
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, June 2, 1993                   TAG: 9306020193
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SOME FAMILY NEWS YOU CAN USE

SUMMER VACATION: On the road again - that's where record numbers of you will be this summer. The American Automobile Association and the Travel Industry Association predict Americans this summer will take 232 million "person trips," defined as one person traveling 100 miles or more from home. That would be 4 percent more than in 1992. But tourism officials say that this summer, the family that travels together will pinch pennies together.

- KNIGHT-RIDDER/TRIBUNE\

OVERDUE FAMILY DISCUSSIONS: If you're fiftysomething and you've never had a full and frank discussion with your parents, now is the time. That's because you may be called upon to assit them with financial counsel and, in some cases, financial aid. Most importantly, adult children and their parents should try to talk openly about matters such as estate planning and investing, however difficult that may be, says the head of the Retirement Planning Program at the Denver-based College for Financial Planning. In some cases, this could mean resolving disputes and hurt feelings from years gone by.

- KNIGHT-RIDDER/TRIBUNE\

PREGNANCY HANDBOOK: In hopes of reducing the nation's infant mortality rate, the federal government has published a pregnancy handbook. The "Health Diary" advises mothers-to-be on everything from prenatal care and vitamins to immunizations for toddlers. The government is distributing free copies of the $4.25 book to expectant mothers participating in federal aid programs; otherwise, it's hoped that clinics and state and local governments will buy and distribute it. The book is available from the U.S. Superintendent of Documents.

- KNIGHT-RIDDER/TRIBUNE\

HEREDITARY PROSTATE CANCER: The gene that causes hereditary prostate cancer can be passed on maternally as well as paternally. "Don't just stop with your father and your brother. Ask about your mother," advises Patrick Walsh, director of the Brady Urological Institute at Johns Hopkins University. Men with a family history of the disease should undergo screening after age 40.

- KNIGHT-RIDDER/TRIBUNE\

STORM BABIES: No lights. No air conditioning. Husbands and wives cooped up together for days. What to do? Hundreds of South Floridians found something to pass the time after Hurricane Andrew. And nine months later, Broward County is greeting Andrew's legacy: a baby boom. Said one new mother: "I imagine during labor there are some women cursing Hurricane Andrew instead of their husbands."

- KNIGHT-RIDDER/TRIBUNE\

BELOW HAAGEN-DAZS: Haagen-Dazs, which turned the market around by being richer than other ice creams, wasn't invented by a Mr. Haagen-Dazs but by a second-generation New York ice cream maker named Reuben Mattus. Eventually Mattus sold the company, and when a new owner let him go three years ago, he started working on a new line of ice creams under his own name - but this time lower in fat (Mattus had open-heart surgery in 1980).

Due to a mysterious process that does not involve vegetable gum thickeners, Mattus' Low-Fat Ice Creams taste much richer than you'd think from their 3 percent fat level (most premium ice cream is 12 percent to 17 percent fat). The lack of fat is just discernible in the chocolate, and the vanilla has a faint hint of honey, but the coffee and caramel crunch flavors are as good as regular ice cream.

- LOS ANGELES TIMES

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