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August 15, 1996
Cyberspace efforts make moving a breeze
WASHINGTON
For net surfers planning to
move, the U.S. Postal Service
has just what they need — a
mover’s Internet Web site http:/
/www.usps.gov/moversnet/
Today, a more robust, electron
ic version of the Mover’s Guide is
now available for public use in a
90-day operational market test.
Called the Movers Net, it offers
time- and money-saving options
to help computer-savvy movers:
*an interactive change-of-ad
dress form,
*before- and after-the-move
check-off lists,
epacking tips,
*a hot link to the IRS Web site
to obtain income tax forms,
*answers to frequently asked
Fruits and
Can supplemental vitamins,
fiber and natural fruit and vege
table compounds called
“phytochemicals” in pill form
work as well as foods to fight off
cancer? At a recent symposium
presented by the American In
stitute for Cancer Research, lead
ing diet and cancer researchers
said supplements are not a sub
stitute for eating plenty of plant
based foods.
When our bodies absorb
phytochemicals, vitamins and
fiber from plant-based foods, they
work in different ways to protect
our health, by shielding cell mem
branes from damage to affecting
rates of the cell division that is
key to the cancer process. Ac
cording to Dr. Gary G. Meadows,
professor of Pharmacognosy,
Washington State University,
“Researchers still have not dis
covered answers to questions
about dosage and combined ef
fects of these plant food elements.
Studies that find benefits from
food substances use amountsthat
are far greater than in normal
diets, and the toxic effects of large
amounts of some vitamins and
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*money-saving coupons,
*a Spanish translation.
“The change-of-address form
can be filled in on a consumer’s
personal computer and, with a
click of the mouse, printed out
for signature,” said Allen Kane,
vice president, Operations Sup
port. PC movers then mail their
address change form to the post
office address printed on it and
displayed on the screen.
Address manager Robert
Krause said that using a com
puter to complete the new Web
site-provided form has a number
of advantages over the tradition
al change-of-address postcard.
Besides offering at-home con
venience, the electronic form au
vegetables hetter than pills
phytochemicals, and combina
tions of them, are still not known.”
That’s one reason why taking
large doses of vitamin and phy
tochemical supplement pills is
not advisable, the researchers
pointed out. “Many people be
lieve that if a little is good, more
must be better,” Meadows com
mented. “In fact, overdoing any
one thing often has negative ef
fects. When peoplerely too much
on supplement pills, they tend to
forget about eating a balanced
diet.” Otheruncertainties, Mead
ows said, are the lack of stan
dardization in the manufacture
and labeling of complex phy
tochemical supplements, and not
knowing how early in life or how
long consumers have to take
them to get beneficial effects.
For example, people may take
supplement pills that claim to
isolate the phytochemicals such
as beta-carotene or sulphur com
pounds found in broccoli, garlic
and other vegetables. However,
in reality there may be so much
processing in making supple
ments that the chemical compo
sition of the compounds may be
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tomatically provides the correct
address form and ZIP+4 Code,
which is helpful to new and tem
porary movers. Also, the typed
form is easier for postal employ
ees to read, which ensures mail
is delivered speedily to the new
address, he added.
Movers Net was created jointly
by the Postal Service and Tar
geted Marketing Solutions, Inc.,
in Newton Upper Falls, Mass., at
no cost to the Postal Service. Two
years earlier this same alliance
created the free Mover’s Guide,
which has netted the Postal Ser
vice over $3 million to date and
$5 million in reduced costs.
Web-site visitors can also click
the “en Espanol” button on the
home page for a Spanish transla
altered and ultimately yield few
health benefits for the consum
er,noted Dr. John D. Potter, head
of the Cancer Prevention Re
search Program at the Fred
Hutchinson Cancer Research
Center, professor of epidemiolo
gy at the University of Washing
ton, Seattle, and co-chair of the
World Cancer Research Fund
expert panel on diet and cancer.
“Deodorized garlic, for exam
ple, has wiped out at least half of
the sulphur compounds that are
beneficial in garlic. And to re
lease a number of compounds in
a vegetable such as garlic, you
need to chew it, crush it, or cook
it. But if you don’t like the odor
of garlic, you can eat a number of
other foods and perhaps get the
same benefit from different com
pounds with overlapping effects,
and that’s the point of eating a
variety of vegetables and fruits.”
As for the familiar refrain of
“no time to couk,” the research
ers advised Americans to put
health before convenience by
making the time to prepare and
cook more healthy foods like veg
etables, even if it means giving
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tion. Another feature includes
consumer money-saving coupons
for purchasing movingitems and
services from participating busi
nesses. This is a popular feature
in the Mover’s Guide, available
in all post offices, that offers a
printed version of similar ads.
Movers can also look up the
phone number and address of
the post office that delivers to
their new address.
The Movers Net is the latest
feature of the Postal Service’s
main Web site (http://
www.usps.gov) that offers Zip
Code look-up, historic facts,
stamp information, tips for busi
nesses and current news releas
es.
up some TV-watching time.
“We're a pill-taking society,”
Meadows pointed out. “Instead
of changing our eating habits,
we’d like to eat potato chips and
take a pill to counteract the neg
ative effects. But that’s not very
realistic.”
Meadows advised looking at
what we can do to eat for better
health. The food industry is ex
pected. to manufacture more
foods fortified with
phytochemicals and other health
protectors, following the current
trend of foods now available with
extra calcium, such as orange
juice and breakfast cereals. For
now, the researchers agreed, the
best way to fortify our health and
eat for low cancer risk is hy using
salad bars, packaged salads, fro
zen vegetables and the wide va
riety of fresh fruit and vegeta
bles that are more available than
ever before.
For a free brochure on eating
for lower cancer risk, send a
stamped, self-addressed enve
lope to American Institute for
Cancer Research, Dept. CL,
Washington, D.C. 20069.
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Lions Club donates funds
to Georgia Eye Bank
AUGUSTA
The Augusta Lions Club has
donated $5,000 to the Medical
College of Georgia Eye Bank to
support the work of procuring
eye tissue that can be used for
corneal transplants and other
surgeries to improve vision as
well as research of eye diseases.
“The Augusta Lions Club
helped found our Eye Bank 25
years ago and has been steadfast
in its support of our efforts to
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said Patricia A. Watkins, direc
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Phati’tude calls poets and writers
for new literary magazine
NEW YORK
Phati'tude (“emphatic attitude”)
is coming! This new literary maga
zine is scheduled to hit the book
stores and newsstands with its pre
miere issue the beginning of 1997.
The new quarterly will take a
multicultural approach, showing
special interest in African-Ameri
can, Latino, Native-American and
Asian writers.
Gabrielle David, publisher and
executive editor of Phati’tude, says
the magazine will be “aliterary pub
lication of poetry, fiction and essays.
We want to publish both emerging
and established writers of diverse
origins, and we are partial to works
that exhibit social, political and cul
tural awareness.”
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