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THE FACTS Wednesday, March 11,1998 7C BRAZOS LIVING in the news Six Brazoswood students had one of their poems cho- for publication in A Celebration of Young Poets. From the thousands of poems received, fewer than 50 percent were chosen for publication in the Anthology. Selections were made on the basis of literary merit, creativity and social awareness. Prize money is still to be awarded to the top 10 poets, yet to be chosen. The honored students are Amber Barnes, grade 10, Different Parts of Me, daughter of Ronald and Sharon Barnes; 'Amanda Barnett, grade 9, When 'Flowers Grow, daughter of Jean and Pat Barnett; Victoria Baumgardner, grade 9, Heartbreaker, daughter of Grace and Eric Baumgardner; Christina Grierson, grade 11, The Match, daughter of Susan and Jeffrey Grierson; Sean Hicks, grade 12, Voyage, son of Donna and Roy Hicks; and Jennifer May, grade The Final Goodbye, daughter of Ginny and Gary Gratzer.

Brazosport College's annual appreciation dinner for area school district board members, administrators and counselors was -held Feb. 19 on campus. More than 100 attendees enjoyed entertainment by the Brazosport College Coasters and a fajita supper. Angleton, Brazosport, and Sweeny independent school districts were all represented. During her short presentation to the group, BC President Dr.

Millicent Valek emphasized the significant increase in numbers of enrollment students those taking courses at the high school and college level simultaneously. In 1995, there were 147 of these students; by fall semester 1997, the number had grown to 461. Two students who are participants in the enrollment program, Jill Nigbor (Angleton ISD) and Monique Glassford (Sweeny ISD), each gave a short, featured speech at the conclusion of the evening's agenda. The National Merit Scholarship Program has announced the 1998 finalists who were selected from the 15,000 seminnalists chosen in September. The semifinalists, screened from more than 1,000,000 students in 20,000 schools, represent less than 1 percent of the nations high school seniors.

The finalists will share in $28 million in scholarships. To be eligible to be a semifinalist, a student must have a specified selection index on the PSAT (Preliminary Scholastic Assessment Test). The selection index is the sum of scores on the verbal, math and writing skills test. Each year, the required score goes up. For the class of 1998, it was 215.

Selection for finalists includes: Students meeting, and schools verifying, very high academic standards in college preparatory course work (with information about school curricula and grading system); SAT Reasoning Test scores that confirm performance; a student essay about activities and goals; and recommendations. BISD is proud to announce the following finalists: From Brazoswood: Carol Bettoney, daughter of Dr. George and Catherine Bettoney; Tai Li Chang, son of Ben and Amy Chang; Michael "Scott" Garrison, son of Ray and Challie Garrison; Christine Huang, daughter of Joe and Mei Huang; Jennie Mast, daughter of Roy and Maribei Mast; Paul Pisklak, son of Ronald and Dorris Pisklak; and Sara Williams, daughter of Terry and Sharron Williams. From Brazosport: National Hispanic Scholar, Raul Juarez, son of Raul and Bertha Juarez. BISD is very proud of these students, their achievements, and the pride and honor they bring to their families and this district.

Anthony Klaiber, a 1993 graduate of Sweeny High School, graduated on Dec. 20, 1997 from Baylor University with a BBA in finance and a minor in corporate communications. Klaiber has taken a position with the Penske Corporation in Greenhills, Penn. He is the son of Edwin and Nancy Klaiber of Sweeny. He is also the grandson of Eva and Wallase Hancock of Bay City, Lil Klaiber of Bay City, the late Coy Klaiber and the late Bart Gassen.

The Brazoswood Buc Band is sponsoring coupon books featuring free merchandise, services and two-for-one dining and entertainment from 125 Brazosport- area business. Savings start immediately and are valid through June 30, 1999. Books may be purchased for $39.95 from members or through the hotline at (409) 297-7411. Proceeds of the sales will go to support the purchase of equipment and supplies for the 1998-99 band program. Klaiber Ney students earn top honors at science fair LAKE JACKSON Students from Lake Jackson's Elisabet Ney Elementary School earned top honors at the Brazoria County Science Fair recently.

Brian Singhania, a fourth-grader from Ney, earned the gold medal for grades 4-6 for his "Acid Rain" project. Singhania studied the effects of acid rain on invertebrate animals. He also took home the fourth-grade life science Best of Class rosette and a first-place ribbon. James Hastings, another Ney fourth-grader, won the silver medal. His project, "What Hides in the studied the effects of high and low ocean tides and their relationship to sea shell collecting at Quintana Beach.

Hastings' project also won the fourth-grade earth science Best of Class rosette and a first-place ribbon. Clay Raun and Ty Kerr, also fourth-graders from Ney, teamed up in the "Invention 2000" category and won the silver medal, as well as the Best of Class rosette and a first-place ribbon. Their invention, "Wave Power," was built to illustrate how the energy produced from waves can be captured and utilized. "This new source of energy can easily be adapted by using existing offshore oil platforms," Raun said. Several third-graders from Ney, Chris Clark Courtesy photo Lake Jackson's Elisabet Ney Elementary students won top awards at the Brazoria County Science Fair, grades 4-6.

From left are gold medalist Brian Singhania, silver medalist James Hastings, and silver medalists (for Invention 2000 category) Ty Kerr and Clay Raun. (earth science) and Rochna Turakhia (physical science), each earned the Outstanding Merit rosette for second place in Best of Class. Need a laugh? Read Dilbettf daily in The Facts comics Bi-Weelciy Advertising Feature Simple Test to Decide Whether Liposuction, Tummy luck" or Both Dear Dr. Yarish, R. SCOTT YARISH, M.D.

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(713) 467-0146 I'm not overwieght, but I have a little skin that hangs over the top of my jeans. Can a skin test be done to see if I'm a good candidate for a tummy tuck or Hposuction? Is age the only determining factor? Age is not the issue, but loose skin is. Liposuction will nor fix loose skin. If you can pinch skin together and draw it out, abdominoplasty, commonly called a "tummy tuck," is indicated. With this procedure, the surgeon removes excess skin and fatty tissue from the middle and lower portions of the abdomen and tightens the underlying muscles.

There is a range of full abdominoplasties you and your surgeon can choose from, depending upon the amount and location of excess skin and other factors. A visit to a Board Certified Plastic Surgeon would help you ro determine which procedure is best for you. I would like to add that the satisfaction level with this procedure is very high because the patient gets the result she wants: a truly flat stomach. Dr.Y. Dear Dr.

Yarish, I've had a C-section. Can the same scar be used for a "tummy tuck?" Depending on the extent of the abdominoplasty (or 'tummy tuck'), the incision can be made at the same location as the C- section incision (usually across the lower abdomen from hip to hip), making use of the same scar. However, only your surgeon can make the final determination. Dr.Y. ALLP offers classes for spring semester Special to The Facts The Brazosport College Adult Life and Learning Program is designed for Brazoria County residents who are 50 years of age or older.

Classes meet twice a month. Most ALLP courses meet on the first and third Wednesday or Thursday. There are no academic requirements, homework or tests great experiences with interesting people. There is a reception held for ALLP members on the third Thursday of the month. At the February reception, tylary and Irving Zalade were honored as ALLP sweethearts.

The Zalades were recognized for their participation in every aspect of the ALLP classes, programs and ALLP sponsored off-campus activities. The next reception is scheduled for Thursday, March 19 in the BC general theatre. Donna Loggins and her band will entertain; Bobby Payne and His Lovely Assistant will perform mystifying acts of magic; and Barbara McClatchey and her talented canines, and Tim, with his injury defying bicycle tricks, will create a Mardi program. Ed Birdsong Realty is the sponsor of this not-to-be- missed event. The registration fee for ALLP classes is $25, which allows students to register for as many courses as their schedules permit.

The spring semester is currently in progress. Some classes still have limited space and are taught by several instructors with each lesson being self-contained. Organic gardening begins Wednesday, March 18. There will also be one session of CPR, Basic Cardiac Life Support taught on March 18. The instructor will be Maureen Lay ton.

On Thursday, March 19, the Classic Book Series will discuss Courtesy photo Irving and Mary Zalade were honored as ALLP sweethearts at the monthly reception held recently. They were recognized for their participation in every aspect of the ALLP. Toni Morrison's newest book, Paradise. Morrison is a Nobel Peace Prize recipient, noted author and has made recent appearances on Oprah and 60 Minutes. Elizabeth McDheran will be the instructor for the class.

For more information about ALLP, call 266-3246. Best Picture: Continued from Page 1C in the Academy race for best picture. It was embraced by the film community as a wholly original and inventive revival of the film noirof the 1940s and '50s. A native of Los Angeles, Hanson adapted James Ellroy's novel of cop corruption in postwar L.A. and filmed it with a truly ensemble cast.

"It's my most personal movie," Hanson, 52, whose previous films include The River Wild and The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, says. "Whether it achieves any popular acceptance or not is less important'to me. That's not why I made it." In fact, L.A. Confidential turned out to be an underachiever at the box office; it is likely to collect about 550 million in domestic gross. But it's been widely acclaimed, scoring best- picture with most critics' organizations and appearing on most reviewers' year-end Top 10 lists.

James L. Brooks' As Good as It Gets has won wide acceptance, both in Hollywood and across the country (it has reached the magi- cal territory, surpassing $100 million domestic gross). Brooks, 57, born in North Bergen, N.J., already has three Oscars for writing, co-producing and directing his first film, Terms of Endearment (1983). With As Good As It Gets, he brought comedy to the situation of a man with an obsessive-compulsive disorder. The film drew seven nominations, including those for the actors, Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt and Greg Kinnear.

But not, strangely enough, for Brooks' direction. That's one of the things that puzzle Oscar watchers: How can a movie be nominated for best picture, screenplay and three actors and not for the man who put it all together? Good Will Hunting is another film that has won the hearts and minds of audiences everywhere. Following the pattern of Sylvester Stallone in Rocky, little-known actors Matt Damon and Ben Affleck wrote a script with fat parts for themselves. Damon cast himself as a trouble-making Bostonian who works as a janitor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he astounds the faculty by solving obscure formulas left on the blackboard. Affleck took the role as best friend.

Gus Van Sant, 45, seemed an unlikely choice to direct such a feel-good movie. He had built a reputation for directing hard- edged, low-budget films such as Drugstore Cowboy and My Own Private Idaho. His first mainstream film drew nine nominations, including those for his direction, actors Damon, Robin Williams and Minnie Driver, and for best picture, For pure joy, nothing in the race surpasses The Full Monty, budgeted at $2.5 million or about one one-hundreth the cost of Titanic. The story was simple enough: A half-dozen unemployed steel workers in Sheffield, England, decide to lift their dreary lives and perhaps earn a few dollars by joining in a strip act. No matter that some of them are better off clothed.

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Dr. Hanna joins Doctors Maher Nasser and Salim Dabaghi at Angleton Cardiology Clinic. Dr. Hanna is board eligible in Interventional Cardiology and is a Diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine. He holds licensure in both Nuclear Cardiology and Transesophageal Echocardiography.

Dr. Hanna is available for appointments each business day in Angleton. His office is located in Suite 201 of the Professional Office Building at ADGH. For appointments, please call 409-849-1414. For information on our hospital, physicians, managed care plans, or educational services, give us a call.

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