2 -- The Michigan Daily - friday, October 25, 1996 NATION/WORLD Israel marks first anniversary of Rabin's death Test emerges to predict breast cancer WASHINGTON - Federal scientists are still wrestling with how to ethically use an explosion of genetics research, even as a company announced yesterday it soon will sell the most comprehensive genetic test yet to predict breast cancer. The test is the latest entry in a race to bring to consumers the rapid discoveries of disease-causing genes. But while the great gene hunt does promise better health care in the future patients today are struggling with the ramifications of learning they have diseased genes - when there's little they can do about it. "We're going to have a lot of people potentially faced with information that is puzzling and frightening and no one to explain it to them" said Dr. Francis Collins, chief of the federal Human Genome Project and a critic of selling gene tests before doctors better understand them. A study published in Friday's edition of the journal Science provides what Collins calls proof of genetic discrimination: Some 47 percent of people asked on health insurance applications about genetic diseases were subsequently rejected for coverage. "This is what genetics is all about right now, this contrast between rapid and exciting scientific advances that carry enormous promise to alleviate suffering and yet the potential for this information to be used in ways that injure people Los Angeles Times JERUSALEM - A year after the assassination of Prime MinisterYitzhak Rabin, an ever-divided Israel flocked to his graveside, the site of his murder and school auditoriums yesterday, trying to resume a truncated soul-searching over the meaning of the peacemaker's vio- lent death. The memorials to Rabin - on the anniversary of his death according to the Jewish calendar - were sad, if somewhat ritualized in a country that has lived from crisis to tragedy for almost half a century. Students donned the white shirts they wear on Israel's Holocaust cN_ memorial day Each and radio sta- tions played a he knows Hebrew transla- tion of Walt truth," Whitman's "O Captain! My - Rabbi Captain!" writ- Shalom Ha ten after the assassination of President Lincoln. Parliament held a special session in AP PHOTO Israeli students light candles at the site where former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assasinated last Nov. 4. JOIN THE MOST PROMISING PROFESSION OF THE 21 ST CENTURY Prospective Teacher Education Meeting Thursday, November 7, 1996 6:00 p.m., Whitney Auditorium Room 1309 School of Education Building Call 764-7563 for more information. [ iD art memory of the Nobel laureate prime minister gunned down Nov. 4 by a Jewish law student opposed to his poli- cy of trading land for peace with Israel's Arab neighbors. Throughout the coun- try, hundreds of thousands of candles were lit for the slain Rabin. Yet, the mourning showed once again that the national unity that Israelis had hoped would emerge from their shared trauma is as illusive as ever. The only point of agreement between left-wing and right-wing, religious and secular seemed to be that the divisions among Israelis are at least as deep as they were before the assassination. "Each side feels he knows the truth," Rabbi David Hartman of the Shalom Hartman Institute said in an interview. "The rhetoric is uncompromising. That hasn't changed. But then nothing ide feels changes after (huge) events. the God gave us the T e ni Commandments and people )avid Hartman turned around to man Institute worship the Golden Calf." During the state memorial at Mount Herzl ceme- tery, Leah Rabin stared coldly ahead as right-wing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu laid a wreath on her hus- band's grave. She is unforgiving, believing that Netanyahu's harsh speech contributed to a climate of vio- lence that led to her husband's slaying . Netanyahu's government, in turn, refused a family and Labor Party request to make the anniversary an offi- cial day of mourning. Two leftist mem- bers of parliament walked out on the prime minister's speech appealing for national unity. "The murder of Yitzhak Rabin must remind us of a basic truth: peace begins at home;' Netanyahu said. "The choice before us today is to seal the rift and unite or widen the division and disintegrate." But Israelis do not even agree on the definition of "unity." When left-leaning and secular Israelis speak of it, they mean pulling together the Jewish peo- ple and safeguarding the state of Israel. They, like Rabin, believe in trading cap- tured land for peace. When religious and right-wing Israelis plaster bumper stickers on their cars call- ing for the "Unity of Israel," they mean the people must unite around Jewish land in Erez Israel - Greater Israel. Mm Collins warned. Findings show animals on Earth twice as long ago The animal kingdom arose on Earth at least a billion years ago, twice as long ago as previously believed, researchers who used a molecular stopwatch to time life's earliest evolution said yesterday. Experts said the finding appears to undercut theories, based on fossils, that suggest modern forms of life evolved more rapidly. In particular, it renews a spirited debate over one of life's most extraordi- nary episodes, a carnival of creation called the Cambrian explosion. It is widely believed that during this period, which began about 545 million years ago, almost all the main lines of the ani- mal types known today - from bur- rowers, grazers and predators to the ear- liest vertebrate ancestors of humanity - suddenly appeared. The new research, published in today's edition of Science, suggests that animal life started well before the Cambrian explosion and that the pace of natural selection, in fact, is far more gradual, indicating that evolution acted no differ- ently at the dawn of animal life than it does among species today, experts said. Although life began on Earth about 3.8 billion years ago, there is little physi- cal evidence to show how it evolved unto the Cambrian period, when the remains of countless creatures can be found pre- served as fossils in rock formations. Study: 'Mediap premiums rising WASHINGTON - Millions of retirees have been hit in the past year with stiff, double-digit increases in thj premiums they pay for medical insu ance purchased to cover the health care costs that Medicare won't pick up, according to a report released yesterday. 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KOREAN CHRUCH OF ANN ARBOR 3301 Creek Dr. 971-9777 SUNDAY: 9:30 a.m. English, 11 a.m. & 7:30 p.m. Korean LUTHERAN CAMPUS MINISTRY LORD OF LIGHT LUTHERAN CHURCH 801 S.Forest (at Hill St.) 668-7622 SUNDAY: Worship at 10 a.m. WED. Evening Prayer-7 Choir-7:30 THURS.: Issues of Faith Group-7:00 John Rollefson & Meg Drum Campus Ministers PACKARD ROAD BAPTIST CHURCH Contemporary worship services at 9:00 am and 12 noon on Sundays. Taliban militia bombed north of Kabul positions KABUL, Afghanistan - The Taliban Islamic militia took the war against its enemies to the skies yester- day, scrambling MiGs to attack posi- tions north of Kabul. In one village, 20 civilians, mostly women and children, were reported killed by a Taliban bomb. Fierce pounding from the Talibs' artillery, rocket batteries and Soviet- made tanks appeared to have repulsed the forces of Ahmad Shah Masood, the ousted Afghan government's defense chief, along two major roads north of the Afghan capital, and denied them the commanding heights overlooking Kabul airport. The Talibs kept Kabul-based corre- spondents away from the battle line, but on the sere plain north of the airport, shepherds said the hard-line Muslim fighters had advanced overnight about a mile closer to Bagram air base, which is in the hands of Masood's Jamiat-i- Islami force. "I have seen a lot of Taliban tanks and vehicles passing north on this road," shepherd Gul Muhammad said. Poland relaxes law on abortion WARSAW, Poland - By just an eight-vote margin, Polish lawmakers yesterday relaxed this country's contro- versial abortion law, allowing women to end pregnancies until the 12th week if they are financially or emotionally unprepared to have a child. The law, which reverses restrictioti imposed almost four years ago at the behest of the Roman Catholic Church, was approved despite a groundswell of public protests from Catholic officials, including Pope John Paul II. "It is a victory for the poorest and least educated women in our country, said Wanda Nowicka, who heads the Federation for Women and Family Planning, a Warsaw group that pushed for the changes. - Compiled from Daily wire reports. Thr Michigan Daily (ISSN 0745-967) is published Monday through Friday during the fall and winter terms by students at the University of Michigan. Subscriptions for fall term, starting in September, via U.S. mail are $85. Winter term (January through April) is $95. yearlong (September through April) is $165. On-campus subs" scriptions for fall term are $35. Subscriptions must be prepaid. The Michigan Daily is a member of the Associated Press and the Associated collegiate Press. ADDRESS: The Michigan Daily, 420 Maynard Street. Ann Arbor. 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