Herald Journal, The (Newspaper) - April 24, 2007, Logan, Utah Herald JAZZ FALTER AGAIN Houston leads Utah 20 series heads to Salt Lake B1 Journal AMERICAN DREAM Woman discusses reasons for illegal journey to A3 Weather High 60 Low 38 Mostly sunny Page A8 Update Medicine Scientists cant decide aspirins effect on cancer WASHINGTON AP The research could give you whiplash Aspirin prevents one study maybe says Now comes word that aspirin may fend off cancer only if people take much more than is used to fight heart suggesting some of the earlier may have been due to confusion over the right Even that evidence is offering no end to the competing A general perspective that people have Why is it so difficult to get a clear answer on a pill that costs a few pennies and is available over and taken by millions of people says the American Cancel Societys Michael a coau thor of the newest For scientists have chased the hope that aspirin could be an easy way to prevent certain The idea Aspirin fights and thus by inhibiting substances known as or COX enzymes also are involved in the formation of certain kinds of such as prostate and breast Aspirin does something as well It makes blood less likely to form giving it an important role in fighting heart A daily baby aspirin 81 milligrams is recom mended for people with cardiovascular disease or who are at high risk for In connecting the cancer dots showing that reducing COX would in turn reduce tumors is vex And because aspirin can cause stomach ulcers and firm proof of an anticancer benefit is a must before any health group will recom mend using it for that Aspirin and similar tory drugs reduce the risk of many cancers when tested in animals bred to develop humanlike Evidence in people isnt nearly so Quick read Go to The Herald Journal Web to cast your vote on todays survey See Fridays newspaper for results and a new Important note This is not a scientific sur Results simply reflect the opinions of some of the people visiting the newspapers Web Todays question Do u txt msg Fridays survey results Do you care about how your neighbors yard looks Answers Number Percent 419 2 No 123 Total Responses 542 Index 8 Carroll declares for 07 NBA draft Jaycee will retain right to withdraw by June deadline By Shawn Harrison sports editor Jaycee Carroll may not be in an Aggie uniform next After 99 games at Utah the guard declared for the 2007 NBA Draft But dont panic just yet Aggie there is a If Im not going to go in the first I will definitely come back to Carroll said Mon day The junior from made sure to stress the fact he has not hired an Car roll has until June 18 to withdraw from the which takes place on June 28 in New York and retain his intercollegiate Ive been looking forward to my senior Carroll We have a good team coming back and can achieve a It is going to take a lot to get me away from because Im close to and that is important to Only those athletes taken in the first round of the NBA Draft receive guaranteed Carrolls decision is based more on testing the waters and getting a chance to compete against the best college players in the I want to see how I stack Carroll This is something Ive always wanted to so I need to take advantage of that He will now try and get invited to camps held around the country for potential professional The first camp where NBA teams can evaluate players is May 29 June in Lake Buena Invitations will be issued begin ning May NBA teams can then host players for workouts begin ning June at their own expense in order to maintain their colle giate The guard is hoping to get more exposure through declar He has visited with Boise States Coby who declared last year then came back to school for his senior on several occasions this past season as well as former Aggie star Spencer who is playing profession ally in Carroll said Karl encouraged him to USU also has had some discus sions with who has gone See CARROLL on A8 Herald Journal file photo Utah States Jaycee Carroll is fouled by Hawaiis Bobby Nash on in Las Routine after tragedy u AP photo A Virginia Tech student walks past a memorial Monday the day classes Tech students return to class one week after shooting AP Chemistry professor Joe Merola tried to give a lecture but looking out at 100 Virginia Tech students faces and the sweat shirt hed placed on the seat of a wounded student he couldnt do I lost it halfway through he I burst into tears and had to turn it over to the Students and staff paused twice at the moments when a week earlier gunman Cho opened fire in two campus killing 32 people and Then they returned to class for the first time since the shootings to seek solace in what used to be They found little as they had left Talking about the tragedy took precedence over with some 200 volunteer counselors on campus sporting purple and a counselor in class where a slain or injured student had been Students and profes sors shared personal We kind of talked and There were tears and said Paul a sophomore from Roanoke who attended three class It was good who was close friends with one of the slain said he took comfort in the fact that one of his a graduate kept choking up during professors are so he It was nice to see someone sharing what 1 was feel Monday was the first time since the shootings that Andrea Fallen had been near the memorial to the victims in front of Burruss which became a triage center for See CLASS on A8 Boris Yeltsin dead at 76 Former president escorted Russia to door MOSCOW AP Former President Boris who hastened the collapse of the Soviet Union by scrambling atop a tank to rally tion against a hardline coup and later pushed Russia to embrace democracy and a market econ died of heart failure Monday at age The first freely elected leader of Yelt sin was initially admired abroad for his defiance of the monolithic Communist But many Russians will remember him mostly for presiding over the steep decline of their Mikhail the last Soviet summed up complex legacy Monday by referring to him as one on whose shoulders are both great deeds for the country and serious Defense Secretary Robert Gates called Yeltsin an important figure in Russian No at will forget seeing him standing on the tank outside the White House the golfing may link under annex proposal By Charles Geraci staff writer Boris Yeltsin Russian parliament building resisting the coup Gates said while visiting The Kremlin said the funeral would be a day of national and that See YELTSIN oil A5 Golf in Hyrum It could happen soon if a request for city officials to annex more than 700 acres for an upscale devel of homes and an course is The City Council accepted a petition for annexa tion of the located on the west last The city attorney and recorder will now consider certifying the which would then clear the way for public hearings and possible approval of the proposal by the Mayor Dean Howard said he is supportive of the and Councilman Paul James echoed those sen on The presentation they had was very profession James It looks like the got the See HYRUM on A8
