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OTTAWA (CP) — Little robin redbreast is in the centre of a $2 flap.

Ornithologists say the technically accurate name of the birds which grace the backs of the new Canadian $2 bill is American Robin, or Merle d’Amerique in French.

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Sinclair Robinson, head of the French department at Carleton University is some- what ruffled, saying rouge-

‘ge — red throat — is the accepted French-Canadian name. French-English and French-language dictionaries back him up.

It's an example of the tendency “to adopt the tech nical term rather than the common term when referring to an object in French,” Robinson says.

Further, he says, Merle

° Big cats MONTREAL (CP) — The new prized possession for status-seekers are baby tigers, cougars or lions and provincial wildlife authorities are warning that owners may soon have their hands full. Authorities are concerned by an increase in inquiries about ownership of big cats. They say there's a growing illicit trade in young wildcats,

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d'Amerique translated to English becomes American Thrush.

The quest for technical perfection wasn't as thorough with the bird's English name, however.

Michel Gosselin of the National Museum's ornitho- logical service, said his sec tion recommended The Bank of Canada use American Robin. That was apparently rejected as too long and the bird is simply Robin on the new bill.

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TORONTO (CP) — A magazine cartoon shows a mother bragging that her daughter is a busy executive, with a big salary and office and children of her own. But, the mother adds woefully, “her kitchen floor is dirty.”

Social worker Hilary Freeman cites that cartoon when asked whether she thinks working women feel they get support from their parents, specifically their mothers.

“I think a lot of women are getting negative messages not only from their mothers, but also from their in-laws,” says Freeman, who has worked as an employee adviser with such firms as the Toronto Transit Com. mission, Xerox Canada and Woods Gordon management consultants.

Many of today’s working women were brought up by traditional, stay-at- home mothers and they are made aware they don't measure up to their mothers’ standards: they don't spend as much time with their children and they don't keep house as well or take hours preparing dinner.

That knowledge adds to their already big supply of guilty and sense of inadequacy, says Freeman, who is herself a working mother and regularly runs workshops for working women and couples.

SKIP ‘SHOULDS'

Freeman says she tells such women “Forget what you mother would do.” Women cannot live by “the ‘shoulds' — either from their parents or society

“You have to learn to do what is right for you.”

For example, buy all your groceries at the super market to save time. Forget that your mother said you get better quality at a butcher shop or a fruit market

“The fruit might not be as good at the supermarket but you don't live by your mother's standards.”

For years now, the media have been warning women about the pitfalls of the superwoman syndrome — in which women feel they must be great at everything they do: as an employee, mother, cook, wife, housekeeper, lover.

CAN'T DO ALL

Freeman doesn’t think women are yet heeding the message that “you can’t do it all.” As a result, they are left juggling their many responsibilities and begin to feel

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“that nothing is being done properly.”

Through her workshops, she has become optimistic that men are slowly providing more encouragement to their working wives and accepting that they must help more at home.

But she says many women are still putting too much pressure on themselves by insisting on perfection. That's part of the reason many have difficulty delegating responsibility at home and at work

“Your 10-year-old can clean the kitchen sink and so can your husband. It might not be done as well as you would do it, but at least it will be done.”

TIME FOR SELF

Women also have to stop believing that others’ needs aré always more important than their own. At the beginning of every week, Freeman says, it's a good idea for a woman to set aside a block of time in her datebook for herself — and keep to it as faithfully as she would any ather appointment.

As well, a working-mother must try to set aside a specific time to be with her husband. If anything is going to give under pressure “often it is the marriage.”

Again, a woman must accept that she can't do everything her mother might have done and accept that she may need hired help: if finances permit, it could be a cleaning woman or even simply paying a neighborhood teenager to run errands or help clean for a few hours a week.

Use labor-saving devices like grocery stores that deliver. Freeman also says women should scout around and find a doctor, dentist and repairmen who work beyond the normal 5 p.m. quitting time.

In Toronto, she says there are walk-in medical and dental clinics. She adds she personally only uses service- men who guarantee what time they will arrive — not companies that only tell you the day they will be at your home.

Finally, Freeman says parents should set up a back-up daycare plan for times when their children are sick. It could be an agreement with a friend or relative or use of a new emergency service that will, for a fee, send a homecare worker to your home on short notice.

Hang up on obscene callers

TORONTO (CP) — Rain drums against the window as the- woman answers.the tele phone.

“Pant. hears.

The breather catches her off guard. Taken aback, she continues to listen.

“Who is this?” the woman asks. The response is a string of obscenities.

Police, psychiatrists and others say keeping an ob- scene telephone caller on the line is the wrong approach.

Hanging up is one of the most effective ways to dis- courage such callers because it's the woman's reaction that provides the stimulation,

Pant. Pant,” she

Under a recent ruling of the Canadian Radio-tele vision and Telecommuni cations Commission, effective last month, telephone comp. anies will no longer trace calls without involving police. But getting a conviction — punishable by a $500 fine, up to six months in jail or both — is difficult.

“You almost have to catch the caller in the act,” Gage says.

“A lot of them are sexual perverts,” she adds. “It's not a criminal act. It's more a behavioral thing.”

Dr. Kurt Freund, a Tor onto sexologist, calls it “the concept of courtship dis

is on the other end of the line, he adds.

Obscene callers are all men, Freund says in a paper published recently.

Police say there is a dif ference between random callers who usually stop when they get no reaction and harassing callers who may not be deterred by silence. Police tend to think recurrent callers have a connection to the recipient

A Gallup poll com missioned by Bell Canada two years ago found most Canadians think offensive calls are a serious problem

But only a small proportion of those who had received

they've done it and plead guilty.”

Gage says ways of com batting annoying calls in clude unplugging phones at bedtime, blowing a loud whistle into the mouthpiece, and putting calls on an answering machine.

Gord Bleasdell, Bell Can. ada’s senior information writer in Toronto, says the company advises harassed people to keep a log of calls, change telephone numbers or get an unlisted number.

Bell is testing new equip ment in Peterborough, Ont., that may eliminate some problems. A screen displays

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Mental health problems

WHISTLER, B.C. (CP) — Radical changes in North American culture during the last 40 years are taking their toll on the mental health of young people, says a promi. nent U.S. psychiatrist.

There has been an over- whelming increase in eating disorders, substance abuse, anti-social or “acting-out” be- havior, learning disabilities and suicide among children and teenagers, said Dr. Den- nis Cantwell, professor of psychiatry at the University of California in Los Angeles.

Cultural changes include the prevalence of divorced

families, the absence of grandparents and the dra- matic increase in violence on television, Cantwell told the Canadian Child Psychiatry Association in this resort community north of Van- couver.

Cantwell said more re- search is needed before psy. chiatrists can definitively say the cultural changes cause the mental health problems, but there is no question the two are related.

Gne of the most shocking increases has been in the incidence of violent crime by youths, he said.

Women must

recognize potential

NEW YORK (AP) — A live uptotheir potential have pared with

new study of 1,250 women with IQs of 130 and higher who have graduated since 1911 from a New York City high school shows that most of them do not consider themselves gifted.

“If women don't recognize their potential, they cannot fulfill it,” said Betty Walker, an education professor at the University of Southern Cali- fornia, whose study of former students at Hunter College high school is reported in the current issue of Glamour magazine.

Walker, herself a Hunter graduate, says her survey is the first to examine factors that affect the educational, vocational and personal de- velopment of gifted women.

Preliminary results of the study show that women who

While boys have always committed more violent crime than girls, in the last 10 years there has been a six-fold increase in violent acts committed by girls aged 14-17, Cantwell said. During the same time, violence by boys increased three-fold.

BLAMES TV VIOLENCE

“I can't help but betieve the increase of real violence relates to the increase of violence on TV,” he added.

In 1965, there was an average one hour of violent shows a week during prime time television, Cantwell said. That increased to six hours of violent shows in 1965, 21 hours in 1975 and 27 hours in 1985.

“Figures show that by the time the average American child reaches 18 years of age they have watched 20,000 hours of television — com 11,000 hours

been inspired by the women's, spent in school. During that movement, parental en-“time they have watched couragement and the visible 13,000 murders and 100,000 successes of other women. acts of violence.”

For others, a major ob- stacle to achievement has been the conflict between

their intellectual and pro- fessional interests and the demands of motherhood. Walker reports that: “Graduates from the 1950s

for them were vague and not career-related. In the 1960s, alumnae reported explicit parental pressure to pursue particular careers and have families. The graduates of the 1970s reported that their parents urged them to have a career, but did not pressure them to marry and raise children.”

French stricken by dreaded disease

LONDON, Ont. (CP) — Dr. John Douglas French re mains an outstanding name in the scholarly world of medical research. But the re nowned neurosurgeon who dedicated his life to brain re search and wrote more than 100 medical articles on the brain can no longer read, write, or speak

French is a victim of Alz heimer’s Disease.

He rarely recognizes his wife these days. During the past eight years, she has watched him wither away while losing the things he

Dorothy Kirsten Freneh of Los Angeles. “He stares with vacant eyes wondering who I am.

“And yet when he does (recognize her) and I em brace-him, once in a while he responds with a tiny smile and warmth of the lovely man I once knew.”

The strong voice of Dor othy Kirsten French, for 30 years a diva with the Metro- politan Opera, breaks with emotion when she speaks of the deterioration of her hus- band, former director of the

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Vaccinate against Hepatitis B

TORONTO (CP) — Hep- atitis B, a major health threat to homosexual men and users of illicit injectable drugs, should be fought through a free provincial immunization program, the Toronto health board says.

“It is simply cheaper to prevent hepatitis through immunization than to treat the disease,” says Dr. Sandy Macpherson, the city's medi cal officer of health.

About 1,670 people in Tor. onto get hepatitis B each year and about, 50 to 90 people die from it.

Ontario vaccinates only some groups who are highly susceptible. including new borns and family contacts of carriers. Homosexual men and drug users, both far more likely than others to contract hepatitis B, aren't included in those groups.

In his report, Macpherson estimates there are 7,820 active homosexuals and 1,445 intravenous drug users who aren't covered by private or employee drug benefit plans He says immunization would not only save lives, but

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two families and their new “natural children,” belong to neither.

“These children have clearly more psycho-social problems than their half-sib- lings,” Cantwell said.

Grandparents, who used to act as a stabilizing influence for families, are playing a diminishing role as families live farther apart, making visiting impractical or im- possible.

Other detrimental influ- ences on children's mental development include the in- creasing number of teenage pregnancies, increasing school dropout rates in which only 50 per cent of U.S. teen agers complete high school and the increasing media

pation with slim, un- realistic “model” figures.

Fatal disease spre

MONTREAL (CP) — She was said to have been faith fully married for 30 years. Then, she had sex — only once — with a man she met in New York.

Her lover was an addict who used intravenous drugs,

‘ and his semen contained the

deadly HTLV-111 which causes AIDS. The woman, a middle-aged mother, died last year and became one of 380 Canadians killed by AIDS to date.

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Menstrual pain costs businesses

LONDON, ONT. (CP) — Women who stay home from their jobs because of men strual pain cost businesses in the United States $140 mil. lion a year and a University of Western Ontario psychol- ogy professor speculates Canadian firms are also losing millions.

Helen Wallach, doing a doctoral thesis on menstrual pain, said there aren't any Canadian figures available on how much time women miss from work because they are in pain.

She said in the United

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States, menstrual problems rank second to colds as the reason given most often for missing work.

“My suspicion is some people call in saying it’s the common cold when its men- struation,” said Wallach, who is working with women to ease the discomfort without using drugs.

Employers should not as- sume from this that men are more productive, she said, because men have different types of stresses and ill- nesses that keep them off the

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such calls said they reported them — 15 per cent to the phone company and six per cent to the police.

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A provincial Health Min istry spokesman says the Toronto request is under consideration.

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“At home he would sit at his desk for hours shifting papers as though searching for something,” she says. “So many times I would find him

ber and a code number can order a central computer to spit out a hard-copy record of the call

This kind of evidence has yet Lo be tested in court, says Peterborough Police Chief Kevin McAlpine, and the network necessary to set up such a system is still a few years off.

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TORONTO (CP Just because you own an ex pensive home doesn't mean you pay the highest property taxes.

Runzheimer Canada Inc., a Toronto-based consulting company, has found that people in Winnipeg pay the most taxes, but their houses cost less than homes in Ottawa, Vancouver, Calgary and Regina.

On the other hand, Saint John, N.B., homeowners pay lowest property taxes while their housing values are roughly the national average

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