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COMING WEDNESDAY IN GETAWAY: TAKE A MASTERS TOUR OF AUGUSTA Tuesday! Jich 20. 2001 LIVING ATLANTA TODAY FS COMICS M-S DIVERSIONS FS MOVIES Fi PEACH BUZZ F2 TELEVISION F3 INSIDE TODAY Mayor Bill Campbell is profiled in the new issue of Atlanta magazine. The Newsstand, F3 EVERY WEEK Wednesday: Getaway Thursday. Buyer's Edge Friday: Weekend Preview Saturday: Living Leisure Monday: News for Kids THE WEB TODAY Spring break only a cam away: Can't quite climb out of that cubicle for a little beach volleyball? Try these live Web cams for your spring fix. F2 Fun with the Oscars: www.ajc.com xsitemoviesoscarpromo.hrml CONTACT US Amy Glennon, Features editor aglennonajc.com 404-526-5968 Hometown quartet 1 12 Oeft) has a new album and is working on a tougher image.

F9 HEALTHY UVING: TUESDAY'S GUIDE to MEDICINE and HEALTH CARE RELIGION Emory official next dean of Yale Divinity School Rebecca Cbopp (below), provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at Emory University, will become the next dean of the Yale University Divin Doctors' guidelines target antibiotic overuse they could lead to major changes in prescribing practices. "We're trying to bring about a fundamental change in the way antibiotics are viewed and used in this country," said Richard Besser, head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's campaign to promote the appropriate use of antibiotics. "Antibiotics are a limited resource, and if we aren't more careful about how we use them, they will lose their effectiveness." The guidelines were developed, in consultation with the CDC, by a panel of experts in internal medicine, family medicine, emergency medicine and Internists warn that millions of useless prescriptions are threatening public health by promoting resistant bacteria. By Mike Toner mtonerajc.com Tens of millions of antibiotic prescriptions written by the nation's doctors each year are worthless, wasteful and pose a growing danger to public health, one of the nation's leading medical organizations warned Monday. The American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine says that sore throats, sinusitis, bronchi these prescriptions are unnecessary.

Antibiotic treatment of a cold, an upper respiratory tract infection or acute bronchitis is almost always inappropriate, because the vast majority of those syndromes have a nonbacterial cause." In an effort to emphasize the limited value of treating upper respiratory infections with antibiotics and to underscore the role that overuse plays in promoting the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria the college of physicians on Monday published sweeping new guidelines for doctors to follow in their treatment. The guidelines are voluntary, but because they represent doctors' own evidence-based conclusions about what doctors should and shouldn't do, Take the H. Train Gold standard: H. Johnson spreads the good news of jazz to radio listeners ill "L' iTZmrCZX, tis and other respiratory tract infections are the most common reason Americans see their doctors, for a total of 37 million visits a year. In more than half of those cases, patients leave the office with a prescription for antibiotics.

But the college of physicians says that in most cases, the antibiotic does no good at all and doctors know it "Up to 75 percent of antibiotics prescribed to outpatients each year are associated with treating upper respiratory tract infections," says Dr. Sandra Adamson Fryhofer, an Atlanta physician who heads the organization of 115,000 U.S. internists and medical students the largest group of medical specialists in the country. "Unfortunately, most of By A. Scott Walton swaltonajc.com The jazz scene in Atlanta is just like the weather: Everybody complains, but no one does anything about it.

Make that almost no one. Herman Johnson goes beyond the call of duty to make this town swing. As host of WABE-FM's "Jazz Classics" program, which airs from 9 p.m. until 2 a.m. Saturday nights, H.

(don't call him Herman) offers ample reason to stay home, tune in and swing with him. If there's a jazz session worth catching in town, he'll tell you. If there's a local jazz band worth supporting, he'll give it exposure. For more than 20 years, he's used 90.1 FM's antiquated studio as his pulpit to preach the music's virtues. The key to his longevity is his insistence on playing the most accessible arrangements of jazz standards he can, the better to tempt a broad audience's ear.

And H. (don't call him Mr. Johnson, either) will expand Atlanta's jazz appre- ity School the 13th dean of the school and the first woman to hold the position. The appointment, announced Monday by tale University President Richard Levin, will be effective July 1. "She is an outstanding scholar as well as an energetic and capable administrator," Levin said in announcing the appointment "Her judgment and humanity are widely appreciated by her colleagues at Emory and elsewhere." Ran Feinberg FASHION New Delta uniforms don't fly? By outfitting its flight attendants and ticket agents in new uniforms earlier this month, Delta Air Lines has wrapped itself in a controversy that won't fizzle.

Some employees reportedly have said that the new mini-check suits and neutral accessories aren't the most flattering. And some apparently are angry that Delta no longer provides a $15-a-month stipend to help defray dry-cleaning costs. Delta spokeswoman Tracey Bowen likened the unfavorable attitudes toward the new uniform policy to spilled milk: Employees shouldn't cry over it, and it shouldn't stain travelers' perception of the airline. "We have our standards, our employees are well aware LCHJIE FAVORITE Staff New Delta uniforms ready for employees to pick up on Feb. 28.

of our standards and our customers can expect that our employees will present a clean, professional image," Bowen said. Instead of the dry-cleaning stipend, she explained, employees are now given the "points" equivalent of $230 worth of replacement clothing. This new policy matches that of every other major airline and results from input by employees, Bowen said. A Scott Walton TELEVISION GPTV documentaries honored A two-part documentary hosted by the late Leigh Green for Georgia Public Television has won a prestigious National Headliner Award. Green (right) had terminal cancer when he began "Final Choices," last fall's documentary about end-of-life decisions.

He died in January. Produced and written by Gerald Bryant, Carol Fisk and Green, "Final Choices" won first place in the public service category. It aired in conjunction with Bill Moyers' "On Our Own Terms: Moyers on Dying," an exhaustive series that examined how Americans prepare for dying. "It's a testimony to what kind of person Leigh was," said Mike Klein, GPTV director of productions. "We all knew and he knew that he was working on his last major TV project, and to watch what he went through and how he did it it was just a remarkable project." GPTV also won third place in the documentary category for "Hosea in His Own Words," produced last November following the death of Hosea Williams.

Drewjubera Turner wrestling shows KO'd Jamie Kellner, Turner Broadcasting's new chairman and chief executive officer, isn't wasting time. He's tossed both TNT's "WCW Nitro" and TBS' "WCW Thunder" over the top ring rope and out the door. The reason: low ratings compared to the undisputed heavyweight wrestling broadcast champ, the World Wrestling Federation. Grappling fans, don't work up a sweat: The WWF is still all over the dial, from TNN to UPN to MTV and more. SEE ARTICLE, CI ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION THE HERMAN JOHNSON FILE Age: 63.

Current gig: Host of "jazz Classics" on WABE-FM (90. 1). Hometown: Asbury Park, N.J. Education: Among original grads of Atlanta's L.J. Price High School ('57); also attended Morehouse College, Atlanta Area Tech and the Army's NCO Academy.

Careen Radio announcing stints include gigs at Atlanta stations WAOK, WIGO, WRFG and WXAP. Quote: "I got started in radio by accident I got asked to come on WAOK as fill-in host for a teeny-bopper program when I was 1 8. 1 wound up staving until the Army drafted me." JOEY IVANSCO Staff Longtime lover of the genre and WABE-FM host H. Johnson adds another gig starting tonight "More Jazz," a radio program keyed to Ken Bums' TV series. PLEASE SEE Antibiotics, F6 INSIDE: More health news, F6-7 dropped or just touched on.

He emphasizes Coltrane on tenor sax, but I'll try to emphasize the artists who were influences on him. Like Dexter Gordon, Sonny Rollins and Gene Amnions." Johnson's shows are always enhanced by his unbridled enthusiasm for the music. "The show is like his life," said Mari- PLEASE SEE Johnson, Fl KEEPING UP WITH OSCAR Thursday in Living: With julia Roberts favored to win for best actress, Eleanor Ringd Gillespie looks at her performances on videos that you may not have seen. C- i C.UL U.I..... MiunMf hi roiui ituuci.

i i Five critics from diverse religious backgrounds discuss the nominees tor oest picture, locusmg on trie moral, ethical and spiritual implications of each movie. Sunday in Arts: Our movie reviewers predict who will win Academy Awards; plus our full-page ballot you can use to make your own predictions and keep up during the broadcast. Monday in Living: Complete coverage of Oscar night. Every day on ajc. com: fun Oscar facts and trivia: www.ajc.comxsitemovies 1L.

oscarpromo.html ciation further this week when he hosts "More Jazz" segments on the radio immediately after Ken Burns' "Jazz" series on WPBA-TV. The first episode airs tonight at 9. "To do what he set out to do, Burns didn't need 19 hours," says Johnson, "he needed 19 days. "The holes I'll try to fill in will be some of the people Burns either left out entirely or were either name- Anti-Awards: Site gives fans their say on Oscars being up for best picture. Or director Darren Aronofsky's technically astute, catatonic drug flick "Requiem for a Dream" being ignored in all but one category.

"Instead of being angry about it all the time," Nunziata says, his group decided to use the Internet as a means for an alternative. This year's Anti-Awards nominees for best picture are "Almost Famous," "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," "Requiem for a Dream," "Traffic" and "Gladiator." There are plenty of the usual suspects in some categories (Julia Roberts of "Erin Brockovich" for best actress, naturally). But among contenders in a category dubbed "most unforgettable character" is "Cast Away's" Wilson the volleyball. He, or rather it, is competing with PLEASE SEE Oscars, F7 By Bob Longino blonginoajc.com It may be Oscar week leading up to Sunday's 73rd annual Academy Awards, but at Nick Nunziata's house in Alpharetta it's purely anti-awards time. Nunziata, 28, is co-founder of the Internet's ign.com Anti-Awards, a national consortium of 50 movie Web sites, authors, journalists and film industry people who are tired of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science's sometimes obvious Oscar politics.

So they've created an annual film survey in which Web surfers (that means you) can choose their own movie winners. About 300,000 cast votes in last year's contest, which "American Beauty" won. The big winner in the first anti-awards in 1999: the sci-fi flick "Dark City." WILLIAM BERRY Staff Take this, Academy: Nick Nunziata co-founded the Internet's ign.com Anti-Awards. He also runs the Web site CHUD.com, which stands for Cinematic Happenings Under Development mately win do so because of peripheral reasons or political reasons or lifetime achievement What's got the anti-awards group riled this year? Try Cameron Crowe's 70s rock film "Almost Famous" not Every year the Oscars and Golden Globes come, and "it's like we're gluttons for punishment," Nunziata says. "There's always a bunch of films that don't get the respect we think they deserve, or the films that ulti- AJC.COM EVERY SECTIOCjt, EVERY DAY.