' c2_ Casta News 49:20. 906 LIFESTYLES Does The Press Measure Up? Fairness and accuracy are essential elements of good newspapers. The B.C. Press Council works to ensure that standards are upheld. A voluntary body, the council considers specific, unsettled com- plaints from the public about the conduct of the press in gathering and publishing news and opinion. Address complaints or enquiries to: British Columbia Press Council P.O. Box 46355, Postal Station G Vancouver, B.C. V6R 4G6 THE WORLD'S NO. 1 CITY? IT DEPENDS NEW YORK (AP) — What is the No. 1 city in the world? It depends. Melbourne, Australia boasts the highest egg prices — about $2.30 Canadian a dozen. Brussels has the most physicians, one for every 139 people. Moscow has the most books in its public libraries, 49,991,000: “It depends on who you are,” said John Tepper Marlin, co-author of the new Book of World City Ranking, published by the Free Press. If you're looking for a good job, the bigger the city the better. 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Ty is a trivia trove: ‘ashington has the most telephones per 100 residents (173), while Mexico City has the least (2). © The cost of furnishing a home with appliances is highest in Bogota, Colombia ($5,522), and lowest in Istanbul, Turkey ($1,635). © St. Louis topped the homicide 100,000 people, while Marseille, Frandp, had only 0.2. @ the average annual temperat was highest in Bangkok, Thailand, 28.4 degrees, and lowest in Winnipeg, 2.5 degrees. e Helsinki, Finland, is 55.5-per-cent female. Bombay, India, is 56.4-per-cent male. e@ Residents of Zurich, Switzerland, earn about $652.40 Canadian a week, while Tianjin, China, is at the other end of the scale: $12.26 a week. @ Dallas has the highest divorce rate, 8.4 per 1,000 people, while Rio deglaneiro's rate is 0.2 per 1,000. « jist with 58.5 per RABBIT MEN . . . Celgor Pulp Operations retiree Jack Dickson got a surprii last week when he was greeted by 10 members of his shift, donning rabbit outfits at a retirement dinner. Dickson, whose nickname is Rabbit 3 Man, has been working at the op mill for 26 years, most of them as shift superintendent and the last two as assistant pulping group and machine room superin- tendent. Cortews Photo by Doug Hervey Having Financial Problems? Here’s Your Chance To Get Some FREE Advice Financial Counselling Seminar Wednesday, April 30 — 7:00 p.m. Steelworkers Hall, 910 Portland Street, Trail, B.C. Open td everyone in the’ aio pe Garage sings to drivers SEATTLE (AP) — Thanks to the singing garage, drivers who park in a downtown skyscraper no longer have to remember the floor where they parked: their tars; Instead, they can just hum I and Ci Hi SPONSORED BY: Local 480 USWA and Dept. of Consumer and Corporate Affairs ig Service by A April 30 and any t— Call 368-8778 a few bars and fake’ it. Each parking level in the 50-storey Seattle-First Na- tional Bank Building has a different recorded tune play ing outside the elevator. TORONTO (CP) — Anyone looking for the latest in home furnishings should keep in mind the letter L. It will lead them to lacquer and leather, two key looks that showed up at the trend-setting Toronto Furniture Market, the largest furniture trade show in Canada. Lacquer and lacquer-looking finishes such as lamine and poly add color to y dining room and bedroom suites, occasional tables and wall units. Newest shades include peach, mint and aqua, while black and white combine for dramatic effect. Subtle effects are achieved by using high- and low-gloss lacquers together or lacquer and wood finish. For instance, a and accompanying chairs are lacquered. Young Generation Ltd. of St. Laurent, Que., even uses the sophisticated finish in infant furniture, making a crib in an un-kiddie-like grey with brass trim. GO IN CYCLES Claude Jurtras, executive director of the Quebec Furniture Manufacturers Association, said furniture dining room table might have a wood-grain top while legs _ Leather the ‘latest’ easier to care for than most people believe, says Steven Khaner of Eurodesign Furniture in Woodbridge, Ont. Most spills or dirt, including coffee, will clean off leather if wiped up within 24 hours. Francine Jones, marketing director of the Quebec association, said that with people moving more frequently, furniture must be more versatile. It should look good in different settings, like wall units that can be rearranged in several configurations. WHAT'S NEW She said there is also a growing trend away from the rustic look toward more sophisticated, clean lines. Other trends Jones said to watch for include: e Both upholstered and non-upholstered furniture are in light, fresh colors. This suits apartments and condominiums because the pieces give the appearance of airiness. @ Also for small spaces, many manufacturers offer scaled down versions of pieces like wall units. e Also for small spaces, many manufacturers offer scaled down versions of pieces like wall units. e Wood furniture is predominantly light-toned, such TRANSPLANT PATIENT CAN'T FIND A JOB But he says he has had difficulty finding a -raphayetsi gin ouaved oo, Sieh ha.thay MAM tak tive ene heart transplant,” Khan said in an interview. He suffered nine heart attacks before doctors decided his only chance for survival was a transplant. In the weeks prior to his life-saving operation at Toronto Western Hospital, “I couldn't walk to the washroom without oxygen tubes,” says the now-energetic Khan. GETS PENSION Khan, who earned $32,000 a year as a computer programmer before the operation, now lives in a subsidized apartment in downtown Toronto and his only income is a $423 monthly disability pension. “There's still a certain amount of discrimination against transplant patients,” says June Burley, a social worker at University Hospital in London, Ont., who has worked with heart transplant patients for the last two years. ’ “Employers may well imagine that this individual is likely to drop dead in the work place .. . And most s have di someone who's had a pre existing illness into their group insurance plan.” For Khan, the job search started in December with several employers expressing amazement at his good physical appearance. During an interview for a position at a bank, Khan said the interviewer “could not believe” he bad a transplant. Yet he never received any response from the bank. “They didn’t even have the courtesy to send me a letter explaining why I didn't get the job.” NOT FREAKS Khan believes his problems stem from a lack of public about heart “As soon as they hear, they think ‘Oh, my God, the man is going to die.’ ” Burley said heart transplant patients are treated like freaks when they leave hospital and return to the community. Such attitudes are “all based on ignorance, and it's a question of educating the public.” The heart is “just a pump and its function is to circulate blood around the body, yet a lot of people even consider it to be the soul,” she said. At London's University Hospital, doctors and other members of the transplant program try to help patients who face skeptical employers. This could be in the form of a letter from the doctor “explaining the patient's situation and reassuring the employer that they're going to be able to work as a normal person would.” ALMOST ROUTINE Dr. Carl Cardella, head of Toronto Western's transplant program, says heart and liver transplants are becoming routine procedures. “Patients have a 75 per cent chance of having a normal heart function, being mobile and being able to return to work a year after the operation.” Death can result from two major factors — rejection or lethal infection. But the anti-tejection drug, cyclosporine, keeps thousands of transplant patients alive and well, Cardella says. “His (job) attendance from a medical point of view should be good . . . but the employer has to understand that . he will have to be admitted to hospital on regular occasions for assessment.” Transplant patients who have problems adjusting to community life often suffer severe depression, says Burley. h w MEDICIN MONTREAL (CP) — Robert Chiapek, born 16 weeks premature, was given a 20 per cent chance to survive. Three months later, he went home. 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Hope for premature babies | He was released from hospital, thanks to the Dr. Pamela Fitzhardinge of Toronto's Mount Sinai infa:8 porcnt of ow Mrchweight infants are bar in centres. 4 ‘ A study at Women's College Hospital in Toronto born in 1979-80 under General, which has a ceiling of 18 weeks gestation for abortions. “In one room, doctors are busy deing an abortion, gestation or less. Doctors attribute much of their success to the growth of centres izing in the care of pr Spinal work helps TORONTO (CP) — It's the short-term pain, long-term gain argument all over again: chiropractors say a session of spinal manipulation aetually increases the level of natural pain-killers in the blood- stream. The. Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College reports that research Howard Vernon and MS.I. Dhami found that the level of en- dorphins — the body's nat- ural analgesic — increases nine per cent following a single spinal manipulation. There was also a measure- able increase in melatonin, a substance which is involved in regulating daily secretions from many hormonal glands. The college says the two studies support earlier the- ories that spinal manipula- tion involves not just mech- anical changes in and movement, but neurolo- gical and reflex consequen- ces: Take advantage of Special : prices on Pacific Western EXPRESS Courier Service door-to-door to fashions tend to run in five-year cycles. Lacquer appeared as pickled pine. The exception is mahogany, which is on the market a couple of years ago and now more enjoying a minor revival. manufactwrers are producing it. He added that most e Furniture may look formal and traditional, but furniture trends start in Quebec and move westward. have modern functions. For instance, a cabinet may open The Quebec association has sponsored the Toronto to reveal shelving for a sound system. 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