinks the problem is in consistently getting the tumor’s temperature high enov^h. fbr long enough “The body does not want to be heated It fi^ts the heating process,” agrees William Straube, a physi cist at Washington Univ^^ty in St. Louis, which, like Duke, has a major research program on cancer hyperthermia. Jones set out to deter mine a Foescription-level dose of heat, inserting temperature probes to prove the degree. She gave more than 100 patients with recurrent, incurable cancer—mostly painful breast canco* scares on the chest wall—either radia- Pleace see DUKE/2B Weight loss precedes memory lapses THE ASSOCIATED PRESS CHICAGO — Unexplained weight loss in older people might be an early signal of Alzheimer’s disease, appearing several years before the memo ry lapses that define the illness, according to an intriguing but unproven new theory Researchers at Chicago’s Rush University Medical Center base the theory on their study of 820 Roman Catholic priests, nuns and brothers aged 75 on average who were fol lowed for up to 10 years. Otherwise healthy partici pants whose bexiy-mass index fdl the most were the most like ly to develop Alzheimer’s dis ease. Study co-author Dr. David Bennett, director of the Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center, says the results raise the possi bility that the disease attacks brain regions involved in regu lating food intake and njetabo- Hsm, as well as memory, and that weight loss is an early symptom. We^ht loss fi:equently (xxurs after an Alzheimer’s diagnosis and has been attributed partly to memory lapses or lifestjde changes associated with be(X)m- ing infirm. But it might be that brain changes that start wdl before diagnosis are another reason, Bennett said The results appear in the Sept. 27 edition of the journal Neurology Dr. Peter Rabins, an Alzheimer’s researcher and pro fessor of medicine at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, said the research fits with an increasingly popular belief that Alzheimer’s abnormalities “really are present for at least 10 years before there are any symptoms.” “The idea that something would start before it became clinically obvious no longer seems that far-fetched,” Rabins said. However, Rabins said he thinks ifs likely that gradual weight loss stems fixim subtle behavior changes such as loss of initiative, which could result in less snacking or eating out, than in brain changes affecting metabolism. Those behavior changes, involving parts of the brain associated with Alzheimer’s, often precede the diagnosis, but ‘because it’s a subtle thing, it’s often not recognized except in retrospect,” Ralins said Dallas Anderson of the dementias of aging l^’andi at the National Institute on Aging, which fimded the research, said the results are intriguing but that the theory needs further testing in a more diverse group. When the study b^an, partic ipants’ average BMI was 27.4, in the overwei^t zone, and none had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. By study’s end, 151 had been diagnosed with the disease. Those whose BMI dropped a point each year faced a 35 per cent increased risk of being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s later on, compared with those whose BMI remained stable. Dr. Deborah Blacker, director of gerontology research at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, said depres- Rease see UNEXPECTEDyPB
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