Dr. David | Offord, a psychiatrist at McMaster University. — ‘Offord, Dr. Marshall Jones’ of Pennsylvania State University and Nola Abrams. Royal’ Ottawa Hospital examined the characteristics and family background of 73 boys who appeared in Ottawa- | Carleton Juvenile Court and compared them with 73. likely to have a dead brother ot sister. Offoed and his colleagues also found that the makeup of families made a big difference in how likely the families were to produce delinquents. Their evi- dence Indicated that in . teraction among boys may develop towards delinquency even though no boy js a delinquent to begin with. “The boys,” they say, “respond to one another in -ways that tend to realize the potential for anti-social behavior . inherent i in all of mas By contrast, the more the _ family balanced towards. “daughters rather than = Sons, the leas likely it was lB Rot tees ae wm a ee ee 1 delinquent. . ‘Hidney, stones may -be preventable by adding small . amounts of magnesium to the diet, says & researcher with the National Research | Council's Environmental Secretariat. John Marier, a food chemist, says many - Canadians do not obtain the recommended dally intake of 300 to 350 milligrams of magnesium daily because refined foods are low in the mineral and drinking wter, particularly if soft, may epntain very little magnesium. _ In’ Newfoundland, an area of very soft drinking water, the typical daily Made- in Canada movie has different twist } VANCOUVER (cP) — Award-winning actress Patty Duke Astin is curled Up in'a corner of her dressing-room trailer, munching her way through a Caesar salad. The cramped quarters aren't the most glamorous setting the a film star. i“Please excuse the ; riewspapers," she says, waving. ber fork in the direction of the floor. “I just got a puppy." LOne walks carefully. * Astin is on a lunch break . during the fitming of By _ Design, being directed in Vancouver by Claude Jutta. She plays a fashion er with a problem. “Tt's basically a light, _ funny love story about a couple who want to have a baby and have a severe handicap because they are both women," she says. “Tt deals with the way they go about trying to get. around that problem.””:, Starring opposite Astin are two Canadians. Sara Botsford is Astin’s business partner and lady love and Saul Rubinek plays the man who ues a time honored metiiod of solving the ladies’ dilemma. “It's tastefully done," says Astin, “The only sexual scenes are heterosexual. “I'm basically playing any worian you might see on the street. There are no outward signs of homosexuality. We're just two very decent people who happen to be homosexual.” Beryl Fox of Toronto ard Werner Allen of Vancouver are producing the $2.8- million film which is being for the Cannes Festival in May. French cinematographer Jean Boffety, who has ahot a mumber of Robert Altman films, is direcior of photography. Astin's role in By Design is a far .cry from The Miracle Worker, the 1942 film which brought a young Patty. Duke to slardom. Her performanme as Helen ‘Keller earned her an Ac- ademy Award. _. Last year, she played the Ranger... biting bullet ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Telling the Lose Rapger - " pot to wear bis mask is like telling Santa Claus to stay. away from red suits, says a state lawmaker who wants the leg! Roun wiiees played the Lone Ranger on television for many years and bad been making personal ap- pearances in the Ranger's famous mask, But the Wrather Corp., which owns legal rights to the Lane Ranger character, has obtained a court order revent Moore from wear- — ing the mask. ‘That angered Ray Dypski, «a “Baltimore Democrat, who began a campeign Tuesday to bave the general assembly rec- Moore. . Dypaki asked: ‘Will they - ‘pext decide that Santa. Claus can't wear bis ted suit? Or will they prohibit the Statue of Liberty from holding her torch?" ature: pt reeds ‘- role of Keller's teacher, Annie Sullivan, in the television remake of the story and won an Emmy as best lead actress in ay limited series, {Anne Bancroft, who portrayed the, teacher in the original movie, won an Oscar for ber role.) Astin didn't mode) her performance on Ban- croft’s. “There would be no point - in doling it. It's night and day. They were very dif- ferent interpretations." She, feels her early © - guecess didn’t limit ber in any way. ' “IT take what comes along, sometimes. based’ upon our fiscal standing: other tlmes, there is a role’ which really strikes my fancy and it has nothing to do with what I've done before, oe movies — Mom, -the Wolfman and Me, shot in Toronto, and The Baby- Sitter in Vancouver. Her bome life is “im-. portant. She’s married to ._ writer-director John Astin and between them they have five children, ages seven to 21, The seven-year-old refused an acting job recently. : “There was something on at school that he dido’t want to miss,” she said. “Bis first real offer and be turns it down. The kid, has style.” - - . She amiles and waves her - fork at a passerby who is * peering curiously through the trailer window. Order asthe wrinnmng If the test six, five, fous of theres digits on your tickel sre identical to and in the seine numbers above, your ic ket izeligiblato v ip perize ‘fast 6 digits WIM $1,000 tact § digits WIN $100 Inet 4 digits WIM - jest 2 dighs Five dollers worth of Exprose Tickets redsemeble by presenting the WHOLE TICKET t rtici- Paty eter by fohowing fica proceduron the beck I bajor Cosh . 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Chlorides of potassium and ‘magnesium take up the “Low MeL eal ind the ab- sence of.side effects make Magnesium a suitable . ; water ‘and. salt ‘from ‘the. Hood, ‘The artificial cells ; have been found to be more = effective, than standard hemodialysis equipment in removing toxins, Chang ‘ gays, but the system will peed one more set of cells to remove the nitrogen compound urea before it can be used for ‘treating ; ‘kidney patients. Chang and his colleagues . " ope to complete work on . ” ah artificial urea-filtering ff Gell some time in 1982. . Once the ‘system is com- .. _ Plete, Chang says, it will be possible to perform . dialysis in only a fraction of the time now required. ‘Studies - of. skeletal ~ remains indicate thatearly alternative to the other 7 Tohabitants of the Great prophylactic - . treatments presently used in kidney. stone patients," Marier in Selence’ Dimension, the -magazine @f the National Researth Council. Machine dialysis, or cleaning the blood when the . kidneys are not up to the job, is a costly and time consuming procedure. Three thousand Canadians could net live without regular machine dialysis and Many other patients, require artificial blood ’ cleaning for non-chronic conditions.” Both the cost and ‘the time involved may be dramatically reduced by a system designed by a McGill researcher, Dr. Thomas Chang. ‘The system, already in we in polsoning and drug- + overdose cases, has two sets of artificial cells, One set removes toxins and eo says ¢ r Some Lakes region had relatively short life spans but were otherwise healthier than we might. think, says a ‘University of Guelph ar- cheologist. . ‘ 0 Susan. Pfelffer, : *. examining bones from nine ‘burial sites dated from approximately 2700 to 900 BC, found that 80 per cent of skeletons showed some _ evidence of major injuries, such as blows to the skull. Nutrition -for those hunting and gathering peoples was probably — adequate, as indicated by the lack of tooth decay, bone abnormalities or signs of infection, ° Life however. was ‘con- siderably shorter than ' we expect our Lives to-be. The availablsuzmeins indicate 3 . that living “past 50 wae death, Pleffer's evidence ¥ suggested, were injuries due to accident or warfare and starvation due to * pertotie ‘food -ghortages. The - peoples means of storing food. _ : popularity everywhere in Canada during the 1970s - with the exception of Saikatehewan and the pre-agricultural: in question had no from Health and Welfare Canada. . _. ‘During the 1970s the: _; Yukon had a 7Oper-cent | Circumcision declined in. circumcision rate while in the four western provinces, . Ontario and Prince Ed: * ~ward Island about 50 per: : cent of baby toys were, SAMA ‘THE FAMILY BROWN . 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