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Ann Landers....... .....24
Bridge............ .....21
Business .......... ..16,17
City, B.C........... ...3,13
Comics ........... .....15
Coming events..... .....14
Crossword ........ .....20
Entertainment..... .....15
Horoscope ........ .....21
Lotteries.......... .....15
Lifestyles.......... .....24
Marketplace....... . .19-23
Movies............ .....15
Nation............ ......6
Sports ............ ...8-12
Television......... .....22
World ............ ......7
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ENTERTAINMENT
■ Jodie Foster is up to her neck in success, but still finds time to make sure her family ties continue to be close-iv knit. Foster is the
director and coproducer of the new movie Home for the Holidays, but she still finds time to do the little things that make a family work — like fax her mother copies of two favorable reviews of the movie.
SCIENCE
■ Everybody’s heard them before, those scientific abbreviations used to describe various levels. Some people even know what they stand for. Initials like like ppm and
minutes
ppb are fairly widespread and most people would know they stand for parts per million and parts per billion. But, do you have a sense of how they actually relate to your environment? And what about abbreviations like TWA, TLV or STEL? Find out with our science columnist. Page 5
WORKPLACE
■ Relocating to another city is often a stressful, traumatic time for people. There are so many adjustments — leaving family and friends behind, changing homes, doctors, dentists and sometimes going from two incomes to one — that there are
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many times of doubt. See how one couple coped and are happy with the move. Page 18
LIFESTYLES
■ Retirement may mean the end of a work routine that seemed like constant repetition of the same old thing. But many people aren’t aware that these routines provided a steady diet of “little successes,” something you may miss in your golden years. Page 24
■ It’s OK to have a drink if you’re of legal age. But if you drink more than your friends, if you drink to get drunk, or if you “need” a drink to
feel comfortable in a group, then you have a problem. Get help. Ann Landers Advice on Life. Page 24
WORLD
■ Have trouble getting those flats of vegetables or annuals to sprout in the spring? Maybe you should try growing lotus plants. Scientists have grown a tiny green shoot from a lotus seed they estimate has been dormant for more than 1,200 years. “Sleeping Beauty” was already centuries old when Marco Polo came to China in the 13th century. Page 7
NATION
■ Emmett Hall, a former Supreme Court justice, veteran mediator, education reformer and one of the fathers of Canada’s health care system, has died at the age of 96 in a Saskatoon nursing home. Page 6
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U.S. shutdown looms
by Canadian Press
WASHINGTON — Hundreds of thousands of federal civil servants and countless other Americans are being used as pawns in what many consider a game of political brinkmanship between President Bill Clinton and the Republicans in Congress.
A sizable portion of the U.S. government could be forced to shut today for lack of money. Clinton and Republican congressional leaders held talks until late Monday night, but they couldn’t agree on how to
MONTREAL (CP) — People’s eyes, especially children’s, are getting worse because of prolonged “fixation” on video monitors and computer screens, the 17th annual International Symposium on Contact Lenses heard Sunday.
“People fixate too long on one object and it harms the eyes,” said optometrist Daniel Brazeau, the conference organizer.
“We’re not sure why, scientifically, but it does.”
Experiments done on animals such as baby chicks show that restricting vision to a small space results in acute myopia. And people are no exception, Brazeau said.
avoid the closure.
Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole said they “went around and around but we don’t have an agreement.” Dole said the talks will continue this morning.
It was not clear how the talks would affect plans to shut much of the government because of the expiration of most of its spending authority at midnight Monday night.
Federal employees were told to report to work as scheduled this morning and might not be sent home if budget talks are promising.
“What is natural for us humans is to look far. Taxi drivers, farmers, pilots, they don’t have a problem. Their eyesight is great, because they don’t have to look close all the time.
“But you get an accountant working in front of a computer, or a child playing a video-game for hours on end, and you begin to see the myopia setting in.”
At his practice in a Montreal suburb, Brazeau fits five new young patients a week with rigid gas-permeable lenses to help correct early myopia. Generally aged 10 to 15, the children get eye trouble from watching too much TV and playing video games, he said.
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Is the honeymoon over?
by ED MILLS Citizen Staff
It was the lowest of lows.
And that’s saying something when you’re talking about the luckless Prince George Cougars.
Prince George’s Western Hockey League team hit rock bottom Monday afternoon with a 10-3 loss to the Tri-City Americans at the Multiplex.
It was the team’s 15th straight loss as they fall to 2-20 on the season. They are 3-45 dating back to the last half of last season.
And a good portion of the 4,659 fans, patience running thin with the home team, voiced their displeasure.
One fan, saying what many were feeling, wore a brown paper bag over his head.
Others gave a loud mock cheer
to Cougars goaltender Chris Mason, who has been pulled in each of his last two starts.
The most vocal among the fans rode Cougars rookie forward Peter Roed mercilessly, compounding the miseries of a player who’s been in and out of the coach’s doghouse all season.
They taunted Cougars captain Colin Cloutier after he took a penalty and the Americans scored.
Talk of changes, trades, demotions were running rampant after the game.
Some players have hinted to reporters that they want out, others have openly criticized their teammates.
Cougars general manager and owner Rick Brodsky didn’t even watch the final period.
Calls for Brodsky to step down
as GM increase as the losses mount.
Cougars coach Dale Marquette didn’t even talk to his players after the game.
“There’s nothing to say,” said Marquette, calling it the lowest point in his coaching career.
Marquette has lost five straight since taking over as head coach from Doug Hobson, who Brodsky fired Nov. 3.
“It’s definitely the (team’s) biggest low for a home game,” said Marquette.
“Definitely it’s my lowest point.”
The Americans also provided the Cougars with their biggest low on the road this season, a 12-3 loss in Tri-Cities Sept. 24.
Even a silver lining isn’t forthcoming for the Cougars. Their next game, Thursday, is in Tri-Cities.
Game coverage, page 8
Citizen photo by Brent Braaten
Fan wears a brown paper bag to show frustration with Cougars’ long losing streak.
B.C. welfare: Feds pledge second look
by Canadian Press
VANCOUVER — The federal government has promised to address funding inequities that prompted British Columbia to announce a residency requirement for welfare recipients, the B.C. social services minister says.
Joy MacPhail said Human Resources Minister Lloyd Axworthy has indicated he is concerned about the limits on federal income assistance to British Columbia at a time when the province’s welfare rolls are expanding rapidly.
• “He knows that the answer is dollars and now he wants to sit down and look for solutions around that issue,” MacPhail said today.
J She said Axworthy told her at a
meeting Friday that the issue had been set aside while the federal government focused on the Quebec referendum, but now he is able to turn his attention to British Columbia.
She promised to be available day or night to look at the problem, but said if there is no solution by Dec. 1, the three-month residency requirement will take effect as planned.
British Columbia, Alberta and Ontario receive less federal money for welfare than other provinces because of a 1990 cap imposed by the former Conservative government. MacPhail said that has created serious problems for British Columbia, where welfare rolls increase by 2,200 new arrivals every month.
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