{ "cells": [ { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": 1, "metadata": {}, "outputs": [ { "name": "stderr", "output_type": "stream", "text": [ "Downloading 20news dataset. This may take a few minutes.\n", "Downloading dataset from https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/5975967 (14 MB)\n" ] } ], "source": [ "from sklearn.datasets import fetch_20newsgroups\n", "# Escolher duas categorias para trabalhar, diferentes das usadas neste exemplo (sci.med e sci.space)\n", "# alt.atheism, comp.graphics, comp.os.ms-windows.misc, comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware, comp.sys.mac.hardware, \n", "# comp.windows.x, misc.forsale, rec.autos, rec.motorcycles, rec.sport.baseball, rec.sport.hockey, sci.crypt, \n", "# sci.electronics, sci.med, sci.space, soc.religion.christian, talk.politics.guns, talk.politics.mideast, \n", "# talk.politics.misc, talk.religion.misc\n", "categories = ['sci.med', 'sci.space']\n", "# Fará o download dos dados - é preciso estar conectado na internet\n", "twenty_sci_news = fetch_20newsgroups(categories=categories)" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": 2, "metadata": {}, "outputs": [ { "data": { "text/plain": [ "{'data': ['From: flb@flb.optiplan.fi (\"F.Baube[tm]\")\\nSubject: Vandalizing the sky\\nX-Added: Forwarded by Space Digest\\nOrganization: [via International Space University]\\nOriginal-Sender: isu@VACATION.VENARI.CS.CMU.EDU\\nDistribution: sci\\nLines: 12\\n\\nFrom: \"Phil G. Fraering\" \\n> \\n> Finally: this isn\\'t the Bronze Age, [..]\\n> please try to remember that there are more human activities than\\n> those practiced by the Warrior Caste, the Farming Caste, and the\\n> Priesthood.\\n\\nRight, the Profiting Caste is blessed by God, and may \\n freely blare its presence in the evening twilight ..\\n\\n-- \\n* Fred Baube (tm)\\n',\n", " 'From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nSubject: Re: Striato Nigral Degeneration\\nReply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nOrganization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science\\nLines: 16\\n\\nIn article <9303252134.AA09923@walrus.mvhs.edu> ktodd@walrus.mvhs.edu ((Ken Todd)) writes:\\n>I would like any information available on this rare disease. I understand\\n>that an operation referred to as POLLIDOTOMY may be in order. Does anyone\\n>know of a physician that performs this procedure. All responses will be\\n>appreciated. Please respond via email to ktodd@walrus.mvhs.edu\\n\\nIt isn\\'t that rare, actually. Many cases that are called Parkinson\\'s\\nDisease turn out on autopsy to be SND. It should be suspected in any\\ncase of Parkinsonism without tremor and which does not respond to\\nL-dopa therapy. I don\\'t believe pallidotomy will do much for SND.\\n\\n-- \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nGordon Banks N3JXP | \"Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and\\ngeb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu | it is shameful to surrender it too soon.\" \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n',\n", " \"From: ab961@Freenet.carleton.ca (Robert Allison)\\nSubject: Frequent nosebleeds\\nReply-To: ab961@Freenet.carleton.ca (Robert Allison)\\nOrganization: The National Capital Freenet\\nLines: 18\\n\\n\\nI have between 15 and 25 nosebleeds each week, as a result of a genetic\\npredisposition to weak capillary walls (Osler-Weber-Rendu). Fortunately,\\neach nosebleed is of short duration.\\n\\nDoes anyone know of any method to reduce this frequency? My younger brothers\\neach tried a skin transplant (thigh to nose lining), but their nosebleeds\\nsoon returned. I've seen a reference to an herb called Rutin that is\\nsupposed to help, and I'd like to hear of experiences with it, or other\\ntechniques.\\n-- \\nRobert Allison\\nOttawa, Ontario CANADA\\n\",\n", " 'From: rind@enterprise.bih.harvard.edu (David Rind)\\nSubject: Re: erythromycin\\nOrganization: Beth Israel Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston Mass., USA\\nLines: 11\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: enterprise.bih.harvard.edu\\n\\nIn article <47974@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> wsun@jeeves.ucsd.edu (Fiberman) writes:\\n>Is erythromycin effective in treating pneumonia?\\n\\nIt depends on the cause of the pneumonia. For treating bacterial\\npneumonia in young otherwise-healthy non-smokers, erythromycin\\nis usually considered the antibiotic of choice, since it covers\\nthe two most-common pathogens: strep pneumoniae and mycoplasma\\npneumoniae.\\n-- \\nDavid Rind\\nrind@enterprise.bih.harvard.edu\\n',\n", " 'From: nsmca@aurora.alaska.edu\\nSubject: Space Design Movies?\\nArticle-I.D.: aurora.1993Apr23.124722.1\\nOrganization: University of Alaska Fairbanks\\nLines: 11\\nNntp-Posting-Host: acad3.alaska.edu\\n\\nIs there a few Grasp pictures of space related items, namely Space Station\\nDesigns, so you can see the \"finished\" revolt around..\\n\\nIf you don\\'t know what a grasp prograsm is.. Check out some adult entertainment\\nfiles and see what I mean.. Or maybe geta few GIF files and create a \"slide\\nshows\" (I think Cshow can do this).. \\n\\nI liek to be able to see a space shuttle design in a AutoCAD program or to see\\nit revolt around and look at it.\\n==\\nMichael Adams, nsmca@acad3.alaska.edu -- I\\'m not high, just jacked\\n',\n", " \"From: uabdpo.dpo.uab.edu!gila005 (Stephen Holland)\\nSubject: Re: diet for Crohn's (IBD)\\nOrganization: Gastroenterology - Univ. of Alabama\\nDistribution: usa\\nLines: 81\\n\\nSummary of thread:\\nA person has Crohns, raw vegetables cause problems (unspecified)\\nSteve Holland replies: patient may have mild obstruction. Avoid things\\nthat would plug her up. Crohn's has no dietary restriction in general.\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr22.210631.13300@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>,\\nspenser@fudd.jsc.nasa.gov (S. Spenser Aden) wrote:\\n> \\n> Interesting statements, simply because I have been told otherwise. I'm\\n> certainly not questioning Steve's claims, as for one I am not a doctor, and I\\n> agree that foods don't bring on the recurrence of Crohn's. But inflammation\\n> can be either mildly or DRASTICALLY enhanced due to food.\\n\\nThe feeling obout this has changed in the GI community. The current\\nfeeling\\nis that inflammation is not induced by food. There is even evidence that\\npatients deprived of food have mucosal atrophy due to lack of stimulation\\nof\\nintestinal growth factors. There is now interest in providing small\\namounts\\nof nasogastric feeding to patients on IV nutrition. But I digress. \\nSymptoms can be drastically enhanced by food, but not inflammation.\\n\\n> Having had one major obstruction resulting in resection (is that a good enough\\n> caveat :-), I was told that a *LOW RESIDUE* diet is called for. Basically,\\n> the idea is that if there is inflammation of the gut (which may not be\\n> realized by the patient), any residue in the system can be caught in the folds\\n> of inflammation and constantly irritate, thus exacerbating the problem.\\n> Therefore, anything that doesn't digest completely by the point of common\\n> inflammation should be avoided. With what I've been told is typical Crohn's,\\n> of the terminal ileum, my diet should be low residue, consisting of:\\n>\\n> Completely out - never again - items:\\n> \\to corn (kernel husk doesn't digest ... most of us know this :-)\\n> \\to popcorn (same)\\n> \\to dried (dehydrated) fruit and fruit skins\\n> \\to nuts (Very tough when it comes to giving up some fudge :-)\\n\\nThe low residue diet is appropriate for you if you still have obstructions.\\nAgain, it is not felt that food causes inflammation. These foods are\\navoided because they may get stuck. I'd go ahead and have the\\nfudge, though ;-) .\\n\\n> Discouraged greatly:\\n> \\to raw vegetables (too fibrous)\\n> \\to wheat and raw grain breads\\n> \\to exotic lettuce (iceberg is ok since it's apparently mostly water)\\n> \\to greens (turnip, mustard, kale, etc...)\\n> \\to little seeds, like sesame (try getting an Arby's without it!)\\n> \\to long grain and wild rice (husky)\\n> \\to beans (you'll generate enough gas alone without them!)\\n> \\to BASICALLY anything that requires heavy digestive processing\\n> \\n> I was told that the more processed the food the better! (rather ironic in this\\n> day and age). The whole point is PREVENTATIVE ... you want to give your\\n> system as little chance to inflame as possible. I was told that among the\\n> NUMEROUS things that were heavily discouraged (I only listed a few), to try\\n> the ones I wanted and see how I felt. If it's bad, don't do it again!\\n> Remember though that this was while I was in remission. For Veggies: cook the\\n> daylights out of them. I prefer steaming ... I think it's cooks more\\n> thoroughly - you're mileage may vary.\\n> \\n> As with anything else, CHECK WITH YOUR DOCTOR. Don't just take my word. But\\n> this is the info I've been given, and it may be a starting point for\\n> discussion. Good luck!\\n> \\nSpencer makes an especially good point in having an observant and\\ninformed patient. Would that many patients be able to tell what\\ncauses them problems. The digestive processing idea is changing, but\\nif a food causes problems, avoid them. Be sure that the foods are \\ntested a second time to be sure the food is a real cause. Crohn's\\ncommonly causes intermittent symptoms and some patients end up with\\nseverly restricted diets that take months to renormalize.\\n\\nThere was a good article in the CCFA newsletter recently that discussed\\nthe issue of dietary restriction of fiber. It would be worth reading\\nto anyone with an interest in Crohn's.\\n\\nAnd, as I always say when dealing with Crohn's, as does Spencer, Good Luck!\\n\\nSteve Holland\\n\",\n", " 'From: c23st@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com (Spiros Triantafyllopoulos)\\nSubject: Re: Space Station radio commercial\\nOrganization: Delco Electronics Corp.\\nLines: 25\\n\\nIn article xrcjd@resolve.gsfc.nasa.gov (Charles J. Divine) writes:\\n>A brief political/cultural item.\\n>\\n>Radio station WGMS in Washington is a classical music station with\\n>a large audience among high officials (elected and otherwise). \\n>Imagine a radio station that advertises Mercedes Benzes, diamond\\n>jewelry, expensive resorts and (truthfully) Trident submarines.\\n>\\n>This morning I heard a commercial for the space station project.\\n>Didn\\'t catch the advertiser.\\n>\\n>Guess they\\'re pulling out all the stops.\\n\\nIn the Air Force world at least, the crisis escalates when scale\\nmodels of the plane in question (i.e. about to be sacrificed) begin to\\narrive in key Senators and Congresspersons\\' offices.\\n\\nOf course it is assumed that coffee mugs and other decorative junk has\\nbeen tried earlier.\\n\\nSpiros\\n-- \\nSpiros Triantafyllopoulos c23st@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com\\nSoftware Technology, Delco Electronics (317) 451-0815\\nGM Hughes Electronics, Kokomo, IN 46904 \"I post, therefore I ARMM\"\\n',\n", " 'From: pgf@srl03.cacs.usl.edu (Phil G. Fraering)\\nSubject: Re: Griffin / Office of Exploration: RIP\\nOrganization: Univ. of Southwestern Louisiana\\nLines: 43\\n\\nyamauchi@ces.cwru.edu (Brian Yamauchi) writes:\\n\\n>Any comments on the absorbtion of the Office of Exploration into the\\n>Office of Space Sciences and the reassignment of Griffin to the \"Chief\\n>Engineer\" position? Is this just a meaningless administrative\\n>shuffle, or does this bode ill for SEI?\\n\\n>In my opinion, this seems like a Bad Thing, at least on the surface.\\n>Griffin seemed to be someone who was actually interested in getting\\n>things done, and who was willing to look an innovative approaches to\\n>getting things done faster, better, and cheaper. It\\'s unclear to me\\n>whether he will be able to do this at his new position.\\n\\n>Does anyone know what his new duties will be?\\n\\nFirst I\\'ve heard of it. Offhand:\\n\\nGriffin is no longer an \"office\" head, so that\\'s bad.\\n\\nOn the other hand:\\n\\nRegress seemed to think: we can\\'t fund anything by Griffin, because\\nthat would mean (and we have the lies by the old hardliners about the\\n$ 400 billion mars mission to prove it) that we would be buying into a\\nmission to Mars that would cost 400 billion. Therefore there will be\\nno Artemis or 20 million dollar lunar orbiter et cetera...\\n\\nThey were killing Griffin\\'s main program simply because some sycophants\\nsomewhere had Congress beleivin that to do so would simply be to buy into\\nthe same old stuff. Sorta like not giving aid to Yeltsin because he\\'s\\na communist hardliner.\\n\\nAt least now the sort of reforms Griffin was trying to bring forward\\nwon\\'t be trapped in their own little easily contained and defunded\\nghetto. That Griffin is staying in some capacity is very very very\\ngood. And if he brings something up, noone can say \"why don\\'t you go\\nback to the OSE where you belong\" (and where he couldn\\'t even get money\\nfor design studies).\\n--\\nPhil Fraering |\"Seems like every day we find out all sorts of stuff.\\npgf@srl02.cacs.usl.edu|Like how the ancient Mayans had televison.\" Repo Man\\n\\n\\n',\n", " 'From: nsmca@aurora.alaska.edu\\nSubject: Re: Why not give $1 billion to first year-long moon residents?\\nArticle-I.D.: aurora.1993Apr19.130922.1\\nOrganization: University of Alaska Fairbanks\\nLines: 28\\nNntp-Posting-Host: acad3.alaska.edu\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr19.144427.17399@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>, kjenks@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov writes:\\n> Gene Wright (gene@theporch.raider.net) wrote:\\n> : Announce that a reward of $1 billion would go to the first corporation \\n> : who successfully keeps at least 1 person alive on the moon for a year. \\n> : Then you\\'d see some of the inexpensive but not popular technologies begin \\n> : to be developed. THere\\'d be a different kind of space race then!\\n> \\n> I\\'m an advocate of this idea for funding Space Station work, and I\\n> throw around the $1 billion figure for that \"reward.\" I suggest that\\n> you increase the Lunar reward to about $3 billion.\\n> \\n> This would encourage private industry to invest in space, which \\n> should be one of NASA\\'s primary goals.\\n> \\n> -- Ken Jenks, NASA/JSC/GM2, Space Shuttle Program Office\\n> kjenks@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov (713) 483-4368\\n> \\n> \"Better. Faster. Cheaper.\" -- Daniel S. Goldin, NASA Administrator\\n\\n\\nAlso would maybe get the Russians Involved. After all they do have the resources\\nto do it in part.. But they need the capital and the goal..\\n\\nI wonder if renting the russians resources would be a disqualification?\\n\\n\\n==\\nMichael Adams, nsmca@acad3.alaska.edu -- I\\'m not high, just jacked\\n',\n", " 'From: ralph.buttigieg@f635.n713.z3.fido.zeta.org.au (Ralph Buttigieg)\\nSubject: Commercial point of view\\nOrganization: Fidonet. Gate admin is fido@socs.uts.edu.au\\nLines: 29\\n\\nOriginal to: szabo@techbook.com\\nG\\'day szabo@techbook.com\\n\\n29 Mar 93 07:28, szabo@techbook.com wrote to All:\\n\\n sc> szabo@techbook.com (Nick Szabo), via Kralizec 3:713/602\\n\\n sc> Here are some longer-term markets to consider:\\n\\nHere are some more:\\n\\n* Terrestrial illumination from orbiting mirrors.\\n\\n* World enviroment and disaster monitering system. (the Japanese have\\nalready developed a plan for this, called WEDOS) Although this may be more\\nof a \"public good\".\\n\\n* Space tourism.\\n\\n* Energy relay satellites\\n\\nta\\n\\nRalph\\n\\n--- GoldED 2.41\\n * Origin: VULCAN\\'S WORLD - Sydney Australia (02) 635-6797 3:713/6\\n(3:713/635)\\n\\n',\n", " \"From: clj@ksr.com (Chris Jones)\\nSubject: Re: Proton/Centaur?\\nReply-To: clj@ksr.com (Chris Jones)\\nOrganization: Kendall Square Research Corp\\nLines: 20\\nIn-reply-to: prb@access.digex.com (Pat)\\n\\nIn article <1r2aii$ivs@access.digex.net>, prb@access (Pat) writes:\\n>In article <1993Apr20.211638.168730@zeus.calpoly.edu> jgreen@trumpet.calpoly.edu (James Thomas Green) writes:\\n>>Has anyone looked into the possiblity of a Proton/Centaur combo?\\n>\\n>I don't know a whole lot on Proton, but given that it is a multi stage\\n>rocket, up to 4 stages, it may not really need the Centaur, plus\\n>it may end up seriously beating on said centaur. \\n\\nThe Proton has been used in 2, 3, and 4 stage versions. The two stage version\\nwas used for the first 3 launches, while the 3 and 4 stage versions are used\\ntoday. The four stage version is used mostly for escape (and geosynchronous?)\\norbits, while the 3 stage version is used for low earth orbits. Since this is\\nthe version that launched Mir and the Salyuts (and the add-on modules for Mir),\\nas long as Centaur is smaller than Mir (which I believe it is), it should fit\\nunder the shroud.\\n\\nI vaguely recall that the Russians are developing a LH2/LOX upper stage for the\\nProton.\\n--\\nChris Jones clj@ksr.com\\n\",\n", " 'From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)\\nSubject: Re: food-related seizures?\\nOrganization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA\\nLines: 18\\n\\nIn article <79727@cup.portal.com> mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson) writes:\\n>I remember hearing a few years back about a new therapy for hyperactivity\\n>which involved aggressively eliminating artificial coloring and flavoring\\n>from the diet. The theory -- which was backed up by interesting anecdotal\\n>results -- is that certain people are just way more sensitive to these\\n>chemicals than other people. I don\\'t remember any connection being made\\n>with seizures, but it certainly couldn\\'t hurt to try an all-natural diet.\\n\\nYeah, the \"Feingold Diet\" is a load of crap. Children diagnosed with ADD\\nwho are placed on this diet show no improvement in their intellectual and\\nsocial skills, which in fact continue to decline. Of course, the parents\\nwho are enthusiastic about this approach lap it up at the expense of their\\nchildren\\'s development. So much for the value of \"interesting anecdotal\\nresults\". People will believe anything if they want to.\\n\\n-- \\nSteve Dyer\\ndyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer\\n',\n", " 'From: Mark-Tarbell@suite.com\\nSubject: Amniocentesis, et. al.\\nOrganization: Suite Software\\nLines: 7\\nReply-To: suite!tarbell@uunet.uu.net\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: gilgamesh.suite.com\\n\\nIs there some difference between the purposes behind\\namniocentesis and chorionic villi sampling? They sound\\nsimilar to me, but are intended to detect different\\nthings?\\n\\nThanks.\\n\\x03\\n',\n", " \"From: mmatusev@radford.vak12ed.edu (Melissa N. Matusevich)\\nSubject: Re: HELP ME INJECT...\\nOrganization: Virginia's Public Education Network (Radford)\\nLines: 5\\n\\nAccording to a previous poster, one should seek a doctor's\\nassistance for injections. But what about Sumatriptin [sp?]?\\nDoesn't one have to inject oneself immediately upon the onset\\nof a migraine?\\n\\n\",\n", " 'From: hbloom@moose.uvm.edu (*Heather*)\\nSubject: re: what are the problems with nutrasweet (aspartame)\\nOrganization: University of Vermont -- Division of EMBA Computer Facility\\nLines: 21\\n\\nNutrasweet is a synthetic sweetener a couple thousand times sweeter than\\nsugar. Some people are concerned about the chemicals that the body produces \\nwhen it degrades nutrasweet. It is thought to form formaldehyde and known to\\nfor methanol in the degredation pathway that the body uses to eliminate \\nsubstances. The real issue is whether the levels of methanol and formaldehyde\\nproduced are high enough to cause significant damage, as both are toxic to\\nliving cells. All I can say is that I will not consume it. \\n\\nPhenylalanine is\\nnothing for you to worry about. It is an amino acid, and everyone uses small\\nquantities of it for protein synthesis in the body. Some people have a disease\\nknown as phenylketoneurea, and they are missing the enzyme necessary to \\ndegrade this compound and eliminate it from the body. For them, it will \\naccumulate in the body, and in high levels this is toxic to growing nerve\\ncells. Therefore, it is Only a major problem in young children (until around\\nage 10 or so) or women who are pregnant and have this disorder. It used to\\nbe a leading cause of brain damage in infants, but now it can be easily \\ndetected at birth, and then one must simply avoid comsumption of phenylalanine\\nas a child, or when pregnant. \\n\\n-heather\\n',\n", " \"From: lundby@rtsg.mot.com (Walter F. Lundby)\\nSubject: Re: Is MSG sensitivity superstition?\\nNntp-Posting-Host: accord2\\nOrganization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group\\nLines: 48\\n\\n\\n>>Is there such a thing as MSG (monosodium glutamate) sensitivity?\\n>>Superstition. Anybody here have experience to the contrary?\\n>>\\n \\nAs a person who is very sensitive to msg and whose wife and kids are\\ntoo, I WANT TO KNOW WHY THE FOOD INDUSTRY WANTS TO PUT MSG IN FOOD!!!\\n\\nSomebody in the industry GIVE ME SOME REASONS WHY! \\n\\nIS IT AN INDUSTRIAL BYPRODUCT THAT NEEDS GETTING GET RID OF?\\n\\nIS IT TO COVER UP THE FACT THAT THE RECIPES ARE NOT VERY GOOD OR THE FOOD IS POOR QUALITY?\\n\\nDO SOME OF YOU GET A SADISTIC PLEASURE OUT OF MAKING SOME OF US SICK?\\n\\nDO THE TASTE TESTERS HAVE SOME DEFECT IN THEIR FLAVOR SENSORS (MOUTH etc...)\\n THAT MSG CORRECTS?\\n\\nI REALLY DON'T UNDERSTAND!!!\\n\\nALSO ... Nitrosiamines (sp) and sulfites... Why them? There are\\n safer ways to preserve food, wines, and beers!\\n\\nI think \\n1) outlaw the use of these substances without warning labels as\\nlarge as those on cig. packages.\\n2) Require 30% of comparable products on the market to be free of these\\nsubstances and state that they are free of MSG, DYES, NITROSIAMINES and SULFITES on the package.\\n3) While at it outlaw yellow dye #5. For that matter why dye food? \\n4) Take the dyes and flavorings out of vitamins. (In my OSCO only Stress\\nTabs (tm) didn't have yellow dye #5) { My doctor says Yellow Dye #5 is\\nresponsible for 1/2 of all nasal polyps !!! }\\n\\nKEEP FOOD FOOD! QUIT PUTTING IN JUNK!\\n\\nJUST MY TWO CENTS WORTH.\\n\\nSig: A person tired of getting sick from this junk!\\n\\n-- \\nWalter Lundby\\n\\n\\n\\n-- \\nWalter Lundby\\n\\n\",\n", " \"From: dougb@comm.mot.com (Doug Bank)\\nSubject: Do we need a Radiologist to read an Ultrasound?\\nReply-To: dougb@ecs.comm.mot.com\\nOrganization: Motorola Land Mobile Products Sector\\nNntp-Posting-Host: 145.1.146.35\\nLines: 28\\n\\nMy wife's ob-gyn has an ultrasound machine in her office. When\\nthe doctor couldn't hear a fetal heartbeat (13 weeks) she used\\nthe ultrasound to see if everything was ok. (it was)\\n\\nOn her next visit, my wife asked another doctor in the office if\\nthey read the ultrasounds themselves or if they had a radiologist\\nread the pictures. The doctor very vehemently insisted that they\\nwere qualified to read the ultrasound and radiologists were NOT!\\n\\nMy wife is concerned about this. She saw a TV show a couple months\\nback (something like 20/20 or Dateline NBC, etc.) where an expert\\non fetal ultrasounds (a radiologist) was showing all the different\\ndeffects that could be detected using the ultrasound.\\n\\nShould my wife be concerned? Should we take the pictures to a \\nradiologist for a second opinion? (and if so, where would we find\\nsuch an expert in Chicago?) We don't really have any special medical\\nreason to be concerned, but if a radiologist will be able to see\\nthings the ob-gyn can't, then I don't see why we shouldn't use one.\\n\\nAny thoughts?\\n\\n\\n-- \\nDoug Bank Private Systems Division\\ndougb@ecs.comm.mot.com Motorola Communications Sector\\ndougb@nwu.edu Schaumburg, Illinois\\ndougb@casbah.acns.nwu.edu 708-576-8207 \\n\",\n", " 'From: shavlik@cs.wisc.edu (Jude Shavlik)\\nSubject: Program & Reg Forms: 1st Int Conf on Intell Sys for Molecular Biology\\nKeywords: computational biology, artificial intelligence\\nOrganization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept\\nLines: 482\\n\\n[For those attending the AAAI conf this summer, note that\\nthis conference is immediately preceding it.]\\n\\n\\n PRELIMINARY PROGRAM AND REGISTRATION MATERIALS\\n\\n First International Conference on\\n Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology\\n\\n Washington, D.C.\\n July 6-9, 1993\\n\\nSponsored by:\\n The National Institutes of Health, \\n National Library of Medicine\\n\\n The Department of Energy, \\n Office of Health and Environmental Research\\n\\n The Biomatrix Society\\n\\n The American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)\\n\\nPoster Session and Tutorials: \\n Bethesda Ramada Hotel\\n\\nTechnical Sessions:\\n Lister Hill Center Auditorium, National Library of Medicine\\n\\nFor more information contact ISMB@nlm.nih.gov or FAX (608)262-9777\\n\\n PURPOSE\\nThis, the First International Conference on Intelligent Systems \\nfor Molecular Biology, is the inaugural meeting in a series \\nintended to bring together scientists who are applying the \\ntechnologies of artificial intelligence, robotics, machine \\nlearning, massively parallel computing, advanced data modelling, \\nand related methods to problems in molecular biology. The scope \\nextends to any computational or robotic system supporting a \\nbiological task that is cognitively challenging, involves a \\nsynthesis of information from multiple sources at multiple levels, \\nor in some other way exhibits the abstraction and emergent \\nproperties of an \"intelligent system.\" \\n\\n FACILITIES\\nThe conference will be held at\\n Lister Hill Center \\n National Library of Medicine\\n 8600 Rockville Pike\\n NIH, Building 38A\\n Bethesda MD 20894\\nSeating in the conference center is strictly limited, so \\nregistrations will be accepted on a first-come, first-serve basis. \\nAccomodations, as well as a reception and poster session, will be \\nat the\\n Bethesda Ramada Hotel \\n 8400 Wisconsin Avenue\\n Bethesda MD 20814\\nA special room rate has been negotiated with the hotel, of $92/day \\n(expires 6/21). Attendees must make their own reservations, by \\nwriting the hotel or calling (800)331-5252 and mentioning the \\nISMB conference. To participate in a roommate-matching service, \\ne-mail opitz@cs.wisc.edu.\\n\\n TRANSPORTATION\\nThe two facilities are within easy walking distance, convenient to \\nthe subway (Metro Red Line, Medical Center stop), and from there \\nto the Amtrak station. Nearby airports include Dulles, National, \\nand Baltimore-Washington International. \\n\\n PROCEEDINGS\\nFull-length papers from both talks and posters will be published in\\narchival proceedings. The citation is: \\n\\n Proceedings of the First International \\n Conference on Intelligent Systems for \\n Molecular Biology (eds. L. Hunter, \\n D. Searls, and J. Shavlik) AAAI/MIT\\n Press, Menlo Park CA, 1993. \\n\\nCopies will be distributed at the conference to registered \\nattendees, and will be available for purchase from the publisher \\nafterwards.\\n\\n TALKS\\nWednesday, July 7, 1993\\n-----------------------------------------------------------------\\n8:00-9:00am Continental Breakfast\\n\\n9:00-9:15am Opening Remarks\\n\\n9:15-10:30am Invited Talk\\n \"Statistics, Protein Cores, and Predicted Structures\"\\n Prof. Temple Smith (Boston University)\\n\\n10:30-11:00am\\tBreak\\n\\n11:00am\\t\"Constructive Induction and Protein Structure Prediction\"\\n T.R. Ioerger, L. Rendell, & S. Surbramaniam\\n\\n11:30am\\t\"Protein Secondary-Structure Modeling with Probabilistic \\n Networks\" A.L. Delcher, S. Kasif, H.R. Goldberg, & W. Hsu\\n\\n12:00-1:30pm\\tLunch\\n\\n1:30pm\\t\"Protein Secondary Structure using Two-Level Case-Based \\n Reasoning\" B. Leng, B.G. Buchanan, & H.B. Nicholas\\n\\n2:00pm \\t\"Automatic Derivation of Substructures Yields Novel \\n Structural Building Blocks in Globular Proteins\" \\n X. Zhang, J.S. Fetrow, W.A. Rennie, D.L. Waltz, & G. Berg\\n\\n2:30pm \\t\"Using Dirichlet Mixture Priors to Derive Hidden Markov \\n Models for Protein Families\" M. Brown, R. Hughey, A. Krogh, \\n I.S. Mian, K. Sjolander, & D. Haussler\\n\\n3:00-3:30pm\\tBreak\\n\\n3:30pm\\t\"Protein Classification using Neural Networks\" \\n E.A. Ferran, B. Pflugfelder, & P. Ferrara\\n\\n4:00pm\\t\"Neural Networks for Molecular Sequence Classification\"\\n C. Wu, M. Berry, Y-S. Fung, & J. McLarty\\n\\n4:30pm\\t\"Computationally Efficient Cluster Representation in \\n Molecular Sequence Megaclassification\" D.J. States, N. Harris, \\n & L. Hunter\\n\\n7:00-7:30pm Poster Setup\\n7:30-10:00pm Reception & Poster Session \\n\\nThursday, July 8, 1993\\n-----------------------------------------------------------------\\n8:00-9:00am Continental Breakfast\\n\\n9:00-10:15am Invited Talk\\n \"Large-Scale DNA Sequencing: A Tale of Mice and Men\"\\n Prof. Leroy Hood (University of Washington)\\n\\n10:15-10:45am\\tBreak\\n\\n10:45am\\t\"Pattern Recognition for Automated DNA Sequencing: \\n I. On-Line Signal Conditioning and Feature Extraction for \\n Basecalling\" J.B. Bolden III, D. Torgersen, & C. Tibbetts\\n\\n11:15am\\t\"Genetic Algorithms for Sequence Assembly\" \\n R. Parsons, S. Forrest, & C. Burks\\n\\n11:45am\\t\"A Partial Digest Approach to Restriction Site Mapping\"\\n S.S. Skiena & G. Sundaram\\n\\n12:15-2:00pm\\tLunch\\n\\n2:00pm\\t\"Integrating Order and Distance Relationships from \\n Heterogeneous Maps\" M. Graves \\n\\n2:30pm\\t\"Discovering Sequence Similarity by the Algorithmic \\n Significance Method\" A. Milosavljevic\\n\\n3:00pm\\t\"Identification of Human Gene Functional Regions Based on \\n Oligonucleotide Composition\" V.V. Solovyev & C.B. Lawrence\\n\\n3:30pm\\t\"Knowledge Discovery in GENBANK\"\\n J.S. Aaronson, J. Haas, & G.C. Overton\\n\\n4:00-4:30pm\\tBreak\\n\\n4:30pm\\t\"An Expert System to Generate Machine Learning \\n Experiments: Learning with DNA Crystallography Data\"\\n D. Cohen, C. Kulikowski, & H. Berman \\n\\n5:00pm \\t\"Detection of Correlations in tRNA Sequences with \\n Structural Implications\" T.M. Klingler & D. Brutlag\\n\\n5:30pm\\t\"Probabilistic Structure Calculations: A Three-\\n Dimensional tRNA Structure from Sequence Correlation Data\" \\n R.B. Altman\\n\\nFriday, July 9, 1993\\n-----------------------------------------------------------------\\n8:00-9:00am Continental Breakfast\\n\\n9:00-10:15am Invited Talk\\n \"Artificial Intelligence and a Grand Unified Theory of \\n Biochemistry\" Prof. Harold Morowitz (George Mason University)\\n\\n10:15-10:45am\\tBreak\\n\\n10:45am\\t\"Testing HIV Molecular Biology in in silico Physiologies\" \\n H.B. Sieburg & C. Baray\\n\\n11:15am\\t\"Identification of Localized and Distributed Bottlenecks \\n in Metabolic Pathways\" M.L. Mavrovouniotis\\n\\n11:45am\\t\"Fine-Grain Databases for Pattern Discovery in Gene \\n Regulation\" S.M. Veretnik & B.R. Schatz\\n\\n12:15-2:00pm\\tLunch\\n\\n2:00pm\\t\"Representation for Discovery of Protein Motifs\"\\n D. Conklin, S. Fortier, & J. Glasgow\\n\\n2:30pm\\t\"Finding Relevant Biomolecular Features\" \\n L. Hunter & T. Klein\\n\\n3:00pm\\t\"Database Techniques for Biological Materials and \\n Methods\" K. Baclawski, R. Futrelle, N. Fridman, \\n & M.J. Pescitelli\\n\\n3:30pm\\t\"A Multi-Level Description Scheme of Protein \\n Conformation\" K. Onizuka, K. Asai, M. Ishikawa, & S.T.C. Wong\\n\\n4:00-4:30pm\\tBreak\\n\\n4:30pm\\t\"Protein Topology Prediction through Parallel Constraint \\n Logic Programming\" D.A. Clark, C.J. Rawlings, J. Shirazi, \\n A. Veron, & M. Reeve\\n\\n5:30pm\\t\"A Constraint Reasoning System for Automating Sequence-\\n Specific Resonance Assignments in Multidimensional Protein\\n NMR Spectra\" D. Zimmerman, C. Kulikowski, & G.T. Montelione\\n\\n5:30-5:45pm\\tClosing Remarks\\n\\n POSTER SESSION\\nThe following posters will be on display at the Bethesda Ramada \\nHotel from 7:30-10:00pm, Wednesday, July 7.\\n\\n[1] \"The Induction of Rules for Predicting Chemical\\n Carcinogenesis in Rodents\" D. Bahler & D. Bristol\\n\\n[2] \"SENEX: A CLOS/CLIM Application for Molecular Pathology\" \\n S.S. Ball & V.H. Mah\\n\\n[3] \"FLASH: A Fast Look-Up Algorithm for String Homology\"\\n A. Califano & I. Rigoutsos\\n\\n[4] \"Toward Multi-Strategy Parallel Learning in Sequence \\n Analysis\" P.K. Chan & S.J. Stolfo\\n\\n[5] \"Protein Structure Prediction: Selecting Salient Features \\n from Large Candidate Pools\" K.J. Cherkauer & J.W. Shavlik\\n\\n[6] \"Comparison of Two Approaches to the Prediction of Protein \\n Folding Patterns\" I. Dubchak, S.R. Holbrook, & S.-H. Kim\\n\\n[7] \"A Modular Learning Environment for Protein Modeling\"\\n J. Gracy, L. Chiche & J. Sallantin\\n\\n[8] \"Inference of Order in Genetic Systems\" \\n J.N. Guidi & T.H. Roderick\\n\\n[9] \"PALM - A Pattern Language for Molecular Biology\"\\n C. Helgesen & P.R. Sibbald\\n\\n[10] \"Grammatical Formalization of Metabolic Processes\" \\n R. Hofestedt\\n\\n[11] \"Representations of Metabolic Knowledge\" \\n P.D. Karp & M. Riley\\n\\n[12] \"Protein Sequencing Experiment Planning Using Analogy\"\\n B. Kettler & L. Darden\\n\\n[13] \"Design of an Object-Oriented Database for Reverse Genetics\" \\n K.J. Kochut, J. Arnold, J.A. Miller, & W.D. Potter\\n\\n[14] \"A Small Automaton for Word Recognition in DNA Sequences\"\\n C. Lefevre & J.-E Ikeda\\n\\n[15] \"MultiMap: An Expert System for Automated Genetic Linkage \\n Mapping\" T.C. Matise, M. Perlin & A. Chakravarti\\n\\n[16] \"Constructing a Distributed Object-Oriented System with \\nLogical Constraints for Fluorescence-Activated Cell Sorting\"\\n T. Matsushima\\n\\n[17] \"Prediction of Primate Splice Junction Gene Sequences with \\n a Cooperative Knowledge Acquisition System\"\\n E.M. Nguifo & J. Sallantin\\n\\n[18] \"Object-Oriented Knowledge Bases for the Analysis of \\n Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Genomes\" \\n G. Perriere, F. Dorkeld, F. Rechenmann, & C. Gautier\\n\\n[19] \"Petri Net Representations in Metabolic Pathways\"\\n V.N. Reddy, M.L. Mavrovouniotis, & M.L. Liebman\\n\\n[20] \"Minimizing Complexity in Cellular Automata Models of \\n Self-Replication\" J.A. Reggia, H.-H. Chou, S.L. Armentrout, \\n & Y. Peng\\n\\n[21] \"Building Large Knowledge Bases in Molecular Biology\"\\n O. Schmeltzer, C. Medigue, P. Uvietta, F. Rechenmann, \\n F. Dorkeld, G. Perriere, & C. Gautier\\n\\n[22] \"A Service-Oriented Information Sources Database for the \\n Biological Sciences\" G.K. Springer & T.B. Patrick\\n\\n[23] \"Hidden Markov Models and Iterative Aligners: Study of their \\n Equivalence and Possibilities\" H. Tanaka, K. Asai, M. Ishikawa,\\n & A. Konagaya\\n\\n[24] \"Protein Structure Prediction System Based on Artificial \\n Neural Networks\" J. Vanhala & K. Kaski\\n\\n[25] \"Transmembrane Segment Prediction from Protein Sequence \\n Data\" S.M. Weiss, D.M. Cohen & N. Indurkhya\\n\\n TUTORIAL PROGRAM\\nTutorials will be conducted at the Bethesda Ramada Hotel on \\nTuesday, July 6.\\n\\n12:00-2:45pm \"Introduction to Molecular Biology for Computer \\n Scientists\" Prof. Mick Noordewier (Rutgers University)\\n\\nThis overview of the essential facts of molecular biology is \\nintended as an introduction to the field for computer scientists \\nwho wish to apply their tools to this rich and complex domain. \\nMaterial covered will include structural and informational \\nmolecules, the basic organization of the cell and of genetic \\nmaterial, the \"central dogma\" of gene expression, and selected \\nother topics in the area of structure, function, and regulation as \\nrelates to current computational approaches. Dr. Noordewier has \\nappointments in both Computer Science and Biology at Rutgers, and \\nhas extensive experience in basic biological research in addition \\nto his current work in computational biology.\\n\\n12:00-2:45pm \"Introduction to Artificial Intelligence for \\n Biologists\" Dr. Richard Lathrop (MIT & Arris Corp.)\\n\\nAn overview of the field of artificial intelligence will be \\npresented, as it relates to actual and potential biological \\napplications. Fundamental techniques, symbolic programming \\nlanguages, and notions of search will be discussed, as well as \\nselected topics in somewhat greater detail, such as knowledge \\nrepresentation, inference, and machine learning. The intended \\naudience includes biologists with some computational background, \\nbut no extensive exposure to artificial intelligence. Dr. \\nLathrop, co-developer of ARIADNE and related technologies, has \\nworked in the area of artificial intelligence applied to \\nbiological problems in both academia and industry.\\n\\n3:00-5:45pm \"Neural Networks, Statistics, and Information Theory \\n in Biological Sequence Analysis\" Dr. Alan Lapedes (Los Alamos \\n National Laboratory) \\n\\nThis tutorial will cover the most rapidly-expanding facet of \\nintelligent systems for molecular biology, that of machine \\nlearning techniques applied to sequence analysis. Closely \\ninterrelated topics to be addressed include the use of artifical \\nneural networks to elicit both specific signals and general \\ncharacteristics of sequences, and the relationship of such \\napproaches to statistical techniques and information-theoretic \\nviews of sequence data. Dr. Lapedes, of the Theoretical \\nDivision at Los Alamos, has long been a leader in the use of such \\ntechniques in this domain.\\n\\n3:00-5:45pm \"Genetic Algorithms and Genetic Programming\" \\n Prof. John Koza (Stanford University)\\n\\nThe genetic algorithm, an increasingly popular approach to highly \\nnon-linear multi-dimensional optimization problems, was originally \\ninspired by a biological metaphor. This tutorial will cover both \\nthe biological motivations, and the actual implementation and \\ncharacteristics of the algorithm. Genetic Programming, an \\nextension well-suited to problems where the discovery of the size \\nand shape of the solution is a major part of the problem, will \\nalso be addressed. Particular attention will be paid to \\nbiological applications, and to identifying resources and software \\nthat will permit attendees to begin using the methods. Dr. Koza, \\na Consulting Professor of Computer Science at Stanford, has taught \\nthis subject since 1988 and is the author of a standard text in \\nthe field.\\n\\n3:00-5:45pm \"Linguistic Methods in Sequence Analysis\" \\n Prof. David Searls (University of Pennsylvania) \\n & Shmuel Pietrokovski (Weizmann Institute)\\n\\nApproaches to sequence analysis based on linguistic methodologies \\nare increasingly in evidence. These involve the adaptation of \\ntools and techniques from computational linguistics for syntactic \\npattern recognition and gene prediction, the classification of \\ngenetic structures and phenomena using formal language theory, the \\nidentification of significant vocabularies and overlapping codes \\nin sequence data, and sequence comparison reflecting taxonomic and \\nfunctional relatedness. Dr. Searls, who holds research faculty \\nappointments in both Genetics and Computer Science at Penn, \\nrepresents the branch of this field that considers higher-order \\nsyntactic approaches to sequence data, while Shmuel Pietrokovski \\nhas studied and published with Prof. Edward Trifinov in the area \\nof word-based analyses.\\n\\n REGISTRATION FORM\\nMail, with check made out to \"ISMB-93\", to:\\n\\n ISMB Conference, c/o J. Shavlik\\n Computer Sciences Department\\n University of Wisconsin\\n 1210 West Dayton Street\\n Madison, WI 53706 USA\\n\\n ================================================\\n\\n Name____________________________________________\\n\\t\\n Affiliation_____________________________________\\n\\t\\n Address_________________________________________\\n\\n ________________________________________________\\n\\n ________________________________________________\\n\\n ________________________________________________\\n\\n Phone___________________________________________\\n\\n FAX_____________________________________________\\n\\n Electronic Mail_________________________________\\n\\t\\n Registration Status: ____ Regular ____ Student\\n\\n Presenting? ____ Talk ____ Poster\\n ================================================\\n TUTORIAL REGISTRATION \\n\\n ____\"Molecular Biology for Computer Scientists\"\\n or\\n ____\"Artificial Intelligence for Biologists\"\\n - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - \\n ____\"Neural Networks, Statistics, and \\n or Information Theory in Sequence Analysis\"\\n ____\"Genetic Algorithms and Genetic Programming\"\\n or \\n ____\"Linguistic Methods in Sequence Analysis\"\\n ================================================\\n PAYMENT (Early Registration Before June 1)\\n\\n Registration: Early Late\\t $___________\\n Regular $100 $125\\t\\n Student $75 $100\\t\\n Tutorials: One Two $___________\\n Regular $50 $65\\t\\n Student $25 $35\\t\\n Total: $___________\\n ================================================\\n Registration fees include conference proceedings, \\n refreshments, and general program expenses. \\n\\n\\n ORGANIZING COMMITTEE\\n Lawrence Hunter NLM \\n David Searls U. of Pennsylvania\\n Jude Shavlik U. of Wisconsin\\n\\n PROGRAM COMMITTEE\\n Douglas Brutlag Stanford U.\\n Bruce Buchanan U. of Pittsburgh\\n Christian Burks Los Alamos National Lab\\n Fred Cohen U.C.-San Francisco\\n Chris Fields Inst. for Genome Research\\n Michael Gribskov U.C.-San Diego\\n Peter Karp SRI International\\n Toni Kazic Washington U.\\n Alan Lapedes Los Alamos National Lab\\n Richard Lathrop MIT & Arris Corp.\\n Charles Lawrence Baylor \\n Michael Mavrovouniotis U. of Maryland\\n George Michaels NIH\\n Harold Morowitz George Mason U.\\n Katsumi Nitta ICOT\\n Mick Noordewier Rutgers U.\\n Ross Overbeek Argonne National Lab\\n Chris Rawlings ICRF\\n Derek Sleeman U. of Aberdeen\\n David States Washington U.\\n Gary Stormo U. of Colorado\\n Ed Uberbacher Oak Ridge National Lab\\n David Waltz Thinking Machines Corp.\\n\\n',\n", " 'From: dfegan@lescsse.jsc.nasa.gov (Doug Egan)\\nSubject: Re: *** HELP I NEED SOME ADDRESSES ***\\nOrganization: LESC\\nLines: 19\\n\\nIn <1993Apr20.041300.21721@ncsu.edu> jmcocker@eos.ncsu.edu (Mitch) writes:\\n\\n> I\\'m trying to get mailing addresses for the following\\n>companies. Specifically, I need addresses for their personnel\\n>offices or like bureau. The companies are:\\n\\n>\\t- Space Industries, Inc. (Somewhere in Houston)\\n 101 Courageous Dr. \\n Leage City, TX 77573\\n Phone: (713) 538-6000 \\n\\n \\nGood Luck!\\nDoug \\n--\\n Doug Egan \"It\\'s not what you got -\\n Lockheed Engineering and Sciences Co. It\\'s what you give.\" \\n Houston, TX -Tesla \\n ***** email: egan@blkbox.com ***** \\n',\n", " 'From: bbenowit@telesciences.com (Barry D Benowitz)\\nSubject: PRK (Photo Refractive Keratostomy)\\nOrganization: TeleSciences CO Systems, Inc.\\nDistribution: usa\\nLines: 21\\n\\nFor those of you interested in the above Procedure, I am able to add the\\nfollowing facts:\\n\\n1) This Procedure is not done in Philadelphia.\\n\\n2) It is performed in Maryland at Johns Hopkins for corrections between\\n 0 and -5 and from -10 to -20 (diopters, I think are the units).\\n\\n3) It is performed in New York City at Manhattan Eye and Ear for corrections\\n between 0 and -6.\\n\\nThe magic words to use when requesting information on this is not PRK (they\\nthink you mean RK) but the excimer laser study (or protocol). This will get \\nyou to the proper people.\\n\\n\\n-- \\nBarry D. Benowitz\\nEMail:\\tbbenowit@telesciences.com (...!pyrnj!telesci!bbenowit)\\nPhone:\\t+1 609 866 1000 x354\\nSnail:\\tTelesciences CO Systems, 351 New Albany Rd, Moorestown, NJ, 08057-1177\\n',\n", " 'From: khayash@hsc.usc.edu (Ken Hayashida)\\nSubject: Re: Life on Mars???\\nOrganization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA\\nLines: 25\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: hsc.usc.edu\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr26.184507.10511@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> kjenks@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov writes:\\n>I know it\\'s only wishful thinking, with our current President,\\n>but this is from last fall:\\n>\\n> \"Is there life on Mars? Maybe not now. But there will be.\"\\n> -- Daniel S. Goldin, NASA Administrator, 24 August 1992\\n>\\n>-- Ken Jenks, NASA/JSC/GM2, Space Shuttle Program Office\\n> kjenks@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov (713) 483-4368\\n\\nLets hear it for Dan Goldin...now if he can only convince the rest of\\nour federal government that the space program is a worth while\\ninvestment!\\n\\nI hope that I will live to see the day we walk on Mars, but\\nwe need to address the technical hurdles first! If there\\'s sufficient\\ninterest, maybe we should consider starting a sci.space group \\ndevoted to the technical analysis of long-duration human spaceflight.\\nMost of you regulars know that I\\'m interested in starting this analysis\\nas soon as possible.\\n\\nKen\\nkhayash@hsc.usc.edu\\nUSC School of Medicine, Class of 1994\\n\\n',\n", " \"From: amigan@cup.portal.com (Mike - Medwid)\\nSubject: Emphysema question\\nOrganization: The Portal System (TM)\\nDistribution: na\\nLines: 14\\n\\nA friend of mine is going in later this week for tests to see if has\\nemphysema. His lung capacity has decreased over time. His father died\\nof the disease. He works in woodworking. I believe he has a very\\noccasional cigarette, perhaps one cigarette a day or even less. He tells\\nme this..I've never seen him light up. He has some pretty healthy\\nlife style habits, good diet, exercise, meditation, retreats, therapy\\netc. Anyhow..he is very concerned with this check up. I know really\\nnothing about the disease. I believe it interferes with the lining\\nof the lung being able to exchange oxygen. \\n\\nIs a diagnosis of emphysema a death sentence? If he were to give up smoking\\nentirely would that better his chances for recovery? What are some \\nmodern therapies used in people with this disease? I would appreciate \\nany information. Thanks. amigan@cup.portal.com\\n\",\n", " 'From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)\\nSubject: Re: PLANETS STILL: IMAGES ORBIT BY ETHER TWIST\\nArticle-I.D.: mksol.1993Apr22.213815.12288\\nOrganization: Texas Instruments Inc\\nLines: 22\\n\\nIn <1993Apr22.130923.115397@zeus.calpoly.edu> dmcaloon@tuba.calpoly.edu (David McAloon) writes:\\n\\n> ETHER IMPLODES 2 EARTH CORE, IS GRAVITY!!!\\n\\nIf not for the lack of extraneously capitalized words, I\\'d swear that\\nMcElwaine had changed his name and moved to Cal Poly. I also find the\\nchoice of newsgroups \\'interesting\\'. Perhaps someone should tell this\\nguy that \\'sci.astro\\' doesn\\'t stand for \\'astrology\\'?\\n\\nIt\\'s truly frightening that posts like this are originating at what\\nare ostensibly centers of higher learning in this country. Small\\nwonder that the rest of the world thinks we\\'re all nuts and that we\\nhave the problems that we do.\\n\\n[In case you haven\\'t gotten it yet, David, I don\\'t think this was\\nquite appropriate for a posting to \\'sci\\' groups.]\\n\\n-- \\n\"Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don\\'t have the balls to live\\n in the real world.\" -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden\\n------------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nFred.McCall@dseg.ti.com - I don\\'t speak for others and they don\\'t speak for me.\\n',\n", " \"From: Mark.Prado@p2.f349.n109.z1.permanet.org (Mark Prado)\\nSubject: Conference on Manned Lunar Exploration. May 7 Crystal City\\nLines: 25\\n\\nReply address: mark.prado@permanet.org\\n\\n > From: higgins@fnalf.fnal.gov (Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey)\\n >\\n > In article <1993Apr19.230236.18227@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>,\\n > daviss@sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov (S.F. Davis) writes:\\n > > |> AW&ST had a brief blurb on a Manned Lunar Exploration\\n > confernce> |> May 7th at Crystal City Virginia, under the\\n > auspices of AIAA.\\n >\\n > Thanks for typing that in, Steven.\\n >\\n > I hope you decide to go, Pat. The Net can use some eyes\\n > and ears there...\\n\\nI plan to go. It's about 30 minutes away from my home.\\nI can report on some of it (from my perspective ...)\\nAnyone else on sci.space going to be there? If so, send me\\nnetmail. Maybe we can plan to cross paths briefly...\\nI'll maintain a list of who's going.\\n\\nmark.prado@permanet.org\\n\\n * Origin: Just send it to bill.clinton@permanet.org\\n(1:109/349.2)\\n\",\n", " 'From: Dan Wallach \\nSubject: FAQ: Typing Injuries (2/4): General Info [monthly posting]\\nSupersedes: \\nOrganization: University of California, Berkeley\\nLines: 409\\nExpires: 22 May 1993 04:18:16 GMT\\nReply-To: Dan Wallach \\nNNTP-Posting-Host: elmer-fudd.cs.berkeley.edu\\nSummary: information about where to get more information\\nOriginator: dwallach@elmer-fudd.cs.berkeley.edu\\n\\nArchive-name: typing-injury-faq/general\\nVersion: $Revision: 4.28 $ $Date: 1993/04/13 04:17:58 $\\n\\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n Answers To Frequently Asked Questions about Typing Injuries\\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n\\nThe Typing Injury FAQ -- sources of information for people with typing\\ninjuries, repetitive stress injuries, carpal tunnel syndrome, etc.\\n\\nCopyright 1992,1993 by Dan Wallach \\n\\nMany FAQs, including this one, are available on the archive site\\npit-manager.mit.edu (alias rtfm.mit.edu) [18.172.1.27] in the directory\\npub/usenet/news.answers. The name under which a FAQ is archived appears\\nin the Archive-name line at the top of the article. This FAQ is archived\\nas typing-injury-faq/general.Z\\n\\nThere\\'s a mail server also. Just e-mail mail-server@pit-manager.mit.edu\\nwith the word \\'help\\' on a line by itself in the body.\\n\\nThe opinions in here are my own, unless otherwise mentioned, and do not\\nrepresent the opinions of any organization or vendor. I\\'m not a medical\\ndoctor, so my advice should be taken with many grains of salt.\\n\\n[Current distribution: sci.med.occupational, sci.med, comp.human-factors,\\n {news,sci,comp}.answers, and e-mail to c+health@iubvm.ucs.indiana.edu,\\n sorehand@vm.ucsf.edu, and cstg-L@vtvm1.cc.vt.edu]\\n\\nChanges since previously distributed versions are marked with change ||\\nbars to the right of the text, as is this paragraph. ||\\n\\nTable of Contents:\\n ==1== Mailing lists, newsgroups, etc.\\n ==2== The soda.berkeley.edu archive\\n ==3== General info on injuries\\n ==4== Typing posture, ergonomics, prevention, treatment\\n ==5== Requests for more info\\n ==6== References\\n\\n==1== Mailing lists, newsgroups, etc.\\n\\nUSENET News:\\n-----------\\ncomp.human-factors occasionally has discussion about alternative input devices.\\ncomp.risks has an occasional posting relevant to injuries via computers.\\nsci.med and misc.handicap also tend to have relevant traffic.\\n\\nThere\\'s a Brand New newsgroup, sci.med.occupational, chartered specifically\\nto discuss these things. This would be the recommended place to post.\\n\\nMailing lists:\\n-------------\\nThe RSI Network: Available both on paper and via e-mail, this publication\\n covers issues relevant to those with repetitive stress injuries. For\\n a sample issue and subscription information, send a stamped, self-\\n addressed business envelope to Caroline Rose, 970 Paradise Way, Palo\\n Alto CA 94306.\\n\\n E-mail to \\n\\n $2 donation, requested.\\n\\n All RSI Network newsletters are available via anonymous ftp from\\n soda.berkeley.edu (see below for details).\\n\\nc+health and sorehand are both IBM Listserv things. For those familiar\\n with Listserv, here\\'s the quick info:\\n\\n c+health -- subscribe to listserv@iubvm.ucs.indiana.edu\\n\\t\\tpost to c+health@iubvm.ucs.indiana.edu\\n\\n sorehand -- subscribe to listserv@vm.ucsf.edu\\n\\t\\tpost to sorehand@vm.ucsf.edu\\n\\nQuick tutorial on subscribing to a Listserv:\\n % mail listserv@vm.ucsf.edu\\n Subject: Total Listserv Mania!\\n\\n SUBSCRIBE SOREHAND J. Random Hacker\\n INFO ?\\n .\\nThat\\'s all there is to it. You\\'ll get bunches of mail back from the Listserv,\\nincluding a list of other possible commands you can mail. Cool, huh? What\\'ll\\nthose BITNET people think of, next?\\n\\n==2== The soda.berkeley.edu archive\\n\\nI\\'ve started an archive site for info related to typing injuries. Just\\nanonymous ftp to soda.berkeley.edu:pub/typing-injury. (128.32.149.19)\\nCurrently, you\\'ll find:\\n\\nInformative files:\\n typing-injury-faq/\\n general -- information about typing injuries\\n keyboards -- products to replace your keyboard\\n software -- software to watch your keyboard usage\\n\\tchanges\\t\\t -- changes since last month\\'s edition (new!)\\t ||\\n\\n keyboard-commentary -- Dan\\'s opinions on the keyboard replacements\\n amt.advice\\t\\t -- about Adverse Mechanical Tension\\n caringforwrists.sit.hqx -- PageMaker4 document about your wrists\\n caringforwrists.ps\\t -- PostScript converted version of above...\\n carpal.info -- info on Carpal Tunnel Syndrome\\n carpal.explained\\t -- very detailed information about CTS\\n carpal.surgery\\t -- JAMA article on CTS surgery\\n carpal.tidbits\\t -- TidBITS article on CTS\\n tendonitis.info -- info on Tendonitis\\n rsi.biblio\\t\\t -- bibliography of RSI-related publications\\n\\n rsi-network/* -- archive of the RSI Network newsletter\\n\\t\\t\\t (currently, containing issues 1 through 11) ||\\n \\n rsi.details\\t\\t -- long detailed information about RSI\\n rsi.physical\\t -- study showing RSI isn\\'t just psychological\\n\\n Various product literature:\\n\\n apple-press\\t\\t -- press release on the Apple Adjustable Keyboard\\n apple-tidbits\\t -- extensive info about Apple\\'s Adjustable Keybd\\n bat-info\\t\\t -- MacWeek review on the Bat\\t\\t\\t ||\\n comfort-*\\t\\t -- marketing info on the Comfort Keyboard\\n datahand-review\\t -- detailed opinions of the DataHand\\n datahand-review2\\t -- follow-up to above\\n datahand-desc\\t -- description of the DataHand\\'s appearance\\n kinesis-review\\t -- one user\\'s personal opinions\\n maltron-*\\t\\t -- marketing info on various Maltron products\\n maltron-review\\t -- one user\\'s personal opinions\\n vertical-info\\t -- marketing info on the Vertical (new!)\\t ||\\n\\nPrograms:\\n (With the exception of accpak.exe, everything here is distributed as\\n source to be compiled with a Unix system. Some programs take advantage\\n of the X window system, also.)\\n\\n hsh.shar\\t\\t -- a program for one-handed usage of normal keyboards\\n typewatch.shar\\t -- tells you when to take a break\\n xdvorak.c\\t\\t -- turns your QWERTY keyboard into Dvorak\\n xidle.shar\\t\\t -- keeps track of how long you\\'ve been typing\\n rest-reminder.sh -- yet another idle watcher\\n kt15.tar \\t\\t -- generates fake X keyboard events from the\\n\\t\\t\\t serial port -- use a PC keyboard on anything!\\n\\t\\t\\t (new improved version!)\\n accpak.exe\\t\\t -- a serial port keyboard spoofer for MS Windows\\n\\n (Note: a2x.tar and rk.tar are both from export.lcs.mit.edu:contrib/\\n so they may have a more current version than soda.)\\n\\n a2x.tar \\t\\t -- a more sophisticated X keyboard/mouse spoofing\\n\\t\\t\\t program. Supports DragonDictate.\\n\\t\\t\\t (note: a new version is now available)\\t ||\\n rk.tar \\t\\t -- the reactive keyboard -- predicts what you\\'ll\\n\\t\\t\\t type next -- saves typing\\n\\nPictures (in the gifs subdirectory):\\n howtosit.gif\\t -- picture of good sitting posture\\n\\t\\t\\t (the caringforwrists document is better for this)\\n\\n accukey1.gif\\t -- fuzzy picture\\n accukey2.gif\\t -- fuzzy picture with somebody using it\\n apple.gif\\t\\t -- the Apple Adjustable Keyboard\\t\\t ||\\n bat.gif -- the InfoGrip Bat\\n comfort.gif -- the Health Care Comfort Keyboard\\n datahand1.gif\\t -- fuzzy picture\\n datahand2.gif\\t -- key layout schematic\\n datahand3.gif\\t -- a much better picture of the datahand\\n flexpro.gif\\t\\t -- the Key Tronic FlexPro keyboard\\t\\t ||\\n kinesis1.gif -- the Kinesis Ergonomic Keyboard\\n kinesis2.gif\\t -- multiple views of the Kinesis\\t\\t ||\\n maltron[1-4].gif -- several pictures of Maltron products\\n mikey1.gif -- the MIKey\\n mikey2.gif -- Schematic Picture of the MIKey\\n tony.gif\\t\\t -- The Tony! Ergonomic Keysystem\\t\\t ||\\n twiddler1.gif\\t -- \"front\" view\\n twiddler2.gif\\t -- \"side\" view\\n vertical.gif\\t -- the Vertical keyboard\\t\\t\\t ||\\n wave.gif\\t\\t -- the Iocomm `Wave\\' keyboard\\n\\nMany files are compressed (have a .Z ending). If you can\\'t uncompress a file\\nlocally, soda will do it. Just ask for the file, without the .Z extension.\\n\\nIf you\\'re unable to ftp to soda, send me e-mail and we\\'ll see what we\\ncan arrange.\\n\\n==3== General info on injuries\\n\\nFirst, and foremost of importance: if you experience pain at all, then\\nyou absolutely need to go see a doctor. As soon as you possibly can. The\\ndifference of a day or two can mean the difference between a short recovery\\nand a long, drawn-out ordeal. GO SEE A DOCTOR. Now, your garden-variety\\ndoctor may not necessarily be familiar with this sort of injury. Generally,\\nany hospital with an occupational therapy clinic will offer specialists in\\nthese kinds of problems. DON\\'T WAIT, THOUGH. GO SEE A DOCTOR.\\n\\nThe remainder of this information is paraphrased, without permission, from\\na wonderful report by New Zealand\\'s Department of Labour (Occupational\\nSafety and Health Service): \"Occupational Overuse Syndrome. Treatment and\\nRehabilitation: A Practitioner\\'s Guide\".\\n\\nFirst, a glossary (or, fancy names for how you shouldn\\'t have your hands):\\n(note: you\\'re likely to hear these terms from doctors and keyboard vendors :)\\n\\n RSI: Repetitive Strain Injury - a general term for many kinds of injuries\\n OOS: Occupational Overuse Syndrome -- synonym for RSI\\n CTD: Cumulative Trauma Disorder -- another synonym for RSI\\n WRULD: Work-Related Upper Limb Disorders -- yet another synonym for RSI\\n CTS: Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (see below)\\n Hyperextension: Marked bending at a joint.\\n Pronation: Turning the palm down.\\n Wrist extension: Bending the wrist up.\\n Supination: Turning the palm up.\\n Wrist flexion: Bending the wrist down.\\n Pinch grip: The grip used for a pencil.\\n Ulnar deviation: Bending the wrist towards the little finger.\\n Power grip: The grip used for a hammer.\\n Radial Deviation: Bending the wrist toward the thumb.\\n Abduction: Moving away from the body.\\n Overspanning: Opening the fingers out wide.\\n\\nNow then, problems come in two main types: Local conditions and diffuse\\nconditions. Local problems are what you\\'d expect: specific muscles,\\ntendons, tendon sheaths, nerves, etc. being inflamed or otherwise hurt.\\nDiffuse conditions, often mistaken for local problems, can involve muscle\\ndiscomfort, pain, burning and/or tingling; with identifiable areas of\\ntenderness in muscles, although they\\'re not necessarily \"the problem.\"\\n\\n--- Why does Occupational Overuse Syndrome occur? Here\\'s the theory.\\n\\nNormally, your muscles and tendons get blood through capillaries which\\npass among the muscle fibers. When you tense a muscle, you restrict\\nthe blood flow. By the time you\\'re exerting 50% of your full power,\\nyou\\'re completely restricting your blood flow.\\n\\nWithout fresh blood, your muscles use stored energy until they run out,\\nthen they switch to anaerobic (without oxygen) metabolism, which generates\\nnasty by-products like lactic acid, which cause pain.\\n\\nOnce one muscle hurts, all its neighbors tense up, perhaps to relieve the\\nload. This makes sense for your normal sort of injury, but it only makes\\nthings worse with repetitive motion. More tension means less blood flow,\\nand the cycle continues.\\n\\nAnother by-product of the lack of blood flow is tingling and numbness from\\nyour nerves. They need blood too.\\n\\nAnyway, when you\\'re typing too much, you\\'re never really giving a change\\nfor the blood to get back where it belongs, because your muscles never\\nrelax enough to let the blood through. Stress, poor posture, and poor\\nergonomics, only make things worse.\\n\\n--- Specific injuries you may have heard of:\\n\\n(note: most injuries come in two flavors: acute and chronic. Acute\\ninjuries are severely painful and noticable. Chronic conditions have\\nless pronounced symptoms but are every bit as real.)\\n\\nTenosynovitis -- an inflamation of the tendon sheath. Chronic tenosynovitis\\noccurs when the repetitive activity is mild or intermittent: not enough to\\ncause acute inflamation, but enough to exceed the tendon sheath\\'s ability\\nto lubricate the tendon. As a result, the tendon sheath thickens, gets\\ninflamed, and you\\'ve got your problem.\\n\\nTendonitis -- an inflammation of a tendon. Repeated tensing of a tendon\\ncan cause inflamation. Eventually, the fibers of the tendon start separating,\\nand can even break, leaving behind debris which induces more friction, more\\nswelling, and more pain. \"Sub-acute\" tendonitis is more common, which entails\\na dull ache over the wrist and forearm, some tenderness, and it gets worse\\nwith repetitive activity.\\n\\nCarpal Tunnel Syndrome -- the nerves that run through your wrist into your\\nfingers get trapped by the inflamed muscles around them. Symptoms include\\nfeeling \"pins and needles\", tingling, numbness, and even loss of sensation.\\nCTS is often confused for a diffuse condition.\\n\\nAdverse Mechanical Tension -- also known as \\'neural tension\\', this is where\\nthe nerves running down to your arm have become contracted and possibly\\ncompressed as a result of muscle spasms in the shoulders and elsewhere.\\nAMT can often misdiagnosed as or associated with one of the other OOS \\ndisorders. It is largely reversible and can be treated with physiotherapy \\n(brachial plexus stretches and trigger point therapy).\\n\\nOthers: for just about every part of your body, there\\'s a fancy name for\\na way to injure it. By now, you should be getting an idea of how OOS\\nconditions occur and why. Just be careful: many inexperienced doctors\\nmisdiagnose problems as Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, when in reality, you\\nmay have a completely different problem. Always get a second opinion\\nbefore somebody does something drastic to you (like surgery).\\n\\n==4== Typing posture, ergonomics, prevention, treatment\\n\\nThe most important element of both prevention and recovery is to reduce\\ntension in the muscles and tendons. This requires learning how to relax.\\nIf you\\'re under a load of stress, this is doubly important. Tune out\\nthe world and breath deep and regular. Relaxing should become a guiding\\nprinciple in your work: every three minutes take a three second break.\\nEVERY THREE MINUTES, TAKE A THREE SECOND BREAK. Really, do it every\\nthree minutes. It\\'s also helpful to work in comfortable surroundings,\\ncalm down, and relax.\\n\\nIf you can\\'t sleep, you really need to focus on this. Rest, sleep, and\\nrelaxation are really a big deal.\\n\\nThere are all kinds of other treatments, of course. Drugs can reduce\\ninflamation and pain. Custom-molded splints can forcefully prevent bad\\nposture. Surgery can fix some problems. Exercise can help strengthen\\nyour muscles. Regular stretching can help prevent injury. Good posture\\nand a good ergonomic workspace promote reduced tension. Ice or hot-cold\\ncontrast baths also reduce swelling. Only your doctor can say what\\'s best\\nfor you.\\n\\n--- Posture -- here are some basic guidelines. [I so liked the way this was\\nwritten in the New Zealand book that I\\'m lifting it almost verbatim from\\nAppendix 10. -- dwallach]\\n\\n. Let your shoulders relax.\\n. Let your elbows swing free.\\n. Keep your wrists straight.\\n. Pull your chin in to look down - don\\'t flop your head forward.\\n. Keep the hollow in the base of your spine.\\n. Try leaning back in the chair.\\n. Don\\'t slouch or slump forward.\\n. Alter your posture from time to time.\\n. Every 20 minutes, get up and bend your spine backward.\\n\\nSet the seat height, first. Your feet should be flat on the floor. There \\nshould be no undue pressure on the underside of your thighs near the knees,\\nand your thighs should not slope too much.\\n\\nNow, draw yourself up to your desk and see that its height is comfortable\\nto work at. If you are short, this may be impossible. The beest remedy\\nis to raise the seat height and prevent your legs from dangling by using a\\nfootrest.\\n\\nNow, adjust the backrest height so that your buttocks fit into the space\\nbetween the backrest and the seat pan. The backrest should support you in\\nthe hollow of your back, so adjust its tilt to give firm support in this\\narea.\\n\\nIf you operate a keyboard, you will be able to spend more time leaning\\nback, so experiment with a chair with a taller backrest, if available.\\n\\n[Now, I diverge a little from the text]\\n\\nA good chair makes a big difference. If you don\\'t like your chair, go\\nfind a better one. You really want adjustments for height, back angle,\\nback height, and maybe even seat tilt. Most arm rests seem to get in\\nthe way, although some more expensive chairs have height adjustable arm\\nrests which you can also rotate out of the way. You should find a good\\nstore and play with all these chairs -- pick one that\\'s right for you.\\nIn the San Francisco Bay Area, I highly recommend \"Just Chairs.\" The\\nname says it all.\\n\\n--- Keyboard drawers, wrist pads, and keyboard replacements:\\n\\nThere is a fair amount of controvery on how to get this right. For some\\npeople, wrist pads seem to work wonders. However, with good posture, you\\nshouldn\\'t be resting your wrists on anything -- you would prefer your\\nkeyboard to be \"right there\". If you drop your arms at your side and then\\nlift your hands up at the elbow, you want your keyboard under your hands\\nwhen your elbows are at about 90 degrees. Of course, you want to avoid\\npronation, wrist extension, and ulnar deviation at all costs. Wrist pads\\nmay or may not help at this. You should get somebody else to come and\\nlook at how you work: how you sit, how you type, and how you relax. It\\'s\\noften easier for somebody else to notice your hunched shoulders or\\ndeviated hands.\\n\\nSome argue that the normal, flat keyboard is antiquated and poorly\\ndesigned. A number of replacements are available, on the market, today.\\nCheck out the accompanying typing-injury-faq/keyboards for much detail.\\n\\n==5== Requests for more info\\n\\nClearly, the above information is incomplete. The typing-injury archive\\nis incomplete. There\\'s always more information out there. If you\\'d like\\nto submit something, please send me mail, and I\\'ll gladly throw it in.\\n\\nIf you\\'d like to maintain a list of products or vendors, that would be\\nwonderful! I\\'d love somebody to make a list of chair/desk vendors. I\\'d\\nlove somebody to make a list of doctors. I\\'d love somebody to edit the\\nabove sections, looking for places where I\\'ve obviously goofed.\\n\\n==6== References\\n\\nI completely rewrote the information section here, using a wonderful\\nguide produced in New Zealand by their Occupational Safety & Health\\nService, a service of their Department of Labour. Special thanks\\nto the authors: Wigley, Turner, Blake, Darby, McInnes, and Harding.\\n\\nSemi-bibliographic reference:\\n . Occupational Overuse Syndrome\\n . Treatment and Rehabilitation:\\n A Practitioner\\'s Guide\\n \\n Published by the Occupational Safety and Health Service\\n Department of Labour\\n Wellington,\\n New Zealand.\\n\\n First Edition: June 1992\\n ISBN 0-477-3499-3\\n\\n Price: $9.95 (New Zealand $\\'s, of course)\\n\\nThanks to Richard Donkin for reviewing this posting.\\n\\n-- \\nDan Wallach \"One of the most attractive features of a Connection\\ndwallach@cs.berkeley.edu Machine is the array of blinking lights on the faces\\nOffice#: 510-642-9585 of its cabinet.\" -- CM Paris Ref. Manual, v6.0, p48.\\n',\n", " \"From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)\\nSubject: Re: Why not give $1 billion to first year-lo\\nOrganization: U of Toronto Zoology\\nLines: 16\\n\\nIn article dong@oakhill.sps.mot.com writes:\\n>>I'd be inclined to make the prize somewhat larger, but $1G might be enough.\\n>\\n>this all sounds like that Indecent Proposal movie. wouldn't there be\\n>a lot of people that would try this with little hope of working just\\n>to get the dough? if you have a 1:100 chance and it costs you $10Mil,\\n>then you might pay some stooge a few grand to be your lucky hero.\\n>just send up a few dozen and 1 is bound to survive enough to make YOU\\n>rich.\\n\\nAny prize like this is going to need to be worded carefully enough that\\nyou cannot get it without demonstrating sustained and reliable capability,\\nrather than a lucky one-shot. It can be done.\\n-- \\nAll work is one man's work. | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology\\n - Kipling | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry\\n\",\n", " 'From: Wales.Larrison@ofa123.fidonet.org\\nSubject: Re: Clementine mission name\\nX-Sender: newtout 0.08 Feb 23 1993\\nLines: 27\\n\\nMark Prado\\n \\n>Please go just one step further:\\n>How has the word \"Clementine\" been associated with mining?\\n \\nOld pioneer song from the 1850\\'s or so goes as follows:\\n \\n \"In a cavern, in a canyon,\\n Excavating for a mine,\\n Dwelt a miner, forty-niner,\\n And his daughter, CLEMENTINE\"\\n \\nChorus:\\n \"Oh my darling, Oh my darling,\\n Oh my darling Clementine.\\n You are lost and gone forever,\\n Oh my darling Clementine.\"\\n \\n I\\'ve also had it explained (but not confirmed from a reliable data\\nsource) that CLEMENTINE is an acronym. Something like Combined\\nLunar Elemental Mapper Experiment on Extended Non Terrestrial\\nIntercept Near Earth. Personally, I think that acronym was made up\\nto fit the name (if it really is an acronym).\\n ------------------------------------------------------------------\\n Wales Larrison Space Technology Investor\\n\\n--- Maximus 2.01wb\\n',\n", " \"From: dufault@lftfld.enet.dec.com (MD)\\nSubject: seizures ( infantile spasms )\\nKeywords: seizures epilepsy\\nReply-To: dufault@lftfld.enet.dec.com (MD)\\nOrganization: Digital Equipment Corporation\\nLines: 32\\n\\n\\n\\tThe reason I'm posting this article to this newsgroup is to:\\n1. gather any information about this disorder from anyone who might\\n have recently been *e*ffected by it ( from being associated with\\n it or actually having this disorder ) and\\n2. help me find out where I can access any medical literature associated\\n with seizures over the internet.\\n\\nRecently, I had a baby boy born with seizures which occured 12-15 hours\\nafter birth. He was immediately transferred to a major hospital in Boston\\nand has since been undergoing extensive drug treatment for his condition.\\nThis has been a major learning experience for me and my wife not only in\\nlearning the medical problems that faced our son but also in dealing with\\nhospitals, procedures...etc.\\n\\nI don't want to go into a lot of detail, but his condition was termed \\nquite severe at first then slowly he began to grow and put on weight\\nas a normal baby would. He was put on the standard anti-convulsion drugs\\nand that did not seem to help out. His MRI, EKG, cat-scans are all normal,\\nbut the EEG's show alot of seizure activity. After many metabolic tests,\\nbody structure tests, and infection/virus tests the doctors still do not\\nknow quite what type of siezures he is having (although they do have alot\\nof evidence that it is now pointing to infantile spasms ). This is where\\nwe stand right now....\\n\\nIf anyone knows of any database or newsgroup or as I mentioned up above,\\nany information relating to this disorder I would sure appreciate hearing\\nfrom you. I am not trying to play doctor here, but only trying to gather\\ninformation about it. As I know now, these particular types of disorders\\nare still not really well understood by the medical community, and so I'm\\ngoing to see now....if somehow the internet can at least give me alittle\\ninsight. Thanks. \\n\",\n", " \"From: tarl@sw.stratus.com (Tarl Neustaedter)\\nSubject: Re: Krillean Photography\\nOrganization: Stratus Computer, Inc.\\nLines: 14\\nDistribution: world\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: coyoacan.sw.stratus.com\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr19.205615.1013@unlv.edu>, todamhyp@charles.unlv.edu (Brian M. Huey) writes:\\n> I think that's the correct spelling..\\n\\nThe proper spelling is Kirlian. It was an effect discoverd by\\nS. Kirlian, a soviet film developer in 1939.\\n\\nAs I recall, the coronas visible are ascribed to static discharges\\nand chemical reactions between the organic material and the silver\\nhalides in the films.\\n\\n-- \\n Tarl Neustaedter Stratus Computer\\n \\t tarl@sw.stratus.com Marlboro, Mass.\\nDisclaimer: My employer is not responsible for my opinions.\\n\",\n", " 'From: Dan Wallach \\nSubject: FAQ: Typing Injuries (3/4): Keyboard Alternatives [monthly posting]\\nSupersedes: \\nOrganization: University of California, Berkeley\\nLines: 652\\nExpires: 22 May 1993 01:24:03 GMT\\nReply-To: Dan Wallach \\nNNTP-Posting-Host: elmer-fudd.cs.berkeley.edu\\nSummary: everything you ever wanted to know about replacing your keyboard\\nOriginator: dwallach@elmer-fudd.cs.berkeley.edu\\n\\nArchive-name: typing-injury-faq/keyboards\\nVersion: $Revision: 5.11 $ $Date: 1993/04/13 01:20:43 $\\n\\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n Answers To Frequently Asked Questions about Keyboard Alternatives\\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n\\nThe Alternative Keyboard FAQ\\nCopyright 1992,1993 By Dan Wallach \\n\\nThe opinions in here are my own, unless otherwise mentioned, and do not\\nrepresent the opinions of any organization or vendor.\\n\\n[Current distribution: sci.med.occupational, sci.med, comp.human-factors,\\n {news,sci,comp}.answers, and e-mail to c+health@iubvm.ucs.indiana.edu,\\n sorehand@vm.ucsf.edu, and cstg-L@vtvm1.cc.vt.edu]\\n\\nChanges since previously distributed versions are marked with change ||\\nbars to the right of the text, as is this paragraph. ||\\n\\nInformation in this FAQ has been pieced together from phone conversations,\\ne-mail, and product literature. While I hope it\\'s useful, the information\\nin here is neither comprehensive nor error free. If you find something\\nwrong or missing, please mail me, and I\\'ll update my list. Thanks.\\n\\nAll phone numbers, unless otherwise mentioned, are U.S.A. phone numbers.\\nAll monetary figures, unless otherwise mentioned, are U.S.A. dollars.\\n\\nProducts covered in this FAQ:\\n Using a PC\\'s keyboard on your workstation / compatibility issues\\n Apple Computer, Inc.\\n Key Tronic FlexPro\\n Dragon Systems\\n The Bat\\n DataHand\\n Comfort Keyboard System\\n Kinesis Ergonomic Keyboard\\n Maltron\\n The Tony! Ergonomic KeySystem\\n The Vertical\\n The MIKey\\n The Wave\\n The Minimal Motion Computer Access System\\n Twiddler\\n Half-QWERTY\\n Microwriter\\n Braille \\'n Speak\\n Octima\\n AccuKey\\n\\nGIF pictures of many of these products are available via anonymous ftp\\nfrom soda.berkeley.edu:pub/typing-injury. (128.32.149.19) I highly\\nrecommend getting the pictures. They tell much more than I can fit\\ninto this file.\\n\\nIf you can\\'t ftp, send me mail, and I\\'ll uuencode and mail them to you\\n(they\\'re pretty big...)\\n\\n==============\\nUsing a PC\\'s keyboard on your workstation / compatibility issues\\n\\n Mini outline:\\n 1. Spoofing a keyboard over the serial port\\n 2. X terminals\\n 3. NeXT\\n 4. Silicon Graphics\\n 5. IBM RS/6000\\n\\t6. Other stuff\\n\\n 1. Spoofing a keyboard over the serial port\\n\\n\\tIf you\\'ve got a proprietary computer which uses its own keyboard\\n\\t(Sun, HP, DEC, etc.) then you\\'re going to have a hard time finding\\n\\ta vendor to sell you a compatible keyboard. If your workstation\\n\\truns the X window system, you\\'re in luck. You can buy a cheap used\\n\\tPC, hook your expensive keyboard up to it, and run a serial cable\\n\\tto your workstation. Then, run a program on the workstation to read\\n\\tthe serial port and generate fake X keyboard events.\\n\\n\\tThe two main programs I\\'ve found to do this are KT and A2X.\\n\\n\\ta2x is a sophisticated program, capable of controlling the mouse, and\\n\\teven moving among widgets on the screen. It requires a server\\n\\textension (XTEST, DEC-XTRAP, or XTestExtension1). To find out if your\\n\\tserver can do this, run \\'xdpyinfo\\' and see if any of these strings\\n\\tappear in the extensions list. If your server doesn\\'t have this,\\n\\tyou may want to investigate compiling X11R5, patchlevel 18 or later,\\n\\tor bugging your vendor.\\n\\n\\tkt is a simpler program, which should work with unextended X servers.\\n\\tAnother program called xsendevent also exists, but I haven\\'t seen it.\\n\\n\\tBoth a2x and kt are available via anonymous ftp from soda.berkeley.edu.\\n\\n 2. X terminals\\n\\n\\tAlso, a number of X terminals (NCD, Tektronics, to name a few) use\\n\\tPC-compatible keyboards. If you have an X terminal, you may be all\\n\\tset. Try it out with a normal PC keyboard before you go through the\\n\\ttrouble of buying an alternative keyboard. Also, some X terminals add\\n\\textra buttons -- you may need to keep your original keyboard around\\n\\tfor the once-in-a-blue-moon that you have to hit the Setup key.\\n\\n 3. NeXT\\n\\n\\tNeXT had announced that new NeXT machines will use the Apple Desktop\\n\\tBus, meaning any Mac keyboard will work. Then, they announced they\\n\\twere cancelling their hardware production. If you want any kind of\\n\\tupgrade for an older NeXT, do it now!\\n\\n 4. Silicon Graphics\\n\\n\\tSilicon Graphics has announced that their newer machines (Indigo^2 and\\n\\tbeyond) will use standard PC-compatible keyboards and mice. I don\\'t\\n\\tbelieve this also applies to the Power Series machines. It\\'s not\\n\\tpossible to upgrade an older SGI to use PC keyboards, except by\\n\\tupgrading the entire machine. Contact your SGI sales rep for more\\n\\tdetails.\\n\\n 5. IBM RS/6000\\n\\n\\tIBM RS/6000 keyboards are actually similar to normal PC keyboards. ||\\n\\tUnfortunately, you can\\'t just plug one in. You need two things: a ||\\n\\tcable converter to go from the large PC keyboard connector to the ||\\n\\tsmaller PS/2 style DIN-6, and a new device driver for AIX. Believe ||\\n\\tit or not, IBM wrote this device driver recently, I used it, and it ||\\n\\tworks. However, they don\\'t want me to redistribute it. I\\'ve been ||\\n\\ttold Judy Hume (512) 823-6337 is a potential contact. If you learn ||\\n\\tanything new, please send me e-mail.\\t\\t\\t\\t ||\\n \\n 6. Other stuff\\n\\n\\tSome vendors here (notably: Health Care Keyboard Co. and AccuCorp)\\n\\tsupport some odd keyboard types, and may be responsive to your\\n\\tqueries regarding supporting your own weird computer. If you can\\n\\tget sufficient documention about how your keyboard works (either\\n\\tfrom the vendor, or with a storage oscilloscope), you may be in\\n\\tluck. Contact the companies for more details.\\n\\n\\nApple Adjustable Keyboard\\n Apple Computer, Inc.\\n Sales offices all over the place.\\n\\n Availability: February, 1993\\n Price: $219\\n Supports: Mac only\\n\\n Apple has recently announced their new split-design keyboard. The\\n keyboard has one section for each hand, and the sections rotate\\n backward on a hinge. The sections do not tilt upward. The keys are\\n arranged in a normal QWERTY fashion.\\n\\n The main foldable keyboard resembles a normal Apple Keyboard.\\n A separate keypad contains all the extended key functions.\\n\\n The keyboard also comes with matching wrist rests, which are not\\n directly attachable to the keyboard.\\n\\n As soon as soda comes back up, I\\'ll have a detailed blurb from\\n TidBITS available there.\\n\\n\\nFlexPro Keyboard\\n Key Tronic\\n Phone: 800-262-6006\\n Possible contact: Denise Razzeto, 509-927-5299\\n Sold by many clone vendors and PC shops\\n\\n Availability: Spring, 1993 (?)\\n Price: $489 (?)\\n Supports: PC only (highly likely)\\n\\n Keytronic apparently showed a prototype keyboard at Comdex. It\\'s\\n another split-design. One thumb-wheel controls the tilt of both\\n the left and right-hand sides of the main alphanumeric section.\\n The arrow keys and keypad resemble a normal 101-key PC keyboard.\\n\\n Keytronic makes standard PC keyboards, also, so this product will\\n probably be sold through their standard distribution channels.\\n\\n\\nDragonDictate-30K (and numerous other Dragon products)\\n Dragon Systems, Inc.\\n 320 Nevada Street\\n Newton, MA 02160\\n\\n Phone: 800-TALK-TYP or 617-965-5200\\n Fax: 617-527-0372\\n\\n Shipping: Now.\\n\\n Price: DragonDictate-30K -- $4995 (end user system)\\n\\t DragonWriter 1000 -- $1595 / $2495 (end user/developer system)\\n\\t various other prices for service contracts, site licenses, etc.\\n \\n Compatibility: 386 (or higher) PC only\\n\\t\\t (3rd party support for Mac)\\n\\n\\tFree software support for X windows is also available -- your\\n\\tPC with Dragon hardware talks to your workstation over a\\n\\tserial cable or network. The program is called a2x, and is\\n\\tavailable via anonymous ftp:\\n\\n\\tsoda.berkeley.edu:pub/typing-injury/a2x.tar.Z\\n\\texport.lcs.mit.edu:contrib/a2x.tar.Z (most current)\\n\\n\\tIf you want to use your Dragon product with X windows, you may want\\n\\tto ask for Peter Cohen, an salesman at Dragon who knows more about\\n\\tthis sort of thing.\\n\\n Dragon Systems sells a number of voice recognition products.\\n Most (if not all) of them seem to run on PC\\'s and compatibles\\n (including PS/2\\'s and other MicroChannel boxes). They sell you\\n a hardware board and software which sits in front of a number\\n of popular word processors and spreadsheets.\\n\\n Each user `trains\\' the system to their voice, and there are provisions\\n to correct the system when it makes mistakes, on the fly. Multiple\\n people can use it, but you have to load a different personality file\\n for each person. You still get the use of your normal keyboard, too.\\n On the DragonDictate-30K you need to pause 1/10th sec between\\n words. Dragon claims typical input speeds of 30-40 words per minute.\\n I don\\'t have specs on the DragonWriter 1000.\\n\\n The DragonDictate-30K can recognize 30,000 words at a time.\\n The DragonWriter 1000 can recognize (you guessed it) 1000 words at a time.\\n\\n Dragon\\'s technology is also part of the following products\\n (about which I have no other info):\\n\\n\\tMicrosoft Windows Sound System (Voice Pilot)\\n\\tIBM VoiceType\\n\\tVoice Navigator II (by Articulate Systems -- for Macintosh)\\n\\tEMStation (by Lanier Voice Products -- \"emergency medical workstation\")\\n\\n\\nThe Bat\\n old phone number: 504-336-0033\\n current phone number: 504-766-8082\\n\\n Infogrip, Inc.\\n 812 North Blvd.\\n Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70802, U.S.A.\\n\\n Ward Bond (main contact)\\n David Vicknair (did the Unix software) 504-766-1029\\n\\n Shipping: Now.\\n\\n Supports: Mac, IBM PC (serial port -- native keyboard port version\\n coming very soon...). No other workstations supported, but serial\\n support for Unix with X Windows has been written. PC and Mac are\\n getting all the real attention from the company.\\n\\n A chording system. One hand is sufficient to type everything.\\n The second hand is for redundancy and increased speed.\\n\\n Price:\\n\\t$495 (dual set -- each one is a complete keyboard by itself)\\n\\t$295 (single)\\n\\n\\t(cheaper prices were offered at MacWorld Expo as a show-special.)\\n\\n\\nDataHand 602-860-8584\\n Industrial Innovations, Inc.\\n 10789 North 90th Street\\n Scottsdale, Arizona 85260-6727, U.S.A.\\n\\n Mark Roggenbuck (contact)\\n\\n Supports: PC and Mac\\n\\n Shipping: In beta. \"Big backlog\" -- could take 3+ months.\\n\\n Price: $2000/unit (1 unit == 2 pods). (new price!)\\t\\t\\t ||\\n\\n Each hand has its own \"pod\". Each of the four main fingers has five\\n switches each: forward, back, left, right, and down. The thumbs have\\n a number of switches. Despite appearances, the key layout resembles\\n QWERTY, and is reported to be no big deal to adapt to. The idea is\\n that your hands never have to move to use the keyboard. The whole pod\\n tilts in its base, to act as a mouse.\\n\\n (see also: the detailed review, written by Cliff Lasser \\n available via anonymous ftp from soda.berkeley.edu)\\n\\n\\nComfort Keyboard System 414-253-4131\\n FAX: 414-253-4177\\n\\n Health Care Keyboard Company\\n N82 W15340 Appleton Ave\\n Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin 53051 U.S.A.\\n\\n\\n Jeffrey Szmanda (Vice President -- contact)\\n\\n Shipping: Now.\\n\\n Supports: PC (and Mac???)\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t ||\\n \\n Planned future support:\\n\\tIBM 122-key layout (3270-style, I believe)\\n\\tSun Sparc\\n\\tDecision Data\\n\\tUnisys UTS-40\\n\\tSilicon Graphics\\n\\n\\tOthers to be supported later. The hardware design is relatively\\n\\teasy for the company to re-configure.\\n\\n Price: $690, including one system \"personality module\".\\t\\t ||\\n\\n The idea is that one keyboard works with everything. You purchase\\n \"compatibility modules\", a new cord, and possibly new keycaps, and\\n then you can move your one keyboard around among different machines.\\n\\n It\\'s a three-piece folding keyboard. The layout resembles the\\n standard 101-key keyboard, except sliced into three sections. Each\\n section is on a \"custom telescoping universal mount.\" Each section\\n independently adjusts to an infinite number of positions allowing each\\n individual to type in a natural posture. You can rearrange the three\\n sections, too (have the keypad in the middle if you want). Each\\n section is otherwise normal-shaped (i.e.: you put all three sections\\n flat, and you have what looks like a normal 101-key keyboard).\\n\\n\\nKinesis Ergonomic Keyboard 206-455-9220\\n 206-455-9233 (fax)\\n\\n Kinesis Corporation\\n 15245 Pacific Highway South,\\n Seattle, Washington 98188, U.S.A.\\n\\n Shirley Lunde (VP Marketing -- contact)\\n\\n Shipping: Now.\\n\\n Supports: PC. Mac and Sun Sparc in the works.\\n\\n Price: $690. Volume discounts available. The $690 includes one foot\\n\\tpedal, one set of adhesive wrist pads, and a TypingTutor program.\\n\\tAn additional foot pedal and other accessories are extra.\\n\\n The layout has a large blank space in the middle, even though the\\n keyboard is about the size of a normal PC keyboard -- slightly\\n smaller. Each hand has its own set of keys, laid out to minimize\\n finger travel. Thumb buttons handle many major functions (enter,\\n backspace, etc.).\\n\\n You can remap the keyboard in firmware (very nice when software won\\'t\\n allow the reconfig).\\n\\n Foot pedals are also available, and can be mapped to any key on the\\n keyboard (shift, control, whatever).\\n\\n\\nMaltron\\t\\t(+44) 081 398 3265 (United Kingdom)\\n P.C.D. Maltron Limited\\n 15 Orchard Lane\\n East Molesey\\n Surrey KT8 OBN\\n England\\n\\n Pamela and Stephen Hobday (contacts)\\n\\n U.S. Distributor:\\n\\tJim Barrett\\n\\tApplied Learning Corp.\\n\\t1376 Glen Hardie Road\\n\\tWayne, PA 19087\\n\\n\\tPhone: 215-688-6866\\n\\n Supports: PC\\'s, Amstrad 1512/1640, BBC B, BBC Master,\\n\\t Mac apparently now also available\\n\\n\\n Price: 375 pounds\\n\\t $735 shipped in the U.S.A. (basically, converted price + shipping)\\n\\n\\t The cost is less for BBC computers, and they have a number of \\n\\t accessories, including carrying cases, switch boxes to use both\\n\\t your normal keyboard and the Maltron, an articulated arm that\\n\\t clamps on to your table, and training \\'courses\\' to help you learn\\n\\t to type on your Maltron.\\n\\n\\t You can also rent a keyboard for 10 pounds/week + taxes.\\n\\t U.S. price: $120/month, and then $60 off purchase if you want it.\\n\\n Shipping: Now (in your choice of colors: black or grey)\\n \\n Maltron has four main products -- a two-handed keyboard, two one-handed\\n keyboards, and a keyboard designed for handicapped people to control with\\n a mouth-stick.\\n\\n The layout allocates more buttons to the thumbs, and is curved to\\n bring keys closer to the fingers. A separate keypad is in the middle.\\n\\n\\nAccuKey\\n AccuCorp, Inc.\\n P.O. Box 66\\n Christiansburg, VA 24073, U.S.A.\\n \\n 703-961-3576 (Pete Rosenquist -- Sales)\\n 703-961-2001 (Larry Langley -- President)\\n \\n Shipping: Now.\\n Supports: PC, Mac, IBM 3270, Sun Sparc, and TeleVideo 935 and 955.\\n Cost: $495 + shipping.\\n \\n Doesn\\'t use conventional push-keys. Soft rubber keys, which rock\\n forward and backward (each key has three states), make chords for\\n typing keys. Learning time is estimated to be 2-3 hours, for getting\\n started, and maybe two weeks to get used to it.\\n\\n Currently, the thumbs don\\'t do anything, although a thumb-trackball\\n is in the works.\\n \\n The company claims it takes about a week of work to support a\\n new computer. They will be happy to adapt their keyboard to\\n your computer, if possible.\\n\\n\\nTwiddler\\t516-474-4405, or 800-638-2352\\n Handykey\\n 141 Mt. Sinai Ave.\\n Mt. Sinai, NY 11766\\n\\n Chris George (President)\\n\\n Shipping: now.\\n\\n Price: $199.\\n\\n Supports: PC only. Mac and X Windows in the works.\\n\\n The Twiddler is both a keyboard and a mouse, and it fits in one hand.\\n You type via finger chords. Shift, control, etc. are thumb buttons.\\n When in \"mouse\" mode, tilting the Twiddler moves the mouse, and mouse\\n buttons are on your fingers.\\n\\n The cabling leaves your normal keyboard available, also.\\n\\n Most applications work, and Windows works fine. DESQview has trouble.\\n GEOWorks also has trouble -- mouse works, keyboard doesn\\'t.\\n\\n\\nBraille \\'n Speak 301-879-4944\\n Blazie Engineering\\n 3660 Mill Green Rd.\\n Street, Md 21154, U.S.A.\\n\\n (information provided by Doug Martin )\\n\\n The Braille N Speak uses any of several Braille codes for entering\\n information: Grade I, Grade II, or computer Braille. Basically,\\n letters a-j are combinations of dots 1, 2, 4, and 5. Letters k-t are\\n the same combinations as a-j with dot 3 added. Letters u, v, x, y, and\\n z are like a-e with dots 3 and 6 added. (w is unique because Louis\\n Braille didn\\'t have a w in the French alphabet.)\\n\\n\\nThe Tony! Ergonomic KeySystem 415-969-8669\\n Tony Hodges\\n The Tony! Corporation\\n 2332 Thompson Court\\n Mountain View, CA 94043, U.S.A.\\n\\n Supports: Mac, PC, IBM 3270, Sun, and DEC.\\n \\n Shipping: ???\\n\\n Price: $625 (you commit now, and then you\\'re in line to buy the\\n keyboard. When it ships, if it\\'s cheaper, you pay the cheaper price.\\n If it\\'s more expensive, you still pay $625)\\n\\n The Tony! should allow separate positioning of every key, to allow\\n the keyboard to be personally customized. A thumb-operated mouse\\n will also be available.\\n\\n\\nThe Vertical\\n Contact: Jeffrey Spencer or Stephen Albert, 619-454-0000\\n P.O. Box 2636\\n La Jolla, CA 92038, U.S.A.\\n\\n Supports: no info available, probably PC\\'s\\n Available: Summer, 1993\\n Price: $249\\n\\n The Vertical Keyboard is split in two halves, each pointing straight up.\\n The user can adjust the width of the device, but not the tilt of each\\n section. Side-view mirrors are installed to allow users to see their\\n fingers on the keys.\\n\\n\\nThe MIKey 301-933-1111\\n Dr. Alan Grant\\n 3208 Woodhollow Drive\\n Chevy Chase, Maryland 20815, U.S.A.\\n\\n Shipping: As of July, 1992: \"Should be Available in One Year.\"\\n\\n Supports: PC, Mac (maybe)\\n\\n Price: $200 (estimated)\\n\\n The keyboard is at a fixed angle, and incorporates a built-in mouse\\n operated by the thumbs. Function keys are arranged in a circle at\\n the keyboard\\'s left.\\n\\n\\nThe Wave\\t(was: 213-) 310-644-6100\\n FAX: 310-644-6068\\n\\n Iocomm International Technology\\n 12700 Yukon Avenue\\n Hawthorne, California 90250, U.S.A.\\n\\n Robin Hunter (contact -- in sales)\\n\\n Cost: $99.95 + $15 for a set of cables\\n\\n Supports: PC only.\\n\\n Shipping: now.\\n\\n Iocomm also manufactures \"ordinary\" 101-key keyboard (PC/AT) and\\n 84-key keyboard (PC/XT), so make sure you get the right one.\\n\\n The one-piece keyboard has a built-in wrist-rest. It looks *exactly*\\n like a normal 101-key PC keyboard, with two inches of built-in wrist\\n rest. The key switch feel is reported to be greatly improved.\\n \\n\\nThe Minimal Motion Computer Access System \\t508-263-6437\\n 508-263-6537 (fax)\\n\\n Equal Access Computer Technology\\n Dr. Michael Weinreigh\\n 39 Oneida Rd.\\n Acton, MA 01720, U.S.A.\\n\\n Price: InfoGrip-compatible: \"a few hundred dollars\" + a one-handed Bat\\n\\t For their own system: $300 (DOS software) + \"a few hundred dollars\"\\n \\n Shipping: these are custom-made, so an occupational therapist would\\n\\t make moulds/do whatever to make it for you. You can buy one now.\\n \\n Supports: PC only, although the InfoGrip-compatible version might\\n\\t work with a Mac.\\n\\n In a one-handed version, there is exactly one button per finger. In a\\n two-handed version, you get four buttons per finger, and the thumbs\\n don\\'t do anything. You can also get one-handed versions with three\\n thumb buttons -- compatible with the InfoGrip Bat. Basically, get it\\n any way you want.\\n\\n They also have a software tutorial to help you learn the chording.\\n\\n Works on a PC under DOS, not Windows. Planning on Macintosh and\\n PC/Windows support. No work has been done on a Unix version, yet.\\n\\n\\nHalf-QWERTY\\t(Canada) 416-749-3124\\n The Matias Corporation\\n 178 Thistledown Boulevard\\n Rexdale, Ontario, Canada\\n M9V 1K1\\n\\n E-mail: ematias@dgp.toronto.edu\\n\\n Supports: Mac and PC (but, not Windows)\\n\\n Demo for anonymous ftp: explorer.dgp.toronto.edu:/pub/Half-QWERTY\\t ||\\n\\n Price: $129.95 (higher in Canada, quantity discounts available)\\n Shipping: Now.\\n \\n This thing is purely software. No hardware at all.\\n\\n The software will mirror the keyboard when you hold down the space\\n bar, allowing you type one-handed.\\n\\n\\nOctima\\t(Israel) 972-4-5322844\\n FAX: (+972) 3 5322970\\n\\n Ergoplic Keyboards Ltd.\\n P.O. Box 31\\n Kiryat Ono 55100, Israel\\n\\n (info from Mandy Jaffe-Katz )\\n A one-handed keyboard.\\n\\n\\nMicrowriter AgendA (U.K.) (+44) 276 692 084\\n FAX: (+44) 276 691 826\\n\\n Microwriter Systems plc\\n M.S.A. House\\n 2 Albany Court\\n Albany Park\\n Frimley\\n Surrey GU15 2XA, United Kingdom\\n\\n (Info from Carroll Morgan )\\n\\n The AgendA is a personal desktop assistant (PDA) style machine. You\\n can carry it along with you. It has chording input. You can also\\n hook it up to your PC, or even program it.\\n\\n It costs just under 200 pounds, with 128K memory.\\n===========\\n\\nThanks go to Chris Bekins for providing\\nthe basis for this information.\\n\\nThanks to the numerous contributors:\\n\\nDoug Martin \\nCarroll Morgan \\nMandy Jaffe-Katz \\nWes Hunter \\nPaul Schwartz \\nH.J. Woltring \\nDan Sorenson \\nChris VanHaren \\nRavi Pandya \\nLeonard H. Tower Jr. \\nDan Jacobson \\nJim Cheetham \\nCliff Lasser \\nRichard Donkin \\nPaul Rubin \\nDavid Erb \\nBob Scheifler \\nChris Grant \\nScott Mandell \\n\\nand everybody else who I\\'ve probably managed to forget.\\n\\nThe opinions in here are my own, unless otherwise mentioned, and do not\\nrepresent the opinions of any organization or vendor.\\n-- \\nDan Wallach \"One of the most attractive features of a Connection\\ndwallach@cs.berkeley.edu Machine is the array of blinking lights on the faces\\nOffice#: 510-642-9585 of its cabinet.\" -- CM Paris Ref. Manual, v6.0, p48.\\n',\n", " 'From: ske@pkmab.se (Kristoffer Eriksson)\\nSubject: Re: Science and methodology (was: Homeopathy ... tradition?)\\nKeywords: science errors Turpin NLP\\nOrganization: Peridot Konsult i Mellansverige AB, Oerebro, Sweden\\nLines: 14\\n\\nIn article <1quqlgINN83q@im4u.cs.utexas.edu> turpin@cs.utexas.edu (Russell Turpin) writes:\\n> My definition is this: Science is the investigation of the empirical\\n>that avoids mistakes in reasoning and methodology discovered from previous\\n>work.\\n\\nReading this definition, I wonder: when should you recognize something\\nas being a \"mistake\"? It seems to me, that proponents of pseudo-sciences\\nmight have their own ideas of what constitutes a \"mistake\" and which\\ndiscoveries of such previous mistakes they accept.\\n\\n-- \\nKristoffer Eriksson, Peridot Konsult AB, Stallgatan 2, S-702 26 Oerebro, Sweden\\nPhone: +46 19-33 13 00 ! e-mail: ske@pkmab.se\\nFax: +46 19-33 13 30 ! or ...!mail.swip.net!kullmar!pkmab!ske\\n',\n", " \"From: prb@access.digex.com (Pat)\\nSubject: Re: How many read sci.space?\\nOrganization: Express Access Online Communications USA\\nLines: 9\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: access.digex.net\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr22.184650.4833@mksol.dseg.ti.com> mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:\\n>isn't my real name, either. I'm actually Elvis. Or maybe a lemur; I\\n>sometimes have difficulty telling which is which.\\n\\ndefinitely a lemur.\\n\\nElvis couldn't spell, just listen to any of his songs.\\n\\npat\\n\",\n", " 'From: pef1@quads.uchicago.edu (it\\'s enrico palazzo!)\\nSubject: Re: Gamma Ray Bursters. Where are they?\\nReply-To: pef1@midway.uchicago.edu\\nOrganization: University of Chicago\\nLines: 36\\n\\n> = From: Graydon \\n\\n> If all of these things have been detected in space, has anyone\\n> looked into possible problems with the detectors?\\n\\n> That is, is there some mechanism (cosmic rays, whatever) that\\n> could cause the dector to _think_ it was seeing one of these\\n> things?\\n\\n> Graydon\\n\\nThat would not explain why widely separated detectors, such as on Ulysses\\nand PVO and Ginga et al., would see a burst at the same time(*). In fact, be-\\nfore BATSE, having this widely separated \"Interplanetary Network\" was the\\nonly sure way to locate a random burst. With only one detector, one cannot\\nlocate a burst (except to say \"It\\'s somewhere in the field of view.\"). With\\ntwo detectors, one can use the time that the burst is seen in each detector\\nto narrow the location to a thin annulus on the sky. With three detectors,\\none gets intersecting annuli, giving two possible locations. If one of these\\nlocations is impossible (because, say, the Earth blocked that part of the \\nsky), voila, you have an error box.\\n\\nBATSE, by having 8 detectors of its own, can do its own location determination,\\nbut only to within about 3 degrees (would someone at GSFC, like David, like\\nto comment on the current state of location determination?). Having inde-\\npendent sightings by other detectors helps drive down the uncertainty.\\n\\nYou did touch on something that you didn\\'t mean to, though. Some believe\\n(in a reference that I have somewhere) that absorption-like features seen\\nin a fraction of GRBs can actually be caused by the detector. It would be\\na mean, nasty God, though, that would have a NaI crystal act like a 10^12 Gauss\\nneutron star...but this is getting too far afield.\\n\\nPeter\\npeterf@oddjob.uchicago.edu\\n\\n',\n", " 'From: bon@lte.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de (Uwe Bonnes)\\nSubject: Re: Sunrise/ sunset times\\nOrganization: LTE, University of Erlangen, Germany\\nDistribution: world\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: aladin.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de\\nLines: 15\\n\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr21.141824.23536@cbis.ece.drexel.edu>, jpw@cbis.ece.drexel.edu (Joseph Wetstein) asked:\\n|> \\n|> Hello. I am looking for a program (or algorithm) that can be used\\n|> to compute sunrise and sunset times.\\n|> \\n|> I would appreciate any advice.\\n|> \\n|> Joe Wetstein\\n|> jpw@coe.drexel.edu\\n\\nTo compute this, and many other astronomical things, go and get (x)ephem written\\nby Elwood C. Downey. It is e.g. on export.lcs.mit.edu\\n\\nUwe Bonnes bon@lte.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de\\n',\n", " 'From: mike@starburst.umd.edu (Michael F. Santangelo)\\nSubject: Re: Space Station Redesign, JSC Alternative #4\\nOrganization: University of Maryland, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory\\nLines: 47\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: starburst.umd.edu\\n\\ndbm0000@tm0006.lerc.nasa.gov (David B. Mckissock) writes:\\n\\n...text of options \"A\" and \"B\" deleted...\\n\\n>Option C - Single Core Launch Station.\\n>This is the JSC lead option. Basically, you take a 23 ft diameter\\n>cylinder that\\'s 92 ft long, slap 3 Space Shuttle Main Engines on\\n>the backside, put a nose cone on the top, attached it to a \\n>regular shuttle external tank and a regular set of solid rocket\\n>motors, and launch the can. Some key features are:\\n> - Complete end-to-end ground integration and checkout\\n> - 4 tangentially mounted fixed solar panels\\n> - body mounted radiators (which adds protection against\\n> micrometeroid & orbital debris)\\n> - 2 centerline docking ports (one on each end)\\n> - 7 berthing ports\\n> - a single pressurized volume, approximately 26,000 cubic feet\\n> (twice the volume of skylab).\\n> - 7 floors, center passageway between floors\\n> - 10 kW of housekeeping power\\n\\nOnly 10KW?\\n\\n> - graceful degradation with failures (8 power channels, 4 thermal\\n> loops, dual environmental control & life support system)\\n> - increased crew time for utilization\\n> - 1 micro-g thru out the core module\\n\\nHa! \"North America Modular SPACE STATION construction\" :-)\\nSame apprach, same reasoning: \"construction occurs under assembly\\nline conditions, no random weather problems interupting site-work\\non your home - better quality control\" -- sounds like first \"-\"\\npoint above :-)\\n\\nSomehow I have a strange attraction for this idea (living in\\na modular home maybe has altered my mind). The only thing\\nthat scares me is the part about simply strapping 3 SSME\\'s and\\na nosecone on it and \"just launching it.\" I have this vision\\nof something going terribly wrong with the launch resulting in the\\ncomplete loss of the new modular space station (not just a peice of\\nit as would be the case with staged in-orbit construction).\\n\\n--\\n-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+\\nMichael F. Santangelo + Internet: mike@cbl.umd.edu [work]\\nDept. Head-Computer & Network Systems + mike@kavishar.umd.edu [home]\\nUMCEES / CBL (Solomons Island) + BITNET: MIKE@UMUC [fwd to mike@cbl]\\n',\n", " 'From: anello@adcs00.fnal.gov (Anthony Anello)\\nSubject: HYPOGLYCEMIA\\nOrganization: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia IL\\nLines: 14\\nDistribution: world\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: adcs01.fnal.gov\\nKeywords: 40 BLOODCOUNT DANGEROUS?\\n\\n\\nCan anyone tell me if a bloodcount of 40 when diagnosed as hypoglycemic is\\ndangerous, i.e. indicates a possible pancreatic problem? One Dr. says no, the\\nother (not his specialty) says the first is negligent and that another blood\\ntest should be done. Also, what is a good diet (what has worked) for a hypo-\\nglycemic? TIA.\\n\\n\\nAnthony Anello\\nFermilab\\nBatavia, Illinois\\n\\n\\n-- \\n',\n", " 'From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nSubject: Re: \"CAN\\'T BREATHE\"\\nArticle-I.D.: pitt.19440\\nReply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nOrganization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science\\nLines: 23\\n\\nIn article <1993Mar29.204003.26952@tijc02.uucp> pjs269@tijc02.uucp (Paul Schmidt) writes:\\n>I think it is important to verify all procedures with proper studies to\\n>show their worthiness and risk. I just read an interesting tidbit that \\n>80% of the medical treatments are unproven and not based on scientific \\n>fact. For example, many treatments of prostate cancer are unproven and\\n>the treatment may be more dangerous than the disease (according to the\\n>article I read.)\\n\\nWhere did you read this? I don\\'t think this is true. I think most\\nmedical treatments are based on science, although it is difficult\\nto prove anything with certitude. It is true that there are some\\nthings that have just been found \"to work\", but we have no good\\nexplanation for why. But almost everything does have a scientific\\nrationale. The most common treatment for prostate cancer is\\nprobably hormone therapy. It has been \"proven\" to work. So have\\nradiation and chemotherapy. What treatments did the article say\\nare not proven? \\n\\n-- \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nGordon Banks N3JXP | \"Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and\\ngeb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu | it is shameful to surrender it too soon.\" \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n',\n", " 'From: pgf@srl02.cacs.usl.edu (Phil G. Fraering)\\nSubject: Re: PLANETS STILL: IMAGES ORBIT BY ETHER TWIST\\nOrganization: Univ. of Southwestern Louisiana\\nLines: 8\\n\\nThe only ether I see here is the stuff you must\\nhave been breathing before you posted...\\n\\n--\\nPhil Fraering |\"Seems like every day we find out all sorts of stuff.\\npgf@srl02.cacs.usl.edu|Like how the ancient Mayans had televison.\" Repo Man\\n\\n\\n',\n", " 'From: dennisn@ecs.comm.mot.com (Dennis Newkirk)\\nSubject: Re: First Spacewalk\\nOrganization: Motorola\\nDistribution: sci\\nNntp-Posting-Host: 145.1.146.43\\nLines: 14\\n\\nIn article flb@flb.optiplan.fi (\"F.Baube[tm]\") writes:\\n>At one time there was speculation that the first spacewalk \\n>(Alexei Leonov ?) was a staged fake.\\n>\\n>Has any evidence to support or contradict this claim emerged ?\\n>\\n>Was this claim perhaps another fevered Cold War hallucination ?\\n\\nThis claim was made when someone spotted training film footage spliced into\\nthe footage of the actual spacewalk.\\n\\nDennis Newkirk (dennisn@ecs.comm.mot.com)\\nMotorola, Land Mobile Products Sector\\nSchaumburg, IL\\n',\n", " 'From: jbh55289@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Josh Hopkins)\\nSubject: DC-Y trajectory simulation\\nKeywords: SSTO, Delta Clipper\\nOrganization: University of Illinois at Urbana\\nLines: 91\\n\\n\\nI\\'ve been to three talks in the last month which might be of interest. I\\'ve \\ntranscribed some of my notes below. Since my note taking ability is by no means\\ninfallible, please assume that all factual errors are mine. Permission is \\ngranted to copy this without restriction.\\n\\nNote for newbies: The Delta Clipper project is geared towards producing a\\nsingle staget to orbit, reusable launch vehicle. The DC-X vehicle is a 1/3\\nscale vehicle designed to test some of the concepts invovled in SSTO. It is \\ncurrently undergoing tests. The DC-Y vehicle would be a full scale \\nexperimental vehicle capable of reaching orbit. It has not yet been funded.\\n\\nOn April 6th, Rocky Nelson of MacDonnell Douglas gave a talk entitled \\n\"Optimizing Techniques for Advanced Space Missions\" here at the University of\\nIllinois. Mr Nelson\\'s job involves using software to simulate trajectories and\\ndetermine the optimal trajectory within given requirements. Although he is\\nnot directly involved with the Delta Clipper project, he has spent time with \\nthem recently, using his software for their applications. He thus used \\nthe DC-Y project for most of his examples. While I don\\'t think the details\\nof implicit trajectory simulation are of much interest to the readers (I hope\\nthey aren\\'t - I fell asleep during that part), I think that many of you will\\nbe interested in some of the details gleaned from the examples.\\n\\nThe first example given was the maximization of payload for a polar orbit. The\\nmain restriction is that acceleration must remain below 3 Gs. I assume that\\nthis is driven by passenger constraints rather than hardware constraints, but I\\ndid not verify that. The Delta Clipper Y version has 8 engines - 4 boosters\\nand 4 sustainers. The boosters, which have a lower isp, are shut down in \\nmid-flight. Thus, one critical question is when to shut them down. Mr Nelson\\nshowed the following plot of acceleration vs time:\\n ______\\n3 G /| / |\\n / | / | As ASCII graphs go, this is actually fairly \\n / | / |\\t good. The big difference is that the lines\\n2 G / |/ | made by the / should be curves which are\\n / | concave up. The data is only approximate, as\\n / | the graph wasn\\'t up for very long.\\n1 G / |\\n |\\n |\\n0 G |\\n\\n ^ ^\\n ~100 sec ~400 sec\\n\\n\\nAs mentioned before, a critical constraint is that G levels must be kept below\\n3. Initially, all eight engines are started. As the vehicle burns fuel the\\naccelleration increases. As it gets close to 3G, the booster engines are \\nthrotled back. However, they quickly become inefficient at low power, so it\\nsoon makes more sense to cut them off altogether. This causes the dip in \\naccelleration at about 100 seconds. Eventually the remaining sustainer engines\\nbring the G level back up to about 3 and then hold it there until they cut\\nout entirely.\\n\\nThe engine cutoff does not acutally occur in orbit. The trajectory is aimed\\nfor an altitude slightly higher than the 100nm desired and the last vestiges of\\nair drag slow the vehicle slightly, thus lowering the final altitude to \\nthat desired.\\n\\nQuestions from the audience: (paraphrased)\\n\\nQ: Would it make sense to shut down the booster engines in pairs, rather than\\n all at once?\\n\\nA: Very perceptive. Worth considering. They have not yet done the simulation. Shutting down all four was part of the problem as given.\\n\\nQ: So what was the final payload for this trajectory?\\n\\nA: Can\\'t tell us. \"Read Aviation Leak.\" He also apparently had a good \\n propulsion example, but was told not to use it. \\n\\nMy question: Does anyone know if this security is due to SDIO protecting\\nnational security or MD protecting their own interests?\\n\\nThe second example was reentry simulation, from orbit to just before the pitch\\nup maneuver. The biggest constraint in this one is aerodynamic heating, and \\nthe parameter they were trying to maximize was crossrange. He showed graphs\\nof heating using two different models, to show that both were very similar,\\nand I think we were supposed to assume that this meant they were very accurate.\\nThe end result was that for a polar orbit landing at KSC, the DC-Y would have\\nabout 30 degrees of crossrange and would start it\\'s reentry profile about \\n60 degrees south latitude.\\n\\nI would have asked about the landing maneuvers, but he didn\\'t know about that\\naspect of the flight profile.\\n\\n-- \\nJosh Hopkins jbh55289@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu\\n\\t\\t \"Find a way or make one.\"\\n\\t -attributed to Hannibal\\n',\n", " 'From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nSubject: Re: tuberculosis\\nReply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nOrganization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science\\nLines: 20\\n\\nIn article <1993Mar25.020646.852@news.columbia.edu> jhl14@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Jonathan H. Lin) writes:\\n>I was wondering what steps are being taken to prevent the spread of\\n>multi-drug resistant tuberculosis. I\\'ve heard that some places are\\n>thinking of incarcerating those with the disease. Doesn\\'t this violate\\n>the civil rights of these individuals? Are there any legal precedents\\n>for such action?\\n>\\n\\nWho knows in this legal climate, but there is tremendous legal precendent\\nfor forcibly quarantining TB patients in sanitariums. 100 yrs ago\\nit was done all the time. It has been done sporadically all along\\nin patients who won\\'t take their medicine. If you have TB you\\nmay find yourself under surveilence of the Public Health Department\\nand you may find they have the legal power to insist you make your\\nclinic visits.\\n-- \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nGordon Banks N3JXP | \"Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and\\ngeb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu | it is shameful to surrender it too soon.\" \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n',\n", " 'From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)\\nSubject: Re: TRUE \"GLOBE\", Who makes it?\\nOrganization: U of Toronto Zoology\\nLines: 12\\n\\nIn article bill@xpresso.UUCP (Bill Vance) writes:\\n>It has been known for quite a while that the earth is actually more pear\\n>shaped than globular/spherical. Does anyone make a \"globe\" that is accurate\\n>as to actual shape, landmass configuration/Long/Lat lines etc.?\\n\\nI don\\'t think you\\'re going to be able to see the differences from a sphere\\nunless they are greatly exaggerated. Even the equatorial bulge is only\\nabout 1 part in 300 -- you\\'d never notice a 1mm error in a 30cm globe --\\nand the other deviations from spherical shape are much smaller.\\n-- \\nSVR4 resembles a high-speed collision | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology\\nbetween SVR3 and SunOS. - Dick Dunn | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry\\n',\n", " 'From: landis@stsci.edu (Robert Landis,S202,,)\\nSubject: Re: Soviet Space Book\\nReply-To: landis@stsci.edu\\nOrganization: Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore MD\\nLines: 9\\n\\nWhat in blazes is going on with Wayne Matson and gang\\ndown in Alabama? I also heard an unconfirmed rumor that\\nAerospace Ambassadors have disappeared. Can anyone else\\nconfirm??\\n\\n++Rob Landis\\n STScI, Baltimore, MD\\n\\n\\n',\n", " \"From: cash@convex.com (Peter Cash)\\nSubject: Re: Need advice with doctor-patient relationship problem\\nNntp-Posting-Host: zeppelin.convex.com\\nOrganization: The Instrumentality\\nX-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer\\n Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and\\n not necessarily those of CONVEX.\\nLines: 16\\n\\nIn article mcovingt@aisun3.ai.uga.edu (Michael Covington) writes:\\n>Sounds as though his heart's in the right place, but he is not adept at\\n>expressing it. What you received was _meant_ to be a profound apology.\\n>Apologies delivered by overworked shy people often come out like that...\\n\\nHis _heart_? This jerk doesn't have a heart, and it beats me why you're\\napologizing for him. In my book, behavior like this is unprofessional,\\ninexcusable, and beyond the pale. If he's overworked, it's because he's too\\nbusy raking in the bucks. More likely, he just likes to push women around.\\nI'd fire the s.o.b., and get myself another doctor.\\n\\n-- \\n~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\\n | Die Welt ist alles, was Zerfall ist. |\\nPeter Cash | (apologies to Ludwig Wittgenstein) |cash@convex.com\\n~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\\n\",\n", " \"From: sysmgr@king.eng.umd.edu (Doug Mohney)\\nSubject: Re: Moonbase race\\nOrganization: Computer Aided Design Lab, U. of Maryland College Park\\nLines: 22\\nReply-To: sysmgr@king.eng.umd.edu\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: queen.eng.umd.edu\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr21.204941.15055@iti.org>, aws@iti.org (Allen W. Sherzer) writes:\\n>In article <1r46o9INN14j@mojo.eng.umd.edu> sysmgr@king.eng.umd.edu writes:\\n>\\n>>So how much would it cost as a private venture, assuming you could talk the\\n>>U.S. government into leasing you a couple of pads in Florida? \\n>\\n>Why would you want to do that? The goal is to do it cheaper (remember,\\n>this isn't government). Instead of leasing an expensive launch pad,\\n>just use a SSTO and launch from a much cheaper facility.\\n\\nAllen, sometimes I think you're OK. And sometimes you tend to rashly leap into\\nmaking statement without thinking them out. \\n\\nWanna guess which today?\\n\\nYou'd need to launch HLVs to send up large amounts of stuff. Do you know \\nof a private Titan pad? \\n\\n\\n\\n Software engineering? That's like military intelligence, isn't it?\\n -- > SYSMGR@CADLAB.ENG.UMD.EDU < --\\n\",\n", " 'From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nSubject: Re: Sinus vs. Migraine (was Re: Sinus Endoscopy)\\nReply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nOrganization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science\\nLines: 16\\n\\nIn article Lauger@ssdgwy.mdc.com (John Lauger) writes:\\n>In article <19201@pitt.UUCP>, geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks) wrote:\\n\\n>What\\'s the best approach to getting off the analgesics. Is there something\\n\\nTwo approaches that I\\'ve used: Tofranil, 50 mg qhs, Naproxen 250mg bid.\\nThe Naproxen doesn\\'t seem to be as bad as things like Tylenol in promoting\\nthe analgesic abuse Headache. DHE IV infusions for about 3 days (in\\nhospital). Cold turkey is the only way I think. Tapering doesn\\'t\\nhelp. I wouldn\\'t know how you can do this without your doctor. I haven\\'t\\nseen anyone successfully do it alone. Doesn\\'t mean it can\\'t be done.\\n-- \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nGordon Banks N3JXP | \"Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and\\ngeb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu | it is shameful to surrender it too soon.\" \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n',\n", " 'From: kjenks@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov\\nSubject: Space Station Redesign, JSC Alternative #4\\nOrganization: NASA/JSC/GM2, Space Shuttle Program Office \\nX-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]\\nLines: 71\\n\\nI have 19 (2 MB worth!) uuencode\\'d GIF images contain charts outlining\\none of the many alternative Space Station designs being considered in\\nCrystal City. Mr. Mark Holderman works down the hall from me, and can\\nbe reached for comment at (713) 483-1317, or via e-mail at\\nmholderm@jscprofs.nasa.gov.\\n\\nMark proposed this design, which he calls \"Geode\" (\"rough on the\\noutside, but a gem on the inside\") or the \"ET Strongback with\\nintegrated hab modules and centrifuge.\" As you can see from file\\ngeodeA.gif, it uses a Space Shuttle External Tank (ET) in place of much\\nof the truss which is currently part of Space Station Freedom. The\\nwhite track on the outside of the ET is used by the Station Remonte\\nManipulator System (SRMS) and by the Reaction Control System (RCS)\\npod. This allows the RCS pod to move along the track so that thrusting\\ncan occur near the center of gravity (CG) of the Station as the mass\\nproperties of the Station change during assembly.\\n\\nThe inline module design allows the Shuttle to dock more easily because\\nit can approach closer to the Station\\'s CG and at a structurally strong\\npart of the Station. In the current SSF design, docking forces are\\nlimited to 400 pounds, which seriously constrains the design of the\\ndocking system.\\n\\nThe ET would have a hatch installed pre-flight, with little additional\\nlaunch mass. We\\'ve always had the ability to put an ET into orbit\\n(contrary to some rumors which have circulated here), but we\\'ve never\\nhad a reason to do it, while we have had some good reasons not to\\n(performance penalties, control, debris generation, and eventual\\nde-orbit and impact footprint). Once on-orbit, we would vent the\\nresidual H2. The ET insulation (SOFI) either a) erodes on-orbit from\\nimpact with atomic Oxygen, or b) stays where it is, and we deploy a\\nKevlar sheath around it to protect it and keep it from contaminating\\nthe local space environment. Option b) has the advantage of providing\\nfurther micrometeor protection. The ET is incredibly strong (remember,\\nit supports the whole stack during launch), and could serve as the\\nnucleus for a much more ambitious design as budget permits.\\n\\nThe white module at the end of ET contains a set of Control Moment\\nGyros to be used for attitude control, while the RCS will be used\\nfor gyro desaturation. The module also contains a de-orbit system\\nwhich can be used at the end of the Station\\'s life to perform a\\ncontrolled de-orbit (so we don\\'t kill any more kangaroos, like we\\ndid with Skylab).\\n\\nThe centrifuge, which has the same volume as a hab module, could be\\nused for long-term studies of the effects of lunar or martian gravity\\non humans. The centrifuge will be used as a momentum storage device\\nfor the whole attitude control system. The centrifuge is mounted on\\none of the modules, opposite the ET and the solar panels.\\n\\nThis design uses most of the existing SSF designs for electrical,\\ndata and communication systems, getting leverage from the SSF work\\ndone to date.\\n\\nMark proposed this design at Joe Shea\\'s committee in Crystal City,\\nand he reports that he was warmly received. However, the rumors\\nI hear say that a design based on a wingless Space Shuttle Orbiter\\nseems more likely.\\n\\nPlease note that this text is my interpretation of Mark\\'s design;\\nyou should see his notes in the GIF files. \\n\\nInstead of posting a 2 MB file to sci.space, I tried to post these for\\nanon-FTP in ames.arc.nasa.gov, but it was out of storage space. I\\'ll\\nlet you all know when I get that done.\\n\\n-- Ken Jenks, NASA/JSC/GM2, Space Shuttle Program Office\\n kjenks@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov (713) 483-4368\\n\\n \"...Development of the space station is as inevitable as \\n the rising of the sun.\" -- Wernher von Braun\\n',\n", " \"From: phoenix.Princeton.EDU!carlosn (Carlos G. Niederstrasser)\\nSubject: Double sonic booms.\\nOriginator: news@nimaster\\nNntp-Posting-Host: luma.princeton.edu\\nOrganization: Princeton University\\nLines: 16\\n\\nEvery time you read about a shuttle landing they mention the double sonic \\nbooms. Having taken various relevant classes, I have several ideas of where \\nthey come from, but none of them are very convincing. Exactly what causes \\nthem? Are they a one time pheneomenon, or a constant one like the supersonic \\nshockwave that is constantly produced by a plane, but you hear only when it \\ngoes over you?\\n\\n---\\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\\n| Carlos G. Niederstrasser | Only two things are infinite, |\\n| Princeton Planetary Society | the universe and human |\\n| | stupidity, and I'm not sure |\\n| | about the former. - Einstein |\\n| carlosn@phoenix.princeton.edu |---------------------------------|\\n| space@phoenix.princeton.edu | Ad Astra per Ardua Nostra |\\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\\n\",\n", " 'From: nyeda@cnsvax.uwec.edu (David Nye)\\nSubject: Re: Post Polio Syndrome Information Needed Please !!!\\nOrganization: University of Wisconsin Eau Claire\\nLines: 21\\n\\n[reply to keith@actrix.gen.nz (Keith Stewart)]\\n \\n>My wife has become interested through an acquaintance in Post-Polio\\n>Syndrome This apparently is not recognised in New Zealand and different\\n>symptons ( eg chest complaints) are treated separately. Does anone have\\n>any information on it\\n \\nIt would help if you (and anyone else asking for medical information on\\nsome subject) could ask specific questions, as no one is likely to type\\nin a textbook chapter covering all aspects of the subject. If you are\\nlooking for a comprehensive review, ask your local hospital librarian.\\nMost are happy to help with a request of this sort.\\n \\nBriefly, this is a condition in which patients who have significant\\nresidual weakness from childhood polio notice progression of the\\nweakness as they get older. One theory is that the remaining motor\\nneurons have to work harder and so die sooner.\\n \\nDavid Nye (nyeda@cnsvax.uwec.edu). Midelfort Clinic, Eau Claire WI\\nThis is patently absurd; but whoever wishes to become a philosopher\\nmust learn not to be frightened by absurdities. -- Bertrand Russell\\n',\n", " 'From: freed@nss.org (Bev Freed)\\nSubject: FAQs\\nOrganization: The NSS BBS, Pittsburgh PA (412) 366-5208\\nLines: 8\\n\\nI was wondering if the FAQ files could be posted quarterly rather than monthly. Every 28-30 days, I get this bloated feeling.\\n \\n\\n\\n-- \\nBev Freed - via FidoNet node 1:129/104\\nUUCP: ...!pitt!nss!freed\\nINTERNET: freed@nss.org\\n',\n", " \"From: prb@access.digex.com (Pat)\\nSubject: Re: Command Loss Timer (Re: Galileo Update - 04/22/93)\\nOrganization: Express Access Online Communications USA\\nLines: 20\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: access.digex.net\\nKeywords: Galileo, JPL\\n\\n\\n\\nINteresting question about Galileo.\\n\\nGalileo's HGA is stuck. \\n\\nThe HGA was left closed, because galileo had a venus flyby.\\n\\nIf the HGA were pointed att he sun, near venus, it would\\ncook the foci elements.\\n\\nquestion: WHy couldn't Galileo's course manuevers have been\\ndesigned such that the HGA did not ever do a sun point.?\\n\\nAfter all, it would normally be aimed at earth anyway?\\n\\nor would it be that an emergency situation i.e. spacecraft safing\\nand seek might have caused an HGA sun point?\\n\\npat\\n\",\n", " 'From: dnadams@nyx.cs.du.edu (Dean Adams)\\nSubject: Ariane v.56 Mission Data\\nOrganization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.\\nLines: 114\\n\\n\\n\\nARIANESPACE FLIGHT 56\\n\\n(Flight V.56 was originally intended to carry the Hughes HS-601 series \\nGalaxy IV satellite, but the payload was withdrawn just prior to flight.)\\n\\nThe 56th Ariane launch is now scheduled to place the ASTRA 1C and ARSENE \\nsatellites into an improved geostationary transfer orbit (GTO), with \\ninclination reduced to 5 degrees and apogee altitude increased by 150 km.\\nThis will be the 28th launch of an Ariane 4 and the first in the 42L \\nconfiguration, with 2 liquid strap-on boosters (PAL). It will be launched\\nfrom the newly refurbished Ariane launch complex ELA 2, in Kourou - French \\nGuiana.\\n\\nThe launch vehicle performance requirement for this mission is 3,147 kg\\nof which 2,944 kg represents the satellite mass. The total vehicle mass\\nat liftoff is 361,778 kg.\\n\\n\\nRequired Orbit Characteristics:\\n Perigee Altitude ..... 200 km\\n Apogee Altitude ...... 36,160 km at injection \\n Inclination .......... 5 degrees\\n\\n\\nThe Ariane 42L lift-off for Flight 56 is scheduled on Thursday,\\nApril 29, 1993, as soon as possible within the following launch \\nwindow:\\n\\n Kourou Time GMT (04/30/93) Washington, DC\\n 21:52 - 22:50 00:52 - 01:50 20:52 - 21:50\\n\\n\\nLAUNCH VEHICLE:\\n\\nAriane 42L. This is a three-stage liquid fueled launcher with two liquid \\nfueled strap-on boosters. The first stage (L220) is built by Aerospatiale,\\nand is powered by 4 liquid fueled Viking V engines. The second stage (L33)\\nis built by MBB Erno and is powered by a single Viking IV engine. Both the\\nViking IV and V engines are manufactured by SEP. The first and second stages\\nuse a biliquid UH25/N2O4 fuel. The third stage (H10) is built by Aerospatiale,\\nand is powered by a cryogenic H2/O2 fueled HM-7B engine built by SEP. The two\\nstrap-on boosters (PAL) are each powered by a Viking VI engine, also built \\nby SEP, which use the same biliquid fuel as the first and second stages. \\nThe fully assembled launch vehicle stands 56 meters high on the pad. \\nIt uses the Type 01 Ariane Short payload fairing.\\n\\n\\nFlight Profile:\\n\\n +02:21 Liquid strap-on booster jettison\\n +03:11 First stage separation\\n +03:18 Second stage ignition\\n +04:10 Fairing jettison\\n +05:21 Second stage separation\\n +05:26 Third stage ignition\\n +17:30 Third stage shutdown / orbit injection\\n +19:56 ASTRA 1C separation\\n +22:36 Cyclade adapter separation\\n +24:26 ARSENE separation\\n +28:47 End of Ariane mission 56\\n\\n\\nPAYLOADS:\\n\\nASTRA 1C is the third spacecraft in the fleet of \"Societe Europeenne\\ndes Satellites\" to broadcast direct TV to homes all over Europe.\\nBuilt by Hughes, it will be the second HS-601 launched by Ariane.\\n\\n Total mass at lift-off .... 2,790 kg\\n Mass at GEO insertion ..... 1,700 kg\\n Dry mass .................. 1,180 kg \\n On-board power ............ 3,300 W (end of life)\\n Nominal lifetime .......... 15 years \\n Span of solar panels ...... 21 m\\n On-Orbit position ......... 19.2 degrees east, over Africa.\\n\\n Transmission capacity: \\n 34 channels in Ku-band, via 18 transponders.\\n\\n In-flight operations:\\n Solar array deployment ............ about 6 days after lift-off\\n First of 3 apogee motor firings ... about 40 hours after lift-off \\n at 4th apogee\\n\\n\\nARSENE is the first spacecraft built by the European Space Industry\\nfor the benefit of the world amateur radio community. \\n\\n Total mass at lift-off .... 154 kg\\n Mass at GEO insertion ..... 98 kg\\n Dry mass .................. 97 kg \\n On-board power ............ 42 W (end of life)\\n Nominal lifetime .......... 3 years \\n Spacecraft dimensions ..... 1.1m x .96m\\n Orbital parameters ........ 20000/36000 km, 0 inclination, period 17:30.\\n\\n Transmission capacity: \\n S-band: 1 transponder at 2.446 ghz\\n VHF/UHF: 145/435 mhz \\n\\n\\nLAUNCH COVERAGE:\\n\\nAll Ariane missions are broadcast live via satellite from Kourou. \\nCoverage begins at 30 minutes before launch and continues until \\nall payloads have been deployed. This mission will likely be carried\\nin the US on Galaxy 6, however it could be Galaxy 7 or another satellite.\\n(What is the European satellite normally used for Ariane coverage?)\\n \\n\\n-{ Dean Adams }-\\n\\n',\n", " 'From: steinly@topaz.ucsc.edu (Steinn Sigurdsson)\\nSubject: Re: DC-X Rollout Report\\nArticle-I.D.: topaz.STEINLY.93Apr6170313\\nDistribution: sci\\nOrganization: Lick Observatory/UCO\\nLines: 29\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: topaz.ucsc.edu\\nIn-reply-to: buenneke@monty.rand.org\\'s message of Tue, 6 Apr 1993 22:34:39 GMT\\n\\nIn article buenneke@monty.rand.org (Richard Buenneke) writes:\\n\\n McDonnell Douglas rolls out DC-X\\n\\n ...\\n\\n\\n SSTO research remains cloudy. The SDI Organization -- which paid $60\\n million for the DC-X -- can\\'t itself afford to fund full development of a\\n follow-on vehicle. To get the necessary hundreds of millions required for\\n\\nThis is a little peculiar way of putting it, SDIO\\'s budget this year\\nwas, what, $3-4 billion? They _could_ fund all of the DC development\\nout of one years budget - of course they do have other irons in the\\nfire ;-) and launcher development is not their primary purpose, but\\nthe DC development could as easily be paid for by diverting that money\\nas by diverting the comparable STS ops budget...\\n\\n- oh, and before the flames start. I applaud the SDIO for funding DC-X\\ndevlopment and I hope it works, and, no, launcher development is not\\nNASAs primary goal either, IMHO they are supposed to provide the\\nenabling technology research for others to do launcher development,\\nand secondarily operate such launchers as they require - but that\\'s\\njust me.\\n\\n| Steinn Sigurdsson\\t|I saw two shooting stars last night\\t\\t|\\n| Lick Observatory\\t|I wished on them but they were only satellites\\t|\\n| steinly@lick.ucsc.edu |Is it wrong to wish on space hardware?\\t\\t|\\n| \"standard disclaimer\"\\t|I wish, I wish, I wish you\\'d care - B.B. 1983\\t|\\n',\n", " \"From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)\\nSubject: Re: Eco-Freaks forcing Space Mining.\\nOrganization: U of Toronto Zoology\\nLines: 22\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr21.212202.1@aurora.alaska.edu> nsmca@aurora.alaska.edu writes:\\n>Here is a way to get the commericial companies into space and mineral\\n>exploration.\\n>\\n>Basically get the eco-freaks to make it so hard to get the minerals on earth.\\n\\nThey aren't going to leave a loophole as glaring as space mining. Quite a\\nfew of those people are, when you come right down to it, basically against\\nindustrial civilization. They won't stop with shutting down the mines here;\\nthat is only a means to an end for them now.\\n\\nThe worst thing you can say to a true revolutionary is that his revolution\\nis unnecessary, that the problems can be corrected without radical change.\\nTelling people that paradise can be attained without the revolution is\\ntreason of the vilest kind.\\n\\nTrying to harness these people to support spaceflight is like trying to\\nharness a buffalo to pull your plough. He's got plenty of muscle, all\\nright, but the furrow will go where he wants, not where you want.\\n-- \\nAll work is one man's work. | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology\\n - Kipling | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry\\n\",\n", " 'From: doyle+@pitt.edu (Howard R Doyle)\\nSubject: Re: Broken rib\\nKeywords: advice needed\\nOrganization: Pittsburgh Transplant Institute\\nLines: 28\\n\\nIn article jc@oneb.almanac.bc.ca writes:\\n>\\n\\n>fell about 3 weeks ago down into the hold of the boat and broke or\\n>cracked a rib and wrenched and bruised my back and left arm.\\n> My question, I have been to a doctor and was told that it was \\n>best to do nothing and it would heal up with no long term effect, and \\n>indeed I am about 60 % better, however, the work I do is very \\n>hard and I am still not able to go back to work. The thing that worries me\\n>is the movement or \"clunking\" I feel and hear back there when I move \\n>certain ways... I heard some one talking about the rib they broke \\n>years ago and that it still bothers them.. any opinions?\\n\\n\\n\\nYour doctor is right. It is best to do nothing, besides taking some pain\\nmedication initially. Some patients don\\'t like this and expect, or demand,\\nto have something done. In these cases some physicians will \"tape\" the \\npatient (put a lot of heavy adhesive tape around the chest), or prescribe\\nan elastic binder. All this does is make it harder to breath, but the\\npatient doesn\\'t feel cheated, because soemthing is being done about the\\nproblem. Either way, the end results are the same.\\n\\n==================================\\n\\nHoward Doyle\\ndoyle+@pitt.edu\\n\\n',\n", " 'From: aa429@freenet.carleton.ca (Terry Ford)\\nSubject: A flawed propulsion system: Space Shuttle\\nX-Added: Forwarded by Space Digest\\nOrganization: [via International Space University]\\nOriginal-Sender: isu@VACATION.VENARI.CS.CMU.EDU\\nDistribution: sci\\nLines: 13\\n\\n\\n\\nFor an essay, I am writing about the space shuttle and a need for a better\\npropulsion system. Through research, I have found that it is rather clumsy \\n(i.e. all the checks/tests before launch), the safety hazards (\"sitting\\non a hydrogen bomb\"), etc.. If you have any beefs about the current\\nspace shuttle program Re: propulsion, please send me your ideas.\\n\\nThanks a lot.\\n\\n--\\nTerry Ford [aa429@freenet.carleton.ca]\\nNepean, Ontario, Canada.\\n',\n", " \"From: Mark W. Dubin\\nSubject: Re: ringing ears\\nOriginator: dubin@spot.Colorado.EDU\\nKeywords: ringing ears, sleep, depression\\nNntp-Posting-Host: spot.colorado.edu\\nReply-To: dubin@spot.colorado.edu\\nOrganization: Univ. of Colorado-Boulder\\nLines: 31\\n\\njfare@53iss6.Waterloo.NCR.COM (Jim Fare) writes:\\n\\n>A friend of mine has a trouble with her ears ringing. [etc.]\\n\\n\\nA. Folks, do we have an FAQ on tinnitus yet?\\n\\nB. As a lo-o-o-ong time sufferer of tinnitus and as a neuroscientist\\nwho has looked over the literature carefully I believe the following\\nare reasonable conclusions:\\n\\n1. Millions of people suffer from chronic tinnitus.\\n2. The cause it not understood.\\n3. There is no accepted treatment that cures it.\\n4. Some experimental treatments may have helped some people a bit, but\\nthere have be no reports--even anecdotal--of massive good results with\\nany of these experimental drugs.\\n5. Some people with chronic loud tinnitus use noise blocking to get to sleep.\\n6. Sudden onset loud tinnitus can be caused by injuries and sometimes\\nabates or goes away after a few months.\\n7. Aspirin is well known to exacerbate tinnitus in some people.\\n8. There is a national association of tinnitus sufferers in the US.\\n9. One usually gets used to it. Especially when concentrating on\\nsomething else the tinnitus becomes unnoticed.\\n10. Stress and lack of sleep make tinnitus more annoying, sometimes.\\n11. I'm sure those of us who have it wish there was a cure, but there\\nis not.\\n\\nMark dubin\\nthe ol' professor\\n\\n\",\n", " 'From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)\\nSubject: Re: nuclear waste\\nOrganization: Texas Instruments Inc\\nLines: 34\\n\\nIn <1psg95$ree@access.digex.net> prb@access.digex.com (Pat) writes:\\n\\n[On the issue of \\'burning\\' nuclear wastes using particle beams...]\\n\\n>How is it ever going to be an Off- the Shelf Technology if someone doesn\\'t\\n>do it? Maybe we should do this as part of the SSF design goals. ;-)\\n\\n>Gee fred. After your bitter defense of 20 KHz power as a Basic technology\\n>for SSF, Id think you would support a minor research program like\\n>this.\\n\\nI sometimes wonder if your newsfeed gives you different articles than\\neveryone else, Pat. Just a *few* corrections:\\n\\n1) I never \\'defended\\' 20kHz power, other than as something reasonable\\nto GO LOOK AT.\\n\\n2) I have also never opposed a *research project* into feasibility of\\nthe spalling reactor approach to \\'cleaning\\' nuclear waste -- I simply\\ndoubt it could be made to work in the Real World (tm), which ought to\\nbecome clear fairly quickly during a research program into feasibility\\n(sort of like what happened to 20 kHz power -- it proved to have a\\ndown-side that was too expensive to overcome).\\n\\nI figure 2 things wrong in a single sentence is a high enough fault\\ndensity for even you, Pat.\\n\\n\\n\\n-- \\n\"Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don\\'t have the balls to live\\n in the real world.\" -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden\\n------------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nFred.McCall@dseg.ti.com - I don\\'t speak for others and they don\\'t speak for me.\\n',\n", " 'From: howard@sharps.astro.wisc.edu (Greg Howard)\\nSubject: Re: PLANETS STILL: IMAGES ORBIT BY ETHER TWIST\\nOrganization: University of Wisconsin - Astronomy Department\\nLines: 10\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: uwast.astro.wisc.edu\\n\\n\\nActually, the \"ether\" stuff sounded a fair bit like a bizzare,\\nqualitative corruption of general relativity. nothing to do with\\nthe old-fashioned, ether, though. maybe somebody could loan him\\na GR text at a low level.\\n\\ndidn\\'t get much further than that, tho.... whew.\\n\\n\\ngreg\\n',\n", " 'From: dbm0000@tm0006.lerc.nasa.gov (David B. Mckissock)\\nSubject: Re: Space Station Redesign Chief Resigns for Health Reasons\\nOrganization: NASA Lewis Research Center / Cleveland, Ohio\\nLines: 30\\nDistribution: world\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: tm0006.lerc.nasa.gov\\nNews-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41 \\n\\nIn article , xrcjd@mudpuppy.gsfc.nasa.gov (Charles J. Divine) writes...\\n>Writer Kathy Sawyer reported in today\\'s Washington Post that Joseph Shea, the \\n>head of the space station redesign has resigned for health reasons.\\n> \\n>Shea was hospitalized shortly after his selection in February. He returned\\n>yesterday to lead the formal presentation to the independent White House panel.\\n>Shea\\'s presentation was rambling and almost inaudible.\\n\\nI missed the presentations given in the morning session (when Shea gave\\nhis \"rambling and almost inaudible\" presentation), but I did attend\\nthe afternoon session. The meeting was in a small conference room. The\\nspeaker was wired with a mike, and there were microphones on the table for\\nthe panel members to use. Peons (like me) sat in a foyer outside the\\nconference room, and watched the presentations on closed circuit TV. In\\ngeneral, the sound system was fair to poor, and some of the other\\nspeakers (like the committee member from the Italian Space Agency)\\nalso were \"almost inaudible.\"\\n\\nShea didn\\'t \"lead the formal presentation,\" in the sense of running\\nor guiding the presentation. He didn\\'t even attend the afternoon\\nsession. Vest ran the show (President of MIT, the chair of the\\nadvisory panel).\\n\\n> \\n>Shea\\'s deputy, former astronaut Bryan O\\'Connor, will take over the effort.\\n\\nNote that O\\'Connor has been running the day-to-day\\noperations of the of the redesign team since Shea got sick (which\\nwas immediately after the panel was formed).\\n\\n',\n", " 'From: rind@enterprise.bih.harvard.edu (David Rind)\\nSubject: Re: Candida(yeast) Bloom, Fact or Fiction\\nOrganization: Beth Israel Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston Mass., USA\\nLines: 17\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: enterprise.bih.harvard.edu\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr22.153000.1@vms.ocom.okstate.edu>\\n banschbach@vms.ocom.okstate.edu writes:\\n>poster for being treated by a liscenced physician for a disease that did \\n>not exist. Calling this physician a quack was reprehensible Steve and I \\n>see that you and some of the others are doing it here as well. \\n\\nDo you believe that any quacks exist? How about quack diagnoses? Is\\nbeing a \"licensed physician\" enough to guarantee that someone is not\\na quack, or is it just that even if a licensed physician is a quack,\\nother people shouldn\\'t say so? Can you give an example of a\\ncommonly diagnosed ailment that you think is a quack diagnosis,\\nor have we gotten to the point in civilization where we no longer\\nneed to worry about unscrupulous \"healers\" taking advantage of\\npeople.\\n-- \\nDavid Rind\\nrind@enterprise.bih.harvard.edu\\n',\n", " \"From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)\\nSubject: Re: japanese moon landing?\\nOrganization: U of Toronto Zoology\\nLines: 21\\n\\nIn article <1qnb9tINN7ff@rave.larc.nasa.gov> C.O.EGALON@LARC.NASA.GOV (CLAUDIO OLIVEIRA EGALON) writes:\\n>> there is no such thing as a stable lunar orbit\\n>\\n>Is it right??? That is new stuff for me. So it means that you just can \\n>not put a sattellite around around the Moon for too long because its \\n>orbit will be unstable??? If so, what is the reason??? Is that because \\n>the combined gravitacional atraction of the Sun,Moon and Earth \\n>that does not provide a stable orbit around the Moon???\\n\\nAny lunar satellite needs fuel to do regular orbit corrections, and when\\nits fuel runs out it will crash within months. The orbits of the Apollo\\nmotherships changed noticeably during lunar missions lasting only a few\\ndays. It is *possible* that there are stable orbits here and there --\\nthe Moon's gravitational field is poorly mapped -- but we know of none.\\n\\nPerturbations from Sun and Earth are relatively minor issues at low\\naltitudes. The big problem is that the Moon's own gravitational field\\nis quite lumpy due to the irregular distribution of mass within the Moon.\\n-- \\nAll work is one man's work. | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology\\n - Kipling | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry\\n\",\n", " \"From: georgec@eng.umd.edu (George B. Clark)\\nSubject: Re: Endometriosis\\nOrganization: University of Maryland\\nLines: 6\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: athens.eng.umd.edu\\n\\nYou may want to inquire about taking Lupron as a medication. It's\\nsupposed to be a new treatment, and it's described in Nov. 1992\\nissue of J. of Obst. and Gyn.\\n\\nLupron is taken as a monthly injection, whereas other drugs such\\nas danazol are taken daily as pills.\\n\",\n", " 'From: higgins@fnalf.fnal.gov (Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey)\\nSubject: Re: Conference on Manned Lunar Exploration. May 7 Crystal City\\nOrganization: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory\\nLines: 31\\nDistribution: na\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: fnalf.fnal.gov\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr19.230236.18227@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>, daviss@sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov (S.F. Davis) writes:\\n> In article <1quule$5re@access.digex.net>, prb@access.digex.com (Pat) writes:\\n> |> \\n> |> AW&ST had a brief blurb on a Manned Lunar Exploration confernce\\n> |> May 7th at Crystal City Virginia, under the auspices of AIAA.\\n> |> \\n> |> Does anyone know more about this? How much, to attend????\\n> Here are some selected excerpts of the invitation/registration form they\\n> sent me. Retyped without permission, all typo\\'s are mine.\\n\\nThanks for typing that in, Steven. Sounds like a \"fall back and\\nregroup\" strategy session.\\n\\nI wanted to add that my copy of the brochure arrived with a flattering\\ncover letter:\\n\\n\"Invitations are being extended to those who have demonstrated a\\nstrong committment to space program development and have been\\ninfluential in its advancement. We sincerely hope you will be able to\\nattend.\"\\n\\nWow! I wonder which of my contributions to the conquest of space\\nconvinced them to send me this letter?\\n\\nI hope you decide to go, Pat. The Net can use some eyes and ears\\nthere...\\n\\nBill Higgins | If we can put a man on the Moon, why can\\'t\\nFermilab | we put a man on the Moon? -- Bill Engfer\\nhiggins@fnal.fnal.gov | If we can put a man on the Moon, why can\\'t\\nhiggins@fnal.Bitnet | we put a woman on the Moon? -- Bill Higgins\\n',\n", " 'From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nSubject: Re: Great Post! (was Re: Candida (yeast) Bloom...) (VERY LONG)\\nReply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nOrganization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science\\nLines: 50\\n\\nIn article noring@netcom.com (Jon Noring) writes:\\n\\nHate to wreck your elaborate theory, but Steve Dyer is not an MD.\\nSo professional jealosy over doctors who help their patients with\\nNystatin, etc., can\\'t very well come into the picture. Steve\\ndoesn\\'t have any patients.\\n\\n\\n\\n>response to specificially Candida albicans, and I showed a strong positive.\\n>Another question, would everybody show the same strong positive so this test\\n>is essentially useless? And, assuming it is true that Candida can grow\\n\\nYes, everyone who is normal does that. We use candida on the other arm\\nwhen we put a tuberculin test on. If people don\\'t react to candida,\\nwe assume the TB test was not conclusive since such people may not\\nreact to anything. All normal people have antibodies to candida.\\nIf not, you would quickly turn into a fungus ball.\\n\\n>This brings up an interesting observation used by those who will deny\\n>and reject any and all aspects of the \\'yeast hypothesis\\' until the\\n>appropriate studies are done. And that is if you can\\'t observe or culture\\n>the yeast \"bloom\" in the gut or sinus, then there\\'s no way to diagnose or\\n>even recognize the disease. And I know they realize that it is virtually\\n>impossible to test for candida overbloom in any part of the body that cannot\\n>be easily observed since candida is everywhere in the body.\\n>\\n>It\\'s a real Catch-22.\\n>\\n\\nYou\\'ve just discovered one of the requirements for a good quack theory.\\nFind something that no one can *disprove* and then write a book saying\\nit is the cause of whatever. Since no one can disprove it, you can\\nrake in the bucks for quite some time. \\n\\n>>...I have often wondered what an M.D. with chronic \\n>>GI distress or sinus problems would do about the problem that he tells his \\n>>patients is a non-existent syndrome.\\n>\\n\\nThat is odd, isn\\'t it? Why do you suppose it is that MDs with these\\ncommon problems don\\'t go for these crazy ideas? Does the \"professional\\njealosy\" extend to suffering in silence, even though they know they\\ncould be cured if they just followed this quack book?\\n\\n-- \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nGordon Banks N3JXP | \"Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and\\ngeb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu | it is shameful to surrender it too soon.\" \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n',\n", " 'From: julkunen@messi.uku.fi (Antero Julkunen)\\nSubject: What about sci.med.chemistry\\nOrganization: University of Kuopio, Finland\\nLines: 10\\n\\n\\nThere is this newsgroup sci.med.physics and there has been quite a lot\\ndiscussion in this group about many chemical items e.g. prolactin\\ncholesterol, TSH etc. Should there also be a newsgroup sci.med.chemistry?\\n\\n\\n-- \\nAntero Julkunen, Dept Clinical Chemistry, University of Kuopio, Finland\\ne-mail: julkunen@messi.uku.fi, phone +358-71-162680, fax +358-71-162020\\n\\n',\n", " 'From: C.O.EGALON@LARC.NASA.GOV (CLAUDIO OLIVEIRA EGALON)\\nSubject: Re: japanese moon landing?\\nOrganization: NASA Langley Research Center\\nLines: 13\\nDistribution: world\\nReply-To: C.O.EGALON@LARC.NASA.GOV (CLAUDIO OLIVEIRA EGALON)\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: tahiti.larc.nasa.gov\\n\\n> there is no such thing as a stable lunar orbit\\n\\nIs it right??? That is new stuff for me. So it means that you just can \\nnot put a sattellite around around the Moon for too long because its \\norbit will be unstable??? If so, what is the reason??? Is that because \\nthe combined gravitacional atraction of the Sun,Moon and Earth \\nthat does not provide a stable orbit around the Moon???\\n\\n C.O.EGALON@LARC.NASA.GOV\\n\\nC.O.Egalon@larc.nasa.gov\\n\\nClaudio Oliveira Egalon\\n',\n", " 'From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nSubject: Re: tuberculosis\\nReply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nOrganization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science\\nLines: 26\\n\\nIn article <1993Mar29.181406.11915@iscsvax.uni.edu> klier@iscsvax.uni.edu writes:\\n\\n>\\n>Multiple drug resistance in TB is a relatively new phenomenon, and\\n>one of the largest contributing factors is that people are no longer\\n>as scared of TB as they were before antibiotics. (It was roughly as\\n>feared as HIV is now...)\\n>\\n\\nNot that new. 20 years ago, we had drug addicts harboring active TB\\nthat was resistant to everything (in Chicago). The difference now\\nis that such strains have become virulent. In the old days, such\\nTB was weak. It didn\\'t spread to other people very easily and just\\ninfected the one person in whom it developed (because of non-compliance\\nwith medications). Non-compliance and development of resistant strains\\nhas been a problem for a very long time. That is why we have like 9\\ndrugs against TB. There is always a need to develop new ones due to\\nsuch strains. Now, however, with a virulent resistant strain, we\\nare in more trouble, and measures to assure compliance may be necessary\\neven if they entail force.\\n\\n-- \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nGordon Banks N3JXP | \"Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and\\ngeb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu | it is shameful to surrender it too soon.\" \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n',\n", " \"From: Mark.Perew@p201.f208.n103.z1.fidonet.org\\nSubject: Re: Comet in Temporary Orbit Around Jupiter?\\nX-Sender: newtout 0.08 Feb 23 1993\\nLines: 15\\n\\nIn a message of , jgarland@kean.ucs.mun.ca writes:\\n\\n >In article <1993Apr19.020359.26996@sq.sq.com>, msb@sq.sq.com (Mark Brader) \\n >writes:\\n\\nMB> So the\\nMB> 1970 figure seems unlikely to actually be anything but a perijove.\\n\\nJG>Sorry, _perijoves_...I'm not used to talking this language.\\n\\nCouldn't we just say periapsis or apoapsis?\\n\\n \\n\\n--- msged 2.07\\n\",\n", " \"From: turpin@cs.utexas.edu (Russell Turpin)\\nSubject: Re: Science and methodology (was: Homeopathy ... tradition?)\\nOrganization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin\\nLines: 18\\nDistribution: inet\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: im4u.cs.utexas.edu\\n\\n-*-----\\nIn article <1993Apr15.150550.15347@ecsvax.uncecs.edu> ccreegan@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Charles L. Creegan) writes:\\n> What about Kekule's infamous derivation of the idea of benzene rings\\n> from a daydream of snakes in the fire biting their tails? Is this\\n> specific enough to count? Certainly it turns up repeatedly in basic\\n> phil. of sci. texts as an example of the inventive component of\\n> hypothesizing. \\n\\nI think the question is: What is extra-scientific about this? \\n\\nIt has been a long time since anyone has proposed restrictions on\\nwhere one comes up with ideas in order for them to be considered\\nlegitimate hypotheses. The point, in short, is this: hypotheses and\\nspeculation in science may come from wild flights of fancy, \\ndaydreams, ancient traditions, modern quackery, or anywhere else.\\n\\nRussell\\n\\n\",\n", " 'From: DKELO@msmail.pepperdine.edu (Dan Kelo)\\nSubject: M-81 Supernova\\nX-Added: Forwarded by Space Digest\\nOrganization: [via International Space University]\\nOriginal-Sender: isu@VACATION.VENARI.CS.CMU.EDU\\nDistribution: sci\\nLines: 7\\n\\n\\nHow \\'bout some more info on that alleged supernova in M-81?\\nI might just break out the scope for this one.\\n____________________________________________________\\n\"No sir, I don\\'t like it! \"-- Mr. Horse\\nDan Kelo dkelo@pepvax.pepperdine.edu\\n____________________________________________________\\n',\n", " 'From: baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov (Ron Baalke)\\nSubject: Successful Balloon Flight Measures Ozone Layer\\nOrganization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory\\nLines: 96\\nDistribution: world\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov\\nKeywords: JPL\\nNews-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41 \\n\\nForwarded from:\\nPUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICE\\nJET PROPULSION LABORATORY\\nCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY\\nNATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION\\nPASADENA, CALIF. 91109. (818) 354-5011\\n\\nContact: Mary A. Hardin\\n\\nFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 15, 1993\\n#1506\\n\\n Scientists at NASA\\'s Jet Propulsion Laboratory report the\\nsuccessful flight of a balloon carrying instruments designed to\\nmeasure and study chemicals in the Earth\\'s ozone layer.\\n\\n The April 3 flight from California\\'s Barstow/Daggett Airport\\nreached an altitude of 37 kilometers (121,000 feet) and took\\nmeasurements as part of a program established to correlate data\\nwith the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS). \\n\\n The data from the balloon flight will also be compared to\\nreadings from the Atmospheric Trace Molecular Spectroscopy\\n(ATMOS) experiment which is currently flying onboard the shuttle\\nDiscovery.\\n\\n \"We launch these balloons several times a year as part of an\\nongoing ozone research program. In fact, JPL is actively\\ninvolved in the study of ozone and the atmosphere in three\\nimportant ways,\" said Dr. Jim Margitan, principal investigator on\\nthe balloon research campaign. \\n\\n \"There are two JPL instruments on the UARS satellite,\" he\\ncontinued. \"The ATMOS experiment is conducted by JPL scientists,\\nand the JPL balloon research provides collaborative ground truth\\nfor those activities, as well as data that is useful in its own\\nright.\"\\n\\n The measurements taken by the balloon payload will add more\\npieces to the complex puzzle of the atmosphere, specifically the\\nmid-latitude stratosphere during winter and spring. \\nUnderstanding the chemistry occurring in this region helps\\nscientists construct more accurate computer models which are\\ninstrumental in predicting future ozone conditions.\\n\\n The scientific balloon payload consisted of three JPL\\ninstruments: an ultraviolet ozone photometer which measures\\nozone as the balloon ascends and descends through the atmosphere;\\na submillimeterwave limb sounder which looks at microwave\\nradiation emitted by molecules in the atmosphere; and a Fourier\\ntransform infrared interferometer which monitors how the\\natmosphere absorbs sunlight. \\n\\n Launch occurred at about noontime, and following a three-\\nhour ascent, the balloon floated eastward at approximately 130\\nkilometers per hour (70 knots). Data was radioed to ground\\nstations and recorded onboard. The flight ended at 10 p.m.\\nPacific time in eastern New Mexico when the payload was commanded\\nto separate from the balloon.\\n\\n \"We needed to fly through sunset to make the infrared\\nmeasurements,\" Margitan explained, \"and we also needed to fly in\\ndarkness to watch how quickly some of the molecules disappear.\"\\n\\n It will be several weeks before scientists will have the\\ncompleted results of their experiments. They will then forward\\ntheir data to the UARS central data facility at the Goddard Space\\nFlight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland for use by the UARS\\nscientists. \\n\\n The balloon was launched by the National Scientific Balloon\\nFacility, normally based in Palestine, Tex., operating under a\\ncontract from NASA\\'s Wallops Flight Facility. The balloon was\\nlaunched in California because of the west-to-east wind direction\\nand the desire to keep the operation in the southwest.\\n\\n The balloons are made of 20-micron (0.8 mil, or less than\\none-thousandth of an inch) thick plastic, and are 790,000 cubic\\nmeters (28 million cubic feet) in volume when fully inflated with\\nhelium (120 meters (400 feet) in diameter). The balloons weigh\\nbetween 1,300 and 1,800 kilograms (3,000 and 4,000 pounds). The\\nscientific payload weighs about 1,300 kilograms (3,000) pounds\\nand is 1.8 meters (six feet) square by 4.6 meters (15 feet) high.\\n\\n The JPL balloon research is sponsored by NASA\\'s Upper\\nAtmosphere Research Program and the UARS Correlative Measurements\\nProgram. \\n\\n #####\\n ___ _____ ___\\n /_ /| /____/ \\\\ /_ /| Ron Baalke | baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov\\n | | | | __ \\\\ /| | | | Jet Propulsion Lab |\\n ___| | | | |__) |/ | | |__ M/S 525-3684 Telos | Being cynical never helps \\n/___| | | | ___/ | |/__ /| Pasadena, CA 91109 | to correct the situation \\n|_____|/ |_|/ |_____|/ | and causes more aggravation\\n | instead.\\n',\n", " 'From: higgins@fnala.fnal.gov (Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey)\\nSubject: NASA Ames server (was Re: Space Station Redesign, JSC Alternative #4)\\nOrganization: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory\\nLines: 14\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: fnala.fnal.gov\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr26.152722.19887@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>, kjenks@jsc.nasa.gov (Ken Jenks [NASA]) writes:\\n> I just posted the GIF files out for anonymous FTP on server ics.uci.edu.\\n[...]\\n> Sorry it took\\n> me so long to get these out, but I was trying for the Ames server,\\n> but it\\'s out of space.\\n\\nHow ironic.\\n\\nBill Higgins, Beam Jockey | \"Treat your password like\\nFermi National Accelerator Laboratory | your toothbrush. Don\\'t let\\nBitnet: HIGGINS@FNAL.BITNET | anybody else use it--\\nInternet: HIGGINS@FNAL.FNAL.GOV | and get a new one every\\nSPAN/Hepnet: 43011::HIGGINS | six months.\" --Cliff Stoll\\n',\n", " 'From: leech@cs.unc.edu (Jon Leech)\\nSubject: Space FAQ 15/15 - Orbital and Planetary Launch Services\\nSupersedes: \\nOrganization: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill\\nLines: 195\\nDistribution: world\\nExpires: 6 May 1993 20:02:47 GMT\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: mahler.cs.unc.edu\\nKeywords: Frequently Asked Questions\\n\\nArchive-name: space/launchers\\nLast-modified: $Date: 93/04/01 14:39:11 $\\n\\nORBITAL AND PLANETARY LAUNCH SERVICES\\n\\nThe following data comes from _International Reference Guide to Space Launch\\nSystems_ by Steven J. Isakowitz, 1991 edition.\\n\\nNotes:\\n * Unless otherwise specified, LEO and polar paylaods are for a 100 nm\\n\\torbit.\\n * Reliablity data includes launches through Dec, 1990. Reliabity for a\\n\\tfamiliy of vehicles includes launches by types no longer built when\\n\\tapplicable\\n * Prices are in millions of 1990 $US and are subject to change.\\n * Only operational vehicle families are included. Individual vehicles\\n\\twhich have not yet flown are marked by an asterisk (*) If a vehicle\\n\\thad first launch after publication of my data, it may still be\\n\\tmarked with an asterisk.\\n\\n\\nVehicle | Payload kg (lbs) | Reliability | Price | Launch Site\\n(nation) | LEO\\t Polar GTO |\\t\\t|\\t| (Lat. & Long.)\\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n\\nAriane\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t 35/40 87.5%\\t Kourou\\n(ESA)\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t (5.2 N, 52.8 W)\\n AR40\\t\\t4,900\\t 3,900 1,900 1/1\\t\\t $65m\\n\\t (10,800) (8,580) (4,190)\\n AR42P\\t\\t6,100\\t 4,800 2,600 1/1\\t\\t $67m\\n\\t (13,400) (10,600) (5,730)\\n AR44P\\t\\t6,900\\t 5,500 3,000 0/0 ?\\t $70m\\n\\t (15,200) (12,100) (6,610)\\n AR42L\\t\\t7,400\\t 5,900 3,200 0/0 ?\\t $90m\\n\\t (16,300) (13,000) (7,050)\\n AR44LP\\t8,300\\t 6,600 3,700 6/6\\t\\t $95m\\n\\t (18,300) (14,500) (8,160)\\n AR44L\\t\\t9,600\\t 7,700 4,200 3/4\\t\\t $115m\\n\\t (21,100) (16,900) (9,260)\\n\\n* AR5\\t 18,000\\t ???\\t 6,800 0/0\\t\\t $105m\\n\\t (39,600)\\t\\t (15,000)\\n\\t [300nm]\\n\\n\\nAtlas\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t 213/245 86.9%\\t Cape Canaveral\\n(USA)\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t (28.5 N, 81.0W)\\n Atlas E\\t --\\t 820\\t -- 15/17\\t $45m\\t Vandeberg AFB\\n\\t\\t\\t (1,800)\\t\\t\\t\\t(34.7 N, 120.6W)\\n\\n Atlas I\\t5,580\\t 4,670 2,250 1/1\\t\\t $70m\\n\\t (12,300) (10,300) (4,950)\\n\\n Atlas II\\t6,395\\t 5,400 2,680 0/0\\t\\t $75m\\n\\t (14,100) (11,900) (5,900)\\n\\n Atlas IIA\\t6,760\\t 5,715 2,810 0/0\\t\\t $85m\\n\\t (14,900) (12,600) (6,200)\\n\\n* Atlas IIAS\\t8,390\\t 6,805 3,490 0/0\\t\\t $115m\\n\\t (18,500) (15,000) (7,700)\\n\\n\\nDelta\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t 189/201 94.0%\\t Cape Canaveral\\n(USA)\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t Vandenberg AFB\\n Delta 6925\\t3,900\\t 2,950 1,450 14/14\\t $45m\\n\\t (8,780)\\t (6,490) (3,190)\\n\\n Delta 7925\\t5,045\\t 3,830 1,820 1/1\\t\\t $50m\\n\\t (11,100) (8,420) (2,000)\\n\\n\\nEnergia\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t 2/2 100%\\t\\t Baikonur\\n(Russia)\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t (45.6 N 63.4 E)\\n Energia 88,000\\t 80,000 ??? 2/2\\t\\t $110m\\n\\t (194,000) (176,000)\\n\\n\\nH series\\t\\t\\t\\t 22/22 100%\\t\\t Tangeshima\\n(Japan)\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t(30.2 N 130.6 E)\\n* H-2\\t 10,500\\t 6,600\\t 4,000 0/0\\t\\t $110m\\n\\t (23,000)\\t(14,500) (8,800)\\n\\n\\nKosmos\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t 371/377 98.4%\\t Plestek\\n(Russia)\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t (62.8 N 40.1 E)\\n Kosmos 1100 - 1350 (2300 - 3000)\\t\\t $???\\t Kapustin Yar\\n\\t [400 km orbit ??? inclination]\\t\\t\\t (48.4 N 45.8 E)\\n\\n\\nLong March\\t\\t\\t\\t 23/25 92.0%\\t\\t Jiquan SLC\\n(China)\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t (41 N\\t100 E)\\n* CZ-1D\\t\\t 720\\t ???\\t 200 0/0\\t\\t $10m\\t Xichang SLC\\n\\t\\t(1,590)\\t\\t (440)\\t\\t\\t (28 N\\t102 E)\\n\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t Taiyuan SLC\\n CZ-2C\\t\\t3,200\\t 1,750 1,000 12/12\\t $20m\\t (41 N\\t100 E)\\n\\t (7,040)\\t (3,860) (2,200)\\n\\n CZ-2E\\t\\t9,200\\t ???\\t 3,370 1/1\\t\\t $40m\\n\\t (20,300)\\t\\t (7,430)\\n\\n* CZ-2E/HO 13,600\\t ???\\t 4,500 0/0\\t\\t $???\\n\\t (29,900)\\t\\t (9,900)\\n\\n CZ-3\\t\\t???\\t ???\\t 1,400 6/7\\t\\t $33m\\n\\t\\t\\t\\t (3,100)\\n\\n* CZ-3A\\t\\t???\\t ???\\t 2,500 0/0\\t\\t $???m\\n\\t\\t\\t\\t (5,500)\\n\\n CZ-4\\t\\t4,000\\t ???\\t 1,100 2/2\\t\\t $???m\\n\\t (8,800)\\t\\t (2,430)\\n\\n\\nPegasus/Taurus\\t\\t\\t\\t 2/2 100%\\t\\tPeg: B-52/L1011\\n(USA)\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t\\tTaur: Canaveral\\n Pegasus\\t 455\\t 365\\t 125 2/2\\t\\t $10m\\t or Vandenberg\\n\\t\\t(1,000) (800) (275)\\n\\n* Taurus\\t1,450\\t 1,180 375 0/0\\t\\t $15m\\n\\t (3,200)\\t (2,600) (830)\\n\\n\\nProton\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t 164/187 87.7%\\t Baikonour\\n(Russia)\\n Proton 20,000\\t ???\\t 5,500 164/187\\t $35-70m\\n\\t (44,100)\\t\\t (12,200)\\n\\n\\nSCOUT\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t 99/113 87.6%\\tVandenberg AFB\\n(USA)\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t\\tWallops FF\\n SCOUT G-1\\t 270\\t 210\\t 54\\t 13/13\\t $12m\\t(37.9 N 75.4 W)\\n\\t\\t(600)\\t (460) (120)\\t\\t\\tSan Marco\\n\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t(2.9 S\\t40.3 E)\\n* Enhanced SCOUT 525\\t 372\\t 110\\t 0/0\\t\\t $15m\\n\\t\\t(1,160) (820) (240)\\n\\n\\nShavit\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t 2/2 100%\\t\\tPalmachim AFB\\n(Israel)\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t( ~31 N)\\n Shavit\\t ???\\t 160\\t ???\\t 2/2\\t\\t $22m\\n\\t\\t\\t (350)\\n\\nSpace Shuttle\\t\\t\\t\\t 37/38 97.4%\\tKennedy Space\\n(USA)\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t\\tCenter\\n Shuttle/SRB 23,500\\t ???\\t 5,900 37/38\\t $248m (28.5 N 81.0 W)\\n\\t (51,800)\\t\\t (13,000)\\t\\t [FY88]\\n\\n* Shuttle/ASRM 27,100\\t ???\\t ???\\t 0/0\\n\\t (59,800)\\n\\n\\nSLV\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t 2/6 33.3%\\tSHAR Center\\n(India) (400km) (900km polar)\\t\\t\\t\\t(13.9 N 80.4 E)\\n ASLV\\t\\t150\\t ???\\t ??? 0/2\\t\\t $???m\\n\\t (330)\\n\\n* PSLV\\t\\t3,000\\t 1,000 450 0/0\\t\\t $???m\\n\\t (6,600)\\t (2,200) (990)\\n\\n* GSLV\\t\\t8,000\\t ???\\t 2,500 0/0\\t\\t $???m\\n\\t (17,600)\\t\\t (5,500)\\n\\n\\nTitan\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t 160/172 93.0%\\tCape Canaveral\\n(USA)\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t\\tVandenberg\\n Titan II\\t ???\\t 1,905 ??? 2/2\\t\\t $43m\\n\\t\\t\\t (4,200)\\n\\n Titan III 14,515\\t ???\\t 5,000 2/3\\t\\t $140m\\n\\t (32,000)\\t\\t (11,000)\\n\\n Titan IV/SRM 17,700\\t 14,100 6,350 3/3\\t\\t $154m-$227m\\n\\t (39,000)\\t(31,100) (14,000)\\n\\n Titan IV/SRMU 21,640\\t 18,600 8,620 0/0\\t\\t $???m\\n\\t (47,700)\\t(41,000) (19,000)\\n\\n\\nVostok\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t 1358/1401 96.9%\\tBaikonur\\n(Russia)\\t\\t [650km]\\t\\t\\t\\tPlesetsk\\n Vostok\\t4,730\\t 1,840 ??? ?/149\\t $14m\\n\\t (10,400)\\t(4,060)\\n\\n Soyuz\\t\\t7,000\\t ???\\t ??? ?/944\\t $15m\\n\\t (15,400)\\n\\n Molniya\\t1500kg (3300 lbs) in\\t ?/258\\t $???M\\n\\t\\tHighly eliptical orbit\\n\\n\\nZenit\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t 12/13 92.3%\\tBaikonur\\n(Russia)\\n Zenit 13,740\\t 11,380 4,300 12/13\\t $65m\\n\\t (30,300)\\t(25,090) (9,480)\\n',\n", " \"From: sdr@llnl.gov (Dakota)\\nSubject: Re: HELP for Kidney Stones ..............\\nOrganization: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, NCD\\nLines: 30\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: eet1477-10780-t1477r1104.llnl.gov\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr21.143910.5826@wvnvms.wvnet.edu> \\npk115050@wvnvms.wvnet.edu writes:\\n> My girlfriend is in pain from kidney stones. She says that because she \\nhas no\\n> medical insurance, she cannot get them removed.\\n> \\n> My question: Is there any way she can treat them herself, or at least \\nmitigate\\n> their effects? Any help is deeply appreciated. (Advice, referral to \\nliterature,\\n> etc...)\\n> \\n> Thank you,\\n> \\n> Dave Carvell\\n> pk115050@wvnvms.wvnet.edu\\n\\nFirst, let me offer you my condolences. I've had kidney stones 4 times \\nand I know the pain she is going through. First, it is best that she see \\na doctor. However, every time I had kidney stones, I saw my doctor and the\\nonly thing they did was to prescribe some pain killers and medication for a\\nurinary tract infection. The pain killers did nothing for me...kidney stones\\nare extremely painful. My stones were judged passable, so we just waited it\\nout. However the last one took 10 days to pass...not fun. Anyway, if she\\nabsolutely won't see a doctor, I suggest drinking lots of fluids and perhaps\\nan over the counter sleeping pill. But, I do highly suggest seeing a doctor.\\nKidney stones are not something to fool around with. She should be x-rayed \\nto make sure there is not a serious problem.\\n\\nSteve\\n\",\n", " \"From: dougb@comm.mot.com (Doug Bank)\\nSubject: Re: Blood Cholesterol - Gabe Mirkin's advice\\nReply-To: dougb@ecs.comm.mot.com\\nOrganization: Motorola Land Mobile Products Sector\\nNntp-Posting-Host: 145.1.146.35\\nLines: 29\\n\\nIn article <1pka0uINNnqa@mojo.eng.umd.edu>, georgec@eng.umd.edu (George B. Clark) writes:\\n|> Forget about total cholesterol when assessing health risk factors.\\n|> Instead, use a relationship between LDL and HDL cholesterol:\\n|> \\n|> If your LDL is You need an HDL of at least\\n|> \\n|> 90 35\\n|> 100 45\\n|> 110 50\\n|> 120 55\\n|> 130 60\\n|> 140 70\\n\\nGee, what do I do? My LDL is only 50-60. (and my HDL is only 23-25)\\nI must be risking something, but Is it the same risk as those with \\nvery high LDL?\\n\\n|> If your triglycerides are above 300, and your HDL is below 30, the\\n|> drug of choice is gemfibrozil (Lopid) taken as a 600mg tablet\\n|> thirty minutes before your morning and evening meals.\\n\\nWhat about exercise and a low-fat diet? What are the long-term \\neffects of this drug?\\n\\n-- \\nDoug Bank Private Systems Division\\ndougb@ecs.comm.mot.com Motorola Communications Sector\\ndougb@nwu.edu Schaumburg, Illinois\\ndougb@casbah.acns.nwu.edu 708-576-8207 \\n\",\n", " 'From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)\\nSubject: Re: Level 5?\\nOrganization: Texas Instruments Inc\\nDistribution: sci\\nLines: 33\\n\\nIn 18084TM@msu.edu (Tom) writes:\\n\\n\\n>Nick Haines sez;\\n>>(given that I\\'ve heard the Shuttle software rated as Level 5 in\\n>>maturity, I strongly doubt that this [having lots of bugs] is the case).\\n\\n>Level 5? Out of how many? What are the different levels? I\\'ve never\\n>heard of this rating system. Anyone care to clue me in?\\n\\nSEI Level 5 (the highest level -- the SEI stands for Software\\nEngineering Institute). I\\'m not sure, but I believe that this rating\\nonly applies to the flight software. Also keep in mind that it was\\n*not* achieved through the use of sophisticated tools, but rather\\nthrough a \\'brute force and ignorance\\' attack on the problem during the\\nChallenger standdown - they simply threw hundreds of people at it and\\ndid the whole process by hand. I would not consider receiving a \\'Warning\\'\\nstatus on systems which are not yet in use would detract much (if\\nanything) from such a rating -- I\\'ll have to get the latest copy of\\nthe guidelines to make sure (they just issued new ones, I think).\\n\\nAlso keep in mind that the SEI levels are concerned primarily with\\ncontrol of the software process; the assumption is that a\\nwell controlled process will produce good software. Also keep in mind\\nthat SEI Level 5 is DAMNED HARD. Most software in this country is\\nproduced by \\'engineering practicies\\' that only rate an SEI Level 1 (if\\nthat). \\n\\n-- \\n\"Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don\\'t have the balls to live\\n in the real world.\" -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden\\n------------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nFred.McCall@dseg.ti.com - I don\\'t speak for others and they don\\'t speak for me.\\n',\n", " 'From: Wales.Larrison@ofa123.fidonet.org\\nSubject: Space Clipper Launch Article\\nX-Sender: newtout 0.08 Feb 23 1993\\nLines: 40\\n\\nTo All -- I thought the net would find this amusing..\\n \\nFrom the March 1993 \"Aero Vision\" (The newsletter for the Employees\\nof McDonnell Douglas Aerospace at Huntington Beach, California).\\n \\n SPACE CLIPPERS LAUNCHED SUCCESSFULLY\\n \\n \"On Monday, March 15 at noon, Quest Aerospace Education, Inc.\\n launched two DC-Y Space Clippers in the mall near the cafeteria.\\n The first rocket was launched by Dr. Bill Gaubatz, director and\\n SSTO program manager, and the second by Air Force Captain Ed\\n Spalding, who with Staff Sgt. Don Gisburne represents Air Force\\n Space Command, which was requested by SDIO to assess the DC-X for\\n potential military operational use. Both rocket launches were\\n successful. The first floated to the ground between the cafeteria\\n and Building 11, and the second landed on the roof of the\\n cafeteria.\\n \\n Quest\\'s Space Clipper is the first flying model rocket of the\\n McDonnell Douglas DC-X. The 1/122nd semi-scale model of the\\n McDonnell Douglas Delta Clipper has an estimated maximum altitude\\n of 300 feet. The Space Clippers can be used in educational\\n settings to teach mathematics and science, as well as social\\n studies and other applications. The Space Clipper is available\\n either in the $35 Space Clipper outfit, which includes everything\\n needed for three launches, or as individual rockets for $12 each.\\n Both are available through hobby shops or by calling 1-800-858-\\n 7302.\"\\n \\nBy the way -- this is not an endorsement to buy the product nor is\\nit an advertisement to buy the product. I make no claims about the\\nproduct. This is posted for public information only (hey, I found\\nit amusing...), and is merely a repeat of what was included in the\\nMDSSC Huntington Beach Newsletter.\\n \\n-----------------------------------------------------------------\\n Wales Larrison Space Technology Investor\\n \\n\\n--- Maximus 2.01wb\\n',\n", " 'From: spp@zabriskie.berkeley.edu (Steve Pope)\\nSubject: Re: Is MSG sensitivity superstition?\\nOrganization: U.C. Berkeley -- ERL\\nLines: 16\\nDistribution: world\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: zion.berkeley.edu\\n\\n| article <1qjc0fINN841@gap.caltech.edu> carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU writes:\\n|| Now, if instead of using the MSG as a food additive, you put the MSG \\n|| in gelatin capsules or whatever, there may not\\n|| be a reaction, becasue the _sensory_response_ might be\\n|| a necessary element in the creation of the MSG reaction. (I\\'ll bet \\n|| the bogus medical researchers never even thought about \\n|| that obvious fact.)\\n\\n| Gee. He means \"placebo effect.\" Sorry, but the researchers DO know about\\n| this.\\n\\nCarl, it is not \"placebo effect\" if as hypothesised the \\nsensory response to MSG\\'s effect on flavor is responsible\\nfor the MSG reaction.\\n\\nSteve\\n',\n", " 'From: maverick@wpi.WPI.EDU (T. Giaquinto)\\nSubject: General Information Request\\nOrganization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA 01609-2280\\nLines: 11\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: wpi.wpi.edu\\n\\n\\n\\tI am looking for any information about the space program.\\nThis includes NASA, the shuttles, history, anything! I would like to\\nknow if anyone could suggest books, periodicals, even ftp sites for a\\nnovice who is interested in the space program.\\n\\n\\n\\n\\t\\t\\t\\t\\tTodd Giaquinto\\n\\t\\t\\t\\t\\tmaverick@wpi.WPI.EDU\\n\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t\\n',\n", " 'From: rogers@calamari.hi.com (Andrew Rogers)\\nSubject: Re: Is MSG sensitivity superstition?\\nOrganization: Flames \\'R Us\\nLines: 13\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: calamari.hi.com\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr15.153729.13738@walter.bellcore.com> jchen@ctt.bellcore.com writes:\\n>Chinese, and many other Asians (Japanese, Koreans, etc) have used\\n>MSG as flavor enhancer for two thousand years. Do you believe that\\n>they knew how to make MSG from chemical processes? Not. They just\\n>extracted it from natural food such sea food and meat broth.\\n\\nAnd to add further fuel to the flame war, I read about 20 years ago that\\nthe \"natural\" MSG - extracted from the sources you mention above - does not\\ncause the reported aftereffects; it\\'s only that nasty \"artificial\" MSG -\\nextracted from coal tar or whatever - that causes Chinese Restaurant\\nSyndrome. I find this pretty hard to believe; has anyone else heard it?\\n\\nAndrew\\n',\n", " 'From: DEHP@calvin.edu (Phil de Haan)\\nSubject: Re: chronic sinus and antibiotics\\nKeywords: sinus, antibiotics, antibacterial\\nNntp-Posting-Host: pcdehp\\nOrganization: Calvin College\\nDistribution: na\\nLines: 18\\n\\nIn article <1qk708INNa12@mojo.eng.umd.edu> georgec@eng.umd.edu (George B. Clark) writes:\\n>You can also swab the inside of your nose with Bacitracin using a\\n>Q tip. Bacitracin is an antibiotic that can be bought OTC as an\\n>ointment in a tube. The doctor I listen to on the radio says to apply\\n>it for 30 days, while you are taking other antibiotics by mouth.\\n\\nI have a new doctor who gave me a prescription today for something called \\nSeptra DS. He said it may cause GI problems and I have a sensitive stomach \\nto begin with. Anybody ever taken this antibiotic. Any good? Suggestions \\nfor avoiding an upset stomach? Other tips?\\n\\n\\n Phil de Haan (DoD #0578) Why yes. That is my 1974 Honda CL360.\\n=============================================================================\\n \"That\\'s the nature of being an executive in America. You have to rely on\\n other people to do something you used to do yourself.\" -- Donald Fehr,\\n executive director, Major League Baseball Players Association.\\n=============================================================================\\n',\n", " 'From: km@cs.pitt.edu (Ken Mitchum)\\nSubject: Re: Menangitis question\\nArticle-I.D.: pitt.19427\\nReply-To: km@cs.pitt.edu (Ken Mitchum)\\nOrganization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science\\nLines: 42\\n\\nIn article brooksby@brigham.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Glen W Brooksby) writes:\\n>This past weekend a friend of mine lost his 13 month old\\n>daughter in a matter of hours to a form of menangitis. The\\n>person informing me called it \\'Nicereal Meningicocis\\' (sp?).\\n>In retrospect, the disease struck her probably sometime on \\n>Friday evening and she passed away about 2:30pm on Saturday.\\n>The symptoms seemed to be a rash that started small and\\n>then began progressing rapidly. She began turning blue\\n>eventually which was the tip-off that this was serious\\n>but by that time it was too late (this is all second hand info.).\\n>\\n>My question is:\\n>Is this an unusual form of Menangitis? How is it transmitted?\\n>How does it work (ie. how does it kill so quickly)?\\n\\nThere are many organisms, viral, bacterial, and fungal, which can\\ncause meningitits, and the course of these infections varies\\nwidely. The causes of bacterial meningitis vary with age: in adults\\npneumococcus (the same organism which causes pneumococcal pneumonia)\\nis the most common cause, while in children Hemophilus influenzae\\nis the most common cause.\\n\\nWhat you are describing is meningitis from Neisseria meningitidis,\\nwhich is the second most common cause of bacterial meningitis in\\nboth groups, but with lower incidence in infants. This organism\\nis also called the \"meningococcus\", and is the source of the\\ncommon epidemics of meningitis that occur and are popularized in\\nthe press. Without prompt treatment (and even WITH it in some cases),\\nthe organism typically causes death within a day. \\n\\nThis organism, feared as it is, is actually grown from the throats\\nof many normal adults. It can get to the meninges by different\\nways, but blood borne spread is probably the usual case. \\n\\nRifampin (an oral antibiotic) is often given to family and contacts\\nof a case of meningococcal meningitis, by the way.\\n\\nSorry, but I don\\'t have time for a more detailed reply. Meningitis\\nis a huge topic, and sci.med can\\'t do it justice.\\n\\n\\n-km\\n',\n", " 'From: jbh55289@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Josh Hopkins)\\nSubject: Re: DC-X: Vehicle Nears Flight Test\\nArticle-I.D.: news.C51rzx.AC3\\nOrganization: University of Illinois at Urbana\\nLines: 34\\n\\nnsmca@aurora.alaska.edu writes:\\n\\n[Excellent discussion of DC-X landing techniques by Henry deleted]\\n\\n>Since the DC-X is to take off horizontal, why not land that way??\\n\\nThe DC-X will not take of horizontally. It takes of vertically. \\n\\n>Why do the Martian Landing thing.. \\n\\nFor several reasons. Vertical landings don\\'t require miles of runway and limit\\nnoise pollution. They don\\'t require wheels or wings. Just turn on the engines\\nand touch down. Of course, as Henry pointed out, vetical landings aren\\'t quite\\nthat simple.\\n\\n>Or am I missing something.. Don\\'t know to\\n>much about DC-X and such.. (overly obvious?).\\n\\nWell, to be blunt, yes. But at least you\\'re learning.\\n\\n>Why not just fall to earth like the russian crafts?? Parachute in then...\\n\\nThe Soyuz vehicles use parachutes for the descent and then fire small rockets\\njust before they hit the ground. Parachutes are, however, not especially\\npractical if you want to reuse something without much effort. The landings\\nare also not very comfortable. However, in the words of Georgy Grechko,\\n\"I prefer to have bruises, not to sink.\"\\n\\n\\n-- \\nJosh Hopkins jbh55289@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu\\n \"Tout ce qu\\'un homme est capable d\\'imaginer, d\\'autres hommes\\n \\t seront capable de la realiser\"\\n\\t\\t\\t -Jules Verne\\n',\n", " \"From: dozonoff@bu.edu (david ozonoff)\\nSubject: Re: food-related seizures?\\nLines: 22\\nX-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5\\n\\nSharon Paulson (paulson@tab00.larc.nasa.gov) wrote:\\n: \\n{much deleted]\\n: \\n: \\n: The fact that this happened while eating two sugar coated cereals made\\n: by Kellog's makes me think she might be having an allergic reaction to\\n: something in the coating or the cereals. Of the four of us in our\\n: immediate family, Kathryn shows the least signs of the hay fever, running\\n: nose, itchy eyes, etc. but we have a lot of allergies in our family history\\n: including some weird food allergies - nuts, mushrooms. \\n: \\n\\nMany of these cereals are corn-based. After your post I looked in the\\nliterature and located two articles that implicated corn (contains\\ntryptophan) and seizures. The idea is that corn in the diet might\\npotentiate an already existing or latent seizure disorder, not cause it.\\nCheck to see if the two Kellog cereals are corn based. I'd be interested.\\n--\\nDavid Ozonoff, MD, MPH\\t\\t |Boston University School of Public Health\\ndozonoff@med-itvax1.bu.edu\\t |80 East Concord St., T3C\\n(617) 638-4620\\t\\t\\t |Boston, MA 02118 \\n\",\n", " 'From: todd@phad.la.locus.com (Todd Johnson)\\nSubject: Re: Vandalizing the sky.\\nOrganization: Locus Computing Corporation, Los Angeles, California\\nLines: 28\\n\\nIn article enzo@research.canon.oz.au (Enzo Liguori) writes:\\n;From the article \"What\\'s New\" Apr-16-93 in sci.physics.research:\\n;\\n;........\\n;WHAT\\'S NEW (in my opinion), Friday, 16 April 1993 Washington, DC\\n;\\n;1. SPACE BILLBOARDS! IS THIS ONE THE \"SPINOFFS\" WE WERE PROMISED?\\n;What about light pollution in observations? (I read somewhere else that\\n;it might even be visible during the day, leave alone at night).\\n;Is NASA really supporting this junk?\\n;Are protesting groups being organized in the States?\\n;Really, really depressed.\\n;\\n; Enzo\\n\\nI wouldn\\'t worry about it. There\\'s enough space debris up there that\\na mile-long inflatable would probably deflate in some very short\\nperiod of time (less than a year) while cleaning up LEO somewhat.\\nSort of a giant fly-paper in orbit.\\n\\nHmm, that could actually be useful.\\n\\nAs for advertising -- sure, why not? A NASA friend and I spent one\\ndrunken night figuring out just exactly how much gold mylar we\\'d need\\nto put the golden arches of a certain American fast food organization\\non the face of the Moon. Fortunately, we sobered up in the morning.\\n\\n\\n',\n", " \"From: drand@spinner.osf.org (Douglas S. Rand)\\nSubject: Re: chronic sinus and antibiotics\\nIn-Reply-To: DEHP@calvin.edu's message of Fri, 16 Apr 1993 18:12:14 GMT\\nOrganization: Open Software Foundation\\n\\t<1qk708INNa12@mojo.eng.umd.edu> \\nDistribution: na\\nLines: 29\\n\\nIn article DEHP@calvin.edu (Phil de Haan) writes:\\n\\n In article <1qk708INNa12@mojo.eng.umd.edu> georgec@eng.umd.edu (George B. Clark) writes:\\n >You can also swab the inside of your nose with Bacitracin using a\\n >Q tip. Bacitracin is an antibiotic that can be bought OTC as an\\n >ointment in a tube. The doctor I listen to on the radio says to apply\\n >it for 30 days, while you are taking other antibiotics by mouth.\\n\\n I have a new doctor who gave me a prescription today for something called \\n Septra DS. He said it may cause GI problems and I have a sensitive stomach \\n to begin with. Anybody ever taken this antibiotic. Any good? Suggestions \\n for avoiding an upset stomach? Other tips?\\n\\nI've taken Septra. My daughter has taken it many times for ear\\ninfections. It works sometimes. It is a sulfa drug. About the only\\nproblem I found was that I'm sensitive and developed a rash after nine\\ndays of a ten day course. No more Septra for me. My doctor was\\nremiss in not telling me to watch out for a rash. I was quite in the\\ndark and didn't realize that it could be a drug reaction. No harm\\ndone though.\\n\\nDoug\\n\\n\\n--\\nDouglas S. Rand \\t\\tOSF/Motif Dev.\\nSnail: 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA 02142\\nDisclaimer: I don't know if OSF agrees with me... let's vote on it.\\nAmateur Radio: KC1KJ\\n\",\n", " 'From: jer@prefect.cc.bellcore.com (rathmann,janice e)\\nSubject: Re: eye dominance\\nOrganization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ\\nLines: 40\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr19.171938.17930@porthos.cc.bellcore.com>, jil@donuts0.uucp (Jamie Lubin) writes:\\n> In article <19671@pitt.UUCP> geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks) writes:\\n> >In article rsilver@world.std.com (Richard Silver) writes:\\n> >>\\n> >>Is there a right-eye dominance (eyedness?) as there is an\\n> >>overall right-handedness in the population? I mean do most\\n> >>people require less lens corrections for the one eye than the\\n> >>other? If so, what kinds of percentages can be attached to this?\\n> >\\n> >There is eye dominance same as handedness (and usually for the\\n> >same side). It has nothing to do with refractive error, however.\\n> \\n> I recall reading/seeing that former baseball star Chris Chambliss\\' hitting\\n> abilities were (in part) attributed to a combination of left-handedness &\\n> right-eye dominance.\\n \\nI was part of a study a few years ago at the University of Arizona to\\nsee whether cross dominant individuals (those with a particular handedness\\nbut who had dominance in the opposite eye) were better hitters than\\nthose with same side dominance of hand and eye. I was picked from\\nmy softball class because I was cross dominant (right hand, left eye)\\nwhich put me in a small minority (and the grad student was trying to get\\nan equal number of cross dominant and same side dominant people). To\\ncontrol the study, she used a pitching machine - fast pitch. Since\\nI was used to slow pitch, I didn\\'t come close (actually I think\\nI foul tipped a few) to hitting the ball. If there were a lot of people\\nlike me in her study (i.e., those who can\\'t hit fast pitch, or are\\nnot used to hitting off a machine), I would seriously question the\\nresults of that study!! I think there have been some studies of major\\nleague players (across a fairly large cross section of players) to test\\nwhether eye dominance being the same or opposite side was \"better\" -\\nbut I don\\'t know the results. (The woman who ran the study I was in\\nsaid that there was a higher incidence of crossdominance in major\\nleaguers than across the general population - but I\\'m not sure\\nwhether I\\'d believe her.)\\n\\nJanice Rathmann\\n\\n\\n\\n',\n", " 'From: leisner@wrc.xerox.com (Marty Leisner 71348 )\\nSubject: Intravenous antibiotics\\nReply-To: leisner@eso.mc.xerox.com\\nOrganization: Xerox\\nX-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL9]\\n\\nI recently had a case of shingles and my doctors wanted to give me\\nintravenous Acyclovir.\\n\\nIt was a pain finding IV sites in my arms...can I have some facts about\\nhow advantageous it is to give intravenous antibiotics rather than oral?\\n\\nmarty\\n',\n", " \"From: bbenowit@telesciences.com (Barry D Benowitz)\\nSubject: Re: eye dominance\\nIn-Reply-To: rsilver@world.std.com's message of Mon, 12 Apr 1993 21:02:31 GMT\\nNntp-Posting-Host: kyanite\\nOrganization: Telesciences CO Systems, Inc.\\nLines: 24\\n\\nIn article rsilver@world.std.com (Richard Silver) writes:\\n\\n> Is there a right-eye dominance (eyedness?) as there is an\\n> overall right-handedness in the population? I mean do most\\n> people require less lens corrections for the one eye than the\\n> other? If so, what kinds of percentages can be attached to this?\\n> Thanks. \\n\\n\\nYes, there is such a thing as eye dominance, although I am not sure if\\nthis dominance refers to perscription strength.\\n\\nAs i recall, if you selectively close your dominant eye, you will percieve\\nthat the image shifts. This will not happen if you close your other eye.\\n\\nI believe that which eye is dominant is related to handedness, but I\\ncan't recall the relation at the moment.\\n\\n\\n--\\nBarry D. Benowitz\\nEMail:\\tbbenowit@telesciences.com (...!pyrnj!telesci!bbenowit)\\nPhone:\\t+1 609 866 1000 x354\\nSnail:\\tTelesciences CO Systems, 351 New Albany Rd, Moorestown, NJ, 08057-1177\\n\",\n", " \"From: jmcocker@eos.ncsu.edu (Mitch)\\nSubject: A WRENCH in the works?\\nOriginator: jmcocker@c00068-100lez.eos.ncsu.edu\\nReply-To: jmcocker@eos.ncsu.edu (Mitch)\\nOrganization: North Carolina State University, Project Eos\\nLines: 19\\n\\n\\nHi all,\\n\\nI really thought that by now I would have seen something\\nabout this, but I haven't, so here goes: Last night on\\nthe evening news, the anchorperson said something to the\\neffect that one of the SSRBs that was recovered after the\\nrecent space shuttle launch was found to have a wrench of\\nsome sort rattling around apparently inside the case. There\\nwas no elaboration as to where specfically the item was\\nfound, of what type of wrench it was, but the anchorperson\\ndid say something about a NASA official commenting that\\nthere would be an inquiry into how the thing got in the SSRB.\\n\\nHas anybody else on the net whose info sources may be \\nbetter than mine heard anything about this? It seems rather\\nweird.\\n\\nMitch ---------------------------->jmcocker@eos.ncsu.edu\\n\",\n", " \"From: tron@fafnir.la.locus.com (Michael Trofimoff)\\nSubject: REQUEST: Gyro (souvlaki) sauce\\nOrganization: Locus Computing Corporation, Los Angeles, California\\nDistribution: usa\\nLines: 12\\n\\n\\nHi All,\\n\\nWould anyone out there in 'net-land' happen to have an\\nauthentic, sure-fire way of making this great sauce that\\nis used to adorn Gyro's and Souvlaki?\\n\\nThanks,\\n\\n-=< tron >=-\\ne-mail: tron@locus.com\\t\\t*Vidi, vici, veni*\\n\\n\",\n", " \"From: ls8139@albnyvms.bitnet (larry silverberg)\\nSubject: Re: H E L P M E ---> desperate with some VD\\nReply-To: ls8139@albnyvms.bitnet\\nOrganization: University of Albany, SUNY\\nLines: 17\\n\\n>I can probably buy the \\n>tools and this solution somewhere but I DON'T KNOW HOW TO DO INJECTION BY\\n>MYSELF\\n\\nYou may also want to buy a 'self injector' or something like that.\\nMy friend is diabetic. You load the hyperdermic, put it in a plastic case\\nand set a spring to automatically push the needle into the skin and depress\\nthe plunger.\\n\\n\\n~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\\nLive From New York, It's SATURDAY NIGHT...\\n\\nTonight's special guest:\\nLawrence Silverberg from The State University of New York @ Albany\\naka:ls8139@gemini.Albany.edu\\n~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\\n\",\n", " \"From: kaminski@netcom.com (Peter Kaminski)\\nSubject: Re: What about sci.med.chemistry\\nArticle-I.D.: netcom.kaminskiC52n0s.2uA\\nOrganization: The Information Deli - via Netcom / San Jose, California\\nLines: 19\\n\\nIn julkunen@messi.uku.fi (Antero\\nJulkunen) writes:\\n\\n>There is this newsgroup sci.med.physics and there has been quite a lot\\n>discussion in this group about many chemical items e.g. prolactin\\n>cholesterol, TSH etc. Should there also be a newsgroup sci.med.chemistry?\\n\\nIt's got potential. Instead of *.chemistry, how about splitting the\\nclassification into *.biochemistry (which are probably the topics\\nyou're thinking of) and *.pharmaceutical (which otherwise might end up\\nin *.(bio)chemistry)?\\n\\n(This is separate from the issue of whether there is sufficient potential\\nnews volume to support either or both groups.)\\n\\nI'll add 'em to my medical/health newsgroup wish list (which I'm looking\\nforward to posting and discussing -- but not for another 10 days or so).\\n\\nPete\\n\",\n", " 'From: nsmca@aurora.alaska.edu\\nSubject: Re: Why not give $1 billion to first year-long moon residents?\\nArticle-I.D.: aurora.1993Apr20.141137.1\\nOrganization: University of Alaska Fairbanks\\nLines: 33\\nNntp-Posting-Host: acad3.alaska.edu\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr20.101044.2291@iti.org>, aws@iti.org (Allen W. Sherzer) writes:\\n> In article <1qve4kINNpas@sal-sun121.usc.edu> schaefer@sal-sun121.usc.edu (Peter Schaefer) writes:\\n> \\n>>|> > Announce that a reward of $1 billion would go to the first corporation \\n>>|> > who successfully keeps at least 1 person alive on the moon for a year. \\n> \\n>>Oh gee, a billion dollars! That\\'d be just about enough to cover the cost of the\\n>>feasability study! Happy, Happy, JOY! JOY!\\n> \\n> Depends. If you assume the existance of a working SSTO like DC, on billion\\n> $$ would be enough to put about a quarter million pounds of stuff on the\\n> moon. If some of that mass went to send equipment to make LOX for the\\n> transfer vehicle, you could send a lot more. Either way, its a lot\\n> more than needed.\\n> \\n> This prize isn\\'t big enough to warrent developing a SSTO, but it is\\n> enough to do it if the vehicle exists.\\n> \\n> Allen\\n> \\n> -- \\n> +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+\\n> | Lady Astor: \"Sir, if you were my husband I would poison your coffee!\" |\\n> | W. Churchill: \"Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it.\" |\\n> +----------------------57 DAYS TO FIRST FLIGHT OF DCX-----------------------+\\n\\nOr have different classes of competetors.. and made the total purse $6billion\\nor $7billion (depending on how many different classes there are, as in auto\\nracing/motocycle racing and such)..\\n\\nWe shall see how things go..\\n==\\nMichael Adams, nsmca@acad3.alaska.edu -- I\\'m not high, just jacked\\n',\n", " 'From: jhoskins@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (James M Hoskins)\\nSubject: Cost of Roxonal\\nNntp-Posting-Host: photon.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu\\nOrganization: The Ohio State University\\nDistribution: na\\nLines: 5\\n\\n\\nDoes anyone know the approximate prescription cost\\nof a 250 ml bottle of Roxonal (morphine)?\\n\\nThanks.\\n',\n", " 'From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nSubject: Neurasthenia\\nReply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nOrganization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science\\nLines: 15\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr21.174553.812@spdcc.com> dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer) writes:\\n\\n>responds well, if you\\'re not otherwise immunocompromised. Noring\\'s\\n>anal-retentive idee fixe on having a fungal infection in his sinuses\\n>is not even in the same category here, nor are these walking neurasthenics\\n>who are convinced they have \"candida\" from reading a quack book.\\n\\nSpeaking of which, has anyone else been impressed with how much the \\ndescriptions of neurasthenia published a century ago sound like CFS?\\n\\n-- \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nGordon Banks N3JXP | \"Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and\\ngeb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu | it is shameful to surrender it too soon.\" \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n',\n", " 'From: gawne@stsci.edu\\nSubject: Re: Vulcan? (No, not the guy with the ears!)\\nDistribution: na\\nOrganization: Space Telescope Science Institute\\nLines: 42\\n\\nIn article , victor@inqmind.bison.mb.ca \\n(Victor Laking) writes:\\n> Does anyone have any info on the apparent sightings of Vulcan?\\n> \\n> All that I know is that there were apparently two sightings at \\n> drastically different times of a small planet that was inside Mercury\\'s \\n> orbit. Beyond that, I have no other info.\\n\\nThe sightings were apparently spurious. There is no planet inside of\\nthe orbit of Mercury.\\n\\nThe idea of Vulcan came from the differences between Mercury\\'s observed\\nperihelion precession and the value it should have had according to\\nNewtonian physics. Leverrier made an extensive set of observations\\nand calculations during the mid 19th century, and Simon Newcombe later\\nimproved on the observations and re-calculated using Leverrier\\'s system\\nof equations. Now Leverrier was one of the co-discoverers of Neptune\\nand since he had predicted its existence based on anomalies in the orbit\\nof Uranus his inclination was to believe the same sort of thing was\\nafoot with Mercury.\\n\\nBut alas, \\'twere not so. Mercury\\'s perihelion precesses at the rate\\nit does because the space where it resides near the sun is significantly\\ncurved due to the sun\\'s mass. This explanation had to wait until 1915\\nand Albert Einstein\\'s synthesis of his earlier theory of the electrodynamics\\nof moving bodies (commonly called Special Relativity) with Reimanian \\ngeometry. The result was the General Theory of Relativity, and one of\\nit\\'s most noteworthy strengths is that it accounts for the precession\\nof Mercury\\'s perihelion almost exactly. (Exactly if you use Newcomb\\'s\\nnumbers rather than Leverrier\\'s.)\\n\\nOf course not everybody believes Einstein, and that\\'s fine. But subsequent\\nefforts to find any planets closer to the sun than Mercury using radar\\nhave been fruitless.\\n\\n-Bill Gawne\\n\\n \"Forgive him, he is a barbarian, who thinks the customs of his tribe\\n are the laws of the universe.\" - G. J. Caesar\\n\\nAny opinions are my own. Nothing in this post constitutes an official\\nstatement from any person or organization.\\n',\n", " 'From: degroff@netcom.com (21012d)\\nSubject: Re: Atlas revisited\\nOrganization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)\\nDistribution: sci\\nLines: 8\\n\\n I found it very interesting that Atlas depended on pressure to\\nmaintain tank geometry....leads me to the question: ? have any \\nof the SSTO concepts explored pressurized tankage such that the\\nlaunch configuration would be significantly different from the\\nreentry one? I have long been facinated by pnumatic structures\\nas conceived and built by Frei Otto and others, a \"ballon\" tank\\nSSTO sounds very clever. \\n\\n',\n", " 'From: sysmgr@king.eng.umd.edu (Doug Mohney)\\nSubject: I want that Billion\\nOrganization: Computer Aided Design Lab, U. of Maryland College Park\\nLines: 37\\nReply-To: sysmgr@king.eng.umd.edu\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: queen.eng.umd.edu\\n\\nIn article , henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:\\n>In article <1r6rn3INNn96@mojo.eng.umd.edu> sysmgr@king.eng.umd.edu writes:\\n>>You\\'d need to launch HLVs to send up large amounts of stuff. Do you know \\n>>of a private Titan pad? \\n>\\n>You\\'d need to launch HLVs to send up large amounts of stuff *if* you assume\\n>no new launcher development. If you assume new launcher development, with\\n>lower costs as a specific objective, then you probably don\\'t want to\\n>build something HLV-sized anyway.\\n>\\n>Nobody who is interested in launching things cheaply will buy Titans. It\\n>doesn\\'t take many Titan pricetags to pay for a laser launcher or a large\\n>gas gun or a development program for a Big Dumb Booster, all of which\\n>would have far better cost-effectiveness.\\n\\nHenry, I made the assumption that he who gets there firstest with the mostest\\nwins. \\n\\nOhhh, you want to put in FINE PRINT which says \"Thou shall do wonderous R&D\\nrather than use off-the-shelf hardware\"? Sorry, didn\\'t see that in my copy.\\nMost of the Pournellesque proposals run along the lines of reward for . \\n\\nYou go ahead and do your development, I\\'ll buy off the shelf at higher cost (or\\neven Russian; but I also assume that there\\'d be some \"Buy US\" provos in there)\\nand be camped out in the Moon while you are launching and assembling little\\nitty-bitty payloads in LEO with your laser or gas gun. And working out the\\nbugs of assembly & integration in LEO. \\n\\nOh, hey, could I get a couple of CanadARMs tuned for the lunar environment? I\\nwanna do some teleoperated prospecting while I\\'m up there...\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n Software engineering? That\\'s like military intelligence, isn\\'t it?\\n -- > SYSMGR@CADLAB.ENG.UMD.EDU < --\\n',\n", " 'From: sysmgr@king.eng.umd.edu (Doug Mohney)\\nSubject: Re: Shuttle oxygen (was Budget Astronaut)\\nOrganization: Computer Aided Design Lab, U. of Maryland College Park\\nLines: 19\\nReply-To: sysmgr@king.eng.umd.edu\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: queen.eng.umd.edu\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr16.151729.8610@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>, kjenks@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov writes:\\n\\n>Josh Hopkins (jbh55289@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu) replied:\\n>: Double wow. Can you land a shuttle with a 5cm hole in the wall?\\n>Personnally, I don\\'t know, but I\\'d like to try it sometime.\\n\\nAre you volunteering? :)\\n\\n> But a\\n>hole in the pressure vessel would cause us to immediately de-orbit\\n>to the next available landing site.\\n\\nWill NASA have \"available landing sites\" in the Russian Republic, now that they\\nare Our Friends and Comrades?\\n\\n\\n\\n Software engineering? That\\'s like military intelligence, isn\\'t it?\\n -- > SYSMGR@CADLAB.ENG.UMD.EDU < --\\n',\n", " \"From: nsmca@aurora.alaska.edu\\nSubject: 30826\\nArticle-I.D.: aurora.1993Apr25.151108.1\\nOrganization: University of Alaska Fairbanks\\nLines: 14\\nNntp-Posting-Host: acad3.alaska.edu\\n\\nI like option C of the new space station design.. \\nIt needs some work, but it is simple and elegant..\\n\\nIts about time someone got into simple construction versus overly complex...\\n\\nBasically just strap some rockets and a nose cone on the habitat and go for\\nit..\\n\\nMight be an idea for a Moon/Mars base to.. \\n\\nWhere is Captain Eugenia(sp) when you need it (reference to russian heavy\\nlifter, I think).\\n==\\nMichael Adams, nsmca@acad3.alaska.edu -- I'm not high, just jacked\\n\",\n", " 'From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nSubject: Re: Travel outside US (Bangladesh)\\nReply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nOrganization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science\\nLines: 17\\n\\nIn article <1p7ciqINN3th@tamsun.tamu.edu> covingc@ee.tamu.edu (Just George) writes:\\n>I will be traveling to Bangaldesh this summer, and am wondering\\n>if there are any immunizations I should get before going.\\n>\\n\\nYou can probably get this information by calling your public health\\ndepartment in your county (in Pittsburgh, they give the shots free,\\nas well). There are bulletins in medical libraries that give\\nrecommendations, or you could call the infectious diseases section\\nof the medicine department of your local medical school. You also\\nwill probably want to talk about Malaria prophylaxis. You will\\nneed your doctor to get the prescription. \\n-- \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nGordon Banks N3JXP | \"Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and\\ngeb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu | it is shameful to surrender it too soon.\" \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n',\n", " \"Subject: Need Help in Steroid Research\\nFrom: tthomps@eis.calstate.edu (Thomas Thompson)\\nOrganization: Calif State Univ/Electronic Information Services\\nLines: 8\\n\\n I am doing a term paper on steroids, actually the scientist who\\nhelped crate the drug. I discovered that Joseph Fruton is one of the\\nresearchers who helped create anabolic steroids. The only information on \\nthis person I know is he was a biochemist that did research in the 1930's.\\nI already did research at my local libraries, but I still need more\\ninformation. My instructor is requiring resources from the computer\\nnetworks. Please write back concerning my subject, any books, articles,\\netc., will be appreciated. \\n\",\n", " 'From: wright@duca.hi.com (David Wright)\\nSubject: Re: NATURAL ANTI-cancer/AIDS Remedies\\nOrganization: Hitachi Computer Products, OSSD division\\nLines: 16\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: duca.hi.com\\n\\nIn article <19604@pitt.UUCP> geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks) writes:\\n|In article <1993Apr6.165840.5703@cnsvax.uwec.edu> mcelwre@cnsvax.uwec.edu writes:\\n|> The biggest reason why the cost of medical care is so EXTREMELY high and\\n|>increasing is that NATURAL methods of treatment and even diagnosis are still\\n|>being SYSTEMATICALLY IGNORED and SUPPRESSED by the MONEY-GRUBBING and POWER-\\n|>MONGERING \"medical\" establishment.\\n\\n|That\\'s not the half of it. Did you realize that all medical doctors have\\n|now been replaced by aliens?\\n\\nYup. By the way, what planet are you from, and once you got here, did\\nyou encounter those prejudices against foreign medical graduates?\\n\\n -- David Wright, Hitachi Computer Products (America), Inc. Waltham, MA\\n wright@hicomb.hi.com :: These are my opinions, not necessarily \\n Hitachi\\'s, though they are the opinions of all right-thinking people\\n',\n", " 'From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)\\nSubject: Re: Good Grief! (was Re: Candida Albicans: what is it?)\\nOrganization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA\\n\\nIn article noring@netcom.com (Jon Noring) writes:\\n>>There is no convincing evidence that such a disease exists.\\n>There\\'s a lot of evidence, it just hasn\\'t been adequately gathered and\\n>published in a way that will convince the die-hard melancholic skeptics\\n>who quiver everytime the word \\'anecdote\\' or \\'empirical\\' is used.\\n\\nSnort. Ah, there go my sinuses again.\\n\\n>For example, Dr. Ivker, who wrote the book \"Sinus Survival\", always gives,\\n\\nOh, wow. A classic textbook. Hey, they laughed at Einstein, too!\\n\\n>before any other treatment, a systemic anti-fungal (such as Nizoral) to his\\n>new patients IF they\\'ve been on braod-spectrum anti-biotics 4 or more times\\n>in the last two years. He\\'s kept a record of the results, and for over \\n>2000 patients found that over 90% of his patients get significant relief\\n>of allergic/sinus symptoms. Of course, this is only the beginning for his\\n>program.\\n\\nYeah, I\\'ll bet. Tomorrow, the world.\\n\\nListen, uncontrolled studies like this are worthless.\\n\\n>In my case, as I reported a few weeks ago, I was developing the classic\\n>symptoms outlined in \\'The Yeast Connection\\' (I agree it is a poorly \\n>written book): e.g., extreme sensitivity to plastics, vapors, etc. which\\n>I never had before (started in November). Within one week of full dosage\\n>of Sporanox, the sensitivity to chemicals has fully disappeared - I can\\n>now sit on my couch at home without dying after two minutes. I\\'m also\\n>*greatly* improved in other areas as well.\\n\\nI\\'m sure you are. You sound like the typical hysteric/hypochondriac who\\nresponds to \"miracle cures.\"\\n\\n>Of course, I have allergy symptoms, etc. I am especially allergic to\\n>molds, yeasts, etc. It doesn\\'t take a rocket scientist to figure out that\\n>if one has excessive colonization of yeast in the body, and you have a\\n>natural allergy to yeasts, that a threshold would be reached where you\\n>would have perceptible symptoms.\\n\\nYeah, \"it makes sense to me\", so of course it should be taken seriously.\\nSnort.\\n\\n>Also, yeast do produce toxins of various\\n>sorts, and again, you don\\'t have to be a rocket scientist to realize that\\n>such toxins can cause problems in some people.\\n\\nYeah, \"it sounds reasonable to me\".\\n\\n>Of course, the $60,000\\n>question is whether a person who is immune compromised (as tests showed I was\\n>from over 5 years of antibiotics, nutritionally-deficiencies because of the\\n>stress of infections and allergies, etc.),\\n\\nOh, really? _What_ tests? Immune-compromised, my ass.\\nMore like credulous malingerer. This is a psychiatric syndrome.\\n\\n>can develop excessive yeast\\n>colonization somewhere in the body. It is a tough question to answer since\\n>testing for excessive yeast colonization is not easy. One almost has to\\n>take an empirical approach to diagnosis. Fortunately, Sporanox is relatively\\n>safe unlike past anti-fungals (still have to be careful, however) so there\\'s\\n>no reason any longer to withhold Sporanox treatment for empirical reasons.\\n\\nYou know, it\\'s a shame that a drug like itraconazole is being misused\\nin this way. It\\'s ridiculously expensive, and potentially toxic.\\nThe trouble is that it isn\\'t toxic enough, so it gets abused by quacks.\\n\\n>BTW, some would say to try Nystatin. Unfortunately, most yeast grows hyphae\\n>too deep into tissue for Nystatin to have any permanent affect. You\\'ll find\\n>a lot of people who are on Nystatin all the time.\\n\\nThe only good thing about nystatin is that it\\'s (relatively) cheap\\nand when taken orally, non-toxic. But oral nystatin is without any\\nsystemic effect, so unless it were given IV, it would be without\\nany effect on your sinuses. I wish these quacks would first use\\nIV nystatin or amphotericin B on people like you. That would solve\\nthe \"yeast\" problem once and for all.\\n\\n>In summary, I appreciate all of the attempts by those who desire to keep\\n>medicine on the right road. But methinks that some who hold too firmly\\n>to the party line are academics who haven\\'t been in the trenches long enough\\n>actually treating patients. If anybody, doctors included, said to me to my\\n>face that there is no evidence of the \\'yeast connection\\', I cannot guarantee\\n>their safety. For their incompetence, ripping off their lips is justified as\\n>far as I am concerned.\\n\\nPerhaps a little Haldol would go a long way towards ameliorating\\nyour symptoms.\\n\\nAre you paying for this treatment out of your own pocket? I\\'d hate\\nto think my insurance premiums are going towards this.\\n\\n-- \\nSteve Dyer\\ndyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer\\n',\n", " \"From: twong@civil.ubc.ca (Thomas Wong)\\nSubject: Image processing software for PC\\nOrganization: Dept. of Civil Engineering, U.B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada\\nLines: 27\\nDistribution: world\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: sam.civil.ubc.ca\\n\\n\\n\\nI am posting the following for my brother. Please post your replies or\\nsend him email to his address at the end of his message. Thank you.\\n____________________________________________________________________\\n\\nMy supervisor is looking for a image analysis software for\\nMS DOS. We need something to measure lengths and areas on\\nmicrographs. Sometime in the future, we may expand to do\\nsome densitometry for gels, etc. We've found lots of ads and\\ninfo for the Jandel Scientific products: SigmaScan and Java.\\n\\nBut we have not been able to find any competing products. We\\nwould appreciate any comments on these products and\\n\\nsuggestions / comments on other products we should consider.\\nThanks.\\n\\n \\n\\nDonald\\n\\nUserDONO@MTSG.UBC.CA\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\",\n", " 'From: jkatz@access.digex.com (Jordan Katz)\\nSubject: SSRT Roll-Out Speech\\nOrganization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA\\nLines: 101\\nDistribution: usa\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: access.digex.net\\n\\n SSRT ROLLOUT\\n\\n Speech Delivered by Col. Simon P. Worden,\\n The Deputy for Technology, SDIO\\n \\n Mcdonnell Douglas - Huntington Beach\\n April 3,1993\\n\\n Most of you, as am I, are \"children of the 1960\\'s.\" We grew\\nup in an age of miracles -- Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles,\\nnuclear energy, computers, flights to the moon. But these were\\nmiracles of our parent\\'s doing. For a decade and more the pundits\\nhave told us - \"you\\'ve lost it!\" The \"me\" generation is only\\nliving on the accomplishments of the past.\\n\\n You and I have even begun to believe the pessimists. We\\nlisten in awe as the past generation tells of its triumphs. Living\\nhistory they are. We are privileged to hear those who did it tell\\nof it. A few weeks ago some of this very team listened in awe as\\nGeneral Bernie Schriever told of his team\\'s work - and yes struggle\\n- to build this nation\\'s Intercontinental Ballistic Missile.\\n\\n What stories can we tell? Blurry-eyed telescopes? Thousand\\ndollar toilet seats? Even our space launch vehicles hearken only\\nof that past great time. They are and seem destined to remain Gen.\\nSchriever\\'s ICBMs. I find it hard to swell with pride that the\\nbest new space-lifter idea is to refurbish old Minuteman and\\nPoseidon ballistic missiles.\\n\\n Well - The pessimists are wrong. The legacy is continuing. \\nThis event is proof. To our technological parents: We\\'ve listened\\nto your stories. We\\'ve caught your enthusiasm and can-do spirit. \\nAnd we\\'ve learned from your achievements - and your mistakes. Let\\nme honor one of you who was part of that history and the impetus\\nbehind this history - Max Hunter. You are one of the greatest\\nengineers of the firts great age of space exploration. Your\\ninsight and discipline built the Thor ICBM - later incorporated\\ninto today\\'s most successful launch vehicle - The Delta.\\n\\n You told us in the 60\\'s that a new form of launch vehicle - a\\nsingle stage reusable rocket - can and should be built. You\\nadvocated this idea tirelessly. It was elegantly simple, as are\\nall great breakthroughs. You showed us how to build it. You\\nconvinced us it could be done. You are working by our side to weld\\nits components into place. Most important - you reminded us of a\\nprime engineering principle - undoubtably one you learned from the\\ngeneration before you - the generation that built transcontinental\\naviation in the 1920\\'s and 30\\'s - build a little and test a little\\nand Max, you passed all of this on to people like Pat Ladner who\\nstarted this program for the SDI.\\n\\n Douglas Aircraft didn\\'t start with a DC-10. They didn\\'t even\\nstart with a DC-3. Our grandfathers built a little, tested a\\nlittle - even sold a little and made a little money - before they\\nmoved on to the next step. They didn\\'t take a decade or more\\nbefore putting the first \"rubber on the road.\" Max Hunter - you\\ndidn\\'t take ten years to build Thor, and by God we\\'re not going to\\ntake ten years to show that low cost, single stage, reusable\\naerospace transportation is real.\\n\\n We ended the cold war in a few short years. It took the same\\nteam here today but a few years to show through the Strategic\\nDefense Initiative that the cold war must end. We - you and us -\\nlaunched a series of satellites - The Delta experiments - in about\\na year apiece. This, more than anything else signaled our\\ncommitment to end the impasse between ourselves and the Soviet\\nUnion. Those who made the decisions on both sides have underscored\\nthe importance of our work in bringing about a new international\\nrelationship.\\n\\n But it is the same team which is now putting in place the\\nframework for an aerospace expansion that is our legacy for the\\nnext generation. We will make space access routine and affordable.\\n\\n We built this magnificent flying machine in two years. This\\nsummer a true rocket ship will take off and land on earth for the\\nfirst time. Then we can and surely will build in the next three\\nyears a reusable sub-orbital rocket. It will allow us to use space\\nrapidly, affordably, and efficiently as no other nation can. And\\nyes - we\\'ll make a little money off it too!\\n\\n Then - and only then - we\\'ll spend another three years to\\nbuild a fully reusable single stage to orbit system. The DC-3 of\\nspace will be a reality! We may even be able to use some of the\\nrocket propulsion breakthroughs of our former cold war adversaries. \\nWhat a wonderful irony if this SDI product and Russian efforts to\\ncounter SDI merge to power mankind\\'s next step to the stars!\\n\\n To be sure, we must guard against the temptations to leap to\\nthe final answer. Robert Goddard\\'s first rockets weren\\'t Saturn\\nV\\'s! If we succumb to the temptation to ask for just a few extra\\ndollars and a few more years to jump immediately to a full orbital\\nsystem - we will fail. Max Hunter and his colleagues showed the\\nway. Three years and a cloud of dust - in our case rocket\\nexhausts. There is no short-cut. If we expect to reshape the\\nworld again - we must do it one brick at a time. Minds on tasks at\\nhand!\\n\\n This project is real. The torch of American technological\\ngreatness is being passed. We are Americans. This machine is\\nAmerican. Let\\'s go fly it!\\n',\n", " 'From: young@serum.kodak.com (Rich Young)\\nSubject: Re: Blood Glucose test strips\\nOriginator: young@sasquatch\\nNntp-Posting-Host: sasquatch\\nReply-To: young@serum.kodak.com\\nOrganization: Clinical Diagnostics Division, Eastman Kodak Company\\nLines: 38\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr12.151035.22555@omen.UUCP> caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX) writes:\\n>\\n>In article <1993Apr11.192644.29219@clpd.kodak.com> young@serum.kodak.com writes:\\n>>\\n>>\\tHuman glucose: 70 - 110 mg./dL. (fasting) [2]\\n>\\n>Are these numbers for whole blood, or plasma?\\n\\n\\tSerum, actually, but plasma numbers are the same. Whole blood\\n\\tnumbers for humans tend to be somewhat lower (roughly 5 to 10 \\n\\tpercent lower). I find the following range for whole blood in\\n\\tFUNDAMENTALS OF CLINICAL CHEMISTRY: N. W. Teitz, editor; W. B.\\n\\tSaunders, 1987:\\n\\n\\tHuman glucose (whole blood, fasting levels) --> 60 - 95 mg./dL.\\n\\n>Which are the strips calibrated for? (Obviously they measure whole blood)\\n\\n\\tIndeed, they do measure whole blood levels, although they are not\\n\\tas accurate as a serum test done in a laboratory. One problem is\\n\\tthat cells in the sample continue to metabolize glucose after the\\n\\tsample is drawn, reducing the apparent level. According to Teitz,\\n\\thowever, results compare \"reasonably well\" with laboratory results,\\n\\talthough \"values below 80 mg./dL. tend to be lower with strip tests,\\n\\twhereas values above 240 mg./dL. can be very erratic.\"\\n\\n>What is the conversion factor between human plasma glucose and\\n>whole blood (pin prick) glucose concentration?\\n\\n\\tAs stated above, whole blood levels tend to be roughly 5 to 10 \\n\\tpercent lower than serum levels. Sample freshness will affect\\n\\twhole blood levels, however. I don\\'t believe there is a well-\\n\\tdefined \"conversion factor,\" since cell metabolism will affect\\n\\tsamples to varying degrees. The serum/plasma test is much \\n\\tpreferred for any except general \"ball park\" testing.\\n\\n\\n-Rich Young (These are not Kodak\\'s opinions.)\\n',\n", " 'From: turpin@cs.utexas.edu (Russell Turpin)\\nSubject: Re: Great Post! (was Re: Candida (yeast) Bloom...) (VERY LONG)\\nSummary: How virtually?\\nOrganization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin\\nLines: 30\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: im4u.cs.utexas.edu\\n\\n-*-----\\nIn article noring@netcom.com (Jon Noring) writes:\\n>> ... if you can\\'t observe or culture the yeast \"bloom\" in the\\n>> gut or sinus, then there\\'s no way to diagnose or even recognize\\n>> the disease. And I know they realize that it is virtually\\n>> impossible to test for candida overbloom in any part of the body \\n>> that cannot be easily observed since candida is everywhere in \\n>> the body.\\n\\nIn article geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks) writes:\\n> You\\'ve just discovered one of the requirements for a good quack theory.\\n> Find something that no one can *disprove* and then write a book saying\\n> it is the cause of whatever. Since no one can disprove it, you can\\n> rake in the bucks for quite some time. \\n\\nI hope Gordon Banks did not mean to imply that notions such as\\nhard-to-see candida infections causing various problems should not\\nbe investigated. Many researchers have made breakthroughs by \\nfiguring out how to investigate things that were previously thought\\n\"virtually impossible to test for.\"\\n\\nIndeed, I would be surprised if \"candida overbloom\" were such a\\nphenomena. I would think that candida would produce signature\\nbyproducts whose measure would then set a lower bound on the \\nextent of recent infection. I realize this might get quite \\ntricky and difficult, probably expensive, and likely inconvenient\\nor uncomfortable to the subjects, but that is not the same as \\n\"virtually impossible.\"\\n\\nRussell\\n',\n", " \"From: eder@hsvaic.boeing.com (Dani Eder)\\nSubject: Re: Elevator to the top floor\\nOrganization: Boeing AI Center, Huntsville, AL\\nLines: 56\\n\\n\\nReading from a Amoco Performance Products data sheet, their\\nERL-1906 resin with T40 carbon fiber reinforcement has a compressive\\nstrength of 280,000 psi. It has a density of 0.058 lb/cu in,\\ntherefore the theoretical height for a constant section column\\nthat can just support itself is 4.8 million inches, or 400,000 ft,\\nor 75 Statute miles.\\n\\nNow, a real structure will have horizontal bracing (either a truss\\ntype, or guy wires, or both) and will be used below the crush strength.\\nLet us assume that we will operate at 40% of the theoretical \\nstrength. This gives a working height of 30 miles for a constant\\nsection column. \\n\\nA constant section column is not the limit on how high you can\\nbuild something if you allow a tapering of the cross section\\nas you go up. For example, let us say you have a 280,000 pound\\nload to support at the top of the tower (for simplicity in\\ncalculation). This requires 2.5 square inches of column cross\\nsectional area to support the weight. The mile of structure\\nbelow the payload will itself weigh 9,200 lb, so at 1 mile \\nbelow the payload, the total load is now 289,200 lb, a 3.3% increase.\\n\\nThe next mile of structure must be 3.3% thicker in cross section\\nto support the top mile of tower plus the payload. Each mile\\nof structure must increase in area by the same ratio all the way\\nto the bottom. We can see from this that there is no theoretical\\nlimit on area, although there will be practical limits based\\non how much composites we can afford to by at $40/lb, and how\\nmuch load you need to support on the ground (for which you need\\na foundation that the bedrock can support.\\n\\nLet us arbitrarily choose $1 billion as the limit in costruction\\ncost. With this we can afford perhaps 10,000,000 lb of composites,\\nassuming our finished structure costs $100/lb. The $40/lb figure\\nis just for materials cost. Then we have a tower/payload mass\\nratio of 35.7:1. At a 3.3% mass ratio per mile, the tower\\nheight becomes 111 miles. This is clearly above the significant\\natmosphere. A rocket launched from the top of the tower will still\\nhave to provide orbital velocity, but atmospheric drag and g-losses\\nwill be almost eliminated. G-losses are the component of\\nrocket thrust in the vertical direction to counter gravity,\\nbut which do not contribute to horizontal orbital velocity. Thus\\nthey represent wasted thrust. Together with drag, rockets starting\\nfrom the ground have a 15% velocity penalty to contend with.\\n\\nThis analysis is simplified, in that it does not consider wind\\nloads. These will require more structural support over the first\\n15 miles of height. Above that, the air pressure drops to a low\\nenough value for it not to be a big factor.\\n\\nDani Eder\\n\\n-- \\nDani Eder/Meridian Investment Company/(205)464-2697(w)/232-7467(h)/\\nRt.1, Box 188-2, Athens AL 35611/Location: 34deg 37' N 86deg 43' W +100m alt.\\n\",\n", " 'From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)\\nSubject: Re: Thrush ((was: Good Grief! (was Re: Candida Albicans: what is it?)))\\nOrganization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA\\nLines: 34\\n\\nIn article <21APR199308571323@ucsvax.sdsu.edu> mccurdy@ucsvax.sdsu.edu (McCurdy M.) writes:\\n>Dyer is beyond rude. \\n\\nYeah, yeah, yeah. I didn\\'t threaten to rip your lips off, did I?\\nSnort.\\n\\n>There have been and always will be people who are blinded by their own \\n>knowledge and unopen to anything that isn\\'t already established. Given what \\n>the medical community doesn\\'t know, I\\'m surprised that he has this outlook.\\n\\nDuh.\\n\\n>For the record, I have had several outbreaks of thrush during the several \\n>past few years, with no indication of immunosuppression or nutritional \\n>deficiencies. I had not taken any antobiotics. \\n\\nListen: thrush is a recognized clinical syndrome with definite\\ncharacteristics. If you have thrush, you have thrush, because you can\\nsee the lesions and do a culture and when you treat it, it generally\\nresponds well, if you\\'re not otherwise immunocompromised. Noring\\'s\\nanal-retentive idee fixe on having a fungal infection in his sinuses\\nis not even in the same category here, nor are these walking neurasthenics\\nwho are convinced they have \"candida\" from reading a quack book.\\n\\n>My dentist (who sees a fair amount of thrush) recommended acidophilous:\\n>After I began taking acidophilous on a daily basis, the outbreaks ceased.\\n>When I quit taking the acidophilous, the outbreaks periodically resumed. \\n>I resumed taking the acidophilous with no further outbreaks since then.\\n\\nSo?\\n\\n-- \\nSteve Dyer\\ndyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer\\n',\n", " 'From: noring@netcom.com (Jon Noring)\\nSubject: Good Grief! (was Re: Candida Albicans: what is it?)\\nOrganization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)\\nLines: 81\\n\\nIn article rind@enterprise.bih.harvard.edu (David Rind) writes:\\n>In article davpa@ida.liu.se (David Partain) writes:\\n\\n>>Someone I know has recently been diagnosed as having Candida Albicans, \\n>>a disease about which I can find no information. Apparently it has something\\n>>to do with the body\\'s production of yeast while at the same time being highly\\n>>allergic to yeast. Can anyone out there tell me any more about it?\\n\\n>Candida albicans can cause severe life-threatening infections, usually\\n>in people who are otherwise quite ill. This is not, however, the sort\\n>of illness that you are probably discussing.\\n>\\n>\"Systemic yeast syndrome\" where the body is allergic to\\n>yeast is considered a quack diagnosis by mainstream medicine. There\\n>is a book \"The Yeast Connection\" which talks about this \"illness\".\\n>\\n>There is no convincing evidence that such a disease exists.\\n\\nThere\\'s a lot of evidence, it just hasn\\'t been adequately gathered and\\npublished in a way that will convince the die-hard melancholic skeptics\\nwho quiver everytime the word \\'anecdote\\' or \\'empirical\\' is used.\\n\\nFor example, Dr. Ivker, who wrote the book \"Sinus Survival\", always gives,\\nbefore any other treatment, a systemic anti-fungal (such as Nizoral) to his\\nnew patients IF they\\'ve been on braod-spectrum anti-biotics 4 or more times\\nin the last two years. He\\'s kept a record of the results, and for over \\n2000 patients found that over 90% of his patients get significant relief\\nof allergic/sinus symptoms. Of course, this is only the beginning for his\\nprogram.\\n\\nIn my case, as I reported a few weeks ago, I was developing the classic\\nsymptoms outlined in \\'The Yeast Connection\\' (I agree it is a poorly \\nwritten book): e.g., extreme sensitivity to plastics, vapors, etc. which\\nI never had before (started in November). Within one week of full dosage\\nof Sporanox, the sensitivity to chemicals has fully disappeared - I can\\nnow sit on my couch at home without dying after two minutes. I\\'m also\\n*greatly* improved in other areas as well.\\n\\nOf course, I have allergy symptoms, etc. I am especially allergic to\\nmolds, yeasts, etc. It doesn\\'t take a rocket scientist to figure out that\\nif one has excessive colonization of yeast in the body, and you have a\\nnatural allergy to yeasts, that a threshold would be reached where you\\nwould have perceptible symptoms. Also, yeast do produce toxins of various\\nsorts, and again, you don\\'t have to be a rocket scientist to realize that\\nsuch toxins can cause problems in some people. In my case it was sinus\\nsince that\\'s the center of my allergic response. Of course, the $60,000\\nquestion is whether a person who is immune compromised (as tests showed I was\\nfrom over 5 years of antibiotics, nutritionally-deficiencies because of the\\nstress of infections and allergies, etc.), can develop excessive yeast\\ncolonization somewhere in the body. It is a tough question to answer since\\ntesting for excessive yeast colonization is not easy. One almost has to\\ntake an empirical approach to diagnosis. Fortunately, Sporanox is relatively\\nsafe unlike past anti-fungals (still have to be careful, however) so there\\'s\\nno reason any longer to withhold Sporanox treatment for empirical reasons.\\n\\nBTW, some would say to try Nystatin. Unfortunately, most yeast grows hyphae\\ntoo deep into tissue for Nystatin to have any permanent affect. You\\'ll find\\na lot of people who are on Nystatin all the time.\\n\\nIn summary, I appreciate all of the attempts by those who desire to keep\\nmedicine on the right road. But methinks that some who hold too firmly\\nto the party line are academics who haven\\'t been in the trenches long enough\\nactually treating patients. If anybody, doctors included, said to me to my\\nface that there is no evidence of the \\'yeast connection\\', I cannot guarantee\\ntheir safety. For their incompetence, ripping off their lips is justified as\\nfar as I am concerned.\\n\\nJon Noring\\n\\n-- \\n\\nCharter Member --->>> INFJ Club.\\n\\nIf you\\'re dying to know what INFJ means, be brave, e-mail me, I\\'ll send info.\\n=============================================================================\\n| Jon Noring | noring@netcom.com | |\\n| JKN International | IP : 192.100.81.100 | FRED\\'S GOURMET CHOCOLATE |\\n| 1312 Carlton Place | Phone : (510) 294-8153 | CHIPS - World\\'s Best! |\\n| Livermore, CA 94550 | V-Mail: (510) 417-4101 | |\\n=============================================================================\\nWho are you? Read alt.psychology.personality! That\\'s where the action is.\\n',\n", " \"From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)\\nSubject: Re: Level 5?\\nOrganization: U of Toronto Zoology\\nLines: 31\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr21.134436.26140@mksol.dseg.ti.com> mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:\\n>>>(given that I've heard the Shuttle software rated as Level 5 ...\\n>>Level 5? Out of how many? ...\\n>\\n>... Also keep in mind that it was\\n>*not* achieved through the use of sophisticated tools, but rather\\n>through a 'brute force and ignorance' attack on the problem during the\\n>Challenger standdown - they simply threw hundreds of people at it and\\n>did the whole process by hand...\\n\\nI think this is a little inaccurate, based on Feynman's account of the\\nsoftware-development process *before* the standdown. Fred is basically\\ncorrect: no sophisticated tools, just a lot of effort and painstaking\\ncare. But they got this one right *before* Challenger; Feynman cited\\nthe software people as exemplary compared to the engine people. (He\\nalso noted that the software people were starting to feel management\\npressure to cut corners, but hadn't had to give in to it much yet.)\\n\\nAmong other things, the software people worked very hard to get things\\nright for the major pre-flight simulations, and considered a failure\\nduring those simulations to be nearly as bad as an in-flight failure.\\nAs a result, the number of major-simulation failures could be counted\\non one hand, and the number of in-flight failures was zero.\\n\\nAs Fred mentioned elsewhere, this applies only to the flight software.\\nSoftware that runs experiments is typically mostly put together by the\\nexperimenters, and gets nowhere near the same level of Tender Loving Care.\\n(None of the experimenters could afford it.)\\n-- \\nAll work is one man's work. | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology\\n - Kipling | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry\\n\",\n", " \"From: Donald Mackie \\nSubject: Re: OB-GYN residency\\nOrganization: UM Anesthesiology\\nLines: 21\\nDistribution: world\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: 141.214.86.38\\nX-UserAgent: Nuntius v1.1.1d9\\nX-XXDate: Tue, 20 Apr 93 16:46:24 GMT\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr20.004158.6122@cnsvax.uwec.edu> David Nye,\\nnyeda@cnsvax.uwec.edu writes:\\n> \\n>>>I believe it is illegal for a residency to discriminate against\\nFMGs.\\n> \\n>>Is that true? I know some that won't even interview FMGs.\\n> \\n>I think a case could be made that this is discriminatory,\\nparticularly\\n>if an applicant had good board scores and recommendations but wasn't\\n>offered an interview, but I don't know if it has ever gone to court.\\n\\nFMGs who are not citizens are, like all aliens, in a difficult\\nsituation. Only citizens get to vote here, so non-citizens are of\\nlittle or no interest to legislators. Also, the non-citizen may well\\nbe in the middle of processing for resident alien status. There is a\\nstron sense that rocking the boat (eg. suing a residency program)\\nwill delay the granting of that status, perhaps for ever.\\n\\nDon Mackie - his opinions\\n\",\n", " 'From: pyron@skndiv.dseg.ti.com (Dillon Pyron)\\nSubject: Re: Why not give $1 billion to first year-long moon residents?\\nLines: 42\\nNntp-Posting-Host: skndiv.dseg.ti.com\\nReply-To: pyron@skndiv.dseg.ti.com\\nOrganization: TI/DSEG VAX Support\\n\\n\\nIn article <1qve4kINNpas@sal-sun121.usc.edu>, schaefer@sal-sun121.usc.edu (Peter Schaefer) writes:\\n>In article <1993Apr19.130503.1@aurora.alaska.edu>, nsmca@aurora.alaska.edu writes:\\n>|> In article <6ZV82B2w165w@theporch.raider.net>, gene@theporch.raider.net (Gene Wright) writes:\\n>|> > With the continuin talk about the \"End of the Space Age\" and complaints \\n>|> > by government over the large cost, why not try something I read about \\n>|> > that might just work.\\n>|> > \\n>|> > Announce that a reward of $1 billion would go to the first corporation \\n>|> > who successfully keeps at least 1 person alive on the moon for a year. \\n>|> > Then you\\'d see some of the inexpensive but not popular technologies begin \\n>|> > to be developed. THere\\'d be a different kind of space race then!\\n>|> > \\n>|> > --\\n>|> > gene@theporch.raider.net (Gene Wright)\\n>|> > theporch.raider.net 615/297-7951 The MacInteresteds of Nashville\\n>|> ====\\n>|> If that were true, I\\'d go for it.. I have a few friends who we could pool our\\n>|> resources and do it.. Maybe make it a prize kind of liek the \"Solar Car Race\"\\n>|> in Australia..\\n>|> Anybody game for a contest!\\n>|> \\n>|> ==\\n>|> Michael Adams, nsmca@acad3.alaska.edu -- I\\'m not high, just jacked\\n>\\n>\\n>Oh gee, a billion dollars! That\\'d be just about enough to cover the cost of the\\n>feasability study! Happy, Happy, JOY! JOY!\\n>\\n\\nFeasability study?? What a wimp!! While you are studying, others would be\\ndoing. Too damn many engineers doing way too little engineering.\\n\\n\"He who sits on his arse sits on his fortune\" - Sir Richard Francis Burton\\n--\\nDillon Pyron | The opinions expressed are those of the\\nTI/DSEG Lewisville VAX Support | sender unless otherwise stated.\\n(214)462-3556 (when I\\'m here) |\\n(214)492-4656 (when I\\'m home) |Texans: Vote NO on Robin Hood. We need\\npyron@skndiv.dseg.ti.com |solutions, not gestures.\\nPADI DM-54909 |\\n\\n',\n", " 'From: gnb@leo.bby.com.au (Gregory N. Bond)\\nSubject: Re: Old Spacecraft as NAvigation Beacons!\\nIn-Reply-To: nsmca@aurora.alaska.edu\\'s message of 21 Apr 93 08:15:55 GMT\\nNntp-Posting-Host: leo-gw\\nOrganization: Burdett, Buckeridge & Young, Melbourne, Australia\\nLines: 17\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr21.001555.1@aurora.alaska.edu> nsmca@aurora.alaska.edu writes:\\n Other idea for old space crafts is as navigation beacons and such..\\n Why not??\\n\\nBecause to be any use as a nav point you need to know -exactly- where\\nit is, which means you either nail it to something that doesn\\'t move\\nor you watch it all the time. Neither of which is possible on a\\ndeactivated spacecraft. Then you have to know exactly how far away\\nfrom it you are; this may or may not be possible with the hardware on\\nboard. \\n\\nApart from which, there is absolutely no need for navigation beacons.\\n--\\nGregory Bond Burdett Buckeridge & Young Ltd Melbourne Australia\\n Knox\\'s 386 is slick. Fox in Sox, on Knox\\'s Box\\n Knox\\'s box is very quick. Plays lots of LSL. He\\'s sick!\\n(Apologies to John \"Iron Bar\" Mackin.)\\n',\n", " 'From: msjohnso@donald.WichitaKS.NCR.COM (Mark Johnson)\\nSubject: Re: Big amateur rockets\\nOrganization: NCR Corporation Wichita, KS\\nLines: 86\\n\\npbd@runyon.cim.cdc.com (Paul Dokas) writes:\\n\\n>I was reading Popular Science this morning and was surprised by an ad in\\n>the back. I know that a lot of the ads in the back of PS are fringe\\n>science or questionablely legal, but this one really grabbed my attention.\\n>It was from a company name \"Personal Missle, Inc.\" or something like that.\\n\\nThe company was probably \"Public Missiles, Inc\" of Michigan.\\n\\n>Anyhow, the ad stated that they\\'d sell rockets that were up to 20\\' in length\\n>and engines of sizes \"F\" to \"M\". They also said that some rockets will\\n>reach 50,000 feet.\\n\\nYup.\\n\\n>Now, aside from the obvious dangers to any amateur rocketeer using one\\n>of these beasts, isn\\'t this illegal? I can\\'t imagine the FAA allowing\\n>people to shoot rockets up through the flight levels of passenger planes.\\n>Not to even mention the problem of locating a rocket when it comes down.\\n\\nNope, it\\'s not illegal. It is, however, closely regulated. In order to \\npurchase and use the big rocket motors required, it is necessary to be\\none of the following:\\na) An employee of a government agency.\\nb) An employee or student at a university doing research involving rockets.\\nc) A member or representative of an educational organization involved in\\nresearch or other uses of rockets. There are two such organizations: \\nThe Tripoli Rocketry Association and the National Association of Rocketry.\\nMembers of either organization must demonstrate proficiency in construction\\nand flight before they are allowed to purchase large motors on their own.\\n\\nThe FAA will issue a waiver of its regulations, upon request, to any \\norganization which can persuade them it has taken adequate precautions \\nto avoid conflicts with aircraft. The usual stipulations are:\\n- Only operation up to a specified ceiling is allowed. Depending on the\\nlocation, this ceiling may be from 5000 to 50000 feet AGL. \\n- The operator of the rocket is responsible for avoiding any aircraft\\nwithin the operating radius around the launch site.\\n- Flight into clouds or beyond visual range in haze is expressly prohibited.\\n- The FAA will provide a NOTAM informing other users of the airspace that\\nunmanned rocket operations are taking place at the specified place and time.\\n\\nMost of the launches that are held (and there are dozens of them every year)\\nare held in areas where air traffic is relatively light, such as over the\\nwestern deserts (the Black Rock Desert north of Reno is particularly popular\\nsince it is 25 x 150 miles of *nothing to hit* on the ground).\\n\\nThe two rocketry associations test and approve motors for their members\\'\\nuse, to insure safety. Depending on motor size, the launcher setback is\\nfrom 50 to 500 or more feet. \\n\\nBy the way, rockets under 1 lb and powered by an \"F\" motor are exempt from\\nmost Federal regulations on unmanned rockets anyway. See FAR 101, Subpart\\nC, for details.\\n\\nAs for recovery...although the higher altitude rockets can reach up to\\n50,000 feet, most of them only get to 2,000 to 5,000 feet. The typical\\nrocket is 2 to 6 inches in diameter, and carries a 3 to 6 foot parachute,\\nor multiple parachutes, depending on the payload. Many rockets also carry\\neither a small transmitter or an audio sounder--particularly at launches\\nin the eastern US, where there are more obstructions.\\n\\nCamera, telemetry transmitter, and video payloads are becoming quite common.\\n\\n>And no, I\\'m not going to even think of buying one. I\\'m not that crazy.\\n\\nWhy not? It\\'s a lot of fun...check out the traffic on rec.models.rockets\\nfor information about the model (3 lb and under) and high power (everything\\nbigger) rocket hobbies. As with all dangerous activities, the key is to\\npractice safety. I\\'ve been flying consumer rockets ranging up to 4-5 lbs\\ntakeoff weight for 27 years, and still have all my extremities intact.\\n\\n>-Paul \"mine\\'ll do 50,000 feet and carries 50 pounds of dynamite\" Dokas\\n\\nThat\\'s another thing. NO EXPLOSIVE WARHEADS OF ANY KIND ARE ALLOWED ON THESE\\nROCKETS. NONE! Please forgive me for shouting, but that\\'s one of the biggest\\nmisconceptions people have about our hobby. \\n\\n>/* Just remember, you *WILL* die someday. */\\nTrue. But it will not be related to the rocket hobby, unless I get \\nhit while crossing a road with a rocket in my hand. \\n-- \\nMark Johnson USnail: NCR Peripheral Products Division\\nE-mail: Mark.Johnson@WichitaKS.NCR.COM 3718 N. Rock Rd.\\nVoice: (316) 636-8189 [V+ 654-8189] Wichita, KS 67226\\n[Non-business email: 76670.1775@compuserve.com]\\n',\n", " \"From: nyeda@cnsvax.uwec.edu (David Nye)\\nSubject: Re: Migraines and scans\\nOrganization: University of Wisconsin Eau Claire\\nLines: 16\\n\\n[reply to geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)]\\n \\n>>If you can get away without ever ordering imaging for a patient with\\n>>an obviously benign headache syndrome, I'd like to hear what your magic\\n>>is.\\n \\n>I certainly can't always avoid it (unless I want to be rude, I suppose).\\n \\nI made a decision a while back that I will not be bullied into getting\\nstudies like a CT or MRI when I don't think they are indicated. If the\\npatient won't accept my explanation of why I think the study would be a\\nwaste of time and money, I suggest a second opinion.\\n \\nDavid Nye (nyeda@cnsvax.uwec.edu). Midelfort Clinic, Eau Claire WI\\nThis is patently absurd; but whoever wishes to become a philosopher\\nmust learn not to be frightened by absurdities. -- Bertrand Russell\\n\",\n", " 'From: bhjelle@carina.unm.edu ()\\nSubject: Re: Fungus \"epidemic\" in CA?\\nOrganization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque\\nLines: 26\\nDistribution: na\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: carina.unm.edu\\n\\nIn article <19435@pitt.UUCP> geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks) writes:\\n>>In article steward@cup.portal.com (John Joseph Deltuvia) writes:\\n>>\\n>>>There was a story a few weeks ago on a network news show about some sort\\n>>>of fungus which supposedly attacks the bone structure and is somewhat\\n>>>widespread in California. Anybody hear anything about this one?\\n>>\\n>\\n>The only fungus I know of from California is Coccidiomycosis. I\\n>hadn\\'t heard that it attacked bone. It attacks lung and if you\\n>are especially unlucky, the central nervous system. Nothing new\\n>about it. It\\'s been around for years. THey call it \"valley\\n>fever\", since it is found in the inland valleys, not on the coast.\\n\\nThere is a mini-epidemic of Coccidiodes that is occurring in,\\nI believe, the Owen\\'s Valley/ Bishop area east of the Sierras.\\nI don\\'t believe there has been any great insight into the\\nincreased incidence in that area. There is a low-level\\nof endemic infection in that region. Many people with\\nevidence of past exposure to the organism did not have\\nserious disease.\\n\\nBrian\\n>\\n\\n\\n',\n", " 'From: spenser@fudd.jsc.nasa.gov (S. Spenser Aden)\\nSubject: Re: diet for Crohn\\'s (IBD)\\nOrganization: Flight Data and Evaluation Office\\nDistribution: usa\\nLines: 72\\n\\nIn article uabdpo.dpo.uab.edu!gila005 (Stephen Holland) writes:\\n>In article <1r6g8fINNe88@ceti.cs.unc.edu>, jge@cs.unc.edu (John Eyles)\\n>wrote:\\n>> \\n>> A friend has what is apparently a fairly minor case of Crohn\\'s\\n>> disease.\\n>> \\n>> But she can\\'t seem to eat certain foods, such as fresh vegetables,\\n>> without discomfort, and of course she wants to avoid a recurrence.\\n>> \\n>> Her question is: are there any nutritionists who specialize in the\\n>> problems of people with Crohn\\'s disease ?\\n>\\n>If she is having problems with fresh vegetables, the guess is that there\\n>is some obstruction of the intestine. Without knowing more it is not\\n>possible to say whether the obstruction is permanent due to scarring,\\n>or temporary due to swelling of inflammed intestine. In general, there are\\n>no dietary limitations in patients with Crohn\\'s except as they relate\\n>to obstruction. There is no evidence that any foods will bring on \\n>recurrence of Crohn\\'s. \\n\\nInteresting statements, simply because I have been told otherwise. I\\'m\\ncertainly not questioning Steve\\'s claims, as for one I am not a doctor, and I\\nagree that foods don\\'t bring on the recurrence of Crohn\\'s. But inflammation\\ncan be either mildly or DRASTICALLY enhanced due to food.\\n\\nHaving had one major obstruction resulting in resection (is that a good enough\\ncaveat :-), I was told that a *LOW RESIDUE* diet is called for. Basically,\\nthe idea is that if there is inflammation of the gut (which may not be\\nrealized by the patient), any residue in the system can be caught in the folds\\nof inflammation and constantly irritate, thus exacerbating the problem.\\nTherefore, anything that doesn\\'t digest completely by the point of common\\ninflammation should be avoided. With what I\\'ve been told is typical Crohn\\'s,\\nof the terminal ileum, my diet should be low residue, consisting of:\\n\\nCompletely out - never again - items:\\n\\to corn (kernel husk doesn\\'t digest ... most of us know this :-)\\n\\to popcorn (same)\\n\\to dried (dehydrated) fruit and fruit skins\\n\\to nuts (Very tough when it comes to giving up some fudge :-)\\n\\nDiscouraged greatly:\\n\\to raw vegetables (too fibrous)\\n\\to wheat and raw grain breads\\n\\to exotic lettuce (iceberg is ok since it\\'s apparently mostly water)\\n\\to greens (turnip, mustard, kale, etc...)\\n\\to little seeds, like sesame (try getting an Arby\\'s without it!)\\n\\to long grain and wild rice (husky)\\n\\to beans (you\\'ll generate enough gas alone without them!)\\n\\to BASICALLY anything that requires heavy digestive processing\\n\\nI was told that the more processed the food the better! (rather ironic in this\\nday and age). The whole point is PREVENTATIVE ... you want to give your\\nsystem as little chance to inflame as possible. I was told that among the\\nNUMEROUS things that were heavily discouraged (I only listed a few), to try\\nthe ones I wanted and see how I felt. If it\\'s bad, don\\'t do it again!\\nRemember though that this was while I was in remission. For Veggies: cook the\\ndaylights out of them. I prefer steaming ... I think it\\'s cooks more\\nthoroughly - you\\'re mileage may vary.\\n\\nAs with anything else, CHECK WITH YOUR DOCTOR. Don\\'t just take my word. But\\nthis is the info I\\'ve been given, and it may be a starting point for\\ndiscussion. Good luck!\\n\\n-Spenser\\n\\n\\n-- \\nS. Spenser Aden --- Lockheed Engineering and Sciences Co. --- (713) 483-2028\\nNASA --- Flight Data and Evaluation Office --- Johnson Space Center, Houston\\nspenser@fudd.jsc.nasa.gov (Internet) --- Opinions herein are mine alone.\\naden@vf.jsc.nasa.gov (if above bounces) --- \"Eschew obfuscation.\" - unknown\\n',\n", " \"From: baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov (Ron Baalke)\\nSubject: Iapetus/Saturn Eclipse\\nOrganization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory\\nLines: 79\\nDistribution: world\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov\\nNews-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41 \\n\\nForwarded from John Spencer (spencer@lowell.edu):\\n\\nThere will be two eclipses of Iapetus by Saturn and its\\nrings, in May and July. Please spread the word! Here's some\\ninformation about the events, and then a couple of messages from Jay\\nGoguen of JPL appealing for thermal observations of the eclipse to\\nlearn more about the thermal properties of Iapetus. He might also have\\nsome money available...\\n\\nJohn Spencer, 1993/04/21\\n\\nIapetus will be eclipsed by the shadows of Saturn's rings and Saturn\\nitself on 1993/05/01-02 (18:27-13:43 UT) and again on 1993/07/20-21,\\n(21:16-09:38 UT). Timing is as follows;\\n\\n 1993 May 1-2\\n\\n A-ring ingress 18:27\\n egress 19:30\\n B-ring ingress 19:51\\n egress 21:42\\n C-ring egress 23:00\\n Saturn ingress 23:59\\n egress 10:02\\n B-ring ingress 10:28\\n egress 12:19\\n A-ring ingress 12:40\\n egress 13:43\\n\\n 1993 July 20-21\\n\\n Saturn ingress 21:16\\n egress 05:08\\n A-ring ingress 05:13 (grazing)\\n egress 09:38\\n\\nTimes could be 30 minutes later according to an alternate ephemeris,\\nand photometric observations are important for refining Iapetus'\\norbit. Because the Sun's size projected on the rings as seen from\\nIapetus is 3100 km it's unlikely that we will learn anything new about\\nthe rings themselves from the observations. See Soma (1992), Astronomy\\nand Astrophysics 265, L21-L24 for more details. Thanks to Andy Odell\\nof Northern Arizona University for bringing the events to my\\nattention.\\n\\nTHERMAL OBSERVATIONS?\\n\\nJay Goguen (jdg@scn5.Jpl.Nasa.Gov) writes:\\n\\n To me, the interesting thing to do would be thermal IR of the 20 July\\n disappearance into the shadow of the planet to measure thermal inertia,\\n etc. Unfortunately, the 21:30 UT of this event renders it inaccessible,\\n except from Russia. Even from Calar Alto, Saturn is rising through 3\\n airmasses at 23:00 UT. Do you know anyone in Russia or Ukraine with\\n a big telescope and 10 um instrumentation that's looking for something\\n to do? I'd be willing to make a personal grant of >$100 for the data.\\n\\n Jay\\n\\nand again:\\n\\n please try to encourage anyone that can observe the iapetus planet\\n disappearance to do so at thermal wavelengths. My impression would\\n be that it's not an easy observation. Iapetus will be faint and\\n getting fainter in eclipse, so you'll need a big telescope that's a\\n good IR telescope and reasonable 10 - 20 um instrumentation. I don't\\n think that combination is widely available at the longitudes that are\\n well placed for observation. We need SOFIA for this one. One\\n possibility would be the IR telescope in India, but it's only a 1.2 m.\\n\\njay\\n\\n ___ _____ ___\\n /_ /| /____/ \\\\ /_ /| Ron Baalke | baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov\\n | | | | __ \\\\ /| | | | Jet Propulsion Lab |\\n ___| | | | |__) |/ | | |__ M/S 525-3684 Telos | The aweto from New Zealand\\n/___| | | | ___/ | |/__ /| Pasadena, CA 91109 | is part caterpillar and\\n|_____|/ |_|/ |_____|/ | part vegetable.\\n\\n\",\n", " 'From: leech@cs.unc.edu (Jon Leech)\\nSubject: Space FAQ 06/15 - Constants and Equations\\nKeywords: Frequently Asked Questions\\nArticle-I.D.: cs.constants_733694246\\nExpires: 6 May 1993 19:57:26 GMT\\nDistribution: world\\nOrganization: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill\\nLines: 189\\nSupersedes: \\nNNTP-Posting-Host: mahler.cs.unc.edu\\n\\nArchive-name: space/constants\\nLast-modified: $Date: 93/04/01 14:39:04 $\\n\\nCONSTANTS AND EQUATIONS FOR CALCULATIONS\\n\\n This list was originally compiled by Dale Greer. Additions would be\\n appreciated.\\n\\n Numbers in parentheses are approximations that will serve for most\\n blue-skying purposes.\\n\\n Unix systems provide the \\'units\\' program, useful in converting\\n between different systems (metric/English, etc.)\\n\\n NUMBERS\\n\\n\\t7726 m/s\\t (8000) -- Earth orbital velocity at 300 km altitude\\n\\t3075 m/s\\t (3000) -- Earth orbital velocity at 35786 km (geosync)\\n\\t6371 km\\t\\t (6400) -- Mean radius of Earth\\n\\t6378 km\\t\\t (6400) -- Equatorial radius of Earth\\n\\t1738 km\\t\\t (1700) -- Mean radius of Moon\\n\\t5.974e24 kg\\t (6e24) -- Mass of Earth\\n\\t7.348e22 kg\\t (7e22) -- Mass of Moon\\n\\t1.989e30 kg\\t (2e30) -- Mass of Sun\\n\\t3.986e14 m^3/s^2 (4e14) -- Gravitational constant times mass of Earth\\n\\t4.903e12 m^3/s^2 (5e12) -- Gravitational constant times mass of Moon\\n\\t1.327e20 m^3/s^2 (13e19) -- Gravitational constant times mass of Sun\\n\\t384401 km\\t ( 4e5) -- Mean Earth-Moon distance\\n\\t1.496e11 m\\t (15e10) -- Mean Earth-Sun distance (Astronomical Unit)\\n\\n\\t1 megaton (MT) TNT = about 4.2e15 J or the energy equivalent of\\n\\tabout .05 kg (50 gm) of matter. Ref: J.R Williams, \"The Energy Level\\n\\tof Things\", Air Force Special Weapons Center (ARDC), Kirtland Air\\n\\tForce Base, New Mexico, 1963. Also see \"The Effects of Nuclear\\n\\tWeapons\", compiled by S. Glasstone and P.J. Dolan, published by the\\n\\tUS Department of Defense (obtain from the GPO).\\n\\n EQUATIONS\\n\\n\\tWhere d is distance, v is velocity, a is acceleration, t is time.\\n\\tAdditional more specialized equations are available from:\\n\\n\\t ames.arc.nasa.gov:pub/SPACE/FAQ/MoreEquations\\n\\n\\n\\tFor constant acceleration\\n\\t d = d0 + vt + .5at^2\\n\\t v = v0 + at\\n\\t v^2 = 2ad\\n\\n\\tAcceleration on a cylinder (space colony, etc.) of radius r and\\n\\t rotation period t:\\n\\n\\t a = 4 pi**2 r / t^2\\n\\n\\tFor circular Keplerian orbits where:\\n\\t Vc\\t = velocity of a circular orbit\\n\\t Vesc = escape velocity\\n\\t M\\t = Total mass of orbiting and orbited bodies\\n\\t G\\t = Gravitational constant (defined below)\\n\\t u\\t = G * M (can be measured much more accurately than G or M)\\n\\t K\\t = -G * M / 2 / a\\n\\t r\\t = radius of orbit (measured from center of mass of system)\\n\\t V\\t = orbital velocity\\n\\t P\\t = orbital period\\n\\t a\\t = semimajor axis of orbit\\n\\n\\t Vc\\t = sqrt(M * G / r)\\n\\t Vesc = sqrt(2 * M * G / r) = sqrt(2) * Vc\\n\\t V^2 = u/a\\n\\t P\\t = 2 pi/(Sqrt(u/a^3))\\n\\t K\\t = 1/2 V**2 - G * M / r (conservation of energy)\\n\\n\\t The period of an eccentric orbit is the same as the period\\n\\t of a circular orbit with the same semi-major axis.\\n\\n\\tChange in velocity required for a plane change of angle phi in a\\n\\tcircular orbit:\\n\\n\\t delta V = 2 sqrt(GM/r) sin (phi/2)\\n\\n\\tEnergy to put mass m into a circular orbit (ignores rotational\\n\\tvelocity, which reduces the energy a bit).\\n\\n\\t GMm (1/Re - 1/2Rcirc)\\n\\t Re = radius of the earth\\n\\t Rcirc = radius of the circular orbit.\\n\\n\\tClassical rocket equation, where\\n\\t dv\\t= change in velocity\\n\\t Isp = specific impulse of engine\\n\\t Ve\\t= exhaust velocity\\n\\t x\\t= reaction mass\\n\\t m1\\t= rocket mass excluding reaction mass\\n\\t g\\t= 9.80665 m / s^2\\n\\n\\t Ve\\t= Isp * g\\n\\t dv\\t= Ve * ln((m1 + x) / m1)\\n\\t\\t= Ve * ln((final mass) / (initial mass))\\n\\n\\tRelativistic rocket equation (constant acceleration)\\n\\n\\t t (unaccelerated) = c/a * sinh(a*t/c)\\n\\t d = c**2/a * (cosh(a*t/c) - 1)\\n\\t v = c * tanh(a*t/c)\\n\\n\\tRelativistic rocket with exhaust velocity Ve and mass ratio MR:\\n\\n\\t at/c = Ve/c * ln(MR), or\\n\\n\\t t (unaccelerated) = c/a * sinh(Ve/c * ln(MR))\\n\\t d = c**2/a * (cosh(Ve/C * ln(MR)) - 1)\\n\\t v = c * tanh(Ve/C * ln(MR))\\n\\n\\tConverting from parallax to distance:\\n\\n\\t d (in parsecs) = 1 / p (in arc seconds)\\n\\t d (in astronomical units) = 206265 / p\\n\\n\\tMiscellaneous\\n\\t f=ma -- Force is mass times acceleration\\n\\t w=fd -- Work (energy) is force times distance\\n\\n\\tAtmospheric density varies as exp(-mgz/kT) where z is altitude, m is\\n\\tmolecular weight in kg of air, g is local acceleration of gravity, T\\n\\tis temperature, k is Bolztmann\\'s constant. On Earth up to 100 km,\\n\\n\\t d = d0*exp(-z*1.42e-4)\\n\\n\\twhere d is density, d0 is density at 0km, is approximately true, so\\n\\n\\t d@12km (40000 ft) = d0*.18\\n\\t d@9 km (30000 ft) = d0*.27\\n\\t d@6 km (20000 ft) = d0*.43\\n\\t d@3 km (10000 ft) = d0*.65\\n\\n\\t\\t Atmospheric scale height\\tDry lapse rate\\n\\t\\t (in km at emission level)\\t (K/km)\\n\\t\\t -------------------------\\t--------------\\n\\t Earth\\t 7.5\\t\\t\\t 9.8\\n\\t Mars\\t 11\\t\\t\\t 4.4\\n\\t Venus\\t 4.9\\t\\t\\t 10.5\\n\\t Titan\\t 18\\t\\t\\t 1.3\\n\\t Jupiter\\t 19\\t\\t\\t 2.0\\n\\t Saturn\\t 37\\t\\t\\t 0.7\\n\\t Uranus\\t 24\\t\\t\\t 0.7\\n\\t Neptune\\t 21\\t\\t\\t 0.8\\n\\t Triton\\t 8\\t\\t\\t 1\\n\\n\\tTitius-Bode Law for approximating planetary distances:\\n\\n\\t R(n) = 0.4 + 0.3 * 2^N Astronomical Units (N = -infinity for\\n\\t Mercury, 0 for Venus, 1 for Earth, etc.)\\n\\n\\t This fits fairly well except for Neptune.\\n\\n CONSTANTS\\n\\n\\t6.62618e-34 J-s (7e-34) -- Planck\\'s Constant \"h\"\\n\\t1.054589e-34 J-s (1e-34) -- Planck\\'s Constant / (2 * PI), \"h bar\"\\n\\t1.3807e-23 J/K\\t(1.4e-23) - Boltzmann\\'s Constant \"k\"\\n\\t5.6697e-8 W/m^2/K (6e-8) -- Stephan-Boltzmann Constant \"sigma\"\\n 6.673e-11 N m^2/kg^2 (7e-11) -- Newton\\'s Gravitational Constant \"G\"\\n\\t0.0029 m K\\t (3e-3) -- Wien\\'s Constant \"sigma(W)\"\\n\\t3.827e26 W\\t (4e26) -- Luminosity of Sun\\n\\t1370 W / m^2\\t (1400) -- Solar Constant (intensity at 1 AU)\\n\\t6.96e8 m\\t (7e8)\\t -- radius of Sun\\n\\t1738 km\\t\\t (2e3)\\t -- radius of Moon\\n\\t299792458 m/s\\t (3e8) -- speed of light in vacuum \"c\"\\n\\t9.46053e15 m\\t (1e16) -- light year\\n\\t206264.806 AU\\t (2e5) -- \\\\\\n\\t3.2616 light years (3)\\t -- --> parsec\\n\\t3.0856e16 m\\t (3e16) -- /\\n\\n\\nBlack Hole radius (also called Schwarzschild Radius):\\n\\n\\t2GM/c^2, where G is Newton\\'s Grav Constant, M is mass of BH,\\n\\t\\tc is speed of light\\n\\n Things to add (somebody look them up!)\\n\\tBasic rocketry numbers & equations\\n\\tAerodynamical stuff\\n\\tEnergy to put a pound into orbit or accelerate to interstellar\\n\\t velocities.\\n\\tNon-circular cases?\\n\\n\\nNEXT: FAQ #7/15 - Astronomical Mnemonics\\n',\n", " 'From: jim@inqmind.bison.mb.ca (jim jaworski)\\nSubject: Re: How many read sci.space?\\nOrganization: The Inquiring Mind BBS 1 204 488-1607\\nLines: 36\\n\\nrborden@ugly.UVic.CA (Ross Borden) writes:\\n\\n> In article <734850108.F00002@permanet.org> Mark.Prado@p2.f349.n109.z1.permane\\n> >\\n> >One could go on and on and on here, but I wonder ... how\\n> >many people read sci.space and of what power/influence are\\n> >these individuals?\\n> >\\n> \\tQuick! Everyone who sees this, post a reply that says:\\n> \\n> \\t\\t\\t\"Hey, I read sci.space!\"\\n> \\n> Then we can count them, and find out how many there are! :-)\\n> (This will also help answer that nagging question: \"Just what is\\n> the maximum bandwidth of the Internet, anyways?\")\\n> \\n\\nAs an Amateur Radio operator (VHF 2metres) I like to keep up with what is \\ngoing up (and for that matter what is coming down too).\\n \\nIn about 30 days I have learned ALOT about satellites current, future and \\npast all the way back to Vanguard series and up to Astro D observatory \\n(space). I borrowed a book from the library called Weater Satellites (I \\nthink, it has a photo of the earth with a TIROS type satellite on it.)\\n \\nI would like to build a model or have a large color poster of one of the \\nTIROS satellites I think there are places in the USA that sell them.\\nITOS is my favorite looking satellite, followed by AmSat-OSCAR 13 \\n(AO-13).\\n \\nTTYL\\n73\\nJim\\n\\njim@inqmind.bison.mb.ca\\nThe Inquiring Mind BBS, Winnipeg, Manitoba 204 488-1607\\n',\n", " 'From: david@stat.com (David Dodell)\\nSubject: HICN610 Medical Newsletter Part 1/4\\nReply-To: david@stat.com (David Dodell)\\nDistribution: world\\nOrganization: Stat Gateway Service, WB7TPY\\nLines: 708\\n\\n\\n------------- cut here -----------------\\nVolume 6, Number 10 April 20, 1993\\n\\n +------------------------------------------------+\\n ! !\\n ! Health Info-Com Network !\\n ! Medical Newsletter !\\n +------------------------------------------------+\\n Editor: David Dodell, D.M.D.\\n 10250 North 92nd Street, Suite 210, Scottsdale, Arizona 85258-4599 USA\\n Telephone +1 (602) 860-1121\\n FAX +1 (602) 451-1165\\n\\nCompilation Copyright 1993 by David Dodell, D.M.D. All rights Reserved. \\nLicense is hereby granted to republish on electronic media for which no \\nfees are charged, so long as the text of this copyright notice and license \\nare attached intact to any and all republished portion or portions. \\n\\nThe Health Info-Com Network Newsletter is distributed biweekly. Articles \\non a medical nature are welcomed. If you have an article, please contact \\nthe editor for information on how to submit it. If you are interested in \\njoining the automated distribution system, please contact the editor. \\n\\nE-Mail Address:\\n Editor: \\n Internet: david@stat.com\\n FidoNet = 1:114/15\\n Bitnet = ATW1H@ASUACAD \\nLISTSERV = MEDNEWS@ASUACAD.BITNET (or internet: mednews@asuvm.inre.asu.edu) \\n anonymous ftp = vm1.nodak.edu\\n Notification List = hicn-notify-request@stat.com\\n FAX Delivery = Contact Editor for information\\n\\n\\n::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::\\n\\n T A B L E O F C O N T E N T S\\n\\n\\n1. Comments & News from the Editor\\n OCR / Scanner News ................................................... 1\\n\\n2. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - MMWR\\n [16 April 1993] Emerging Infectious Diseases ......................... 3\\n Outbreak of E. coli Infections from Hamburgers ....................... 5\\n Use of Smokeless Tobacoo Among Adults ................................ 10\\n Gonorrhea ............................................................ 14\\n Impact of Adult Safety-Belt Use on Children less than 11 years Age ... 17\\n Publication of CDC Surveillance Summaries ............................ 21\\n\\n3. Clinical Research News\\n High Tech Assisted Reproductive Technologies ......................... 24\\n\\n4. Articles\\n Low Levels Airborne Particles Linked to Serious Asthma Attacks ....... 29\\n NIH Consensus Development Conference on Melanoma ..................... 31\\n National Cancer Insitute Designated Cancer Centers ................... 32\\n\\n5. General Announcments\\n UCI Medical Education Software Repository ............................ 40\\n\\n6. AIDS News Summaries\\n AIDS Daily Summary April 12 to April 15, 1993 ........................ 41\\n\\n7. AIDS/HIV Articles\\n First HIV Vaccine Trial Begins in HIV-Infected Children .............. 47\\n New Evidence that the HIV Can Cause Disease Independently ............ 50\\n Clinical Consultation Telephone Service for AIDS ..................... 52\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nHICNet Medical Newsletter Page i\\nVolume 6, Number 10 April 20, 1993\\n\\n\\n\\n::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::\\n Comments & News from the Editor\\n::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::\\n\\nI would like to continue to thank everyone who has sent in a donation for the \\nMednews OCR/Scanner Fund. We have reached our goal! A Hewlett Packard\\nScanjet IIp was purchased this week.\\n\\nThank you to the following individuals whose contributions I just received:\\n\\nJohn Sorenson\\nCarol Sigelman\\nCarla Moore\\nBarbara Moose\\nJudith Schrier\\n\\nAgain, thank you to all who gave!\\n\\nI have been using Wordscan Plus for the past couple of weeks and would like to \\nreview the product. Wordscan Plus is a product of Calera Recognition Systems. \\nIt runs under Windows 3.1 and supports that Accufont Technology of the Hewlett \\nPackard Scanners. \\n\\nWhen initially bringing up the software, it lets you select several options; \\n(1) text / graphics (2) input source ie scanner, fax file, disk file (3) \\nautomatic versus manual decomposition of the scanned image. \\n\\nI like manual decomposition since the software then lets me select which \\nparts of the document I would like scanned, and in what order.\\n\\nOnce an image is scanned, you can bring up the Pop-Up image verification. The \\nsoftware gives you two \"errors\" at this point. Blue which are words that were \\nconverted reliability, but do not match anything in the built-in dictionary. \\nYellow shade, which are words that Wordscan Plus doesn\\'t think it converted \\ncorrectly at all. I have found that the software should give itself more \\ncredit. It is usually correct, instead of wrong. If a word is shaded blue, \\nyou can add it to your personal dictionary. The only problem is the personal \\ndictionary will only handle about 200 words. I find this to be very limited, \\nconsidering how many medical terms are not in a normal dictionary. \\n\\nAfter a document is converted, you can save it in a multitude of word \\nprocessor formats. Also any images that were captured can be stored in a \\nseperate TIFF or PCX file format.\\n\\nI was extremely impressed on the percent accuracy for fax files. I use \\n\\nHICNet Medical Newsletter Page 1\\nVolume 6, Number 10 April 20, 1993\\n\\nan Intel Satisfaxtion card, which stores incoming faxs in a PCX/DCX format. \\nWhile most of my faxes were received in \"standard\" mode (200x100 dpi), the \\naccuracy of Wordscan Plus was excellent. \\n\\nOverall, a very impressive product. The only fault I could find is the \\nlimitations of the size of the user dictionary. 200 specialized words is just \\ntoo small. \\n\\nIf anyone has any specific questions, please do not hesitate to send me email.\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nHICNet Medical Newsletter Page 2\\nVolume 6, Number 10 April 20, 1993\\n\\n\\n\\n::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::\\n Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - MMWR\\n::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::\\n\\n Emerging Infectious Diseases\\n ============================\\n SOURCE: MMWR 42(14) DATE: Apr 16, 1993\\n\\n Introduction\\n\\n Despite predictions earlier this century that infectious diseases would \\nsoon be eliminated as a public health problem (1), infectious diseases remain \\nthe major cause of death worldwide and a leading cause of illness and death in \\nthe United States. Since the early 1970s, the U.S. public health system has \\nbeen challenged by a myriad of newly identified pathogens and syndromes (e.g., \\nEscherichia coli O157:H7, hepatitis C virus, human immunodeficiency virus, \\nLegionnaires disease, Lyme disease, and toxic shock syndrome). The incidences \\nof many diseases widely presumed to be under control, such as cholera, \\nmalaria, and tuberculosis (TB), have increased in many areas. Furthermore, \\ncontrol and prevention of infectious diseases are undermined by drug \\nresistance in conditions such as gonorrhea, malaria, pneumococcal disease, \\nsalmonellosis, shigellosis, TB, and staphylococcal infections (2). Emerging \\ninfections place a disproportionate burden on immunocompromised persons, those \\nin institutional settings (e.g., hospitals and child day care centers), and \\nminority and underserved populations. The substantial economic burden of \\nemerging infections on the U.S. health-care system could be reduced by more \\neffective surveillance systems and targeted control and prevention programs \\n(3). \\n This issue of MMWR introduces a new series, \"Emerging Infectious \\nDiseases.\" Future articles will address these diseases, as well as \\nsurveillance, control, and prevention efforts by health-care providers and \\npublic health officials. This first article updates the ongoing investigation \\nof an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 in the western United States (4). \\n\\nReferences\\n\\n1. Burnet M. Natural history of infectious disease. Cambridge, England: \\nCambridge University Press, 1963. \\n\\n2. Kunin CM. Resistance to antimicrobial drugs -- a worldwide calamity. Ann \\nIntern Med 1993;118:557-61. \\n\\n3. Lederberg J, Shope RE, Oaks SC Jr, eds. Emerging infections: microbial \\nthreats to health in the United States. Washington, DC: National Academy \\nPress, 1992. \\n\\nHICNet Medical Newsletter Page 3\\nVolume 6, Number 10 April 20, 1993\\n\\n\\n4. CDC. Preliminary report: foodborne outbreak of Escherichia coli O157:H7 \\ninfections from hamburgers --western United States, 1993. MMWR 1993;42:85-6.\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nHICNet Medical Newsletter Page 4\\nVolume 6, Number 10 April 20, 1993\\n\\n Update: Multistate Outbreak of Escherichia coli O157:H7\\n Infections from Hamburgers -- Western United States,\\n 1992-1993\\n =======================================================\\n SOURCE: MMWR 42(14) DATE: Apr 16, 1993\\n\\n From November 15, 1992, through February 28, 1993, more than 500 \\nlaboratory-confirmed infections with E. coli O157:H7 and four associated \\ndeaths occurred in four states -- Washington, Idaho, California, and Nevada. \\nThis report summarizes the findings from an ongoing investigation (1) that \\nidentified a multistate outbreak resulting from consumption of hamburgers from \\none restaurant chain. Washington \\n On January 13, 1993, a physician reported to the Washington Department of \\nHealth a cluster of children with hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) and an \\nincrease in emergency room visits for bloody diarrhea. During January 16-17, a \\ncase-control study comparing 16 of the first cases of bloody diarrhea or \\npostdiarrheal HUS identified with age- and neighborhood-matched controls \\nimplicated eating at chain A restaurants during the week before symptom onset \\n(matched odds ratio OR=undefined; lower confidence limit=3.5). On January \\n18, a multistate recall of unused hamburger patties from chain A restaurants \\nwas initiated. \\n As a result of publicity and case-finding efforts, during January-\\nFebruary 1993, 602 patients with bloody diarrhea or HUS were reported to the \\nstate health department. A total of 477 persons had illnesses meeting the case \\ndefinition of culture-confirmed E. coli O157:H7 infection or postdiarrheal HUS \\n(Figure 1). Of the 477 persons, 52 (11%) had close contact with a person with \\nconfirmed E. coli O157:H7 infection during the week preceding onset of \\nsymptoms. Of the remaining 425 persons, 372 (88%) reported eating in a chain A \\nrestaurant during the 9 days preceding onset of symptoms. Of the 338 patients \\nwho recalled what they ate in a chain A restaurant, 312 (92%) reported eating \\na regular-sized hamburger patty. Onsets of illness peaked from January 17 \\nthrough January 20. Of the 477 casepatients, 144 (30%) were hospitalized; 30 \\ndeveloped HUS, and three died. The median age of patients was 7.5 years \\n(range: 0-74 years). Idaho \\n Following the outbreak report from Washington, the Division of Health, \\nIdaho Department of Health and Welfare, identified 14 persons with culture-\\nconfirmed E. coli O157:H7 infection, with illness onset dates from December \\n11, 1992, through February 16, 1993 (Figure 2A). Four persons were \\nhospitalized; one developed HUS. During the week preceding illness onset, 13 \\n(93%) had eaten at a chain A restaurant. California \\n In late December, the San Diego County Department of Health Services was \\nnotified of a child with E. coli O157:H7 infection who subsequently died. \\nActive surveillance and record review then identified eight other persons with \\nE. coli O157:H7 infections or HUS from mid-November through mid-January 1993. \\nFour of the nine reportedly had recently eaten at a chain A restaurant and \\n\\nHICNet Medical Newsletter Page 5\\nVolume 6, Number 10 April 20, 1993\\n\\nfour at a chain B restaurant in San Diego. After the Washington outbreak was \\nreported, reviews of medical records at five hospitals revealed an overall 27% \\nincrease in visits or admissions for diarrhea during December 1992 and January \\n1993 compared with the same period 1 year earlier. A case was defined as \\npostdiarrheal HUS, bloody diarrhea that was culture negative or not cultured, \\nor any diarrheal illness in which stool culture yielded E. coli O157:H7, with \\nonset from November 15, 1992, through January 31, 1993. \\n Illnesses of 34 patients met the case definition (Figure 2B). The \\noutbreak strain was identified in stool specimens of six patients. Fourteen \\npersons were hospitalized, seven developed HUS, and one child died. The median \\nage of case-patients was 10 years (range: 1-58 years). A case-control study of \\nthe first 25 case-patients identified and age- and sex-matched community \\ncontrols implicated eating at a chain A restaurant in San Diego (matched \\nOR=13; 95% confidence interval CI=1.7-99). A study comparing case-patients \\nwho ate at chain A restaurants with well meal companions implicated regular-\\nsized hamburger patties (matched OR=undefined; lower confidence limit=1.3). \\nChain B was not statistically associated with illness. Nevada \\n On January 22, after receiving a report of a child with HUS who had eaten \\nat a local chain A restaurant, the Clark County (Las Vegas) Health District \\nissued a press release requesting that persons with recent bloody diarrhea \\ncontact the health department. A case was defined as postdiarrheal HUS, bloody \\ndiarrhea that was culture negative or not cultured, or any diarrheal illness \\nwith a stool culture yielding the Washington strain of E. coli O157:H7, with \\nonset from December 1, 1992, through February 7, 1993. Because local \\nlaboratories were not using sorbitol MacConkey (SMAC) medium to screen stools \\nfor E. coli O157:H7, this organism was not identified in any patient. After \\nSMAC medium was distributed, the outbreak strain was detected in the stool of \\none patient 38 days after illness onset. \\n Of 58 persons whose illnesses met the case definition (Figure 2C), nine \\nwere hospitalized; three developed HUS. The median age was 30.5 years (range: \\n0-83 years). Analysis of the first 21 patients identified and age- and sex-\\nmatched community controls implicated eating at a chain A restaurant during \\nthe week preceding illness onset (matched OR=undefined; lower confidence \\nlimit=4.9). A case-control study using well meal companions of case-patients \\nalso implicated eating hamburgers at chain A (matched OR=6.0; 95% CI=0.7-\\n49.8). Other Investigation Findings \\n During the outbreak, chain A restaurants in Washington linked with cases \\nprimarily were serving regular-sized hamburger patties produced on November \\n19, 1992; some of the same meat was used in \"jumbo\" patties produced on \\nNovember 20, 1992. The outbreak strain of E. coli O157:H7 was isolated from 11 \\nlots of patties produced on those two dates; these lots had been distributed \\nto restaurants in all states where illness occurred. Approximately 272,672 \\n(20%) of the implicated patties were recovered by the recall. \\n A meat traceback by a CDC team identified five slaughter plants in the \\nUnited States and one in Canada as the likely sources of carcasses used in the \\n\\nHICNet Medical Newsletter Page 6\\nVolume 6, Number 10 April 20, 1993\\n\\ncontaminated lots of meat and identified potential control points for reducing \\nthe likelihood of contamination. The animals slaughtered in domestic slaughter \\nplants were traced to farms and auctions in six western states. No one \\nslaughter plant or farm was identified as the source. \\n Further investigation of cases related to secondary transmission in \\nfamilies and child day care settings is ongoing. \\n\\nReported by: M Davis, DVM, C Osaki, MSPH, Seattle-King County Dept of Public \\nHealth; D Gordon, MS, MW Hinds, MD, Snohomish Health District, Everett; K \\nMottram, C Winegar, MPH, Tacoma-Pierce County Health Dept; ED Avner, MD, PI \\nTarr, MD, Dept of Pediatrics, D Jardine, MD, Depts of Anesthesiology and \\nPediatrics, Univ of Washington School of Medicine and Children\\'s Hospital and \\nMedical Center, Seattle; M Goldoft, MD, B Bartleson, MPH; J Lewis, JM \\nKobayashi, MD, State Epidemiologist, Washington Dept of Health. G Billman, MD, \\nJ Bradley, MD, Children\\'s Hospital, San Diego; S Hunt, P Tanner, RES, M \\nGinsberg, MD, San Diego County Dept of Health Svcs; L Barrett, DVM, SB Werner, \\nMD, GW Rutherford, III, MD, State Epidemiologist, California Dept of Health \\nSvcs. RW Jue, Central District Health Dept, Boise; H Root, Southwest District \\nHealth Dept, Caldwell; D Brothers, MA, RL Chehey, MS, RH Hudson, PhD, Div of \\nHealth, Idaho State Public Health Laboratory, FR Dixon, MD, State \\nEpidemiologist, Div of Health, Idaho Dept of Health and Welfare. DJ Maxson, \\nEnvironmental Epidemiology Program, L Empey, PA, O Ravenholt, MD, VH Ueckart, \\nDVM, Clark County Health District, Las Vegas; A DiSalvo, MD, Nevada State \\nPublic Health Laboratory; DS Kwalick, MD, R Salcido, MPH, D Brus, DVM, State \\nEpidemiologist, Div of Health, Nevada State Dept of Human Resources. Center \\nfor Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Food and Drug Administration. Food \\nSafety Inspection Svc, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Svc, US Dept of \\nAgriculture. Div of Field Epidemiology, Epidemiology Program Office; Enteric \\nDiseases Br, Div of Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases, National Center for \\nInfectious Diseases, CDC. \\n\\nEditorial Note: E. coli O157:H7 is a pathogenic gram-negative bacterium first \\nidentified as a cause of illness in 1982 during an outbreak of severe bloody \\ndiarrhea traced to contaminated hamburgers (2). This pathogen has since \\nemerged as an important cause of both bloody diarrhea and HUS, the most common \\ncause of acute renal failure in children. Outbreak investigations have linked \\nmost cases with the consumption of undercooked ground beef, although other \\nfood vehicles, including roast beef, raw milk, and apple cider, also have been \\nimplicated (3). Preliminary data from a CDC 2-year, nationwide, multicenter \\nstudy revealed that when stools were routinely cultured for E. coli O157:H7 \\nthat organism was isolated more frequently than Shigella in four of 10 \\nparticipating hospitals and was isolated from 7.8% of all bloody stools, a \\nhigher rate than for any other pathogen. \\n Infection with E. coli O157:H7 often is not recognized because most \\nclinical laboratories do not routinely culture stools for this organism on \\n\\nHICNet Medical Newsletter Page 7\\nVolume 6, Number 10 April 20, 1993\\n\\nSMAC medium, and many clinicians are unaware of the spectrum of illnesses \\nassociated with infection (4). The usual clinical manifestations are diarrhea \\n(often bloody) and abdominal cramps; fever is infrequent. Younger age groups \\nand the elderly are at highest risk for clinical manifestations and \\ncomplications. Illness usually resolves after 6-8 days, but 2%-7% of patients \\ndevelop HUS, which is characterized by hemolytic anemia, thrombocytopenia, \\nrenal failure, and a death rate of 3%-5%. \\n This report illustrates the difficulties in recognizing community \\noutbreaks of E. coli O157:H7 in the absence of routine surveillance. Despite \\nthe magnitude of this outbreak, the problem may not have been recognized in \\nthree states if the epidemiologic link had not been established in Washington \\n(1). Clinical laboratories should routinely culture stool specimens from \\npersons with bloody diarrhea or HUS for E. coli O157:H7 using SMAC agar (5). \\nWhen infections with E. coli O157:H7 are identified, they should be reported \\nto local health departments for further evaluation and, if necessary, public \\nhealth action to prevent further cases. \\n E. coli O157:H7 lives in the intestines of healthy cattle, and can \\ncontaminate meat during slaughter. CDC is collaborating with the U.S. \\nDepartment of Agriculture\\'s Food Safety Inspection Service to identify \\ncritical control points in processing as a component of a program to reduce \\nthe likelihood of pathogens such as E. coli O157:H7 entering the meat supply. \\nBecause slaughtering practices can result in contamination of raw meat with \\npathogens, and because the process of grinding beef may transfer pathogens \\nfrom the surface of the meat to the interior, ground beef is likely to be \\ninternally contaminated. The optimal food protection practice is to cook \\nground beef thoroughly until the interior is no longer pink, and the juices \\nare clear. In this outbreak, undercooking of hamburger patties likely played \\nan important role. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued interim \\nrecommendations to increase the internal temperature for cooked hamburgers to \\n155 F (86.1 C) (FDA, personal communication, 1993). \\n Regulatory actions stimulated by the outbreak described in this report \\nand the recovery of thousands of contaminated patties before they could be \\nconsumed emphasize the value of rapid public health investigations of \\noutbreaks. The public health impact and increasing frequency of isolation of \\nthis pathogen underscore the need for improved surveillance for infections \\ncaused by E. coli O157:H7 and for HUS to better define the epidemiology of E. \\ncoli O157:H7. \\n\\nReferences\\n\\n1. CDC. Preliminary report: foodborne outbreak of Escherichia coli O157:H7 \\ninfections from hamburgers --western United States, 1993. MMWR 1993;42:85-6. \\n\\n2. Riley LW, Remis RS, Helgerson SD, et al. Hemorrhagic colitis associated \\nwith a rare Escherichia coli serotype. N Engl J Med 1983;308:681-5. \\n\\nHICNet Medical Newsletter Page 8\\nVolume 6, Number 10 April 20, 1993\\n\\n\\n3. Griffin PM, Tauxe RV. The epidemiology of infections caused by Escherichia \\ncoli O157:H7, other enterohemorrhagic E. coli, and the associated hemolytic \\nuremic syndrome. Epidemiol Rev 1991;13:60-98. \\n\\n4. Griffin PM, Ostroff SM, Tauxe RV, et al. Illnesses associated with \\nEscherichia coli O157:H7 infections: a broad clinical spectrum. Ann Intern Med \\n1988;109:705-12. \\n\\n5. March SB, Ratnam S. Latex agglutination test\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nHICNet Medical Newsletter Page 9\\nVolume 6, Number 10 April 20, 1993\\n\\n Use of Smokeless Tobacco Among Adults -- United States,\\n 1991\\n =======================================================\\n SOURCE: MMWR 42(14) DATE: Apr 16, 1993\\n\\n Consumption of moist snuff and other smokeless tobacco products in the \\nUnited States almost tripled from 1972 through 1991 (1). Long-term use of \\nsmokeless tobacco is associated with nicotine addiction and increased risk of \\noral cancer (2) -- the incidence of which could increase if young persons who \\ncurrently use smokeless tobacco continue to use these products frequently (1). \\nTo monitor trends in the prevalence of use of smokeless tobacco products, \\nCDC\\'s 1991 National Health Interview Survey-Health Promotion and Disease \\nPrevention supplement (NHIS-HPDP) collected information on snuff and chewing \\ntobacco use and smoking from a representative sample of the U.S. civilian, \\nnoninstitutionalized population aged greater than or equal to 18 years. This \\nreport summarizes findings from this survey. \\n The 1991 NHIS-HPDP supplement asked \"Have you used snuff at least 20 \\ntimes in your entire life?\" and \"Do you use snuff now?\" Similar questions were \\nasked about chewing tobacco use and cigarette smoking. Current users of \\nsmokeless tobacco were defined as those who reported snuff or chewing tobacco \\nuse at least 20 times and who reported using snuff or chewing tobacco at the \\ntime of the interview; former users were defined as those who reported having \\nused snuff or chewing tobacco at least 20 times and not using either at the \\ntime of the interview. Ever users of smokeless tobacco included current and \\nformer users. Current smokers were defined as those who reported smoking at \\nleast 100 cigarettes and who were currently smoking and former smokers as \\nthose who reported having smoked at least 100 cigarettes and who were not \\nsmoking now. Ever smokers included current and former smokers. Data on \\nsmokeless tobacco use were available for 43,732 persons aged greater than or \\nequal to 18 years and were adjusted for nonresponse and weighted to provide \\nnational estimates. Confidence intervals (CIs) were calculated by using \\nstandard errors generated by the Software for Survey Data Analysis (SUDAAN) \\n(3). \\n In 1991, an estimated 5.3 million (2.9%) U.S. adults were current users \\nof smokeless tobacco, including 4.8 million (5.6%) men and 533,000 (0.6%) \\nwomen. For all categories of comparison, the prevalence of smokeless tobacco \\nuse was substantially higher among men. For men, the prevalence of use was \\nhighest among those aged 18-24 years (Table 1); for women, the prevalence was \\nhighest among those aged greater than or equal to 75 years. The prevalence of \\nsmokeless tobacco use among men was highest among American Indians/Alaskan \\nNatives and whites; the prevalence among women was highest among American \\nIndians/Alaskan Natives and blacks. Among both men and women, prevalence of \\nsmokeless tobacco use declined with increasing education. Prevalence was \\nsubstantially higher among residents of the southern United States and in \\nrural areas. Although the prevalence of smokeless tobacco use was higher among \\n\\nHICNet Medical Newsletter Page 10\\nVolume 6, Number 10 April 20, 1993\\n\\nmen and women below the poverty level, * this difference was significant only \\nfor women (p less than 0.05) (Table 1). \\n Among men, the prevalence of current use of snuff was highest among those \\naged 18-44 years but varied considerably by age; the prevalence of use of \\nchewing tobacco was more evenly distributed by age group (Table 2). Although \\nwomen rarely used smokeless tobacco, the prevalence of snuff use was highest \\namong those aged greater than or equal to 75 years. \\n An estimated 7.9 million (4.4% 95% CI=4.1-4.6) adults reported being \\nformer smokeless tobacco users. Among ever users, the proportion who were \\nformer smokeless tobacco users was 59.9% (95% CI=57.7-62.1). Among persons \\naged 18-24 years, the proportion of former users was lower among snuff users \\n(56.2% 95% CI=49.4-63.0) than among chewing tobacco users (70.4% 95% \\nCI=64.2-76.6). Among persons aged 45-64 years, the proportion of former users \\nwas similar for snuff (68.9% 95% CI=63.1-74.7) and chewing tobacco (73.5% \\n95% CI=68.9-78.1). \\n Among current users of smokeless tobacco, 22.9% (95% CI=19.9-26.0) \\ncurrently smoked, 33.3% (95% CI=30.0-36.5) formerly smoked, and 43.8% (95% \\nCI=39.9-47.7) never smoked. In comparison, among current smokers, 2.6% (95% \\nCI=2.3-3.0) were current users of smokeless tobacco. \\n Daily use of smokeless tobacco was more common among snuff users (67.3% \\n95% CI=63.2-71.4) than among chewing tobacco users (45.1% 95% CI=40.6-\\n49.6). \\n\\nReported by: Office on Smoking and Health, National Center for Chronic Disease \\nPrevention and Health Promotion; Div of Health Interview Statistics, National \\nCenter for Health Statistics, CDC. \\n\\nEditorial Note: The findings in this report indicate that the use of smokeless \\ntobacco was highest among young males. Adolescent and young adult males, in \\nparticular, are the target of marketing strategies by tobacco companies that \\nlink smokeless tobacco with athletic performance and virility. Use of oral \\nsnuff has risen markedly among professional baseball players, encouraging this \\nbehavior among adolescent and young adult males and increasing their risk for \\nnicotine addiction, oral cancer, and other mouth disorders (4). \\n Differences in the prevalence of smokeless tobacco use among \\nracial/ethnic groups may be influenced by differences in educational levels \\nand socioeconomic status as well as social and cultural phenomena that require \\nfurther explanation. For example, targeted marketing practices may play a role \\nin maintaining or increasing prevalence among some groups, and affecting the \\ndifferential initiation of smokeless tobacco use by young persons (5,6). \\n In this report, one concern is that nearly one fourth of current \\nsmokeless tobacco users also smoke cigarettes. In the 1991 NHIS-HPDP, the \\nprevalence of cigarette smoking was higher among former smokeless tobacco \\nusers than among current and never smokeless tobacco users. In a previous \\nstudy among college students, 18% of current smokeless tobacco users smoked \\n\\nHICNet Medical Newsletter Page 11\\nVolume 6, Number 10 April 20, 1993\\n\\noccasionally (7). In addition, approximately 7% of adults who formerly smoked \\nreported substituting other tobacco products for cigarettes in an effort to \\nstop smoking (8). Health-care providers should recognize the potential health \\nimplications of concurrent smokeless tobacco and cigarette use. \\n The national health objectives for the year 2000 have established special \\npopulation target groups for the reduction of the prevalence of smokeless \\ntobacco use, including males aged 12-24 years (to no more than 4% by the year \\n2000 objective 3.9) and American Indian/Alaskan Native youth (to no more \\nthan 10% by the year 2000 objective 3.9a) (9). Strategies to lower the \\nprevalence of smokeless tobacco use include continued monitoring of smokeless \\ntobacco use, integrating smoking and smokeless tobacco-control efforts, \\nenforcing laws that restrict minors\\' access to tobacco, making excise taxes \\ncommensurate with those on cigarettes, encouraging health-care providers to \\nroutinely provide cessation advice and follow-up, providing school-based \\nprevention and cessation interventions, and adopting policies that prohibit \\ntobacco use on school property and at school-sponsored events (5). \\n\\nReferences\\n\\n1. Office of Evaluations and Inspections. Spit tobacco and youth. Washington, \\nDC: US Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Inspector \\nGeneral, 1992; DHHS publication no. (OEI-06)92-00500. \\n\\n2. National Institutes of Health. The health consequences of using smokeless \\ntobacco: a report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General. Bethesda, \\nMaryland: US Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, \\n1986; DHHS publication no. (NIH)86-2874. \\n\\n3. Shah BV. Software for Survey Data Analysis (SUDAAN) version 5.30 Software \\ndocumentation. Research Triangle Park, North Carolina: Research Triangle \\nInstitute, 1989. \\n\\n4. Connolly GN, Orleans CT, Blum A. Snuffing tobacco out of sport. Am J Public \\nHealth 1992;82:351-3. \\n\\n5. National Cancer Institute. Smokeless tobacco or health: an international \\nperspective. Bethesda, Maryland: US Department of Health and Human Services, \\nPublic Health Service, National Institutes of Health, 1992; DHHS publication \\nno. (NIH)92-3461. \\n\\n6. Foreyt JP, Jackson AS, Squires WG, Hartung GH, Murray TD, Gotto AM. \\nPsychological profile of college students who use smokeless tobacco. Addict \\nBehav 1993;18:107-16. \\n\\n7. Glover ED, Laflin M, Edwards SW. Age of initiation and switching patterns \\n\\nHICNet Medical Newsletter Page 12\\nVolume 6, Number 10 April 20, 1993\\n\\nbetween smokeless tobacco and cigarettes among college students in the United \\nStates. Am J Public Health 1989;79:207-8. \\n\\n8. CDC. Tobacco use in 1986: methods and tabulations from Adult Use of Tobacco \\nSurvey. Rockville, Maryland: US Department of Health and Human Services, \\nPublic Health Service, CDC, 1990; DHHS publication no. (OM)90-2004. \\n\\n9. Public Health Service. Healthy people 2000: national health promotion and \\ndisease prevention objectives. Washington, DC: US Department of Health and \\nHuman Services, Public Health Service, 1991; DHHS publication no. (PHS)91-\\n50213.\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n--------- end of part 1 ------------\\n\\n---\\n Internet: david@stat.com FAX: +1 (602) 451-1165\\n Bitnet: ATW1H@ASUACAD FidoNet=> 1:114/15\\n Amateur Packet ax25: wb7tpy@wb7tpy.az.usa.na\\n',\n", " 'From: shafer@rigel.dfrf.nasa.gov (Mary Shafer)\\nSubject: Re: Crazy? or just Imaginitive?\\nIn-Reply-To: nsmca@aurora.alaska.edu\\'s message of Thu, 22 Apr 1993 04:54:03 GMT\\nOrganization: NASA Dryden, Edwards, Cal.\\nLines: 25\\n\\nOn Thu, 22 Apr 1993 04:54:03 GMT, nsmca@aurora.alaska.edu said:\\n\\nnsmca> So some of my ideas are a bit odd, off the wall and such, but\\nnsmca> so was Wilbur and Orville Wright, and quite a few others..\\n\\nThis is a common misconception. There was nothing \"off the wall\"\\nabout the Wright Brothers. They were in correspondance with a number\\nof other experimenters (Octave Chanute, Lillienthal, etc), they flew\\nmodels, they had a wind tunnel. In short, they were quite mainstream\\nand were not regarded as odd or eccentric by the community.\\n\\nI suggest you read The Bishop\\'s Boys or the biography by Harry Gates?\\nCombs? (I can never remember which it is--the guy that had the FBOs\\nand owned Learjet for a while). These are both in print and easily\\nobtainable. The Bishop\\'s Boys is in trade paperback, even.\\n\\nEven better would be the multi-volume set of the Wrights\\' writings,\\nbut this is out of print, rare, and hideously expensive.\\n\\n\\n\\n--\\nMary Shafer DoD #0362 KotFR NASA Dryden Flight Research Facility, Edwards, CA\\nshafer@rigel.dfrf.nasa.gov Of course I don\\'t speak for NASA\\n \"A MiG at your six is better than no MiG at all.\" Unknown US fighter pilot\\n',\n", " 'From: MUNIZB%RWTMS2.decnet@rockwell.com (\"RWTMS2::MUNIZB\")\\nSubject: Long Island (was Why use AC at 20kHz for SSF power)\\nX-Added: Forwarded by Space Digest\\nOrganization: [via International Space University]\\nOriginal-Sender: isu@VACATION.VENARI.CS.CMU.EDU\\nDistribution: sci\\nLines: 21\\n\\non Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1993 23:19:46 GMT, Edmund Hack writes:\\n\\n/In article <1pgdno$3t1@access.digex.net> prb@access.digex.com (Pat) writes:\\n/>\\n/>I always thought GD\\'s Fighter plants were in Long Island. \\n/>\\n/No, Northrup has a plant on Long Island.\\n\\nI don\\'t think Northrup ever had a plant on Long Island. The two main airframe\\nmanufacturers there were (Fairchild)/Republic which closed its doors after the\\nT-46 cancellation, and Grumman (which is still hanging on last I time I called).\\nI think Sperry also started there. If you\\'re ever in the area check out the\\nCradle of Aviation Museum at Mitchell field (now mostly parking lots behind the\\nNassau Coliseum and the community college). Good display of vehicles from Long\\nIsland, including a LEM flight article.\\n\\nDisclaimer: Opinions stated are solely my own (unless I change my mind).\\nBen Muniz MUNIZB%RWTMS2.decnet@consrt.rockwell.com w(818)586-3578\\nSpace Station Freedom:Rocketdyne/Rockwell:Structural Loads and Dynamics\\n \"Man will not fly for fifty years\": Wilbur to Orville Wright, 1901\\n\\n',\n", " \"From: paj@uk.co.gec-mrc (Paul Johnson)\\nSubject: Re: sore throat\\nReply-To: paj@uk.co.gec-mrc (Paul Johnson)\\nOrganization: GEC-Marconi Research Centre, Great Baddow, UK\\nLines: 29\\n\\nIn article <47835@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> wsun@jeeves.ucsd.edu (Fiberman) writes:\\n>I have had a sore throat for almost a week. When I look into\\n>the mirror with the aid of a flash light, I see white plaques in\\n>the very back of my throat (on the sides). I went to a health\\n>center to have a throat culture taken. They said that I do not\\n>have strep throat. Could a viral infection cause white plaques\\n>on the sides of my throat?\\n\\nFirst, I am not a doctor. I know about this because I have been\\nthrough it.\\n\\nIt sounds like tonsilitis (lit. swollen tonsils). Feel under your jaw\\nhinge for a swelling on each side. If you find them, its tonsilitis.\\nI've had this a couple of times in the past. The doctor prescribed a\\nweeks course of penicillin and that cleared it up.\\n\\nIn my case it was associated with glandular fever, which is a viral\\ninfection which (from my point of view) resembled flu and tonsilitis\\nthat kept coming back for a year or so. There is a blood test for\\nthis.\\n\\nIn conclusion, see a doctor (if you have not done so already).\\n\\nPaul.\\n-- \\nPaul Johnson (paj@gec-mrc.co.uk).\\t | Tel: +44 245 73331 ext 3245\\n--------------------------------------------+----------------------------------\\nThese ideas and others like them can be had | GEC-Marconi Research is not\\nfor $0.02 each from any reputable idealist. | responsible for my opinions\\n\",\n", " 'From: SFEGUS@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu\\nSubject: Re: Barbecued foods and health risk\\nOrganization: University at Buffalo\\nLines: 38\\nNntp-Posting-Host: ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu\\n\\nIn article <79857@cup.portal.com>\\nmmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson) writes:\\n \\n>\\n>> I don\\'t understand the assumption that because something is found to\\n>> be carcinogenic that \"it would not be legal in the U.S.\". I think that\\n>\\n>No, there is something called the \"Delany Amendment\" which makes carcinogenic\\n>food additives illegal in any amount. This was passed by Congress in the\\n>1950\\'s, before stuff like mass spectrometry became available, which increased\\n>detectable levels of substances by a couple orders of magnitude.\\n>\\n>This is why things like cyclamates and Red #2 were banned. They are very\\n>weakly carcinogenic in huge quantities in rats, so under the Act they are\\n>banned.\\n>\\n>This also applies to natural carcinogens. Some of you might remember a\\n>time back in the 1960\\'s when root beer suddenly stopped tasting so good,\\n>and never tasted so good again. That was the time when safrole was banned.\\n>This is the active flavoring ingredient in sassafras leaves.\\n>\\n>If it were possible to market a root beer good like the old days, someone\\n>would do it, in order to make money. The fact that no one does it indicates\\n>that enforcement is still in effect.\\n>\\n>An odd exception to the rule seems to be the product known as \"gumbo file\\'\".\\n>This is nothing more than coarsely ground dried sassafras leaves. This\\n>is not only a natural product, but a natural product still in its natural\\n>form, so maybe that\\'s how they evade Delany. Or maybe a special exemption\\n>was made, to appease powerful Louisiana Democrats.\\n \\nI think what we have to keep in mind is that even though it may be illegal to\\ncommercially produce/sell food with carcinogenic substances, it is not illegal\\nfor people to do such to their own food (smoking, etc). Is this true?\\n \\n \\n \\n \\n',\n", " 'From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nSubject: Re: vangus nerve (vagus nerve)\\nArticle-I.D.: pitt.19397\\nReply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nOrganization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science\\nLines: 16\\n\\nIn article <52223@seismo.CSS.GOV> bwb@seismo.CSS.GOV (Brian W. Barker) writes:\\n\\n>mostly right. Is there a connection between vomiting\\n>and fainting that has something to do with the vagus nerve?\\n>\\nStimulation of the vagus nerve slows the heart and drops the blood\\npressure.\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n-- \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nGordon Banks N3JXP | \"Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and\\ngeb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu | it is shameful to surrender it too soon.\" \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n',\n", " 'From: jbh55289@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Josh Hopkins)\\nSubject: RIMSAT, US/Russian joint venture\\nOrganization: University of Illinois at Urbana\\nLines: 121\\n\\n\\nI\\'ve been to three talks in the last month which might be of interest. I\\'ve \\ntranscribed some of my notes below. Since my note taking ability is by no means\\ninfallible, please assume that all factual errors are mine. Permission is \\ngranted to copy this without restriction.\\n\\nMichael Sternberg, Cheif of Operations of RIMSAT, was invited to speak at an\\ninformal lunch held by ACDIS here on the campus of the University of Illinois.\\nACDIS is an organization on campus that deals with Arms Control, Disarmament and\\nInternational Security. RIMSAT was considered an appropriate topic because the\\ncompany is using Russian launchers and satellites. I think it also helped that\\nhis daughter is a grad student in the International Relations program.\\n\\nThe concept behind RIMSAT apparently began when Matt Neilson (?) went to Tonga\\nto visit a friend. While he was there, he somehow ended up visiting the king,\\nwho happened to be a big TV fan. Matt bought the King a satellite dish, which \\nthe king thought was really nifty. Since Tonga has a GNP of about $70 million,\\nHis Majesty asked if there was any way to make money off this. Matt thought\\nthere probably was, so at his suggestion, Tonga applied for 31 geosynchronous\\nsatellite slots. While this isn\\'t entirely off the wall, it was very unusual,\\nseeing as Tonga was a tiny kingdom with no space program, and 31 is a lot of\\nslots.\\n\\nThe whole thing was debated in the appropriate regulatory agency and Carl\\nHilliard (who is apparently a respected space lawyer) wrote several opinions\\nsupporting Tonga\\'s case. Eventually Tonga ended up with 7 slots, ranging from \\n70 E to 170 E (slots are designated by the longitude over which they reside).\\nAccording to Sternberg, four of these, from 130 E to 142 E are the best in the\\nworld because they are excellently placed for communications between Hawaii and \\nthe Pacific Rim. \\n\\nRIMSAT was formed to use these slots. It was officially formed in Nevis as a tax\\nhaven. They tried for a few years to raise funds in the west, however, to\\nfill 7 slots with western satellites launched on western launchers would have\\ncost approximately $2 billion. It\\'s not easy to raise that kind of money.\\nEventually, they hit upon the idea of using Russian hardware. They began \\nnegotiating with Glavkosmos for hardware. Mr Sternberg describes operating in \\nMoscow in such harsh terms that I don\\'t think I\\'ll visit there for a long time.\\nBesides a significant lack of creature comforts, he was not happy with the way\\nthat people operate. For example \"everybody can sell you everything.\" \\nEveryone can show the proper documents and licenses that indicate they are the\\nonly ones who have the authority to sell what ever you want to by.\\n\\nEventually, RIMSAT arranged a deal with Glavkosmos for 6 satellites at a cost\\nof $150 million. However, Glavkosmos lost favor after the coup. Sternberg\\nsays that this is because they were basically a bunch of KGB operatives who \\nwent to trade shows and picked up lots of brochures. Since Glavkosmos was\\nout of power, he had to renegotiate the deal with the new authorities. He\\nagain described life in a Moscow hotel in rather unfavorable terms. Eventually,\\nhe worked out a deal and on Dec 4, 1992 he met with Koptev, who heads the \\nRussian space program, to sign the deal. Koptev insisted on a few concessions\\nbefore signing and according to Sternberg he arranged these new rules to \\nallow himself to form another company to do the exact same thing as RIMSAT.\\n\\nThe next step was to meet with the builders of the hardware, NPO Applied \\nMechanics -- NPO PM to use their acronym. This organization is located in \\nSiberia (can\\'t figure out how to spell the town, I need an atlas) and has built\\nabout 1500 vehicles since the dawn of the space age. Sternberg commented that\\nsiberians are very different from Musovites. They are hard workers, honest\\npeople who team up to get things done, very much like midwesterners. At this\\npoint there were some comments from the audience that agreed with his opinion on\\nboth siberians and midwesterners :-)\\n\\nSternberg had lots of good things to say about NPO PM. His company is \\napparently lookng for $100 million to invest in the firm to become 50% partners.It apparently costs the Russians about $4 million to build a satellite that\\nwould sell for $50 million in the west. If you want to give them \\nspecifications, they\\'ll build you a satellite. For the particular satellites\\nthat RIMSAT will be using, costs run about $378,000 per transponder year. This\\ncompares to $810,000 t/y in the U.S. They can sell their time for about $1.1\\nmillion compared to $2.6 million in the U.S. RIMSAT will launch their \\nsatellites on Protons. To get the best prices, they bought in bulk. They \\nhave the rights to twelve launches, so if any of you need a lift I can give\\nyou their address. The first launch is scheduled for October and they are\\ngetting one used satellite from the Russians, which is being moved into place\\nnow.\\n\\nTidbits:\\n\\n* Sternberg says this kind of thing has to be done by entrepreneurs, not big\\nbusiness because big business is just like what they have over there, except\\nthat \"we have better paper, both in the bathroom and in the copier.\"\\n\\n* Russian launches are self insured. The promise to replace a failed launch\\nwithin 9 months.\\n\\n* Major investors in RIMSAT include Russell 20/20, which is a huge retirement\\nfund organization, Cellsat, which is a big telecom business in southeast Asia,\\nand a fund operated by some of the big names in U.S aerospace which he says is\\nsort of an insurance policy for them if this really takes off.\\n\\n* He downplayed the instabilites in the ex-USSR saying that we are worried\\npartly because we aren\\'t used to seeing Russia as anything but an unvarying\\nmonolith. Italy gets a new government \"every two weeks\" but we don\\'t worry \\nbecause we\\'re used to it. He predicted that once we get used to seeing what\\nreally goes on in Russia we won\\'t worry about their stability as much.\\n\\n* Part of the problem with cooperative ventures is the problem of transfering\\nmoney. The central bank has a policy of taking hard currency payments, putting\\n25% in their coffers and replacing the rest with the \"equivalent\" value in \\nrubles. To get around this, RIMSAT pays their hard currency into an Austrian\\nbank account. NPO PM then pays their contractors with foreign currency so that\\nthe only the contractors get swindled by the government.\\n\\n* One of the big problems RIMSAT has had is stonewalling by the western \\nsatellite industry. However, Intelsat recently bought three of the same type\\nof satellites, which was rather reassuring.\\n\\n* The biggest worry most people have about russian satellites is the primitive\\ntechnology and shorter lifetime. The older Gorizont (Horizon) satellites have\\na lifetime of about 5 years, while the more modern Express satellites compare\\nwell with western technology and last about 8 years. While this is much \\nshorter than 15 years for western satellites, Sternberg downplayed the \\ndifference. At these prices they can afford to launch new ones. In addition,\\nshorter lifetimes mean that they can replace their equipment with newer\\ntechnology so they will be able to compete better than older, out of date\\nhardware.\\n\\n-- \\nJosh Hopkins jbh55289@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu\\n\\t\\t \"Find a way or make one.\"\\n\\t -attributed to Hannibal\\n',\n", " 'From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nSubject: Re: x-rays\\nReply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nOrganization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science\\nLines: 22\\n\\nIn article <1993Mar30.195242.8070@leland.Stanford.EDU> iceskate@leland.Stanford.EDU ( Lin) writes:\\n>\\n\\n>\\tFirst question - how bad is x-ray? i\\'ve heard that it\\'s nothing \\n>compared to the amount of time spent under the sun and i\\'ve also heard that it\\n>is very harmful. second question - is there anyway out of this yearly test for\\n>me?\\n\\nThe yearly chest x-ray provides a minute amount of radiation. It is\\na drop in the bucket as far as increased risk is concerned. Who can\\ntell you whether you can get out of it or not? No one here controls\\nthat. It may well be a matter of the law, in which case, write your\\nlegislator, but don\\'t hold your breath.\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n-- \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nGordon Banks N3JXP | \"Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and\\ngeb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu | it is shameful to surrender it too soon.\" \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n',\n", " 'From: shread@ll.mit.edu ( Peter Shread)\\nSubject: El Sets\\nOrganization: MIT Lincoln Laboratory\\nDistribution: us\\nLines: 5\\n\\nI am looking for a source of orbital element sets\\nother than UAF/Space Command. I believe there is\\none on CompuServe. Please let me know what other\\npossible sources there are and how I can reach \\nthem. Thanks much.\\n',\n", " 'From: tholen@galileo.ifa.hawaii.edu (Dave Tholen)\\nSubject: Re: Comet in Temporary Orbit Around Jupiter?\\nOrganization: Institute for Astronomy, Hawaii\\nLines: 17\\n\\nPhil G. Fraering writes:\\n\\n> Mark Brader writes:\\n\\n>> Thanks again. One final question. The name Gehrels wasn\\'t known to\\n>> me before this thread came up, but the May issue of Scientific American\\n>> has an article about the \"Inconstant Cosmos\", with a photo of Neil\\n>> Gehrels, project scientist for NASA\\'s Compton Gamma Ray Observatory.\\n>> Same person?\\n\\n> No. I estimate a 99 % probability the Gehrels referred to\\n> is Thomas Gehrels of the Spacewatch project, Kitt Peak observatory.\\n\\nYou may change that to 100% certainty. But to clarify, Spacewatch is a\\nUniversity of Arizona project using a telescope of the Steward Observatory\\nlocated on Kitt Peak. It is not associated with Kitt Peak National\\nObservatory, other than sharing a mountain.\\n',\n", " 'From: drickel@bounce.mentorg.com (Dave Rickel)\\nSubject: Re: So I\\'m an idiot, what else is new?\\nOriginator: drickel@bounce\\nNntp-Posting-Host: bounce.mentorg.com\\nOrganization: Mentor Graphics \\nKeywords: \\nLines: 17\\n\\n\\nIn article <9303311213.AA49462@jsc.nasa.gov>, mcelwre@cnsvax.uwec.edu (R. E. McElwaine) writes:\\n|> RUSSIA\\'S OPERATIVE\\n|> \\n|> In March 1993, Russian President Boris Yeltsin\\n|> proposed to the United States and the United Nations a global\\n|> defense shield (with \"Star Wars\"-type weapons) AGAINST\\n...\\n\\nFunny. A bit disturbing. Forging a posting seems somewhat unethical, even\\nif the subject is as notorious as McElwaine.\\n\\nFollowups should definitely not go to sci.space.\\n\\n\\ndavid rickel\\ndrickel@sjc.mentorg.com\\n',\n", " 'From: sandy@nmr1.pt.cyanamid.COM (Sandy Silverman)\\nSubject: Re: Barbecued foods and health risk\\nIn-Reply-To: markmc@halcyon.com\\'s message of 19 Apr 1993 01:07:22 -0700\\nNntp-Posting-Host: nmr1.pt.cyanamid.com\\nOrganization: American Cyanamid Company\\n\\t<1qtmjq$ahd@nwfocus.wa.com>\\nLines: 11\\n\\nFrom my reading of the popular, and scientific, literature, I think that the\\nbenzopyrene-from-burned-fat problem is probably real but very small compared to\\nother kinds of risks. (This type of problem also occurs with stove-top pan\\ngrilling.) One possible remedy I have read about is to take some vitamin C with your meal of barbecue (or bacon, e.g.). This MAY make sense because vit. C\\nis an antioxidant which could counteract the adverse affect of some of the \\nchemicals in question. Bon Apetit! \\n\\n--\\nSanford Silverman >Opinions expressed here are my own<\\nAmerican Cyanamid \\nsandy@pt.cyanamid.com, silvermans@pt.cyanamid.com \"Yeast is Best\"\\n',\n", " \"From: Tammy.Vandenboom@launchpad.unc.edu (Tammy Vandenboom)\\nSubject: sore spot on testicles\\nNntp-Posting-Host: lambada.oit.unc.edu\\nOrganization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service\\nDistribution: na\\nLines: 17\\n\\nMy husband woke up three days ago with a small sore spot\\n(a spot about the size of a nickel) on one of his testicles. Bottom side,\\nno knots or lumps, just a little sore spot. He says it reminds him of \\nhow a bruise feels. He has no recollection of hitting it or anything like\\nthat that would cause a bruise. (He asssures me he'd remember something\\nlike that :-) \\n\\nAny clues as to what it might be? He's somewhat of a hypochondriac (sp?)\\nso he's sure he's gonna die. . .\\n\\nThanks!!\\n\\n--\\n The opinions expressed are not necessarily those of the University of\\n North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Campus Office for Information\\n Technology, or the Experimental Bulletin Board Service.\\n internet: laUNChpad.unc.edu or 152.2.22.80\\n\",\n", " 'From: johnf@HQ.Ileaf.COM (John Finlayson)\\nSubject: Re: Exercise and Migraine\\nNntp-Posting-Host: findog\\nOrganization: Interleaf, Inc.\\nLines: 49\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr15.163133.25634@ntmtv> janet@ntmtv.com (Janet Jakstys) writes:\\n> ... the other day I played tennis during my lunch\\n>hour. I\\'m out of tennis shape so it was very intense exercise. I\\n>got overheated, and dehydrated. Afterwards, I noticed a tingling\\n>sensation all over my head then about 2 hours later, I could feel\\n>a migraine start. (I continued to drink water in the afternoon.)\\n>I took cafergot, but it didn\\'t help and the pain started although\\n>it wasn\\'t as intense as it usually is and about 9pm that night, the\\n>pain subsided.\\n>\\n>This isn\\'t the first time that I\\'ve had a migraine occur after exercise.\\n>I\\'m wondering if anyone else has had the same experience and I wonder\\n>what triggers the migraine in this situation (heat buildup? dehydration?).\\n>I\\'m not giving up tennis so is there anything I can do (besides get into \\n>shape and don\\'t play at high noon) to prevent this?\\n\\nHi Janet,\\n\\nSounds exactly like mine. Same circumstance, same onset symptoms, \\nsame cafergot uselessness, same duration. In fact, of all the people\\nI know who have migraines, none have been so similar. There is such\\na wide variation between people with respect to what causes their\\nheadaches, that I generally don\\'t bother sharing what I\\'ve learned\\nabout mine, but since ours seem to be alike, here are my observations.\\n\\nI don\\'t think it\\'s heat, per se (I\\'ve had more in winter than summer).\\nDehydration could conceivably figure, though. Try tanking up before\\nplaying rather than after.\\n\\nBeing in shape doesn\\'t seem to help me much, either.\\n\\nI\\'ve identified four factors that do make a difference (listed in \\ndescending order of importance):\\n\\n1) Heavy exercise\\n2) Sleep deprivation\\n3) Fasting\\t\\t(e.g., skipped breakfast)\\n4) Physical trauma\\t(e.g., head bonk)\\n\\nHeavy exercise has preceded all of my post-adolescent migraines, but I \\ndon\\'t get migraines after every heavy exercise session. One or more of \\nthe other factors *must* be present (usually #2). Since I discovered \\nthis, I\\'ve been nearly migraine-free -- relapsing only once every two \\nor three years when I get cocky (\"It\\'s been so long, maybe I just don\\'t \\nget them anymore\") and stop being careful.\\n\\nHope this is helpful.\\n\\nJohn.\\n',\n", " 'From: ron.roth@rose.com (ron roth)\\nSubject: Scientific Yawn\\nX-Gated-By: Usenet <==> RoseMail Gateway (v1.70)\\nOrganization: Rose Media Inc, Toronto, Ontario.\\nLines: 94\\n\\n Gordon Rubenfeld responds to Ron Roth:\\nGR> ron.roth@rose.com (ron roth) wrote:\\nGR>\\nGR> RR> Well, Gordon, I look at the RESULTS, not at anyone\\'s *scientific*\\nGR> RR> stamp of approval.\\nGR> \\nGR> If you and your patients (followers?) are convinced (as you\\'ve written)\\nGR> by your methods of uncontrolled, undocumented, unreported, unsubstantiated,\\nGR> subjective endpoint research - great. But, why should the rest of us care?\\n\\n Gordon, even if you are trying to beat this issue to death, you\\'ll \\n never get more than a stalemate out of this one!\\n I have never tried to force my type of medicine on any of you. Why \\n should I? My patients are happy. I\\'m happy. You and your peers seem \\n to be the only miserable ones around bemoaning the steady loss of \\n patients to the alternative camp.\\n Just look at Europe. There has been a steady exodus from \\'synthetic\\' \\n medicine for over a decade now, and it\\'ll be just a matter of time\\n before more people on this continent will abandon their drug and white \\n coat worship as well and visit different doctors for different needs.\\n\\nGR> You see Ron, the point isn\\'t whether YOU and your patients are\\nGR> convinced that whatever it is you do works; it\\'s whether what you do is\\nGR> MORE effective in similar cases (of whatever it is you think you are\\nGR> treating) than cupping, bloodletting, and placebo.\\n\\n This is very interesting. I have come exactly to the same conclusions\\n but in regards to *conventional* medicine.\\n\\n You see, I don\\'t just treat little old ladies that wouldn\\'t know any\\n different of what is being done, but a bulk of my patients consist of\\n teachers, lawyers, judges, nurses, accountants, university graduates,\\n and various health practitioners.\\n If these people have gotten results with my method after having been\\n unsuccessful with yours or their own, I certainly wouldn\\'t lose any \\n sleep over whether you or your peers approve of my treatments --- \\n let\\'s face it, with all the blunders committed by \"scientific\" MDs \\n over the years, I know a lot of people who hold your *scientific* \\n method in much lower esteem than they hold mine!\\n\\nGR> As far as we know ayurveda = crystals = homeopathy = Ron Roth\\nGR> which may all equal placebo administered with appropriate\\nGR> trappings...\\n \\n Sorry, but I\\'m not familiar OR interested with what appears to be \\n \\'NEW AGE\\' medicine (ayurveda, crystals), with the exception of homeo-\\n pathy, of which I took a course. But Gordon, you already knew that -\\n you just wanted to make my system look a bit more far out, right?\\n \\n I use homeopathy very little, since my cellular test (EMR) is hard to\\n beat for accuracy and minerals are more predictable, while homeopathy\\n does have a problem with reliability, especially in acute conditions.\\n An exception perhaps are homeopathic nosodes which act fairly quickly\\n and are more dependable in certain viral or bacterial situations. \\n\\nGR> My colleagues and I spend hours debating study design\\nGR> and results, even of therapies currently accepted as \"standard\".\\nGR> As good (well, adequate) scientists, we are prepared, *if \\nGR> presented with appropriate data*, to abandon our most deeply held \\nGR> beliefs in favor of new ideas.\\n\\n I have met the challenges of hundreds of sceptics by verifying the\\n accuracy of measuring their mineral status to their total satisfac-\\n tion --- in other words EVERYONE INVOLVED is happy!\\n If you were to cook a meal, would you worry over whether EVERYONE \\n in this world would find it to their liking, or only those that end \\n up eating it?\\n Since I have financed every research project that I have undertaken \\n entirely myself, I don\\'t need to follow any of your rules or guide-\\n lines to satisfy any aspects of a grant application, which YOU may \\n have to; neither am I concerned of whether or not my study designs \\n meet your or anyone else\\'s criteria or acceptance. \\n\\nGR> Sorry Ron, if conviction were the ruler of truth, a flat Earth would\\nGR> still be the center of the Universe and epilepsy a curse of the gods.\\n \\n I think there would be more justification for an uneducated person\\n growing up in an uncivilized environment to believe in a flat earth,\\n than for a civilized, well educated and scientifically trained mind\\n to follow the doctrine of evolution.\\n Genetic engineering of course is now the final frontier to show God\\n how it is (properly) done. Now we\\'ve become capable of creating our\\n own paradise and give disease (and God) the boot, right?\\n\\n But just before we get rid of Him for good, perhaps He could leave us\\n some pointers on how to solve a couple of tiny problems, such as war, \\n poverty, racism, crime, riots, substance abuse... And one last thing, \\n could He also give us a hint on how to control natural disasters, the\\n weather, and last, but not least --- peace?\\n\\n --Ron--\\n---\\n RoseReader 2.00 P003228: The Lab called: Your brain is ready.\\n RoseMail 2.10 : Usenet: Rose Media - Hamilton (416) 575-5363\\n',\n", " 'From: romdas@uclink.berkeley.edu (Ella I Baff)\\nSubject: GETTING AIDS FROM ACUPUNCTURE NEEDLES\\nOrganization: University of California, Berkeley\\nLines: 44\\nDistribution: world\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: uclink.berkeley.edu\\n\\n someone wrote in expressing concern about getting AIDS from acupuncture\\n needles.....\\n\\nUnless your friend is sharing fluids with their acupuncturist who \\nthemselves has AIDS..it is unlikely (not impossible) they will get AIDS \\nfrom acupuncture needles. Generally, even if accidently inoculated, the normal\\nimmune response should be enough to effectively handle the minimal contaminant \\ninvolved with acupuncture needle insertion. \\n\\nMost acupuncturists use disposable needles...use once and throw away. They \\ndo this because you are not the only one concerned about transmission of \\ndiseases via this route...so it\\'s good business to advertise \"disposable needlesused here.\" These needles tend to be of a lower quality however, \\nbeing poorly manufactured and too \"sharp\" in my opinion. They tend to snag bloodvessels on insertion compared to higher quality needles. \\nIf I choose to use acupuncture for a given complaint, that patient will get \\ntheir own set of new needles which are sterilized between treatments. \\nThe risk here for hepatitis, HIV, etc. transmission is that I could mistakenly \\nuse an infected persons needles accidently on the wrong \\npatient...but clear labelling and paying attention all but eliminates \\nthis risk. Better quality needles tend to \"slide\" past vessels and \\nnerves avoiding unpleasant painful snags..and hematomas...so I use them. \\nAcupuncture needles come in many lengths and thicknesses...but they are all \\nsolid when compared to their injection-style cousins. In China, herbal solutionsand western pharmaceuticals are occasionally injected into \\nmeridian points purported to have TCM physiologic effects and so require \\nthe same hollow needles used for injecting fluid medicine. This means...thinkingtiny...that a samll amount of tissue, the diameter of the needle bore, will be \\ninjected into the body as it would be in a typical \"shot.\" when the skin is \\npuntured. On the other hand when the solid \\nacupuncture needle is inserted, the skin tends to \"squeeze\" the needle \\nfrom the tip to the level of insertion such that any \\'cooties\\' that \\nhaven\\'t been schmeared away with alcohol before insertion, tend to remain \\non the surface of the skin minimizing invasion from the exterior. \\n\\nOf course in TCM...the body\\'s exterior is protected by the Wei (Protective) Qi..so infection is unlikely....or in other words...there is a normal inflammatory \\nand immune response that accompanies tissue damage incurred at the puncture \\nsite.\\n\\n\\nWhile I\\'m fairly certain your friend will not have a transferable disease \\ntransmitted to them via acupuncture needle insertion, I would like to know for \\nwhat complaint they have consulted the acupuncturist...not to know if it would be harmful.. but to know if it would be helpful. \\n\\nJohn Badanes, DC, CA\\nromdas@uclink.berkeley.edu\\n \\n \\n',\n", " 'From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nSubject: Re: My New Diet --> IT WORKS GREAT !!!!\\nReply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nOrganization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science\\nLines: 16\\n\\nIn article <1993Mar30.030105.26772@omen.UUCP> caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX) writes:\\n\\n>Sometime in the future diet evangelists may get off their \"our\\n>diet will work if only the obese would obey it\" mode and do\\n>useful research to allow prediction of which types of diet might\\n>be useful to a given individual.\\n>\\n\\n\"Diet Evangelist\". Good term. Fits Atkins to a \"T\". \\n\\n\\n-- \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nGordon Banks N3JXP | \"Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and\\ngeb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu | it is shameful to surrender it too soon.\" \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n',\n", " 'From: prb@access.digex.com (Pat)\\nSubject: Re: Drag free satellites (was: Stephen Hawking Tours JPL)\\nOrganization: Express Access Online Communications USA\\nLines: 8\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: access.digex.net\\nKeywords: JPL\\n\\n\\n\\nJoe,\\n\\n\\tyour description sounds like one of the gravity probe spacecraft\\nideas.\\n\\npat\\n',\n", " 'From: banschbach@vms.ocom.okstate.edu\\nSubject: Re: diet for Crohn\\'s (IBD)\\nLines: 34\\nNntp-Posting-Host: vms.ocom.okstate.edu\\nOrganization: OSU College of Osteopathic Medicine\\nDistribution: usa\\n\\nIn article <1r6g8fINNe88@ceti.cs.unc.edu>, jge@cs.unc.edu (John Eyles) writes:\\n> \\n> A friend has what is apparently a fairly minor case of Crohn\\'s\\n> disease.\\n> \\n> But she can\\'t seem to eat certain foods, such as fresh vegetables,\\n> without discomfort, and of course she wants to avoid a recurrence.\\n> \\n> Her question is: are there any nutritionists who specialize in the\\n> problems of people with Crohn\\'s disease ?\\n> \\n> (I saw the suggestion of lipoxygnase inhibitors like tea and turmeric).\\n> \\n> Thanks in advance,\\n> John Eyles\\n\\nAll your friend really has to do is find a Registered Dietician(RD). While \\nmost work in hospitals and clinics, many major cities will have RD\\'s who \\nare in \"private practice\" so to speak. Many physicans will refer their \\npatients with Crohn\\'s disease to RD\\'s for dietary help. If you can get \\nyour friend\\'s physician to make a referral, medical insurance should pay for \\nthe RD\\'s services just like the services of a physical therapist. The \\nbetter medical insurance plans will cover this but even if your friend\\'s \\nplan doesn\\'t, it would be well worth the cost to get on a good diet to \\ncontrol the intestinal discomfort and help the intestinal lining heal.\\nCrohn\\'s disease is an inflammatory disease of the intestinal lining and \\nlipoxygenase inhibitors may help by decreasing leukotriene formation but \\nI\\'m not aware of tea or turmeric containing lipoxygenase inhibitors. For \\nbad inflammation, steroids are used but for a mild case, the side effects \\nare not worth the small benefit gained by steroid use. Upjohn is developing \\na new lipoxygenase inhibitor that should greatly help deal with \\ninflammatory diseases but it\\'s not available yet.\\n\\nMarty B. \\n',\n", " \"From: gfk39017@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (George F. Krumins)\\nSubject: Re: Vandalizing the sky.\\nOrganization: University of Illinois at Urbana\\nLines: 31\\n\\nJeff.Cook@FtCollinsCO.NCR.COM (Jeff Cook) writes:\\n\\n>In article enzo@research.canon.oz.au (Enzo Liguori) writes:\\n\\n>>Now, Space Marketing\\n\\n>>What about light pollution in observations? (I read somewhere else that\\n>>it might even be visible during the day, leave alone at night).\\n\\n>I can't believe that a mile-long billboard would have any significant\\n>effect on the overall sky brightness. Venus is visible during the day,\\n>but nobody complains about that. Besides, it's in LEO, so it would only\\n\\nWhen I was at the Texas Star Party a few years ago, the sky was so dark\\nthat Venus did, indeed, cause light pollution until it set.\\n\\nEven if the billboard were dark it could cause a problem. Imagine observing an\\nobject and halfway through your run, your object was occulted!\\n\\nI would guess that most of the people stating positive opinions are not \\nfanatically serious observers.\\n\\nIt is so typical that the rights of the minority are extinguished by the\\nwants of the majority, no matter how ridiculous those wants might be.\\n \\nGeorge Krumins\\n-- \\n\\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n| George Krumins |\\n| gfk39017@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu |\\n\",\n", " 'From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nSubject: Re: My New Diet --> IT WORKS GREAT !!!!\\nReply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nOrganization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science\\nLines: 35\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr22.001642.9186@omen.UUCP> caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX) writes:\\n\\n>>>>Can you provide a reference to substantiate that gaining back\\n>>>>the lost weight does not constitute \"weight rebound\" until it\\n>>>>exceeds the starting weight? Or is this oral tradition that\\n>>>>is shared only among you obesity researchers?\\n>>>\\n>>>Annals of NY Acad. Sci. 1987\\n>>>\\n>>Hmmm. These don\\'t look like references to me. Is passive-aggressive\\n>>behavior associated with weight rebound? :-)\\n>\\n>I purposefully left off the page numbers to encourage the reader to\\n>study the volumes mentioned, and benefit therefrom.\\n>\\n\\nGood story, Chuck, but it won\\'t wash. I have read the NY Acad Sci\\none (and have it). This AM I couldn\\'t find any reference to\\n\"weight rebound\". I\\'m not saying it isn\\'t there, but since you\\ncited it, it is your responsibility to show me where it is in there.\\nThere is no index. I suspect you overstepped your knowledge base,\\nas usual.\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n-- \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nGordon Banks N3JXP | \"Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and\\ngeb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu | it is shameful to surrender it too soon.\" \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n',\n", " 'From: cchung@sneezy.phy.duke.edu (Charles Chung)\\nSubject: Re: What if the USSR had reached the Moon first?\\nLines: 24\\nNntp-Posting-Host: bashful.phy.duke.edu\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr20.152819.28186@ke4zv.uucp> gary@ke4zv.uucp (Gary \\nCoffman) writes:\\n> >Why do you think at least a couple centuries before there will\\n> >be significant commerical activity on the Moon?\\n> \\n> Wishful thinking mostly.\\n[Lots of stuff about how the commerical moonbase=fantasyland]\\n\\nThen what do you believe will finally motivate people to leave the \\nearth? I\\'m not trying to flame you. I just want to know where you \\nstand.\\n\\n-Chuck\\n---\\n*******************************************************************\\n\\n\\tChuck Chung\\t\\t\\t\\t(919) 660-2539 (O)\\n\\tDuke University Dept. of Physics\\t(919) 684-1517 (H)\\n\\tDurham, N.C. 27706\\t\\t\\tcchung@phy.duke.edu\\n\\t\\n\\t\"If pro is the opposite of con, \\n\\t\\tthen what is the opposite of progress?\"\\n\\n*******************************************************************\\n',\n", " \"From: pyron@skndiv.dseg.ti.com (Dillon Pyron)\\nSubject: Re: Space Research Spin Off\\nLines: 24\\nNntp-Posting-Host: skndiv.dseg.ti.com\\nReply-To: pyron@skndiv.dseg.ti.com\\nOrganization: TI/DSEG VAX Support\\n\\n\\nIn article <1psgs1$so4@access.digex.net>, prb@access.digex.com (Pat) writes:\\n>|\\n>|The NASA habit of acquiring second-hand military aircraft and using\\n>|them for testbeds can make things kind of confusing. On the other\\n>|hand, all those second-hand Navy planes give our test pilots a chance\\n>|to fold the wings--something most pilots at Edwards Air Force Base\\n>|can't do.\\n>|\\n>\\n>What do you mean? Overstress the wings, and they fail at teh joints?\\n>\\n>You'll have to enlighten us in the hinterlands.\\n\\nNo, they fold on the dotted line. Look at pictures of carriers with loads of\\na/c on the deck, wings all neatly folded.\\n--\\nDillon Pyron | The opinions expressed are those of the\\nTI/DSEG Lewisville VAX Support | sender unless otherwise stated.\\n(214)462-3556 (when I'm here) |\\n(214)492-4656 (when I'm home) |God gave us weather so we wouldn't complain\\npyron@skndiv.dseg.ti.com |about other things.\\nPADI DM-54909 |\\n\\n\",\n", " 'From: msb@sq.sq.com (Mark Brader)\\nSubject: Re: Comet in Temporary Orbit Around Jupiter?\\nOrganization: SoftQuad Inc., Toronto, Canada\\nLines: 20\\n\\n\\n> > > Also, peri[jove]s of Gehrels3 were:\\n> > > \\n> > > April 1973 83 jupiter radii\\n> > > August 1970 ~3 jupiter radii\\n\\n> > Where 1 Jupiter radius = 71,000 km = 44,000 mi = 0.0005 AU. ...\\n\\n> Sorry, _perijoves_...I\\'m not used to talking this language.\\n\\nThanks again. One final question. The name Gehrels wasn\\'t known to\\nme before this thread came up, but the May issue of Scientific American\\nhas an article about the \"Inconstant Cosmos\", with a photo of Neil\\nGehrels, project scientist for NASA\\'s Compton Gamma Ray Observatory.\\nSame person?\\n-- \\nMark Brader, SoftQuad Inc., Toronto\\t\"Information! ... We want information!\"\\nutzoo!sq!msb, msb@sq.com\\t\\t\\t\\t-- The Prisoner\\n\\nThis article is in the public domain.\\n',\n", " \"From: aldridge@netcom.com (Jacquelin Aldridge)\\nSubject: Re: Teenage acne\\nOrganization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)\\nLines: 57\\n\\npchurch@swell.actrix.gen.nz (Pat Churchill) writes:\\n\\n\\n>My 14-y-o son has the usual teenage spotty chin and greasy nose. I\\n>bought him Clearasil face wash and ointment. I think that is probably\\n>enough, along with the usual good diet. However, he is on at me to\\n>get some product called Dalacin T, which used to be a\\n>doctor's-prescription only treatment but is not available over the\\n>chemist's counter. I have asked a couple of pharmacists who say\\n>either his acne is not severe enough for Dalacin T, or that Clearasil\\n>is OK. I had the odd spots as a teenager, nothing serious. His\\n>father was the same, so I don't figure his acne is going to escalate\\n>into something disfiguring. But I know kids are senstitive about\\n>their appearance. I am wary because a neighbour's son had this wierd\\n>malady that was eventually put down to an overdose of vitamin A from\\n>acne treatment. I want to help - but with appropriate treatment.\\n\\n>My son also has some scaliness around the hairline on his scalp. Sort\\n>of teenage cradle cap. Any pointers/advice on this? We have tried a\\n>couple of anti dandruff shampoos and some of these are inclined to\\n>make the condition worse, not better.\\n\\n>Shall I bury the kid till he's 21 :)\\n\\n:) No...I was one of the lucky ones. Very little acne as a teenager. I\\ndidn't have any luck with clearasil. Even though my skin gets oily it\\nreally only gets miserable pimples when it's dry. \\n\\nFrequent lukewarm water rinses on the face might help. Getting the scalp\\nthing under control might help (that could be as simple as submerging under\\nthe bathwater till it's softened and washing it out). Taking a one a day\\nvitamin/mineral might help. I've heard iodine causes trouble and that it \\nis used in fast food restaurants to sterilize equipment which might be\\nwhere the belief that greasy foods cause acne came from. I notice grease \\non my face, not immediately removed will cause acne (even from eating\\nmeat).\\n\\nKeeping hair rinse, mousse, dip, and spray off the face will help. Warm\\nwater bath soaks or cloths on the face to soften the oil in the pores will\\nhelp prevent blackheads. Body oil is hydrophilic, loves water and it\\nsoftens and washes off when it has a chance. That's why hair goes limp with\\noilyness. \\n\\nBecoming convinced that the best thing to do with\\na whitehead is leave it alone will save him days of pimple misery. Any\\nprying of black or whiteheads can cause infections, the red spots of\\npimples. Usually a whitehead will break naturally in a day and there won't\\nbe an infection afterwards.\\n\\nTell him that it's normal to have some pimples but the cosmetic industry\\nmakes it's money off of selling people on the idea that they are an\\nincredible defect to be hidden at any cost (even that of causing more pimples). \\n\\n\\n-Jackie-\\n\\n\\n\",\n", " 'From: stephens@geod.emr.ca (Dave Stephenson)\\nSubject: Re: Old Spacecraft as NAvigation Beacons!\\nNntp-Posting-Host: ngis.geod.emr.ca\\nOrganization: Dept. of Energy, Mines, and Resources, Ottawa\\nLines: 21\\n\\nnsmca@aurora.alaska.edu writes:\\n\\n>Other idea for old space crafts is as navigation beacons and such..\\n>Why not?? If you can put them on \"safe\" \"pause\" mode.. why not have them be\\n>activated by a signal from a space craft (manned?) to act as a naviagtion\\n>beacon, to take a directional plot on??\\n\\n>Wierd or what?\\n>==\\n>Michael Adams, nsmca@acad3.alaska.edu -- I\\'m not high, just jacked\\n\\nThere is a whole constellation of custom built navigation beacon satellites\\nin the process of being phased out right now. The TRANSIT/OSCAR satellites\\nare being replaced by GPS. Or were you thinking of deep space navigation,\\nwhich is best done with doppler/VLBI/ stellar measurements. I do not think\\nadditional radio beacons would help much.\\n--\\nDave Stephenson\\nGeological Survey of Canada\\nOttawa, Ontario, Canada\\nInternet: stephens@geod.emr.ca\\n',\n", " 'From: isaackuo@skippy.berkeley.edu (Isaac Kuo)\\nSubject: Re: Abyss--breathing fluids\\nOrganization: U.C. Berkeley Math. Department.\\nLines: 19\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: skippy.berkeley.edu\\n\\nAre breathable liquids possible?\\n\\nI remember seeing an old Nova or The Nature of Things where this idea was\\ntouched upon (it might have been some other TV show). If nothing else, I know\\nsuch liquids ARE possible because...\\n\\nThey showed a large glass full of this liquid, and put a white mouse (rat?) in\\nit. Since the liquid was not dense, the mouse would float, so it was held down\\nby tongs clutching its tail. The thing struggled quite a bit, but it was\\ncertainly held down long enough so that it was breathing the liquid. It never\\ndid slow down in its frantic attempts to swim to the top.\\n\\nNow, this may not have been the most humane of demonstrations, but it certainly\\nshows breathable liquids can be made.\\n-- \\n*Isaac Kuo (isaackuo@math.berkeley.edu)\\t* ___\\n*\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t* _____/_o_\\\\_____\\n*\\tTwinkle, twinkle, little .sig,\\t*(==(/_______\\\\)==)\\n*\\tKeep it less than 5 lines big.\\t* \\\\==\\\\/ \\\\/==/\\n',\n", " 'From: ajjb@adam4.bnsc.rl.ac.uk (Andrew Broderick)\\nSubject: Re: Solar Sail Data\\nKeywords: Solar Sail\\nOrganization: Rutherford Appleton Lab, UK\\nLines: 79\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr15.051746.29848@news.duc.auburn.edu> snydefj@eng.auburn.edu writes:\\n>\\n>I am looking for any information concerning projects involving Solar\\n> Sails\\n\\nI was at an interesting seminar at work (UK\\'s R.A.L. Space Science\\nDept.) on this subject, specifically on a small-scale Solar Sail\\nproposed as a student space project. The guy giving the talk was keen to\\ngenerate interest in the project. I\\'ll typein the handout he gave out at\\nthe meeting. Here goes : \\n\\n\\t\\t\\tThe Microlight Solar Sail\\n\\t\\t\\t-------------------------\\n\\n1. Introduction\\nThe solar sail is a well-established concept. Harnessing the pressure of\\nsunlight, a spacecraft would have unlimited range. In principle, such a\\nvehicle could explore the whole Solar System with zero fuel consumption.\\n\\nHowever it is more difficult to design a practical solar sail than most\\npeople realize. The pressure of sunlight is only about one kilogram per\\nsquare kilometer. Deploying and controlling the large area of aluminized\\nfabric which would be necessary to transport a \\'conventional\\' type\\nspacecraft is a daunting task. This is why, despite the potential of hte\\nidea, no such craft has actually been launched to date.\\n\\n2.Design\\nRecent advances in microelectronics make possible a different concept: a\\ntiny sail just a few metres in diameter which could be controlled purely\\nbe electronics, with no mechanical parts. Several attitude control\\nmethods are feasible: for example the pressure sunlight exerts on a\\npanel of solar cells varies according to whether power is being drawn.\\n\\nThe key components of the craft will be a minute CCD camera developed at\\nEdinburgh University which can act as both attitude sensor and data\\ngathering device; solar cells providing ~1 watt power for control and\\ncommunication; and a directional radio antenna etched onto the surface\\nof the sail itself. Launched as a piggyback payload, the total cost of\\nthe mission can be limited to a few tens of thousands of dollars.\\n\\n3.Missions\\nThe craft would be capable of some ambitious missions. For example:\\na) It could rendezvous with a nearby asteroid from the Apollo or Amor\\ngroups. Closeup pictures could be transmitted back to Earth at a low bit\\nrate.\\nb) It could be steered into a lunar polar orbit. Previously unobserved\\nareas around the lunar poles could be viewed. By angling the sail to\\nreflect sunlight downwards, polar craters whose bases never receive\\nsunlight could be imaged. Bright reflections would confirm that\\nvolatiles such as water ice have become trapped in these\\nlocations.[Immensely valuable information for setting up a manned lunar\\nbase, BTW]\\nc) It could be sent to rendezvous with a small asteroid or comet\\nnucleus. Impacting at low speed, a thin wire probe attached to the craft\\ncauses it to rebound while capturing a tiny sample is a sharp-edged\\ntube, like performing a biopsy. Returning to Earth, the sail acts as an\\nideal re-entry parachute: load per unit area 20 gm/m2 ensures that heat\\nis reradiated so efectively that the sail temperature cannot exceed ~300\\ndeg C. The material sample is recovered, enclosed in a small insulating\\ncontainer.\\n\\nContact: Colin Jack Tel. 0865-200447\\nOxford Mathematical Designs, 131 High Street, Oxford OX1 4DH, England\\n\\n--------------------------------\\n\\nThis guy would love to hear from anyone interested in this project or\\nseeking details or anything, and would be most happy to send you more\\ninformation.\\n\\n\\tAndy\\n\\n\\n\\n-- \\n ----------------------------------- \\nAndy Jonathan J. Broderick, | \"I have come that they might have |\\nRutherford Lab., UK | life, and have it to the full\" |\\nMail : ajjb@adam2.bnsc.rl.ac.uk | - Jesus Christ |\\n',\n", " \"From: snichols@adobe.com (Sherri Nichols)\\nSubject: Re: Exercise and Migraine\\nArticle-I.D.: adobe.1993Apr15.224049.15516\\nOrganization: Adobe Systems Incorporated\\nLines: 12\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr15.163133.25634@ntmtv> janet@ntmtv.com (Janet Jakstys) writes:\\n>This isn't the first time that I've had a migraine occur after exercise.\\n>I'm wondering if anyone else has had the same experience and I wonder\\n>what triggers the migraine in this situation (heat buildup? dehydration?).\\n>I'm not giving up tennis so is there anything I can do (besides get into \\n>shape and don't play at high noon) to prevent this?\\n\\nI've gotten migraines after exercise, though for me it seems to be related\\nto exercising without having eaten recently. \\n\\nSherri Nichols\\nsnichols@adobe.com\\n\",\n", " 'From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nSubject: Re: new Multiple Sclerosis drug?\\nReply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nOrganization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science\\nLines: 13\\n\\nIn article <12252@news.duke.edu> adm@neuro.duke.edu (Alan Magid) writes:\\n>Disclaimer: I speak only for myself.\\n\\n\\nSo just what was it you wanted to say?\\n\\n\\n\\n-- \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nGordon Banks N3JXP | \"Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and\\ngeb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu | it is shameful to surrender it too soon.\" \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n',\n", " 'From: higgins@fnalf.fnal.gov (Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey)\\nSubject: Dreams and Degrees (was Re: Crazy? or just Imaginitive?)\\nOrganization: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory\\nLines: 47\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: fnalf.fnal.gov\\n\\nIn article , mt90dac@brunel.ac.uk (Del Cotter) writes:\\n> <1993Apr21.205403.1@aurora.alaska.edu> nsmca@aurora.alaska.edu writes:\\n>> Sorry if I do not have the big degrees\\n>>and such, but I think (I might be wrong, to error is human) I have something\\n>>that is in many ways just as important, I have imagination, dreams. And without\\n>>dreams all the knowledge is worthless.. \\n> \\n> Oh, and us with the big degrees don\\'t got imagination, huh?\\n> \\n> The alleged dichotomy between imagination and knowledge is one of the most\\n> pernicious fallacys of the New Age. Michael, thanks for the generous\\n> offer, but we have quite enough dreams of our own, thank you.\\n\\nWell said.\\n \\n> You, on the other hand, are letting your own dreams go to waste by\\n> failing to get the maths/thermodynamics/chemistry/(your choices here)\\n> which would give your imagination wings.\\n> \\n> Just to show this isn\\'t a flame, I leave you with a quote from _Invasion of \\n> the Body Snatchers_:\\n> \\n> \"Become one of us; it\\'s not so bad, you know\"\\n\\nOkay, Del, so Michael was being unfair, but you are being unfair back. \\nHe is taking college courses now, I presume he is studying hard, and\\nhis postings reveal that he is *somewhat* hip to the technical issues\\nof astronautics. Plus, he is attentively following the erudite\\ndiscourse of the Big Brains who post to sci.space; is it not\\ninevitable that he will get a splendid technical education from\\nreading the likes of you and me? [1]\\n\\nLike others involved in sci.space, Mr. Adams shows symptoms of being a\\nfledgling member of the technoculture, and I think he\\'s soaking it up\\nfast. I was a young guy with dreams once, and they led me to get a\\ntechnical education to follow them up. Too bad I wound up in an\\nassembly-line job stamping out identical neutrinos day after day...\\n(-:\\n\\n[1] Though rumors persist that Del and I are both pseudonyms of Fred\\nMcCall.\\n\\nBill Higgins, Beam Jockey | \"We\\'ll see you\\nFermi National Accelerator Laboratory | at White Sands in June. \\nBitnet: HIGGINS@FNAL.BITNET | You bring your view-graphs, \\nInternet: HIGGINS@FNAL.FNAL.GOV | and I\\'ll bring my rocketship.\" \\nSPAN/Hepnet: 43011::HIGGINS | --Col. Pete Worden on the DC-X\\n',\n", " 'From: jbh55289@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Josh Hopkins)\\nSubject: Re: Solar Sail Data\\nKeywords: Solar Sail\\nOrganization: University of Illinois at Urbana\\nLines: 25\\n\\najjb@adam4.bnsc.rl.ac.uk (Andrew Broderick) writes:\\n\\n>In article <1993Apr15.051746.29848@news.duc.auburn.edu> snydefj@eng.auburn.edu writes:\\n>>\\n>>I am looking for any information concerning projects involving Solar\\n>> Sails\\n\\n>I was at an interesting seminar at work (UK\\'s R.A.L. Space Science\\n>Dept.) on this subject, specifically on a small-scale Solar Sail\\n>proposed as a student space project. The guy giving the talk was keen to\\n>generate interest in the project. I\\'ll typein the handout he gave out at\\n>the meeting. Here goes : \\n\\n[Stuff deleted] \\n\\n>However it is more difficult to design a practical solar sail than most\\n>people realize. The pressure of sunlight is only about one kilogram per\\n>square kilometer. ^^^^ ^^^^ \\n\\nI\\'m glad to see that someone is working on this. However, it would be nice if\\nhe got his units right.\\n-- \\nJosh Hopkins jbh55289@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu\\n\\t\\t \"Find a way or make one.\"\\n\\t -attributed to Hannibal\\n',\n", " \"From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)\\nSubject: Re: Solar Sail Data\\nOrganization: U of Toronto Zoology\\nLines: 10\\n\\nIn article <1qk4qf$mf8@male.EBay.Sun.COM> almo@packmind.EBay.Sun.COM writes:\\n>Hey!? What happened to the solar sail race that was supposed to be\\n>for Columbus+500?\\n\\nThere was a recession, and none of the potential entrants could raise any\\nmoney. The race organizers were actually supposed to be handling part of\\nthe fundraising, but the less said about that the better.\\n-- \\nAll work is one man's work. | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology\\n - Kipling | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry\\n\",\n", " \"From: nsmca@aurora.alaska.edu\\nSubject: Eco-Freaks forcing Space Mining.\\nArticle-I.D.: aurora.1993Apr21.212202.1\\nOrganization: University of Alaska Fairbanks\\nLines: 24\\nNntp-Posting-Host: acad3.alaska.edu\\n\\nHere is a way to get the commericial companies into space and mineral\\nexploration.\\n\\nBasically get the eci-freaks to make it so hard to get the minerals on earth..\\nYou think this is crazy. Well in a way it is, but in a way it is reality.\\n\\nThere is a billin the congress to do just that.. Basically to make it so\\nexpensive to mine minerals in the US, unless you can by off the inspectors or\\ntax collectors.. ascially what I understand from talking to a few miner friends \\nof mine, that they (the congress) propose to have a tax on the gross income of\\nthe mine, versus the adjusted income, also the state governments have there\\nnormal taxes. So by the time you get done, paying for materials, workers, and\\nother expenses you can owe more than what you made.\\nBAsically if you make a 1000.00 and spend 500. ofor expenses, you can owe\\n600.00 in federal taxes.. Bascially it is driving the miners off the land.. And\\nthe only peopel who benefit are the eco-freaks.. \\n\\nBasically to get back to my beginning statement, is space is the way to go\\ncause it might just get to expensive to mine on earth because of either the\\neco-freaks or the protectionist.. \\nSuch fun we have in these interesting times..\\n\\n==\\nMichael Adams, nsmca@acad3.alaska.edu -- I'm not high, just jacked\\n\",\n", " \"From: games@max.u.washington.edu\\nSubject: SSTO Senatorial (aide) breifing recollections.\\nArticle-I.D.: max.1993Apr6.125512.1\\nDistribution: world\\nLines: 78\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: max.u.washington.edu\\n\\nThe following are my thoughts on a meeting that I, Hugh Kelso, and Bob Lilly\\nhad with an aide of Sen. Patty Murrays. We were there to discuss SSTO, and\\ncommercial space. This is how it went...\\n\\n\\n\\nAfter receiving a packet containing a presentation on the benifits of SSTO,\\nI called and tried to schedule a meeting with our local Senator (D) Patty\\nMurray, Washington State. I started asking for an hour, and when I heard\\nthe gasp on the end of the phone, I quickly backed off to 1/2 an hour.\\nLater in that conversation, I learned that a standard appointment is 15 minutes.\\n\\nWe got the standard bozo treatment. That is, we were called back by an aide,\\nwho scheduled a meeting with us, in order to determine that we were not\\nbozos, and to familiarize himself with the material, and to screen it, to \\nmake sure that it was appropriate to take the senators time with that material.\\n\\nWell, I got allocated 1/2 hour with Sen. Murrays aide, and we ended up talking\\nto him for 45 minutes, with us ending the meeting, and him still listening.\\nWe covered a lot of ground, and only a little tiny bit was DCX specific. \\nMost of it was a single stage reusable vehicle primer. There was another\\nwoman there who took copius quantities of notes on EVERY topic that\\nwe brought up.\\n\\nBut, with Murray being new, we wanted to entrench ourselves as non-corporate\\naligned (I.E. not speaking for boeing) local citizens interentested in space.\\nSo, we spent a lot of time covering the benifits of lower cost access to\\nLEO. Solar power satellites are a big focus here, so we hit them as becoming \\nfeasible with lower cost access, and we hit the environmental stand on that.\\nWe hit the tourism angle, and I left a copy of the patric Collins Tourism\\npaper, with side notes being that everyone who goes into space, and sees the\\natmosphere becomes more of an environmentalist, esp. after SEEING the smog\\nover L.A. We hit on the benifits of studying bone decalcification (which is \\nmore pronounced in space, and said that that had POTENTIAL to lead to \\nunderstanding of, and MAYBE a cure for osteoporosis. We hit the education \\nwhereby kids get enthused by space, but as they get older and find out that\\nthey havent a hop in hell of actually getting there, they go on to other\\nfields, with low cost to orbit, the chances they might get there someday \\nwould provide greater incentive to hit the harder classes needed.\\n\\nWe hit a little of the get nasa out of the operational launch vehicle business\\nangle. We hit the lower cost of satellite launches, gps navigation, personal\\ncommunicators, tellecommunications, new services, etc... Jobs provided\\nin those sectors.\\n\\nJobs provided building the thing, balance of trade improvement, etc..\\nWe mentioned that skypix would benifit from lower launch costs.\\n\\nWe left the paper on what technologies needed to be invested in in order\\nto make this even easier to do. And he asked questions on this point.\\n\\nWe ended by telling her that we wanted her to be aware that efforts are\\nproceeding in this area, and that we want to make sure that the\\nresults from these efforts are not lost (much like condor, or majellan),\\nand most importantly, we asked that she help fund further efforts along\\nthe lines of lowering the cost to LEO.\\n\\nIn the middle we also gave a little speal about the Lunar Resource Data \\nPurchase act, and the guy filed it separately, he was VERY interested in it.\\nHe asked some questions about it, and seemed like he wanted to jump on it,\\nand contact some of the people involved with it, so something may actually\\nhappen immediatly there.\\n\\nThe last two things we did were to make sure that they knew that we\\nknew a lot of people in the space arena here in town, and that they\\ncould feel free to call us any time with questions, and if we didn't know\\nthe answers, that we would see to it that they questions got to people who\\nreally did know the answers.\\n\\nThen finally, we asked for an appointment with the senator herself. He\\nsaid that we would get on the list, and he also said that knowing her, this\\nwould be something that she would be very interested in, although they\\ndo have a time problem getting her scheduled, since she is only in the\\nstate 1 week out of 6 these days.\\n\\nAll in all we felt like we did a pretty good job.\\n\\n\\t\\t\\tJohn.\\n\",\n", " 'From: jacquier@gsbux1.uchicago.edu (Eric Jacquier )\\nSubject: Opinions on Allergy (Hay Fever) shots?\\nOrganization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations\\nLines: 19\\n\\n\\nHello,\\n\\nI am interested in trying this \"desensitization\" (?) method\\nagainst hay fever.\\nWhat is the state of affairs about this. I went to a doctor and\\npaid $85 for a 10 minute interview + 3 scratches, leading to the\\ndiagnostic that I am allergic to (June and Timothy) grass.\\nI believe this. From now on it looks like 2 shots per week for\\n6 months followed by 1 shot per month or so. Each shot costs\\n$20. Talking about soaring costs and the Health care system, I would\\ncall that a racket. We are not talking about rare Amazonian grasses\\nhere, but the garbage which grows behind the doctor\\'s office.\\nApart from this issue, I was somewhat disappointed to find out\\nthat you have to keep getting the shots forever. Is that right?\\nThanks for information.\\nEj \\n\\n\\n',\n", " 'From: mancus@sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov (Keith Mancus)\\nSubject: Re: Lindbergh and the moon (was:Why not give $1G)\\nOrganization: MDSSC\\nLines: 60\\n\\njbh55289@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Josh Hopkins) writes:\\n>mancus@sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov (Keith Mancus) writes:\\n>>cook@varmit.mdc.com (Layne Cook) writes:\\n>>> The $25k Orteig prize helped Lindbergh sell his Spirit\\n>>> of Saint Louis venture to his financial backers. But I strongly suspect\\n>>> that his Saint Louis backers had the foresight to realize that much more\\n>>> was at stake than $25,000. Could it work with the moon? Who are the\\n>>> far-sighted financial backers of today?\\n \\n>> The commercial uses of a transportation system between already-settled-\\n>>and-civilized areas are obvious. Spaceflight is NOT in this position.\\n>>The correct analogy is not with aviation of the \\'30\\'s, but the long\\n>>transocean voyages of the Age of Discovery.\\n> Lindbergh\\'s flight took place in \\'27, not the thirties.\\n \\n Of course; sorry for the misunderstanding. I was referring to the fact\\nthat far more aeronautical development took place in the \\'30\\'s. For much\\nof the \\'20\\'s, the super-abundance of Jennies and OX-5 engines held down the\\nindustry. By 1926, many of the obsolete WWI aircraft had been retired\\nand Whirlwind had their power/weight ratio and reliability up to the point\\nwhere long-distance flights became practical. It\\'s important to note that\\nthe Atlantic was flown not once but THREE times in 1927: Lindbergh,\\nChamberlin and Levine, and Byrd\\'s _America_. \"When it\\'s time to railroad,\\nyou railroad.\"\\n\\n>>It didn\\'t require gov\\'t to fund these as long as something was known about\\n>>the potential for profit at the destination. In practice, some were gov\\'t\\n>>funded, some were private.\\n>Could you give examples of privately funded ones?\\n\\n Not off the top of my head; I\\'ll have to dig out my reference books again.\\nHowever, I will say that the most common arrangement in Prince Henry the\\nNavigator\\'s Portugal was for the prince to put up part of the money and\\nmerchants to put up the rest. They profits from the voyage would then be\\nshared.\\n\\n>>But there was no way that any wise investor would spend a large amount\\n>>of money on a very risky investment with no idea of the possible payoff.\\n>A person who puts up $X billion for a moon base is much more likely to do\\n>it because they want to see it done than because they expect to make money\\n>off the deal.\\n\\n The problem is that the amount of prize money required to inspire a\\nMoon Base is much larger than any but a handful of individuals or corporations\\ncan even consider putting up. The Kremer Prizes (human powered aircraft),\\nOrteig\\'s prize, Lord Northcliffe\\'s prize for crossing the Atlantic (won in\\n1919 by Alcock and Brown) were MUCH smaller. The technologies required were\\nwithin the reach of individual inventors, and the prize amounts were well\\nwithin the reach of a large number of wealthy individuals. I think that only\\na gov\\'t could afford to set up a $1B+ prize for any purpose whatsoever.\\n Note that Burt Rutan suggested that NASP could be built most cheaply by\\ntaking out an ad in AvWeek stating that the first company to build a plane\\nthat could take off and fly the profile would be handed $3B, no questions\\nasked.\\n\\n-- \\n Keith Mancus |\\n N5WVR |\\n \"Black powder and alcohol, when your states and cities fall, |\\n when your back\\'s against the wall....\" -Leslie Fish |\\n',\n", " \"From: heart@access.digex.com (G)\\nSubject: cholistasis(sp?)/fat-free diet/pregnancy!!\\nOrganization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA\\nLines: 80\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: access.digex.net\\n\\nHi,\\n\\nI've just returned from a visit with my OB/GYN and I have a few \\nconcerns that maybe y'all can help me with. I've been seeing \\nher every 4 weeks for the past few months (I'm at week 28) \\nand during the last 2 visits I've gained 9 to 9 1/2 pounds every \\n4 weeks. She said this was unacceptable over any 4 week period. \\nAs it stands I've thus far gained 26 pounds. Also she says that \\nthough I'm at 28 weeks the baby's size is 27 weeks, I think she \\nmentioned 27 inches for the top of the fundus. When I was 13 \\nweeks the baby's size was 14 weeks. I must also add, that I had \\nan operation a few years ago for endometriosis and I've had no \\nproblems with endometriosis but apparently it is causing me pain \\nin my pelvic region during the pregnancy, and I have a very \\ndifficult time moving, and the doc has recommended I not walk or \\nmove unless I have to. (I have a little handicapped sticker for \\nwhen I do need to go out.) \\n\\nAnyway that's 1/2 of the situation the other is that almost from \\nthe beginning of pregnancy I was getting sick (throwing up) about \\n2-3 times a day and mostly it was bile that was being eliminated. \\n(I told her about this). I know this because I wasn't eating \\nvery much due to the nausea and could see the 'results'. Well \\nnow I only get sick about once every 1-2 weeks, and it is still bile \\nrelated. But in addition I had begun to feel movement near my \\nupper right abdomen, just below the right breast, usually when I \\nwas lying on my right side. It began to get worse though because \\nit started to hurt when I lay on my right side, and then it hurt \\nno matter what position I was in. Next, I noticed that when I \\nate greasy or fatty foods I felt like my entire abdomen had \\nturned to stone, and the pain in the area got worse. However if \\nI ate sauerkraut or vinegar or something to 'cut' the fat it \\nwasn't as much of a problem.\\n\\nSo the doctor says I have cholistatis, and that I should avoid \\nfatty foods. This makes sense, and because I was already aware \\nof what seemed to me this cause and effect relationship I have \\nbeen avoiding these foods on my own. But I'm still able to eat \\nfoods with Ricotta cheese for instance and other low fat foods. \\n\\nBut doc wants me to be on a non-fat diet. This means no meat \\nexcept fish and chicken w/o skin (I do this anyway). No nuts, \\nfried food, cheese etc. I am allowed skim milk. She said I \\nshould avoid anything sweet (e.g. bananas). Also I must only \\nhave one serving of something high in carbohydrates a day ( \\npotatoes, pasta, rice)! She said I can't even cook vegetables in \\na little bit of oil and that I should eat vegetables raw or \\nsteamed. I'm concerned because I understand you need to have \\nsome fat in your diet to help in the digestive process. And if \\nI'm not taking in fat, is she expecting the baby will take it \\nfrom my stores? And why this restriction on carbohydrates if \\nshe's concerned about fat? I'm not clear how much of her \\nrecommendation is based on my weight gain and how much on \\ncholistatis, which I can't seem to find any information on. She \\noriginally said that I should only gain 20 pounds during the \\nentire pregnancy since I was about 20 lbs overweight when I \\nstarted. But my sister gained 60 lbs during her pregnancy and \\nshe's taken it all off and hasn't had any problems. She also \\nasked if any members of my family were obese, which none of them \\nare. Anyway I think she is overly concerned about weight gain, \\nand feel like I'm being 'punished' by a severe diet. She did \\nwant to see me again in one week so I think she the diet may be \\ntemporary for that one week. \\n\\nWhat I want to know is how reasonable is this non-fat diet? I \\nwould understand if she had said low-fat diet, since I'm trying \\nthat anyway, even if she said really low-fat diet. I think she \\nassumes I must be eating a high-fat diet, but really it is that \\nbecause of the endometriosis and the operation I'm not able to \\nuse the energy from the food I do eat. \\n\\nAny opinions, info and experiences will be appreciated. I'm \\ntruly going stark raving mad trying to meet this new strict diet \\nbecause fruits and vegetables go through my system in a few \\nminutes and I'll end up having to eat constantly. Thus far I \\ndon't find any foods satisfying.\\n\\nThanks \\n\\nG\\n\",\n", " 'From: ml@chiron.astro.uu.se (Mats Lindgren)\\nSubject: Re: Comet in Temporary Orbit Around Jupiter?\\nOrganization: Uppsala University\\nLines: 14\\nDistribution: world\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: chiron.astro.uu.se\\n\\nComet P/Helin-Roman-Crockett also spent some time as a temporary\\nsatellite to Jupiter a few years ago if you believe the calculations\\nby Tancredi, G., Lindgren, M. and Rickman, H.(Astron. Astrophys., \\n239, pp. 375-380, 1990).\\n-- \\n\\n\\n-------------------------------------------------------------\\n| Mats Lindgren | Mats.Lindgren@astro.uu.se |\\n| Astronomical Observatory | 21619::laban::ml |\\n| Box 515 | |\\n| 751 20 Uppsala | Phone (+46) (0)18 51 35 22 |\\n| Sweden | Fax 52 75 83 |\\n-------------------------------------------------------------\\n',\n", " 'From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)\\nSubject: Re: Market or gov failures\\nArticle-I.D.: mksol.1993Apr6.133130.8998\\nDistribution: sci\\nOrganization: Texas Instruments Inc\\nLines: 52\\n\\nIn 18084TM@msu.edu (Tom) writes:\\n\\n\\n>[Fred saying that gov coercive poser is necessary for any space program]\\n\\n>I reply;\\n>>>BTW, Fred, you\\'ve really crossed the border, since you admit that the ideas\\n>>>you support can only be carried out with coercive power. Now that\\'s really\\n>>>f***in\\' intolerant, so get off yer high horse about tolerance.\\n\\n>Fred replies;\\n>>No, Tommy, I \"admit\" that there are such things as \\'market failures\\'\\n>>which necessitate intervention by other than capitalist forces to\\n>>correct.\\n\\n>I guess your understanding of this \\'market failure\\' should be classified\\n>under Phil\\'s \\'economics on the level of 19th century medicine\\', since you\\n>apparently completely ignored that this \\'market failure\\' can as easily,\\n>or even much more easily, be attributed to \"government intervention\\n>failure\". So, in addition to a strong moral argument against what you\\n>propose, there is also a strong utilitarian argument, namely that gov\\'s\\n>destruction of wealth through confiscastory taxation and redistribution\\n>on a major scale has made significant private capital investments harder\\n>to make.\\n\\nI note that you make no such case as you claim can be \\'even more\\neasily made\\'. Yes, the argument can (and has) been made that current\\ngovernment policy creates even larger market barriers than there were\\nin the first place, but there is no such term as \\'government failure\\',\\nsince the government can change policies whenever it pleases. The\\nmarket doesn\\'t do that and is governed by (relatively) well-understood\\nforces. This libertopican bilge about \\'moral arguments\\' about\\ntaxation, etc., is, at bottom, so much simplistic economic thinking.\\nIt can only be \\'justified\\' by cliche derision of anyone who knows more\\nabout economics than the libertopian -- which is what invariably\\nhappens. Tripe a la Tommy, the new libertopian dish.\\n\\n>>Get a clue, little boy, and go salve your wounded pride in my not\\n>>considering you infallible in some other fashion. I\\'m not interested\\n>>in your ego games.\\n\\n>Puh-leese, Fred. This, besides being simply an attempt to be insulting,\\n>really belongs on private mail. If \\'ego-games\\' are so unimportatnt to\\n>you, why the insults and this strange negative attatchment for me?\\n\\nWherever do you get this inflated idea of your own importance?\\n\\n-- \\n\"Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don\\'t have the balls to live\\n in the real world.\" -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden\\n------------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nFred.McCall@dseg.ti.com - I don\\'t speak for others and they don\\'t speak for me.\\n',\n", " 'Subject: \\nFrom: bioccnt@otago.ac.nz\\nOrganization: University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand\\nNntp-Posting-Host: thorin.otago.ac.nz\\nLines: 12\\n\\n\\nCan someone please remind me who said a well known quotation? \\n\\nHe was sitting atop a rocket awaiting liftoff and afterwards, in answer to\\nthe question what he had been thinking about, said (approximately) \"half a\\nmillion components, each has to work perfectly, each supplied by the lowest\\nbidder.....\" \\n\\nAttribution and correction of the quote would be much appreciated. \\n\\nClive Trotman\\n\\n',\n", " 'From: tombaker@world.std.com (Tom A Baker)\\nSubject: Re: Shuttle Launch Question\\nOrganization: Me, at The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA\\nDistribution: sci\\nLines: 29\\n\\nIn article <15APR199320340428@stdvax> abdkw@stdvax (David Ward) writes:\\n>In article , ETRAT@ttacs1.ttu.edu (Pack Rat) writes...\\n>>There has been something bothering me while watching\\n>>NASA Select for a while. Well, I should\\'nt say\\n>>bothering, maybe wondering would be better. When\\n>>they are going to launch they say (sorry but I forget\\n>>exactly who is saying what, OTC to PLT I think)\\n>>\"Clear caution & warning memory. Verify no unexpected\\n>>errors. ...\". I am wondering what an \"expected error\" might\\n>>be. Sorry if this is a really dumb question, but\\n>\\n>\\n>In pure speculation, I would guess cautions based on hazardous\\n>pre-launch ops would qualify. Something like \"Caution: SRBs\\n>have just been armed.\" \\n\\nAlso in pure speculation:\\n\\nParity errors in memory or previously known conditions that were waivered.\\n \"Yes that is an error, but we already knew about it\"\\n\\nAny problem where they decided a backup would handle it.\\n\\nAny problem in an area that was not criticality 1,2,3..., that is, any\\n problem in a system they decided they could do without.\\n\\nI\\'d be curious as to what the real meaning of the quote is.\\n\\ntom\\n',\n", " 'From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)\\nSubject: Re: Space Station Redesign, JSC Alternative #4\\nOrganization: U of Toronto Zoology\\nLines: 14\\n\\nIn article <1ralibINNc0f@cbl.umd.edu> mike@starburst.umd.edu (Michael F. Santangelo) writes:\\n>... The only thing\\n>that scares me is the part about simply strapping 3 SSME\\'s and\\n>a nosecone on it and \"just launching it.\" I have this vision\\n>of something going terribly wrong with the launch resulting in the\\n>complete loss of the new modular space station (not just a peice of\\n>it as would be the case with staged in-orbit construction).\\n\\nIt doesn\\'t make a whole lot of difference, actually, since they weren\\'t\\nbuilding spares of the station hardware anyway. (Dumb.) At least this\\nis only one launch to fail.\\n-- \\nSVR4 resembles a high-speed collision | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology\\nbetween SVR3 and SunOS. - Dick Dunn | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry\\n',\n", " 'From: prb@access.digex.com (Pat)\\nSubject: Re: End of the Space Age?\\nOrganization: Express Access Online Communications USA\\nLines: 30\\nDistribution: world\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: access.digex.net\\n\\n\\n\\nOddly, enough, The smithsonian calls the lindbergh years\\nthe golden age of flight. I would call it the granite years,\\nreflecting the primitive nature of it. It was romantic,\\nswashbuckling daredevils, \"those daring young men in their flying\\nmachines\". But in reality, it sucked. Death was a highly likely\\noccurence, and the environment blew. Ever see the early navy\\npressure suits, they were modified diving suits. You were ready to\\nstar in \"plan 9 from outer space\". Radios and Nav AIds were\\na joke, and engines ran on castor oil. They picked and called aviators\\n\"men with iron stomachs\", and it wasn\\'t due to vertigo.\\n\\nOddly enough, now we are in the golden age of flight. I can hop the\\nshuttle to NY for $90 bucks, now that\\'s golden.\\n\\nMercury gemini, and apollo were romantic, but let\\'s be honest.\\nPeeing in bags, having plastic bags glued to your butt everytime\\nyou needed a bowel movement. Living for days inside a VW Bug.\\nRomantic, but not commercial. The DC-X points out a most likely\\nnew golden age. An age where fat cigar smoking business men in\\nloud polyester space suits will fill the skys with strip malls\\nand used space ship lots.\\n\\nhhhmmmmm, maybe i\\'ll retract that golden age bit. Maybe it was\\nbetter in the old days. Of course, then we\\'ll have wally schirra\\ntelling his great grand children, \"In my day, we walked on the moon.\\nEvery day. Miles. no buses. you kids got it soft\".\\n\\npat\\n',\n", " 'From: kxgst1@pitt.edu (Kenneth Gilbert)\\nSubject: Re: Contraceptive pill\\nArticle-I.D.: blue.7984\\nLines: 20\\nX-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]\\n\\njec@watson.ibm.com wrote:\\n: A very simple question : it seems to me that the contraceptive\\n: pill just prevents the ovule to nest in the vagina and forces it to\\n: fall every month. But it does not prevent the fertilzation of the \\n: ovule. Is it true ? If yes, is there a risk of extra-uterine\\n: pregnancy, that is the development of the ovule inside the Fallopian\\n: tube ?\\n\\nActually that is not how the pill works, but it *is* how the IUD works.\\nThe oral contraceptive pill actually *prevents* ovulation from occuring\\nby providing negatve feedback to the pituitary gland, and thus preventing\\nthe LH surge that normally occurs at the time of ovulation. With the IUD\\nwhat happens is that fertilization may occur, but the device prevents\\nimplantation within the wall of the uterus (*not* the vagina).\\n\\n--\\n=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-|-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=\\n= Kenneth Gilbert __|__ University of Pittsburgh =\\n= General Internal Medicine | \"...dammit, not a programmer! =\\n=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-|-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=\\n',\n", " \"From: bennett@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu\\nSubject: Smoker's Lungs\\nOrganization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services\\nLines: 3\\n\\nHow long does it take a smoker's lungs to clear of the tar after quitting? \\nDoes your chances of getting lung cancer decrease quickly or does it take\\na considerable amount of time for that to happen?\\n\",\n", " \"From: arthurc@sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu (Arthur Chandler)\\nSubject: Russian Phobos Mission\\nOrganization: California State University, Sacramento\\nLines: 6\\n\\n\\n Did the Russian spacecraft(s) on the ill-fated Phobos mission a few\\nyears ago send back any images of the Martian moon? If so, does anyone know if\\nthey're housed at an ftp site?\\n Thanks.\\n \\n\",\n", " 'From: higgins@fnalf.fnal.gov (Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey)\\nSubject: Re: How to get there? (was Re: Comet in Temporary Orbit Around Jupiter?\\nOrganization: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory\\nLines: 27\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: fnalf.fnal.gov\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr15.051309.22252@stortek.com>, pg@sanitas.stortek.com (Paul Gilmartin) writes:\\n> Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey (higgins@fnalf.fnal.gov) wrote:\\n> : While you\\'re at it, comet experts, explain how a comet gets into\\n> : Jovian orbit to begin with!\\n> \\n> : There are non-gravitational forces from heating and outgassing when a\\n> : comet gets into the inner solar system. [...]\\n> \\n> Don\\'t forget the Galilean satellites of Jupiter. \\n \\n My poor old physics intuition will be very surprised if these tiny\\n masses, sitting very close to Jupiter, play any role whatsoever in the\\n problem. Or, to put it more technically, the extra \"volume\" they add\\n to the phase space of possible capture trajectories is negligible.\\n \\n Jupiter is 2E27 kg, while the Galilean satellites are around 1E23.\\n \\n Also, as I said, the few references that I\\'ve looked at do not\\n mention outgassing or breakup as important processes. The important\\n thing is a Jupiter-Sun-comet \"reverse slingshot\" that leads to a\\n weakly Jupiter-bound orbit for the comet (at least a temporary one).\\n \\n Bill Higgins | Late at night she still doth haunt me\\n Fermilab | Dressed in garments soaked in brine\\n Bitnet: HIGGINS@FNAL.BITNET | Though in life I used to hug her\\n Internet: HIGGINS@FNAL.FNAL.GOV | Now she\\'s dead, I draw the line!\\n SPAN/Hepnet: 43011::HIGGINS | --after the tragedy, \"Clementine\"\\n',\n", " 'From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nSubject: Re: sudden numbness in arm\\nReply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nOrganization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science\\nLines: 48\\n\\nIn article molnar@Bisco.CAnet.CA (Tom Molnar) writes:\\n>I experienced a sudden numbness in my left arm this morning. Just after\\n>I completed my 4th set of deep squats. Today was my weight training\\n>day and I was just beginning my routine. All of a sudden at the end of\\n>the 4th set my arm felt like it had gone to sleep. It was cold, turned pale,\\n>and lost 60% of its strength. The weight I used for squats wasn\\'t that\\n>heavy, I was working hard but not at 100% effort. I waited for a few \\n>minutes, trying to shake the arm back to life and then continued with\\n>chest exercises (flyes) with lighter dumbells than I normally use. But\\n>I dropped the left dumbell during the first set, and experienced continued\\n>arm weakness into the second. So I quit training and decided not to do my\\n>usual hour on the ski machine either. I\\'ll take it easy for the rest of\\n>the day.\\n>\\n>My arm is *still* somewhat numb and significantly weaker than normal --\\n>my hand still tingles a bit down to the thumb. Color has returned to normal\\n>and it is no longer cold. \\n>\\n>Horrid thoughts of chunks of plaque blocking a major artery course through\\n>my brain. I\\'m 34, vegetarian, and pretty fit from my daily exercise\\n>regimen. So that can\\'t be it. Could a pinched nerve from the bar\\n>cause these symptoms (I hope)?\\n\\nIt likely has nothing to do with \"chunks of plaque\" but it sounds like\\nyou may have a neurovascular compromise to your arm and you need medical\\nattention *before* doing any more weight lifting. \\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n-- \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nGordon Banks N3JXP | \"Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and\\ngeb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu | it is shameful to surrender it too soon.\" \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n',\n", " 'From: sasghm@theseus.unx.sas.com (Gary Merrill)\\nSubject: Re: Science and methodology (was: Homeopathy ... tradition?)\\nOriginator: sasghm@theseus.unx.sas.com\\nNntp-Posting-Host: theseus.unx.sas.com\\nOrganization: SAS Institute Inc.\\nLines: 15\\n\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr15.163923.25120@microsoft.com>, tomca@microsoft.com (Tom B. Carey) writes:\\n|> OK, just for grins:\\n|> - Kekule hypothesized a resonant structure for the aromatic benzene\\n|> ring after waking from a dream in which a snake was swallowing his tail.\\n|> - Archimedes formalized the principle of buoyancy while meditating in\\n|> his bath.\\n\\nWell, certainly in Archimedes case the description \"while observing the\\nphenomena in his bath\" seems more accurate than \"while meditating in\\nhis bath\" -- it was, after all, a rather buoyancy intense environment.\\n-- \\nGary H. Merrill [Principal Systems Developer, C Compiler Development]\\nSAS Institute Inc. / SAS Campus Dr. / Cary, NC 27513 / (919) 677-8000\\nsasghm@theseus.unx.sas.com ... !mcnc!sas!sasghm\\n',\n", " \"From: sheryl@seas.gwu.edu (Sheryl Coppenger)\\nSubject: Re: Hismanal, et. al.--side effects\\nOrganization: George Washington University\\nLines: 28\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr21.024103.29880@spdcc.com> dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer) writes:\\n>In article <1993Apr20.212706.820@lrc.edu> kjiv@lrc.edu writes:\\n>>Can someone tell me whether or not any of the following medications \\n>>has been linked to rapid/excessive weight gain and/or a distorted \\n>>sense of taste or smell: Hismanal; Azmacort (a topical steroid to \\n>>prevent asthma); Vancenase.\\n>\\n>Hismanal (astemizole) is most definitely linked to weight gain.\\n>It really is peculiar that some antihistamines have this effect,\\n>and even more so an antihistamine like astemizole which purportedly\\n>doesn't cross the blood-brain barrier and so tends not to cause\\n>drowsiness.\\n>\\n\\nSo antihistamines can cause weight gain. NOW they tell me. :-)\\nIs there any way to find out which do & which don't? My doctor\\nobviously is asleep at the wheel.\\n\\nThe original poster mentioned fatigue. I had that too, but it was\\nmostly due to the really bizarre dreams I was having -- I wasn't getting\\nany rest. My doctor said that was a common reaction. If astemizole\\ndoesn't cross the blood-brain barrier, how does it cause that side\\neffect? Any ideas?\\n\\n-- \\n\\nSheryl Coppenger SEAS Computing Facility Staff\\tsheryl@seas.gwu.edu\\n\\t\\t The George Washington University\\t(202) 994-6853 \\n\",\n", " 'From: Wingert@vnet.IBM.COM (Bret Wingert)\\nSubject: Re: Level 5?\\nOrganization: IBM, Federal Systems Co. Software Services\\nDisclaimer: This posting represents the poster\\'s views, not those of IBM\\nNews-Software: UReply 3.1\\n <1993Apr23.124759.1@fnalf.fnal.gov>\\nLines: 29\\n\\nIn <1993Apr23.124759.1@fnalf.fnal.gov> Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey writes:\\n>In article <19930422.121236.246@almaden.ibm.com>, Wingert@vnet.IBM.COM (Bret Wingert) writes:\\n>> 3. The Onboard Flight Software project was rated \"Level 5\" by a NASA team.\\n>> This group generates 20-40 KSLOCs of verified code per year for NASA.\\n>\\n>Will someone tell an ignorant physicist where the term \"Level 5\" comes\\n>from? It sounds like the RISKS Digest equivalent of Large, Extra\\n>Large, Jumbo... Or maybe it\\'s like \"Defcon 5...\"\\n>\\n>I gather it means that Shuttle software was developed with extreme\\n>care to have reliablility and safety, and almost everything else in\\n>the computing world is Level 1, or cheesy dime-store software. Not\\n>surprising. But who is it that invents this standard, and how come\\n>everyone but me seems to be familiar with it?\\n\\nLevel 5 refers to the Carnegie-Mellon Software Engineering Institute\\'s\\nCapability Maturity Model. This model rates software development\\norg\\'s from1-5. with 1 being Chaotic and 5 being Optimizing. DoD is\\nbeginning to use this rating system as a discriminator in contracts. I\\nhave more data on thifrom 1 page to 1000. I have a 20-30 page\\npresentation that summarizes it wethat I could FAX to you if you\\'re\\ninterested...\\nBret Wingert\\nWingert@VNET.IBM.COM\\n\\n(713)-282-7534\\nFAX: (713)-282-8077\\n\\n\\n',\n", " 'From: km@cs.pitt.edu (Ken Mitchum)\\nSubject: Re: Update (Help!) [was \"What is This [Is it Lyme\\'s?]\"]\\nArticle-I.D.: pitt.19421\\nReply-To: km@cs.pitt.edu (Ken Mitchum)\\nOrganization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science\\nLines: 15\\n\\nIn article <1993Mar24.182145.11004@equator.com> jod@equator.com (John Setel O\\'Donnell) writes:\\n>IMHO, you have Lyme disease. I told you this in private email and predicted\\n>that you might next start having the migrating pains and further joint\\n\\nIMHO, the original poster has no business soliciting diagnoses off the net,\\nnor does Dr./Mr. O\\'Donnell have any business supplying same. This is one\\nmajor reason real physicians avoid this newsgroup like the plague. It is\\nalso another example of the double standard: if I as a physician offered\\nto diagnose and treat on the net, I can be sued. But people without\\nqualifications are free to do whatever they want and disclaim it all with\\n\"I\\'m not a doctor.\"\\n\\nGet and keep this crap off the net. Period.\\n\\n-km\\n',\n", " 'From: Wales.Larrison@ofa123.fidonet.org\\nSubject: Space Advertising (1 of 2)\\nX-Sender: newtout 0.08 Feb 23 1993\\nLines: 81\\n\\nBrian Yamauchi asks: [Regarding orbital billboards...]\\n>And does anyone have any more details other than what was in the WN\\n>news blip? How serious is this project? Is this just in the \"wild\\n>idea\" stage or does it have real funding?\\n \\n Well, I had been collecting data for next edition of the\\nCommercial Space News/Space Technology Investor... To summarize:\\n \\nSPACE ADVERTISING\\n First, advertising on space vehicles is not new -- it is very\\ncommon practice to put the cooperating organization\\'s logos on the\\nspace launch vehicle. For example, the latest GPS launcher had the\\n(very prominent) logos on its side of\\n - McDonnell Douglas (the Delta launcher)\\n - Rockwell International (who built the GPS satellite)\\n - USAF (who paid for the satellite and launch), and\\n - the GPS/Navstar program office\\n This has not been considered \"paid advertising\" but rather\\n\"public relations\", since the restrictions have been such that only\\norganizations involved in the launch could put their logos on the\\nside, and there was no money exchanged for this. [However, putting\\na 10\\' high logo on the side of the launch vehicle facing the cameras\\nis \"advertising\" as much as it is \"public relations\", in my\\nopinion.] [And by the way, I note that the DC-X test vehicle has\\nrather prominent McDonnell-Douglas and SDIO logos on the side...]\\n There have been several studies looking at the revenue potentials\\nfor use of space vehicles for advertising, or placing large\\nadvertising signs in orbit. On the shuttle, for example, I know of\\nseveral serious studies in the early and mid 1980\\'s which looked at\\nputting logos on the external tank, or on the sides of the payload\\nbay. These ventures would be different than \"public relations\", in\\nthat the logos or displays would not be restricted to the firms\\nparticipating on that flight, and would involve payment of sums for\\nthe right to fly the logos in a prominent organization. (For\\nexample, painting the ET to look like a Pepsi can, or putting a\\nDisneyworld logo on the inside of the payload bay where the cameras\\nwould scan past it.)\\n \\nADVERTS ON LAUNCH VEHICLES\\n The first paid advertising was done on a Soviet launcher in about\\n1990, when several non-involved foreign organizations were allowed\\nto pay to put their logos on a Proton launch. (An Italian shoe\\ncompany was one of the first advertisers, I remember.) Similarly,\\nSoviet cosmonauts on Mir made a paid advertisement for the last\\nOlympic games, and have gleefully shown banners and other items from\\nparticipating firms and organizations. Mars candy bars, for\\nexample, got a plug from orbit as a sponsor of the launch of the\\nBritish visiting cosmonaut to Mir.\\n Now US firms are starting to put paid advertisements on launch\\nvehicles. The upcoming Conestoga launch (in June) putting the COMET\\nrecoverable payload capsule into orbit will have paid advertisements\\non the side, for Arnold Schwarzenegger\\'s upcoming movie \"The Last\\nAction Hero\". Besides the usual logos of the participating\\norganizations, Columbia pictures has paid $500,000 to put ads on the\\nmain fuselage of the mission\\'s Conestoga rocket, its booster\\nrockets, and on the COMET payload, which will orbit the Earth for\\none month. A concept for this advertising display was published in\\nSpace News magazine a couple of months ago.\\n (As a side note: Robert Lorsch, an advertising executive, is\\ntalking about suing NASA. He charges NASA with appropriating an idea he\\ncreated with the space agency in 1981 to form corporate advertising\\nsponsorships on NASA spacecraft as a way to get funding for the\\nspace program. Lorsch contends that in selling advertising space on\\nthe upcoming COMET, NASA violated an agreement that it \"would not use\\nhis idea without him being the exclusive representative for NASA and\\nreceiving compensation.\" This is being disputed, since the launch\\nis a \"commercial launch\" and NASA is receiving none of the\\nadvertising revenues, but the funding for the COMET program is\\ncoming from NASA.)\\n \\nORBITAL \"BILLBOARDS\"\\n Orbital \"billboards\" have been the staple of science fiction for\\nsome time. Arthur C. Clarke wrote about one example, and Robert\\nHeinlein described another in \"The Man Who Sold the Moon\". Several\\ndifferent potential projects have been developed, although none have\\nbeen implemented, but the most real prior to 1993 being the \"Eiffel\\nII\" project, which would have placed a large inflatable sculpture in\\norbit to celebrate the French Republic\\'s Bi-centennial.\\n (cont)\\n\\n--- Maximus 2.01wb\\n',\n", " \"From: nsmca@aurora.alaska.edu\\nSubject: Re: Jemison on Star Trek (Better Ideas)\\nArticle-I.D.: aurora.1993Apr25.154449.1\\nOrganization: University of Alaska Fairbanks\\nLines: 31\\nNntp-Posting-Host: acad3.alaska.edu\\n\\nIn article <1rbp6q$oai@access.digex.net>, prb@access.digex.com (Pat) writes:\\n> In article <1993Apr22.214735.22733@Princeton.EDU> phoenix.Princeton.EDU!carlosn (Carlos G. Niederstrasser) writes:\\n>>A transporter operator!?!? That better be one important transport. Usually \\n>>it is a nameless ensign who does the job. For such a guest appearance I would \\n>>have expected a more visible/meaningful role.\\n> \\n> \\n> Christian Slater, only gota cameo on ST6, \\n> \\n> and besides.\\n> \\n> Maybe she can't act:-)\\n> \\n> pat\\n> \\n\\nBetter idea for use of NASA Shuttle Astronauts and Crew is have them be found\\nlost in space after a accident with a worm hole or other space/time glitch..\\n\\nMaybe age Jemison a few years (makeup and such) and have her as the only\\nsurvivour of a failed shuttle mission that got lost.. \\n\\nHeh of late, they way they have been having shuttle problems in the media,\\nanything can happen.. \\n\\nImagine a Astronaut/Crew member to find themselves in the 24th Century as the\\nobject of interest of an alien civilization, maybe rescued or helped by the ST\\nEnterprise... I know Vegr and such was okay, but this could be better..\\n\\n==\\nMichael Adams, nsmca@acad3.alaska.edu -- I'm not high, just jacked\\n\",\n", " 'From: nsmca@aurora.alaska.edu\\nSubject: Re: Eco-Freaks forcing Space Mining.\\nArticle-I.D.: aurora.1993Apr23.001718.1\\nOrganization: University of Alaska Fairbanks\\nLines: 28\\nNntp-Posting-Host: acad3.alaska.edu\\n\\nIn article <1r6b7v$ec5@access.digex.net>, prb@access.digex.com (Pat) writes:\\n> Besides this was the same line of horse puckey the mining companies claimed\\n> when they were told to pay for restoring land after strip mining.\\n> \\n> they still mine coal in the midwest, but now it doesn\\'t look like\\n> the moon when theyare done.\\n> \\n> pat\\n===\\nI aint talking the large or even the \"mining companies\" I am talking the small\\nminers, the people who have themselves and a few employees (if at all).The\\npeople who go out every year and set up thier sluice box, and such and do\\nmining the semi-old fashion way.. (okay they use modern methods toa point).\\n\\nI am talking the guy who coem to Nome evry year, sets up his tent on the beach\\n(the beach was washed away last year) and sets up his/her sluice box and goes\\nat it \"mining\".\\nI know the large corps, such as Alaska Gold Company, might complain to..\\n\\nMy opinions are what I learn at the local BS table..\\n\\nMy original thing/idea was that the way to get space mining was to allow the\\neco-freaks thier way.. As they have done with other mineral development.\\nYou can\\'t in many places can\\'t go to the bathroom in the woods without some\\nform of regulation covering it.. \\n\\n==\\nMichael Adams, nsmca@acad3.alaska.edu -- I\\'m not high, just jacked\\n',\n", " 'From: higgins@fnalf.fnal.gov (Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey)\\nSubject: Re: Solar Sail Data\\nOrganization: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory\\nLines: 56\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: fnalf.fnal.gov\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr15.051746.29848@news.duc.auburn.edu>, snydefj@eng.auburn.edu (Frank J. Snyder) writes:\\n> I am looking for any information concerning projects involving Solar\\n> Sails. [...]\\n> Are there any groups out there currently involved in such a project ?\\n\\nSure. Contact the World Space Foundation. They\\'re listed in the sci.space\\nFrequently Asked Questions file, which I\\'ll excerpt.\\n\\n WORLD SPACE FOUNDATION - has been designing and building a solar-sail\\n spacecraft for longer than any similar group; many JPL employees lend\\n their talents to this project. WSF also provides partial funding for the\\n Palomar Sky Survey, an extremely successful search for near-Earth\\n asteroids. Publishes *Foundation News* and *Foundation Astronautics\\n Notebook*, each a quarterly 4-8 page newsletter. Contributing Associate,\\n minimum of $15/year (but more money always welcome to support projects).\\n\\n\\tWorld Space Foundation\\n\\tPost Office Box Y\\n\\tSouth Pasadena, California 91301\\n\\nWSF put together a little paperback anthology of fiction and\\nnonfiction about solar sails: *Project Solar Sail*. I think Robert\\nStaehle, David Brin, or Arthur Clarke may be listed as editor.\\n\\nAlso there is a nontechnical book on solar sailing by Louis Friedman,\\na technical one by a guy whose name escapes me (help me out, Josh),\\nand I would expect that Greg Matloff and Eugene Mallove have something\\nto say about the subject in *The Starflight Handbook*, as well as\\nquite a few references.\\n\\n\\nCheck the following articles in *Journal of the British Interplanetary\\nSociety*:\\n\\nV36 p. 201-209 (1983)\\nV36 p. 483-489 (1983)\\nV37 p. 135-141 (1984)\\nV37 p. 491-494 (1984)\\nV38 p. 113-119 (1984)\\nV38 p. 133-136 (1984)\\n\\n(Can you guess that Matloff visited Fermilab and gave me a bunch of\\nreprints? I just found the file.)\\n\\nAnd K. Eric Drexler\\'s paper \"High Performance Solar Sails and Related\\nReflecting Devices,\" AIAA paper 79-1418, probably in a book called\\n*Space Manufacturing*, maybe the proceedings of the Second (?)\\nConference on Space Manufacturing. The 1979 one, at any rate.\\n\\nSubmarines, flying boats, robots, talking Bill Higgins\\npictures, radio, television, bouncing radar Fermilab\\nvibrations off the moon, rocket ships, and HIGGINS@FNAL.BITNET\\natom-splitting-- all in our time. But nobody HIGGINS@FNAL.FNAL.GOV\\nhas yet been able to figure out a music SPAN: 43011::HIGGINS\\nholder for a marching piccolo player. \\n --Meredith Willson, 1948\\n',\n", " 'From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nSubject: Re: Medication For Parkinsons\\nReply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nOrganization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science\\nLines: 15\\n\\nIn article <19621.3049.uupcb@factory.com> jim.zisfein@factory.com (Jim Zisfein) writes:\\n\\n>If you want to throw around names, Drs. Donald Calne, Terry Elizan,\\n>and Jesse Cedarbaum don\\'t recommend selegiline (not to mention Dr.\\n>William Landau).\\n>\\n\\nGosh, Jesse is that famous now? He was my intern. Landau not liking\\nit makes me like it out of spite. (Just kidding, Bill). \\n\\n-- \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nGordon Banks N3JXP | \"Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and\\ngeb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu | it is shameful to surrender it too soon.\" \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n',\n", " 'From: aws@iti.org (Allen W. Sherzer)\\nSubject: Re: DC-X update???\\nOrganization: Evil Geniuses for a Better Tomorrow\\nLines: 35\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr14.231654.14060@stsci.edu> rdouglas@stsci.edu (Rob Douglas) writes:\\n\\n>This question is probably mostly for Allen Sherzer, but anyone who KNOWS\\n>would be welcome to answer. I was just wondering if we could have some kind\\n>of update on DC-X.\\n\\nWell it rolled out two weeks ago. As we speak it is at White Sands getting\\nready. I would have called my sources for the latest but they are all out\\nof town (in NM).\\n\\nAs for the future, there is at least $5M in next years budget for work\\non SSRT. They (SDIO) have been looking for more funds and do seem to have\\nsome. However, SDIO is not (I repeat, is not) going to fund an orbital\\nprototype. The best we can hope from them is to 1) keep it alive for\\nanother year, and 2) fund a suborbital vehicle which MIGHT (with\\nmajor modifications) just make orbit. There is also some money for a\\nset of prototype tanks and projects to answer a few more open questions.\\n\\nBetter news comes from the new Spacelifter effort. The USAF managers of\\nthis program are very open to SSTO and will have about $50M next\\nyear for studies. This would be enough to bring DC-Y to PDR.\\n\\nNow not all of this money will go to DC but a good case could be made\\nfor spending half on DC.\\n\\nPublic support is STILL critical. Meet with your Congressperson (I\\'ll\\nhelp you do it) and get his/her support. Also call your local media\\nans get them to cover the flight tests.\\n\\n Allen\\n-- \\n+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+\\n| Lady Astor: \"Sir, if you were my husband I would poison your coffee!\" |\\n| W. Churchill: \"Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it.\" |\\n+----------------------62 DAYS TO FIRST FLIGHT OF DCX-----------------------+\\n',\n", " \"From: eder@hsvaic.boeing.com (Dani Eder)\\nSubject: Re: Guns for Space\\nKeywords: Sopa Gun, Space Launcer\\nOrganization: Boeing AI Center, Huntsville, AL\\nLines: 72\\n\\n\\nOkay, lets get the record straight on the Livermore gas gun. \\nThe project manager is Dr. John Hunter, and he works for the\\nLaser group at Livermore. What, you may ask, does gas guns\\nhave to do with lasers? Nothing, really, but the gun is physically\\nlocated across the road from the Free Electron Laser building,\\nand the FEL building has a heavily shielded control room (thick walls)\\nfrom which the gun firings are controlled. So I suspect that the\\noffice he works for is an administrative convenience.\\n\\nI visited Hunter at the beginning of Feb. and we toured the gun.\\nAt the time I was working on gas gun R&D at Boeing, where I work,\\nbut I am now doing other things (helping to save the space station),\\n\\nThe gun uses a methane-air mixture, which is burned in a chamber\\nabout 200 ft long by 16 inch ID (i.e. it looks like a pipe).\\nThe chamber holds a 1 ton piston which is propelled at several\\nhundred m/s down the chamber. On the other side of the piston\\nis hudrogen gas, initially at room temperature andsome tens\\nof atmospheres.\\n\\nThe piston compresses and heats the hydrogen ahead of it until\\na stainless steel burst diaphragm ruptures, at around 50,000 psi.\\nThe barrel of the gun is about 100 feet long and has a 4 inch\\nbore. It is mounted at right angles to the chamber (i.e. they\\nintersect). This was done so that in the future, the barrel\\ncould be raised and the gun fired into the air without having to\\nmove the larger and heavier chamber. The projectile being used\\nin testing is a 5 kg cylinder of Lexan plastic, 4 in in diameter\\nand about 50 cm long.\\n\\nAll of the acceleration comes from the expansion of the hydrogen\\ngas from 50,000 psi downwards until the projectile leaves the\\nbarrel. The barrel is evacuated, and the end is sealed with a\\nsheet of plastic film (a little thicker than Saran wrap). The\\nplastic is blown off by the small amount of residual air trapped\\nin the barrel ahead of the projectile. \\n\\nThe gun is fired into a bunker filled with sandbags and plastic\\nwater jugs. In the early testing fragments of the plastic\\nprojectile were found. At the higher speeds in later testing,\\nthe projectile vaporizes.\\n\\nThe testing is into a bunker because the Livermore test range is\\nabout 3 miles across, and the projectile would go 100-200 km\\nif fired for maximum range. The intent is to move the whole gun\\nto Vandenberg AFB after the testing is complete, where they can\\nfire into the Pacific Ocean, and use the tracking radar at VAFB\\nto follow the projectiles.\\n\\nThe design goal of the gun is to throw a 5 kg projectile at 4\\nkm/s (half of orbital speed). So far they have reached 2 km/s,\\nand the gun is currently down for repairs, as on the last test\\nthey blew a seal and damaged some of the hardware (I think it\\nhad to do with the methane-air more detonating than burning, but\\nI haven't had a chance to talk to Hunter directly on this).\\n\\nThere are people waiting to test scramjet components in this\\ngun by firing then out of the gun into the air (at Mach 12=\\n4 km/s), since the most you can get in wind tunnels is Mach 8.\\n\\nThis gun cost about 4 million to develop, and is basically\\na proof-of-concept for a bigger gun capable of firing useful-\\nsized payloads into space. This would require on the order of\\n100 kg projectiles, which deliver on the order of 20 kg\\nuseful payload to orbit.\\n\\nDani Eder\\n\\n-- \\nDani Eder/Meridian Investment Company/(205)464-2697(w)/232-7467(h)/\\nRt.1, Box 188-2, Athens AL 35611/Location: 34deg 37' N 86deg 43' W +100m alt.\\n\",\n", " 'From: Lawrence Curcio \\nSubject: Analgesics with Diuretics\\nOrganization: Doctoral student, Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA\\nLines: 6\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: po2.andrew.cmu.edu\\n\\nI sometimes see OTC preparations for muscle aches/back aches that\\ncombine aspirin with a diuretic. The idea seems to be to reduce\\ninflammation by getting rid of fluid. Does this actually work? \\n\\nThanks,\\n-Larry C. \\n',\n", " 'From: yozzo@watson.ibm.com (Ralph Yozzo)\\nSubject: Re: How to Diagnose Lyme... really\\nDisclaimer: This posting represents the poster\\'s views, not necessarily those of IBM.\\nNntp-Posting-Host: king-arthur.watson.ibm.com\\nOrganization: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center\\nLines: 29\\n\\nIn article <19688@pitt.UUCP> geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks) writes:\\n>\\n>In article <1993Apr12.201056.20753@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> mcg2@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (Marc Gabriel) writes:\\n>\\n>>Now, I\\'m not saying that culturing is the best way to diagnose; it\\'s very\\n>>hard to culture Bb in most cases. The point is that Dr. N has developed a\\n>>\"feel\" for what is and what isn\\'t LD. This comes from years of experience.\\n>>No serology can match that. Unfortunately, some would call Dr. N a \"quack\"\\n>>and accuse him of trying to make a quick buck.\\n>>\\n>Why do you think he would be called a quack? The quacks don\\'t do cultures.\\n>They poo-poo doing more lab tests: \"this is Lyme, believe me, I\\'ve\\n>seen it many times. The lab tests aren\\'t accurate. We\\'ll treat it\\n>now.\" Also, is Dr. N\\'s practice almost exclusively devoted to treating\\n>Lyme patients? I don\\'t know *any* orthopedic surgeons who fit this\\n>pattern. They are usually GPs.\\n>-- \\n \\nAre you arguing that the Lyme lab test is accurate?\\nThe books that I\\'ve read say that in general the tests\\nhave a 50-50 chance of being correct. (The tests\\nresult in a large number of both false positives and\\nfalse negatives. I am in the latter case.)\\n\\nWe could get those same odds by \"rolling the dice\".\\n\\n-- \\n Ralph Yozzo (yozzo@watson.ibm.com) \\n From the beautiful and historic New York State Mid-Hudson Valley.\\n',\n", " 'From: seale@possum.den.mmc.com (Eric H Seale)\\nSubject: Re: Comet in Temporary Orbit Around Jupiter?\\nNntp-Posting-Host: pogo.den.mmc.com\\nOrganization: Martin Marietta Astronautics, Denver\\nLines: 8\\n\\nbaalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov (Ron Baalke) writes:\\n>According the IAU Circular #5744, Comet Shoemaker-Levy 1993e, may be\\n>temporarily in orbit around Jupiter. The comet had apparently made a\\n>close flyby of Jupiter sometime in 1992 resulting in the breakup of the\\n>comet.\\n\\nOoooh -- who would have thought that Galileo would get the chance to\\ncheck out a comet TOO?!?\\n',\n", " 'From: tomca@microsoft.com (Tom B. Carey)\\nSubject: Re: Science and methodology (was: Homeopathy ... tradition?)\\nOrganization: Microsoft Corporation\\nLines: 31\\n\\nsasghm@theseus.unx.sas.com (Gary Merrill) writes:\\n>\\n>ted@marvin.dgbt.doc.ca (Ted Grusec) writes:\\n>|> Gary: By \"extra-scientific\" I did not mean to imply that hypothesis\\n>|> generation was not, in most cases extremely closely tied to the\\n>|> state of knowledge within a scientific area. I meant was that there\\n>|> was no \"scientific logic\" involved in the process. It is inductive,\\n>|> not deductive. \\n>\\n>I am further puzzled by the proposed distinction between \"scientific\\n>logic\" and \"inductive logic\". At this point I don\\'t have a clue\\n>what you mean by \"extra-scientific\" -- unless you mean that at *some*\\n>times someone seems to come up with an idea that we can\\'t trace to\\n>prior theories, concepts, knowledge, etc. This is a fairly common\\n>observation, but just for grins I\\'d like to see some genuine examples.\\n\\nOK, just for grins:\\n- Kekule hypothesized a resonant structure for the aromatic benzene\\nring after waking from a dream in which a snake was swallowing his tail.\\n- Archimedes formalized the principle of buoyancy while meditating in\\nhis bath.\\n\\nIn neither case was there \"no connection to prior theories, concepts, etc.\"\\nas you stipulated above. What there was was an intuitive leap beyond\\nthe current way of thinking, to develop ideas which subsequently proved\\nto have predictive power (e.g., they stood the test of experimental\\nverification).\\n\\npardon my kibbutzing...\\n\\nTom\\n',\n", " 'From: 880506s@dragon.acadiau.ca (James R. Skinner)\\nSubject: Re: Paxil (request)\\nOrganization: Acadia University\\nLines: 15\\n\\n880506s@dragon.acadiau.ca (James R. Skinner) writes:\\n\\n>\\t\\n>\\tI have seen a couple of postings refering to an SRI called paxil. I\\n>have been on Prozac for a number of years and recently switched to Zolf. I\\n>have seen a bit of comparsion of Prozac to Paxil but none on Zolft to Prozac\\n>Can some one enlight me on the differences/ side effect profile/ etc...\\n\\ndoes anyone know?\\n\\n-- \\n\\n-----------------------------------+--------------------------------------------\\n James Robie Skinner | Jodrey School of Computer Science James.Skinner@dragon.acadiau.ca | Acadia University, Wolfville, NS, Canada\\n-----------------------------------+--------------------------------------------\\n',\n", " \"From: sue@netcom.com (Sue Miller)\\nSubject: Re: Eugenics\\nOrganization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)\\nLines: 7\\n\\nIn article <19617@pitt.UUCP> geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks) writes:\\n>we do this? Should we make a race of disease-free, long-lived,\\n>Arnold Schwartzenegger-muscled, supermen? Even if we can.\\n>\\n\\nSure, as long as they'll make one for me.\\n\\n\",\n", " \"From: sysmgr@king.eng.umd.edu (Doug Mohney)\\nSubject: Re: FAQs\\nArticle-I.D.: mojo.1pst9uINN7tj\\nReply-To: sysmgr@king.eng.umd.edu\\nOrganization: Computer Aided Design Lab, U. of Maryland College Park\\nLines: 10\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: queen.eng.umd.edu\\n\\nIn article <10505.2BBCB8C3@nss.org>, freed@nss.org (Bev Freed) writes:\\n>I was wondering if the FAQ files could be posted quarterly rather than monthly\\n>. Every 28-30 days, I get this bloated feeling.\\n\\nOr just stick 'em on sci.space.news every 28-30 days? \\n\\n\\n\\n Software engineering? That's like military intelligence, isn't it?\\n -- > SYSMGR@CADLAB.ENG.UMD.EDU < --\\n\",\n", " 'From: mossman@cea.Berkeley.EDU (Amy Mossman)\\nSubject: Re: Is MSG sensitivity superstition?\\nOrganization: CEA\\nLines: 31\\nDistribution: world\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: mania.cea.berkeley.edu\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr15.135941.16105@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com>, dougb@comm.mot.com (Doug Bank) writes:\\n|> \\n|> Here is another anecdotal story. I am a picky eater and never wanted to \\n|> try chinese food, however, I finally tried some in order to please a\\n|> girl I was seeing at the time. I had never heard of Chinese restaurant\\n|> syndrome. A group of us went to the restaurant and all shared 6 different\\n|> dishes. It didn\\'t taste great, but I decided it wasn\\'t so bad. We went\\n|> home and went to bed early. I woke up at 2 AM and puked my guts outs.\\n|> I threw up for so long that (I\\'m not kidding) I pulled a muscle in\\n|> my tongue. Dry heaves and everything. No one else got sick, and I\\'m\\n|> not allergic to anything that I know of. \\n|> \\n|> Suffice to say that I wont go into a chinese restaurant unless I am \\n|> physically threatened. The smell of the food makes me ill (and that *is*\\n|> a psycholgical reaction). When I have been dragged in to suffer\\n|> through beef and broccoli without any sauces, I insist on no MSG. \\n|> I haven\\'t gotten sick yet.\\n|> \\n|> -- \\n\\nI had a similar reaction to Chinese food but came to a completly different\\nconclusion. I\\'ve eaten Chinese food for ages and never had problems. I went\\nwith some Chinese Malaysian friends to a swanky Chinses rest. and they ordered\\nlots of stuff I had never seen before. The only thing I can remember of that\\nmeal was the first course, scallops served in the shell with a soy-type sauce.\\nI thought, \"Well, I\\'ve only had scallops once and I was sick after but that\\ncould have been a coincidence\". That night as I sat on the bathroom floor,\\nsweating and emptying my stomach the hard way, I decided I would never touch\\nanother scallop. I may not be allergic but I don\\'t want to take the chance.\\n\\nAmy Mossman\\n',\n", " 'From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nSubject: Should patients read package inserts (PDR)?\\nReply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nOrganization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science\\nLines: 48\\n\\nIn article <1993Mar29.113528.930@news.wesleyan.edu> RGINZBERG@eagle.wesleyan.edu (Ruth Ginzberg) writes:\\n\\n>Hmmmm... here\\'s one place where I really think the patient ought to take more\\n>responsibility for him- or herself. There is absolutely no reason why you\\n>can\\'t ask the pharmacist filling the prescription for the \"Physicians\\' Package\\n>Insert\" for the medication when you pick it up at the pharmacy. Make sure to\\n>tell the pharmacist that you want the \"Physicians\\' Package Insert\" *NOT* the\\n\\nIf people are going to do this, I really wish they would tell me first.\\nI\\'d be happy to go over the insert (in the PDR) with them and explain\\neverything. All too many patients read the insert and panic and then\\non the next visit sheepishly admit they were afraid to take the drug\\nand we are starting over again at square one. Some of them probably\\ndidn\\'t even come back for followup because they didn\\'t want to admit\\nthey wouldn\\'t take the drug or thought I was trying to kill them or\\nsomething. What people don\\'t understand about the inserts is that they\\nreport every adverse side effect ever reported, without substantiating\\nthat the drug was responsible. The insert is a legal document to slough\\nliability from the manufacturer to the physician if something was to\\nhappen. If patients want to have the most useful and reliable information\\non a drug they would be so much better off getting hold of one of the\\nAMA drug evaluation books or something similar that is much more scientific.\\nThere are very few drugs that someone hasn\\'t reported a death from taking.\\nPatients don\\'t realize that and don\\'t usually appreciate the risks\\nto themselves properly. I\\'m sure Herman is going to \"go ballistic\",\\nbut so be it. Another problem is that probably most drugs have been\\nreported to cause impotence. Half the males who read that will falsely assume\\nit could permanently cause them to lose sexual function and so will\\nrefuse to take any drug like that. This can be a real problem for\\nPDR readers. There needs to be some way of providing patients with\\ntools geared to them that allow them to get the information they need.\\nI am involved in a research project to do that, with migraine as the\\ndomain. It involves a computer system that will provide answers to questions\\nabout migraine as well as the therapy prescribed for the patient.\\nFor common illnesses, such as migraine and hypertension, this may help\\nquite a bit. The patient could spend as much time as needed with the\\ncomputer and this would then not burden the physician. Clearly,\\nphysicians in large part fail to answer all the questions patients have,\\nas is demonstrated over and over here on the net where we get asked\\nthings that the patients should have found out from their physician\\nbut didn\\'t. Why they didn\\'t isn\\'t always the physician\\'s fault either.\\nSometimes the patients are afraid to ask. They won\\'t be as afraid to\\nask the system, we hope.\\n-- \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nGordon Banks N3JXP | \"Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and\\ngeb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu | it is shameful to surrender it too soon.\" \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n',\n", " 'From: eliezer@physics.llnl.gov (David A Eliezer)\\nSubject: Questions about SPECT imaging\\nOrganization: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory\\nLines: 25\\nDistribution: world\\nReply-To: eliezer@physics.llnl.gov (David A Eliezer)\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: physics.llnl.gov\\nKeywords: PET, SPECT, resolution\\n\\n\\nI have become involved in a project to further develop and \\nimprove the performance of SPECT (Single Photon Emission\\nComputerized Tomography) imaging. We will eventually have\\nto peddle this stuff somewhere, and so as I move this thing\\nalong, I would like to know --\\n\\nWhat is the current resolution of SPECT imaging? What kinds\\nof jobs is SPECT used for, specifically? What kind of specific jobs\\ncould I hope\\nthat SPECT could be used for, if its resolution improved,\\nsay, to close to that of PET (Positron Emission Tomography)?\\nAnd how much does a SPECT machine cost? How much does a single\\nSPECT image cost? \\n\\nIf anyone knows the answer to any or all of these questions, OR\\nwhere I could find that answer, I would be very grateful, indeed. \\nThanks in advance for any replies\\n\\n\\t\\t\\t\\t\\tDave Eliezer\\n\\t\\t\\t\\t\\teliezer@physics.llnl.gov\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n',\n", " \"From: Leigh Palmer \\nSubject: Re: Orion drive in vacuum -- how?\\nX-Xxmessage-Id: \\nX-Xxdate: Sat, 17 Apr 93 02:42:51 GMT\\nOrganization: Simon Fraser University\\nX-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d17\\nLines: 11\\n\\nIn article Henry Spencer,\\nhenry@zoo.toronto.edu writes:\\n>The National Air & Space Museum has both the prototype and the film.\\n>When I was there, some years ago, they had the prototype on display and\\n>the film continuously repeating.\\n\\nGreat! I'll visit the National Air and Space Museum at the end of the\\nmonth with my wife, who was also working at General Atomic at the time.\\nOnce again netnews has enriched my life.\\n\\nLeigh\\n\",\n", " \"From: walkup@cs.washington.edu (Elizabeth Walkup)\\nSubject: Re: Menangitis question\\nOrganization: Computer Science & Engineering, U. of Washington, Seattle\\nDistribution: na\\nLines: 19\\n\\nIn article <19439@pitt.UUCP> geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks) writes:\\n>... the neiseria meningococcus is one of the most common\\n>forms of meningitis. It's the one that sometimes sweeps\\n>schools or boot camp. It is contagious and kills by attacking\\n>the covering of the brain, causing the blood vessels to thrombose\\n>and the brain to swell up.\\n>\\n>\\t...\\n>\\n>It can live in the throat of carriers. Don't worry, you won't get \\n>it from them, especially if they took the medication.\\n\\nAssuming one has been cultured as having a throat laden with\\nneiseria meningococcus and given (and taken) a course of ERYC \\nwithout the culture becoming negative, should one worry about\\nbeing a carrier? \\n\\n-- Elizabeth\\n walkup@cs.washington.edu\\n\",\n", " 'From: kjenks@jsc.nasa.gov (Ken Jenks [NASA])\\nSubject: Re: Space Station Redesign, JSC Alternative #4\\nOrganization: NASA/JSC/GM2, Space Shuttle Program Office From: kjenks@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov\\nX-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]\\nLines: 40\\n\\nkjenks@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov (Hey, that\\'s me!) wrote:\\n: I have 19 (2 MB worth!) uuencode\\'d GIF images contain charts outlining\\n: one of the many alternative Space Station designs being considered in\\n: Crystal City. [...]\\n\\nI just posted the GIF files out for anonymous FTP on server ics.uci.edu.\\nYou can retrieve them from:\\n ics.uci.edu:incoming/geode01.gif\\n ics.uci.edu:incoming/geode02.gif\\n ics.uci.edu:incoming/geode03.gif\\n ics.uci.edu:incoming/geode04.gif\\n ics.uci.edu:incoming/geode05.gif\\n ics.uci.edu:incoming/geode06.gif\\n ics.uci.edu:incoming/geode07.gif\\n ics.uci.edu:incoming/geode08.gif\\n ics.uci.edu:incoming/geode09.gif\\n ics.uci.edu:incoming/geode10.gif\\n ics.uci.edu:incoming/geode11.gif\\n ics.uci.edu:incoming/geode12.gif\\n ics.uci.edu:incoming/geode13.gif\\n ics.uci.edu:incoming/geode14.gif\\n ics.uci.edu:incoming/geode15.gif\\n ics.uci.edu:incoming/geode16.gif\\n ics.uci.edu:incoming/geode17.gif\\n ics.uci.edu:incoming/geodeA.gif\\n ics.uci.edu:incoming/geodeB.gif\\n\\nThe last two are scanned color photos; the others are scanned briefing\\ncharts.\\n\\nThese will be deleted by the ics.uci.edu system manager in a few days,\\nso now\\'s the time to grab them if you\\'re interested. Sorry it took\\nme so long to get these out, but I was trying for the Ames server,\\nbut it\\'s out of space.\\n\\n-- Ken Jenks, NASA/JSC/GM2, Space Shuttle Program Office\\n kjenks@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov (713) 483-4368\\n\\n \"The earth is the cradle of humanity, but mankind will not stay in\\n the cradle forever.\" -- Konstantin Tsiolkvosky\\n',\n", " 'From: sasghm@theseus.unx.sas.com (Gary Merrill)\\nSubject: Re: jiggers\\nOriginator: sasghm@theseus.unx.sas.com\\nNntp-Posting-Host: theseus.unx.sas.com\\nOrganization: SAS Institute Inc.\\nLines: 62\\n\\n\\nI may not be the world\\'s greatest expert on chiggers (a type of\\nmite indigenous to the south), but I certainly have spent a lot\\nof time contemplating the little buggers over the past six years\\n(since we moved to N.C.). Here are some observations gained from\\npainful experience:\\n\\n 1. Reactions to chiggers vary greatly from person to person.\\n Some people get tiny red bites. Others (like me) are more\\n sensitive and get fairly large swollen sore-like affairs.\\n\\n 2. Chigger bites are the gift that keeps on giving. I swear\\n that these things will itch for months.\\n\\n 3. There is a lot of folklore about chiggers. I think most of\\n it is fiction. I have tried to do research on the critters,\\n since they have such an effect on me. The only book I could\\n find on the subject was a *single* book in UNC\\'s special\\n collections library. I have not yet gone through what is\\n required to get it.\\n\\n 4. Based on my experience and that of my family members, the old\\n folk remedy of fingernail polish simply doesn\\'t work. I recall\\n reading that the theory upon which it is based (that the chiggers\\n burrow into your skin and continue to party there) is false. I\\n think it is more likely that the reaction is to toxins of some\\n sort the little pests release. But this is speculation.\\n\\n 5. The *best* approach is prevention. A couple of things work well.\\n A good insect repellent (DEET) such as Deep Woods Off liberally\\n applied to ankles, waistband, etc. is a good start. There is\\n another preparation called \"Chig Away\" that is a combination of\\n sulfur and some kind of cream (cortisone?) that originally was\\n prepared for the Army and is not commercially available. In\\n the summer I put this on my ankles every morning when I get\\n up on weekends since I literally can\\'t go outside where we\\n live (in the country) without serious consequences. (They\\n apparently don\\'t like sulfur much at all. You can use sulfur\\n as a dust on your body or clothing to repel them.)\\n\\n 6. No amount of prevention will be *completely* successful. Forget\\n the fingernail polish. I have finally settled upon a treatment\\n that involves topical application of a combination of cortisone\\n creme (reduces the inflamation and swelling) and benzocaine\\n (relieves the itch). I won\\'t tell you all the things I\\'ve tried.\\n Nor will I tell you some of the things my wife does since this\\n counts as minor surgery and is best not mentioned (I also think\\n it gains nothing).\\n\\n 7. The swelling and itching can also be significantly relieved\\n by the application of hot packs, and this seems to speed recovery\\n as well.\\n\\nDoctors seem not to care much about chiggers. The urban and suburban\\ndoctors apparently don\\'t encounter them much. And the rural doctors\\nseem to regard them as a force of nature that one must endure. I\\nsuspect that anyone who could come up with a good treatment for chiggers\\nwould make a *lot* of money.\\n-- \\nGary H. Merrill [Principal Systems Developer, C Compiler Development]\\nSAS Institute Inc. / SAS Campus Dr. / Cary, NC 27513 / (919) 677-8000\\nsasghm@theseus.unx.sas.com ... !mcnc!sas!sasghm\\n',\n", " \"From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)\\nSubject: Re: Command Loss Timer (Re: Galileo Update - 04/22/93)\\nOrganization: U of Toronto Zoology\\nLines: 17\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr23.103038.27467@bnr.ca> agc@bmdhh286.bnr.ca (Alan Carter) writes:\\n>|> ... a NO-OP command was sent to reset the command loss timer ...\\n>\\n>This activity is regularly reported in Ron's interesting posts. Could\\n>someone explain what the Command Loss Timer is?\\n\\nIf I'm not mistaken, this is the usual sort of precaution against loss of\\ncommunications. That timer is counting down continuously; if it ever hits\\nzero, that means Galileo hasn't heard from Earth in a suspiciously long\\ntime and it may be Galileo's fault... so it's time to go into a fallback\\nmode that minimizes chances of spacecraft damage and maximizes chances\\nof restoring contact. I don't know exactly what-all Galileo does in such\\na situation, but a common example is to switch receivers, on the theory\\nthat maybe the one you're listening with has died.\\n-- \\nAll work is one man's work. | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology\\n - Kipling | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry\\n\",\n", " 'From: Andrew Rogers \\nSubject: Re: Life on Mars???\\nX-Xxdate: Wed, 21 Apr 93 16:03:51 GMT\\nOrganization: Lockheed Engineering & Sciences Company\\nX-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d17\\nLines: 9\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr20.120311.1@pa881a.inland.com> Don Schiewer,\\nschiewer@pa881a.inland.com writes:\\n>What is the deal with life on Mars? I save the \"face\" and heard \\n>associated theories. (which sound thin to me)\\n>\\n>Are we going back to Mars to look at this face agian?\\n>Does anyone buy all the life theories?\\n\\ntry alt.alien.visitors\\n',\n", " \"From: E.J. Draper \\nSubject: Re: Do we need a Radiologist to read an Ultrasound?\\nOrganization: U.T.M.D. Anderson Cancer Center\\nLines: 25\\nDistribution: world\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: rpidev2.mda.uth.tmc.edu\\nX-UserAgent: Nuntius v1.1.1d17\\nX-XXMessage-ID: \\nX-XXDate: Wed, 21 Apr 93 15:19:48 GMT\\n\\nIn article <9551@blue.cis.pitt.edu> Kenneth Gilbert, kxgst1+@pitt.edu\\nwrites:\\n>This is one of those sticky areas of medicine where battles frequently\\n>rage. With respect to your OB, I suspect that she has been certified in\\n>ultrasound diagnostics, and is thus allowed to use it and bill for its\\n>use. Many cardiologists also use ultrasound (echocardiography), and are\\n>in fact considered by many to be the 'experts'. I am not sure where OBs\\n>stand in this regard, but I suspect that they are at least as good as the\\n>radioligists (flame-retardant suit ready).\\n\\nIf it were my wife, I would insist that a radiologist be involved in the\\nprocess. Radiologist are intensively trained in the process of\\ninterpreting diagnostic imaging data and are aware of many things that\\nother physicians aren't aware of. Would you want a radiologist to\\ndeliver your baby? If you wouldn't, then why would you want a OB/GYN to\\nread your ultrasound study?\\n\\n\\nIn my opinion the process should involve a OB/GYN and a radiologist.\\n\\n\\n |E|J- ED DRAPER\\n rEpar|D|<- Radiologic/Pathologic Institute\\n The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center\\n draper@odin.mda.uth.tmc.edu\\n\",\n", " \"From: swoithe@crackle.uucp (Stan Woithe)\\nSubject: Re: Mars Observer Update - 04/14/93\\nOrganization: University of Adelaide\\nLines: 30\\nDistribution: world\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: crackle.itd.adelaide.edu.au\\nKeywords: Mars Observer, JPL\\n\\nHiya \\n\\nI'm a VERY amuture astronomer in Adelaide Australia, and today, I heard some\\nvery interesting and exciting news from a local program on TV. As I couldn't\\nfind anything on it on the news server, I have posted this. However, if it is\\nold information, tell me, and ill sue the TV station for saying they are \\n'Up to date' ;-)\\n\\n(Also, my news server could be slow. . so . . .!!!\\n\\nI only caught the end of the article, so all the information on the topic\\nis not known to me at the moment.\\n\\nThe news is of a small 'psudo' planet outside the orbit of pluto found in a \\nHawiian obsevatory, supposably 'recently' - acording to the report.\\nIt was meant to be about 150miles in diamater, and a faily large distance \\nfrom the plutos orbit. (it had a computer drawing, and the orbit distance\\nfrom pluto was about the same as neptune to pluto when they are furthest\\napart. This is all I found out about it. OH it is called Karna. (un-officially\\n). \\nCAn anyone give any more information to me on it???\\n\\nThanx.\\n\\nBrendan Woithe\\nswoithe@crackle.aelmg.adelaide.edu.au\\n\\nBTW - if this is old news, does anyone know a good lawyer. . . .8)\\n\\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n\",\n", " 'From: Amruth Laxman \\nSubject: Surviving Large Accelerations?\\nOrganization: Junior, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA\\nLines: 16\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: po5.andrew.cmu.edu\\n\\nHi,\\n I was reading through \"The Spaceflight Handbook\" and somewhere in\\nthere the author discusses solar sails and the forces acting on them\\nwhen and if they try to gain an initial acceleration by passing close to\\nthe sun in a hyperbolic orbit. The magnitude of such accelerations he\\nestimated to be on the order of 700g. He also says that this is may not\\nbe a big problem for manned craft because humans (and this was published\\nin 1986) have already withstood accelerations of 45g. All this is very\\nlong-winded but here\\'s my question finally - Are 45g accelerations in\\nfact humanly tolerable? - with the aid of any mechanical devices of\\ncourse. If these are possible, what is used to absorb the acceleration?\\nCan this be extended to larger accelerations?\\n\\nThanks is advance...\\n-Amruth Laxman\\n\\n',\n", " 'From: mcg2@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (Marc Gabriel)\\nSubject: Bouncing LymeNet newsletters...\\nOrganization: Lehigh University\\nLines: 22\\n\\nThe following 4 addresses are on the LymeNet mailing list, but are rejecting\\nmail. Since the list server originally accepted these addresses successfully,\\nI assume these addresses have since been eliminated. Improperly functioning\\nmail gateways might also be responsible.\\n\\nIf you are listed here and would still like to remain on the list, please\\nwrite to me. Otherwise, I will remove these addresses from the list before the\\nnext newsletter goes out.\\n\\nAs a general rule, please remember to *unsubscribe* from all your mailing\\nlists before your account is closed. This will save the listserv maintainer\\nfrom many headaches.\\n\\nLezliel@Sitka.Sun.COM\\nKenneth_R_Hall@Roch817.Xerox.COM\\nWestmx!ayoub@uunet.uu.net\\nAbsol.absol.com!rsb@panix.COM\\n-- \\n--\\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\\n Marc C. Gabriel - U.C. Box 545 -\\n (215) 882-0138 Lehigh University\\n',\n", " 'From: shafer@rigel.dfrf.nasa.gov (Mary Shafer)\\nSubject: Re: Inner Ear Problems from Too Much Flying?\\nArticle-I.D.: rigel.SHAFER.93Apr6095951\\nOrganization: NASA Dryden, Edwards, Cal.\\nLines: 33\\nIn-Reply-To: vida@mdavcr.mda.ca\\'s message of 5 Apr 93 23:27:26 GMT\\n\\nOn 5 Apr 93 23:27:26 GMT, vida@mdavcr.mda.ca (Vida Morkunas) said:\\n\\nVida> Can one develop inner-ear problems from too much flying? I hear\\nVida> that pilots and steward/esses have a limit as to the maximum\\nVida> number of flying hours -- what are these limits? What are the\\nVida> main problems associated with too many long-haul (over 4 hours)\\nVida> trips?\\n\\nThe crew rest requirements are to prevent undue fatigue. The cockpit\\ncrew (pilot) limits are somewhat more stringent than the cabin crew\\nlimits for this reason. Crew rest requirements address amount of time\\non duty plus rest time. A tired crew is an accident-prone crew.\\n\\nThe only limits I know of for inner-ear problems are in military\\naircraft, which are frequently unpressurized or less reliably\\npressurized. Not being able to clear the ears renders aircrew members\\nDNIF (duties not involving flying) or grounded until the ears clear.\\n\\nFlying can accentuate problems if ears don\\'t clear. If you don\\'t have\\nbig pressure changes, you may not know that you\\'ve got a problem. But\\nif you zip up to 5,000 or 6,000 ft (the usual cabin altitude in an\\nairliner) and then back down to sea level, you may discover a problem.\\nEars don\\'t clear readily because of allergies, colds, infections, and\\nanatomical problems. The last won\\'t change; the first three can.\\nMedication (decongestants or antihistimines, usually) can help.\\nChewing gum, sucking hard candy (or a bottle for babies),\\nyawning--these will help all four causes.\\n\\n\\n--\\nMary Shafer DoD #0362 KotFR NASA Dryden Flight Research Facility, Edwards, CA\\nshafer@rigel.dfrf.nasa.gov Of course I don\\'t speak for NASA\\n \"A MiG at your six is better than no MiG at all.\" Unknown US fighter pilot\\n',\n", " 'From: young@serum.kodak.com (Rich Young)\\nSubject: Re: what are the problems with nutrasweet (aspartame)\\nOriginator: young@sasquatch\\nNntp-Posting-Host: sasquatch\\nReply-To: young@serum.kodak.com\\nOrganization: Clinical Diagnostics Division, Eastman Kodak Company\\nLines: 76\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr17.181013.3743@uvm.edu> hbloom@moose.uvm.edu (*Heather*) writes:\\n>Nutrasweet is a synthetic sweetener a couple thousand times sweeter than\\n>sugar. Some people are concerned about the chemicals that the body produces \\n>when it degrades nutrasweet. It is thought to form formaldehyde and known to\\n>for methanol in the degredation pathway that the body uses to eliminate \\n>substances. The real issue is whether the levels of methanol and formaldehyde\\n>produced are high enough to cause significant damage, as both are toxic to\\n>living cells. All I can say is that I will not consume it. \\n\\n[...]\\n\\n In the September 1992 issue of THE TUFTS UNIVERSITY DIET AND NUTRITION\\n LETTER, there is a three page article about artificial sweeteners. What\\n follows are those excerpts which deal specifically with Nutrasweet.\\n\\n [Reproduced without permission]\\n\\n\\t The controversy [over aspartame] began six years ago in England,\\n\\twhere a group of researchers found that aspartame, marketed under\\n\\tthe tradename Nutrasweet, appears to stimulate appetite and,\\n\\tpresumably, the eating of more calories in the long run than if\\n\\ta person simply consumed sugar. When researchers asked a group\\n\\tof 95 people to drink plain water, aspartame-sweetened water, and\\n\\tsugared water, they said that overall they felt hungriest after\\n\\tdrinking the artificially sweetened beverage.\\n\\t The study received widespread media attention and stirred a\\n\\tgood deal of concern among the artificial-sweetener-using public.\\n\\tHowever, its results were questionable at best, since the researchers\\n\\tdid not go on to measure whether the increase in appetite did\\n\\tactually translate into an increase in eating. The two do not\\n\\tnecessarily go hand in hand.\\n\\t In the years that followed, more than a dozen studies examining\\n\\tthe effect of aspartame on appetite -- and eating -- were conducted.\\n\\tAnd after reviewing every one of them, the director of the\\n\\tLaboratory of the Study of Human Ingestive Behavior at Johns Hopkins\\n\\tUniversity, Barbara Rolls, Ph.D., concluded that consuming aspartame-\\n\\tsweetened foods and drinks is not associated with any increase in\\n\\tthe amount of food eaten afterward.\\n\\n\\t One artificial sweetener that is not typically accused of causing\\n\\tcancer is aspartame. But it most certainly has been blamed for a\\n\\thost of other ills. Since its introduction in 1981, the government\\n\\thas received thousands of complaints accusing it of causing\\n\\teverything from headaches to nausea to mood swings to anxiety.\\n\\tStill, years of careful scientific study conducted both before and\\n\\tafter the sweetener\\'s entering the market have failed to confirm\\n\\tthat it can bring about adverse health effects. That\\'s why the\\n\\tCenters for Disease Control (the government agency charged with\\n\\tmonitoring public health), the American Medical Association\\'s\\n\\tCouncil on Scientific Affairs, and the Food and Drug Administration\\n\\thave given aspartame, one of the most studied food additives, a\\n\\tclean bill of health.\\n\\t Granted, the FDA has set forth an \"acceptable daily intake\" of\\n\\t50 milligrams of aspartame per kilogram of body weight. To exceed\\n\\tthe limit, however, a 120-pound (55 kg.) woman would have to take\\n\\tin 2,750 milligrams of aspartame -- the amount in 15 cans of\\n\\taspartame-sweetened soda pop, 14 cups of gelatin, 22 cups of yogurt,\\n\\tor 55 six-ounce servings of aspartame-containing hot cocoa,...\\n\\tA 175-pound (80 kg.) man would have to consume some 4,000 milligrams\\n\\tof the sweetener -- the amount in 22 cans of soda pop or 32 cups\\n\\tof yogurt -- to go over the limit. [chart with aspartame content\\n\\tof selected foods omitted]\\n\\t Only one small group of people must be certain to stay away\\n\\tfrom aspartame: those born with a rare metabolic disorder called\\n\\tphenylketonuria, or PKU. The estimated one person in every 12,000\\n\\tto 15,000 who has it is unable to properly metabolize an essential\\n\\tamino acid in aspartame called phenylalanine. Once a child\\n\\tconsumes it, it builds up in the body and can ultimately cause\\n\\tsuch severe problems as mental retardation. To help people with\\n\\tPKU avoid the substance, labels on cans of soda pop and other\\n\\taspartame-sweetened foods must carry the warning \"Phenylketonurics:\\n\\tContains Phenylalanine.\"\\n\\n\\n-Rich Young (These are not Kodak\\'s opinions.)\\n\\n',\n", " 'From: kxgst1+@pitt.edu (Kenneth Gilbert)\\nSubject: Re: Emphysema question\\nOrganization: University of Pittsburgh\\nLines: 14\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr15.180621.29465@radford.vak12ed.edu> mmatusev@radford.vak12ed.edu (Melissa N. Matusevich) writes:\\n:Thanks for all your assistance. I\\'ll see if he can try a\\n:different brand of patches, although he\\'s tried two brands\\n:already. Are there more than two?\\n\\nThe brands I can come up with off the top of my head are Nicotrol,\\nNicoderm and Habitrol. There may be a fourth as well.\\n\\n\\n-- \\n=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-|-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=\\n= Kenneth Gilbert __|__ University of Pittsburgh =\\n= General Internal Medicine | \"...dammit, not a programmer!\" =\\n=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-|-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=\\n',\n", " 'From: leech@cs.unc.edu (Jon Leech)\\nSubject: Space FAQ 09/15 - Mission Schedules\\nSupersedes: \\nOrganization: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill\\nLines: 177\\nDistribution: world\\nExpires: 6 May 1993 19:59:07 GMT\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: mahler.cs.unc.edu\\nKeywords: Frequently Asked Questions\\n\\nArchive-name: space/schedule\\nLast-modified: $Date: 93/04/01 14:39:23 $\\n\\nSPACE SHUTTLE ANSWERS, LAUNCH SCHEDULES, TV COVERAGE\\n\\n SHUTTLE LAUNCHINGS AND LANDINGS; SCHEDULES AND HOW TO SEE THEM\\n\\n Shuttle operations are discussed in the Usenet group sci.space.shuttle,\\n and Ken Hollis (gandalf@pro-electric.cts.com) posts a compressed version\\n of the shuttle manifest (launch dates and other information)\\n periodically there. The manifest is also available from the Ames SPACE\\n archive in SPACE/FAQ/manifest. The portion of his manifest formerly\\n included in this FAQ has been removed; please refer to his posting or\\n the archived copy. For the most up to date information on upcoming\\n missions, call (407) 867-INFO (867-4636) at Kennedy Space Center.\\n\\n Official NASA shuttle status reports are posted to sci.space.news\\n frequently.\\n\\n\\n WHY DOES THE SHUTTLE ROLL JUST AFTER LIFTOFF?\\n\\n The following answer and translation are provided by Ken Jenks\\n (kjenks@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov).\\n\\n The \"Ascent Guidance and Flight Control Training Manual,\" ASC G&C 2102,\\n says:\\n\\n\\t\"During the vertical rise phase, the launch pad attitude is\\n\\tcommanded until an I-loaded V(rel) sufficient to assure launch tower\\n\\tclearance is achieved. Then, the tilt maneuver (roll program)\\n\\torients the vehicle to a heads down attitude required to generate a\\n\\tnegative q-alpha, which in turn alleviates structural loading. Other\\n\\tadvantages with this attitude are performance gain, decreased abort\\n\\tmaneuver complexity, improved S-band look angles, and crew view of\\n\\tthe horizon. The tilt maneuver is also required to start gaining\\n\\tdownrange velocity to achieve the main engine cutoff (MECO) target\\n\\tin second stage.\"\\n\\n This really is a good answer, but it\\'s couched in NASA jargon. I\\'ll try\\n to interpret.\\n\\n 1)\\tWe wait until the Shuttle clears the tower before rolling.\\n\\n 2)\\tThen, we roll the Shuttle around so that the angle of attack\\n\\tbetween the wind caused by passage through the atmosphere (the\\n\\t\"relative wind\") and the chord of the wings (the imaginary line\\n\\tbetween the leading edge and the trailing edge) is a slightly\\n\\tnegative angle (\"a negative q-alpha\").\\tThis causes a little bit of\\n\\t\"downward\" force (toward the belly of the Orbiter, or the +Z\\n\\tdirection) and this force \"alleviates structural loading.\"\\n\\tWe have to be careful about those wings -- they\\'re about the\\n\\tmost \"delicate\" part of the vehicle.\\n\\n 3)\\tThe new attitude (after the roll) also allows us to carry more\\n\\tmass to orbit, or to achieve a higher orbit with the same mass, or\\n\\tto change the orbit to a higher or lower inclination than would be\\n\\tthe case if we didn\\'t roll (\"performance gain\").\\n\\n 4)\\tThe new attitude allows the crew to fly a less complicated\\n\\tflight path if they had to execute one of the more dangerous abort\\n\\tmaneuvers, the Return To Launch Site (\"decreased abort maneuver\\n\\tcomplexity\").\\n\\n 5)\\tThe new attitude improves the ability for ground-based radio\\n\\tantennae to have a good line-of-sight signal with the S-band radio\\n\\tantennae on the Orbiter (\"improved S-band look angles\").\\n\\n 6)\\tThe new attitude allows the crew to see the horizon, which is a\\n\\thelpful (but not mandatory) part of piloting any flying machine.\\n\\n 7)\\tThe new attitude orients the Shuttle so that the body is\\n\\tmore nearly parallel with the ground, and the nose to the east\\n\\t(usually). This allows the thrust from the engines to add velocity\\n\\tin the correct direction to eventually achieve orbit. Remember:\\n\\tvelocity is a vector quantity made of both speed and direction.\\n\\tThe Shuttle has to have a large horizontal component to its\\n\\tvelocity and a very small vertical component to attain orbit.\\n\\n This all begs the question, \"Why isn\\'t the launch pad oriented to give\\n this nice attitude to begin with? Why does the Shuttle need to roll to\\n achieve that attitude?\" The answer is that the pads were leftovers\\n from the Apollo days. The Shuttle straddles two flame trenches -- one\\n for the Solid Rocket Motor exhaust, one for the Space Shuttle Main\\n Engine exhaust. (You can see the effects of this on any daytime\\n launch. The SRM exhaust is dirty gray garbage, and the SSME exhaust is\\n fluffy white steam. Watch for the difference between the \"top\"\\n [Orbiter side] and the \"bottom\" [External Tank side] of the stack.) The\\n access tower and other support and service structure are all oriented\\n basically the same way they were for the Saturn V\\'s. (A side note: the\\n Saturn V\\'s also had a roll program. Don\\'t ask me why -- I\\'m a Shuttle\\n guy.)\\n\\n I checked with a buddy in Ascent Dynamics.\\tHe added that the \"roll\\n maneuver\" is really a maneuver in all three axes: roll, pitch and yaw.\\n The roll component of that maneuver is performed for the reasons\\n stated. The pitch component controls loading on the wings by keeping\\n the angle of attack (q-alpha) within a tight tolerance. The yaw\\n component is used to determine the orbital inclination. The total\\n maneuver is really expressed as a \"quaternion,\" a grad-level-math\\n concept for combining all three rotation matrices in one four-element\\n array.\\n\\n\\n HOW TO RECEIVE THE NASA TV CHANNEL, NASA SELECT\\n\\n NASA SELECT is broadcast by satellite. If you have access to a satellite\\n dish, you can find SELECT on Satcom F2R, Transponder 13, C-Band, 72\\n degrees West Longitude, Audio 6.8, Frequency 3960 MHz. F2R is stationed\\n over the Atlantic, and is increasingly difficult to receive from\\n California and points west. During events of special interest (e.g.\\n shuttle missions), SELECT is sometimes broadcast on a second satellite\\n for these viewers.\\n\\n If you can\\'t get a satellite feed, some cable operators carry SELECT.\\n It\\'s worth asking if yours doesn\\'t.\\n\\n The SELECT schedule is found in the NASA Headline News which is\\n frequently posted to sci.space.news. Generally it carries press\\n conferences, briefings by NASA officials, and live coverage of shuttle\\n missions and planetary encounters. SELECT has recently begun carrying\\n much more secondary material (associated with SPACELINK) when missions\\n are not being covered.\\n\\n\\n AMATEUR RADIO FREQUENCIES FOR SHUTTLE MISSIONS\\n\\n The following are believed to rebroadcast space shuttle mission audio:\\n\\n\\tW6FXN - Los Angeles\\n\\tK6MF - Ames Research Center, Mountain View, California\\n\\tWA3NAN - Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Greenbelt, Maryland.\\n\\tW5RRR - Johnson Space Center (JSC), Houston, Texas\\n\\tW6VIO - Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, California.\\n\\tW1AW Voice Bulletins\\n\\n\\tStation VHF\\t 10m\\t 15m\\t 20m\\t 40m\\t 80m\\n\\t------\\t ------ ------ ------ ------ -----\\t-----\\n\\tW6FXN\\t 145.46\\n\\tK6MF\\t 145.585\\t\\t\\t 7.165\\t3.840\\n\\tWA3NAN\\t 147.45 28.650 21.395 14.295 7.185\\t3.860\\n\\tW5RRR\\t 146.64 28.400 21.350 14.280 7.227\\t3.850\\n\\tW6VIO\\t 224.04\\t\\t 21.340 14.270\\n\\tW6VIO\\t 224.04\\t\\t 21.280 14.282 7.165\\t3.840\\n\\tW1AW\\t\\t 28.590 21.390 14.290 7.290\\t3.990\\n\\n W5RRR transmits mission audio on 146.64, a special event station on the\\n other frequencies supplying Keplerian Elements and mission information.\\n\\n W1AW also transmits on 147.555, 18.160. No mission audio but they\\n transmit voice bulletins at 0245 and 0545 UTC.\\n\\n Frequencies in the 10-20m bands require USB and frequencies in the 40\\n and 80m bands LSB. Use FM for the VHF frequencies.\\n\\n [This item was most recently updated courtesy of Gary Morris\\n (g@telesoft.com, KK6YB, N5QWC)]\\n\\n\\n SOLID ROCKET BOOSTER FUEL COMPOSITION\\n\\n Reference: \"Shuttle Flight Operations Manual\" Volume 8B - Solid Rocket\\n Booster Systems, NASA Document JSC-12770\\n\\n Propellant Composition (percent)\\n\\n Ammonium perchlorate (oxidizer)\\t\\t\\t69.6\\n Aluminum\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t16\\n Iron Oxide (burn rate catalyst)\\t\\t\\t0.4\\n Polybutadiene-acrilic acid-acrylonitrile (a rubber) 12.04\\n Epoxy curing agent\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t1.96\\n\\n End reference\\n\\n Comment: The aluminum, rubber, and epoxy all burn with the oxidizer.\\n\\nNEXT: FAQ #10/15 - Historical planetary probes\\n',\n", " 'From: asimov@wk223.nas.nasa.gov (Daniel A. Asimov)\\nSubject: Re: Sunrise/ sunset times\\nOrganization: NAS, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California\\nLines: 19\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr21.141824.23536@cbis.ece.drexel.edu> jpw@cbis.ece.drexel.edu (Joseph Wetstein) writes:\\n>\\n>Hello. I am looking for a program (or algorithm) that can be used\\n>to compute sunrise and sunset times.\\n>\\n>Joe Wetstein\\n\\nThere is a wonderful book by Jean Meeus called\\n\"Astronomical Algorithms,\" (1991) which I am fairly sure\\ncontains an algorithm for sunrise and sunset times.\\n\\n\\nDan Asimov\\nMail Stop T045-1\\nNASA Ames Research Center\\nMoffett Field, CA 94035-1000\\n\\nasimov@nas.nasa.gov\\n(415) 604-4799\\n',\n", " 'From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nSubject: Re: \"Exercise\" Hypertension\\nReply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nOrganization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science\\nLines: 18\\n\\nIn article <93084.140929RFM@psuvm.psu.edu> RFM@psuvm.psu.edu writes:\\n>I took a stress test a couple weeks back, and results came back noting\\n>\"Exercise\" Hypertension. Fool that I am, I didn\\'t ask Doc what this meant,\\n>and she didn\\'t explain; and now I\\'m wondering. Can anyone out there\\n>enlighten. And I promise, next time I\\'ll ask!\\n\\nProbably she meant that your blood pressure went up while you were on\\nthe treadmill. This is normal. You\\'ll have to ask her if this is\\nwhat she meant, since no one else can answer for another person.\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n-- \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nGordon Banks N3JXP | \"Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and\\ngeb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu | it is shameful to surrender it too soon.\" \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n',\n", " 'From: matthews@Oswego.EDU (Harry Matthews)\\nSubject: Re: GETTING AIDS FROM ACUPUNCTURE NEEDLES\\nReply-To: matthews@oswego.Oswego.EDU (Harry Matthews)\\nOrganization: Instructional Computing Center, SUNY at Oswego, Oswego, NY\\nLines: 22\\n\\nIn article <1r4f8b$euu@agate.berkeley.edu> romdas@uclink.berkeley.edu (Ella I Baff) writes:\\n>\\n> someone wrote in expressing concern about getting AIDS from acupuncture\\n> needles.....\\n>\\n>Unless your friend is sharing fluids with their acupuncturist who \\n>themselves has AIDS..it is unlikely (not impossible) they will get AIDS \\n>from acupuncture needles. Generally, even if accidently inoculated, the normal\\n>immune response should be enough to effectively handle the minimal contaminant \\n>involved with acupuncture needle insertion. \\n>\\nIsn\\'t this what HIV is about - the \"normal immune response\" to an exposure?\\n\\n>Most acupuncturists use disposable needles...use once and throw away.\\n\\nI had electrical pulse nerve testing done a while back. The needles were taken\\nfrom a dirty drawer in an instrument cart and were most certainly NOT\\nsterile or even clean for that matter. More than likely they were fresh\\nfrom the previous patient. I WAS concerned, but I kept my mouth shut. I\\nprobably should have raised hell!\\n\\nAny comments? No excuses.\\n',\n", " 'From: sasghm@theseus.unx.sas.com (Gary Merrill)\\nSubject: Re: Science and methodology (was: Homeopathy ... tradition?)\\nOriginator: sasghm@theseus.unx.sas.com\\nDistribution: inet\\nNntp-Posting-Host: theseus.unx.sas.com\\nOrganization: SAS Institute Inc.\\nLines: 43\\n\\n\\nIn article <1qk4qqINNgvs@im4u.cs.utexas.edu>, turpin@cs.utexas.edu (Russell Turpin) writes:\\n|> -*-----\\n|> In article <1993Apr15.150550.15347@ecsvax.uncecs.edu> ccreegan@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Charles L. Creegan) writes:\\n|> > What about Kekule\\'s infamous derivation of the idea of benzene rings\\n|> > from a daydream of snakes in the fire biting their tails? Is this\\n|> > specific enough to count? Certainly it turns up repeatedly in basic\\n|> > phil. of sci. texts as an example of the inventive component of\\n|> > hypothesizing. \\n|> \\n|> I think the question is: What is extra-scientific about this? \\n|> \\n|> It has been a long time since anyone has proposed restrictions on\\n|> where one comes up with ideas in order for them to be considered\\n|> legitimate hypotheses. The point, in short, is this: hypotheses and\\n|> speculation in science may come from wild flights of fancy, \\n|> daydreams, ancient traditions, modern quackery, or anywhere else.\\n|> \\n|> Russell\\n|> \\n\\nYes, but typically they *don\\'t*. Not every wild flight of fancy serves\\n(or can serve) in the appropriate relation to a hypothesis. It is\\nsomewhat interesting that when anyone is challanged to provide an\\nexample of this sort the *only* one they come up with is the one about\\nKekule. Surely, there must be others. But apparently this is regarded\\nas an *extreme* example of a \"non-rational\" process in science whereby\\na successful hypothesis was proposed. But how non-rational is it?\\n\\nOf course we can\\'t hope (currently at least) to explain how or why\\nKekule had the daydream of snakes in the fire biting their tails.\\nSurely it wasn\\'t the *only* daydream he had. What was special about\\n*this* one? Could it have had something to do with a perceived\\n*analogy* between the geometry of the snakes and problems concerning\\ngeometry of molecules? Is such analogical reasoning \"extra-scientific\"?\\nOr is it rather at the very heart of science (Perice\\'s notion of abduction,\\nthe use of models within and across disciplines)? Upon close examination,\\nis there a non-rational mystical leap taking place, or is it perhaps\\ncloser to a formal (though often incomplete) analogy or model?\\n-- \\nGary H. Merrill [Principal Systems Developer, C Compiler Development]\\nSAS Institute Inc. / SAS Campus Dr. / Cary, NC 27513 / (919) 677-8000\\nsasghm@theseus.unx.sas.com ... !mcnc!sas!sasghm\\n',\n", " 'From: keithley@apple.com (Craig Keithley)\\nSubject: Re: Moonbase race, NASA resources, why?\\nOrganization: Apple Computer, Inc.\\nLines: 44\\n\\nIn article , henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry\\nSpencer) wrote:\\n> \\n> The major component of any realistic plan to go to the Moon cheaply (for\\n> more than a brief visit, at least) is low-cost transport to Earth orbit.\\n> For what it costs to launch one Shuttle or two Titan IVs, you can develop\\n> a new launch system that will be considerably cheaper. (Delta Clipper\\n> might be a bit more expensive than this, perhaps, but there are less\\n> ambitious ways of bringing costs down quite a bit.) \\n\\nAh, there\\'s the rub. And a catch-22 to boot. For the purposes of a\\ncontest, you\\'ll probably not compete if\\'n you can\\'t afford the ride to get\\nthere. And although lower priced delivery systems might be doable, without\\ndemand its doubtful that anyone will develop a new system. Course, if a\\nlow priced system existed, there might be demand... \\n\\nI wonder if there might be some way of structuring a contest to encourage\\nlow cost payload delivery systems. The accounting methods would probably\\nbe the hardest to work out. For example, would you allow Rockwell to\\n\\'loan\\' you the engines? And so forth...\\n\\n> Any plan for doing\\n> sustained lunar exploration using existing launch systems is wasting\\n> money in a big way.\\n> \\n\\nThis depends on the how soon the new launch system comes on line. In other\\nwords, perhaps a great deal of worthwhile technology (life support,\\nnavigation, etc.) could be developed prior to a low cost launch system. \\nYou wouldn\\'t want to use the expensive stuff forever, but I\\'d hate to see\\nfolks waiting to do anything until a low cost Mac, oops, I mean launch\\nsystem comes on line.\\n\\nI guess I\\'d simplify this to say that \\'waste\\' is a slippery concept. If\\nyour goal is manned lunar exploration in the next 5 years, then perhaps its\\nnot \\'wasted\\' money. If your goal is to explore the moon for under $500\\nmillion, then you should put of this exploration for a decade or so.\\n\\nCraig\\n\\n\\nCraig Keithley |\"I don\\'t remember, I don\\'t recall, \\nApple Computer, Inc. |I got no memory of anything at all\"\\nkeithley@apple.com |Peter Gabriel, Third Album (1980)\\n',\n", " \"From: swkirch@sun6850.nrl.navy.mil (Steve Kirchoefer)\\nSubject: Re: Can't Breathe\\nArticle-I.D.: ra.C526Hv.LCL\\nOrganization: Naval Research Laboratory (Electronics Science and Technology Division)\\nLines: 17\\n\\nGetting back to the original question in this thread:\\n\\nI experienced breathing difficulties a few years ago similar to those\\ndescribed. In my case, it turned out that I was developing Type I\\ndiabetes. Although I never sought direct confirmation of this from my\\ndoctor, I think that the breathing problem was associated with the\\npresence of ketones due to the diabetes.\\n\\nI think that ketosis can occur in lesser degree if one is restricting\\ntheir food intake drastically. I don't know if this relevant in this\\ncase, but you might ask your daughter if she has been eating\\nproperly.\\n-- \\nSteve Kirchoefer (202) 767-2862\\nCode 6851 kirchoefer@estd.nrl.navy.mil\\nNaval Research Laboratory Microwave Technology Branch\\nWashington, DC 20375-5000 Electronics Sci. and Tech. Division\\n\",\n", " 'From: kaminski@netcom.com (Peter Kaminski)\\nSubject: Re: Need to find information about current trends in diabetes.\\nLines: 63\\nOrganization: The Information Deli - via Netcom / San Jose, California\\n\\nIn steveo@world.std.com (Steven W Orr) writes:\\n\\n>I looked for diab in my .newsrc and came up with nuthin. Anyone have\\n>any good sources for where I can read?\\n\\nCheck out the DIABETIC mailing list -- a knowledgable, helpful, friendly,\\nvoluminous bunch. Send email to LISTSERV@PCCVM.BITNET, with this line\\nin the body:\\n\\nSUBSCRIBE DIABETIC \\n\\nAlso, the vote for misc.health.diabetes, a newsgroup for general discussion\\nof diabetes, is currently underway, and will close on 29 April. From the\\n2nd CFV, posted to news.announce.newgroups, news.groups, and sci.med,\\nmessage <1q1jshINN4v1@rodan.UU.NET>:\\n\\n>To place a vote FOR the creation of misc.health.diabetes, send an\\n>email message to yes@sun6850.nrl.navy.mil\\n>\\n>To place a vote AGAINST creation of misc.health.diabetes, send an\\n>email message to no@sun6850.nrl.navy.mil\\n>\\n>The contents of the message should contain the line \"I vote\\n>for/against misc.health.diabetes as proposed\". Email messages sent to\\n>the above addresses must constitute unambiguous and unconditional\\n>votes for/against newsgroup creation as proposed. Conditional votes\\n>will not be accepted. Only votes emailed to the above addresses will\\n>be counted; mailed replies to this posting will be returned. In the\\n>event that more than one vote is placed by an individual, only the\\n>most recent vote will be counted. One additional CFV will be posted\\n>during the course of the vote, along with an acknowledgment of those\\n>votes received to date. No information will be supplied as to how\\n>people are voting until the final acknowledgment is made at the end,\\n>at which time the full vote will be made public.\\n>\\n>Voting will continue until 23:59 GMT, 29 Apr 93.\\n>Votes will not be accepted after this date.\\n>\\n>Any administrative inquiries pertaining to this CFV may be made by\\n>email to swkirch@sun6850.nrl.navy.mil\\n>\\n>The proposed charter appears below.\\n>\\n>--------------------------\\n>\\n>Charter: \\n>\\n>misc.health.diabetes unmoderated\\n>\\n>1. The purpose of misc.health.diabetes is to provide a forum for the\\n>discussion of issues pertaining to diabetes management, i.e.: diet,\\n>activities, medicine schedules, blood glucose control, exercise,\\n>medical breakthroughs, etc. This group addresses the issues of\\n>management of both Type I (insulin dependent) and Type II (non-insulin\\n>dependent) diabetes. Both technical discussions and general support\\n>discussions relevant to diabetes are welcome.\\n>\\n>2. Postings to misc.heath.diabetes are intended to be for discussion\\n>purposes only, and are in no way to be construed as medical advice.\\n>Diabetes is a serious medical condition requiring direct supervision\\n>by a primary health care physician. \\n>\\n>-----(end of charter)-----\\n',\n", " 'From: kjenks@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov\\nSubject: Re: Shuttle oxygen (was Budget Astronaut)\\nOrganization: NASA/JSC/GM2, Space Shuttle Program Office \\nX-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]\\nLines: 29\\n\\n: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:\\n\\n: >There is an emergency oxygen system that is capable of maintaining a\\n: >breathable atmosphere in the cabin for long enough to come down, even\\n: >if there is something like a 5cm hole in the wall that nobody tries\\n: >to plug.\\n\\nJosh Hopkins (jbh55289@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu) replied:\\n: Wow.\\n\\n: Double wow. Can you land a shuttle with a 5cm hole in the wall?\\n\\nPersonnally, I don\\'t know, but I\\'d like to try it sometime.\\n\\nProgrammatically, yes, we can land an Orbiter with a 5 cm hole in\\nthe wall -- provided that the thing which caused 5 cm hole didn\\'t\\ncause a Crit 1 failure on some of the internal systems. There are\\na few places where a 5 cm hole would cause a Bad Day -- especially\\nif the 5 cm hole went all the way through the Orbiter and out the\\nother side, as could easily happen with a meteor strike. But a\\nhole in the pressure vessel would cause us to immediately de-orbit\\nto the next available landing site.\\n\\n-- Ken Jenks, NASA/JSC/GM2, Space Shuttle Program Office\\n kjenks@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov (713) 483-4368\\n\\n \"NASA turns dreams into realities and makes science fiction\\n into fact\" -- Daniel S. Goldin, NASA Administrator\\n\\n',\n", " \"From: nickh@CS.CMU.EDU (Nick Haines)\\nSubject: Re: Shuttle Launch Question\\nIn-Reply-To: jcm@head-cfa.harvard.edu's message of Sun, 18 Apr 1993 22:44:14 GMT\\nOriginator: nickh@SNOW.FOX.CS.CMU.EDU\\nNntp-Posting-Host: snow.fox.cs.cmu.edu\\nOrganization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University\\n\\t<1993Apr18.224414.784@head-cfa.harvard.edu>\\nDistribution: sci\\nLines: 17\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr18.224414.784@head-cfa.harvard.edu> jcm@head-cfa.harvard.edu (Jonathan McDowell) writes:\\n\\n My understanding is that the 'expected errors' are basically\\n known bugs in the warning system software - things are checked\\n that don't have the right values in yet because they aren't\\n set till after launch, and suchlike. Rather than fix the code\\n and possibly introduce new bugs, they just tell the crew\\n 'ok, if you see a warning no. 213 before liftoff, ignore it'.\\n\\nGood grief. And I thought the Shuttle software was known for being\\nwell-engineered. If this is actually the case, every member of the\\nprogramming team should be taken out and shot.\\n\\n(given that I've heard the Shuttle software rated as Level 5 in\\nmaturity, I strongly doubt that this is the case).\\n\\nNick Haines nickh@cmu.edu\\n\",\n", " 'Subject: Re: Gamma Ray Bursters. Where are they? \\nFrom: belgarath@vax1.mankato.msus.edu\\nOrganization: Mankato State University\\nNntp-Posting-Host: vax1.mankato.msus.edu\\nLines: 67\\n\\nIn article <1radsr$att@access.digex.net>, prb@access.digex.com (Pat) writes:\\n> What evidence indicates that Gamma Ray bursters are very far away?\\n> \\n> Given the enormous power, i was just wondering, what if they are\\n> quantum black holes or something like that fairly close by?\\n> \\n> Why would they have to be at galactic ranges? \\n> \\n> my own pet theory is that it\\'s Flying saucers entering\\n> hyperspace :-)\\n> \\n> but the reason i am asking is that most everyone assumes that they\\n> are colliding nuetron stars or spinning black holes, i just wondered\\n> if any mechanism could exist and place them closer in.\\n> \\n> pat \\n Well, lets see....I took a class on this last fall, and I have no\\nnotes so I\\'ll try to wing it... \\n Here\\'s how I understand it. Remember from stellar evolution that \\nblack holes and neutron stars(pulsars) are formed from high mass stars,\\nM(star)=1.4M(sun). High mass stars live fast and burn hard, taking\\nappoximately 10^5-10^7 years before going nova, or supernova. In this time,\\nthey don\\'t live long enough to get perturbed out of the galactic plane, so any\\nof these (if assumed to be the sources of GRB\\'s) will be in the plane of the\\ngalaxy. \\n Then we take the catalog of bursts that have been recieved from the\\nvarious satellites around the solar system, (Pioneer Venus has one, either\\nPion. 10 or 11, GINGA, and of course BATSE) and we do distribution tests on our\\ncatalog. These tests all show, that the bursts have an isotropic\\ndistribution(evenly spread out in a radial direction), and they show signs of\\nhomogeneity, i.e. they do not clump in any one direction. So, unless we are\\nsampling the area inside the disk of the galaxy, we are sampling the UNIVERSE.\\nNot cool, if you want to figure out what the hell caused these things. Now, I\\nsuppose you are saying, \"Well, we stil only may be sampling from inside the\\ndisk.\" Well, not necessarily. Remember, we have what is more or less an\\ninterplanetary network of burst detectors with a baseline that goes waaaay out\\nto beyond Pluto(pioneer 11), so we should be able, with all of our detectors de\\ntect some sort of difference in angle from satellite to satellite. Here\\'s an \\nanalogy: You see a plane overhead. You measure the angle of the plane from\\nthe origin of your arbitrary coordinate system. One of your friends a mile\\naway sees the same plane, and measures the angle from the zero point of his\\narbitrary system, which is the same as yours. The two angles are different,\\nand you should be able to triangulate the position of your burst, and maybe\\nfind a source. To my knowledge, no one has been able to do this. \\n I should throw in why halo, and corona models don\\'t work, also. As I\\nsaid before, looking at the possible astrophysics of the bursts, (short\\ntimescales, high energy) black holes, and pulsars exhibit much of this type of\\nbehavior. If this is the case, as I said before, these stars seem to be bound\\nto the disk of the galaxy, especially the most energetic of the these sources.\\nWhen you look at a simulated model, where the bursts are confined to the disk,\\nbut you sample out to large distances, say 750 mpc, you should definitely see\\nnot only an anisotropy towards you in all direction, but a clumping of sources \\nin the direction of the galactic center. As I said before, there is none of\\nthese characteristics. \\n \\n I think that\\'s all of it...if someone needs clarification, or knows\\nsomething that I don\\'t know, by all means correct me. I had the honor of\\ntaking the Bursts class with the person who has done the modeling of these\\ndifferent distributions, so we pretty much kicked around every possible\\ndistribution there was, and some VERY outrageous sources. Colliding pulsars,\\nblack holes, pulsars that are slowing down...stuff like that. It\\'s a fun\\nfield. \\n Complaints and corrections to: belgarath@vax1.mankato.msus.edu or \\npost here. \\n -jeremy\\n\\n \\n',\n", " \"From: koreth@spud.Hyperion.COM (Steven Grimm)\\nSubject: Re: Opinions on Allergy (Hay Fever) shots?\\nOrganization: Hyperion, Mountain View, CA, USA\\nLines: 7\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: spud.hyperion.com\\n\\nI had allergy shots for about four years starting as a sophomore in high\\nschool. Before that, I used to get bloody noses, nighttime asthma attacks,\\nand eyes so itchy I couldn't get to sleep. After about 6 months on the\\nshots, most of those symptoms were gone, and they haven't come back. I\\nstopped getting the shots (due more to laziness than planning) in college.\\nMy allergies got a little worse after that, but are still nowhere near as\\nbad as they used to be. So yes, the shots do work.\\n\",\n", " 'From: kxgst1+@pitt.edu (Kenneth Gilbert)\\nSubject: Re: erythromycin\\nOrganization: University of Pittsburgh\\nLines: 14\\n\\nIn article <47974@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> wsun@jeeves.ucsd.edu (Fiberman) writes:\\n:Is erythromycin effective in treating pneumonia?\\n:\\n:-fm\\n\\n\\nNot only is it effective, it is in fact the drug of choice for\\nuncomplicated cases of community-acquired penumonia.\\n\\n-- \\n=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-|-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=\\n= Kenneth Gilbert __|__ University of Pittsburgh =\\n= General Internal Medicine | \"...dammit, not a programmer!\" =\\n=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-|-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=\\n',\n", " 'From: tholen@newton.ifa.hawaii.edu (Dave Tholen)\\nSubject: Re: Command Loss Timer (Re: Galileo Update - 04/22/93)\\nOrganization: Institute for Astronomy, Hawaii\\nLines: 23\\n\\nAlan Carter writes:\\n\\n>> 3. On April 19, a NO-OP command was sent to reset the command loss timer to\\n>> 264 hours, its planned value during this mission phase.\\n\\n> This activity is regularly reported in Ron\\'s interesting posts. Could\\n> someone explain what the Command Loss Timer is?\\n\\nThe name is rather descriptive. It\\'s a command to the spacecraft that tells\\nit \"If you don\\'t hear from Earth after 264 hours, assume something is wrong\\nwith your (the spacecraft) attitude, and go into a preprogrammed search mode\\nin an attempt to reacquire the signal from Earth.\"\\n\\nThe spacecraft and Earth are not in constant communication with each other.\\nEarth monitors the telemetry from the spacecraft, and if everything is fine,\\nthere\\'s no reason to send it any new information. But from the spacecraft\\'s\\npoint of view, no information from Earth could mean either everything is\\nfine, or that the spacecraft has lost signal acquisition. Just how long\\nshould the spacecraft wait before it decides that something is wrong and\\nbegins to take corrective action? That \"how long\" is the command loss timer.\\nDuring relatively inactive cruise phases, the command loss timer can be set\\nto rather long values. In this case, Earth is telling Galileo \"expect to\\nhear back from us sometime within the next 264 hours\".\\n',\n", " 'From: tas@pegasus.com (Len Howard)\\nSubject: Re: Foreskin Troubles\\nSummary: Dorsal slit operation\\nArticle-I.D.: pegasus.1993Apr22.221111.9678\\nOrganization: Pegasus, Honolulu\\nLines: 11\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr18.042100.2720@radford.vak12ed.edu> mmatusev@radford.vak12ed.edu (Melissa N. Matusevich) writes:\\n>What can be done, short of circumcision, for an adult male\\n>whose foreskin will not retract?\\n>\\nMelissa, there is a simpler procedure called a \"Dorsal slit\" that is\\nreally the first step of the usual circumcision. It is simpler and\\nquicker, but the pain is about the same as circumcision after the\\nanesthetic wears off and the aesthetic result post healing is not as\\ngood. See your friendly urologist for more details.\\n Len Howard\\n.\\n',\n", " \"From: GAnderson@Cmutual.com.au (Gavin Anderson)\\nSubject: Help - Looking for a Medical Journal Article - Whiplash/Cervical Pain\\nLines: 37\\nOrganization: Colonial Mutual Life Australia\\nX-Newsreader: FTPNuz (DOS) v1.0\\nLines: 24\\n\\nHi,\\nI am not sure where to post this message, please contact me if I'm way off\\nthe mark.\\nOn 19.3.93 my wife went to her General Practitioner (Doctor). He mentioned\\nan article from a medical journal that is of great interest to us. He had\\nread it in the previous three months but has been unable to find it again.\\nThe article was about Whiplash Injury/Cervical Pain. It mentions the use of\\na MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imagery) machine as a diagnostic tool and the work\\nof a neurosurgeon who relived cervical pain.\\nThis article is most likely in an Australian medical journal. I very much\\nwant to obtain the name of the article, journal and author because the case\\nmatches my wife. We would very much appreciate anyone's help in this matter\\nvia email preferably.\\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nGavin Anderson email: GAnderson@cmutual.com.au\\nAnalyst/Programmer. phone: +61-3-607-6299\\nColonial Mutual Life Aust. (ACN 004021809) fax : +61-3-283-1095\\n-----------Some people never consciously discover their antipodes----------\\n\\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nGavin Anderson email: GAnderson@cmutual.com.au\\nAnalyst/Programmer. phone: +61-3-607-6299\\nColonial Mutual Life Aust. (ACN 004021809) fax : +61-3-283-1095\\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n\",\n", " \"From: nyeda@cnsvax.uwec.edu (David Nye)\\nSubject: Re: OB-GYN residency\\nOrganization: University of Wisconsin Eau Claire\\nLines: 13\\n\\n[reply to geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)]\\n \\n>>I believe it is illegal for a residency to discriminate against FMGs.\\n \\n>Is that true? I know some that won't even interview FMGs.\\n \\nI think a case could be made that this is discriminatory, particularly\\nif an applicant had good board scores and recommendations but wasn't\\noffered an interview, but I don't know if it has ever gone to court.\\n \\nDavid Nye (nyeda@cnsvax.uwec.edu). Midelfort Clinic, Eau Claire WI\\nThis is patently absurd; but whoever wishes to become a philosopher\\nmust learn not to be frightened by absurdities. -- Bertrand Russell\\n\",\n", " 'From: gary@ke4zv.uucp (Gary Coffman)\\nSubject: Re: What if the USSR had reached the Moon first?\\nReply-To: gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman)\\nOrganization: Destructive Testing Systems\\nLines: 63\\n\\nIn article <93110.031905SAUNDRSG@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> Graydon writes:\\n>In article <1993Apr18.091051.14496@ke4zv.uucp>, gary@ke4zv.uucp (Gary Coffman)\\n>says:\\n>>It\\'s conceivable that Luna will have a military purpose, it\\'s possible\\n>>that Luna will have a commercial purpose, but it\\'s most likely that\\n>>Luna will only have a scientific purpose for the next several hundred\\n>>years at least. Therefore, Lunar bases should be predicated on funding\\n>>levels little different from those found for Antarctic bases. Can you\\n>>put a 200 person base on the Moon for $30 million a year? Even if you\\n>>use grad students?\\n>\\n>You might be able to _run_ one for that; put it there, hardly.\\n>\\n>Why do you think at least a couple centuries before there will\\n>be significant commerical activity on the Moon?\\n\\nWishful thinking mostly. It\\'s more likely that the Moon will never\\nbe the site of major commercial activity. As far as we know it has no\\nmaterials we can\\'t get cheaper right here on Earth or from asteroids\\nand comets, aside from the semi-mythic He3 that *might* be useful in low\\ngrade fusion reactors. Exploring it would satisfy a curiosity itch, \\nand it\\'s position in the gravity well of Earth coupled with it\\'s heat \\nsink capacity could offer some military utility for \"high ground\" military\\nweapons systems, but it holds very minute commercial value. If space \\ntravel becomes cheap enough, it might become a tourist attraction as \\nMt. Everest and the Antarctic have become, but that\\'s a very minor \\nactivity in the global scope of things.\\n\\nLuna has an inconvienent gravity field. It\\'s likely too low to prevent\\ncalcium loss, muscle atrophy, and long term genetic drift. Yet it\\'s\\ntoo high to do micro-G manufacturing. Space based colonies and factories\\nthat can be spun to any convienent value of G look much better. Luna\\nhas a modest vacuum and raw solar exposure two weeks a month, but orbital\\nsites can have better vacuums and continous solar exposure. Luna offers\\na source of light element rocks that can serve as raw materials, heatsink,\\nand shielding. The asteroids and comets offer sources of both light and\\nheavy elements, and volatile compounds, and many are in less steep gravity\\nwells so that less delta-v is required to reach them.\\n\\nWe don\\'t use 2/3rds of the Earth now, the seafloors, and we virtually\\nignore Antarctica, a whole continent. That\\'s because we don\\'t have to\\ndeal with those conditions in order to make a buck. Luna is a much more\\nexpensive place to visit, or to live and work. I think we\\'ll use the\\neasier places first. That pushes Lunar development back at least a few\\ncenturies, if not much longer.\\n\\nLuna\\'s main short term value would be as a place for a farside radio\\nastronomy observatory, shielded from the noisy Earth. Or as the site\\nof a laser, particle beam, or linear accelerator weapons system for\\ndefending Earth, or bombarding it as the case may be. The first is\\nunlikely because of the high cost for such a basic science instrument.\\nThe second is just as unlikely because conventional nukes are good\\nenough, and the military would really rather see the Earth safe for\\nconventional warfare again. There\\'s little glory in watching from a\\nbunker as machines fight each other over continental ranges. Little\\nultimate profit either.\\n\\nGary\\n-- \\nGary Coffman KE4ZV | You make it, | gatech!wa4mei!ke4zv!gary\\nDestructive Testing Systems | we break it. | uunet!rsiatl!ke4zv!gary\\n534 Shannon Way | Guaranteed! | emory!kd4nc!ke4zv!gary \\nLawrenceville, GA 30244 | | \\n',\n", " \"From: jperkski@kentcomm.uucp (Jim Perkowski)\\nSubject: Re: jiggers\\nDistribution: world\\nX-NewsSoftware: GRn 1.16f (10.17.92) by Mike Schwartz & Michael B. Smith\\nOrganization: Privately owned and operated UUCP site.\\nLines: 26\\n\\nIn article <1ppae1$bt0@bigboote.WPI.EDU> susan@wpi.WPI.EDU (susan) writes:\\n> a friend of mine has a very severe cause of jiggers -\\n> for over a year now - they cause him a lot of pain.\\n>\\n> i recently read (i don't know where) about a possible\\n> cure for jiggers. does anyone have any information on\\n> this? i can't remember the name of the treatment, or\\n> where i read it.\\n>\\n\\nI'll probably get flamed for this, but when I was a kid we would go to\\nmy uncles cabin on Middle Bass Island on Lake Erie. We always came home\\nwith a nasty case of jiggers (large red bumps where the buggers had\\nburrowed into the skin). My mother would paint the bumps with clear\\nfinger nail polish. This was repeated daily for about a week or so. The\\napplication of the polish is supposed to suffocate them as it seals of\\nthe skin. All I can say is it worked for us. One word of caution\\nthough. Putting finger nail polish on a jigger bite stings like hell.\\n\\n(If I do get flamed for this just put jam in my pockets and call me\\ntoast.:)\\n\\n--\\n_______________________________________________________________________________\\nkentcomm!jperkski@aldhfn.akron.oh.us (and) kentcomm!jperkski@legend.akron.oh.us\\n\\n\",\n", " 'From: nsmca@aurora.alaska.edu\\nSubject: Re: Jemison on Star Trek\\nArticle-I.D.: aurora.1993Apr20.142747.1\\nOrganization: University of Alaska Fairbanks\\nLines: 16\\nNntp-Posting-Host: acad3.alaska.edu\\n\\nIn article , loss@fs7.ECE.CMU.EDU (Doug Loss) writes:\\n> I saw in the newspaper last night that Dr. Mae Jemison, the first\\n> black woman in space (she\\'s a physician and chemical engineer who flew\\n> on Endeavour last year) will appear as a transporter operator on the\\n> \"Star Trek: The Next Generation\" episode that airs the week of May 31.\\n> It\\'s hardly space science, I know, but it\\'s interesting.\\n> \\n> Doug Loss\\n\\n\\nInteresting is rigth.. I wonder if they will make a mention of her being an\\nastronaut in the credits.. I think it might help people connect the future of\\nspace with the present.. And give them an idea that we must go into space..\\n\\n==\\nMichael Adams, nsmca@acad3.alaska.edu -- I\\'m not high, just jacked\\n',\n", " \"From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)\\nSubject: Re: HLV for Fred (was Re: Prefab Space Station?)\\nArticle-I.D.: zoo.C51875.67p\\nOrganization: U of Toronto Zoology\\nLines: 28\\n\\nIn article jbh55289@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Josh Hopkins) writes:\\n>>>Titan IV launches ain't cheap \\n>>Granted. But that's because titan IV's are bought by the governemnt. Titan\\n>>III is actually the cheapest way to put a pound in space of all US expendable\\n>>launchers.\\n>\\n>In that case it's rather ironic that they are doing so poorly on the commercial\\n>market. Is there a single Titan III on order?\\n\\nThe problem with Commercial Titan is that MM has made little or no attempt\\nto market it. They're basically happy with their government business and\\ndon't want to have to learn how to sell commercially.\\n\\nA secondary problem is that it is a bit big. They'd need to go after\\nmulti-satellite launches, a la Ariane, and that complicates the marketing\\ntask quite significantly.\\n\\nThey also had some problems with launch facilities at just the wrong time\\nto get them started properly. If memory serves, the pad used for the Mars\\nObserver launch had just come out of heavy refurbishment work that had\\nprevented launches from it for a year or so.\\n\\nThere have been a few CT launches. Mars Observer was one of them. So\\nwas that stranded Intelsat, and at least one of its brothers that reached\\norbit properly.\\n-- \\nAll work is one man's work. | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology\\n - Kipling | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry\\n\",\n", " 'From: lady@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Lee Lady)\\nSubject: Re: Science and Methodology\\nSummary: Merely avoiding mistakes doesn\\'t get you anywhere.\\nOrganization: University of Hawaii (Mathematics Dept)\\nExpires: Mon, 10 May 1993 10:00:00 GMT\\nLines: 57\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr11.015518.21198@sbcs.sunysb.edu> mhollowa@ic.sunysb.edu \\n (Michael Holloway) writes:\\n>In article lady@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu \\n (Lee Lady) writes:\\n>>I would also like to point out that most of the arguments about science\\n>>in sci.med, sci.psychology, etc. are not about cases where people are\\n>>rejecting scientific argument/evidence/proof. They are about cases where\\n>>no adequate scientific research has been done. (In some cases, there is\\n>>quite a bit of evidence, but it isn\\'t in a format to fit doctrinaire\\n>>conceptions of what science is.) \\n>\\n>Here it is again. This indicates confusion between \"proof\" and the process\\n>of doing science. \\n\\nYou are making precisely one of the points I wanted to make.\\nI fully agree with you that there is a big distinction between the\\n*process* of science and the end result. \\n\\nAs an end result of science, one wants to get results that are\\nobjectively verifiable. But there is nothing objective about the\\n*process* of science. \\n\\nIf good empirical research were done and showed that there is some merit\\nto homeopathic remedies, this would certainly be valuable information.\\nBut it would still not mean that homeopathy qualifies as a science. This\\nis where you and I disagree with Turpin. In order to have science, one\\nmust have a theoretical structure that makes sense, not a mere\\ncollection of empirically validated random hypotheses.\\n\\nExperiment and empirical studies are an important part of science, but\\nthey are merely the culmination of scientific research. The most\\nimportant part of true scientific methodology is SCIENTIFIC THINKING. \\nWithout this, one does not have any hypotheses worth testing. (No,\\nhypotheses do not just leap out at you after you look at enough data.\\nNor do they simply come to you in a flash one day while you\\'re shaving or\\nlooking out the window. At least not unless you\\'ve done a lot of really\\ngood thinking beforehand.) \\n\\nThe difference between a Nobel Prize level scientist and a mediocre\\nscientist does not lie in the quality of their empirical methodology. \\nIt depends on the quality of their THINKING. \\n\\nIt really bothers me that so many graduate students seem to believe that\\nthey are doing science merely because they are conducting empirical\\nstudies. And it bothers me even more that there are many fields, such as\\ncertain parts of psychology, where there seems to be no thinking at all, \\nbut mere studies testing ad hoc hypotheses. \\n\\nAnd I\\'m especially offended by Russell Turpin\\'s repeated assertion that\\nscience amounts to nothing more than avoiding mistakes. Simply avoiding\\nmistakes doesn\\'t get you anywhere. \\n\\n--\\nIn the arguments between behaviorists and cognitivists, psychology seems \\nless like a science than a collection of competing religious sects. \\n\\nlady@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu lady@uhunix.bitnet\\n',\n", " 'From: abdkw@stdvax (David Ward)\\nSubject: Re: Keeping Spacecraft on after Funding Cuts.\\nNews-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1 \\nOrganization: Goddard Space Flight Center - Robotics Lab\\nLines: 34\\n\\nIn article <20APR199321040621@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov>, baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov (Ron Baalke) writes...\\n>In article <1993Apr20.204335.157595@zeus.calpoly.edu>, jgreen@trumpet.calpoly.edu (James Thomas Green) writes...\\n>>Why do spacecraft have to be shut off after funding cuts. For\\n>>example, Why couldn\\'t Magellan just be told to go into a \"safe\"\\n>>mode and stay bobbing about Venus in a low-power-use mode and if\\n>>maybe in a few years if funding gets restored after the economy\\n>>gets better (hopefully), it could be turned on again. \\n> \\n>It can be, but the problem is a political one, not a technical one.\\n\\nAlso remember that every dollar spent keeping one spacecraft in safe mode\\n(probably a spin-stabilized sun-pointing orientation) is a dollar not\\nspent on mission analysis for a newer spacecraft. In order to turn the\\nspacecraft back on, you either need to insure that the Ops guys will be\\navailable, or you need to retrain a new team.\\n\\nHaving said that, there are some spacecraft that do what you have proposed.\\nMany of the operational satellites Goddard flies (like the Tiros NOAA \\nseries) require more than one satellite in orbit for an operational set.\\nExtras which get replaced on-orbit are powered into a \"standby\" mode for\\nuse in an emergency. In that case, however, the same ops team is still\\nrequired to fly the operational birds; so the standby maintenance is\\nrelatively cheap.\\n\\nFinally, Pat\\'s explanation (some spacecraft require continuous maintenance\\nto stay under control) is also right on the mark. I suggested a spin-\\nstabilized control mode because it would require little power or \\nmaintenance, but it still might require some momentum dumping from time\\nto time.\\n\\nIn the end, it *is* a political decision (since the difference is money),\\nbut there is some technical rationale behind the decision.\\n\\nDavid W. @ GSFC \\n',\n", " \"From: mjliu@csie.nctu.edu.tw (Ming-zhou Liu)\\nSubject: H E L P M E ---> desperate with some VD\\nOrganization: Dep. Computer Science & Engin. of Chiao Tung U., Taiwan, ROC\\nLines: 20\\n\\nI have bad luck and got a VD called , which involves\\nthe growth of granules in the groin. I found out about it by checking medicine\\nbooks and I found the prescriptions. And I know I can just go to a clinic to\\nget it cured. BUT unfortunately I am serving my duty in the army right now and\\nI think it's impossible to prevent anyone from knowing this if I take leaves \\nevery day for two weeks for treatment. Thus I bought the prescribed tablets\\nat some drugstore, but to cure it I must get INJECTION of , with\\na dose of 1g every 12 hours, for at least 10 days. I can probably buy the \\ntools and this solution somewhere but I DON'T KNOW HOW TO DO INJECTION BY MYSELF\\n!\\nCan any kind people here tell me:\\n\\nIf it's possible to do it? Can I do it on my arm? or it must be done on the hip\\nonly?? Any info is welcome and please write me or post your help SOON!! (I am\\nalready taking the tablets ..and I can't wait!!)\\n\\nPlease don't flame me for posting this, and don't judge me. I've learned a \\nlesson and all I need now is REAL MEDICAL HELP.\\n\\nDesperate from Taipei \\n\",\n", " 'From: nsmca@aurora.alaska.edu\\nSubject: Billboard/Station/Space Dock?\\nLines: 24\\nNntp-Posting-Host: acad3.alaska.edu\\nOrganization: University of Alaska Fairbanks\\n\\nSeems that the Mile-Long Billboard and any other inflateble space\\nobject/station or what ever have the same problems. (other than being a little\\nbit different than the \"normal\" space ideas, such as trusses and shuttles)\\n\\nBut also dag and such.. Why not combine the discussion of how and fesibility to\\nthe same topic?\\n\\nI personnelly liek the idea of a billboard in space. But problem. How do you\\nservice it? fly a shuttle/DC-1 to near it and then dismount and \"fly\" to it?\\nOr what?? or havign a special docking section for shuttle/DC-1 docking?\\n\\nAlso what if the billboard springs a leak? Self sealing and such??\\n\\n\\nJust thinking (okay rambling)..\\n\\nAlso why must the now inflated billboard, not be covered in the inside by a\\nharder substance (such as a polymer or other agent) and then the now \"hard\"\\nbillboard would be a now giant docking structure/space dock/station??\\n\\nOr am I missing something here.. (probably am!?)\\n==\\nMichael Adams, nsmca@acad3.alaska.edu -- I\\'m not high, just jacked\\n\\n',\n", " 'From: pk115050@wvnvms.wvnet.edu\\nSubject: HELP for Kidney Stones ..............\\nOrganization: West Virginia Network for Educational Telecomputing\\nLines: 11\\n\\nMy girlfriend is in pain from kidney stones. She says that because she has no\\nmedical insurance, she cannot get them removed.\\n\\nMy question: Is there any way she can treat them herself, or at least mitigate\\ntheir effects? Any help is deeply appreciated. (Advice, referral to literature,\\netc...)\\n\\nThank you,\\n\\nDave Carvell\\npk115050@wvnvms.wvnet.edu\\n',\n", " 'From: dietz@cs.rochester.edu (Paul Dietz)\\nSubject: Re: Terraforming Venus: can it be done \"cheaply\"?\\nOrganization: University of Rochester\\nLines: 9\\n\\nWould someone please send me James Oberg\\'s email address, if he has\\none and if someone reading this list knows it? I wanted to send\\nhim a comment on something in his terraforming book.\\n\\n\\tPaul F. Dietz\\n\\tdietz@cs.rochester.edu\\n\\n\\tPotential explosive yield of the annual global\\n\\tproduction of borax: 5 million megatons\\n',\n", " \"From: bj368@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Mike E. Romano)\\nSubject: Home Medical Tests\\nOrganization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)\\nLines: 21\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: hela.ins.cwru.edu\\n\\n\\nI am looking for current sources for lists of all the home\\nmedical tests currently legally available.\\nI believe this trend of allowing tests at home where\\nfeasible, decreased medical costs by a factor of 10 or\\nmore and allows the patient some time and privacy to\\nconsider the best action from the results of such tests.\\nIn fact I believe home medical tests and certain basic\\ntests for serious diseases such as cancer, heart disease,\\nshould be offered free to the American public.\\nThis could actually help to reduce national medical costs\\nsince many would have an earlier opportunity to know\\nabout and work toward recuperation or cure.\\nMike Romano\\n\\n\\n-- \\nSir, I admit your gen'ral rule\\nThat every poet is a fool;\\nBut you yourself may serve to show it,\\nThat every fool is not a poet. A. Pope\\n\",\n", " 'From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nSubject: Re: \"liver\" spots\\nReply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nOrganization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science\\nLines: 13\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr19.162502.29802@news.eng.convex.com> cash@convex.com (Peter Cash) writes:\\n>What causes those little brown spots on older people\\'s hands? Are they\\n>called \"liver spots\" because they\\'re sort of liver-colored, or do they\\n>indicate some actual liver dysfunction?\\n\\nSenile keratoses. Have nothing to do with the liver.\\n\\n\\n-- \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nGordon Banks N3JXP | \"Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and\\ngeb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu | it is shameful to surrender it too soon.\" \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n',\n", " 'Subject: Post Polio Syndrome Information Needed Please !!!\\nFrom: keith@actrix.gen.nz (Keith Stewart)\\nOrganization: Actrix Information Exchange\\nLines: 9\\n\\nMy wife has become interested through an acquaintance in Post-Polio Syndrome\\nThis apparently is not recognised in New Zealand and different symptons ( eg\\nchest complaints) are treated separately. Does anone have any information on\\nit\\n\\nThanks\\n\\n\\nKeith\\n',\n", " 'From: bmdelane@midway.uchicago.edu (brian manning delaney)\\nSubject: RESULT: sci.life-extension passes 237:28\\nOrganization: University of Chicago\\nLines: 284\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: rodan.uu.net\\n\\nThe vote to create the proposed group, Sci.life-extension, was\\naffirmative.\\n\\nYes votes: 237.\\nNo votes: 28.\\n\\nWhat follows is a list of the people who voted, by vote (\"no\" or \"yes\").\\n\\nHere are the people who voted NO:\\n\\nbailey@utpapa.ph.utexas.edu (Ed Bailey)\\nbarkdoll@lepomis.psych.upenn.edu (Edwin Barkdoll)\\nmsb@sq.com (Mark Brader)\\ncarr@acsu.buffalo.edu (Dave Carr)\\ndesj@ccr-p.ida.org (David desJardins)\\njbh@Anat.UMSMed.Edu (James B. Hutchins)\\nrsk@gynko.circ.upenn.edu (Rich Kulawiec)\\nstu@valinor.mythical.com (Stu Labovitz)\\nlau@ai.sri.com (Stephen Lau)\\nplebrun@minf8.vub.ac.be (Philippe Lebrun)\\njmaynard@nyx.cs.du.edu (Jay Maynard)\\nemcguire@intellection.com (Ed McGuire)\\nrick@crick.ssctr.bcm.tmc.edu (Richard H. Miller)\\nsmarry@zooid.guild.org (Marc Moorcroft)\\ndmosher@nyx.cs.du.edu (David Mosher)\\nejo@kaja.gi.alaska.edu (Eric J. Olson)\\nhmpetro@mosaic.uncc.edu (Herbert M Petro)\\nsmith-una@YALE.EDU (Una Smith)\\nmmt@RedBrick.COM (Maxime Taksar KC6ZPS)\\nurlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs)\\nac999266@umbc.edu (a Francis Uy)\\nwerner@SOE.Berkeley.Edu (John Werner)\\nwick@netcom.com (Potter Wickware)\\nggw@wolves.Durham.NC.US (Gregory G. Woodbury)\\nD.W.Wright@bnr.co.uk (D. Wright)\\nyarvin-norman@CS.YALE.EDU (Norman Yarvin)\\nask@cblph.att.com\\nspm2d@opal.cs.virginia.edu\\n\\nHere are the people who voted YES:\\n\\nFSSPR@ACAD3.ALASKA.EDU (Hardcore Alaskan)\\nkalex@eecs.umich.edu (Ken Alexander)\\nph600fht@sdcc14.UCSD.EDU (Alex Aumann)\\nfranklin.balluff@Syntex.Com (Franklin Balluff)\\nbarash@umbc.edu (Mr. Steven Barash)\\nbuild@alan.b30.ingr.com (Alan Barksdale (build))\\nlion@TheRat.Kludge.COM (John H. Barlow)\\npbarto@UCENG.UC.EDU (Paul Barto)\\nryan.bayne@canrem.com (Ryan Bayne)\\nmignon@shannon.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Mignon Belongie)\\nbeaudot@tirf.grenet.fr (william Beaudot)\\nlavb@lise.unit.no (Olav Benum)\\nross@bryson.demon.co.uk (Ross Beresford)\\nben.best@canrem.com (Ben Best)\\nlevi@happy-man.com (Levi Bitansky)\\njsb30@dagda.Eng.Sun.COM (James Blomgren)\\ngbloom@nyx.cs.du.edu (Gregory Bloom)\\nmbrader@netcom.com (Mark Brader)\\nebrandt@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Eli Brandt)\\ndoom@leland.stanford.edu (Joseph Brenner)\\nrc@pos.apana.org.au (Robert Cardwell)\\njeffjc@binkley.cs.mcgill.ca (Jeffrey CHANCE)\\nsasha@cs.umb.edu (Alexander Chislenko)\\nmclark@world.std.com (Maynard S Clark)\\n100042.2703@CompuServe.COM (\"A.J. Clifford\")\\ncoleman@twinsun.com (Mike Coleman)\\nsteve@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu (Steve Coltrin)\\ncollier@ivory.rtsg.mot.com (John T. Collier)\\ncompton@plains.NoDak.edu (Curtis M. Compton) \\nbobc@master.cna.tek.com (Bob Cook)\\ncordell@shaman.nexagen.com (Bruce Cordell)\\ncormierj@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Cormier Jean-Marc)\\ndjcoyle@macc.wisc.edu (Douglas J. Coyle)\\ndass0001@student.tc.umn.edu (\"John R Dassow-1\")\\nbdd@onion.eng.hou.compaq.com (Bruce Davis)\\ndemonn@emunix.emich.edu (Kenneth Jubal DeMonn)\\ndesilets@sj.ate.slb.com (Mark Desilets)\\nmarkd@sco.COM (Mark Diekhans)\\nkari@teracons.teracons.com (Kari Dubbelman)\\nlhdsy1!cyberia.hou281.chevron.com!hwdub@uunet.UU.NET (Dub Dublin)\\nwilldye@helios.unl.edu (Will Dye)\\n155yegan%jove.dnet.measurex.com@juno.measurex.com (TERRY EGAN)\\neder@hsvaic.boeing.com (Dani Eder)\\nglenne@magenta.HQ.Ileaf.COM (Glenn Ellingson)\\nfarrar@adaclabs.com (Richard Farrar)\\nghsvax!hal@uunet.UU.NET (Hal Finney)\\nlxfogel@srv.PacBell.COM (Lee Fogel)\\nafoxx@foxxjac.b17a.ingr.com (Foxx)\\ni000702@disc.dla.mil (sam frajerman,sppb,x3026,)\\nmpf@medg.lcs.mit.edu (Michael P. 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Zubkoff)\\n62RSE@npd1.ufpe.br\\nadwyer@mason1.gmu.edu\\nART@EMBL-Hamburg.DE\\natfurman@cup.portal.com\\nbillw@attmail.att.com\\ncarl@red-dragon.umbc.edu\\ncarlf@ai.mit.edu\\ncccbbs!chris.thompson@UCENG.UC.EDU\\nCCGARCIA@MIZZOU1.BITNET\\nclayb@cellar.org\\ndack@permanet.org\\ndaedalus@netcom.com\\ndanielg@autodesk.com\\nDave-M@cup.portal.com\\nF_GRIFFITH@CCSVAX.SFASU.EDU\\ngarcia@husc.harvard.edu\\ngav@houxa.att.com\\nhammar@cs.unm.edu\\nherbison@lassie.ucx.lkg.dec.com\\nhhuang@Athena.MIT.EDU\\nhkhenson@cup.portal.com\\nirving@happy-man.com\\njeckel@amugw.aichi-med-u.ac.jp\\njgs@merit.edu\\njmeritt@mental.mitre.org\\nJonas_Marten_Fjallstam@cup.portal.com\\nkqb@whscad1.att.com\\nLPOMEROY@velara.sim.es.com\\nlubkin@apollo.hp.com\\nkunert@wustlb.wustl.edu\\nLINYARD_M@XENOS.a1.logica.co.uk\\nM.Michelle.Wrightwatson@att.com\\nmoselecw@elec.canterbury.ac.nz\\nnaoursla@eos.ncsu.edu\\nng4@husc.harvard.edu\\npase70!dchapman@uwm.edu\\npocock@math.utah.edu\\nRUDI@HSD.UVic.CA\\nSCOTTJOR@delphi.com\\nstanton@ide.com\\nsteveha@microsoft.com\\nstu1016@DISCOVER.WRIGHT.EDU\\nSYang.ES_AE@xerox.com\\ntim.hruby@his.com\\nTodd.Kaufmann@FUSSEN.MT.CS.CMU.EDU\\ntom@genie.slhs.udel.edu\\nUC482529@MIZZOU1.BITNET\\nWMILLER@clust1.clemson.edu\\nyost@mv.us.adobe.com\\n\\n(The group still passes if you don\\'t count the people for\\nwhom I just have email address.)\\n\\n-Brian \\n',\n", " 'From: kjenks@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov\\nSubject: Re: Why not give $1 billion to first year-long moon residents?\\nOrganization: NASA/JSC/GM2, Space Shuttle Program Office \\nX-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]\\nLines: 17\\n\\nGene Wright (gene@theporch.raider.net) wrote:\\n: Announce that a reward of $1 billion would go to the first corporation \\n: who successfully keeps at least 1 person alive on the moon for a year. \\n: Then you\\'d see some of the inexpensive but not popular technologies begin \\n: to be developed. THere\\'d be a different kind of space race then!\\n\\nI\\'m an advocate of this idea for funding Space Station work, and I\\nthrow around the $1 billion figure for that \"reward.\" I suggest that\\nyou increase the Lunar reward to about $3 billion.\\n\\nThis would encourage private industry to invest in space, which \\nshould be one of NASA\\'s primary goals.\\n\\n-- Ken Jenks, NASA/JSC/GM2, Space Shuttle Program Office\\n kjenks@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov (713) 483-4368\\n\\n \"Better. Faster. Cheaper.\" -- Daniel S. Goldin, NASA Administrator\\n',\n", " \"From: HOLFELTZ@LSTC2VM.stortek.com\\nSubject: Re: Krillean Photography\\nNntp-Posting-Host: lstc2vm.stortek.com\\nOrganization: StorageTek SW Engineering\\nX-Newsreader: NNR/VM S_1.3.2\\nLines: 53\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr19.205615.1013@unlv.edu>\\ntodamhyp@charles.unlv.edu (Brian M. Huey) writes:\\n \\n>In article <1993Apr19.205615.1013@unlv.edu>, todamhyp@charles.unlv.edu (Brian M. Huey) writes:\\n>> I think that's the correct spelling..\\n>\\n>The proper spelling is Kirlian. It was an effect discoverd by\\n>S. Kirlian, a soviet film developer in 1939.\\n>\\n>As I recall, the coronas visible are ascribed to static discharges\\n>and chemical reactions between the organic material and the silver\\n>halides in the films.\\n>\\n>--\\n> Tarl Neustaedter Stratus Computer\\n> tarl@sw.stratus.com Marlboro, Mass.\\n>Disclaimer: My employer is not responsible for my opinions.\\n>\\n>I think that's the correct spelling..\\n> I am looking for any information/supplies that will allow\\n>do-it-yourselfers to take Krillean Pictures. I'm thinking\\n>that education suppliers for schools might have a appartus for\\n>sale, but I don't know any of the companies. Any info is greatly\\n>appreciated.\\n> In case you don't know, Krillean Photography, to the best of my\\n>knowledge, involves taking pictures of an (most of the time) organic\\n>object between charged plates. The picture will show energy patterns\\n>or spikes around the object photographed, and depending on what type\\n>of object it is, the spikes or energy patterns will vary. One might\\n>extrapolate here and say that this proves that every object within\\n>the universe (as we know it) has its own energy signature.\\n>\\n>\\nTo construct a Kirlian device find a copy of _Handbook of Psychic\\nDiscoveries_ by Sheila Ostrander and Lynn Schroeder 1975 Library of\\nCongress 73-88532. It describes the necessary equipment and\\n suppliers for the Tesla coil or alternatives, the copper plate and\\nsetup. I used a pack of SX-70 film and removed a single pack in a\\ndark room, then made the exposure, put it back in the film pack and\\nran it out through the rollers of the camera forinstant developing\\nand very high quality. It is a good way to experience what Kirlian\\nPhotography is really and what it is not. As you know all ready,\\nit is the pattern in the bioplasmic energy fieldthat is significant.\\nVariations caused by exposure time, distance from the plate, or\\npressure on the plate, or variations in the photo materials are not\\nimportant.\\n \\nHard copy mail; Mark C. High\\n P O Box 882\\n Parowan, UT\\n 84761\\n \\n \\n\",\n", " 'From: lady@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Lee Lady)\\nSubject: Re: Science and methodology (was: Homeopathy ... tradition?)\\nSummary: Ultimately, ideas come from exploration and informal thinking.\\nOrganization: University of Hawaii (Mathematics Dept)\\nExpires: Mon, 10 May 1993 10:00:00 GMT\\nLines: 65\\n\\nIn article sasghm@theseus.unx.sas.com \\n (Gary Merrill) writes:\\n>\\n>In article <1993Apr16.155919.28040@cs.rochester.edu>, fulk@cs.rochester.edu \\n (Mark Fulk) writes:\\n>\\n>|> Flights of fancy, and other irrational approaches, are common. The crucial\\n>|> thing is not to sit around just having fantasies; they aren\\'t of any use\\n>|> unless they make you do some experiments. ....\\n>|> \\n>|> (Simple example: Warren Jelinek noticed an extremely heavy band on a DNA\\n>|> electrophoresis gel of human ALU fragments. He got very excited, .....\\n>\\n>But why do you characterize this as a \"flight of fancy\" or a \"fantasy\"?\\n>While I am unfamiliar with the scientific context here, it appears obvious\\n>that his speculation (for lack of a better or more neutral word) was\\n>at least in significant part a consequence of his knowledge of and acceptance\\n>of current theory coupled with his observations. It would appear that\\n>something quite rational was going on as he attempted to fit his observation\\n>into that theory (or to tailor the theory to cover the observation). ...\\n\\nWhether a scientific idea comes while one is staring out the window, or\\ndreaming, or having a fantasy, or watching an apple fall (Newton), or\\nsitting in a bath (Archimedes) ... it is ultimately the result of a lot of\\nintense scientific thinking done beforehand. Letting one\\'s mind roam\\nfreely and giving rein to one\\'s intuition can be a useful way of coming\\nup with new ideas, but only when one has done a lot of rational analysis\\nof the problem first. \\n\\nScientific intuition is not something one is born with. It is something\\nthat one learns. Maybe we don\\'t understand completely how it is learned,\\nbut training in systematic scientific thinking is certainly one of the \\nkey elements in developing it. \\n\\nInformal exploration is also often an important element in finding new\\nscientific ideas. One thinks, for instance, of Darwin\\'s naturalistic\\nstudies in the Galapagos islands, which led him to the ideas for the \\ntheory of evolution. \\n\\nThis is why I am offended by a definition of science that emphasizes\\nempirical verification and does not recognize thinking and informal\\nexploration as important scientific work. I agree that mere speculation\\ndoes not deserve to be called science. I also think that mere empirical\\nstudies not directed by good scientific thinking are at best a very\\npoor kind of science. \\n\\nIn article <1qk92lINNl55@im4u.cs.utexas.edu> turpin@cs.utexas.edu \\n (Russell Turpin) writes:\\n> ...\\n>I think that Lee Lady and I are talking at cross purposes.\\n> ... Lady seems concerned with the contrast between great\\n>science that makes big advances in our knowledge and mediocre\\n>science that makes smaller steps. In most of this thread, I have\\n>been concerned with the difference between what is science and\\n>what is not. \\n\\nI don\\'t think that science should be defined in a way that some of the\\nactivities that lead to really important science --- namely thinking and\\ninformal exploration --- are not recognized as scientific work. \\n\\n--\\nIn the arguments between behaviorists and cognitivists, psychology seems \\nless like a science than a collection of competing religious sects. \\n\\nlady@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu lady@uhunix.bitnet\\n',\n", " 'From: mcg2@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (Marc Gabriel)\\nSubject: Re: How to Diagnose Lyme... really\\nOrganization: Lehigh University\\nLines: 44\\nX-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL9]\\n\\nGordon Banks (geb@cs.pitt.edu) wrote:\\n: In article <1993Apr12.201056.20753@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> mcg2@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (\\nMarc Gabriel) writes:\\n\\n: >Now, I\\'m not saying that culturing is the best way to diagnose; it\\'s very\\n: >hard to culture Bb in most cases. The point is that Dr. N has developed a\\n: >\"feel\" for what is and what isn\\'t LD. This comes from years of experience.\\n: >No serology can match that. Unfortunately, some would call Dr. N a \"quack\"\\n: >and accuse him of trying to make a quick buck.\\n: >\\n: Why do you think he would be called a quack? The quacks don\\'t do cultures.\\n: They poo-poo doing more lab tests: \"this is Lyme, believe me, I\\'ve\\n: seen it many times. The lab tests aren\\'t accurate. We\\'ll treat it\\n: now.\" Also, is Dr. N\\'s practice almost exclusively devoted to treating\\n: Lyme patients? I don\\'t know *any* orthopedic surgeons who fit this\\n: pattern. They are usually GPs.\\n\\nNo, he does not exclusively treat LD patients. However, in some parts of the\\ncountry, you don\\'t need to be known as an LD \"specialist\" to see a large\\nnumber of LD patients walk through your office. Given the huge problem of\\nunderdiagnosis, orthopedists encounter late manifestations of the disease just\\nabout every day in their regular practices. Dr. N. told me that last year,\\nhe sent between 2 and 5 patients a week to the LD specialists... and he is not\\nthe only orthopedists in the town.\\n\\nLet\\'s say that only 2 people per week actually have LD. That means at the\\n*very minimum* 104 people in our town (and immediate area) develop late stage\\nmanifestations of LD *every year*. Add in the folks who were diagnosed by\\nneurologists, rheumatologists, GPs, etc, and you can see what kind of problem\\nwe have. No wonder just about everybody in town personally knows an LD\\npatient.\\n\\nHe refers most patients to LD specialists, but in extreme cases he puts the\\npatient on medication immediately to minimize the damage (in most cases, to\\nthe knees).\\n\\nGordon is correct when he states that most LD specialists are GPs.\\n\\n-Marc.\\n-- \\n--\\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\\n Marc C. Gabriel - U.C. Box 545 -\\n (215) 882-0138 Lehigh University\\n',\n", " 'From: eulenbrg@carson.u.washington.edu (Julia Eulenberg)\\nSubject: Re: Arythmia\\nArticle-I.D.: shelley.1r7mfbINNhvu\\nOrganization: University of Washington\\nLines: 2\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: carson.u.washington.edu\\n\\nAlexis Perry asked if low blood potassium could be dangerous. Yes.\\nZZ\\n',\n", " \"From: turpin@cs.utexas.edu (Russell Turpin)\\nSubject: Re: H E L P M E ---> desperate with some VD\\nOrganization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin\\nLines: 17\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: saltillo.cs.utexas.edu\\nSummary: Here's help.\\n\\n-*----\\nIn article <1993Apr17.115716.19963@debbie.cc.nctu.edu.tw> mjliu@csie.nctu.edu.tw (Ming-zhou Liu) writes:\\n> I have bad luck and got a VD called , which involves\\n> the growth of granules in the groin. I found out about it by checking \\n> medicine books and I found the prescriptions. ...\\n\\nMing-zhou Liu's main problem is that he has an incompetent\\nphysician -- himself. This physician has diagnosed a problem,\\neven though he probably has never seen the diagnosed disease\\nbefore and has no idea of what kinds of problems can present\\nsimilar symptoms. This physician now wants to treat his first\\ncase of this disease without any help from the medical community.\\n\\nThe best thing Ming-zhou Liu could do is fire his current\\nphysician and seek out a better one.\\n\\nRussell\\n\",\n", " \"From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)\\nSubject: Re: Why not give $1 billion to first year-long moon residents?\\nOrganization: U of Toronto Zoology\\nLines: 15\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr20.101044.2291@iti.org> aws@iti.org (Allen W. Sherzer) writes:\\n>This prize isn't big enough to warrent developing a SSTO, but it is\\n>enough to do it if the vehicle exists.\\n\\nActually, there are people who will tell you that it *would* be enough\\nto do SSTO development, if done privately as a cut-rate operation. Of\\ncourse, they may be over-optimistic.\\n\\nYou can also assume that a working SSTO would have other applications\\nthat would help pay for its development costs.\\n\\nI'd be inclined to make the prize somewhat larger, but $1G might be enough.\\n-- \\nAll work is one man's work. | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology\\n - Kipling | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry\\n\",\n", " 'From: nsmca@aurora.alaska.edu\\nSubject: Re: army in space\\nLines: 13\\nNntp-Posting-Host: acad3.alaska.edu\\nOrganization: University of Alaska Fairbanks\\n\\nLast I had heard because of budget and such the Air Farce is the only \"Space\\nCommand\" left.. The rest missions were generally given to the Air Farce..\\n\\nProbably a good reason for me to transfer from the Army Guard to the Air\\nGuard..\\n\\nI hate walking with a pack on my back, and how do you put on your application\\nfor a job as a kitchen worker, that you have done a lot of KP (Kitchen\\nPolice)..\\n\\n==\\nMichael Adams, nsmca@acad3.alaska.edu -- I\\'m not high, just jacked\\n\\n',\n", " 'From: fulk@cs.rochester.edu (Mark Fulk)\\nSubject: Re: Breech Baby Info Needed\\nOrganization: University of Rochester\\nLines: 89\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr5.151818.27409@trentu.ca> xtkmg@trentu.ca (Kate Gregory) writes:\\n>In article <1993Apr3.161757.19612@cs.rochester.edu> fulk@cs.rochester.edu (Mark Fulk) writes:\\n>>\\n>>Another uncommon problem is maternal hemorrhage. I don\\'t remember the\\n>>incidence, but it is something like 1 in 1,000 or 10,000 births. It is hard\\n>>to see how you could handle it at home, and you wouldn\\'t have very much time.\\n>>\\n>>thing you might consider is that people\\'s risk tradeoffs vary. I consider\\n>>a 1/1,000 risk of loss of a loved one to require considerable effort in\\n>>the avoiding.\\n>\\n>Mark, you seem to be terrified of the birth process\\n\\nThat\\'s ridiculous!\\n\\n>and unable to\\n>believe that women\\'s bodies are actually designed to do it.\\n\\nThey aren\\'t designed, they evolved. And, much as it discomforts us, in\\nhumans a trouble-free birth process was sacrificed to increased brain and\\ncranial size. Wild animals have a much easier time with birth than humans do.\\nDomestic horses and cows typically have a worse time. To give you an idea:\\nmy family tree is complicated because a few of my pioneer great-great-\\ngrandfathers had several wives, and we never could figure out which wife\\nhad each child. One might ask why this happened. My great-great-\\ngrandfathers were, by the time they reached their forties, quite prosperous\\nfarmers. Nonetheless, they lost several wives each to the rigors of\\nchildbirth; the graveyards in Spencer, Indiana, and Boswell, North Dakota,\\ncontain quite a few gravestones like \"Ida, wf. of Jacob Liptrap, and\\nbaby, May 6, 1853.\"\\n\\n>You wanted\\n>to section all women carrying breech in case one in a hundred or a\\n>thousand breech babies get hung up in second stage,\\n\\nMore like one in ten. And the consequences can be devastating; I have\\ndirect experience of more than a dozen victims of a fouled-up breech birth.\\n\\n>and now you want\\n>all babies born in hospital based on a guess of how likely maternal\\n>hemorrhage is and a false belief that it is fatal.\\n\\nIt isn\\'t always fatal. But it is often fatal, when it happens out of\\nreach of adequate help. More often, it permanently damages one\\'s health.\\n\\nClearly women\\'s bodies _evolved_ to give birth (I am no believer in divine\\ndesign); however, evolution did not favor trouble-free births for humans. \\n\\n>You have your kids where you want. You encourage your wife to\\n>get six inch holes cut through her stomach muscles, expose herself\\n>to anesthesia and infection, and whatever other \"just in case\" measures\\n>you think are necessary.\\n\\nMy, aren\\'t we wroth! I haven\\'t read a more outrageous straw man attack\\nin months! I can practically see your mouth foam.\\n\\nWe\\'re statistically sophisticated enough to balance the risks. Although\\nI can\\'t produce exact statistics 5 years after the last time we looked\\nthem up, rest assured that we balanced C-section risks against other risks.\\nI wouldn\\'t encourage my wife to have a Caesarean unless it was clearly\\nindicated; on the other hand, I am opposed (on obvious grounds) to waiting\\nuntil an emergency to give in.\\n\\nAnd bear this in mind: my wife took the lead in all of these decisions.\\nWe talked things over, and I did a lot of the leg work, but the main\\ndecisions were really hers.\\n\\n>But I for one am bothered by your continued\\n>suggestions, especially to the misc.kidders pregnant for the first\\n>time, that birth is dangerous, even fatal, and that all these\\n>unpleasant things are far better than the risks you run just doing\\n>it naturally.\\n\\nI don\\'t know of very many home birth advocates, even, that think that\\na first-time mother should have her baby at home.\\n\\n>I\\'m no Luddite. I\\'ve had a section. I\\'m planning a hospital birth\\n>this time. But for heaven\\'s sake, not everyone needs that!\\n\\nBut people should bother to find out the relative risks. My wife was\\nunwilling to take any significant risks in order to have nice surroundings.\\nIn view of the intensity of the birth experience, I doubt surroundings\\nhave much importance anyway. Somehow the values you\\'re advocating seem\\nall lopsided to me: taking risks, even if fairly small, of serious\\npermanent harm in order to preserve something that is, after all,\\nan esthetic consideration.\\n-- \\nMark A. Fulk\\t\\t\\tUniversity of Rochester\\nComputer Science Department\\tfulk@cs.rochester.edu\\n',\n", " 'From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)\\nSubject: Re: Space Station Redesign, JSC Alternative #4\\nOrganization: U of Toronto Zoology\\nLines: 10\\n\\nIn article <23APR199317452695@tm0006.lerc.nasa.gov> dbm0000@tm0006.lerc.nasa.gov (David B. Mckissock) writes:\\n> - Man-Tended Capability (Griffin has not yet adopted non-sexist\\n> language) ...\\n\\nGlad to see Griffin is spending his time on engineering rather than on\\nritual purification of the language. Pity he got stuck with the turkey\\nrather than one of the sensible options.\\n-- \\nSVR4 resembles a high-speed collision | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology\\nbetween SVR3 and SunOS. - Dick Dunn | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry\\n',\n", " 'From: wallacen@CS.ColoState.EDU (nathan wallace)\\nSubject: Level 5\\nReply-To: wallacen@CS.ColoState.EDU\\nNntp-Posting-Host: sor.cs.colostate.edu\\nOrganization: Colorado State University -=- Computer Science Dept.\\nLines: 15\\n\\nAccording to a Software engineering professor here, what was actually rated\\nlevel five was an ibm unit which produced part of the software for the shuttle,\\nby not means all of it. \\n\\nInteresting note: 90% of the software development groups surveyed were at\\nlevel 1. The ibm shuttle groups was the *only* one at level 5!\\n\\n---\\nC/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/\\nC/ Nathan F. Wallace C/C/ \"Reality Is\" C/\\nC/ e-mail: wallacen@cs.colostate.edu C/C/ ancient Alphaean proverb C/\\nC/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/\\n \\n\\n\\n',\n", " \"From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)\\nSubject: Re: Moonbase race\\nOrganization: U of Toronto Zoology\\nLines: 13\\n\\nIn article <1r6rn3INNn96@mojo.eng.umd.edu> sysmgr@king.eng.umd.edu writes:\\n>You'd need to launch HLVs to send up large amounts of stuff. Do you know \\n>of a private Titan pad? \\n\\nYou'd need to launch HLVs to send up large amounts of stuff *if* you assume\\nno new launcher development. If you assume new launcher development, with\\nlower costs as a specific objective, then you probably don't want to\\nbuild something HLV-sized anyway.\\n\\nNobody who is interested in launching things cheaply will buy Titans. It\\ndoesn't take many Titan pricetags to pay for a laser launcher or a large\\ngas gun or a development program for a Big Dumb Booster, all of which\\nwould have far better cost-effectiveness.\\n\",\n", " 'From: jim.zisfein@factory.com (Jim Zisfein) \\nSubject: Post Polio Syndrome Information Needed Please !!!\\nDistribution: world\\nOrganization: Invention Factory\\'s BBS - New York City, NY - 212-274-8298v.32bis\\nReply-To: jim.zisfein@factory.com (Jim Zisfein) \\nLines: 67\\n\\nKS> From: keith@actrix.gen.nz (Keith Stewart)\\nKS>My wife has become interested through an acquaintance in Post-Polio Syndrome\\nKS>This apparently is not recognised in New Zealand and different symptons ( eg\\nKS>chest complaints) are treated separately. Does anone have any information\\n\\nI\\'m not sure that this condition is \"recognised\" anywhere (in the\\nsense of a disease with diagnostic criteria, clear boundaries\\nbetween it and other diseases, unique pathologic or physiologic\\nfeatures, etc), but here goes with what many neurologists agree on.\\n\\nPost-polio syndrome patients have evidence of motor neuron disease\\nby clinical examination, EMG, and muscle biopsy. The abnormalities\\nare mostly chronic (due to old polio) but there is evidence of\\nongoing deterioration. Clinically, the patients complain of\\ndeclining strength and endurance with everyday motor tasks.\\nMusculoskeletal pain is a nearly universal feature that doubtless\\ncontributes to the impaired performance. The examination shows\\nmuscle weakness and atrophy. The EMG shows evidence of old\\ndenervation with reinnervation (giant and long-duration motor unit\\naction potentials) *and* evidence of active denervation\\n(fibrillation potentials). The biopsy also shows old denervation\\nwith reinnervation (fiber-type grouping) *and* evidence of active\\ndenervation (small, angulated fibers with dense oxidative enzyme\\nstaining) - but curiously, little or no group atrophy.\\n\\nPost-polio patients do not have ALS. In ALS, there is clinically\\nevident deterioration from one month to the next. In post-polio,\\nthe patients are remarkably stable in objective findings from one\\nyear to the next. Of course, there are patients who had polio\\nbefore who develop genuine ALS, but ALS is no more common among\\npolio survivors than among people who never had polio.\\n\\nThe cause of post-polio syndrome is unknown. There is little\\nevidence that post-polio patients have active polio virus or\\ndestructive immunologic response to virus antigen.\\n\\nThere is no solid evidence that patients with post-polio have\\nanything different happening to the motor unit (anterior horn cells,\\nmotor axons, neuromuscular junctions, and muscle fibers) than\\npatients with old polio who are not complaining of deterioration.\\nBoth groups can have the same EMG and biopsy findings. The reason\\nfor these \"acute\" changes in a \"chronic\" disease (old polio) is\\nunknown. Possibly spinal motor neurons (that have reinnervated huge\\nnumbers of muscle fibers) start shedding the load after several\\nyears.\\n\\nThere are a couple of clinical features that distinguish post-polio\\nsyndrome patients from patients with old polio who deny\\ndeterioration. The PPS patients are more likely to have had severe\\npolio. The PPS patients are *much* more likely to complain of pain.\\nThey also tend to score higher on depression scales of\\nneuropsychologic tests.\\n\\nMy take on this (I\\'m sure some will disagree): after recovery from\\nsevere polio there can be abnormal loading on muscles, tendons,\\nligaments, bones, and joints, that leads to inflammatory and/or\\ndegenerative conditions affecting these structures. The increasing\\npain, superimposed on the chronic (but unchanging) weakness, leads\\nto progressive impairment of motor performance and ADL. I am\\nperhaps biased by personal experience of having never seen a PPS\\npatient who was not limited in some way by pain. I do not believe\\nthat PPS patients have more rapid deterioration of motor units than\\nnon-PPS patients (i.e., those with old polio of similar severity but\\nwithout PPS complaints).\\n---\\n . SLMR 2.1 . E-mail: jim.zisfein@factory.com (Jim Zisfein)\\n \\n',\n", " \"From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)\\nSubject: Re: Moonbase race, NASA resources, why?\\nOrganization: U of Toronto Zoology\\nLines: 36\\n\\nIn article keithley@apple.com (Craig Keithley) writes:\\n>Ah, there's the rub. And a catch-22 to boot. For the purposes of a\\n>contest, you'll probably not compete if'n you can't afford the ride to get\\n>there. And although lower priced delivery systems might be doable, without\\n>demand its doubtful that anyone will develop a new system...\\n\\nYou're assuming that the low-cost delivery system has to be a separate\\nproject. But why? If you are spending hundreds of millions of dollars\\nin hopes of winning a billion-dollar prize, it is *cheaper* to develop\\nyour own launch system, charging its entire development cost against\\nyour contest entry, than to try to do it with existing launchers. No\\nother demand is necessary.\\n\\n>> Any plan for doing\\n>> sustained lunar exploration using existing launch systems is wasting\\n>> money in a big way.\\n>\\n>This depends on the how soon the new launch system comes on line. In other\\n>words, perhaps a great deal of worthwhile technology (life support,\\n>navigation, etc.) could be developed prior to a low cost launch system. \\n>You wouldn't want to use the expensive stuff forever, but I'd hate to see\\n>folks waiting to do anything until a low cost Mac, oops, I mean launch\\n>system comes on line.\\n\\nYou're assuming that it's going to take a decade to build a new launch\\nsystem. But why? The Saturn V took less than six years, depending on\\nexactly when you date its start. Pegasus took about three from project\\nstart to first flight. Before SDIO chickened out on orbital development,\\nthe target date for an orbital DC-Y flight was 1996. If you really want\\nspeed, consider that the first prototypes of the Thor missile (still in\\nservice as the core of the Delta launcher) shipped to the USAF less\\nthan 18 months after the development go-ahead.\\n\\nOne of the most pernicious myths in this whole business is the belief\\nthat you can't build a launcher without taking ten years and spending\\nbillions of dollars. It isn't true and never was.\\n\",\n", " 'From: mccurdy@ucsvax.sdsu.edu (McCurdy M.)\\nSubject: Thrush ((was: Good Grief! (was Re: Candida Albicans: what is it?)))\\nOrganization: San Diego State University\\nLines: 36\\nDistribution: world\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: ucsvax.sdsu.edu\\nNews-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1 \\n\\nIn article , aldridge@netcom.com (Jacquelin Aldri writes...\\n>dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer) writes:\\n> \\n\\netc. ...\\n\\n> \\n>Dyer, you\\'re rude. Medicine is not a totallly scientific endevour. It\\'s\\n>often practiced in a disorganized manner. Most early treatment of\\n>non-life threatening illness is done on a guess, hazarded after anecdotal\\n>evidence given by the patient. It\\'s an educated guess, by a trained person,\\n>but it\\'s still no more than a guess.\\n>It\\'s cheaper and simpler to medicate first and only deal further with those\\n>people who don\\'t respond.\\n> \\n\\nDyer is beyond rude. \\n\\nThere have been and always will be people who are blinded by their own \\nknowledge and unopen to anything that isn\\'t already established. Given what \\nthe medical community doesn\\'t know, I\\'m surprised that he has this outlook.\\n\\nFor the record, I have had several outbreaks of thrush during the several \\npast few years, with no indication of immunosuppression or nutritional \\ndeficiencies. I had not taken any antobiotics. \\n\\nMy dentist (who sees a fair amount of thrush) recommended acidophilous:\\n\\nAfter I began taking acidophilous on a daily basis, the outbreaks ceased.\\nWhen I quit taking the acidophilous, the outbreaks periodically resumed. \\nI resumed taking the acidophilous with no further outbreaks since then.\\n\\n* Mike McCurdy \\n* University Computing Services Disclaimer:\\n* San Diego State University\\n* mccurdy@ucsvax.sdsu.edu \"Everything I say may be wrong\"\\n',\n", " 'Subject: EXPERTS on PENICILLIN...LOOK!\\nFrom: ndacumo@eis.calstate.edu (Noah Dacumos)\\nOrganization: Calif State Univ/Electronic Information Services\\nLines: 8\\n\\nMy name is Noah Dacumos and I am a student at San Leandro High. I am\\ndoing a project for my physics class and I would like some info on the\\ndiscovery of penicillin, its discoverer(Sir Alexander Fleming), and how it\\nhelps people with many incurable bacterias. Also how it effects those who\\nare allergic to it. Any info will be greatly appreciated.\\n\\n\\t\\t\\t\\t\\tNoah Dacumos\\n\\n',\n", " \"From: jeffp@vetmed.wsu.edu (Jeff Parke)\\nSubject: Re: Lyme vaccine\\nOrganization: College of Veterinary Medicine WSU\\nX-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL9]\\nLines: 13\\n\\nkathleen richards (kilty@ucrengr) wrote:\\n\\n> If you have time to type it in I'd love to have the reference for that\\n> paper! thanks!\\n\\nExperimental Lyme Disease in Dogs Produces Arthritis and Persistant Infection,\\nThe Journal of Infectious Diseases, March 1993, 167:651-664\\n\\n--\\nJeff Parke \\nalso: jeffp@WSUVM1.bitnet AOL: JeffParke\\nWashington State University College of Veterinary Medicine class of 1994\\nPullman, WA 99164-7012\\n\",\n", " 'From: semmett@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Steve Emmett)\\nSubject: Moscow Aviation Institute summer school\\nOrganization: George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA\\nLines: 103\\n\\nI have attached a copy of an announcement I picked up during my trip to\\nMoscow last week. I have several friends at the Moscow Aviation\\nInstitute who have asked me to post this announcement. (I have done\\nsome editing, but the contents is unchanged from the original\\nannouncement.) \\n\\nFor those of you not familiar with the Moscow Aviation Institute, it is\\nthe leading Russian school of higher education dedicated to the training\\nof aircraft and spacecraft designers. It specializes in airframe\\ndesign, powerplant design, control systems, and power systems.\\nVirtually all of the major former Soviet airframe designers (Tupolev,\\nSu, Iluchine, Migoyan, etc.) were schooled at MAI.\\n\\nI had the opportunity to tour the two museums that are maintained at\\nMAI. The aircraft include Mig23, Su 27, Yak 38, the cockpit of an\\nF-111(!), among others. It was a fascinating and eye opening\\nexperience, expecially given the fact that the museum was, until a year\\nor so ago, closed to virtually everyone. I also had the opportunity to\\nsee some of the experiments being conducted with plasma drive engines\\nfor future space craft use.\\n\\nIf you have any questions about the Institute, or the program, I would\\nbe glad to try and answer them. The institute, and most of it\\'s faculty\\nhave e-mail addresses. However, it takes about a day or so for the\\nreceiver to get the message. They are still a bit antiquated - but they\\nare rapidly changing!\\n\\nSteve Emmett\\nsemmett@gmuvax2.gmu.edu\\n\\nps please send any questions you have for me via e-mail. George Mason\\nuniversity has about a 2 week (!) delay in news feed delivery.\\n\\n\\n-------------------------------------------------------------------\\n\\n\\t\\tMOSCOW INTERNATIONAL AVIATION SCHOOL\\n\\nThe aviation school \"Poljot\" (meaning Flight) is organized by the the\\nMoscow Aviation Institute, the prominent Russian Center of airspace\\neducation and the foreign trade firm Poljot, well known in various\\nparts of the world for their quartz and mechanical wrist watches.\\n\\nThe course of studies will last only 50 days, but during this time\\nyou will have the unique opportunity:\\n\\t- to listen to intensive courses on the main aviation\\ndisciplines, the history and theory of techniques, and design of\\nairplanes;\\n\\t- to visit and get acquainted with the world known Russian \\naviation firms - TU, MiG, Yak, Il and Su;\\n\\t- to meet and have discussions with famous aviation\\nscientists, engineers and pilots;\\n\\t- to visit the most interesting museums of unique aviation\\ntechniques which were closed for many years to the public;\\n\\t- to see the International Airspace Show which will take\\nplace in Moscow from 31 August through 3 September 1993;\\n\\t- to visit famous art museums, historical and architectural\\nmonuments, theatres and concert halls;\\n\\t- to take part in sport competitions and have a great time\\nwith new friends.\\n\\nThe Director of the school is Mr. Oleg Samelovich, a well known\\nRussian scientist, professor, general designer and the Chief of the\\nAirplanes Design Department of the Moscow Aviation Institute. Mr.\\nSamelovich is one of the designers of the the Su-24, Su-25, and Su-27\\n\\nThe lectures are given in English, using a multi-media concept. The\\nstudents are provided with all the necessary text books and\\nliterature. After the full course of studies are completed, the\\nstudent will receive a special certificate of graduation.\\n\\nThe cost of studies, including hotel, meals, excursions, theatres,\\netc is $3500.\\n\\nTo apply for admission, send your application to:\\n\\n109147 Moscow Marksistskaja 34\\nForeign Trade Firm \"Poljot\"\\n274 00 13 (phone)\\n274 00 22 (FAX)\\n411989 POLEX SU (telex)\\n\\nIn your application, include your full name, address, date and place\\nof birth. In addition, include complete passport information, as well\\nas a description of your education.\\n\\nUpon receipt of this information, \"Poljot\" will immediately forward\\nto you an official invitation for obtaining a Russian entrance visa\\nas well as details on payment.\\n\\nShould you require additional information, please do not hesitate to\\ncontact us.\\n\\n(signed)\\tO. Samelovich\\n\\n------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n\\n\\n-- \\n\\nSteve Emmett\\t\\t\\t\\t semmett@gmuvax2.gmu.edu\\n------------------------------------------------------------------\\nCSI/Physics, George Mason University\\n',\n", " 'From: lmegna@titan.ucs.umass.edu (Lisa Megna)\\nSubject: Neurofibromatosis\\nOrganization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst\\nLines: 15\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: titan.ucs.umass.edu\\n\\nHello,\\n\\nI am writing a grant proposal for a Developmental Genetics class and I\\nhave chose to look at the Neurofibromatosis 1 gene and its variable\\nexpressivity. I am curious what has already been done on this subject,\\nespecially the relationship between specific mutations and the resulting\\nphenotype. My literature search has produce many references, but I want to\\nmake sure I am proposing new research. If anyone knows aything that has been\\nrecently or key peopl doing research to search for using MEDLINE, I would\\napprciate being informed.\\n\\nThank you.\\n\\nLisa Megna\\nlmegna@titan.ucc.umass.edu\\n',\n", " 'Subject: DC-X/Y/1 question\\nFrom: kkobayas@husc8.harvard.edu (Ken Kobayashi)\\nKeywords: DC-X\\nNntp-Posting-Host: husc8.harvard.edu\\nLines: 17\\n\\n\\n\\n I\\'ve been following discussions about the Delta Clipper program, and I\\nhave one small question. As I understand it, the DC-X derived orbital\\nvehicle (DC-Y & 1) is to reenter the atmosphere sort of sideways, not\\ncompletely nose-first. So why is the DC-Y look symmetric in every drawing\\nI\\'ve seen? I would think that an asymmetric design, sort of like \\nwingless Orbiter, may work better, since less shielding is required on the\\ntop side. Can anybody explain? \\n\\n- Ken Kobayashi\\nkkobayas@husc.harvard.edu\\n\\n-- \\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n Ken Kobayashi | \\nkkobayas@husc.harvard.edu | \"There is no final frontier.\" - IBM ad\\n',\n", " \"From: tffreeba@indyvax.iupui.edu\\nSubject: Re: Death and Taxes (was Why not give $1 billion...)\\nLines: 48\\n\\nnsmca@aurora.alaska.edu, University of Alaska Fairbanks writes:\\n\\n[A GOOD DEAL OF HEALTHY IF NOT DEEPLY THOUGHT OUT IDEALISM DELETED\\nBELOW.]\\n\\n>Major question is if you decide to mine the moon or Mars, who will stop you?\\n>[...] Can the truly inforce it? [...] \\n\\nIf their parent company does business (and they will) on the face of the Earth\\nthen they are vulnerable to govt. sanctions. Yes they can be stopped.\\n\\n>If you go to the moon as declare that you are now a soverign nation, who will\\n>stop you from doing it. [...] \\n\\nFor the first 100 - 500 (IMHO) years nobody will have to. The colonists will\\nbe too dependent on Earth too pull it off. Eventually they will, history\\nshows us that.\\n\\n>Also once you have the means to mine the moon (or whatever) then just do it. \\n>The UN if done right can be made to be so busy with something else, they will\\n>not care [...]\\n\\nWhat exactly do you mean here? Terrorism? Start an international incident\\nso your dream can come true? Crack a few eggs to make the omelet? This\\nsounds fairly irresponsible.\\n\\n\\n>Basically what I am saying is where is that drive of yeasteryears to go a\\n>little bit farther out, to do jus ta little bit more, and to tell the crown to\\n>piss off.. If my ancestors thought the way many today think, Id have been born\\n>in Central Europe just north of the Black Sea.. \\n\\nAgain, the tie that binds will be much stronger for space colonists than\\nany immigrants that have gone before. Even those intrepid Asian\\nexplorers that crossed the Bering land bridge did not have to carry their\\nair on their backs.\\n\\n== \\n>Michael Adams, nsmca@acad3.alaska.edu -- I'm not high, just jacked \\n\\nKeep the dream alive, maybe dream it a little more cogently.\\n\\nTom Freebairn | There once was a man\\n\\t\\t| Who built a boat\\n\\t\\t| To sail away in.\\n\\t\\t| It sank.\\n\\t\\t| J.P. Donleavy\\n\\t\\t\\t _Fairy Tale of New York_ (maybe?)\\x1a\\n\",\n", " \"From: almo@packmind.EBay.Sun.COM (Alan Monday-WWCS Business Mgt. Group)\\nSubject: Re: Solar Sail Data\\nOrganization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.\\nLines: 14\\nDistribution: world\\nReply-To: almo@packmind.EBay.Sun.COM\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: packmind.ebay.sun.com\\n\\nHey!? What happened to the solar sail race that was supposed to be\\nfor Columbus+500?\\n\\nIn article 29848@news.duc.auburn.edu, snydefj@eng.auburn.edu (Frank J. Snyder) writes:\\n>\\n>I am looking for any information concerning projects involving Solar\\n> Sails. I understand that the JPL did an extensive study on the subject\\n> back in the late 70's but I am having trouble gathering such information.\\n>\\n>Are there any groups out there currently involved in such a project ?\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\",\n", " 'From: nsmca@aurora.alaska.edu\\nSubject: Re: DC-X: Vehicle Nears Flight Test\\nArticle-I.D.: aurora.1993Apr5.191011.1\\nOrganization: University of Alaska Fairbanks\\nLines: 53\\nNntp-Posting-Host: acad3.alaska.edu\\n\\nIn article , henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:\\n> In article <2736@snap> paj@uk.co.gec-mrc (Paul Johnson) writes:\\n>>This bit interests me. How much automatic control is there? Is it\\n>>purely autonomous or is there some degree of ground control?\\n> \\n> The \"stick-and-rudder man\" is always the onboard computer. The computer\\n> normally gets its orders from a stored program, but they can be overridden\\n> from the ground.\\n> \\n>>How is\\n>>the transition from aerodynamic flight (if thats what it is) to hover\\n>>accomplished? This is the really new part...\\n> \\n> It\\'s also one of the tricky parts. There are four different ideas, and\\n> DC-X will probably end up trying all of them. (This is from talking to\\n> Mitch Burnside Clapp, who\\'s one of the DC-X test pilots, at Making Orbit.)\\n> \\n> (1) Pop a drogue chute from the nose, light the engines once the thing\\n> \\tstabilizes base-first. Simple and reliable. Heavy shock loads\\n> \\ton an area of structure that doesn\\'t otherwise carry major loads.\\n> \\tNeeds a door in the \"hot\" part of the structure, a door whose\\n> \\toperation is mission-critical.\\n> \\n> (2) Switch off pitch stability -- the DC is aerodynamically unstable at\\n> \\tsubsonic speeds -- wait for it to flip, and catch it at 180\\n> \\tdegrees, then light engines. A bit scary.\\n> \\n> (3) Light the engines and use thrust vectoring to push the tail around.\\n> \\tProbably the preferred method in the long run. Tricky because\\n> \\tof the fuel-feed plumbing: the fuel will start off in the tops\\n> \\tof the tanks, then slop down to the bottoms during the flip.\\n> \\tKeeping the engines properly fed will be complicated.\\n> \\n> (4) Build up speed in a dive, then pull up hard (losing a lot of speed,\\n> \\tthis thing\\'s L/D is not that great) until it\\'s headed up and\\n> \\tthe vertical velocity drops to zero, at which point it starts\\n> \\tto fall tail-first. Light engines. Also a bit scary, and you\\n> \\tprobably don\\'t have enough altitude left to try again.\\n> -- \\n> All work is one man\\'s work. | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology\\n> - Kipling | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry\\n\\nSince the DC-X is to take off horizontal, why not land that way??\\nWhy do the Martian Landing thing.. Or am I missing something.. Don\\'t know to\\nmuch about DC-X and such.. (overly obvious?).\\n\\nWhy not just fall to earth like the russian crafts?? Parachute in then...\\n\\n==\\nMichael Adams, nsmca@acad3.alaska.edu -- I\\'m not high, just jacked\\n\\nPlease enlighten me... Ignorance is easy to correct. make a mistake and\\neveryone will let you know you messed up..\\n',\n", " \"From: backon@vms.huji.ac.il\\nSubject: Re: pointer for info (long shot)\\nDistribution: world\\nOrganization: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem\\nLines: 49\\n\\nIn article , Regis M Donovan writes:\\n> This is something of a long shot... but what the hell. the net is\\n> full of people with strange knowledge...\\n>\\n> I'm looking for suggestions as to what could be causing health\\n> problems one of my relatives is having.\\n>\\n> One of my cousins has had health problems for much of her life.\\n> Around the age of 10 she had some gynecological problems. Now she's\\n> in her early/mid twenties and she is going blind.\\n>\\n> Her eyes are not producing enough (if any) moisture. She's been going\\n> to Mass Eye and Ear and the doctors there have no clue what the actual\\n> cause is. THey have apparently tried eyedrops and such. She is just\\n> about completely blind in one eye and the other is massively\\n> deteriorated.\\n\\n\\nSjogren's syndrome has been known to induce dryness in vaginal tissue as well\\nas induce primary biliary cirrhosis. Otherwise the abdominal swelling could be\\ndue to a complication of Sjogren's known as pseudolymphoma which *can* produce\\na splenomegaly (enlarged spleen). She should definitely see a rheumatologist.\\n\\nSince you don't mention skin disorder, anemia, or joint pain you'd probably\\nrule out erythema nodosum or scleroderma.\\n\\nJosh\\nbackon@VMS.HUJI.AC.IL\\n\\n\\n\\n>\\n> Also, and this may or may not be related, she is having some changes\\n> in her abdomen. her stomach has swelled (i'm not sure if this is\\n> stomach the organ or stomach teh area of the body).\\n>\\n> I guess the step they're going to take next is to do a whole battery\\n> of tests to check all the other internal systmes besides just the\\n> eyes...\\n>\\n> but just because the net is a source of large amounts of bizarre\\n> knowledge, i'm going to ask: has anyone ever heard of anything like\\n> this? suggestions of things to ask about (since much of my knowledge\\n> about her state comes second or third hand)?\\n>\\n> Thanks.\\n> --Regis\\n> zonker@silver.lcs.mit.edu\\n>\\n\",\n", " \"From: marcbg@feenix.metronet.com (Marc Grant)\\nSubject: Adult Chicken Pox\\nOrganization: Tx Metronet Communications Services, Dallas Tx\\nDistribution: usa\\nLines: 13\\n\\nI am 35 and am recovering from a case of Chicken Pox which I contracted\\nfrom my 5 year old daughter. I have quite a few of these little puppies\\nall over my bod. At what point am I no longer infectious? My physician's\\noffice says when they are all scabbed over. Is this true?\\n\\nIs there any medications which can promote healing of the pox? Speed up\\nhealing? Please e-mail replies, and thanks in advance.\\n\\n-- \\n|Marc Grant | Internet: marcbg@feenix.metronet.com |\\n|POB 850472 | Amateur Radio Station N5MEI |\\n|Richardson, TX 75085| Voice/Fax: 214-231-3998 |\\n - .... .- - ... .- .-.. .-.. ..-. --- .-.. -.- ...\\n\",\n", " 'From: wcsbeau@alfred.carleton.ca (OPIRG)\\nSubject: Re: Is MSG sensitivity superstition?\\nKeywords: MSG, Glu\\nOrganization: Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada\\nLines: 143\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr17.202011.21443@spdcc.com> dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer) writes:\\n>In article <1993Apr17.184435.19725@cunews.carleton.ca> wcsbeau@alfred.carleton.ca (OPIRG) writes:\\n>\\n>There has been NO hard info provided about MSG making people ill.\\n>That\\'s the point, after all.\\n\\nWhy don\\'t you just look it up in the Merk? Or check out the medical dictionary\\ncite which a doctor mentioned earlier in this thread?\\n\\n\\n>\\n>That\\'s because these \"peer-reviewed\" studies are not addressing\\n>the effects of MSG in people, they\\'re looking at animal models.\\n>You can\\'t walk away from this and start ranting about gloom and\\n>doom as if there were any documented deleterious health effects\\n>demonstrated in humans. Note that I wouldn\\'t have any argument\\n>with a statement like \"noting that animal administration has pro-\\n>duced the following [blah, blah], we must be careful about its\\n>use in humans.\" This is precisely NOT what you said.\\n\\nAmong others, see Olney\\'s \"Excitotoxic Food Aditives - Relevance of\\nAnimal Studies to Human Safety\" (1982) Neurobehav. Toxicol. Teratol.\\nvol 6: 455-462.\\n\\nI\\'m sure PETA would love to hear your arguments.\\n\\n>>Tests have been done on Rhesus monkeys, as well. I have never seen a\\n>>study where the mode of administration was intra-ventricular. The Glu\\n>>and Asp were administered orally. Some studies used IV and SC.\\n>>Intra-ventricular is not a normal admin. method for food tox. studies,\\n>>for obvious reasons. You must not have read the peer-reviewed works\\n>>that I referred to or you would never have come up with this brain\\n>>injection bunk.\\n>\\n>It most certainly is for neurotoxicology. You know, studies of\\n>glutamate involve more than \"food science\".\\n\\nWhose talking about \"food science\"? What is this comment supposed to\\nmean? *Neurotoxicology and Tratology*, *Brain Research*, *Nature*,\\n*Progress in Brain Research*: all fine food science journals. ;-)\\n\\n>>Pardon me, but where are you getting this from? Have you read the\\n>>journals? Have you done a thorough literature search?\\n>\\n>So, point us to the studies in humans, please. I\\'m familiar with\\n>the literature, and I\\'ve never seen any which relate at all to\\n>Olney\\'s work in animals and the effects of glutamate on neurons.\\n\\nThen you would know that Olney himself has casually referred to\\n\"Chinese Restaurant Syndrome\" in a few articles. Why don\\'t *you* point\\nus to some studies? Maybe then this exchange could be productive.\\n\\n>>The point is exceeding the window. Of course, they\\'re amino acids.\\n>>Note that people with PKU cannot tolerate any phenylalanine.\\n>\\n>Well, actually, they HAVE to tolerate some phenylalanine; it\\'s a\\n>essential amino acid. They just try to get as little as is healthy\\n>without producing dangerous levels of phenylalanine and its metabolites\\n>in the blood.\\n\\nThey\\'re unable to metabolise it.\\n\\n>>Olney\\'s research compared infant human diets. Specifically, the amount\\n>>of freely available Glu in mother\\'s milk versus commercial baby foods,\\n>>vs. typical lunch items from the Standard American Diet such as packaged\\n>>soup mixes. He found that one could exceed the projected safety margin\\n>>for infant humans by at least four-fold in a single meal of processed\\n>>foods. Mother\\'s milk was well below the effective dose.\\n>\\n>Goodness, I\\'m not saying that it\\'s good to feed infants a lot of\\n>glutamate-supplemented foods. It\\'s just that this \"projected safety\\n>margin\" is a construct derived from animal models and given that,\\n>you can \"prove\" anything you like. We\\'re talking prudent policy in\\n>infant nutrition here, yet you\\'re misrepresenting it as received wisdom.\\n\\nWho said anything about \\'received wisdom\\'? There is no question that\\norally administered doses of MSG are capable of destroying nearly all\\nneurons in the arcuate nucleus of the hypothalamus and the median\\neminence. These areas are responsible for the production of\\nhormones critical to normal neuroendocrine function and the normal\\ndevelopment of the vertabrate organism. Humans are vertebrates. Now\\nwhat, pray tell, do you think will happen when the area of the brain\\nnecessary for the normal rhythm of gonadotropin release is missing?\\nAre you trying to say that humans have no need of their pituitary,\\nANH, and ME, of that part of the brain that is responsible for\\ncontrolling the realease (albeit indirectly) of estradiol and testosterone? \\n\\nHow do you expect anyone to do the studies on this? It\\'s unethical to\\n\"sacrifice\" humans to check out what effects chronic, acute, etc doses\\nof these compounds are having on the brain tissue in humans. The food\\nindustry knows this. That\\'s why the animal model is used in medicine\\nand psych. If you\\'re talking about straight sensitivity, it would be\\nuseful to define the term. There are plenty of studies on\\npsychoneuroimmunology showing the link between attitude and\\nphysiology.\\n\\nI suspect we may be arguing about separate things; *only* adult sensitivities\\n(You), and late-occuring sequelae of childhood ingestion and its\\nimplication for adults (me). Certainly\\nthe doses for excitotoxicity in adults are considerably larger than\\nfor the young, but the additivity of Glu and Asp, and their copious\\nand increased presence in modern processed foods (jointly), and their\\nhidden presence in HVP, necessitates extreme caution. Why would anyone\\nwant to eat compounds which have been shown to markedly perturb the\\nendocrine system in adults? The main point is *blood levels*\\nattained, and oral doses would likely have to be greater than SC. \\n\\n>>Between who? Over what? I would be most interested in seeing you\\n>>provide peer-reviewed non-food-industry-funded citations to articles\\n>>disputing that MSG has no effects whatsoever. \\n>\\n>You mean \"asserting\". You\\'re being intellectually dishonest (or just\\n>plain confused), because you\\'re conflating reports which do not necessarily\\n>have anything to do with each other. Olney\\'s reports would argue a potential\\n>for problems in human infants, but that\\'s not to say that this says anything\\n>whatsoever about the use of MSG in most foods, nor does he provide any\\n>studies in humans which indicate any deleterious effects (for obvious\\n>reasons.) It says nothing about MSG\\'s contribtion to the phenomenon\\n>of the \"Chinese Restaurant Syndrome\". It says nothing about the frequent\\n>inability to replicate anecdotal reports of MSG sensitivity in the lab.\\n\\nOlney\\'s work provides a putative causal mechanism for some\\nsensitivities. Terry, Epelbaum and Martin have shown that orally\\nadministered MSG causes changes in normal gonadotropic hormone\\nfluctutations in adults. Glu also was found to induce immediate and persistant\\nsupression of rhythmic GH secretion, and to induce rapid and transient\\nrelease of prolactin in adults chronically exposed to MSG. GH is\\nresponsible not only for control of growth during development, but\\nalso converts glycogen into glucose. Could this be the cause of\\nheadaches? I don\\'t know.\\n\\n>>>dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com \\n>>Hmm. \".com\". Why am I not surprised?\\n>>- Dianne Murray wcsbeau@ccs.carleton.ca\\n>\\n>Probably one of the dumber remarks you\\'ve made.\\n\\nIf you had read Olney\\'s review article, especially the remarks I\\nalready quoted in an earlier post, you would know to what I was\\nalluding. May I ask exactly for whom you do computer consulting? :-)\\n\\n',\n", " \"From: bill@scorch.apana.org.au (Bill Dowding)\\nSubject: Re: Krillean Photography\\nOrganization: Craggenmoore public Unix system , Newcastle , Oz\\nLines: 15\\n\\ntodamhyp@charles.unlv.edu (Brian M. Huey) writes:\\n\\n>I think that's the correct spelling..\\n>\\tI am looking for any information/supplies that will allow\\n>do-it-yourselfers to take Krillean Pictures. I'm thinking\\n>that education suppliers for schools might have a appartus for\\n>sale, but I don't know any of the companies. Any info is greatly\\n>appreciated.\\n\\nKrillean photography involves taking pictures of minute decapods resident in \\nthe seas surrounding the antarctic. Or pictures taken by them, perhaps.\\n\\nBill from oz\\n\\n\\n\",\n", " 'From: menon@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Ravi or Deantha Menon)\\nSubject: Re: eye dominance\\nOrganization: University of Colorado, Boulder\\nLines: 38\\nNntp-Posting-Host: beagle.colorado.edu\\n\\nnyeda@cnsvax.uwec.edu (David Nye) writes:\\n\\n>[reply to rsilver@world.std.com (Richard Silver)]\\n> \\n>>Is there a right-eye dominance (eyedness?) as there is an overall\\n>>right-handedness in the population? I mean do most people require less\\n>>lens corrections for the one eye than the other? If so, what kinds of\\n>>percentages can be attached to this? Thanks.\\n> \\n>There is an \"eyedness\" analogous to handedness but it has nothing to do\\n>with refractive error. To see whether you are right or left eyed, roll\\n>up a sheet of paper into a tube and hold it up to either eye like a\\n>telescope. The eye that you feel more comfortable putting it up to is\\n>your dominant eye. Refractive error is often different in the two eyes\\n>but has no correlation with handedness.\\n> \\n>David Nye (nyeda@cnsvax.uwec.edu). Midelfort Clinic, Eau Claire WI\\n>This is patently absurd; but whoever wishes to become a philosopher\\n>must learn not to be frightened by absurdities. -- Bertrand Russell\\n\\n\\nWhat do you mean \"more comfortable putting it up to.\" That seems a bit\\nhard to evaluate. At least for me it is. \\n\\nStare straight Point with both hands together and clasp so that only the\\npointer fingers are pointing straight forward to a a spot on the wall about\\neight feet away. First stare at the spot with both eyes open. Now\\nclose your left eye. Now open your left eye. Now close your right eye.\\nnow open your right eye.\\n\\nIf the image jumped more when you closed your right eye, you are right\\neye dominant.\\n\\nIf the image jumped more when you closed your left eye, you are left eye\\ndominant.\\n\\n\\nDeantha\\n',\n", " \"From: chico@ccsun.unicamp.br (Francisco da Fonseca Rodrigues)\\nSubject: New planet/Kuiper object found?\\nX-Added: Forwarded by Space Digest\\nOrganization: [via International Space University]\\nOriginal-Sender: isu@VACATION.VENARI.CS.CMU.EDU\\nDistribution: sci\\nLines: 28\\n\\n\\n\\tTonigth a TV journal here in Brasil announced that an object,\\nbeyond Pluto's orbit, was found by an observatory at Hawaii. They\\nnamed the object Karla.\\n\\n\\tThe program said the object wasn't a gaseous giant planet, and\\nshould be composed by rocks and ices.\\n\\n\\tCan someone confirm these information? Could this object be a\\nnew planet or a Kuiper object?\\n\\n\\tThanks in advance.\\n\\n\\tFrancisco.\\n\\n-----------------------=====================================----the stars,----\\n| ._, | Francisco da Fonseca Rodrigues | o o |\\n| ,_| |._/\\\\ | | o o |\\n| | |o/^^~-._ | COTUCA-Colegio Tecnico da UNICAMP | o |\\n|/-' BRASIL | ~| | o o o |\\n|\\\\__/|_ /' | Depto de Processamento de Dados | o o o o |\\n| \\\\__ Cps | . | | o o o o |\\n| | * __/' | InterNet : chico@ccsun.unicamp.br | o o o |\\n| > /' | cotuca@ccvax.unicamp.br| o |\\n| /' /' | Fone/Fax : 55-0192-32-9519 | o o |\\n| ~~^\\\\/' | Campinas - SP - Brasil | o o |\\n-----------------------=====================================----like dust.----\\n\\n\",\n", " 'Subject: Re: Bates Method for Myopia\\nFrom: jc@oneb.almanac.bc.ca\\nOrganization: The Old Frog\\'s Almanac, Nanaimo, B.C.\\nKeywords: Bates method\\nSummary: Proven a hoax long ago\\nLines: 15\\n\\nDr. willian Horatio Bates born 1860 and graduated from med school\\n1885. Medical career hampered by spells of total amnesia. Published in\\n1920, his great work \"The Cure of Imperfect Eyesight by Treatment With-\\nout Glasses\", He made claims about how the eye actually works that are\\nsimply NOT TRUE. Aldous Huxley was one of the more \"high profile\"\\nbeleivers in his system. Mr. Huxley while giving a lecture on Bates system\\nforgot the lecture that he was supposedely reading and had to put the\\npaper right up to his eyes and then resorted to a magnifying glass from\\nhis pocket. book have been written debunking this technique, however\\nthey remain less read than the original fraud. cheers\\n\\n jc@oneb.almanac.bc.ca (John Cross)\\n The Old Frog\\'s Almanac (Home of The Almanac UNIX Users Group) \\n(604) 245-3205 (v32) (604) 245-4366 (2400x4)\\n Vancouver Island, British Columbia Waffle XENIX 1.64 \\n',\n", " 'From: loss@fs7.ECE.CMU.EDU (Doug Loss)\\nSubject: Re: Death and Taxes (was Why not give $1 billion to...\\nOrganization: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon\\nLines: 7\\n\\nIn my last post I referred to Michael Adams as \"Nick.\" Completely my\\nerror; Nick Adams was a film and TV actor from the \\'50\\'s and early \\'60\\'s\\n(remember Johnny Yuma, The Rebel?). He was from my part of the country,\\nand Michael\\'s email address of \"nmsca[...]\" probably helped confuse things\\nin my mind. Purely user headspace error on my part. Sorry.\\n\\nDoug Loss\\n',\n", " 'From: jcm@head-cfa.harvard.edu (Jonathan McDowell)\\nSubject: Re: Shuttle Launch Question\\nOrganization: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA, USA\\nDistribution: sci\\nLines: 23\\n\\nFrom article , by tombaker@world.std.com (Tom A Baker):\\n>>In article , ETRAT@ttacs1.ttu.edu (Pack Rat) writes...\\n>>>\"Clear caution & warning memory. Verify no unexpected\\n>>>errors. ...\". I am wondering what an \"expected error\" might\\n>>>be. Sorry if this is a really dumb question, but\\n> \\n> Parity errors in memory or previously known conditions that were waivered.\\n> \"Yes that is an error, but we already knew about it\"\\n> I\\'d be curious as to what the real meaning of the quote is.\\n> \\n> tom\\n\\n\\nMy understanding is that the \\'expected errors\\' are basically\\nknown bugs in the warning system software - things are checked\\nthat don\\'t have the right values in yet because they aren\\'t\\nset till after launch, and suchlike. Rather than fix the code\\nand possibly introduce new bugs, they just tell the crew\\n\\'ok, if you see a warning no. 213 before liftoff, ignore it\\'.\\n\\n - Jonathan\\n\\n\\n',\n", " \"From: melewitt@cs.sandia.gov (Martin E. Lewitt)\\nSubject: Re: Altitude adjustment\\nArticle-I.D.: cs.1993Apr22.055958.2377\\nOrganization: nCUBE, Sandia Park, NM\\nLines: 31\\n\\nIn article <4159@mdavcr.mda.ca> vida@mdavcr.mda.ca (Vida Morkunas) writes:\\n>I live at sea-level, and am called-upon to travel to high-altitude cities\\n>quite frequently, on business. The cities in question are at 7000 to 9000\\n>feet of altitude. One of them especially is very polluted...\\n>\\n>Often I feel faint the first two or three days. I feel lightheaded, and\\n>my heart seems to pound a lot more than at sea-level. Also, it is very\\n>dry in these cities, so I will tend to drink a lot of water, and keep\\n>away from dehydrating drinks, such as those containing caffeine or alcohol.\\n>\\n>Thing is, I still have symptoms. How can I ensure that my short trips there\\n>(no, I don't usually have a week to acclimatize) are as comfortable as possible?\\n>Is there something else that I could do?\\n\\nI saw a Lifetime Medical Television show a few months back on travel\\nmedicine. It briefly mentioned some drugs which when started two or\\nthree days before getting to altitude could assist in acclimitazation.\\n\\nUnfortunately all that I can recall is that the drug stimulated\\nbreathing at night??? I don't know if that makes sense, it seems\\nto me that the new drug which stimulates red blood cell production\\nwould be a more logical approach, erythropoiten (sp?).\\n\\nAlas, I didn't record the program, but wish I had, since I live\\nat over 7000ft. and my mother gets sick when visiting.\\n\\nPlease let me know if you get more informative responses.\\n--\\nPhone: (505) 845-7561 Martin E. Lewitt My opinions are\\nDomain: lewitt@ncube.COM P.O. Box 513 my own, not my\\nSandia: melewitt@cs.sandia.GOV Sandia Park, NM 87047-0513 employer's. \\n\",\n", " 'From: mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson)\\nSubject: Re: Barbecued foods and health risk\\nOrganization: The Portal System (TM)\\nDistribution: world\\nLines: 33\\n\\n> I don\\'t understand the assumption that because something is found to\\n> be carcinogenic that \"it would not be legal in the U.S.\". I think that\\n> naturally occuring substances (excluding \"controlled\" substances) are\\n> pretty much unregulated in terms of their use as food, food additives\\n> or other \"consumption\". It\\'s only when the chemists concoct (sp?) an\\n> ingredient that it falls under FDA regulations. Otherwise, if they \\n> really looked closely they would find a reason to ban almost everything.\\n> How in the world do you suppose it\\'s legal to \"consume\" tobacco products\\n> (which probably SHOULD be banned)?\\n\\nNo, there is something called the \"Delany Amendment\" which makes carcinogenic\\nfood additives illegal in any amount. This was passed by Congress in the\\n1950\\'s, before stuff like mass spectrometry became available, which increased\\ndetectable levels of substances by a couple orders of magnitude.\\n\\nThis is why things like cyclamates and Red #2 were banned. They are very\\nweakly carcinogenic in huge quantities in rats, so under the Act they are\\nbanned.\\n\\nThis also applies to natural carcinogens. Some of you might remember a\\ntime back in the 1960\\'s when root beer suddenly stopped tasting so good,\\nand never tasted so good again. That was the time when safrole was banned.\\nThis is the active flavoring ingredient in sassafras leaves.\\n\\nIf it were possible to market a root beer good like the old days, someone\\nwould do it, in order to make money. The fact that no one does it indicates\\nthat enforcement is still in effect.\\n\\nAn odd exception to the rule seems to be the product known as \"gumbo file\\'\".\\nThis is nothing more than coarsely ground dried sassafras leaves. This\\nis not only a natural product, but a natural product still in its natural\\nform, so maybe that\\'s how they evade Delany. Or maybe a special exemption\\nwas made, to appease powerful Louisiana Democrats.\\n',\n", " 'From: prb@access.digex.com (Pat)\\nSubject: Re: Commercial mining activities on the moon\\nOrganization: Express Access Online Communications USA\\nLines: 10\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: access.digex.net\\n\\nIn article <1r46j3INN14j@mojo.eng.umd.edu> sysmgr@king.eng.umd.edu writes:\\n>In article , steinly@topaz.ucsc.edu (Steinn Sigurdsson) writes:\\n|\\n|>Very cost effective if you use the right accounting method :-)\\n|\\n>Sherzer Methodology!!!!!!\\n\\nLet it never be said that an opportunity was missed to put someone down.\\n\\n\\n',\n", " \"From: wcsbeau@alfred.carleton.ca (OPIRG)\\nSubject: Re: Is MSG sensitivity superstition?\\nOrganization: Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada\\nLines: 44\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr16.194316.25522@ohsu.edu> tong@ohsu.edu (Gong Tong) writes:\\n>In article <1993Apr16.155123.447@cunews.carleton.ca> wcsbeau@alfred.carleton.ca (OPIRG) writes:\\n>>\\n>>For cites on MSG, look up almost anything by John W. Olney, a\\n>>toxicologist who has studied the effects of MSG on the brain and on\\n>>development. It is undisputed in the literature that MSG is an\\n>>excitotoxic food additive, and that its major constituent, glutamate\\n>>is essentially the premierie neurotransmitter in the mammalian brain\\n>>(humans included). Too much in the diet, and the system gets thrown\\n>>off. Glutamate and aspartate, also an excitotoxin are necessary in\\n>>small amounts, and are freely available in many foods, but the amounts\\n>>added by industry are far above the amounts that would normally be\\n>>encountered in a ny single food. By eating lots of junk food,\\n>>packaged soups, and diet soft drinks, it is possible to jack your\\n>>blood levels so high, that anyone with a sensitivity to these\\n>>compounds will suffer numerous *real* physi9logical effects. \\n>>Read Olney's review paper in Prog. Brain Res, 1988, and check *his*\\n>>sources. They are impecable. There is no dispute.\\n>>\\n>> --Dianne Murray wcsbeau@ccs.carleton.ca\\n>\\n>In order to excitotoxin effects of MSG, MSG that in blood must go through \\n>blood-brain barrier that I am not sure MSG can go through or not.\\n\\nElevated levels of Glu and Asp in the blood are able to bypass the\\nBlood-brain barrier through the circumventricular organs (or CVO), in\\nparticular the adeno and neurohypophysis (pituitary gland) areas. The\\narcuate nucleus of the hypothalamus, and the median eminence regions\\nare particularly effected. CVO areas are not subject to the\\nblood-brain barrier. These areas control the release of gonadotropin,\\nwhich controls the release and flux of steroids governing development,\\nespecially sexual development. Changes in adult rats, which are less\\nsensitive to Glu than humans, have been observed: after ingesting Glu,\\non a chronic basis, cycles of several steroids are disrupted. Blood\\nlevels of somatostatin are significantly reduced, and cyclic release\\nof steroids becomes flattened.\\n\\n Hope this helps.\\n --Dianne Murray: wcsbeau@ccs.carleton.ca\\n\\n\\n\\n\",\n", " 'From: pgf@srl03.cacs.usl.edu (Phil G. Fraering)\\nSubject: Re: Comet in Temporary Orbit Around Jupiter?\\nOrganization: Univ. of Southwestern Louisiana\\nLines: 28\\n\\nmsb@sq.sq.com (Mark Brader) writes:\\n\\n\\n>Thanks again. One final question. The name Gehrels wasn\\'t known to\\n>me before this thread came up, but the May issue of Scientific American\\n>has an article about the \"Inconstant Cosmos\", with a photo of Neil\\n>Gehrels, project scientist for NASA\\'s Compton Gamma Ray Observatory.\\n>Same person?\\n\\nNo. I estimate a 99 % probability the Gehrels referred to\\nis Thomas Gehrels of the Spacewatch project, Kitt Peak observatory.\\n\\nMaybe in the 24th century they could do gamma ray spectroscopy on\\ndistant asteroids with an orbiting observatory, but here in the\\nprimitive 20th we have to send a probe there to get gamma ray\\nspectroscopy done.\\n\\n>Mark Brader, SoftQuad Inc., Toronto\\t\"Information! ... We want information!\"\\n>utzoo!sq!msb, msb@sq.com\\t\\t\\t\\t-- The Prisoner\\n\\nYou have the info on Mayan Television yet?\\n\\n>This article is in the public domain.\\n--\\nPhil Fraering |\"Seems like every day we find out all sorts of stuff.\\npgf@srl02.cacs.usl.edu|Like how the ancient Mayans had televison.\" Repo Man\\n\\n\\n',\n", " \"From: jdnicoll@prism.ccs.uwo.ca (James Davis Nicoll)\\nSubject: Re: New planet/Kuiper object found?\\nOrganization: University of Western Ontario, London\\nDistribution: sci\\nNntp-Posting-Host: prism.engrg.uwo.ca\\nLines: 20\\n\\nIn article steinly@topaz.ucsc.edu (Steinn Sigurdsson) writes:\\n>In article <1r9de3INNjkv@gap.caltech.edu> jafoust@cco.caltech.edu (Jeff Foust) writes:\\n>\\n> In a recent article jdnicoll@prism.ccs.uwo.ca (James Davis Nicoll) writes:\\n> >\\tIf the new Kuiper belt object *is* called 'Karla', the next\\n> >one should be called 'Smiley'.\\n>\\n> Unless I'm imaging things, (always a possibility =) 1992 QB1, the Kuiper Belt\\n> object discovered last year, is known as Smiley.\\n>\\n>As it happens the _second_ one is Karla. The first one was\\n>Smiley. All subject to the vagaries of the IAU of course,\\n>but I think they might let this one slide...\\n\\n\\tGee, I feel so ignorant now...\\n\\n\\tResearch, then post.\\n\\n\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t\\tJames Nicoll\\n\\n\",\n", " 'From: wcsbeau@alfred.carleton.ca (OPIRG)\\nSubject: Re: Is MSG sensitivity superstition?\\nOrganization: Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada\\nLines: 111\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr16.190447.8242@spdcc.com> dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer) writes:\\n>In article <1993Apr16.155123.447@cunews.carleton.ca>\\nwcsbeau@alfred.carleton.ca (OPIRG) writes:\\n>\\n>>Maybe you missed it amidst the flurry of responses?\\n>\\n>You mean the responses some of which pointed to double-blind tests\\n>which show no such \"chinese restaurant effect\" unique to MSG\\n>(it\\'s elicited by the placebo as well.)\\n\\nMany people responded with more anecdotal stories; I think its safe to\\nsay the original poster is already familiar with such stories.\\nPresumably, he wants hard info to substantiate or refute claims about\\nMSG making people ill. \\n\\nSimilarly, debunking such claims without doing research (whether\\nliterature and lab), is equally beside the point. The original poster\\nno doubt already knows that some people think \\'Chinese Restaurant\\nSyndrome\\' is bogus.\\n\\nPlacebos are all very interesting, but irrelevant to the question of\\nwhat effects MSG has. You could have real effects *and* placebo\\neffects; people may have allergies in addition. \\n\\n>\\n>>Yet again, the use of this\\n>>newsgroup is hampered by people not restricting their posts to matters\\n>>they have substantial knowledge of.\\n>\\n>Like youself? Someone who can read a scientific paper and apparently\\n>come away from it with bizarrely cracked ideas which have nothing to\\n>do with the use of this substance in human nutrition?\\n\\nHave you read Olney\\'s work? I fail to see how citing results from\\npeer-reviewed studies qualifies as \"bizarrely cracked\".\\n\\n>>For cites on MSG, look up almost anything by John W. Olney, a\\n>>toxicologist who has studied the effects of MSG on the brain and on\\n>>development. It is undisputed in the literature that MSG is an\\n>>excitotoxic food additive,\\n>\\n>No, it\\'s undisputed in the literature that glutamate is an amino acid\\n>which is an excitatory neurotransmitter. There is also evidence that\\n>excessive release of glutamate may be involved in the pathology of certain\\n>conditions like stroke, drowning and Lou Gehrig\\'s disease, just to name a few.\\n>This is a completely different issue than the use of this ubiquitous amino acid\\n>in foods. People are not receiving intra-ventricular injections of glutamate.\\n\\nTests have been done on Rhesus monkeys, as well. I have never seen a\\nstudy where the mode of administration was intra-ventricular. The Glu\\nand Asp were administered orally. Some studies used IV and SC.\\nIntra-ventricular is not a normal admin. method for food tox. studies,\\nfor obvious reasons. You must not have read the peer-reviewed works\\nthat I referred to or you would never have come up with this brain\\ninjection bunk.\\n\\n>>Too much in the diet, and the system gets thrown off.\\n>\\n>Sez you. Such an effect in humans has not been demonstrated in any\\n>controlled studies. Infant mice and other models are useful as far\\n>as they go, but they\\'re not relevant to the matter at hand. Which is\\n>not to say that I favor its use in things like baby food--a patently\\n>ridiculous use of the additive. But we have no reason to believe\\n>that MSG in the diet effects humans adversely.\\n\\nPardon me, but where are you getting this from? Have you read the\\njournals? Have you done a thorough literature search?\\n\\nBut, you\\'re right, mice aren\\'t the best to study this on. They\\'re four\\ntimes less sensitive than humans to MSG.\\n\\n>>Glutamate and aspartate, also an excitotoxin are necessary in\\n>>small amounts, and are freely available in many foods, but the amounts\\n>>added by industry are far above the amounts that would normally be\\n>>encountered in a ny single food.\\n>\\n>Wrong. Do you know how much aspartate or phenylalanine is in a soft drink?\\n>Milligrams worth. Compare that to a glass of milk. Do you know how much\\n>glutamate is present in most protein-containing foods compared to that\\n>added by the use of MSG?\\n\\nThe point is exceeding the window. Of course, they\\'re amino acids.\\nNote that people with PKU cannot tolerate any phenylalanine.\\n\\nOlney\\'s research compared infant human diets. Specifically, the amount\\nof freely available Glu in mother\\'s milk versus commercial baby foods,\\nvs. typical lunch items from the Standard American Diet such as packaged\\nsoup mixes. He found that one could exceed the projected safety margin\\nfor infant humans by at least four-fold in a single meal of processed\\nfoods. Mother\\'s milk was well below the effective dose.\\n\\n\\n>>Read Olney\\'s review paper in Prog. Brain Res, 1988, and check *his*\\n>>sources. They are impecable. There is no dispute.\\n>\\n>Impeccable. There most certainly is a dispute.\\n\\nBetween who? Over what? I would be most interested in seeing you\\nprovide peer-reviewed non-food-industry-funded citations to articles\\ndisputing that MSG has no effects whatsoever. \\n\\n>\\n>Steve Dyer\\n>dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer\\n\\nHmm. \".com\". Why am I not surprised?\\n\\n- Dianne Murray wcsbeau@ccs.carleton.ca\\n\\n',\n", " 'From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)\\nSubject: Re: Level 5?\\nOrganization: U of Toronto Zoology\\nLines: 18\\n\\nIn article <1raejd$bf4@access.digex.net> prb@access.digex.com (Pat) writes:\\n>what ever happened to the hypothesis that the shuttle flight software\\n>was a major factor in the loss of 51-L. to wit, that during the\\n>wind shear event, the Flight control software indicated a series\\n>of very violent engine movements that shocked and set upa harmonic\\n>resonance leading to an overstress of the struts.\\n\\nThis sounds like another of Ali AbuTaha\\'s 57 different \"real causes\" of\\nthe Challenger accident. As far as I know, there has never been the\\nslightest shred of evidence for a \"harmonic resonance\" having occurred.\\n\\nThe windshear-induced maneuvering probably *did* contribute to opening\\nup the leak path in the SRB joint again -- it seems to have sealed itself\\nafter the puffs of smoke during liftoff -- but the existing explanation\\nof this and related events seems to account for the evidence adequately.\\n-- \\nSVR4 resembles a high-speed collision | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology\\nbetween SVR3 and SunOS. - Dick Dunn | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry\\n',\n", " \"From: sichase@csa2.lbl.gov (SCOTT I CHASE)\\nSubject: Re: Vandalizing the sky.\\nOrganization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory - Berkeley, CA, USA\\nLines: 22\\nDistribution: world\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.254.197\\nNews-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41 \\n\\nIn article , pgf@srl02.cacs.usl.edu (Phil G. Fraering) writes...\\n>Jeff.Cook@FtCollinsCO.NCR.COM (Jeff Cook) writes:\\n>....\\n>>people in primitive tribes out in the middle of nowhere as they look up\\n>>and see a can of Budweiser flying across the sky... :-D\\n> \\n>Seen that movie already. Or one just like it.\\n>Come to think of it, they might send someone on\\n>a quest to get rid of the dang thing...\\n\\nActually, the idea, like most good ideas, comes from Jules Verne, not\\n_The Gods Must Be Crazy._ In one of his lesser known books (I can't\\nremember which one right now), the protagonists are in a balloon gondola,\\ntravelling over Africa on their way around the world in the balloon, when\\none of them drops a fob watch. They then speculate about the reaction\\nof the natives to finding such a thing, dropped straight down from heaven.\\nBut the notion is not pursued further than that.\\n\\n-Scott\\n-------------------- New .sig under construction\\nScott I. Chase Please be patient\\nSICHASE@CSA2.LBL.GOV Thank you \\n\",\n", " 'From: jchen@wind.bellcore.com (Jason Chen)\\nSubject: Re: Is MSG sensitivity superstition?\\nNntp-Posting-Host: wind.bellcore.com\\nReply-To: jchen@ctt.bellcore.com\\nOrganization: Bell Communications Research\\nLines: 31\\n\\nIn article <1qi2h1INNr3o@roundup.crhc.uiuc.edu>, mary@uicsl.csl.uiuc.edu (Mary E. Allison) writes:\\n|> \\n|> Two different Tuesdays (two weeks apart we used the same day of the\\n|> week just for consistancies sake) we ordered food from the local \\n|> Chinese take out - same exact food except ONE of the days we had them\\n|> hold the MSG. I did not know which time the food was ordered without\\n|> the MSG but one time I had the reaction and one time I did not. \\n|> \\n|> NOW - you can TRY to tell me that it wasn\\'t \"scientific\" enough and\\n|> that I have not PROVEN beyond the shadow of a doubt that I have a\\n|> reaction to MSG - but it was proof enough for ME and I\\'ll have you\\n|> know that I do NOT wish to get sick from eating food thank you very\\n|> much. \\n|> \\nIf you could not tell which one had MSG, why restaurants bother to\\nuse it at all? \\n\\nIf you can taste the difference, psychological reaction might play a role.\\n\\nThe fact is, MSG is part of natural substance. Everyone, I mean EVERYONE,\\nconsumes certain amount of MSG every day through regular diet without\\nthe synthesized MSG additive.\\n\\nChinese, and many other Asians (Japanese, Koreans, etc) have used\\nMSG as flavor enhancer for two thousand years. Do you believe that\\nthey knew how to make MSG from chemical processes? Not. They just\\nextracted it from natural food such sea food and meat broth.\\n\\nBaring MSG is just like baring sugar which many people react to.\\n\\nJason Chen\\n',\n", " \"From: naomi@rock.concert.net (Naomi T Courter)\\nSubject: Endometriosis\\nOrganization: CONCERT-CONNECT -- Public Access UNIX\\nLines: 15\\n\\n\\ncan anyone give me more information regarding endometriosis? i heard\\nit's a very common disease among women and if anyone can provide names\\nof a specialist/surgeon in the north carolina research triangle park\\narea (raleigh/durham/chapel hill) who is familiar with the condition,\\ni would really appreciate it.\\n\\nthanks. \\n\\n--Naomi\\n-- \\nNaomi L.T. Courter\\nNetwork Services Specialist\\nMCNC - Center for Communications\\nCONCERT Network \\n\",\n", " 'From: nsmca@aurora.alaska.edu\\nSubject: Re: Moonbase race, NASA resources, why?\\nLines: 32\\nNntp-Posting-Host: acad3.alaska.edu\\nOrganization: University of Alaska Fairbanks\\n\\nIn article <1r46o9INN14j@mojo.eng.umd.edu>, sysmgr@king.eng.umd.edu (Doug Mohney) writes:\\n> In article , henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:\\n> \\n>>Apollo was done the hard way, in a big hurry, from a very limited\\n>>technology base... and on government contracts. Just doing it privately,\\n>>rather than as a government project, cuts costs by a factor of several.\\n> \\n> So how much would it cost as a private venture, assuming you could talk the\\n> U.S. government into leasing you a couple of pads in Florida? \\n> \\n> \\n> \\n> Software engineering? That\\'s like military intelligence, isn\\'t it?\\n> -- > SYSMGR@CADLAB.ENG.UMD.EDU < --\\n\\n\\nWhy must it be a US Government Space Launch Pad? Directly I mean..\\nI know of a few that could launch a small package into space.\\nNot including Ariadne, and the Russian Sites.. I know \"Poker Flats\" here in\\nAlaska, thou used to be only sounding rockets for Auroral Borealous(sp and\\nother northern atmospheric items, is at last I heard being upgraded to be able\\nto put sattelites into orbit. \\n\\nWhy must people in the US be fixed on using NASAs direct resources (Poker Flats\\nis runin part by NASA, but also by the Univesity of Alaska, and the Geophysical\\nInstitute). Sounds like typical US cultural centralism and protectionism..\\nAnd people wonder why we have the multi-trillion dollar deficite(sp).\\nYes, I am working on a spell checker..\\n\\n==\\nMichael Adams, nsmca@acad3.alaska.edu -- I\\'m not high, just jacked\\n\\n',\n", " 'From: flb@flb.optiplan.fi (\"F.Baube[tm]\")\\nSubject: First Spacewalk\\nX-Added: Forwarded by Space Digest\\nOrganization: [via International Space University]\\nOriginal-Sender: isu@VACATION.VENARI.CS.CMU.EDU\\nDistribution: sci\\nLines: 13\\n\\nAt one time there was speculation that the first spacewalk \\n(Alexei Leonov ?) was a staged fake.\\n\\nHas any evidence to support or contradict this claim emerged ?\\n\\nWas this claim perhaps another fevered Cold War hallucination ?\\n\\n-- \\n* Fred Baube (tm) * In times of intellectual ferment,\\n* baube@optiplan.fi * advantage to him with the intellect\\n* #include * most fermented !\\n* How is Frank Zappa doing ?\\n* May \\'68, Paris: It\\'s Retrospective Time !! \\n',\n", " 'From: dstock@hpqmoca.sqf.hp.com (David Stockton)\\nSubject: Re: Krillean Photography\\nNntp-Posting-Host: hpqmocb.sqf.hp.com\\nOrganization: Hewlett-Packard LTD, South Queensferry, Scotland\\nX-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8.8]\\nLines: 23\\n\\nVINCI (filipe@vxcrna.cern.ch) wrote:\\n\\n\\n\\n: How about Kirlian imaging ? I believe the FAQ for sci.skeptics (sp?)\\n: has a nice write-up on this. They would certainly be most supportive\\n: on helping you to build such a device and connect to a 120Kvolt\\n: supply so that you can take a serious look at your \"aura\"... :-)\\n\\n: Filipe Santos\\n: CERN - European Laboratory for Particle Physics\\n: Switzerland\\n\\n\\n This has to be THE only, generally accepted, method of using common \\nphysics lab equipment to find certain answers to all the questions about\\nafterlifes, heavens, hells, purgatory, gods etc. Krillean photography\\nwill probably be ignored as insignificant compared to these larger\\neternal verities. Publishing your results could be a bit of a problem,\\nthough.\\n\\n Cheers\\n David\\n',\n", " 'From: euclid@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Euclid K.)\\nSubject: Re: accupuncture and AIDS\\nOrganization: University of Illinois at Urbana\\nLines: 18\\n\\naliceb@tea4two.Eng.Sun.COM (Alice Taylor) writes:\\n\\n>A friend of mine is seeing an acupuncturist and\\n>wants to know if there is any danger of getting\\n>AIDS from the needles.\\n\\n\\tAsk the practitioner whether he uses the pre-sterilized disposable\\nneedles, or if he reuses needles, sterilizing them between use. In the\\nformer case there\\'s no conceivable way to get AIDS from the needles. In\\nthe latter case it\\'s highly unlikely (though many practitioners use the\\ndisposable variety anyway).\\n\\neuclid\\n--\\nEuclid K. standard disclaimers apply\\n\"It is a bit ironic that we need the wave model [of light] to understand the\\npropagation of light only through that part of the system where it leaves no\\ntrace.\" --Hudson & Nelson (_University_Physics_)\\n',\n", " 'From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nSubject: Re: Update (Help!) [was \"What is This [Is it Lyme\\'s?]\"]\\nArticle-I.D.: pitt.19436\\nReply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nOrganization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science\\nLines: 42\\n\\nIn article <1993Mar29.181958.3224@equator.com> jod@equator.com (John Setel O\\'Donnell) writes:\\n>\\n>I shouldn\\'t have to be posting here. Physicians should know the Lyme\\n>literature beyond Steere & co\\'s denial merry-go-round. Patients\\n>should get correctly diagnosed and treated.\\n>\\n\\nWhy do you think Steere is doing this? Isn\\'t he acting in good faith?\\nAfter all, as the \"discoverer\" of Lyme for all intents and purposes,\\nthe more famous Lyme gets, the more famous Steere gets. I don\\'t\\nsee the ulterior motive here. It is easy for me to see it the\\nthose physicians who call everything lyme and treat everything.\\nThere is a lot of money involved.\\n\\n>I\\'m a computer engineer, not a doctor (,Jim). I was building a \\n>computer manufacturing company when I got Lyme. I lost several \\n>years of my life to near-total disability; partially as a result,\\n>the company failed, taking with it over 150 jobs, my savings,\\n>and everything I\\'d worked for for years. I\\'m one of the \"lucky\"\\n>ones in that I found a physician through the Lyme foundation\\n>and now can work almost full-time, although I have persistent\\n>infection and still suffer a variety of sypmtoms. And now\\n>I try to follow the Lyme literature.\\n>\\n\\nWell, it is tragic what has happened to you, but it doesn\\'t\\nnecessarily make you the most objective source of information\\nabout it. If your whole life is focussed around this, you\\nmay be too emotionally involved to be advising other people\\nwho may or may not have Lyme. Certainly advocacy of more research\\non Lyme would not be out of order, though, and people like you\\ncan be very effective there.\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n-- \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nGordon Banks N3JXP | \"Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and\\ngeb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu | it is shameful to surrender it too soon.\" \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n',\n", " 'From: dpage@ra.csc.ti.com (Doug Page)\\nSubject: Re: Sr-71 in propoganda films?\\nNntp-Posting-Host: ra\\nOrganization: Texas Instruments\\nDistribution: sci\\nLines: 28\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr5.220610.1532@sequent.com>, bigfoot@sequent.com (Gregory Smith) writes:\\n|> mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:\\n|> \\n|> >In <1phv98$jbk@access.digex.net> prb@access.digex.com (Pat) writes:\\n|> \\n|> \\n|> >>THe SR-71 stopped being a real secret by the mid 70\\'s.\\n|> >>I had a friend in high school who had a poster with it\\'s picture.\\n|> \\n|> >It was known well before that. I built a model of it sometime in the\\n|> >mid 60\\'s, billed as YF-12A/SR-71. The model was based on YF-12A specs\\n|> >and had a big radar in the nose and 8 AAMs in closed bays on the\\n|> >underside of the fuselage. The description, even then, read \"speeds\\n|> >in excess of Mach 3 at altitudes exceeding 80,000 feet.\"\\n|> \\n|> L.B.J. publically announced the existance of the Blackbird program\\n|> in 1964.\\n\\n\\nHe\\'s also the one who dubbed it the SR-71 - it was the RS-71 until LBJ\\nmippselled (sic) it.\\n\\nFWIW,\\n\\nDoug Page\\n\\n*** The opinions are mine (maybe), and don\\'t necessarily represent those ***\\n*** of my employer. ***\\n',\n", " \"From: jdnicoll@prism.ccs.uwo.ca (James Davis Nicoll)\\nSubject: Re: Vandalizing the sky.\\nOrganization: University of Western Ontario, London\\nNntp-Posting-Host: prism.engrg.uwo.ca\\nLines: 15\\n\\nIn article nickh@CS.CMU.EDU (Nick Haines) writes:\\n>\\n>Would they buy it, given that it's a _lot_ more expensive, and not\\n>much more impressive, than putting a large set of several-km\\n>inflatable billboards in LEO (or in GEO, visible 24 hours from your\\n>key growth market). I'll do _that_ for only $5bn (and the changes of\\n>identity).\\n\\n\\tI've heard of sillier things, like a well-known utility company\\nwanting to buy an 'automated' boiler-cleaning system which uses as many\\noperators as the old system, and which rumour has it costs three million\\nmore per unit. Automation is more 'efficient' although by what scale they are\\nnot saying...\\n\\n\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t\\tJames Nicoll\\n\",\n", " 'From: thom@morgan.ucs.mun.ca (Thomas Clancy)\\nSubject: Re: Thrush ((was: Good Grief! (was Re: Candida Albicans: what is it?)))\\nOrganization: Memorial University of Newfoundland\\nLines: 55\\n\\ndyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer) writes:\\n\\n>In article <21APR199308571323@ucsvax.sdsu.edu> mccurdy@ucsvax.sdsu.edu (McCurdy M.) writes:\\n>>Dyer is beyond rude. \\n\\nI\\'ll drink to that.\\n\\n>Yeah, yeah, yeah. I didn\\'t threaten to rip your lips off, did I?\\n>Snort.\\n\\n>>There have been and always will be people who are blinded by their own \\n>>knowledge and unopen to anything that isn\\'t already established. Given what \\n>>the medical community doesn\\'t know, I\\'m surprised that he has this outlook.\\n\\n>Duh.\\n\\nNice to see Steve still has his high and almighty intellectual prowess \\nin tact.\\n\\n>>For the record, I have had several outbreaks of thrush during the several \\n>>past few years, with no indication of immunosuppression or nutritional \\n>>deficiencies. I had not taken any antobiotics. \\n\\n>Listen: thrush is a recognized clinical syndrome with definite\\n>characteristics. If you have thrush, you have thrush, because you can\\n>see the lesions and do a culture and when you treat it, it generally\\n>responds well, if you\\'re not otherwise immunocompromised. Noring\\'s\\n>anal-retentive idee fixe on having a fungal infection in his sinuses\\n>is not even in the same category here, nor are these walking neurasthenics\\n>who are convinced they have \"candida\" from reading a quack book.\\n\\nYawn...\\n\\n>>My dentist (who sees a fair amount of thrush) recommended acidophilous:\\n>>After I began taking acidophilous on a daily basis, the outbreaks ceased.\\n>>When I quit taking the acidophilous, the outbreaks periodically resumed. \\n>>I resumed taking the acidophilous with no further outbreaks since then.\\n\\n>So?\\n\\nExactly my question to you, Steve. What\\'s your point? This person had\\none, you didn\\'t\\n\\n>-- \\n>Steve Dyer\\n\\nNice to see that some things never change, Steve, if you aren\\'t being\\nignorant in one group [*.alternative] you\\'re into another. One positive\\nthing came out of it, you are no longer bothering the folks in \\n*.alternative, it\\'s just a shame that these people have to suffer so\\nthat others may breath freely. \\n \\nSorry for wasting bandwidth folks. Don\\'t forget to bow down once\\nevery second day, and to offer your first born to the almight \\nomniscient, omnipotent, Mr. Steve.\\n',\n", " \"From: xrcjd@mudpuppy.gsfc.nasa.gov (Charles J. Divine)\\nSubject: Washington Post Article on US-Russian Space Cooperation\\nOrganization: NASA/GSFC Greenbelt Maryland\\nLines: 23\\n\\nReported yesterday in the Washington Post (Kathy Sawyer, writer):\\n\\nThe article plays down the Russian role in US space.\\n\\nGibbons (science advisor to Clinton) sent Goldin a letter indicating\\nNASA should not limit redesign options to those compatible with Mir\\norbit.\\n\\nThe White House thinks expectations for Russian cooperation have been\\nraised too high.\\n\\nThe article reports that some think the spending and schedule limits\\nfor space station are so stringent that the redesign is nearly\\nimpossible. That's why some think Goldin has begun looking at \\nRussian hardware.\\n\\nGoldin states NASA will present all options to the administration \\nwhich will then have decision making power.\\n\\nGoldin and the White House have totally ruled out using Energia to\\nboost the station.\\n-- \\nChuck Divine\\n\",\n", " 'From: 18084TM@msu.edu (Tom)\\nSubject: Golden & Space ages\\nX-Added: Forwarded by Space Digest\\nOrganization: [via International Space University]\\nOriginal-Sender: isu@VACATION.VENARI.CS.CMU.EDU\\nDistribution: sci\\nLines: 17\\n\\nPat sez;\\n>Oddly, enough, The smithsonian calls the lindbergh years\\n>the golden age of flight. I would call it the granite years,\\n>reflecting the primitive nature of it. It was romantic,\\n>swashbuckling daredevils, \"those daring young men in their flying\\n>machines\". But in reality, it sucked. Death was a highly likely\\n>occurence, and the environment blew.\\n\\nYeah, but a windscreen cut down most of it. Canopies ended it completely.\\n\\nOf course, the environment in space continues to suck :-)\\n\\n-Tommy Mac\\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nTom McWilliams 517-355-2178 wk \\\\\\\\ As the radius of vision increases,\\n18084tm@ibm.cl.msu.edu 336-9591 hm \\\\\\\\ the circumference of mystery grows.\\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n',\n", " \"From: nsmca@aurora.alaska.edu\\nSubject: Space Station Redesign (30826) Option C\\nArticle-I.D.: aurora.1993Apr25.214653.1\\nOrganization: University of Alaska Fairbanks\\nLines: 22\\nNntp-Posting-Host: acad3.alaska.edu\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr25.151108.1@aurora.alaska.edu>, nsmca@aurora.alaska.edu writes:\\n> I like option C of the new space station design.. \\n> It needs some work, but it is simple and elegant..\\n> \\n> Its about time someone got into simple construction versus overly complex...\\n> \\n> Basically just strap some rockets and a nose cone on the habitat and go for\\n> it..\\n> \\n> Might be an idea for a Moon/Mars base to.. \\n> \\n> Where is Captain Eugenia(sp) when you need it (reference to russian heavy\\n> lifter, I think).\\n> ==\\n> Michael Adams, nsmca@acad3.alaska.edu -- I'm not high, just jacked\\n> \\n> \\n> \\n> \\n\\n\\nThis is a report, I got the subject messed up..\\n\",\n", " \"From: davel@davelpcSanDiego.NCR.com (Dave Lord)\\nSubject: Re: REQUEST: Gyro (souvlaki) sauce\\nReply-To: davel@davelpcSanDiego.NCR.com (Dave Lord)\\nOrganization: NCR Engineering and Manufacturing, San Diego, CA\\nLines: 13\\n\\nIn article <1r8pcn$rm1@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu>, Donald Mackie\\n writes:\\n> In article <1993Apr22.205341.172965@locus.com> Michael Trofimoff,\\n> tron@fafnir.la.locus.com writes:\\n> >Would anyone out there in 'net-land' happen to have an\\n> >authentic, sure-fire way of making this great sauce that\\n> >is used to adorn Gyro's and Souvlaki?\\n> \\n> I'm not sure of the exact recipe, but I'm sure acidophilus is one of\\n> the major ingredients. :-)\\n\\nIt's plain yoghurt with grated cucumber and coriander (other spices are\\nsometimes used). Some people use half yoghurt and half mayonaise.\\n\",\n", " 'From: fulk@cs.rochester.edu (Mark Fulk)\\nSubject: Re: Science and methodology (was: Homeopathy ... tradition?)\\nOrganization: University of Rochester\\n\\nIn article sasghm@theseus.unx.sas.com (Gary Merrill) writes:\\n>\\n>In article <1993Apr15.161112.21772@cs.rochester.edu>, fulk@cs.rochester.edu (Mark Fulk) writes:\\n>\\n>|> I don\\'t think \"extra-scientific\" is a very useful phrase in a discussion\\n>|> of the boundaries of science, except as a proposed definiens.\\n>|> Extra-rational\\n>|> is a better phrase. In fact, there are quite a number of well-known cases\\n>|> of extra-rational considerations driving science in a useful direction.\\n>\\n>Yeah, but the problem with holding up the \"extra-rational\" examples as\\n>exemplars, or as refutations of well founded methodology, is that you\\n>run smack up against such unuseful directions as Lysenko. Such \"extra-\\n>rational\" cases are curiosities -- not guides to methodology.\\n\\nAs has been noted before, there is the distinction between _motivation_\\nand _method_. No experimental result should be accepted unless it is\\ndescribed in sufficient detail to be replicated, and the replications\\ndo indeed reproduce the result. No theoretical argument should be\\naccepted unless it is presented in sufficient detail to be followed, and\\nreasonable, knowlegeable, people agree with the force of the logic.\\n\\nBut people try experiments, and pursue arguments, for all sorts of crazy\\nreasons. Irrational motivations are not just curiousities; they are a\\nlarge part of the history of science.\\n\\nThere are a couple of negative points to make here:\\n\\n1) A theory of qi could, conceivably, become accepted without direct\\nverification of the existence of qi. For example, quarks are an accepted\\npart of the standard model of physics, with no direct verification. What\\nwould be needed would be a theory, based on qi, that predicted medical\\nreality better than the alternatives. The central theoretical claim could\\nlie forever beyond experiment, as long as there was a sufficient body of\\nexperimental data that the qi theory predicted better than any other.\\n\\n(I wouldn\\'t hold my breath waiting for the triumph of qi, though.\\nI don\\'t think that there is even a coherent theory based on it, much less\\na theory that explains anything at all better than modern biology. And it\\nis hard to imagine a qi theory that would not predict some way of rather\\ndirectly verifying the existence of qi.)\\n\\n2) Science has not historically progressed in any sort of rational\\nexperiment-data-theory sequence. Most experiments are carried out, and\\ninterpreted, in pre-existing theoretical frameworks. The theoretical\\ncontroversies of the day determine which experiments get done. Overall,\\nthere is a huge messy affair of personal jealousies, crazy motivations,\\npetty hatreds, and the like that determines which experiments, and which\\ncomputations, get done. What keeps it going forward is the critical\\nfunction of science: results don\\'t count unless they can be replicated.\\n\\nThe whole system is a sort of mechanism for generate-and-test. The generate\\npart can be totally irrational, as long as the test part works properly.\\n\\nPasteur could believe whatever he liked about chemical activity and crystals;\\nbut even Mitscherlich had to agree that racemic acid crystals were handed;\\nthat when you separate them by handedness, you get two chemicals that rotate\\npolarized light in opposite directions; and the right-rotating version was\\nindistinguishable from tartaric acid. Pasteur\\'s irrational motivation had\\nled to a replicable, and important, result.\\n\\nThis is where Lysenko, creationists, etc. fail. They have usually not\\neven produced coherent theories that predict much of anything. When their\\ntheories do predict, and are contradicted by experiment, they do not\\nconcede the point and modify their theories; rather they try to suppress\\nthe results (Lysenko) or try to divert attention to other evidence they\\nthink supports their position (creationists).\\n-- \\nMark A. Fulk\\t\\t\\tUniversity of Rochester\\nComputer Science Department\\tfulk@cs.rochester.edu\\n',\n", " \"Subject: STARGARDTS DISEASE\\nFrom: kmcvay@oneb.almanac.bc.ca (Ken Mcvay)\\nOrganization: The Old Frog's Almanac\\nKeywords: stargardts\\nLines: 12\\n\\nThanks to aldridge@netcom.com, I now know a bit more about Stargardt's\\ndisease, aka juvenile macular distrophy, but I would like to learn more.\\n\\nFirst, what is the general prognosis - is blindness the result?\\nSecond, what treatments, if any, are available?\\n\\n\\n-- \\nThe Old Frog's Almanac - A Salute to That Old Frog Hisse'f, Ryugen Fisher \\n (604) 245-3205 (v32) (604) 245-4366 (2400x4) SCO XENIX 2.3.2 GT \\n Ladysmith, British Columbia, CANADA. Serving Central Vancouver Island \\nwith public access UseNet and Internet Mail - home to the Holocaust Almanac\\n\",\n", " \"From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)\\nSubject: Re: Moonbase race\\nOrganization: U of Toronto Zoology\\nLines: 11\\n\\nIn article 18084TM@msu.edu (Tom) writes:\\n>On the other hand, if Apollo cost ~25billion, for a few days or weeks\\n>in space, in 1970 dollars, then won't the reward have to be a lot more\\n>than only 1 billion to get any takers?\\n\\nApollo was done the hard way, in a big hurry, from a very limited\\ntechnology base... and on government contracts. Just doing it privately,\\nrather than as a government project, cuts costs by a factor of several.\\n-- \\nAll work is one man's work. | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology\\n - Kipling | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry\\n\",\n", " 'From: bmdelane@quads.uchicago.edu (brian manning delaney)\\nSubject: Re: diet for Crohn\\'s (IBD)\\nReply-To: bmdelane@midway.uchicago.edu\\nOrganization: University of Chicago\\nLines: 27\\n\\nOne thing that I haven\\'t seen in this thread is a discussion of the\\nrelation between IBD inflammation and the profile of ingested fatty\\nacids (FAs).\\n\\nI was diagnosed last May w/Crohn\\'s of the terminal ileum. When I got\\nout of the hospital I read up on it a bit, and came across several\\nstudies investigating the role of EPA (an essentially FA) in reducing\\ninflammation. The evidence was mixed. [Many of these studies are\\ndiscussed in \"Inflammatory Bowel Disease,\" MacDermott, Stenson. 1992.]\\n\\nBut if I recall correctly, there were some methodological bones to be\\npicked with the studies (both the ones w/pos. and w/neg. results). In\\nthe studies patients were given EPA (a few grams/day for most of the\\nstudies), but, if I recall correctly, there was no restriction of the\\n_other_ FAs that the patients could consume. From the informed\\nlayperson\\'s perspective, this seems mistaken. If lots of n-6 FAs are\\nconsumed along with the EPA, then the ratio of \"bad\" prostanoid\\nproducts to \"good\" prostanoid products could still be fairly \"bad.\"\\nIsn\\'t this ratio the issue?\\n\\nWhat\\'s the view of the gastro. community on EPA these days? EPA\\nsupplements, along with a fairly severe restriction of other FAs\\nappear to have helped me significantly (though it could just be the\\nlow absolute amount of fat I eat -- 8-10% calories).\\n\\n-Brian \\n\\n',\n", " 'From: kjenks@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov\\nSubject: Re: space food sticks\\nArticle-I.D.: aio.1993Apr6.134526.14966\\nOrganization: NASA/JSC/GM2, Space Shuttle Program Office\\nLines: 17\\nX-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]\\n\\nJohn Elson (jelson@rcnext.cso.uiuc.edu) wrote:\\n: Has anyone ever heard of a food product called \"Space Food Sticks?\" \\n\\nI remember those awful things. They were dry and crumbly, and I\\nrecall asking my third-grade teacher, Miss G\\'Francisco, how they\\nkept the crumbs from floating around in zero-G. She had no clue.\\nI have not seen anything like them in today\\'s space program.\\n\\nSome Apollo technology is best forgotten.\\n\\n-- Ken Jenks, NASA/JSC/GM2, Space Shuttle Program Office\\n kjenks@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov (713) 483-4368\\n\\n \"HERE MEN FROM THE PLANET EARTH\\n FIRST SET FOOT UPON THE MOON\\n JULY 1969, A.D.\\n WE CAME IN PEACE FOR ALL MANKIND.\"\\n',\n", " \"From: dpc47852@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Daniel Paul Checkman)\\nSubject: Re: Is MSG sensitivity superstition?\\nOrganization: University of Illinois at Urbana\\nLines: 26\\n\\ndyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer) writes:\\n\\n>In article <1qnns0$4l3@agate.berkeley.edu> spp@zabriskie.berkeley.edu (Steve Pope) writes:\\n>>The mass of anectdotal evidence, combined with the lack of\\n>>a properly constructed scientific experiment disproving\\n>>the hypothesis, makes the MSG reaction hypothesis the\\n>>most likely explanation for events.\\n\\n>You forgot the smiley-face.\\n\\n>I can't believe this is what they turn out at Berkeley. Tell me\\n>you're an aberration.\\n\\n>-- \\n>Steve Dyer\\n>dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer\\n \\nHEY, KEEP YOUR FU---NG FLAMING OUT OF THIS GROUP- THAT GOES FOR YOU, MR.\\nDYER, AS WELL AS SEVERAL OTHER NASTY, SARCASTIC PEOPLE, REGARDING THIS\\nSUBJECT. Shoot, now I'm all riled up, too, and I was just going to ask if\\nwe can keep our discussion about MSG a little more civil; blasting a school\\nor an idea through simple insults as demonstrated above is not necessary,\\nand otherwise out of line. If you want to continue your insult war, take\\nit elsewhere and stop wasting everyone else's time.\\nMost sincerely,\\n\\tDan Checkman\\n\",\n", " 'From: pgf@srl02.cacs.usl.edu (Phil G. Fraering)\\nSubject: Re: Vandalizing the sky.\\nOrganization: Univ. of Southwestern Louisiana\\nLines: 16\\n\\nJeff.Cook@FtCollinsCO.NCR.COM (Jeff Cook) writes:\\n...\\n>people in primitive tribes out in the middle of nowhere as they look up\\n>and see a can of Budweiser flying across the sky... :-D\\n\\nSeen that movie already. Or one just like it.\\nCome to think of it, they might send someone on\\na quest to get rid of the dang thing...\\n\\n>Jeff Cook Jeff.Cook@FtCollinsCO.NCR.com\\n\\n--\\nPhil Fraering |\"Seems like every day we find out all sorts of stuff.\\npgf@srl02.cacs.usl.edu|Like how the ancient Mayans had televison.\" Repo Man\\n\\n\\n',\n", " 'From: gene@theporch.raider.net (Gene Wright)\\nSubject: Why not give $1 billion to first year-long moon residents?\\nOrganization: The MacInteresteds of Nashville, Tn.\\nLines: 12\\n\\nWith the continuin talk about the \"End of the Space Age\" and complaints \\nby government over the large cost, why not try something I read about \\nthat might just work.\\n\\nAnnounce that a reward of $1 billion would go to the first corporation \\nwho successfully keeps at least 1 person alive on the moon for a year. \\nThen you\\'d see some of the inexpensive but not popular technologies begin \\nto be developed. THere\\'d be a different kind of space race then!\\n\\n--\\n gene@theporch.raider.net (Gene Wright)\\ntheporch.raider.net 615/297-7951 The MacInteresteds of Nashville\\n',\n", " 'From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nSubject: Re: Sinus vs. Migraine (was Re: Sinus Endoscopy)\\nReply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nOrganization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science\\nLines: 15\\n\\nIn article <1993Mar26.001004.10983@news.eng.convex.com> cash@convex.com (Peter Cash) writes:\\n>\\n>By the way, does the brain even have pain receptors? I thought not--I heard\\n>that brain surgery can be performed while the patient is conscious for\\n>precisely this reason.\\n>\\nNo, no, we aren\\'t talking about receptors for the brain\\'s sensory \\ninnervation, but structures such as the thalamus that handle pain\\nfor the entire organism. Apples and oranges.\\n\\n-- \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nGordon Banks N3JXP | \"Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and\\ngeb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu | it is shameful to surrender it too soon.\" \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n',\n", " 'From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)\\nSubject: Re: Metric vs English\\nArticle-I.D.: mksol.1993Apr6.131900.8407\\nOrganization: Texas Instruments Inc\\nLines: 31\\n\\nIn <1993Apr5.195215.16833@pixel.kodak.com> dj@ekcolor.ssd.kodak.com (Dave Jones) writes:\\n\\n>Keith Mancus (mancus@sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov) wrote:\\n>> Bruce_Dunn@mindlink.bc.ca (Bruce Dunn) writes:\\n>> > SI neatly separates the concepts of \"mass\", \"force\" and \"weight\"\\n>> > which have gotten horribly tangled up in the US system.\\n>> \\n>> This is not a problem with English units. A pound is defined to\\n>> be a unit of force, period. There is a perfectly good unit called\\n>> the slug, which is the mass of an object weighing 32.2 lbs at sea level.\\n>> (g = 32.2 ft/sec^2, of course.)\\n>> \\n\\n>American Military English units, perhaps. Us real English types were once \\n>taught that a pound is mass and a poundal is force (being that force that\\n>causes 1 pound to accelerate at 1 ft.s-2). We had a rare olde tyme doing \\n>our exams in those units and metric as well.\\n\\nAmerican, perhaps, but nothing military about it. I learned (mostly)\\nslugs when we talked English units in high school physics and while\\nthe teacher was an ex-Navy fighter jock the book certainly wasn\\'t\\nproduced by the military.\\n\\n[Poundals were just too flinking small and made the math come out\\nfunny; sort of the same reason proponents of SI give for using that.] \\n\\n-- \\n\"Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don\\'t have the balls to live\\n in the real world.\" -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden\\n------------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nFred.McCall@dseg.ti.com - I don\\'t speak for others and they don\\'t speak for me.\\n',\n", " 'From: jag@ampex.com (Rayaz Jagani)\\nSubject: Re: Homeopathy: a respectable medical tradition?\\nNntp-Posting-Host: dst-s4-21\\nOrganization: Ampex Corporation, Redwood City CA\\nLines: 27\\n\\nIn article <19609@pitt.UUCP> geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks) writes:\\n>In article <3794@nlsun1.oracle.nl> rgasch@nl.oracle.com (Robert Gasch) writes:\\n>>\\n>>In many European countries Homepathy is accepted as a method of curing\\n>>(or at least alleiating) many conditions to which modern medicine has \\n>>no answer. In most of these countries insurance pays for the \\n>>treatments.\\n>>\\n>\\n>Accepted by whom? Not by scientists. There are people\\n>in every country who waste time and money on quackery.\\n>In Britain and Scandanavia, where I have worked, it was not paid for.\\n>What are \"most of these countries?\" I don\\'t believe you.\\n>\\n>\\n\\nWhen were you in Britain?, my information is different.\\n\\nFrom Miranda Castro, _The Complete Homeopathy Handbook_,\\nISBN 0-312-06320-2, oringinally published in Britain in 1990.\\n\\nFrom Page 10,\\n.. and in 1946, when the National Health Service was established,\\nhomeopathy was included as an officially approved method\\nof treatment.\\n\\n\\n',\n", " \"From: prb@access.digex.com (Pat)\\nSubject: Re: Proton/Centaur?\\nOrganization: Express Access Online Communications USA\\nLines: 15\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: access.digex.net\\n\\n\\nWell thank you dennis for your as usual highly detailed and informative \\nposting. \\n\\nThe question i have about the proton, is could it be handled at\\none of KSC's spare pads, without major malfunction, or could it be\\nhandled at kourou or Vandenberg? \\n\\nNow if it uses storables, then how long would it take for the russians\\nto equip something at cape york?\\n\\nIf Proton were launched from a western site, how would it compare to the\\nT4/centaur? As i see it, it should lift very close to the T4.\\n\\npat\\n\",\n", " 'From: kiran@village.com (Kiran Wagle)\\nSubject: Re: Barbecued foods and health risk\\nOrganization: the Syllabub Sea\\nLines: 55\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu\\n\\nMark McWiggins reminds us:\\n\\nMM> Also, don\\'t forget that it\\'s better for your health \\nMM> to enjoy your steak than to resent your sprouts ...\\n\\nYES!\\n\\nI call this notion \"psychological health food\" and, in fact, have\\ndetermined that the Four Food Groups are Ice Cream, Pizza, Barbecue, and\\nChocolate. Ideally, every meal should contain something from at least two\\nof these four groups. Food DOES serve functions other than nutrition, and\\none of them is keeping the organism happy and thus aiding its immune\\nsystem. \\n\\nAnd I didn\\'t spend a million bucks commissioning a study that told me to\\nredraw my silly little pyramid in different colors and with a friendlier\\ntypeface, either. (Ref: Consumer Reports\\' back page--one of the best\\nthings ever to turn up there.)\\n\\nRich Young writes of one of six impossible things:\\nRY> to consume unrealistically large quantities of barbecued meat at a time.\"\\n\\nDonald Mackie confesses:\\nDM> I have to confess that this is one of my few unfulfilled ambitions.\\nDM> No matter how much I eat, it still seems realistic.\\n\\nYeah, I want to try one of those 42oz steaks (cooked over applewood) at\\nWally\\'s Wolf Lodge Inn in Coeur d\\'Alene. That seems quite\\nunrealistic--unrealistically SMALL. And a few slabs of ribs from the East\\nTexas Smoker (RIP, again) in Louisville is not at all unrealistic either. \\n\\nWhat say we have a rec.food.cooking dinner at the Moonlite Bar-B-Que Inn in\\nOwensboro? (It\\'s all you can eat including lamb ribs & mutton for about\\n$10.) We could invite Julie Kangas as guest of honor and see if the\\nMoonlite\\'s Very Hot Sauce is too hot for her. (It IS too hot for me, and I\\ndon\\'t say that very often.) And she could bring ice cream with crushed\\ndried chiltepins for dessert. \\n\\nAnd we could see if there IS such a thing as an \"unrealistically large\\nquantity\" of barbecue--the owner of the Moonlite estimates that the\\nOwensboro restaurants serve a hundred thousand pounds of meat a week in the\\nsummer, and forty thousand in the winter--in a town of 50 000 or so. Two\\npounds per person per week? Again, sure sounds unrealistic to me--thats\\njust too meager to be healthy.\\n\\n~ Kiran (Now a two-pound slab of ribs a day, THAT\\'s realistic.)\\n\\n-- \\nFUZZY PINK NIVEN\\'S LAW: Never Waste Calories. Potato chips, candy,\\nwhipped cream, or hot fudge sundae consumption may involve you, your\\ndietician, your wardrobe, and other factors. But Fuzzy Pink\\'s Law implies:\\nDon\\'t eat soggy potato chips, or cheap candy, or fake whipped cream, or an\\ninferior hot fudge sundae.\\n Larry Niven, NIVEN\\'S LAWS, N-SPACE\\n\\n',\n", " 'From: mcelwre@cnsvax.uwec.edu\\nSubject: NATURAL ANTI-cancer/AIDS Remedies\\nOrganization: University of Wisconsin Eau Claire\\nLines: 224\\n\\n\\n\\n The biggest reason why the cost of medical care is so EXTREMELY high and\\nincreasing is that NATURAL methods of treatment and even diagnosis are still\\nbeing SYSTEMATICALLY IGNORED and SUPPRESSED by the MONEY-GRUBBING and POWER-\\nMONGERING \"medical\" establishment.\\n Some examples of very low cost NATURAL ANTI-cancer Remedies are listed in\\nthe following article:\\n\\n\\n NATURAL ANTI-CANCER REMEDIES\\n A 3RD OPINION\\n \\n ( Some of these Remedies also work against AIDS. )\\n\\n\\n DISCLAIMER: This list was compiled from unorthodox sources \\n that have shown themselves to be reliable. The compiler of \\n this list is NOT a doctor of any kind, but is exercising his \\n First Amendment Constitutional RIGHT of FREE SPEECH on the \\n subjects of his choice. \\n\\n\\n ( MOST of these Remedies can be found in ANY Grocery Store. \\n MOST of the rest of them can be found in ANY Health Food \\n Store. What is important is HOW they are used, and what \\n else is EXCLUDED DURING their use. )\\n\\n\\n (1) THE 7-DAY FAST. \\n 1st day: Eat as much fresh fruit as you want, one kind \\n at a time, preferably grapes. \\n 2nd day: Eat all the vegetables you want, at least half \\n raw, including GARLIC; also, whole kernel corn to help scrape \\n clean the intestinal linings. \\n 3rd day: Drink all the fresh fruit and vegetable juice \\n you want. Preferably start with 16 to 32 ounces of prune \\n juice WITH PULP, followed by a gallon of pure (NOT from \\n concentrate) apple juice, then grape juice. (Stay close to \\n your home bathroom.) \\n 4th day: Eat all the UN-salted nuts (NO peanuts) and \\n dried fruit you want, preferably raisins and almonds (ALMONDS \\n CONTAIN LAETRILE.). \\n 5th day: ONE GALLON OF LEMONADE. Squeeze the juice from \\n two lemons into a gallon of water (preferably distilled), and \\n add 2 to 4 tablespoons of locally-made honey, (NO sugar). \\n Drink one glass per hour.\\n [EVERYone, including healthy people, should do this one day \\n every week, preceded by a large glass of prune juice WITH \\n PULP.] \\n 6th day: Same as 5th day. \\n 7th day: Same as 6th day. \\n All 7 days, eat ONLY the foods listed above for each \\n day, along with your usual vitamin and mineral supplements, \\n plus as much DISTILLED WATER as you want. \\n\\n (2) THE GRAPE DIET. \\n Eat 2 to 3 ounces of fresh grapes every 2 hours, 8 AM to \\n 8 PM, every day for six days. Eat NOTHING else during the \\n six days, but drink as much DISTILLED WATER as you want. \\n \\n (3) APPLE CIDER VINEGAR.\\n Mix a teaspoon of pure apple cider vinegar (NOT apple \\n cider \"flavored\" vinegar. Regular vinegar is HARMFUL.) in a \\n glass of water (preferably distilled) and drink all of it. \\n Do this 3 or 4 times per day, for 3 weeks; then stop for a \\n week. Repeat if desired. Do this along with a normal \\n healthy diet of natural foods. This remedy is especially \\n effective against those types of cancer that resemble a \\n FUNGUS, as well as against other kinds of fungus infections. \\n \\n (4) THE SEA-SALT & SODA BATH. [Please keep an OPEN MIND.]\\n Fill a bathtub with moderately warm water so the level \\n comes up almost to the overflow drain when you get in. \\n Immerse yourself in it for a minute, and then completely \\n dissolve in the bath water 1 pound of SUN-evaporated SEA-salt \\n (regular salt won\\'t work.) and 1 pound of fresh baking-soda. \\n Soak in this bath for 10 to 20 minutes, while exercising \\n your fingers, toes, and limbs, turning sideways and onto your \\n stomach, dunking your head, sitting up and laying back down, \\n chomping your teeth together, etc.. \\n Among other things, the SEA-salt & Soda Bath neutralizes \\n the accumulated effects of X-rays, etc., as described in the \\n book \"Born To Be Magnetic, Vol. 2\", by Frances Nixon, 1973. \\n PRECAUTIONS: Only the ONE person using each bath should \\n prepare it and drain it.\\n For at least 30 minutes after taking the bath, stay away \\n from, and even out of sight of, other people. (Your greatly \\n expanded Aura energy-field during that time could disrupt \\n other people\\'s fields.) Two hours after the bath, eat at \\n least 8 ounces of yogurt containing ACTIVE Yogurt Cultures. \\n (The bath may kill FRIENDLY bacteria also.) Better yet, take \\n a 2-Billion-bacteria \"Acidophilus\" capsule, which is also an \\n EXCELLENT DAILY REMEDY AGAINST THE EFFECTS OF \"A.I.D.S.\" \\n (because it kills all kinds of harmful bacteria in the \\n digestive tract, taking a big load off the remaining immune \\n system). [Because this external bath can kill IN-ternal \\n bacteria, it may also be a CURE for \"Lyme disease\".]\\n Do NOT take this bath within a few hundred miles of a thunder \\n storm, within 3 days of a full moon, nor during \"Major\" or \\n \"Minor Periods\" as listed in the \"Solunar Tables\" published \\n bimonthly in \"Field & Stream\" Magazine, (because of the \\n measurable disruptive ambient environmental energy-fields \\n present at those times).\\n Do NOT take this bath more than four times per year. \\n \\n (5) MISCELLANEOUS NATURAL ANTI-CANCER REMEDIES: \\n \\n For skin cancer, apply STABILIZED Aloe Vera Jel to the \\n affected skin twice daily, and take 2 to 4 tablespoons \\n per day of STABILIZED Aloe Vera Juice internally, for \\n about 2 months. \\n \\n D.M.S.O. (Dimethyl Sulfoxide) causes cancer cells to \\n perform NORMAL cell functions. \\n\\n ALMONDS (UN-blanched, UN-roasted) CONTAIN LAETRILE. \\n To help prevent cancer, eat several almonds every day. \\n To help cure cancer, eat several OUNCES of almonds per \\n day.\\n [NEVER take large concentrated doses of Laetrile orally. \\n IT WILL KILL YOU! Take it INTRAVENOUSLY ONLY. (Cancer \\n cells contain a certain enzyme which converts Laetrile \\n into cyanide, which then kills the cell. This enzyme is \\n ALSO present in the digestive system.)] \\n\\n ANTI-OXIDANTS are FREE-RADICAL SCAVENGERS, and include \\n Vitamin E, Selenium (200 mcg. per day is safe for most \\n people.), Chromium (up to 100 mcg. per day), Vitamin A \\n (25,000 IU per day is safe for most people.), Superoxide \\n Dismutase (up to 4,000,000 Units per day), Vitamin C (up \\n to 3000 mg. per day), and BHT (Butylated Hydroxy-\\n toluene), [1 to 4 capsules of BHT every night at bedtime \\n will also MAKE ONE IMMUNE AGAINST HERPES (BOTH types), \\n suppress herpes symptoms if one already has herpes, \\n prevent spreading herpes to other people, but will not \\n cure herpes. BHT MIGHT ALSO DO THESE THINGS AGAINST \\n \"A.I.D.S.\", which is really a form of cancer similar to \\n leukemia.] (See the book \"Life Extension\", by Durk \\n Pearson and Sandy Shaw.) \\n\\n HYDROGEN-PEROXIDE. Dilute twelve(12) drops of 3% \\n hydrogen-peroxide in a glass of pure water (preferably \\n DISTILLED) and drink it. Do this once or twice per day, \\n hours before or after eating or drinking anything else. \\n Apply 3% hydrogen-peroxide directly to skin cancers \\n several times per day.\\n Use hydrogen-peroxide ONLY if you are taking a good \\n daily dose of some of the various anti-oxidants \\n described above. \\n\\n VITAMIN & MINERAL SUPPLEMENTS are more effective, and \\n much less expensive, when COMBINED together in MEGA \\n doses into SINGLE tablets made from NATURAL sources. \\n\\n Cancer cells can NOT live in a strong (100,000 Maxwell) \\n NORTH MAGNETIC FIELD, especially if it is pulsating on \\n and off. [A strong south magnetic field is an \\n aphrodisiac.] In my opinion, ALL types of ionizing-\\n radiation treatments for cancer should be REPLACED with \\n daily 30-minute doses of pulsating 100,000-Maxwell NORTH \\n magnetic fields. \\n\\n Properly made and operated RADIONICS/PSIONICS MACHINES \\n can both diagnose and cure all forms of cancer, as well \\n as most other medical problems. Some Radionics/Psionics \\n Machines can even take cross-sectional X-ray-like photos \\n of cancer tumors, etc., with-OUT X-rays! \\n\\n INTERFERON tablets.\\n\\n TAHEEBO TEA, (Lapacho). \\n \\n HOMEOPATHY can cure cancer, and many other medical \\n problems (even drug addiction!). \\n\\n 50 mg. per day of CHELATED ZINC can help prevent or cure \\n prostate trouble. \\n\\n This list is NOT exhaustive. \\n\\n\\n The above NATURAL Remedies can CURE both diagnosed AND UN-\\n DIAGNOSED cancers, as well as PREVENT them, and also prevent \\n and cure many other medical problems including heart-\\n diseases. They are NOT too simple and inexpensive to work \\n effectively. \\n\\n Besides acting on a person biologically and chemically, these \\n remedies, especially The 7-Day Fast and The Grape Diet, send \\n a strong message to one\\'s subconscious mind, PROGRAMMING it \\n to CURE the cancer. \\n\\n In my opinion, if a person finds out that s/he has cancer, \\n then s/he should promptly try at least the first 4 remedies \\n described above, in sequence (starting with The 7-Day Fast), \\n BEFORE resorting to the UN-natural and expensive mutilations \\n and agonies [POISON, BURN, and MUTILATE!] of orthodox cancer \\n treatment [organi$ed-CRIME!]. \\n \\n \\n DISCLAIMER: This list was compiled from unorthodox sources \\n that have shown themselves to be reliable. The compiler of \\n this list is NOT a doctor of any kind, but is exercising his \\n First Amendment Constitutional RIGHT of FREE SPEECH on the \\n subjects of his choice. \\n\\n\\n FOR MORE INFORMATION, contact Cancer Control Society, 2043 N. \\n Berendo St., Los Angeles, CA 90027, and/or other organiza-\\n tions listed in the \"Alternative Medicine\" and \"Holistic \\n Medicine\" portions of the \"Health and Medical Organizations\" \\n Section (Section 8) of the latest edition of the \"Encyclope-\\n dia of Associations\" reference book in your local public or \\n university library. \\n\\n\\n UN-altered REPRODUCTION and DISSEMINATION of this \\n IMPORTANT Information is ENCOURAGED. \\n\\n \\n Robert E. McElwaine\\n \\n\\n',\n", " \"From: mdf0@shemesh.GTE.com (Mark Feblowitz)\\nSubject: Re: Is MSG sensitivity superstition?\\n\\t<1qht2d$8pg@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov> <1qhu7s$d3u@agate.berkeley.edu>\\nReply-To: mfeblowitz@gte.com\\nOrganization: GTE Laboratories Inc.\\nLines: 17\\nIn-reply-to: spp@zabriskie.berkeley.edu's message of 14 Apr 93 21:03:56 GMT\\n\\nIn article <1qhu7s$d3u@agate.berkeley.edu> spp@zabriskie.berkeley.edu (Steve Pope) writes:\\n\\n It's worse than that -- there *is* no such thing as\\n a double-blind study on the effects of MSG, by\\n virtue of the fact that MSG changes the taste of food in\\n a characteristic way that is detectable by the subject and\\n that cannot be duplicated by a placebo.\\n\\nCommon! You can easily disguise to flavor of MSG by putting it in a\\ncapsule. Then, the study becomes a double blind of MSG capsules\\nagainst control capsules (containing exactly the same contents minus\\nthe MSG).\\n--\\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nMark Feblowitz, GTE Laboratories Inc., 40 Sylvan Rd. Waltham, MA 02254\\nmfeblowitz@GTE.com, (617) 466-2947, fax: (617) 890-9320\\n\\n\",\n", " 'From: hahn@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (David James Hahn)\\nSubject: Re: RE: HELP ME INJECT...\\nArticle-I.D.: uwm.1r82eeINNc81\\nReply-To: hahn@csd4.csd.uwm.edu\\nOrganization: University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee\\nLines: 39\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.7.4\\nOriginator: hahn@csd4.csd.uwm.edu\\n\\nFrom article <1993Apr22.233001.13436@vax.oxford.ac.uk>, by krishnas@vax.oxford.ac.uk:\\n> The best way of self injection is to use the right size needle\\n> and choose the correct spot. For Streptomycin, usually given intra\\n> muscularly, use a thin needle (23/24 guage) and select a spot on\\n> the upper, outer thigh (no major nerves or blood vessels there). \\n> Clean the area with antiseptic before injection, and after. Make\\n> sure to inject deeply (a different kind of pain is felt when the\\n> needle enters the muscle - contrasted to the \\'prick\\' when it \\n> pierces the skin).\\n> \\n> PS: Try to go to a doctor. Self-treatment and self-injection should\\n> be avoided as far as possible.\\n> \\nThe areas that are least likely to hurt are where you have a little \\nfat. I inject on my legs and gut, and prefer the gut. I can stick\\nit in at a 90 degree angle, and barely feel it. I\\'m not fat, just\\nhave a little gut. My legs however, are muscular, and I have to pinch\\nto get anything, and then I inject at about a 45 degree angle,and it\\nstill hurts. The rate of absorbtion differs for subcutaneous and \\nmuscular injections however--so if it\\'s a daily thing it would be\\nbest not to switch places every day to keep consistencey. Although\\nsome suggest switch legs or sides of the stomach for each shot, to prevent \\nirritation. When you clean the spot off with an alcohol prep, \\nwait for it to dry somewhat, or you may get the alcohol in the\\npuncture, and of course, that doesn\\'t feel good. A way to prevent\\nirratation is to mark the spot that you injected. A good way to\\ndo this is use a little round bandage and put it over the \\nspot. This helps prevent you from injecting in the same spot,\\nand spacing the sites out accuartely (about 1 1/2 \" apart.)\\n\\nThis is from experience, so I hope it\\'ll help you. (I have\\ndiabetes and have to take an injection every morning.)\\n\\n\\t\\t\\tLater,\\n\\t\\t\\t\\tDavid\\n-- \\nDavid Hahn\\nUniversity of Wisconsin : Milwaukee \\nhahn@csd4.csd.uwm.edu\\n',\n", " \"From: nether@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (Joel C Belog)\\nSubject: Space Shuttle information wanted\\nOrganization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute\\nLines: 15\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: bigwpi.wpi.edu\\n\\n\\n\\nHello everyone,\\n\\n\\tI was hoping someone could help me out. I'm writing a program\\n\\tfor my astronautics class for assent of the shuttle into a low\\n\\torbit. There are two things I'd like to know, First, how much \\n\\ttime elapses between launch and the pitch over. Second, what is\\n\\tthe cross-sectional area of the shuttle, srb's, and ext. tank.\\n\\n\\tThanks for any information, post or e-mail.\\n\\n\\tJoel Belog\\n\\tnether@wpi.wpi.edu\\n\\t\\n\",\n", " \"From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)\\nSubject: Re: Is MSG sensitivity superstition?\\nOrganization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA\\nLines: 14\\n\\nIn article <1qnns0$4l3@agate.berkeley.edu> spp@zabriskie.berkeley.edu (Steve Pope) writes:\\n>The mass of anectdotal evidence, combined with the lack of\\n>a properly constructed scientific experiment disproving\\n>the hypothesis, makes the MSG reaction hypothesis the\\n>most likely explanation for events.\\n\\nYou forgot the smiley-face.\\n\\nI can't believe this is what they turn out at Berkeley. Tell me\\nyou're an aberration.\\n\\n-- \\nSteve Dyer\\ndyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer\\n\",\n", " 'From: Mark.Prado@p2.f349.n109.z1.permanet.org (Mark Prado)\\nSubject: Sixty-two thousand (was Re: How many read sci.space?)\\nLines: 32\\n\\n\\nReply address: mark.prado@permanet.org\\n\\nIf anyone knows anyone else who would like to get sci.space,\\nbut doesn\\'t have an Internet feed (or has a cryptic Internet\\nfeed), I would be willing to feed it to them. I have a nice\\noffline message reader/editor, an automated modem \"mailer\"\\nprogram which will pick up mail bundles (quickly and easily),\\nand an INSTALL.EXE to set them up painlessly. No charge for\\nthe sci.space feed, though you have to dial Washington, D.C.\\nThis is NOT a BBS -- it\\'s a store & forward system for mail\\nbundles, with minimum connect times. (I\\'m used to overseas\\ncalls.) (This is not an offer for a free feed for any other\\nparticular newsgroups.) Speeds of up to 14400 (v32bis) are\\nsupported. VIP\\'s might be offered other free services, such\\nas Internet address and other functionality.\\n\\nI get my feed from UUNET and run a 4-line hub. I\\'ve been\\nhubbing for years -- I have an extremely reliable hub.\\n\\nThe software I provide runs under MS-DOS (and OS/2 and Windows\\nas a DOS box). Other, compatible software packages exist for\\nthe MacIntosh and Unix.\\n\\nAny responses should be private and go to: \\nmark.prado@permanet.org\\n\\n(By the way, to all, my apologies for the public traffic on my\\nglib question. I really didn\\'t expect public replys. But thanks\\nto Bill Higgins for the interesting statistics and the lead.)\\n\\n * Origin: PerManNet FTSC <=> Internet gateway (1:109/349.2)\\n',\n", " 'From: Bruce_Dunn@mindlink.bc.ca (Bruce Dunn)\\nSubject: Re: Clementine mission name\\nOrganization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada\\nLines: 22\\n\\n> Wales.Larrison@ofa123.fidonet.org writes:\\n>\\n> Old pioneer song from the 1850\\'s or so goes as follows:\\n>\\n> \"In a cavern, in a canyon,\\n> Excavating for a mine,\\n> Dwelt a miner, forty-niner,\\n> And his daughter, CLEMENTINE\"\\n>\\n> Chorus:\\n> \"Oh my darling, Oh my darling,\\n> Oh my darling Clementine.\\n> You are lost and gone forever,\\n> Oh my darling Clementine.\"\\n\\n\\n Let us hope that the performance of the spacecraft follows the\\nsentiments of the first verse (miner) rather than the second (lost and gone\\nforever).\\n\\n--\\nBruce Dunn Vancouver, Canada Bruce_Dunn@mindlink.bc.ca\\n',\n", " 'From: phoenix.Princeton.EDU!carlosn (Carlos G. Niederstrasser)\\nSubject: Re: Jemison on Star Trek\\nOriginator: news@nimaster\\nNntp-Posting-Host: chroma.princeton.edu\\nOrganization: Princeton University\\nLines: 33\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr20.142747.1@aurora.alaska.edu> nsmca@aurora.alaska.edu \\nwrites:\\n> In article , loss@fs7.ECE.CMU.EDU (Doug Loss) \\nwrites:\\n> > I saw in the newspaper last night that Dr. Mae Jemison, the first\\n> > black woman in space (she\\'s a physician and chemical engineer who flew\\n> > on Endeavour last year) will appear as a transporter operator on the\\n> > \"Star Trek: The Next Generation\" episode that airs the week of May 31.\\n> > It\\'s hardly space science, I know, but it\\'s interesting.\\n> > \\n> > Doug Loss\\n> \\n> \\n> Interesting is rigth.. I wonder if they will make a mention of her being an\\n> astronaut in the credits.. I think it might help people connect the future \\nof\\n> space with the present.. And give them an idea that we must go into space..\\n> \\n\\n\\nA transporter operator!?!? That better be one important transport. Usually \\nit is a nameless ensign who does the job. For such a guest appearance I would \\nhave expected a more visible/meaningful role.\\n\\n---\\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\\n| Carlos G. Niederstrasser | Only two things are infinite, |\\n| Princeton Planetary Society | the universe and human |\\n| | stupidity, and I\\'m not sure |\\n| | about the former. - Einstein |\\n| carlosn@phoenix.princeton.edu |---------------------------------|\\n| space@phoenix.princeton.edu | Ad Astra per Ardua Nostra |\\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\\n',\n", " \"From: prb@access.digex.com (Pat)\\nSubject: Re: army in space\\nOrganization: Express Access Online Communications USA\\nLines: 10\\nDistribution: world\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: access.digex.net\\n\\n\\nThere is the Army Ballistic Missile Defense Organization.\\n\\nThey were the precursors to SDIO. and still exist under\\nthat umbrella. Army Signal Corp's and DCA defense Comm Agency\\noops DISA, they just changed names do space work. that's\\nthe point of all those defense comm sats. \\n\\nBut don't worry, there are lots of jobs that need ditch digging,\\nsomehow you'll end up there ;-)\\n\",\n", " 'From: prb@access.digex.com (Pat)\\nSubject: Re: Level 5?\\nOrganization: Express Access Online Communications USA\\nLines: 11\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: access.digex.net\\n\\n\\n\\nWHile we are on the subject of the shuttle software.\\n\\nwhat ever happened to the hypothesis that the shuttle flight software\\nwas a major factor in the loss of 51-L. to wit, that during the\\nwind shear event, the Flight control software indicated a series\\nof very violent engine movements that shocked and set upa harmonic\\nresonance leading to an overstress of the struts.\\n\\npat\\n',\n", " 'From: sjha+@cs.cmu.edu (Somesh Jha)\\nSubject: What is \"intersection syndrome\" near the forearm/wrist?\\nNntp-Posting-Host: gs73.sp.cs.cmu.edu\\nOrganization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon\\nLines: 17\\n\\n\\nHi:\\n\\nI went to the orthopedist on Tuesday. He diagnosed me as having\\n\"intersection syndrome\". He prescribed Feldene for me. I want\\nto know more about the disease and the drug.\\n\\nThanks\\n\\n\\nSomesh\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n',\n", " \"From: dpage@ra.csc.ti.com (Doug Page)\\nSubject: Re: Quaint US Archaisms\\nNntp-Posting-Host: ra\\nOrganization: Texas Instruments\\nLines: 41\\n\\nIn article , nickh@CS.CMU.EDU (Nick Haines) writes:\\n|> In article <1993Apr2.170157.24251@ke4zv.uucp> gary@ke4zv.uucp (Gary Coffman) writes:\\n|> \\n\\n|> Of course the units of force have the same names as those of weight,\\n|> but in order to use them you need to keep useful constants like the\\n|> omnipresent 32.???? ft/sec^2 around.\\n|> \\n|> Maybe you'd like to go over again how this system is _so_ natural and\\n|> _so_ easy to use, Gary? While you're at it, you can figure out for us\\n|> the weight of 17 barrels and a quart of foo (density 17lb 2 3/4 oz per\\n|> cubic foot) on the moon (gravity 5 ft 7 3/32 in/sec^2). Let's face it,\\n|> even the imperial system uses a basically metric way of relating\\n|> quantities (i.e. that would be written as 5.59 ft/sec^2); the only\\n|> thing you're hanging on to is the right to express the same quantity\\n|> as 1731 inches, 144.25 feet, 48.0833 yards or 2.186 chains. What\\n|> everyone else is saying is _why_ do you want to do that?\\n|> \\n|> Any apparent remaining complexity in the SI system is due to the\\n|> multiplicity of the aforesaid prefixes. In fact what's going on (and\\n|> the fundamental difference between SI and imperial) is that you have\\n|> exactly one unit of each type, and all values of that type are\\n|> expressed as some multiple of the unit.\\n\\nYou mean like: seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, years. . . :-)\\n\\nRemember, the Fahrenheit temperature scale is also a centigrade scale. Some\\nrevisionists tell the history something like this: The coldest point in a\\nparticular Russian winter was marked on the thermometer as was the body\\ntemperature of a volunteer (turns out he was sick, but you can't win 'em all).\\nThen the space in between the marks on the thermometer was then divided into\\nhundredths.\\n\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t:-)\\n\\nFWIW,\\n\\nDoug Page\\n\\n\\n*** The opinions are mine (maybe), and do not necessarily represent those ***\\n*** of my employer (or any other sane person, fot that matter). ***\\n\",\n", " 'From: John Lussmyer \\nSubject: Re: DC-X update???\\nOrganization: Mystery Spot BBS\\nReply-To: dragon@angus.mi.org\\nLines: 12\\n\\nhenry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:\\n\\n> The first flight will be a low hover that will demonstrate a vertical\\n> landing. There will be no payload. DC-X will never carry any kind\\n\\nExactly when will the hover test be done, and will any of the TV\\nnetworks carry it. I really want to see that...\\n\\n--\\nJohn Lussmyer (dragon@angus.mi.org)\\nMystery Spot BBS, Royal Oak, MI --------------------------------------------?--\\n\\n',\n", " 'From: annick@cortex.physiol.su.oz.au (Annick Ansselin)\\nSubject: Re: Is MSG sensitivity superstition?\\nNntp-Posting-Host: cortex.physiol.su.oz.au\\nOrganization: Department of Physiology, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia\\nLines: 29\\n\\nIn marco@sdf.lonestar.org (Steve Giammarco) writes:\\n\\n>>\\n>>And to add further fuel to the flame war, I read about 20 years ago that\\n>>the \"natural\" MSG - extracted from the sources you mention above - does not\\n>>cause the reported aftereffects; it\\'s only that nasty \"artificial\" MSG -\\n>>extracted from coal tar or whatever - that causes Chinese Restaurant\\n>>Syndrome. I find this pretty hard to believe; has anyone else heard it?\\n\\nMSG is mono sodium glutamate, a fairly straight forward compound. If it is\\npure, the source should not be a problem. Your comment suggests that \\nimpurities may be the cause.\\nMy experience of MSG effects (as part of a double blind study) was that the\\npure stuff caused me some rather severe effects.\\n\\n>I was under the (possibly incorrect) assumption that most of the MSG on\\n>our foods was made from processing sugar beets. Is this not true? Are \\n>there other sources of MSG?\\n\\nSoya bean, fermented cheeses, mushrooms all contain MSG. \\n\\n>I am one of those folx who react, sometimes strongly, to MSG. However,\\n>I also react strongly to sodium chloride (table salt) in excess. Each\\n>causes different symptoms except for the common one of rapid heartbeat\\n>and an uncomfortable feeling of pressure in my chest, upper left quadrant.\\n\\nThe symptoms I had were numbness of jaw muscles in the first instance\\nfollowed by the arms then the legs, headache, lethargy and unable to keep\\nawake. I think it may well affect people differently.\\n',\n", " 'From: steinly@topaz.ucsc.edu (Steinn Sigurdsson)\\nSubject: Re: Gamma Ray Bursters. WHere are they.\\nOrganization: Lick Observatory/UCO\\nLines: 56\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: topaz.ucsc.edu\\nIn-reply-to: prb@access.digex.com\\'s message of 23 Apr 1993 23:58:19 -0400\\n\\nIn article <1radsr$att@access.digex.net> prb@access.digex.com (Pat) writes:\\n\\n What evidence indicates that Gamma Ray bursters are very far away?\\n\\nTheir distribution is very isotropic and the intensity distribution,\\ncrudely speaking, indicates we\\'re seeing an edge to the distribution.\\n\\n Given the enormous power, i was just wondering, what if they are\\n quantum black holes or something like that fairly close by?\\n\\n Why would they have to be at galactic ranges? \\n\\nNow, in the good old days before GRO data, it was thought the\\ngamma bursters were neutron stars in the galaxy, it was expected that\\nGRO would confirm this by either showing they were a local population\\n(within a few hundred light years) or that they were in the galactic\\nhalo. (Mechanism was not known but several plausible ones existed)\\n(also to be fair it was noted that the _brightest_ burster was\\nprobably in the LMC, suggesting theorists might be wrong back then...)\\n\\tAs the Sun is not at the center of the galaxy a halo\\npopulation should show anisotropy (a local disk population is\\nruled out completely at this stage) - to avoid the anisotropy you\\nhave to push the halo out, the energy then gets large, the mechanism\\nof getting NS out that far becomes questionable, and we should start\\nto see for example the Andromeda\\'s bursters.\\n\\tThe data is consistent with either a Oort cloud distribution\\n(but only just) - but no one can think of a plausible source with\\nthe right spectrum. Or, it can be a cosmological distances (hence\\nisotropy) and the edge is \"the edge of the Universe\" ;-)\\nIf at cosmological distances you need very high energy (to detect)\\nand a very compact source (for spectrum), ergo a neutron star\\ncolliding with another neutron star or black hole. Even then getting\\nthe spectrum is very hard, but conceivable.\\n\\n\\tIf we know anything about physics at that level,\\nthe bursters are not due to quantum black holes or cosmic\\nstrings, wrong spectrum for one thing.\\n\\nThe situation is further complicated by recent claims that\\nthere are two classes of sources ;-) [in the colliding NS\\nthey\\'d actually probably fit relatively easily into the\\nNS-NS and NS-BH collision scenarios respectively]\\n\\n my own pet theory is that it\\'s Flying saucers entering\\n hyperspace :-)\\n\\n but the reason i am asking is that most everyone assumes that they\\n are colliding nuetron stars or spinning black holes, i just wondered\\n if any mechanism could exist and place them closer in.\\n\\nIf you can think of one, remember to invite me to Stockholm...\\n\\n* Steinn Sigurdsson \\t\\t\\tLick Observatory \\t*\\n* steinly@lick.ucsc.edu\\t\\t\"standard disclaimer\" \\t*\\n* The laws of gravity are very,very strict\\t\\t\\t*\\n* And you\\'re just bending them for your own benefit - B.B. 1988*\\n',\n", " 'From: aws@iti.org (Allen W. Sherzer)\\nSubject: Re: Sixty-two thousand (was Re: How many read sci.space?)\\nOrganization: Evil Geniuses for a Better Tomorrow\\nLines: 23\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr15.131954.1@fnalf.fnal.gov> higgins@fnalf.fnal.gov (Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey) writes:\\n\\n>Reid, alas, gives us no measure of the \"power/influence\" of readers...\\n>Sorry, Mark.\\n\\nI think I can. Largely as a result of efforts by people reading this group\\nwriting letters and making phone calls the following has happened:\\n\\n1. NASA reprogrammed funds to keep NASP alive in 1991.\\n2. Efforts to kill DC-X and the SSRT progam where twice twarted\\n (Feb. and June of last year).\\n3. Gouldin kept his job in spite of heavy lobbying against him.\\n\\nThis may not be what Mark was thinking of but it shows that the\\nreaders of sci.space DO have power and influence.\\n\\n Allen\\n\\n-- \\n+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+\\n| Lady Astor: \"Sir, if you were my husband I would poison your coffee!\" |\\n| W. Churchill: \"Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it.\" |\\n+----------------------58 DAYS TO FIRST FLIGHT OF DCX-----------------------+\\n',\n", " 'From: mwm+@cs.cmu.edu (Mark Maimone)\\nSubject: How to read sci.space without netnews\\nSummary: Space Digest address\\nNntp-Posting-Host: a.gp.cs.cmu.edu\\nOrganization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon\\nLines: 36\\n\\nIn article <734975852.F00001@permanet.org> Mark.Prado@p2.f349.n109.z1.permanet.org (Mark Prado) writes:\\n>If anyone knows anyone else who would like to get sci.space,\\n>but doesn\\'t have an Internet feed (or has a cryptic Internet\\n>feed), I would be willing to feed it to them.\\t\\n\\n\\tKudos to Mark for his generous offer, but there already exists a\\nlarge (email-based) forwarding system for sci.space posts: Space Digest.\\nIt mirrors sci.space exactly, and provides simple two-way communication.\\n\\n\\tTO SUBSCRIBE:\\n\\t Send the following message in the *body* (not subject) of an\\n\\t email message:\\n\\n\\t\\tsubscribe space John Q Public\\n\\n\\t to one of these addresses:\\n\\n\\t\\tlistserv@uga\\n\\t\\tlistserv@uga.cc.uga.edu\\n\\t\\tlistserv@finhutc\\n\\t\\tlistserv@finhuc.hut.fi\\n\\t\\tspace-request@isu.isunet.edu\\n\\n\\t You\\'ll receive all the posts in \"digest\" form once a day. Please\\n\\t use a listserv if you can, the \"space-request\" address is handled\\n\\t manually.\\n\\n\\tTO POST MESSAGES:\\n\\t Send your message (with a reasonable Subject line) to:\\n\\n\\t\\tspace@isu.isunet.edu\\n\\nQuestions, comments to space-request@isu.isunet.edu\\n-- \\nMark Maimone\\t\\t\\t\\tphone: +1 (412) 268 - 7698\\nCarnegie Mellon Computer Science\\temail: mwm@cmu.edu\\n',\n", " \"From: n4hy@harder.ccr-p.ida.org (Bob McGwier)\\nSubject: Re: What counntries do space surveillance?\\nOrganization: IDA Center for Communications Research\\nLines: 13\\nDistribution: world\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: harder.ccr-p.ida.org\\nIn-reply-to: thomsonal@cpva.saic.com's message of 23 Apr 93 20:17:25 GMT\\n\\n\\nI can tell you that when AMSAT launched some birds along a Spot satellite\\n(French), that during installation of some instruments on Spot 2, there\\nheavily armed legionaires who had a `take no prisoners' look on there faces.\\nSpot satellites are completely capable of doing some very good on orbit\\nsurveillance.\\n\\nBMc\\n--\\n------------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nRobert W. McGwier | n4hy@ccr-p.ida.org\\nCenter for Communications Research | Interests: amateur radio, astronomy,golf\\nPrinceton, N.J. 08520 | Asst Scoutmaster Troop 5700, Hightstown\\n\",\n", " 'From: jim.zisfein@factory.com (Jim Zisfein) \\nSubject: Re: Could this be a migraine?\\nDistribution: world\\nOrganization: Invention Factory\\'s BBS - New York City, NY - 212-274-8298v.32bis\\nReply-To: jim.zisfein@factory.com (Jim Zisfein) \\nLines: 31\\n\\nGB> From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nGB> >(I am excepting migraine, which is arguably neurologic).\\nGB> I hope you meant \"inarguably\".\\n\\nGiven the choice, I would rather argue .\\n\\nNo arguments about migranous aura; in fact, current best evidence is\\nthat aura is intrinsicially neuronal (a la spreading depression of\\nLeao) rather than vascular (something causing vasoconstriction and\\nsecondary neuronal ischemia).\\n\\nMigraine without aura, however, is a fuzzier issue. There do not\\nseem to be objectively measurable changes in brain function. The\\nCopenhagen mafia (Lauritzen, Olesen, et al) have done local CBF\\nstudies on migraine without aura, and (unlike migraine with aura,\\nbut like tension-type) they found no changes in LCBF.\\n\\nFrom one (absurd) perspective, *all* pain is neurologic, because in\\nthe absence of a nervous system, there would not be pain. From\\nanother (tautologic) perspective, any disease is in the domain of\\nthe specialty that treats it. Neurologists treat headache,\\ntherefore (at least in the USA) headache is neurologic.\\n\\nWhether neurologic or not, nobody would disagree that disabling\\nheadaches are common. Perhaps my fee-for-service neurologic\\ncolleagues, scrounging for cases, want all the headache patients\\nthey can get. Working on a salary, however, I would rather not fill\\nmy office with patients holding their heads in pain.\\n---\\n . SLMR 2.1 . E-mail: jim.zisfein@factory.com (Jim Zisfein)\\n \\n',\n", " \"From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)\\nSubject: Re: Orion drive in vacuum -- how?\\nOrganization: U of Toronto Zoology\\nLines: 15\\n\\nIn article <1qn4bgINN4s7@mimi.UU.NET> goltz@mimi.UU.NET (James P. Goltz) writes:\\n> Would this work? I can't see the EM radiation impelling very much\\n>momentum (especially given the mass of the pusher plate), and it seems\\n>to me you're going to get more momentum transfer throwing the bombs\\n>out the back of the ship than you get from detonating them once\\n>they're there.\\n\\nThe Orion concept as actually proposed (as opposed to the way it has been\\nsomewhat misrepresented in some fiction) included wrapping a thick layer\\nof reaction mass -- probably plastic of some sort -- around each bomb.\\nThe bomb vaporizes the reaction mass, and it's that which transfers\\nmomentum to the pusher plate.\\n-- \\nAll work is one man's work. | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology\\n - Kipling | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry\\n\",\n", " \"From: jim.zisfein@factory.com (Jim Zisfein) \\nSubject: Re: Post Polio Syndrome Information Needed Please !!!\\nDistribution: world\\nOrganization: Invention Factory's BBS - New York City, NY - 212-274-8298v.32bis\\nReply-To: jim.zisfein@factory.com (Jim Zisfein) \\nLines: 15\\n\\nDN> From: nyeda@cnsvax.uwec.edu (David Nye)\\nDN> Briefly, this is a condition in which patients who have significant\\nDN> residual weakness from childhood polio notice progression of the\\nDN> weakness as they get older. One theory is that the remaining motor\\nDN> neurons have to work harder and so die sooner.\\n\\nIf this theory were true, the muscle biopsy would show group atrophy\\n(evidence of acute loss of enlarged motor units); it doesn't.\\nInstead, the biopsy shows scattered, angulated, atrophic fibers.\\nThis is more consistent with load-shedding by chronically overworked\\nmotor neurons - the neurons survive, at the expense of increasingly\\ndenervated muscle.\\n---\\n . SLMR 2.1 . E-mail: jim.zisfein@factory.com (Jim Zisfein)\\n \\n\",\n", " \"From: cerulean@access.digex.com (Bill Christens-Barry)\\nSubject: cytoskeleton dynamics\\nOrganization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA\\nLines: 16\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: access.digex.net\\nSummary: Fast dynamics of cytoskeleton re: transformed cells?\\nKeywords: cytoskeleton, microtubule, tubulin\\n\\nI'm looking for good background and review paper references that can help me\\nunderstand the dynamics of cytoskeleton in normal and transformed cells. In\\nparticular, I'm not interested in translational behavior and cell motility,\\nbut rather in the internal motions of the cytoskeleton and its components\\nunder normal and transformed circumstances.\\n\\nAlso, I'd appreciate any data on force constants, mechanical, and elastic\\nproperties of microtubules, and viscous properties of cytoplasm. Any other\\ninfo relevant to the vibrational or acoustical properties of these would\\nbe useful to me.\\n\\nThanks...\\n\\nBill Christens-Barry\\ncerulean@access.digex.com\\n\\n\",\n", " 'From: dbm0000@tm0006.lerc.nasa.gov (David B. Mckissock)\\nSubject: Washington Post Article on SSF Redesign\\nNews-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41 \\nNntp-Posting-Host: tm0006.lerc.nasa.gov\\nOrganization: NASA Lewis Research Center / Cleveland, Ohio\\nLines: 52\\n\\n\"Space Station Redesign Leader Says Cost Goal May Be\\nImpossible\"\\n\\nToday (4/6) the Washington Post ran an article with the\\nheadline shown above. The article starts with \"A leader\\nof the NASA team in charge of redesigning the planned\\nspace station said yesterday the job is tough and may\\nbe impossible.\" O\\'Connor is quoted saying whether it is\\npossible to cut costs that much and still provide for\\nmeaningful research \"is a real question for me.\"\\nO\\'Connor said \"everything is fair game,\" including\\n\"dropping or curtailing existing contracts with the\\naerospace industry, chopping management of the space\\nstation program at some NASA facilities around the\\ncountry, working closely with the Russian space station\\nMir, and using unmanned Titan rockets to supplement the\\nmanned space shuttle fleet.\"\\n\\nO\\'Connor says his team has reviewed 30 design options\\nso far, and they are sorting the serious candidates\\ninto three categories based on cost.\\n\\nThe Post says O\\'Connor described the design derived\\nfrom the current SSF as a high cost option (I believe\\nKathy Sawyer, the Post writer, got confused here. I\\nlistened in on part of O\\'Connor\\'s briefing to the press\\non Monday, and in one part of the briefing O\\'Connor\\ntalked about how the White House wants three options,\\nsorted by cost [low, medium, and high]. In another part\\nof the briefing, he discussed the three teams he has\\nformed to look at three options [SSF derivative @ LaRC,\\nmodular buildup with Bus-1 @ MSFC, and Single Launch\\nCore [\"wingless Orbiter\"] @ JSC. Later, in response to\\na reporters question, I thought I heard O\\'Connor say\\nthe option based on a SSF redesign was a \"moderate\"\\ncost option, in between low & high cost options. Not\\nthe \"high cost\" option as Sawyer wrote).\\n\\nThe article goes on to describe the other two options\\nas \"one features modules that could gradually be fitted\\ntogether in orbit, similar to the Russian Mir. The\\nother is a core facility that could be deposited in\\norbit in a single launch, like Skylab. That option\\nwould use existing hardware from the space shuttle -\\nthe fuselage, for example, in its basic structure.\"\\n\\nThe last sentence in the article contradicts the title\\n& the first paragraph. The sentence reads \"He\\n[O\\'Connor] said a streamlined version of the planned\\nspace station Freedom is still possible within the\\nadministration\\'s budget guidelines.\"\\n\\n',\n", " 'From: caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX)\\nSubject: Re: My New Diet --> IT WORKS GREAT !!!!\\nOrganization: Omen Technology INC, Portland Rain Forest\\nLines: 32\\n\\nIn article <1qk6v3INNrm6@lynx.unm.edu> bhjelle@carina.unm.edu () writes:\\n>\\n>Gordon Banks:\\n>\\n>>a lot to keep from going back to morbid obesity. I think all\\n>>of us cycle. One\\'s success depends on how large the fluctuations\\n>>in the cycle are. Some people can cycle only 5 pounds. Unfortunately,\\n>>I\\'m not one of them.\\n>>\\n>>\\n>This certainly describes my situation perfectly. For me there is\\n>a constant dynamic between my tendency to eat, which appears to\\n>be totally limitless, and the purely conscious desire to not\\n>put on too much weight. When I get too fat, I just diet/exercise\\n>more (with varying degrees of success) to take off the\\n>extra weight. Usually I cycle within a 15 lb range, but\\n>smaller and larger cycles occur as well. I\\'m always afraid\\n>that this method will stop working someday, but usually\\n>I seem to be able to hold the weight gain in check.\\n>This is one reason I have a hard time accepting the notion\\n>of some metabolic derangement associated with cycle dieting\\n>(that results in long-term weight gain). I have been cycle-\\n>dieting for at least 20 years without seeing such a change.\\n\\nAs mentioned in Adiposity 101, only some experience weight\\nrebound. The fact that you don\\'t doesn\\'t prove it doesn\\'t\\nhappen to others.\\n-- \\nChuck Forsberg WA7KGX ...!tektronix!reed!omen!caf \\nAuthor of YMODEM, ZMODEM, Professional-YAM, ZCOMM, and DSZ\\n Omen Technology Inc \"The High Reliability Software\"\\n17505-V NW Sauvie IS RD Portland OR 97231 503-621-3406\\n',\n", " 'From: jbh55289@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Josh Hopkins)\\nSubject: Re: Conference on Manned Lunar Exploration. May 7 Crystal City\\nDistribution: na\\nOrganization: University of Illinois at Urbana\\nLines: 33\\n\\nhiggins@fnalf.fnal.gov (Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey) writes:\\n\\n>(Josh Hopkins) writes:\\n>> I remeber reading the comment that General Dynamics was tied into this, in \\n>> connection with their proposal for an early manned landing. \\n\\n>The General Chairman is Paul Bialla, who is some official of General\\n>Dynamics.\\n\\n>The emphasis seems to be on a scaled-down, fast plan to put *people*\\n>on the Moon in an impoverished spaceflight-funding climate. You\\'d\\n>think it would be a golden opportunity to do lots of precusor work for\\n>modest money using an agressive series of robot spacecraft, but\\n>there\\'s not a hint of this in the brochure.\\n\\nIt may be that they just didn\\'t mention it, or that they actually haven\\'t \\nthought about it. I got the vague impression from their mission proposal\\nthat they weren\\'t taking a very holistic aproach to the whole thing. They\\nseemed to want to land people on the Moon by the end of the decade without \\nexplaining why, or what they would do once they got there. The only application\\nI remember from the Av Week article was placing a telescope on the Moon. That\\'s\\ngreat, but they don\\'t explain why it can\\'t be done robotically. \\n\\n>> Hrumph. They didn\\'t send _me_ anything :(\\n\\n>You\\'re not hanging out with the Right People, apparently.\\n\\nBut I\\'m a _member_. Besides Bill, I hang out with you :) \\n\\n-- \\nJosh Hopkins jbh55289@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu\\n\\t\\t \"Find a way or make one.\"\\n\\t -attributed to Hannibal\\n',\n", " 'From: jer@prefect.cc.bellcore.com (rathmann,janice e)\\nSubject: Re: Sinus vs. Migraine (was Re: Sinus Endoscopy)\\nOrganization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ\\nSummary: Headaches and analgesics\\nLines: 95\\n\\n\\nI noticed several years ago that when I took analgesics fairly regularly,\\n(motrin at the time), I seemed to get a lot of migraines. But had\\nforgotten about that until I started reading some of the posts here.\\nI generally don\\'t take NSAIDS or Tylenol for headaches, because I\\'ve\\nfound them to be ineffective. However, I have two other pain sources\\nthat force me to take NSAIDS (currently Naprosyn). First, is some\\npelvic pain that I get at the beginning of my period, and then much\\nworse at midcycle. I have had surgery for endometriosis in the past\\n(~12 years ago), so the Drs. tell me that my pain is probably due\\nto the endometriosis coming back. I\\'ve tried Synarel, it reduced\\nthe pain while I took it (3 mos), but the pain returned immediately\\nafter I stopped. Three doctors have suggested hysterectomy as the\\nonly \"real solution\" to my problem. Although I don\\'t expect to have\\nany more children, I don\\'t like the idea of having my uterus and\\none remaining ovary removed (the first ovary was removed when I had\\nthe surgery for endometriosis). One of the Drs that suggested\\nI get a hysterectomy is an expert in laser surgery, but perhaps thinks\\nthat type of procedure is only worthwhile on women who still plan\\nto have children. So basically all I\\'m left with is toughing out\\nthe pain. This would be impossible without Naprosyn (or something\\nsimilar - but not aspirin, that doesn\\'t work, and Motrin gave me\\nhorrible gastritis a few years ago, so I\\'m through with it). In\\nfact, Naprosyn works very well at eliminating the pain if I take\\nit regularly as I did when I had severe back pain (and pain in both \\nlegs) as I\\'ll discuss in a moment. Generally though, I wait until\\nI have the pain before I take the Naprosyn, but then it takes\\nseveral hours for it reduce the pain (it\\'s actually quite effective\\nat reducing the pain, it just takes quite a while). In the meantime\\nI\\'m frequently in severe pain.\\n\\nThe other pain source I have is chronic lower back pain resulting in\\nbilateral radiculopathy. I\\'ve had MRIs, Xrays, CT scan, and EMGs\\n(I\\'ve had 2 of them, and don\\'t intend to ever do that again) with\\nnerve conduction tests. The tests have not been conclusive as to\\nwhat is causing my back and leg pain. The MRI reports both say I have\\nseveral bulging, degeneratig disks, and from the Xrays (and MRI, I think)\\nit is apparent that I have arthritis. The reading on the CT scan\\nwas that there are two herniations (L3-L4, and L4-L5), but others\\nhav looked at the films and concluded that there are no herniations.\\nThe second EMG and nerve conduction studies shows significant denervation\\ncompared to the first EMG. Oh yeah, I had some other horrible test,\\ncalled something like Somatic Evoked Response which showed that the\\n\"internal nerves\" are working fine. Anyway, the bottom line is that\\nI sometimes have severe pain in both legs and back pain. The back pain\\nis there all the time, but I can live with it. When the leg pain is there,\\nI need some analgesic/anti-inflammatory medication to reduce the pain\\nto a level where I can work. So I took Naprosyn regulary for 6-9\\nmonths (every time I tried to stop the leg pain got worse, so I\\'d \\nalways resume). Since last November I have taken it much less frequently,\\nand primarily for the pelvic pain. I have been going to physical\\ntherapy for the last 8 months (2-3 times a week). After the first month\\nor so, my therapist put me on pelvic traction (she had tried it earlier,\\nbut it had caused a lot of pain in my back, this time she tried it at\\na lower weight). After a month or two, the pain in my legs began going\\naway (but the traction aways caused discomfort in my lower back, which\\ncould be reduced with ultrasound and massage). So now, I don\\'t have\\nnearly as much pain in my legs, in fact my therapist took me off\\ntraction about 2 weeks ago.\\n\\nGetting back to my original reason for this post... Even if I can avoid\\ntaking analgesic for headaches, I really can\\'t avoid them entirely because\\nI have other pain sources, that \"force\" me to use them (Oh, I forgot\\nto mention that it has been suggested to me that I have back surgery,\\nbut I\\'m avoiding that too). I find the migraines difficult to deal with,\\noccassionally I have to take off work, but usually I can work, but at\\na reduced capacity (I\\'m a systems engineer and do a lot of reading\\nand writing). When the pelvic pain is bad, I can\\'t concentrate much,\\nI usually end up jumping out of my chair every few minutes, because\\nthe pain is so bothersome. When the pain in my back is bad, it can\\ncause severe burning in both legs, shooting pains in my legs, electric\\nshock type of pain in my feet and toes, and basically when it gets bad\\nI can\\'t really sit at all. Then I end up spending most of my time home\\nand in bed. So even if the analgesics contribute to the migraines, the\\nmigraines are more tolerable than the other pain sources. I get a lot\\nof migraines, an average of 3 to 4 a month, which last 1-3 days.\\nI\\'ve taken cafergot (the first time the caffiene really got to me so\\nI reduced the dosage), but I don\\'t like the side effects (if I take\\nmore than two I get diahrea). If I get a very bad headache, I will\\neventually take the cafergot. My neurologist wasn\\'t very helpful when\\nI told him my problems with cafergot, he said that when sumatriptan\\nbecomes available, I should try that. I\\'ve tried several other medications\\n(fiornal, midrin, fiornal with codeine, tegretol, and inderal) but\\nthey either didn\\'t work, or I couldn\\'t tolerate them. So what can I do?\\nMy doctor\\'s seem to be satisfied with me just trying to tolerate the\\npain, which I agree with most of the time, but not when I have a lot of\\npain. I\\'ve had some bad experiences with surgery (my heart stopped\\nonce from the anesthesia - I was told that it was likely the\\nsuccinylcholine), and I\\'ve already had surgery several times.\\n\\nAnyway, the point of what I\\'m saying is that even if analgesics can contribute\\nto migraines, some people NEED to take them to tolerate other pain.\\n\\nJanice Rathmann\\n\\n',\n", " \"From: lindae@netcom.com\\nSubject: Friend Needs Advice...\\nOrganization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)\\nLines: 38\\n\\n\\nA friend of mine is having some symptoms and has asked me to post\\nthe following information.\\n\\nA few weeks ago, she noticed that some of her hair was starting\\nto fall out. She would touch her head and strands of hair would\\njust fall right out. (by the way, she is 29 or 30 years old). \\nIt continued to occur until she had a bald spot about the\\nsize of a half dollar. Since that time, she has gotten two\\nmore bald spots of the same size. Other symptoms she's\\ndescribed include: several months of an irregular menstrual\\ncycle (which is strange for her, because she has always been\\nextremely regular); laryngitis every few days -- she will wake\\nup one morning and have almost no voice, and then the next day\\nit's fine; dizzy spells -- she claims that she's had 4 or 5\\nvery bad dizzy spells early in the morning, including one that\\nknocked her to the ground; and general fatigue.\\n\\nShe went to a dermatologist first who couldn't find any reason\\nfor the symptoms and sent her to an internist who suspected\\nthyroid problems. He did the blood work and claims that everything\\ncame back normal. \\n\\nShe's very concerned and very confused. Does anyone have any\\nideas or suggestions? I told her that I thought she should\\nsee an endocrinologist. Does that sound like the right idea?\\n\\n** By the way, in case you are going to ask...no, she has recently\\ntaken any medications that would cause these symptoms...no, she hasn't\\nrecently changed her hair products and she hasn't gotten a perm, \\ncoloring, or other chemical process that might cause hair to fall\\nout.\\n\\nThanks in advance for any help!\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\",\n", " 'From: rousseaua@immunex.com\\nSubject: Re: Lactose intolerance\\nOrganization: Immunex Corporation, Seattle, WA\\nLines: 8\\n\\nIn article , ng4@husc11.harvard.edu (Ho Leung Ng) writes:\\n> \\n> When I was a kid in primary school, I used to drink tons of milk without\\n> any problems. However, nowadays, I can hardly drink any at all without\\n> experiencing some discomfort. What could be responsible for the change?\\n> \\n> Ho Leung Ng\\n> ng4@husc.harvard.edu\\n',\n", " 'From: 18084TM@msu.edu (Tom)\\nSubject: Moonbase race\\nX-Added: Forwarded by Space Digest\\nOrganization: [via International Space University]\\nOriginal-Sender: isu@VACATION.VENARI.CS.CMU.EDU\\nDistribution: sci\\nLines: 26\\n\\nFrom: Gene Wright \\n\\n>With the continuin talk about the \"End of the Space Age\" and complaints\\n>by government over the large cost, why not try something I read about\\n>that might just work.\\n\\n>Announce that a reward of $1 billion would go to the first corporation\\n>who successfully keeps at least 1 person alive on the moon for a year.\\n>Then you\\'d see some of the inexpensive but not popular technologies begin\\n>to be developed. THere\\'d be a different kind of space race then!\\n\\nI\\'ll say! Imagine that there were a couple groups up there, maybe landing\\na few weeks apart. The year-mark starts coming on for the first group.\\nIsn\\'t a billion pretty good incentive to take a shot at a potential\\nwinner? \"Yeah, that\\'s a shame that Team A\\'s life support gave out\\nso close to the deadline. Thanks for the billion.\"\\n\\nOn the other hand, if Apollo cost ~25billion, for a few days or weeks\\nin space, in 1970 dollars, then won\\'t the reward have to be a lot more\\nthan only 1 billion to get any takers?\\n\\n-Tommy Mac\\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nTom McWilliams 517-355-2178 wk \\\\\\\\ As the radius of vision increases,\\n18084tm@ibm.cl.msu.edu 336-9591 hm \\\\\\\\ the circumference of mystery grows.\\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n',\n", " 'Subject: Re: Surviving Large Accelerations?\\nFrom: lpham@eis.calstate.edu (Lan Pham)\\nOrganization: Calif State Univ/Electronic Information Services\\nLines: 25\\n\\nAmruth Laxman writes:\\n> Hi,\\n> I was reading through \"The Spaceflight Handbook\" and somewhere in\\n> there the author discusses solar sails and the forces acting on them\\n> when and if they try to gain an initial acceleration by passing close to\\n> the sun in a hyperbolic orbit. The magnitude of such accelerations he\\n> estimated to be on the order of 700g. He also says that this is may not\\n> be a big problem for manned craft because humans (and this was published\\n> in 1986) have already withstood accelerations of 45g. All this is very\\n> long-winded but here\\'s my question finally - Are 45g accelerations in\\n> fact humanly tolerable? - with the aid of any mechanical devices of\\n> course. If these are possible, what is used to absorb the acceleration?\\n> Can this be extended to larger accelerations?\\n\\nare you sure 45g is the right number? as far as i know, pilots are\\nblackout in dives that exceed 8g - 9g. 45g seems to be out of human\\ntolerance. would anybody clarify this please.\\n\\nlan\\n\\n\\n> \\n> Thanks is advance...\\n> -Amruth Laxman\\n> \\n',\n", " 'From: jchen@wind.bellcore.com (Jason Chen)\\nSubject: Re: Glutamate\\nNntp-Posting-Host: wind.bellcore.com\\nOrganization: Bellcore\\nLines: 13\\n\\nIn article <1qrsr6$d59@access.digex.net> kfl@access.digex.com (Keith F. Lynch) writes:\\n>In article sher@bbn.com (Lawrence D. Sher) writes:\\n>> From the N.E.J.Med. editorial: \"The dicarboxylic amino acid glutamate\\n>> is not only an essential amino acid ...\\n>\\n>Glutamate is not an essential amino acid. People can survive quite well\\n>without ever eating any.\\n\\nThere is no contradiction here. It is essential in the sense that your\\nbody needs it. It is non-essential in the sense that your body can\\nproduce enough of it without supplement.\\n\\nJason Chen\\n',\n", " \"From: dbc@welkin.gsfc.nasa.gov (David Considine)\\nSubject: Re: Is MSG sensitivity superstition?\\nOrganization: Code 916, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center\\nLines: 19\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr15.180459.17852@nmr-z.mgh.harvard.edu> milsh@nmr-z.mgh.harvard.edu (Alex Milshteyn) writes:\\n>This was known long ago. Brain produces and uses some MSG naturally,\\n>but not in doses it is served at some chinese places. \\n>Having said that, i might add, that in MHO, MSG does not enhance\\n>flavor enoughf for me to miss it. When I go to chinese places,\\n>I order food without MSG. Goos places will do it for you.\\n ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^\\n\\n\\tI just wanted to point out that some of the food, particularly\\n\\tthe soups, are prepared in a big batch, so the restaurant\\n\\twon't be able to take the MSG out of it. Sometimes its\\n\\tpretty hard to find out if this is the case or not.\\n\\n\\n>Alexander M. Milshteyn M.D. \\n>CIPR, MGH in Boston, MA. (617)724-9507 Vox (617)726-7830 Fax\\n\\nDavid B. Considine\\ndbc@welkin.gsfc.nasa.gov\\n\",\n", " 'Organization: Arizona State University\\nFrom: \\nSubject: Re: Burzynski\\'s \"Antineoplastons\"\\nDistribution: world\\nLines: 16\\n\\nA good source of information on Burzynski\\'s method is in *The Cancer Industry*\\nby pulitzer-prize nominee Ralph Moss. Also, a non-profit organization called\\n\"People Against Cancer,\" which was formed for the purpose of allowing cancer\\npatients to access information regarding cancer therapies not endorsed by the\\ncancer industry, but which have shown highly promising results (all of which\\nare non-toxic). Anyone interested in cancer therapy should contact this organi-\\nzation ASAP: People Against Cancer\\n PO Box 10\\n Otho IA 50569-0010\\n(515)972-4444\\nFAX (515)972-4415\\n\\n\\npeace\\n\\ngreg nigh\\n',\n", " 'From: Nigel@dataman.demon.co.uk (Nigel Ballard)\\nSubject: Re: Sarchoidosis \\nDistribution: world\\nOrganization: Infamy Inc.\\nReply-To: Nigel@dataman.demon.co.uk\\nX-Newsreader: Simple NEWS 1.90 (ka9q DIS 1.21)\\nLines: 34\\n\\n>> Hello,\\n>>Does anybody know if sarchoidosis is a mortem desease ?\\n>>(i.e if someone who tooke this desease can be kill\\n>>bye this one ?)\\n>\\n>People have died from sarcoid, but usually it is not\\n>fatal and is treatable.\\n>----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n>Gordon Banks N3JXP | \"Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and\\n>geb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu | it is shameful to surrender it too soon.\" \\n>----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n\\nHi there\\nI\\'m suffering from Sarcoidosis at present. Although it\\'s shown as a\\nchronic & rare tissue disorder, it is thankfully NOT life threatening.\\n\\nThe very worsed thing that can happen to a non-treated sufferer is\\nglaucoma. My specialists are bombarding me with Prednisolone E.C. (a\\ncortico-steriod) and after four months at 20mg a day, it\\'s totally done\\naway with my enlarged lymph glands, so somethings happening for the\\ngood!\\n\\nCheers Nigel\\n\\n ************************************************************************\\n * NIGEL BALLARD | INT: nigel@dataman.demon.co.uk | MEXICAN FOOD *\\n * BOURNEMOUTH | CIS: 100015.2644 RADIO-G1HOI | GUINNESS ON TAP *\\n * UNITED KINGDOM | AMAZING! and all down two wires | TALL SKINNY WOMEN *\\n ************************************************************************\\n Two penguins are walking along an iceberg. The first penguin turns to\\n the second penguin and says \"it looks like you are wearing a tuxedo.\"\\n The second penguin turns to the first penguin and says, \"maybe I am.\"\\n ************************************************************************\\n\\n',\n", " 'From: baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov (Ron Baalke)\\nSubject: Re: Keeping Spacecraft on after Funding Cuts.\\nOrganization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory\\nLines: 15\\nDistribution: world\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov\\nNews-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41 \\n\\nIn article <1993Apr20.204335.157595@zeus.calpoly.edu>, jgreen@trumpet.calpoly.edu (James Thomas Green) writes...\\n>Why do spacecraft have to be shut off after funding cuts. For\\n>example, Why couldn\\'t Magellan just be told to go into a \"safe\"\\n>mode and stay bobbing about Venus in a low-power-use mode and if\\n>maybe in a few years if funding gets restored after the economy\\n>gets better (hopefully), it could be turned on again. \\n\\nIt can be, but the problem is a political one, not a technical one. \\n ___ _____ ___\\n /_ /| /____/ \\\\ /_ /| Ron Baalke | baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov\\n | | | | __ \\\\ /| | | | Jet Propulsion Lab |\\n ___| | | | |__) |/ | | |__ M/S 525-3684 Telos | The aweto from New Zealand\\n/___| | | | ___/ | |/__ /| Pasadena, CA 91109 | is part caterpillar and\\n|_____|/ |_|/ |_____|/ | part vegetable.\\n\\n',\n", " 'From: sheaffer@netcom.com (Robert Sheaffer)\\nSubject: Re: Astronomy Program\\nOrganization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)\\nLines: 23\\n\\nIn article <28641@galaxy.ucr.edu> datadec@ucrengr.ucr.edu (kevin marcus) writes:\\n>Are there any public domain or shareware astronomy programs which will\\n>map out the sky at any given time, and allow you to locate planets, nebulae,\\n>and so forth? If so, is there any ftp site where I can get one?\\n\\nI posted my public-domain MSDOS program \"sunlight.zip\" to \"sci.astro\" yesterday.\\nIt easily locates the sun, moon, and planets, and can also be used to\\nlocate other objects if you input their Right Ascesion and Declination.\\nUse \"uudecode\" to extract.\\n\\n\\n-- \\n \\n Robert Sheaffer - Scepticus Maximus - sheaffer@netcom.com\\n \\n Past Chairman, The Bay Area Skeptics - for whom I speak only when authorized!\\n\\n \"Marxism and feminism are one and that one is Marxism\"\\n\\n - Heidi Hartmann and Amy Bridges,\\n quoted by Catharine MacKinnon above the first chapter\\n of her \"Toward a Feminist Theory of the State\"\\n\\n',\n", " 'Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago, academic Computer Center\\nFrom: \\nSubject: quality control in medicine\\nLines: 7\\n\\nDoes anybody know of any information regarding the implementaion of total\\n quality management, quality control, quality assurance in the delivery of\\n health care service. I would appreciate any information. If there is enough\\ninterest, I will post the responses.\\n Thank You\\n Abhin Singla MS BioE, MBA, MD\\n President AC Medcomp Inc\\n',\n", " 'From: degroff@netcom.com (21012d)\\nSubject: Re: Talking to Boeing management about SSTO type stuff from a shareholder perspective.\\nOrganization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)\\nLines: 9\\n\\n\\n I might suggest giving the management some more mumble time by asking\\nthe very leading question (in two or three parts)\\n What are your long term expectations of space market, what projects\\nspecifically are they funding by internal funds and at what levels\\nand what competition do you expect in this area. (This last point\\nis always worth hitting upper management with \"gently\" if you want \\nthem to think and as hard as you can if you have a good case that\\nthere really is competion)\\n',\n", " \"From: aldridge@netcom.com (Jacquelin Aldridge)\\nSubject: Re: what are the problems with nutrasweet (aspartame)\\nOrganization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)\\nLines: 36\\n\\nhbloom@moose.uvm.edu (*Heather*) writes:\\n\\n>Nutrasweet is a synthetic sweetener a couple thousand times sweeter than\\n>sugar. Some people are concerned about the chemicals that the body produces \\n>when it degrades nutrasweet. It is thought to form formaldehyde and known to\\n>for methanol in the degredation pathway that the body uses to eliminate \\n>substances. The real issue is whether the levels of methanol and formaldehyde\\n>produced are high enough to cause significant damage, as both are toxic to\\n>living cells. All I can say is that I will not consume it. \\n\\n>Phenylalanine is\\n>nothing for you to worry about. It is an amino acid, and everyone uses small\\n>quantities of it for protein synthesis in the body. Some people have a disease\\n>known as phenylketoneurea, and they are missing the enzyme necessary to \\n>degrade this compound and eliminate it from the body. For them, it will \\n>accumulate in the body, and in high levels this is toxic to growing nerve\\n>cells. Therefore, it is Only a major problem in young children (until around\\n>age 10 or so) or women who are pregnant and have this disorder. It used to\\n>be a leading cause of brain damage in infants, but now it can be easily \\n>detected at birth, and then one must simply avoid comsumption of phenylalanine\\n>as a child, or when pregnant. \\n\\n>-heather\\n\\nIf I remember rightly PKU syndrome in infants is about 1/1200 ? They lack\\ntwo genes. And people who lack one gene are supposed to be 1/56 persons?\\nThose with PKU have to avoid naturally occuring phenylalanine. And those\\nwho only have one gene and underproduce whatever it is they are supposed to\\nbe producing are supposed to be less tolerant of aspartame. \\n\\nThe methol, formaldahyde thing was supposed to occur with heating?\\n\\nI don't drink it. I figure sugar was made for a reason. To quickly and\\neasily satiate hungry people. If you don't need the calories it's just as\\neasy to drink water. Used to drink a six pack a aday of aspartame soda. Don't\\neven drink one coke a day when sugared.\\n\",\n", " 'From: pgf@srl03.cacs.usl.edu (Phil G. Fraering)\\nSubject: Re: Comet in Temporary Orbit Around Jupiter?\\nArticle-I.D.: srl03.pgf.734063192\\nOrganization: Univ. of Southwestern Louisiana\\nLines: 22\\n\\nshag@aero.org (Rob Unverzagt) writes:\\n\\n>In article <5APR199318045045@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov> baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov (Ron Baalke) writes:\\n>> According the IAU Circular #5744, Comet Shoemaker-Levy 1993e, may be\\n>> temporarily in orbit around Jupiter. The comet had apparently made a\\n>> close flyby of Jupiter sometime in 1992 resulting in the breakup of the\\n>> comet. Attempts to determine the comet\\'s orbit has been complicated by\\n>> the near impossibility of measuring the comet\\'s center of mass.\\n>>\\n\\n>Am I missing something -- what does knowing the comet\\'s center\\n>of mass do for you in orbit determination?\\n\\n>Shag\\n\\nI\\'m not sure, but it almost sounds like they can\\'t figure out where the \\n_nucleus_ is within the coma. If they\\'re off by a couple hundred\\nmiles, well, you can imagine the rest...\\n\\n--\\nPhil Fraering |\"Seems like every day we find out all sorts of stuff.\\npgf@srl02.cacs.usl.edu|Like how the ancient Mayans had televison.\" Repo Man\\n',\n", " 'From: jbh55289@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Josh Hopkins)\\nSubject: Re: Space Advertising (2 of 2)\\nOrganization: University of Illinois at Urbana\\nLines: 24\\n\\nWales.Larrison@ofa123.fidonet.org writes:\\n\\n>the \"Environmental\\n>Billboard\" is a large inflatable outer support structure of up to\\n>804x1609 meters. Advertising is carried by a mylar reflective area,\\n>deployed by the inflatable \\'frame\\'.\\n> To help sell the concept, the spacecraft responsible for\\n>maintaining the billboard on orbit will carry \"ozone reading\\n>sensors\" to \"continuously monitor the condition of the Earth\\'s\\n>delicate protective ozone layer,\" according to Mike Lawson, head of\\n>SMI. Furthermore, the inflatable billboard has reached its minimum\\n>exposure of 30 days it will be released to re-enter the Earth\\'s\\n>atmosphere. According to IMI, \"as the biodegradable material burns,\\n>it will release ozone-building components that will literally\\n>replenish the ozone layer.\"\\n ^^^^^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^\\n\\n Can we assume that this guy studied advertising and not chemistry? Granted \\nit probably a great advertising gimic, but it doesn\\'t sound at all practical.\\n\\n-- \\nJosh Hopkins jbh55289@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu\\n\\t\\t \"Find a way or make one.\"\\n\\t -attributed to Hannibal\\n',\n", " \"From: mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson)\\nSubject: Re: food-related seizures?\\nOrganization: The Portal System (TM)\\nDistribution: world\\nLines: 6\\n\\nI remember hearing a few years back about a new therapy for hyperactivity\\nwhich involved aggressively eliminating artificial coloring and flavoring\\nfrom the diet. The theory -- which was backed up by interesting anecdotal\\nresults -- is that certain people are just way more sensitive to these\\nchemicals than other people. I don't remember any connection being made\\nwith seizures, but it certainly couldn't hurt to try an all-natural diet.\\n\",\n", " \"From: nicho@vnet.IBM.COM (Greg Stewart-Nicholls)\\nSubject: Re: Keeping Spacecraft on after Funding Cuts.\\nReply-To: nicho@vnet.ibm.com\\nDisclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not those of IBM\\nNews-Software: UReply 3.1\\nX-X-From: nicho@vnet.ibm.com\\n \\nLines: 15\\n\\nIn Greg Hennessy writes:\\n>In article <1r6aqr$dnv@access.digex.net> prb@access.digex.com (Pat) writes:\\n>#The better question should be.\\n>#Why not transfer O&M of all birds to a separate agency with continous funding\\n>#to support these kind of ongoing science missions.\\n>\\n>Since we don't have the money to keep them going now, how will\\n>changing them to a seperate agency help anything?\\n>\\nHow about transferring control to a non-profit organisation that is\\nable to accept donations to keep craft operational.\\n -----------------------------------------------------------------\\nGreg Nicholls ... : Vidi\\nnicho@vnet.ibm.com or : Vici\\nnicho@olympus.demon.co.uk : Veni\\n\",\n", " 'From: prb@access.digex.com (Pat)\\nSubject: Re: Sunrise/ sunset times\\nOrganization: Express Access Online Communications USA\\nLines: 18\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: access.digex.net\\n\\nIn article <1r6f3a$2ai@news.umbc.edu> rouben@math9.math.umbc.edu (Rouben Rostamian) writes:\\n>how the length of the daylight varies with the time of the year.\\n>Experiment with various choices of latitudes and tilt angles.\\n>Compare the behavior of the function at locations above and below\\n>the arctic circle.\\n\\n\\n\\nIf you want to have some fun.\\n\\nPlug the basic formulas into Lotus.\\n\\nUse the spreadsheet auto re-calc, and graphing functions\\nto produce bar graphs based on latitude, tilt and hours of day light avg.\\n\\n\\npat\\n\\n',\n", " 'From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nSubject: Re: Cause of mental retardation?\\nReply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nOrganization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science\\nLines: 35\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr13.111834.1@cc.uvcc.edu> harrisji@cc.uvcc.edu writes:\\n\\n>\\n>Chromosome studies have shown no abnormalities. Enzyme studies and\\n>urine analyses have not turned up anything out of the ordinary. \\n>MRI images of the brain show scar tissue in the white matter. \\n>Subsequent MRI analysis has shown that the deterioration of the\\n>white matter is progressive.\\n>\\n>Because neither family has a history of anything like this, and\\n>because two of our four children are afflicted with the disorder,\\n>we believe that it is an autosomal recessive metabolic disorder of\\n>some kind. Naturally, we would like to know exactly what the\\n>disease is so that we may gain some insight into how we can expect\\n>the disorder to progress in the future. We would also like to be\\n>able to provide our normal children with some information about\\n>what they can expect in their own children.\\n>\\n\\nIt could be one of the leukodystrophies (not adrenal, only\\nboys get that). Surely you\\'ve been to a university pediatric\\nneurology department. If not that is the next step. Biopsies\\nmight help, especially if peripheral nerves are also affected.\\nThere are so many of these diseases that would fit the symptoms\\nyou gave that more can\\'t be said at this time.\\n\\nI agree with your surmise that it is an autosomal recessive.\\nIf so, your normal children won\\'t have to worry too much unless\\nthey marry near relatives. Most recessive genes are rare\\nexcept in inbred communities (e.g. Lithuanian Jews).\\n-- \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nGordon Banks N3JXP | \"Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and\\ngeb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu | it is shameful to surrender it too soon.\" \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n',\n", " \"From: mcovingt@aisun3.ai.uga.edu (Michael Covington)\\nSubject: Re: Frequent nosebleeds\\nNntp-Posting-Host: aisun3.ai.uga.edu\\nOrganization: AI Programs, University of Georgia, Athens\\nLines: 17\\n\\nIn article <9304191126.AA21125@seastar.seashell> bebmza@sru001.chvpkh.chevron.com (Beverly M. Zalan) writes:\\n>\\n>My 6 year son is so plagued. Lots of vaseline up his nose each night seems \\n>to keep it under control. But let him get bopped there, and he'll recur for \\n>days! Also allergies, colds, dry air all seem to contribute. But again, the \\n>vaseline, or A&D ointment, or neosporin all seem to keep them from recurring.\\n>\\nIf you can get it, you might want to try a Canadian over-the-counter product\\ncalled Secaris, which is a water-soluble gel. Compared to Vaseline or other\\ngreasy ointments, Secaris seems more compatible with the moisture that's\\nalready there.\\n\\n-- \\n:- Michael A. Covington, Associate Research Scientist : *****\\n:- Artificial Intelligence Programs mcovingt@ai.uga.edu : *********\\n:- The University of Georgia phone 706 542-0358 : * * *\\n:- Athens, Georgia 30602-7415 U.S.A. amateur radio N4TMI : ** *** ** <><\\n\",\n", " 'From: jbatka@desire.wright.edu\\nSubject: Re: Gamma Ray Bursters. WHere are they.\\nOrganization: Wright State University \\nLines: 16\\n\\nI assume that can only be guessed at by the assumed energy of the\\nevent and the 1/r^2 law. So, if the 1/r^2 law is incorrect (assume\\nsome unknown material [dark matter??] inhibits Gamma Ray propagation),\\ncould it be possible that we are actually seeing much less energetic\\nevents happening much closer to us? The even distribution could\\nbe caused by the characteristic propagation distance of gamma rays \\nbeing shorter then 1/2 the thickness of the disk of the galaxy.\\n\\nJust some idle babbling,\\n-- \\n\\n Jim Batka | Work Email: BATKAJ@CCMAIL.DAYTON.SAIC.COM | Elvis is\\n | Home Email: JBATKA@DESIRE.WRIGHT.EDU | DEAD!\\n\\n 64 years is 33,661,440 minutes ...\\n and a minute is a LONG time! - Beatles: _ Yellow Submarine_\\n',\n", " 'From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)\\nSubject: Re: Big amateur rockets\\nOrganization: U of Toronto Zoology\\nLines: 30\\n\\nIn article pbd@runyon.cim.cdc.com (Paul Dokas) writes:\\n>Anyhow, the ad stated that they\\'d sell rockets that were up to 20\\' in length\\n>and engines of sizes \"F\" to \"M\". They also said that some rockets will\\n>reach 50,000 feet.\\n>\\n>Now, aside from the obvious dangers to any amateur rocketeer using one\\n>of these beasts, isn\\'t this illegal? I can\\'t imagine the FAA allowing\\n>people to shoot rockets up through the flight levels of passenger planes.\\n\\nThe situation in this regard has changed considerably in recent years.\\nSee the discussion of \"high-power rocketry\" in the rec.models.rockets\\nfrequently-asked-questions list.\\n\\nThis is not hardware you can walk in off the street and buy; you need\\nproper certification. That can be had, mostly through Tripoli (the high-\\npower analog of the NAR), although the NAR is cautiously moving to extend\\nthe upper boundaries of what it considers proper too.\\n\\nYou need special FAA authorization, but provided you aren\\'t doing it under\\none of the LAX runway approaches or something stupid like that, it\\'s not\\nespecially hard to arrange.\\n\\nAs with model rocketry, this sort of hardware is reasonably safe if handled\\nproperly. Proper handling takes more care, and you need a lot more empty\\nair to fly in, but it\\'s basically just model rocketry scaled up. As with\\nmodel rocketry, the high-power people use factory-built engines, which\\neliminates the major safety hazard of do-it-yourself rocketry.\\n-- \\nAll work is one man\\'s work. | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology\\n - Kipling | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry\\n',\n", " 'From: mryan@stsci.edu\\nSubject: Should I be angry at this doctor?\\nLines: 26\\nOrganization: Space Telescope Science Institute\\nDistribution: na\\n\\nAm I justified in being pissed off at this doctor?\\n\\nLast Saturday evening my 6 year old son cut his finger badly with a knife.\\nI took him to a local \"Urgent and General Care\" clinic at 5:50 pm. The \\nclinic was open till 6:00 pm. The receptionist went to the back and told the \\ndoctor that we were there, and came back and told us the doctor would not \\nsee us because she had someplace to go at 6:00 and did not want to be delayed \\nhere. During the next few minutes, in response to my questions, with several \\ntrips to the back room, the receptionist told me:\\n\\t- the doctor was doing paperwork in the back,\\n\\t- the doctor would not even look at his finger to advise us on going\\n\\t to the emergency room;\\n\\t- the doctor would not even speak to me;\\n\\t- she would not tell me the doctor\\'s name, or her own name;\\n\\t- when asked who is in charge of the clinic, she said \"I don\\'t know.\"\\n\\nI realize that a private clinic is not the same as an emergency room, but\\nI was quite angry at being turned away because the doctor did not want to\\nbe bothered. My son did get three stitches at the emergency room. I\\'m still \\ntrying to find out who is in charge of that clinic so I can write them a \\nletter. We will certainly never set foot in that clinic again.\\n\\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nMary Ryan\\t\\t\\t\\tmryan@stsci.edu\\nSpace Telescope Science Institute\\nBaltimore, Maryland\\n',\n", " 'From: pvtmakela@hylkn1.Helsinki.FI (M{kel{ Veikko)\\nSubject: Re: Astronomy Program\\nOrganization: University of Helsinki\\nLines: 20\\n\\nIn article <28641@galaxy.ucr.edu> datadec@ucrengr.ucr.edu \\n(kevin marcus) writes:\\n\\n>Are there any public domain or shareware astronomy programs which will\\n>map out the sky at any given time, and allow you to locate planets, nebulae,\\n>and so forth? If so, is there any ftp site where I can get one?\\n\\n\\n There are several star map programs available. Your\\n job is to choose that you like. Try anonymous-FTP\\n from:\\n\\n\\tftp.funet.fi:pub/astro/pc/stars\\n\\t\\t\\t pc/solar\\n mac\\n\\t\\t\\t amiga\\n\\t\\t\\t atari\\n \\n\\t\\t\\t\\t\\tregards,\\n\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t-Veikko-\\t\\n',\n", " 'From: tas@pegasus.com (Len Howard)\\nSubject: Re: quality control in medicine\\nSummary: Kaiser has been doing it for a while\\nArticle-I.D.: pegasus.1993Apr22.221508.10196\\nOrganization: Pegasus, Honolulu\\nLines: 14\\n\\nIn article <93108.003258U19250@uicvm.uic.edu> writes:\\n>Does anybody know of any information regarding the implementaion of total\\n> quality management, quality control, quality assurance in the delivery of\\n> health care service. I would appreciate any information. If there is enough\\n>interest, I will post the responses.\\n> Thank You\\n> Abhin Singla MS BioE, MBA, MD\\n> President AC Medcomp Inc\\n\\nDr Singla, you might contact Kaiser Health Plan either in the area\\nclosest to you or at the central office in Oakland CA. We have been\\ndoing QA, QoS, concurrent UR, and TQM for some time now in the Hawaii\\nRegion, and I suspect it is nationwide in the system.\\nLen Howard MD\\n',\n", " 'From: wcsbeau@alfred.carleton.ca (OPIRG)\\nSubject: Re: Is MSG sensitivity superstition?\\nOrganization: Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada\\nLines: 43\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr14.122647.16364@tms390.micro.ti.com> david@tms390.micro.ti.com (David Thomas) writes:\\n\\n>>In article <13APR199308003715@delphi.gsfc.nasa.gov>, packer@delphi.gsfc.nasa.gov (Charles Packer) writes:\\n>>>Is there such a thing as MSG (monosodium glutamate) sensitivity?\\n>>>I saw in the NY Times Sunday that scientists have testified before \\n>>>an FDA advisory panel that complaints about MSG sensitivity are\\n>>>superstition. Anybody here have experience to the contrary? \\n>>>\\n>>>I\\'m old enough to remember that the issue has come up at least\\n>>>a couple of times since the 1960s. Then it was called the\\n>>>\"Chinese restaurant syndrome\" because Chinese cuisine has\\n>>>always used it.\\n>\\n>So far, I\\'ve seen about a dozen posts of anecdotal evidence, but\\n>no facts. I suspect there is a strong psychological effect at \\n>work here. Does anyone have results from a scientific study\\n>using double-blind trials? \\n\\nCheck out #27903, just some 20 posts before your own. Maybe you missed\\nit amidst the flurry of responses? Yet again, the use of this\\nnewsgroup is hampered by people not restricting their posts to matters\\nthey have substantial knowledge of.\\n\\nFor cites on MSG, look up almost anything by John W. Olney, a\\ntoxicologist who has studied the effects of MSG on the brain and on\\ndevelopment. It is undisputed in the literature that MSG is an\\nexcitotoxic food additive, and that its major constituent, glutamate\\nis essentially the premierie neurotransmitter in the mammalian brain\\n(humans included). Too much in the diet, and the system gets thrown\\noff. Glutamate and aspartate, also an excitotoxin are necessary in\\nsmall amounts, and are freely available in many foods, but the amounts\\nadded by industry are far above the amounts that would normally be\\nencountered in a ny single food. By eating lots of junk food,\\npackaged soups, and diet soft drinks, it is possible to jack your\\nblood levels so high, that anyone with a sensitivity to these\\ncompounds will suffer numerous *real* physi9logical effects. \\nRead Olney\\'s review paper in Prog. Brain Res, 1988, and check *his*\\nsources. They are impecable. There is no dispute.\\n\\n --Dianne Murray wcsbeau@ccs.carleton.ca\\n\\n',\n", " 'From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nSubject: Re: Blindsight\\nReply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nOrganization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science\\nLines: 14\\n\\nIn article <1993Mar26.185117.21400@cs.rochester.edu> fulk@cs.rochester.edu (Mark Fulk) writes:\\n>In article <33587@castle.ed.ac.uk> hrvoje@castle.ed.ac.uk (H Hecimovic) writes:\\n>compensation? Or are lesions localized to the SC too rare to be able\\n>to tell?\\n\\nExtremely rare in humans. Usually so much else is involved you\\'d\\njust have a mess to sort out. Birds do all vision in the tectum,\\ndon\\'t they? \\n\\n-- \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nGordon Banks N3JXP | \"Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and\\ngeb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu | it is shameful to surrender it too soon.\" \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n',\n", " 'From: eb3@world.std.com (Edwin Barkdoll)\\nSubject: Re: Blindsight\\nOrganization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA\\nLines: 64\\n\\nIn article <19382@pitt.UUCP> geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks) writes:\\n>In article werner@soe.berkeley.edu (John Werner) writes:\\n>>In article <19213@pitt.UUCP>, geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks) wrote:\\n>>> \\n>>> Explain. I thought there were 3 types of cones, equivalent to RGB.\\n>>\\n>>You\\'re basically right, but I think there are just 2 types. One is\\n>>sensitive to red and green, and the other is sensitive to blue and yellow. \\n>>This is why the two most common kinds of color-blindness are red-green and\\n>>blue-yellow.\\n>>\\n>\\n>Yes, I remember that now. Well, in that case, the cones are indeed\\n>color sensitive, contrary to what the original respondent had claimed.\\n\\n\\n\\tI\\'m not sure who the \"original respondent\" was but to\\nreiterate cones respond to particular portions of the spectrum, just\\nas _rods_ respond to certain parts of the visible spectrum (bluegreen\\nin our case, reddish in certain amphibia), just as the hoseshoe crab\\n_Limulus polyphemus_ photoreceptors respond to a certain portion of\\nthe spectrum etc. It is a common misconception to confound wavelength\\nspecificity with being color sensitive, however the two are not\\nsynonymous.\\n\\tSo in sum and to beat a dead horse:\\n\\t(1) When the outputs of a cone are matched for number of\\nabsorbed photons _irrespective_ of the absorbed photons wavelength,\\nthe cone outputs are _indistinguishable_.\\n\\t(2) Cones are simply detectors with different spectral\\nsensitivities and are not any more \"color sensitive\" than are rods,\\nommatidia or other photoreceptors.\\n\\t(3) Color vision arises because outputs of receptors which\\nsample different parts of the spectrum (cones in this case) are\\n\"processed centrally\". (The handwave is intentional)\\n\\n\\tI\\'ve worked and published research on rods and cones for over\\n10 years so the adherence to the belief that cones can \"detect color\"\\nis frustrating. But don\\'t take my word for it. I\\'m reposting a few\\nexcellent articles together with two rather good but oldish color\\nvision texts.\\n\\nThe texts:\\nRobert Boynton (1979) _Human Color Vision_ Holt, Rhiehart and Winston\\n\\nLeo M. Hurvich (1981) _Color Vision_, Sinauer Associates.\\n\\n\\nThe original articles:\\nBaylor and Hodgkin (1973) Detection and resolution of visual stimuli by\\nturtle phoreceptors, _J. Physiol._ 234 pp163-198.\\n\\nBaylor Lamb and Yau (1978) Reponses of retinal rods to single photons.\\n_J. Physiol._ 288 pp613-634.\\n\\nSchnapf et al. (1990) Visual transduction in cones of the monkey\\n_Macaca fascicularis_. J. Physiol. 427 pp681-713.\\n\\n-- \\nEdwin Barkdoll\\nbarkdoll@lepomis.psych.upenn.edu\\neb3@world.std.com\\n-- \\nEdwin Barkdoll\\neb3@world.std.com\\n',\n", " 'From: nanderso@Endor.sim.es.com (Norman Anderson)\\nSubject: COMET...when did/will she launch?\\nOrganization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp.\\nLines: 12\\n\\nCOMET (Commercial Experiment Transport) is to launch from Wallops Island\\nVirginia and orbit Earth for about 30 days. It is scheduled to come down\\nin the Utah Test & Training Range, west of Salt Lake City, Utah. I saw\\na message in this group toward the end of March that it was to launch \\non March 27. Does anyone know if it launched on that day, or if not, \\nwhen it is scheduled to launch and/or when it will come down.\\n\\nI would also be interested in what kind(s) of payload(s) are onboard.\\n\\nThanks for your help.\\n\\nNorman Anderson nanderso@endor.sim.es.com\\n',\n", " \"From: jim.zisfein@factory.com (Jim Zisfein) \\nSubject: klonopin and pregnancy\\nDistribution: world\\nOrganization: Invention Factory's BBS - New York City, NY - 212-274-8298v.32bis\\nReply-To: jim.zisfein@factory.com (Jim Zisfein) \\nLines: 17\\n\\nA(> From: adwright@iastate.edu ()\\nA(> A woman I know is tapering off klonopin. I believe that is one of the\\nA(> benzodiazopines. She is taking a very minimal dose right now, half a tablet\\nA(> a day. She is also pregnant. My question is Are there any known cases where\\nA(> klonopin or similar drug has caused harmful effects to the fetus?\\nA(> How about cases where the mother took klonopin or similar substance and had\\nA(> normal baby. Any information is appreciated. She wants to get a feel for\\nA(> what sort of risk she is taking. She is in her first month of pregnancy.\\n\\nKlonopin, according to the PDR (Physician's Desk Reference), is not a\\nproven teratogen. There are isolated case reports of malformations,\\nbut it is impossible to establish cause-effect relationships. The\\noverwhelming majority of women that take Klonopin while pregnant have\\nnormal babies.\\n---\\n . SLMR 2.1 . E-mail: jim.zisfein@factory.com (Jim Zisfein)\\n \\n\",\n", " 'From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nSubject: Re: NIH offers \"Exploratory Grants For Alternative Medicine\"\\nReply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nOrganization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science\\nLines: 30\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr9.172945.4578@island.COM> green@island.COM (Robert Greenstein) writes:\\n>In article <19493@pitt.UUCP> geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks) writes:\\n>>One problem is very few scientists are interested in alternative medicine.\\n>\\n>So Gordon, why do you think this is so?\\n>-- \\n\\nProbably because most of them come packaged with some absurd theory\\nbehind them. E.G. homoeopathy: like cures like. The more you dilute\\nthings, the more powerful they get, even if you dilute them so much\\nthere is no ingredient but water left. Chiropractic: all illness\\nstems from compressions of nerves by misaligned vertebrae. Such\\nsystems are so patently absurd, that any good they do is accidental\\nand not related to the theory. The only exception is probably herbalism,\\nbecause scientists recognize the potent drugs that derive from plants\\nand are always interested in seeing if they can find new plants\\nthat have active and useful substances. But that isn\\'t what \\nis meant by alternative medicine, usually. If you get into the Qi,\\naccupuntunce charts, etc, you are now back to silly theories that\\nprobably have nothing to do with why accupuncture works in some cases.\\n\\nPerhaps another reason they are reluctant is the Rhine experience.\\nRhine was a scientist who wanted to investigate the paranormal\\nand his lab was filled with so much chacanery and fakery that \\npeople don\\'t want to be associated with that sort of thing. \\n-- \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nGordon Banks N3JXP | \"Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and\\ngeb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu | it is shameful to surrender it too soon.\" \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n',\n", " 'From: higgins@fnalf.fnal.gov (Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey)\\nSubject: *Doppelganger* (was Re: Vulcan? No, not Spock or Haphaestus)\\nOrganization: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory\\nLines: 22\\nDistribution: world\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: fnalf.fnal.gov\\n\\nIn article <1qju0bINN10l@rave.larc.nasa.gov>, C.O.EGALON@LARC.NASA.GOV (CLAUDIO OLIVEIRA EGALON) writes:\\n> There was a Science fiction movie sometime ago (I do not remember its \\n> name) about a planet in the same orbit of Earth but hidden behind the \\n> Sun so it could never be visible from Earth. \\n\\nThis was known as *Journey to the Far Side of the Sun* in the United\\nStates and as *Doppelganger* in the U.K. It was produced by the great\\nteam of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson (whose science was usually a bit\\nbetter than this). It may have been their first production using live\\nactors-- they were better known for their technophilic puppet shows,\\nsuch as *Supercar*, *Stingray*, and *Thunderbirds*. Later, they went\\non to do more live-action SF series: *UFO* and *Space: 1999*.\\n\\nThe astronomy was lousy, but the lifting-body spacecraft, VTOL\\nairliners, and mighty Portugese launch complex were *wonderful* to\\nlook at.\\n\\nBill Higgins, Beam Jockey | In a churchyard in the valley\\nFermi National Accelerator Laboratory | Where the myrtle doth entwine\\nBitnet: HIGGINS@FNAL.BITNET | There grow roses and other posies\\nInternet: HIGGINS@FNAL.FNAL.GOV | Fertilized by Clementine.\\nSPAN/Hepnet: 43011::HIGGINS |\\n',\n", " 'Subject: \"STAR GARTDS\" Info wanted\\nFrom: kmcvay@oneb.almanac.bc.ca (Ken Mcvay)\\nOrganization: The Old Frog\\'s Almanac\\nLines: 11\\n\\nA friend\\'s daughter has been diagnosed with an eye disease called \"Star\\nGartds\" (or something close) - it is apparently genetic, according to her,\\nand affects every fourth generation.\\n\\nShe would appreciate any information about this condition. If anything is\\navailable via ftp, please point me in the right direction..\\n-- \\nThe Old Frog\\'s Almanac - A Salute to That Old Frog Hisse\\'f, Ryugen Fisher \\n (604) 245-3205 (v32) (604) 245-4366 (2400x4) SCO XENIX 2.3.2 GT \\n Ladysmith, British Columbia, CANADA. Serving Central Vancouver Island \\nwith public access UseNet and Internet Mail - home to the Holocaust Almanac\\n',\n", " \"From: med50003@nusunix1.nus.sg (WANSAICHEONG KHIN-LIN)\\nSubject: Re: MORBUS MENIERE - is there a real remedy?\\nOrganization: National University of Singapore\\nX-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]\\nLines: 21\\n\\nIt would be nice to think that individuals can somehow 'beat the system'\\nand like a space explorer, boldly go where no man has gone before and\\nreturn with a prize cure. Unfortunately, too often the prize is limited\\nand the efficacy of the 'cure' questionable when applied to all\\nsufferers.\\n\\nThis applies to both medical researchers and non-medical individuals.\\nJust because it appears in an obscure journal and may be of some use\\ndoes not make the next cure-all. What about the dozens of individuals\\nwho have courageously participated in clinical trials? Did they have any\\nguarentee of cures? Are they any less because they didn't trumpet their\\nstory all over the world?\\n\\nAs a parting note, wasn't there some studies done on Gingko seeds for\\nMeniere's? (To the original poster : what about trying for a trial of\\nthat? It's probably not a final answer but it certainly may alleviate\\nsome of the discomfort. And you'd be helping answer the question for\\nfuture sufferers.)\\n\\ngervais\\n\\n\",\n", " \"From: sdbsd5@cislabs.pitt.edu (Stephen D Brener)\\nSubject: Intensive Japanese at Pitt\\nKeywords: San Francisco\\nDistribution: usa\\nOrganization: University of Pittsburgh\\nLines: 112\\n\\nIn article rcj2@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (ray.c.jender) writes:\\n>\\n>\\tI was kind of half watching Street Stories last night\\n>\\tand one of the segments was about this doctor in\\n>\\tS.F. who provides a service of investigating treatment\\n>\\tfor various diseases. I'm pretty sure his name is\\n>\\tDr. Mark Renniger (sp?) or close to that. \\n>\\tDid anyone else watch this? I'd like to get his\\n>\\tcorrect name and address/phone number if possible.\\n>\\tThanks.\\n\\n\\n INTENSIVE JAPANESE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THIS SUMMER\\n ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^\\n\\n\\nThe University of Pittsburgh is offering two intensive Japanese language\\ncourses this summer. Both courses, Intensive Elementary Japanese and \\nIntensive Intermediate Japanese, are ten week, ten credit courses \\neach equivalent to one full year of Japanese language study. They begin \\nJune 7 and end August 13. The courses meet five days per week, five hours \\nper day. There is a flat rate tuition charge of $1600 per course. \\nFellowships available for science and engineering students. Contact \\nSteven Brener, Program Manager of the Japanese Science and Technology\\nManagement Program, at the University of Pittsburgh at the number or\\naddress below. \\nALL INTERESTED INDIVIDUALS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY, THIS IS NOT LIMITED TO \\nUNIVERSITY STUDENTS.\\n\\n\\n\\n \\n\\n#######################################################################\\n################# New Program Announcement ########################\\n#######################################################################\\n\\n\\n JAPANESE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT PROGRAM\\n\\nThe Japanese Science and Technology Management Program (JSTMP) is a new\\nprogram jointly developed by the University of Pittsbugh and Carnegie Mellon \\nUniversity. Students and professionals in the engineering and scientific \\ncommunitites are encouraged to apply for classes commencing in June 1993 and \\nJanuary 1994.\\n\\n\\nPROGRAM OBJECTIVES\\nThe program intends to promote technology transfer between Japan and the \\nUnited States. It is also designed to let scientists, engineers, and managers\\nexperience how the Japanese proceed with technological development. This is \\nfacilitated by extended internships in Japanese research facilities and\\nlaboratories that provide participants with the opportunity to develop\\nlong-term professional relationships with their Japanese counterparts.\\n\\n\\nPROGRAM DESIGN\\nTo fulfill the objectives of the program, participants will be required to \\ndevelop advanced language capability and a deep understanding of Japan and\\nits culture. Correspondingly, JSTMP consists of three major components:\\n\\n1. TRAINING IN THE JAPANESE LANGUAGE\\nSeveral Japanese language courses will be offered, including intensive courses\\ndesigned to expedite language preparation for scientists and engineers in a\\nrelatively short time.\\n\\n2. EDUCATION IN JAPANESE BUSINESS AND SOCIAL CULTURE\\nA particular enphasis is placed on attaining a deep understanding of the\\ncultural and educational basis of Japanese management approaches in \\nmanufacturing and information technology. Courses will be available in a \\nvariety of departments throughout both universities including Anthropology,\\nSociology, History, and Political Science. Moreover, seminars and colloquiums\\nwill be conducted. Further, a field trip to Japanese manufacturing or \\nresearch facilities in the United States will be scheduled.\\n\\n\\n3. AN INTERNSHIP OR A STUDY MISSION IN JAPAN\\nUpon completion of their language and cultural training at PITT and CMU, \\nparticipants will have the opportunity to go to Japan and observe,\\nand participate in the management of technology. Internships in Japan\\nwill generally run for one year; however, shorter ones are possible.\\n\\n\\nFELLOWSHIPS COVERING TUITION FOR LANGUAGE AND CULTURE COURSES, AS WELL AS\\nSTIPENDS FOR LIVING EXPENSES ARE AVAILABLE.\\n\\n FOR MORE INFORMATION AND APPLICATION MATERIALS CONTACT\\n\\nSTEVEN BRENER\\t\\t\\t\\tSUSIE BROWN\\nJSTMP\\t\\t\\t\\t\\tCarnegie Mellon University, GSIA\\nUniversity of Pittsburgh\\t\\tPittsburgh, PA 15213-3890\\n4E25 Forbes Quadrangle\\t\\t\\tTelephone: (412) 268-7806\\nPittsburgh, PA 15260\\t\\t\\tFAX:\\t (412) 268-8163\\nTelephone: (412) 648-7414\\t\\t\\nFAX: (412) 648-2199\\t\\t\\n\\n############################################################################\\n############################################################################ \\n\\n\\nInterested individuals, companies and institutions should respond by phone or\\nmail. Please do not inquire via e-mail.\\nPlease note that this is directed at grads and professionals, however, advanced\\nundergrads will be considered. Further, funding is resticted to US citizens\\nand permanent residents of the US.\\n\\nSteve Brener\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\",\n", " \"From: ghilardi@urz.unibas.ch\\nSubject: left side pains\\nOrganization: University of Basel, Switzerland\\nLines: 21\\n\\nHello to everybody,\\nI write here because I am kind of desperate. For about six weeks, I've been\\nsuffering on pains in my left head side, the left leg and sometimes the left \\narm. I made many tests (e.g. computer tomography, negative, lyme borreliosis,\\nnegative, all electrolytes in the blood in their correct range), they're\\nall o.K., so I should be healthy. As a matter of fact, I am not feeling so.\\nI was also at a Neurologist's too, he considered me healthy too.\\n\\nThe blood tests have shown that I have little too much of Hemoglobin (17.5,\\ncommon range is 14 to 17, I unfortunately do not know about the units).\\nCould these hemi-sided pains be the result of this or of a also possible\\nblock of the neck muscles ?\\n\\nI have no fever, and I am not feeling entirely sick, but neither entirely \\nhealthy. \\n\\nPlease answer by direct email on \\n\\nThanks for every hint\\n\\nNico\\n\",\n", " 'Subject: Space FAQ 05/15 - References\\nFrom: leech@cs.unc.edu (Jon Leech)\\nExpires: 6 May 1993 19:56:44 GMT\\nOrganization: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill\\nKeywords: Frequently Asked Questions\\nSupersedes: \\nNNTP-Posting-Host: mahler.cs.unc.edu\\nLines: 665\\n\\nArchive-name: space/references\\nLast-modified: $Date: 93/04/01 14:39:21 $\\n\\nREFERENCES ON SPECIFIC AREAS\\n\\n PUBLISHERS OF SPACE/ASTRONOMY MATERIAL\\n\\n Astronomical Society of the Pacific\\n 1290 24th Avenue\\n San Francisco, CA 94122\\n\\n\\tMore expensive but better organized slide sets.\\n\\n Cambridge University Press\\n 32 East 57th Street\\n New York, NY 10022\\n\\n Crawford-Peters Aeronautica\\n P.O. Box 152528\\n San Diego, CA 92115\\n (619) 287-3933\\n\\n\\tAn excellent source of all kinds of space publications. They publish\\n\\ta number of catalogs, including:\\n\\t Aviation and Space, 1945-1962\\n\\t Aviation and Space, 1962-1990\\n\\t Space and Related Titles\\n\\n European Southern Observatory\\n Information and Photographic Service\\n Dr R.M. West\\n Karl Scharzschild Strasse 2\\n D-8046 Garching bei Munchen\\n FRG\\n\\n\\tSlide sets, posters, photographs, conference proceedings.\\n\\n Finley Holiday Film Corporation\\n 12607 East Philadelphia Street\\n Whittier, California 90601\\n (213)945-3325\\n (800)FILMS-07\\n\\n\\tWide selection of Apollo, Shuttle, Viking, and Voyager slides at ~50\\n\\tcents/slide. Call for a catalog.\\n\\n Hansen Planetarium (Utah)\\n\\n\\tSaid to hold sales on old slide sets. Look in Sky & Telescope\\n\\tfor contact info.\\n\\n Lunar and Planetary Institute\\n 3303 NASA Road One\\n Houston, TX 77058-4399\\n\\n\\tTechnical, geology-oriented slide sets, with supporting\\n\\tbooklets.\\n\\n John Wiley & Sons\\n 605 Third Avenue\\n New York, NY 10158-0012\\n\\n Sky Publishing Corporation\\n PO Box 9111\\n Belmont, MA 02178-9111\\n\\n\\tOffers \"Sky Catalogue 2000.0\" on PC floppy with information\\n\\t(including parallax) for 45000 stars.\\n\\n Roger Wheate\\n Geography Dept.\\n University of Calgary, Alberta\\n Canada T2N 1N4\\n (403)-220-4892\\n (403)-282-7298 (FAX)\\n wheate@uncamult.bitnet\\n\\n\\tOffers a 40-slide set called \"Mapping the Planets\" illustrating\\n\\trecent work in planetary cartography, comes with a booklet and\\n\\tinformation on getting your own copies of the maps. $50 Canadian,\\n\\tshipping included.\\n\\n Superintendent of Documents\\n US Government Printing Office\\n Washington, DC 20402\\n\\n Univelt, Inc.\\n P. O. Box 28130\\n San Diego, Ca. 92128\\n\\n\\tPublishers for the American Astronomical Society.\\n\\n US Naval Observatory\\n\\t202-653-1079 (USNO Bulletin Board via modem)\\n\\t202-653-1507 General\\n\\n Willmann-Bell\\n P.O. Box 35025\\n Richmond, Virginia 23235 USA\\n (804)-320-7016 9-5 EST M-F\\n\\n\\n CAREERS IN THE SPACE INDUSTRY\\n\\n In 1990 the Princeton Planetary Society published the first edition of\\n \"Space Jobs: The Guide to Careers in Space-Related Fields.\" The\\n publication was enormously successful: we distributed 2000 copies to\\n space enthusiasts across the country and even sent a few to people in\\n Great Britain, Australia, and Ecuador. Due to the tremendous response to\\n the first edition, PPS has published an expanded, up-to-date second\\n edition of the guide.\\n\\n The 40-page publication boasts 69 listings for summer and full-time job\\n opportunities as well as graduate school programs. The second edition of\\n \"Space Jobs\" features strategies for entering the space field and\\n describes positions at consulting and engineering firms, NASA, and\\n non-profit organizations. The expanded special section on graduate\\n schools highlights a myriad of programs ranging from space manufacturing\\n to space policy. Additional sections include tips on becoming an\\n astronaut and listings of NASA Space Grant Fellowships and Consortia, as\\n well as NASA Centers for the Commercial Development of Space.\\n\\n To order send check or money order made payable to Princeton Planetary\\n Society for $4 per copy, plus $1 per copy for shipping and handling\\n (non-US customers send an International Money Order payable in US\\n dollars) to:\\n\\n Princeton Planetary Society\\n 315 West College\\n Princeton University\\n Princeton, NJ 08544\\n\\n\\n DC-X SINGLE-STAGE TO ORBIT (SSTO) PROGRAM\\n\\n SDI\\'s SSRT (Single Stage Rocket Technology) project has funded a\\n suborbital technology demonstrator called DC-X that should fly in\\n mid-1993. Further development towards an operational single-stage to\\n orbit vehicle (called Delta Clipper) is uncertain at present.\\n\\n An collection of pictures and files relating to DC-X is available by\\n anonymous FTP or email server in the directory\\n\\n\\tbongo.cc.utexas.edu:pub/delta-clipper\\n\\n Chris W. Johnson (chrisj@emx.cc.utexas.edu) maintains the archive.\\n\\n\\n HOW TO NAME A STAR AFTER A PERSON\\n\\n Official names are decided by committees of the International\\n Astronomical Union, and are not for sale. There are purely commercial\\n organizations which will, for a fee, send you pretty certificates and\\n star maps describing where to find \"your\" star. These organizations have\\n absolutely no standing in the astronomical community and the names they\\n assign are not used by anyone else. It\\'s also likely that you won\\'t be\\n able to see \"your\" star without binoculars or a telescope. See the back\\n pages of Astronomy or other amateur astronomy publications for contact\\n info; one such organization may be found at:\\n\\n\\tInternational Star Registry\\n\\t34523 Wilson Road\\n\\tIngleside, IL 60041\\n\\n This is not an endorsement of ISR.\\n\\n\\n LLNL \"GREAT EXPLORATION\"\\n\\n The LLNL \"Great Exploration\", a plan for an on-the-cheap space station,\\n Lunar base, and Mars mission using inflatable space structures, excited\\n a lot of interest on the net and still comes up from time to time. Some\\n references cited during net discussion were:\\n\\n\\tAvation Week Jan 22, 1990 for an article on the overall Great\\n\\tExploration\\n\\n\\tNASA Assessment of the LLNL Space Exploration Proposal and LLNL\\n\\tResponses by Dr. Lowell Wood LLNL Doc. No. SS 90-9. Their address\\n\\tis: PO Box 808 Livermore, CA 94550 (the NASA authors are unknown).\\n\\n\\tBriefing slides of a presentation to the NRC last December may be\\n\\tavailable. Write LLNL and ask.\\n\\n\\tConceptual Design Study for Modular Inflatable Space Structures, a\\n\\tfinal report for purchase order B098747 by ILC Dover INC. I don\\'t\\n\\tknow how to get this except from LLNL or ILC Dover. I don\\'t have an\\n\\taddress for ILC.\\n\\n\\n LUNAR PROSPECTOR\\n\\n Lunar Exploration Inc. (LEI) is a non-profit corporation working on a\\n privately funded lunar polar orbiter. Lunar Prospector is designed to\\n perform a geochemical survey and search for frozen volatiles at the\\n poles. A set of reference files describing the project is available in\\n\\n\\tames.arc.nasa.gov:pub/SPACE/LEI/*\\n\\n\\n LUNAR SCIENCE AND ACTIVITIES\\n\\n Grant H Heiken, David T Vaniman, and Bevan M French (editors), \"Lunar\\n Sourcebook, A User\\'s Guide to the Moon\", Cambridge University Press\\n 1991, ISBN 0-521-33444-6; hardcover; expensive. A one-volume\\n encyclopedia of essentially everything known about the Moon, reviewing\\n current knowledge in considerable depth, with copious references. Heavy\\n emphasis on geology, but a lot more besides, including considerable\\n discussion of past lunar missions and practical issues relevant to\\n future mission design. *The* reference book for the Moon; all others are\\n obsolete.\\n\\n Wendell Mendell (ed), \"Lunar Bases and Space Activities of the 21st\\n Century\", $15. \"Every serious student of lunar bases *must* have this\\n book\" - Bill Higgins. Available from:\\n\\n\\tLunar and Planetary Institute\\n\\t3303 NASA Road One\\n\\tHouston, TX 77058-4399\\n\\tIf you want to order books, call (713)486-2172.\\n\\n Thomas A. Mutch, \"Geology of the Moon: A Stratigraphic View\", Princeton\\n University Press, 1970. Information about the Lunar Orbiter missions,\\n including maps of the coverage of the lunar nearside and farside by\\n various Orbiters.\\n\\n\\n ORBITING EARTH SATELLITE HISTORIES\\n\\n A list of Earth orbiting satellites (that are still in orbit) is\\n available by anonymous FTP in:\\n\\n\\tames.arc.nasa.gov:pub/SPACE/FAQ/Satellites\\n\\n\\n SPACECRAFT MODELS\\n\\n \"Space in Miniature #2: Gemini\" by\\n\\tMichael J. Mackowski\\n\\t1621 Waterwood Lane, St. Louis, MO 63146\\n\\t$7.50\\n\\n Only 34pp but enough pictures & diagrams to interest more than just the\\n modelling community, I feel.\\n\\n Marco\\'s Miniatures of Dracut, Mass. have produced a 1/144 Skylab in an\\n edition of 500 & a 1/48 Lunar Rover (same scale as Monogram and Revell\\n Lunar Modules) in a similar edition. Prices are $45 for Skylab, $24 for\\n LRV. Check with them for postage etc. I have no connection with them,\\n but have found their service to be good and their stock of rare/old kits\\n *is* impressive. Prices range from reasonable ($35 for Monogram 1/32\\n scale Apollo CSM with cutaway details) to spectacular ($145 for Airfix\\n Vostok).\\n\\n\\t Four Star Collectibles\\n\\t P.O. Box 658\\n\\t Dracut Mass 01826, USA.\\n\\t (508)-957-0695.\\n\\n Voyager, HST, Viking, Lunar Rover etc. kits from:\\n\\n\\tLunar Models\\n\\t5120 Grisham\\n\\tRowlett, Texas 75088\\n\\t(214)-475-4230\\n\\n As reviewed by Bob Kaplow:\\n\\n\\tPeter Alway\\'s book \"Scale Model Rocketry\" is now available. Mine\\n\\tarrived in the mail earlier this week. To get your own copy, send\\n\\t$19.95 + $2.50 s/h ($22.45 total) to:\\n\\n\\t\\t\\tPeter Alway\\n\\t\\t\\t2830 Pittsfield\\n\\t\\t\\tAnn Arbor, MI 48104\\n\\n\\tThe book includes information on collecting scale data, construction\\n\\tof scale models, and several handy tables. Appendicies include plans\\n\\tfor 3 sport scale models, a 1:9.22 D Region Tomahawk (BT50), a 1/40\\n\\tV-2 (BT60), and a 1/9.16 Aerobee 150A (BT55/60).\\n\\n\\tI\\'ve only begun to study the book, but it certainly will be a\\n\\tvaluable data source for many modellers. Most vehicles include\\n\\tseveral paragraphs of text describing the missions flown by the\\n\\trocket, various specs including \"NAR\" engine classification, along\\n\\twith a dimensioned drawing, color layouts & paint pattern, and a\\n\\tblack & white photograph.\\n\\n\\tThe vehicles included are the Aerobee 150A, Aerobee 300, Aerobee Hi,\\n\\tArcas, Asp, Astrobee 1500, Astrobee D, Atlas Centaur, Atlas-Agena,\\n\\tAtlas-Score, Baby WAC, D-Region Tomahawk, Deacon Rockoon, Delta B,\\n\\tDelta E, Gemini-Titan II, Iris, Javelin, Juno 1, Juno 2, Little Joe\\n\\t1, Little Joe 2, Mercury-Atlas, Mercury-Redstone, Nike-Apache,\\n\\tNike-Asp, Nike-Cajun, Nike-Deacon, Nike-Tomahawk, RAM B, Saturn 1\\n\\tBlock 1, Saturn 1 Block 2, Saturn 1B, Saturn 5, Scout, Standard\\n\\tAerobee, Terrapin, Thor-Able, Titan III C, Titan III E, Trailblazer\\n\\t1, V-2, Vanguard, Viking Model 1, Viking Model 2, and Wac Corporal.\\n\\n\\n ROCKET PROPULSION\\n\\n\\tGeorge P. Sutton, \"Rocket Propulsion Elements\", 5th edn,\\n\\tWiley-Interscience 1986, ISBN 0-471-80027-9. Pricey textbook. The\\n\\tbest (nearly the only) modern introduction to the technical side of\\n\\trocketry. A good place to start if you want to know the details. Not\\n\\tfor the math-shy. Straight chemical rockets, essentially nothing on\\n\\tmore advanced propulsion (although earlier editions reportedly had\\n\\tsome coverage).\\n\\n\\tDieter K. Huzel and David H. Huang, \"Design of Liquid Propellant\\n\\tRocket Engines\", NASA SP-125.\\n\\tNTIS N71-29405\\t\\tPC A20/MF A01\\t1971 461p\\n\\tOut of print; reproductions may be obtained through the NTIS\\n\\t(expensive). The complete and authoritative guide to designing\\n\\tliquid-fuel engines. Reference #1 in most chapters of Sutton. Heavy\\n\\temphasis on practical issues, what works and what doesn\\'t, what the\\n\\ttypical values of the fudge factors are. Stiff reading, massive\\n\\tdetail; written for rocket engineers by rocket engineers.\\n\\n\\n SPACECRAFT DESIGN\\n\\n\\tBrij N. Agrawal, \"Design of Geosynchronous Spacecraft\",\\n\\tPrentice-Hall, ISBN 0-13-200114-4.\\n\\n\\tJames R. Wertz ed, \"Spacecraft Attitude Determination and\\n\\tControl\", Kluwer, ISBN 90-277-1204-2.\\n\\n\\tP.R.K. Chetty, \"Satellite Technology and its Applications\",\\n\\tMcGraw-Hill, ISBN 0-8306-9688-1.\\n\\n\\tJames R. Wertz and Wiley J. Larson (editors), \"Space Mission\\n\\tAnalysis and Design\", Kluwer Academic Publishers\\n\\t(Dordrecht/Boston/London) 1991, ISBN 0-7923-0971-5 (paperback), or\\n\\t0-7923-0970-7 (hardback).\\n\\n\\t This looks at system-level design of a spacecraft, rather than\\n\\t detailed design. 23 chapters, 4 appendices, about 430 pages. It\\n\\t leads the reader through the mission design and system-level\\n\\t design of a fictitious earth-observation satellite, to\\n\\t illustrate the principles that it tries to convey. Warning:\\n\\t although the book is chock-full of many useful reference tables,\\n\\t some of the numbers in at least one of those tables (launch\\n\\t costs for various launchers) appear to be quite wrong. Can be\\n\\t ordered by telephone, using a credit card; Kluwer\\'s phone number\\n\\t is (617)-871-6600. Cost $34.50.\\n\\n\\n ESOTERIC PROPULSION SCHEMES (SOLAR SAILS, LASERS, FUSION...)\\n\\n This needs more and more up-to-date references, but it\\'s a start.\\n\\n ANTIMATTER:\\n\\n\\t\"Antiproton Annihilation Propulsion\", Robert Forward\\n\\t AFRPL TR-85-034 from the Air Force Rocket Propulsion Laboratory\\n\\t (AFRPL/XRX, Stop 24, Edwards Air Force Base, CA 93523-5000).\\n\\t NTIS AD-A160 734/0\\t PC A10/MF A01\\n\\t PC => Paper copy, A10 => $US57.90 -- or maybe Price Code?\\n\\t MF => MicroFiche, A01 => $US13.90\\n\\n\\t Technical study on making, holding, and using antimatter for\\n\\t near-term (30-50 years) propulsion systems. Excellent\\n\\t bibliography. Forward is the best-known proponent\\n\\t of antimatter.\\n\\n\\t This also may be available as UDR-TR-85-55 from the contractor,\\n\\t the University of Dayton Research Institute, and DTIC AD-A160\\n\\t from the Defense Technical Information Center, Defense Logistics\\n\\t Agency, Cameron Station, Alexandria, VA 22304-6145. And it\\'s\\n\\t also available from the NTIS, with yet another number.\\n\\n\\t\"Advanced Space Propulsion Study, Antiproton and Beamed Power\\n\\t Propulsion\", Robert Forward\\n\\n\\t AFAL TR-87-070 from the Air Force Astronautics Laboratory, DTIC\\n\\t #AD-A189 218.\\n\\t NTIS AD-A189 218/1\\t PC A10/MF A01\\n\\n\\t Summarizes the previous paper, goes into detail on beamed power\\n\\t systems including \" 1) pellet, microwave, and laser beamed power\\n\\t systems for intersteller transport; 2) a design for a\\n\\t near-relativistic laser-pushed lightsail using near-term laser\\n\\t technology; 3) a survey of laser thermal propulsion, tether\\n\\t transportation systems, antiproton annihilation propulsion,\\n\\t exotic applications of solar sails, and laser-pushed\\n\\t interstellar lightsails; 4) the status of antiproton\\n\\t annihilation propulsion as of 1986; and 5) the prospects for\\n\\t obtaining antimatter ions heavier than antiprotons.\" Again,\\n\\t there is an extensive bibliography.\\n\\n\\t \"Application of Antimatter - Electric Power to Interstellar\\n\\t Propulsion\", G. D. Nordley, JBIS Interstellar Studies issue of\\n\\t 6/90.\\n\\n BUSSARD RAMJETS AND RELATED METHODS:\\n\\n\\tG. L. Matloff and A. J. Fennelly, \"Interstellar Applications and\\n\\tLimitations of Several Electrostatic/Electromagnetic Ion Collection\\n\\tTechniques\", JBIS 30 (1977):213-222\\n\\n\\tN. H. Langston, \"The Erosion of Interstellar Drag Screens\", JBIS 26\\n\\t(1973): 481-484\\n\\n\\tC. Powell, \"Flight Dynamics of the Ram-Augmented Interstellar\\n\\tRocket\", JBIS 28 (1975):553-562\\n\\n\\tA. R. Martin, \"The Effects of Drag on Relativistic Spacefight\", JBIS\\n\\t25 (1972):643-652\\n\\n FUSION:\\n\\n\\t\"A Laser Fusion Rocket for Interplanetary Propulsion\", Roderick Hyde,\\n\\tLLNL report UCRL-88857. (Contact the Technical Information Dept. at\\n\\tLivermore)\\n\\n\\t Fusion Pellet design: Fuel selection. Energy loss mechanisms.\\n\\t Pellet compression metrics. Thrust Chamber: Magnetic nozzle.\\n\\t Shielding. Tritium breeding. Thermal modeling. Fusion Driver\\n\\t (lasers, particle beams, etc): Heat rejection. Vehicle Summary:\\n\\t Mass estimates. Vehicle Performance: Interstellar travel\\n\\t required exhaust velocities at the limit of fusion\\'s capability.\\n\\t Interplanetary missions are limited by power/weight ratio.\\n\\t Trajectory modeling. Typical mission profiles. References,\\n\\t including the 1978 report in JBIS, \"Project Daedalus\", and\\n\\t several on ICF and driver technology.\\n\\n\\t\"Fusion as Electric Propulsion\", Robert W. Bussard, Journal of\\n\\tPropulsion and Power, Vol. 6, No. 5, Sept.-Oct. 1990\\n\\n\\t Fusion rocket engines are analyzed as electric propulsion\\n\\t systems, with propulsion thrust-power-input-power ratio (the\\n\\t thrust-power \"gain\" G(t)) much greater than unity. Gain values\\n\\t of conventional (solar, fission) electric propulsion systems are\\n\\t always quite small (e.g., G(t)<0.8). With these, \"high-thrust\"\\n\\t interplanetary flight is not possible, because system\\n\\t acceleration (a(t)) capabilities are always less than the local\\n\\t gravitational acceleration. In contrast, gain values 50-100\\n\\t times higher are found for some fusion concepts, which offer\\n\\t \"high-thrust\" flight capability. One performance example shows a\\n\\t 53.3 day (34.4 powered; 18.9 coast), one-way transit time with\\n\\t 19% payload for a single-stage Earth/Mars vehicle. Another shows\\n\\t the potential for high acceleration (a(t)=0.55g(o)) flight in\\n\\t Earth/moon space.\\n\\n\\t\"The QED Engine System: Direct Electric Fusion-Powered Systems for\\n\\tAerospace Flight Propulsion\" by Robert W. Bussard, EMC2-1190-03,\\n\\tavailable from Energy/Matter Conversion Corp., 9100 A. Center\\n\\tStreet, Manassas, VA 22110.\\n\\n\\t [This is an introduction to the application of Bussard\\'s version\\n\\t of the Farnsworth/Hirsch electrostatic confinement fusion\\n\\t technology to propulsion. 1500 sher@bbn.com (Lawrence D. Sher) writes:\\n> From the N.E.J.Med. editorial: \"The dicarboxylic amino acid glutamate\\n> is not only an essential amino acid ...\\n\\nGlutamate is not an essential amino acid. People can survive quite well\\nwithout ever eating any.\\n-- \\nKeith Lynch, kfl@access.digex.com\\n\\nf p=2,3:2 s q=1 x \"f f=3:2 q:f*f>p!\\'q s q=p#f\" w:q p,?$x\\\\8+1*8\\n',\n", " 'From: Donald Mackie \\nSubject: Re: Barbecued foods and health risk\\nOrganization: UM Anesthesiology\\nLines: 13\\nDistribution: world\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: 141.214.86.38\\nX-UserAgent: Nuntius v1.1.1d9\\nX-XXDate: Mon, 19 Apr 93 20:12:06 GMT\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr18.175802.28548@clpd.kodak.com> Rich Young,\\nyoung@serum.kodak.com writes:\\n\\nStuff deleted\\n\\n>\\t ... have to\\n>\\t consume unrealistically large quantities of barbecued meat at a\\n>\\t time.\"\\n\\nI have to confess that this is one of my few unfulfilled ambitions.\\nNo matter how much I eat, it still seems realistic.\\n\\nDon Mackie - his opinion\\n',\n", " 'From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nSubject: Re: eye dominance\\nReply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nOrganization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science\\nLines: 16\\n\\nIn article rsilver@world.std.com (Richard Silver) writes:\\n>\\n>Is there a right-eye dominance (eyedness?) as there is an\\n>overall right-handedness in the population? I mean do most\\n>people require less lens corrections for the one eye than the\\n>other? If so, what kinds of percentages can be attached to this?\\n\\nThere is eye dominance same as handedness (and usually for the\\nsame side). It has nothing to do with refractive error, however.\\n\\n\\n-- \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nGordon Banks N3JXP | \"Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and\\ngeb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu | it is shameful to surrender it too soon.\" \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n',\n", " 'From: ven@bohr.physics.purdue.edu (Van E. Neie)\\nSubject: Re: Sunrise/ sunset times\\nOrganization: Purdue University Physics Department\\nLines: 29\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr22.180630.18313@titan.tsd.arlut.utexas.edu> pearson@tsd.arlut.utexas.edu (N. Shirlene Pearson) writes:\\n>jpw@cbis.ece.drexel.edu (Joseph Wetstein) writes:\\n>\\n>\\n>>Hello. I am looking for a program (or algorithm) that can be used\\n>>to compute sunrise and sunset times.\\n>\\n>Would you mind posting the responses you get?\\n>I am also interested, and there may be others.\\n>\\n>Thanks,\\n>\\n>N. Shirlene Pearson\\n>pearson@titan.tsd.arlut.utexas.edu\\n\\nThere is an excellent software program called Astro.calc that does that and\\nmuch more. The latest address I have is\\n\\n\\tMMI Corporation\\n\\tPO Box 19907\\n\\tBaltimore, MD 21211\\n\\tPhone (301) 366-1222\\n\\n\\n-- \\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nVan E. Neie ven@maxwell.physics.purdue.edu\\nPurdue University neie@purccvm.bitnet\\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n',\n", " \"From: krishnas@vax.oxford.ac.uk\\nSubject: RE: HELP ME INJECT...\\nOrganization: Oxford University VAX 6620\\nLines: 12\\n\\nThe best way of self injection is to use the right size needle\\nand choose the correct spot. For Streptomycin, usually given intra\\nmuscularly, use a thin needle (23/24 guage) and select a spot on\\nthe upper, outer thigh (no major nerves or blood vessels there). \\nClean the area with antiseptic before injection, and after. Make\\nsure to inject deeply (a different kind of pain is felt when the\\nneedle enters the muscle - contrasted to the 'prick' when it \\npierces the skin).\\n\\nPS: Try to go to a doctor. Self-treatment and self-injection should\\nbe avoided as far as possible.\\n \\n\",\n", " 'From: aws@iti.org (Allen W. Sherzer)\\nSubject: Re: DC-X update???\\nOrganization: Evil Geniuses for a Better Tomorrow\\nLines: 122\\n\\nIn article dragon@angus.mi.org writes:\\n\\n>Exactly when will the hover test be done, \\n\\nEarly to mid June.\\n\\n>and will any of the TV\\n>networks carry it. I really want to see that...\\n\\nIf they think the public wants to see it they will carry it. Why not\\nwrite them and ask? You can reach them at:\\n\\n\\n F: NATIONAL NEWS MEDIA\\n\\n\\nABC \"World News Tonight\" \"Face the Nation\"\\n7 West 66th Street CBS News\\nNew York, NY 10023 2020 M Street, NW\\n212/887-4040 Washington, DC 20036\\n 202/457-4321\\n\\nAssociated Press \"Good Morning America\"\\n50 Rockefeller Plaza ABC News\\nNew York, NY 10020 1965 Broadway\\nNational Desk (212/621-1600) New York, NY 10023\\nForeign Desk (212/621-1663) 212/496-4800\\nWashington Bureau (202/828-6400)\\n Larry King Live TV\\n\"CBS Evening News\" CNN\\n524 W. 57th Street 111 Massachusetts Avenue, NW\\nNew York, NY 10019 Washington, DC 20001\\n212/975-3693 202/898-7900\\n\\n\"CBS This Morning\" Larry King Show--Radio\\n524 W. 57th Street Mutual Broadcasting\\nNew York, NY 10019 1755 So. Jefferson Davis Highway\\n212/975-2824 Arlington, VA 22202\\n 703/685-2175\\n\"Christian Science Monitor\"\\nCSM Publishing Society \"Los Angeles Times\"\\nOne Norway Street Times-Mirror Square\\nBoston, MA 02115 Los Angeles, CA 90053\\n800/225-7090 800/528-4637\\n\\nCNN \"MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour\"\\nOne CNN Center P.O. Box 2626\\nBox 105366 Washington, DC 20013\\nAtlanta, GA 30348 703/998-2870\\n404/827-1500\\n \"MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour\"\\nCNN WNET-TV\\nWashington Bureau 356 W. 58th Street\\n111 Massachusetts Avenue, NW New York, NY 10019\\nWashington, DC 20001 212/560-3113\\n202/898-7900\\n\\n\"Crossfire\" NBC News\\nCNN 4001 Nebraska Avenue, NW\\n111 Massachusetts Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20036\\nWashington, DC 20001 202/885-4200\\n202/898-7951 202/362-2009 (fax)\\n\\n\"Morning Edition/All Things Considered\" \\nNational Public Radio \\n2025 M Street, NW \\nWashington, DC 20036 \\n202/822-2000 \\n\\nUnited Press International\\n1400 Eye Street, NW\\nWashington, DC 20006\\n202/898-8000\\n\\n\"New York Times\" \"U.S. News & World Report\"\\n229 W. 43rd Street 2400 N Street, NW\\nNew York, NY 10036 Washington, DC 20037\\n212/556-1234 202/955-2000\\n212/556-7415\\n\\n\"New York Times\" \"USA Today\"\\nWashington Bureau 1000 Wilson Boulevard\\n1627 Eye Street, NW, 7th Floor Arlington, VA 22229\\nWashington, DC 20006 703/276-3400\\n202/862-0300\\n\\n\"Newsweek\" \"Wall Street Journal\"\\n444 Madison Avenue 200 Liberty Street\\nNew York, NY 10022 New York, NY 10281\\n212/350-4000 212/416-2000\\n\\n\"Nightline\" \"Washington Post\"\\nABC News 1150 15th Street, NW\\n47 W. 66th Street Washington, DC 20071\\nNew York, NY 10023 202/344-6000\\n212/887-4995\\n\\n\"Nightline\" \"Washington Week In Review\"\\nTed Koppel WETA-TV\\nABC News P.O. Box 2626\\n1717 DeSales, NW Washington, DC 20013\\nWashington, DC 20036 703/998-2626\\n202/887-7364\\n\\n\"This Week With David Brinkley\"\\nABC News\\n1717 DeSales, NW\\nWashington, DC 20036\\n202/887-7777\\n\\n\"Time\" magazine\\nTime Warner, Inc.\\nTime & Life Building\\nRockefeller Center\\nNew York, NY 10020\\n212/522-1212\\n\\n-- \\n+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+\\n| Lady Astor: \"Sir, if you were my husband I would poison your coffee!\" |\\n| W. Churchill: \"Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it.\" |\\n+----------------------57 DAYS TO FIRST FLIGHT OF DCX-----------------------+\\n',\n", " 'From: nsmca@aurora.alaska.edu\\nSubject: Moon Colony Prize Race! $6 billion total?\\nLines: 26\\nNntp-Posting-Host: acad3.alaska.edu\\nOrganization: University of Alaska Fairbanks\\n\\nI think if there is to be a prize and such.. There should be \"classes\"\\nsuch as the following:\\n\\nLarge Corp.\\nSmall Corp/Company (based on reported earnings?)\\nLarge Government (GNP and such)\\nSmall Governemtn (or political clout or GNP?)\\nLarge Organization (Planetary Society? and such?)\\nSmall Organization (Alot of small orgs..)\\n\\nThe organization things would probably have to be non-profit or liek ??\\n\\nOf course this means the prize might go up. Larger get more or ??\\nBasically make the prize (total purse) $6 billion, divided amngst the class\\nwinners..\\nMore fair?\\n\\nThere would have to be a seperate organization set up to monitor the events,\\numpire and such and watch for safety violations (or maybe not, if peopel want\\nto risk thier own lives let them do it?).\\n\\nAny other ideas??\\n==\\nMichael Adams, nsmca@acad3.alaska.edu -- I\\'m not high, just jacked\\n\\n\\n',\n", " 'From: C.O.EGALON@LARC.NASA.GOV (CLAUDIO OLIVEIRA EGALON)\\nSubject: Portuguese Launch Complex (was:*Doppelganger*)\\nOrganization: NASA Langley Research Center\\nLines: 14\\nDistribution: world\\nReply-To: C.O.EGALON@LARC.NASA.GOV (CLAUDIO OLIVEIRA EGALON)\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: tahiti.larc.nasa.gov\\n\\n> Portugese launch complex were *wonderful\\n\\nPortuguese launch complex??? Gosh.... Polish are for American in the \\nsame way as Portuguese are for Brazilians (I am from Brazil). There is \\na joke about the Portuguese Space Agency that wanted to send a \\nPortuguese astronaut to the surface of the Sun (if there is such a thing).\\nHow did they solve all problems of sending a man to the surface of the \\nSun??? Simple... their astronauts travelled during the night...\\n\\n C.O.EGALON@LARC.NASA.GOV\\n\\nC.O.Egalon@larc.nasa.gov\\n\\nClaudio Oliveira Egalon\\n',\n", " \"From: gwh@soda.berkeley.edu (George William Herbert)\\nSubject: Re: Moonbase race\\nOrganization: Retro Aerospace\\nLines: 14\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: soda.berkeley.edu\\nSummary: Hmm...\\n\\nHmm. $1 billion, lesse... I can probably launch 100 tons to LEO at\\n$200 million, in five years, which gives about 20 tons to the lunar\\nsurface one-way. Say five tons of that is a return vehicle and its\\nfuel, a bigger Mercury or something (might get that as low as two\\ntons), leaving fifteen tons for a one-man habitat and a year's supplies?\\nGee, with that sort of mass margins I can build the systems off\\nthe shelf for about another hundred million tops. That leaves\\nabout $700 million profit. I like this idea 8-) Let's see\\nif you guys can push someone to make it happen 8-) 8-)\\n\\n[slightly seriously]\\n\\n-george william herbert\\nRetro Aerospace\\n\",\n", " 'From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nSubject: Re: request for information on \"essential tremor\" and Indrol?\\nReply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nOrganization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science\\nLines: 12\\n\\nIn article <1q1tbnINNnfn@life.ai.mit.edu> sundar@ai.mit.edu writes:\\n\\nEssential tremor is a progressive hereditary tremor that gets worse\\nwhen the patient tries to use the effected member. All limbs, vocal\\ncords, and head can be involved. Inderal is a beta-blocker and\\nis usually effective in diminishing the tremor. Alcohol and mysoline\\nare also effective, but alcohol is too toxic to use as a treatment.\\n-- \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nGordon Banks N3JXP | \"Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and\\ngeb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu | it is shameful to surrender it too soon.\" \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n',\n", " \"From: xrcjd@mudpuppy.gsfc.nasa.gov (Charles J. Divine)\\nSubject: Space Station Redesign Chief Resigns for Health Reasons\\nOrganization: NASA/GSFC Greenbelt Maryland\\nLines: 12\\n\\nWriter Kathy Sawyer reported in today's Washington Post that Joseph Shea, the \\nhead of the space station redesign has resigned for health reasons.\\n\\nShea was hospitalized shortly after his selection in February. He returned\\nyesterday to lead the formal presentation to the independent White House panel.\\nShea's presentation was rambling and almost inaudible.\\n\\nShea's deputy, former astronaut Bryan O'Connor, will take over the effort.\\n\\nGoldin asserted that the redesign effort is on track.\\n-- \\nChuck Divine\\n\",\n", " \"From: mrf4276@egbsun12.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Matthew R. Feulner)\\nSubject: Re: Lunar Colony Race! By 2005 or 2010?\\nNntp-Posting-Host: egbsun12.draper.com\\nOrganization: Draper Laboratory\\nLines: 18\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr20.234427.1@aurora.alaska.edu>, nsmca@aurora.alaska.edu writes:\\n|> Okay here is what I have so far:\\n|> \\n|> Have a group (any size, preferibly small, but?) send a human being to the moon,\\n|> set up a habitate and have the human(s) spend one earth year on the moon. Does\\n|> that mean no resupply or ?? \\n|> \\n|> Need to find atleast $1billion for prize money.\\n\\n\\nMy first thought is Ross Perot. After further consideration, I think he'd\\nbe more likely to try to win it...but come in a disappointing third.\\n\\nTry Bill Gates. Try Sam Walton's kids.\\n\\nMatt\\n\\nmatthew_feulner@qmlink.draper.com\\n\",\n", " 'From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nSubject: Re: migraine and exercise\\nReply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nOrganization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science\\nLines: 20\\n\\nIn article rsilver@world.std.com (Richard Silver) writes:\\n\\n>I have two questions. Is there any obvious connection between the\\n>flushed appearance and the migraine? Was I foolish to play through\\n>the migraine (aside from the visual disturbance affecting my play)?\\n>I just prefer to ignore it when possible.\\n>\\n\\nThe flushing is due to vascular dilation, part of a migraine attack.\\nSome people event get puffy and swollen. As long as you are careful\\nyou can see well enough to avoid getting hit in the face or eye by\\nthe ball, migraine will not hurt your health.\\n\\n\\n\\n-- \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nGordon Banks N3JXP | \"Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and\\ngeb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu | it is shameful to surrender it too soon.\" \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n',\n", " 'From: robg@citr.uq.oz.au (Rob Geraghty)\\nSubject: Re: Good Grief! (was Re: Candida Albicans: what is it?)\\nArticle-I.D.: bunyip.C5wwGz.17G\\nOrganization: Prentice Centre, University of Queensland\\nLines: 45\\n\\ndyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer) writes:\\n>Snort. Ah, there go my sinuses again.\\n>Oh, wow. A classic textbook. Hey, they laughed at Einstein, too!\\n>Yeah, I\\'ll bet. Tomorrow, the world.\\n>Listen, uncontrolled studies like this are worthless.\\n>I\\'m sure you are. You sound like the typical hysteric/hypochondriac who\\n>responds to \"miracle cures.\"\\n>Yeah, \"it makes sense to me\", so of course it should be taken seriously.\\n>Snort.\\n>Yeah, \"it sounds reasonable to me\".\\n>Oh, really? _What_ tests? Immune-compromised, my ass.\\n>More like credulous malingerer. This is a psychiatric syndrome.\\n>You know, it\\'s a shame that a drug like itraconazole is being misused\\n>in this way. It\\'s ridiculously expensive, and potentially toxic.\\n>The trouble is that it isn\\'t toxic enough, so it gets abused by quacks.\\n>The only good thing about nystatin is that it\\'s (relatively) cheap\\n>and when taken orally, non-toxic. But oral nystatin is without any\\n>systemic effect, so unless it were given IV, it would be without\\n>any effect on your sinuses. I wish these quacks would first use\\n>IV nystatin or amphotericin B on people like you. That would solve\\n>the \"yeast\" problem once and for all.\\n>Perhaps a little Haldol would go a long way towards ameliorating\\n>your symptoms.\\n>Are you paying for this treatment out of your own pocket? I\\'d hate\\n>to think my insurance premiums are going towards this.\\n\\nSteve, take a look at what you are saying. I don\\'t see one construvtive\\nword here. If you don\\'t have anything constructive to add, why waste\\nthe bandwidth - yeah, sure, flame me for doing it myself. Is this\\nsci.med or alt.flame? Like it or not, medical science does *not* know\\ncategorically everything about everything. I\\'m not flaming your\\nknowledge, just asking you to sit back and ask yourself \"what if?\"\\n\\n\"Minds are like parachutes - they only function when they are open.\"\\n\\nOh - and if you *do* want to flame me or anyone else, how about using\\nemail?\\n\\nRob\\nWho doesn\\'t claim any relevant qualifications, just interest\\n--\\n------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nRob Geraghty | 3 things are important to me \\nrobg@citr.uq.oz.au | The gift of love, the joy of life\\nCITR | And the making of music in all its forms\\n',\n", " 'From: baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov (Ron Baalke)\\nSubject: Galileo Update - 04/15/93\\nOrganization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory\\nLines: 113\\nDistribution: world\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov\\nKeywords: Galileo, JPL\\nNews-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41 \\n\\nForwarded from Neal Ausman, Galileo Mission Director\\n\\n GALILEO\\n MISSION DIRECTOR STATUS REPORT\\n POST-LAUNCH\\n April 9 - 15, 1993\\n\\nSPACECRAFT\\n\\n1. On April 9, real-time commands were sent, as planned, to reacquire\\ncelestial reference after completion of the Low Gain Antenna (LGA-2)\\nswing/Dual Drive Actuator (DDA) hammer activities.\\n\\n2. On April 9, the EJ-1 (Earth-Jupiter #1) sequence memory load was uplinked\\nto the spacecraft without incident. This sequence covers spacecraft activity\\nfrom April 12, 1993 to June 14, 1993 and includes a window for the Radio Relay\\nAntenna (RRA) slew test on April 28, 1993. The command loss timer was set to\\n11 days as a part of this sequence memory load.\\n\\n3. On April 12 and 15, a NO-OP command was sent to reset the command loss\\ntimer to 264 hours, its planned value during this mission phase.\\n\\n4. On April 12, cruise science Memory Readouts (MROs) were performed for the\\nExtreme Ultraviolet Spectrometer (EUV), Dust Detector (DDS), and Magnetometer\\n(MAG) instruments. Preliminary analysis indicates the data was received\\nproperly.\\n\\n5. On April 12, an Ultra-Stable Oscillator (USO) test was performed to verify\\nthe health status of the USO and to collect gravitational red shift experiment\\ndata; long term trend analysis is continuing.\\n\\n6. On April 14, a 40bps modulation index test was performed to determine the\\noptimal Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) when transmitting at 40bps. Preliminary\\nanalysis of the data suggests that the present pre-launch selected modulation\\nindex is near the optimal level.\\n\\n7. On April 15, cruise science Memory Readouts (MROs) were performed for the\\nExtreme Ultraviolet Spectrometer (EUV) and Magnetometer (MAG) instrument.\\nPreliminary analysis indicates the data was received properly.\\n\\n8. On April 15, a periodic RPM (Retro-Propulsion Module) 10-Newton thruster\\nflushing maintenance activity was performed; all 12 thrusters were flushed\\nduring the activity. Thruster performance throughout the activity was nominal.\\n\\n9. The AC/DC bus imbalance measurements have not exhibited significant\\nchanges (greater than 25 DN) throughout this period. The AC measurement reads\\n19 DN (4.3 volts). The DC measurement reads 111 DN (12.9 volts). These\\nmeasurements are consistent with the model developed by the AC/DC special\\nanomaly team.\\n\\n10. The Spacecraft status as of April 15, 1993, is as follows:\\n\\n a) System Power Margin - 60 watts\\n b) Spin Configuration - Dual-Spin\\n c) Spin Rate/Sensor - 3.15rpm/Star Scanner\\n d) Spacecraft Attitude is approximately 18 degrees\\n off-sun (lagging) and 6 degrees off-earth (leading)\\n e) Downlink telemetry rate/antenna- 40bps(coded)/LGA-1\\n f) General Thermal Control - all temperatures within\\n acceptable range\\n g) RPM Tank Pressures - all within acceptable range\\n h) Orbiter Science- Instruments powered on are the PWS,\\n EUV, UVS, EPD, MAG, HIC, and DDS\\n i) Probe/RRH - powered off, temperatures within\\n acceptable range\\n j) CMD Loss Timer Setting - 264 hours\\n Time To Initiation - 260 hours\\n\\n\\nGDS (Ground Data Systems):\\n\\n1. Galileo participated in a second DSN (Deep Space Network) acceptance test\\nfor the DSN Telemetry Phase 3 Upgrade on April 13, 1993, using CTA-21\\n(Compatibility Test Area 21). The purpose of this test was to verify\\nthe flow of Galileo telemetry data through the new Telemetry Group Controller\\n(TGC) and the Telemetry Channel Assembly (TCA). The TGC/TCA is the replacement\\nfor the current Telemetry Processing Assembly (TPA). Seven different telemetry\\nrates were run for this test; all ran well on both the MTS (MCCC Telemetry\\nSubsystem) and the AMMOS MGDS V18.0 GIF with the exception of 10bps. The\\n10bps rate had some trouble staying in lock; it appears the TGC/TCA was\\nnot metering the data correctly. Further comparisons between the MGDS and MTS\\ndata from this test are being conducted. MVT (Mission Verification Test) of\\nthe TGC/TCA system is expected to begin May 16, 1993.\\n\\n\\nTRAJECTORY\\n\\n As of noon Thursday, April 15, 1993, the Galileo Spacecraft trajectory\\nstatus was as follows:\\n\\n\\tDistance from Earth 152,606,000 km (1.02 AU)\\n\\tDistance from Sun 277,519,800 km (1.86 AU)\\n\\tHeliocentric Speed 93,400 km per hour\\n\\tDistance from Jupiter 543,973,900 km\\n\\tRound Trip Light Time 17 minutes, 4 seconds\\n\\n\\nSPECIAL TOPIC\\n\\n1. As of April 15, 1993, a total of 70184 real-time commands have been\\ntransmitted to Galileo since Launch. Of these, 65076 were initiated in the\\nsequence design process and 5108 initiated in the real-time command process.\\nIn the past week, 7 real time commands were transmitted: 6 were initiated in\\nthe sequence design process and one initiated in the real time command process.\\nMajor command activities included commands to reacquire celestial reference,\\nuplink the EJ-1 sequence memory load, and reset the command loss timer.\\n ___ _____ ___\\n /_ /| /____/ \\\\ /_ /| Ron Baalke | baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov\\n | | | | __ \\\\ /| | | | Jet Propulsion Lab |\\n ___| | | | |__) |/ | | |__ M/S 525-3684 Telos | Being cynical never helps \\n/___| | | | ___/ | |/__ /| Pasadena, CA 91109 | to correct the situation \\n|_____|/ |_|/ |_____|/ | and causes more aggravation\\n | instead.\\n',\n", " 'From: lochem@fys.ruu.nl (Gert-Jan van Lochem)\\nSubject: Dutch: symposium compacte objecten\\nSummary: U wordt uitgenodigd voor het symposium compacte objecten 26-4-93\\nKeywords: compacte objecten, symposium\\nOrganization: Physics Department, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands\\nLines: 122\\n\\nSterrenkundig symposium \\'Compacte Objecten\\'\\n op 26 april 1993\\n\\n\\nIn het jaar 1643, zeven jaar na de oprichting van de\\nUniversiteit van Utrecht, benoemde de universiteit haar\\neerste sterrenkundige waarnemer. Hiermee ontstond de tweede\\nuniversiteitssterrenwacht ter wereld. Aert Jansz, de eerste\\nwaarnemer, en zijn opvolgers voerden de Utrechtse sterrenkunde\\nin de daaropvolgende jaren, decennia en eeuwen naar de\\nvoorhoede van het astronomisch onderzoek. Dit jaar is het 350\\njaar geleden dat deze historische benoeming plaatsvond.\\n\\nDe huidige generatie Utrechtse sterrenkundigen en studenten\\nsterrenkunde, verenigd in het Sterrekundig Instituut Utrecht,\\nvieren de benoeming van hun \\'oervader\\' middels een breed scala\\naan feestelijke activiteiten. Zo is er voor scholieren een\\nplanetenproject, programmeert de Studium Generale een aantal\\nvoordrachten met een sterrenkundig thema en wordt op de Dies\\nNatalis aan een astronoom een eredoctoraat uitgereikt. Er\\nstaat echter meer op stapel.\\n\\nStudenten natuur- en sterrenkunde kunnen op 26 april aan een\\nsterrenkundesymposium deelnemen. De onderwerpen van het\\nsymposium zijn opgebouwd rond een van de zwaartepunten van het\\nhuidige Utrechtse onderzoek: het onderzoek aan de zogeheten\\n\\'compacte objecten\\', de eindstadia in de evolutie van sterren.\\nBij de samenstelling van het programma is getracht de\\ndeelnemer een zo aktueel en breed mogelijk beeld te geven van\\nde stand van zaken in het onderzoek aan deze eindstadia. In de\\neerste, inleidende lezing zal dagvoorzitter prof. Lamers een\\nbeknopt overzicht geven van de evolutie van zware sterren,\\nwaarna de zeven overige sprekers in lezingen van telkens een\\nhalf uur nader op de specifieke evolutionaire eindprodukten\\nzullen ingaan. Na afloop van elke lezing is er gelegenheid tot\\nhet stellen van vragen. Het dagprogramma staat afgedrukt op\\neen apart vel.\\nHet niveau van de lezingen is afgestemd op tweedejaars\\nstudenten natuur- en sterrenkunde. OOK ANDERE BELANGSTELLENDEN\\nZIJN VAN HARTE WELKOM!\\n\\nTijdens de lezing van prof. Kuijpers zullen, als alles goed\\ngaat, de veertien radioteleskopen van de Radiosterrenwacht\\nWesterbork worden ingezet om via een directe verbinding tussen\\nhet heelal, Westerbork en Utrecht het zwakke radiosignaal van\\neen snel roterende kosmische vuurtoren, een zogeheten pulsar,\\nin de symposiumzaal door te geven en te audiovisualiseren.\\nProf. Kuijpers zal de binnenkomende signalen (elkaar snel\\nopvolgende scherp gepiekte pulsen radiostraling) bespreken en\\ntrachten te verklaren.\\nHet slagen van dit unieke experiment staat en valt met de\\ntechnische haalbaarheid ervan. De op te vangen signalen zijn\\nnamelijk zo zwak, dat pas na een waarnemingsperiode van 10\\nmiljoen jaar genoeg energie is opgevangen om een lamp van 30\\nWatt een seconde te laten branden! Tijdens het symposium zal\\ner niet zo lang gewacht hoeven te worden: de hedendaagse\\ntechnologie stelt ons in staat live het heelal te beluisteren.\\n\\nDeelname aan het symposium kost f 4,- (exclusief lunch) en\\nf 16,- (inclusief lunch). Inschrijving geschiedt door het\\nverschuldigde bedrag over te maken op ABN-AMRO rekening\\n44.46.97.713 t.n.v. stichting 350 JUS. Het gironummer van de\\nABN-AMRO bank Utrecht is 2900. Bij de inschrijving dient te\\nworden aangegeven of men lid is van de NNV. Na inschrijving\\nwordt de symposiummap toegestuurd. Bij inschrijving na\\n31 maart vervalt de mogelijkheid een lunch te reserveren.\\n\\nHet symposium vindt plaats in Transitorium I,\\nUniversiteit Utrecht.\\n\\nVoor meer informatie over het symposium kan men terecht bij\\nHenrik Spoon, p/a S.R.O.N., Sorbonnelaan 2, 3584 CA Utrecht.\\nTel.: 030-535722. E-mail: henriks@sron.ruu.nl.\\n\\n\\n\\n******* DAGPROGRAMMA **************************************\\n\\n\\n 9:30 ONTVANGST MET KOFFIE & THEE\\n\\n10:00 Opening\\n Prof. dr. H.J.G.L.M. Lamers (Utrecht)\\n\\n10:10 Dubbelster evolutie\\n Prof. dr. H.J.G.L.M. Lamers\\n\\n10:25 Radiopulsars\\n Prof. dr. J.M.E. Kuijpers (Utrecht)\\n\\n11:00 Pulsars in dubbelster systemen\\n Prof. dr. F. Verbunt (Utrecht)\\n\\n11:50 Massa & straal van neutronensterren\\n Prof. dr. J. van Paradijs (Amsterdam)\\n\\n12:25 Theorie van accretieschijven\\n Drs. R.F. van Oss (Utrecht)\\n\\n13:00 LUNCH\\n\\n14:00 Hoe zien accretieschijven er werkelijk uit?\\n Dr. R.G.M. Rutten (Amsterdam)\\n\\n14:35 Snelle fluktuaties bij accretie op neutronensterren\\n en zwarte gaten\\n Dr. M. van der Klis (Amsterdam)\\n\\n15:10 THEE & KOFFIE\\n\\n15:30 Zwarte gaten: knippen en plakken met ruimte en tijd\\n Prof. dr. V. Icke (leiden)\\n\\n16:05 afsluiting\\n\\n16:25 BORREL\\n\\n-- \\nGert-Jan van Lochem\\t \\\\\\\\\\t\\t\"What is it?\"\\nFysische informatica\\t \\\\\\\\\\t\"Something blue\"\\nUniversiteit Utrecht \\\\\\\\\\t\"Shapes, I need shapes!\"\\n030-532803\\t\\t\\t\\\\\\\\\\t\\t\\t- HHGG -\\n',\n", " 'From: schumach@convex.com (Richard A. Schumacher)\\nSubject: Re: DC-X update???\\nNntp-Posting-Host: starman.convex.com\\nOrganization: CONVEX Computer Corporation, Richardson, Tx., USA\\nX-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer\\n Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and\\n not necessarily those of CONVEX.\\nLines: 32\\n\\nIn <1993Apr15.234154.23145@iti.org> aws@iti.org (Allen W. Sherzer) writes:\\n\\n>As for the future, there is at least $5M in next years budget for work\\n>on SSRT. They (SDIO) have been looking for more funds and do seem to have\\n>some. However, SDIO is not (I repeat, is not) going to fund an orbital\\n>prototype. The best we can hope from them is to 1) keep it alive for\\n>another year, and 2) fund a suborbital vehicle which MIGHT (with\\n>major modifications) just make orbit. There is also some money for a\\n>set of prototype tanks and projects to answer a few more open questions.\\n\\nWould the sub-orbital version be suitable as-is (or \"as-will-be\") for use\\nas a reuseable sounding rocket?\\n\\n\\n>Better news comes from the new Spacelifter effort. The USAF managers of\\n>this program are very open to SSTO and will have about $50M next\\n>year for studies. This would be enough to bring DC-Y to PDR.\\n\\nThank Ghod! I had thought that Spacelifter would definitely be the\\nbastard Son of NLS.\\n\\n\\n(And just as a reminder:)\\n>Now not all of this money will go to DC but a good case could be made\\n>for spending half on DC.\\n\\n>Public support is STILL critical. Meet with your Congressperson (I\\'ll\\n>help you do it) and get his/her support. Also call your local media\\n>and get them to cover the flight tests.\\n\\n\\n\\n',\n", " \"From: mhollowa@ic.sunysb.edu (Michael Holloway)\\nSubject: Re: Wanted: Rat cell line (adrenal gland/cortical c.)\\nOrganization: State University of New York at Stony Brook\\nLines: 14\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: engws5.ic.sunysb.edu\\nKeywords: adrenal_gland cortical_cell cell_line rat\\n\\nIn article roos@Operoni.Helsinki.FI (Christophe Roos) writes:\\n>I am looking for a rat cell line of adrenal gland / cortical cell -type. I \\n>have been looking at ATCC without success and would very much appreciate any \\n>help.\\n\\nI shot off a response to this last night that I've tried to cancel. It was \\nonly a few minutes later while driving home that I remembered that your \\nmessage does specifically say cortical. My first reaction had been to suggest\\nthe PC12 pheochromocytoma line. That may still be a good compromise, depending\\non what you're doing. Have you concidered using a mouse cell line from one \\nof the SV40 T antigen transgenic lines? Another alternative might be primary\\ncells from bovine adrenal cortex. \\n\\nMike\\n\",\n", " 'From: MLINDROOS@FINABO.ABO.FI (Marcus Lindroos INF)\\nSubject: Into Infinity?(WAS:Re: *Doppelganger* (was Re: Vulcan?)\\nIn-Reply-To: sysmgr@king.eng.umd.edu\\'s message of 15 Apr 1993 22:22:19 GMT\\nOrganization: Abo Akademi University, Finland\\nX-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.24\\nLines: 36\\n\\nIn <1qkn6rINNett@mojo.eng.umd.edu> sysmgr@king.eng.umd.edu writes:\\n\\n> In article <1993Apr15.170048.1@fnalf.fnal.gov>, higgins@fnalf.fnal.gov (Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey) writes:\\n> \\n> >This was known as *Journey to the Far Side of the Sun* in the United\\n> >States and as *Doppelganger* in the U.K... Later, they went\\n> >on to do more live-action SF series: *UFO* and *Space: 1999*.\\n> >\\n> >The astronomy was lousy, but the lifting-body spacecraft, VTOL\\n> >airliners, and mighty Portugese launch complex were *wonderful* to\\n> >look at.\\n\\nExactly. Some of the SPACE:1999 effects remain first-rate even today. \\n \\n> They recycled a lot of models and theme music for UFO. Some of the\\n> concepts even showed up in SPACE: 1999. \\n> \\n\\nLater on, the Andersons tried to shed their reputation as creators of some\\nof the worst pseudo-scientific shows in TV history by flying \"Into Infinity.\"\\nThis was a one-off thing done as part of BBC\\'s \"educational SF\" series \"The\\nDay After Tomorrow.\" The Anderson episode dealt with a spaceship capable of\\nreaching the speed of light (\"lightship Altares\"), the four-man crew eventually \\njourneyed into a black hole and ended up on the far side of the galaxy (I\\nthink). I saw this as a 9-year-old back in 1976 and liked it very much, but\\nthen again I was a fan of SPACE:1999 so I guess I was easily satisfied in those\\ndays:-)\\n---\\nDoes anyone know if \"Into Infinity\" has been released on video? I have some\\nSPACE:1999 shows on VHS and know that Thunderbirds etc. also are available in\\nEngland.\\n \\nMARCU$\\n> \\n> Software engineering? That\\'s like military intelligence, isn\\'t it?\\n> -- > SYSMGR@CADLAB.ENG.UMD.EDU < --\\n',\n", " 'From: rind@enterprise.bih.harvard.edu (David Rind)\\nSubject: Re: Candida Albicans: what is it?\\nOrganization: Beth Israel Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston Mass., USA\\nLines: 19\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: enterprise.bih.harvard.edu\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr19.084258.1040@ida.liu.se> davpa@ida.liu.se\\n (David Partain) writes:\\n>Someone I know has recently been diagnosed as having Candida Albicans, \\n>a disease about which I can find no information. Apparently it has something\\n>to do with the body\\'s production of yeast while at the same time being highly\\n>allergic to yeast. Can anyone out there tell me any more about it?\\n\\nCandida albicans can cause severe life-threatening infections, usually\\nin people who are otherwise quite ill. This is not, however, the sort\\nof illness that you are probably discussing.\\n\\n\"Systemic yeast syndrome\" where the body is allergic to\\nyeast is considered a quack diagnosis by mainstream medicine. There\\nis a book \"The Yeast Connection\" which talks about this \"illness\".\\n\\nThere is no convincing evidence that such a disease exists.\\n-- \\nDavid Rind\\nrind@enterprise.bih.harvard.edu\\n',\n", " 'From: adam@sw.stratus.com (Mark Adam)\\nSubject: Re: space food sticks\\nOrganization: Stratus Computer, Inc.\\nLines: 22\\nDistribution: world\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: paix.sw.stratus.com\\nKeywords: food\\n\\nIn article <1pr5u2$t0b@agate.berkeley.edu>, ghelf@violet.berkeley.edu (;;;;RD48) writes:\\n> The taste is hard to describe, although I remember it fondly. It was\\n> most certainly more \"candy\" than say a modern \"Power Bar.\" Sort of\\n> a toffee injected with vitamins. The chocolate Power Bar is a rough\\n> approximation of the taste. Strawberry sucked.\\n> \\n\\nPeanut butter was definitely my favorite. I don\\'t think I ever took a second bite\\nof the strawberry.\\n\\nI recently joined Nutri-System and their \"Chewy Fudge Bar\" is very reminicent of\\nthe chocolate Space Food. This is the only thing I can find that even comes close\\nthe taste. It takes you back... your taste-buds are happy and your\\nintestines are in knots... joy!\\n\\n-- \\n\\nmark ----------------------------\\n(adam@paix.sw.stratus.com)\\t|\\tMy opinions are not those of Stratus.\\n\\t\\t\\t\\t|\\tHell! I don`t even agree with myself!\\n\\n\\t\"Logic is a wreath of pretty flowers that smell bad.\"\\n',\n", " 'From: leech@cs.unc.edu (Jon Leech)\\nSubject: Space FAQ 14/15 - How to Become an Astronaut\\nKeywords: Frequently Asked Questions\\nArticle-I.D.: cs.astronaut_733694515\\nExpires: 6 May 1993 20:01:55 GMT\\nDistribution: world\\nOrganization: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill\\nLines: 313\\nSupersedes: \\nNNTP-Posting-Host: mahler.cs.unc.edu\\n\\nArchive-name: space/astronaut\\nLast-modified: $Date: 93/04/01 14:39:02 $\\n\\nHOW TO BECOME AN ASTRONAUT\\n\\n First the short form, authored by Henry Spencer, then an official NASA\\n announcement.\\n\\n Q. How do I become an astronaut?\\n\\n A. We will assume you mean a NASA astronaut, since it\\'s probably\\n impossible for a non-Russian to get into the cosmonaut corps (paying\\n passengers are not professional cosmonauts), and the other nations have\\n so few astronauts (and fly even fewer) that you\\'re better off hoping to\\n win a lottery. Becoming a shuttle pilot requires lots of fast-jet\\n experience, which means a military flying career; forget that unless you\\n want to do it anyway. So you want to become a shuttle \"mission\\n specialist\".\\n\\n If you aren\\'t a US citizen, become one; that is a must. After that,\\n the crucial thing to remember is that the demand for such jobs vastly\\n exceeds the supply. NASA\\'s problem is not finding qualified people,\\n but thinning the lineup down to manageable length.\\tIt is not enough\\n to be qualified; you must avoid being *dis*qualified for any reason,\\n many of them in principle quite irrelevant to the job.\\n\\n Get a Ph.D. Specialize in something that involves getting your hands\\n dirty with equipment, not just paper and pencil. Forget computer\\n programming entirely; it will be done from the ground for the fore-\\n seeable future. Degree(s) in one field plus work experience in\\n another seems to be a frequent winner.\\n\\n Be in good physical condition, with good eyesight.\\t(DO NOT get a\\n radial keratomy or similar hack to improve your vision; nobody knows\\n what sudden pressure changes would do to RKed eyes, and long-term\\n effects are poorly understood. For that matter, avoid any other\\n significant medical unknowns.) If you can pass a jet-pilot physical,\\n you should be okay; if you can\\'t, your chances are poor.\\n\\n Practise public speaking, and be conservative and conformist in\\n appearance and actions; you\\'ve got a tough selling job ahead, trying\\n to convince a cautious, conservative selection committee that you\\n are better than hundreds of other applicants. (And, also, that you\\n will be a credit to NASA after you are hired: public relations is\\n a significant part of the job, and NASA\\'s image is very prim and\\n proper.) The image you want is squeaky-clean workaholic yuppie.\\n Remember also that you will need a security clearance at some point,\\n and Security considers everybody guilty until proven innocent.\\n Keep your nose clean.\\n\\n Get a pilot\\'s license and make flying your number one hobby;\\n experienced pilots are known to be favored even for non-pilot jobs.\\n\\n Work for NASA; of 45 astronauts selected between 1984 and 1988,\\n 43 were military or NASA employees, and the remaining two were\\n a NASA consultant and Mae Jemison (the first black female astronaut).\\n If you apply from outside NASA and miss, but they offer you a job\\n at NASA, ***TAKE IT***; sometimes in the past this has meant \"you\\n do look interesting but we want to know you a bit better first\".\\n\\n Think space: they want highly motivated people, so lose no chance\\n to demonstrate motivation.\\n\\n Keep trying. Many astronauts didn\\'t make it the first time.\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n NASA\\n National Aeronautics and Space Administration\\n Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center\\n Houston, Texas\\n\\n Announcement for Mission Specialist and Pilot Astronaut Candidates\\n ==================================================================\\n\\n Astronaut Candidate Program\\n ---------------------------\\n\\n The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has a need for\\n Pilot Astronaut Candidates and Mission Specialist Astronaut Candidates\\n to support the Space Shuttle Program. NASA is now accepting on a\\n continuous basis and plans to select astronaut candidates as needed.\\n\\n Persons from both the civilian sector and the military services will be\\n considered.\\n\\n All positions are located at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in\\n Houston, Texas, and will involved a 1-year training and evaluation\\n program.\\n\\n Space Shuttle Program Description\\n ---------------------------------\\n\\n The numerous successful flights of the Space Shuttle have demonstrated\\n that operation and experimental investigations in space are becoming\\n routine. The Space Shuttle Orbiter is launched into, and maneuvers in\\n the Earth orbit performing missions lastling up to 30 days. It then\\n returns to earth and is ready for another flight with payloads and\\n flight crew.\\n\\n The Orbiter performs a variety of orbital missions including deployment\\n and retrieval of satellites, service of existing satellites, operation\\n of specialized laboratories (astronomy, earth sciences, materials\\n processing, manufacturing), and other operations. These missions will\\n eventually include the development and servicing of a permanent space\\n station. The Orbiter also provides a staging capability for using higher\\n orbits than can be achieved by the Orbiter itself. Users of the Space\\n Shuttle\\'s capabilities are both domestic and foreign and include\\n government agencies and private industries.\\n\\n The crew normally consists of five people - the commander, the pilot,\\n and three mission specialists. On occasion additional crew members are\\n assigned. The commander, pilot, and mission specialists are NASA\\n astronauts.\\n\\n Pilot Astronaut\\n\\n Pilot astronauts server as both Space Shuttle commanders and pilots.\\n During flight the commander has onboard responsibility for the vehicle,\\n crew, mission success and safety in flight. The pilot assists the\\n commander in controlling and operating the vehicle. In addition, the\\n pilot may assist in the deployment and retrieval of satellites utilizing\\n the remote manipulator system, in extra-vehicular activities, and other\\n payload operations.\\n\\n Mission Specialist Astronaut\\n\\n Mission specialist astronauts, working with the commander and pilot,\\n have overall responsibility for the coordination of Shuttle operations\\n in the areas of crew activity planning, consumables usage, and\\n experiment and payload operations. Mission specialists are required to\\n have a detailed knowledge of Shuttle systems, as well as detailed\\n knowledge of the operational characteristics, mission requirements and\\n objectives, and supporting systems and equipment for each of the\\n experiments to be conducted on their assigned missions. Mission\\n specialists will perform extra-vehicular activities, payload handling\\n using the remote manipulator system, and perform or assist in specific\\n experimental operations.\\n\\n Astronaut Candidate Program\\n ===========================\\n\\n Basic Qualification Requirements\\n --------------------------------\\n\\n Applicants MUST meet the following minimum requirements prior to\\n submitting an application.\\n\\n Mission Specialist Astronaut Candidate:\\n\\n 1. Bachelor\\'s degree from an accredited institution in engineering,\\n biological science, physical science or mathematics. Degree must be\\n followed by at least three years of related progressively responsible,\\n professional experience. An advanced degree is desirable and may be\\n substituted for part or all of the experience requirement (master\\'s\\n degree = 1 year, doctoral degree = 3 years). Quality of academic\\n preparation is important.\\n\\n 2. Ability to pass a NASA class II space physical, which is similar to a\\n civilian or military class II flight physical and includes the following\\n specific standards:\\n\\n\\t Distant visual acuity:\\n\\t 20/150 or better uncorrected,\\n\\t correctable to 20/20, each eye.\\n\\n\\t Blood pressure:\\n\\t 140/90 measured in sitting position.\\n\\n 3. Height between 58.5 and 76 inches.\\n\\n Pilot Astronaut Candidate:\\n\\n 1. Bachelor\\'s degree from an accredited institution in engineering,\\n biological science, physical science or mathematics. Degree must be\\n followed by at least three years of related progressively responsible,\\n professional experience. An advanced degree is desirable. Quality of\\n academic preparation is important.\\n\\n 2. At least 1000 hours pilot-in-command time in jet aircraft. Flight\\n test experience highly desirable.\\n\\n 3. Ability to pass a NASA Class I space physical which is similar to a\\n military or civilian Class I flight physical and includes the following\\n specific standards:\\n\\n\\t Distant visual acuity:\\n\\t 20/50 or better uncorrected\\n\\t correctable to 20/20, each eye.\\n\\n\\t Blood pressure:\\n\\t 140/90 measured in sitting position.\\n\\n 4. Height between 64 and 76 inches.\\n\\n Citizenship Requirements\\n\\n Applications for the Astronaut Candidate Program must be citizens of\\n the United States.\\n\\n Note on Academic Requirements\\n\\n Applicants for the Astronaut Candidate Program must meet the basic\\n education requirements for NASA engineering and scientific positions --\\n specifically: successful completion of standard professional curriculum\\n in an accredited college or university leading to at least a bachelor\\'s\\n degree with major study in an appropriate field of engineering,\\n biological science, physical science, or mathematics.\\n\\n The following degree fields, while related to engineering and the\\n sciences, are not considered qualifying:\\n - Degrees in technology (Engineering Technology, Aviation Technology,\\n\\tMedical Technology, etc.)\\n - Degrees in Psychology (except for Clinical Psychology, Physiological\\n\\tPsychology, or Experimental Psychology which are qualifying).\\n - Degrees in Nursing.\\n - Degrees in social sciences (Geography, Anthropology, Archaeology, etc.)\\n - Degrees in Aviation, Aviation Management or similar fields.\\n\\n Application Procedures\\n ----------------------\\n\\n Civilian\\n\\n The application package may be obtained by writing to:\\n\\n\\tNASA Johnson Space Center\\n\\tAstronaut Selection Office\\n\\tATTN: AHX\\n\\tHouston, TX 77058\\n\\n Civilian applications will be accepted on a continuous basis. When NASA\\n decides to select additional astronaut candidates, consideration will be\\n given only to those applications on hand on the date of decision is\\n made. Applications received after that date will be retained and\\n considered for the next selection. Applicants will be notified annually\\n of the opportunity to update their applications and to indicate\\n continued interest in being considered for the program. Those applicants\\n who do not update their applications annually will be dropped from\\n consideration, and their applications will not be retained. After the\\n preliminary screening of applications, additional information may be\\n requested for some applicants, and person listed on the application as\\n supervisors and references may be contacted.\\n\\n Active Duty Military\\n\\n Active duty military personnel must submit applications to their\\n respective military service and not directly to NASA. Application\\n procedures will be disseminated by each service.\\n\\n Selection\\n ---------\\n\\n Personal interviews and thorough medical evaluations will be required\\n for both civilian and military applicants under final consideration.\\n Once final selections have been made, all applicants who were considered\\n will be notified of the outcome of the process.\\n\\n Selection rosters established through this process may be used for the\\n selection of additional candidates during a one year period following\\n their establishment.\\n\\n General Program Requirements\\n\\n Selected applicants will be designated Astronaut Candidates and will be\\n assigned to the Astronaut Office at the Johnson Space Center, Houston,\\n Texas. The astronaut candidates will undergo a 1 year training and\\n evaluation period during which time they will be assigned technical or\\n scientific responsibilities allowing them to contribute substantially to\\n ongoing programs. They will also participate in the basic astronaut\\n training program which is designed to develop the knowledge and skills\\n required for formal mission training upon selection for a flight. Pilot\\n astronaut candidates will maintain proficiency in NASA aircraft during\\n their candidate period.\\n\\n Applicants should be aware that selection as an astronaut candidate does\\n not insure selection as an astronaut. Final selection as an astronaut\\n will depend on satisfactory completion of the 1 year training and\\n evaluation period. Civilian candidates who successfully complete the\\n training and evaluation and are selected as astronauts will become\\n permanent Federal employees and will be expected to remain with NASA for\\n a period of at least five years. Civilian candidates who are not\\n selected as astronauts may be placed in other positions within NASA\\n depending upon Agency requirements and manpower constraints at that\\n time. Successful military candidates will be detailed to NASA for a\\n specified tour of duty.\\n\\n NASA has an affirmative action program goal of having qualified\\n minorities and women among those qualified as astronaut candidates.\\n Therefore, qualified minorities and women are encouraged to apply.\\n\\n Pay and Benefits\\n ----------------\\n\\n Civilians\\n\\n Salaries for civilian astronaut candidates are based on the Federal\\n Governments General Schedule pay scales for grades GS-11 through GS-14,\\n and are set in accordance with each individuals academic achievements\\n and experience.\\n\\n Other benefits include vacation and sick leave, a retirement plan, and\\n participation in group health and life insurance plans.\\n\\n Military\\n\\n Selected military personnel will be detailed to the Johnson Space Center\\n but will remain in an active duty status for pay, benefits, leave, and\\n other similar military matters.\\n\\n\\nNEXT: FAQ #15/15 - Orbital and Planetary Launch Services\\n',\n", " \"From: prb@access.digex.com (Pat)\\nSubject: Re: Why DC-1 will be the way of the future.\\nOrganization: Express Access Online Communications USA\\nLines: 12\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: access.digex.net\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr22.164801.7530@julian.uwo.ca> jdnicoll@prism.ccs.uwo.ca (James Davis Nicoll) writes:\\n>\\tHmmm. I seem to recall that the attraction of solid state record-\\n>players and radios in the 1960s wasn't better performance but lower\\n>per-unit cost than vacuum-tube systems.\\n>\\n\\n\\nI don't think so at first, but solid state offered better reliabity,\\nid bet, and any lower costs would be only after the processes really scaled up.\\n\\npat\\n\\n\",\n", " \"From: david@stat.com (David Dodell)\\nSubject: HICN610 Medical Newsletter, Part 2/4\\nReply-To: david@stat.com (David Dodell)\\nDistribution: world\\nOrganization: Stat Gateway Service, WB7TPY\\nLines: 708\\n\\n\\n------------- cut here -----------------\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nHICNet Medical Newsletter Page 13\\nVolume 6, Number 10 April 20, 1993\\n\\n Gonorrhea -- Colorado, 1985-1992\\n ================================\\n SOURCE: MMWR 42(14) DATE: Apr 16, 1993\\n\\n The number of reported cases of gonorrhea in Colorado increased 19.9% \\nfrom 1991 to 1992 after declining steadily during the 1980s. In comparison, in \\nthe United States, reported cases of gonorrhea in 1992 continued an overall \\ndecreasing trend (1). This report summarizes an analysis of the increase in \\ngonorrhea in Colorado in 1992 and characterizes trends in the occurrence of \\nthis disease from 1985 through 1992. \\n In 1992, 4679 cases of gonorrhea were reported to the Colorado Department \\nof Health (CDH) compared with 3901 cases reported in 1991. During 1992, \\nreported cases increased 22.7% and 17.5% among females and males, respectively \\n(Table 1). Similar increases occurred among blacks, whites, and Hispanics \\n(15.6%, 15.1%, and 15.9%, respectively); however, the number of reported cases \\nwith race not specified increased 88% from 1991 to 1992 and constituted 9.7% \\nof all reported cases in 1992. Although the largest proportional increases by \\nage groups occurred among persons aged 35-44 years (80.4%) and greater than or \\nequal to 45 years (87.7%), these age groups accounted for only 11.0% of all \\nreported cases in 1992. Persons in the 15-19-year age group accounted for the \\nlargest number of reported cases of gonorrhea during 1992 and the highest age \\ngroup-specific rate (639 per 100,000). \\n Reported cases of gonorrhea increased 32.9% in the five-county Denver \\nmetropolitan area (1990 population: 1,629,466) but decreased elsewhere in the \\nstate (Table 1). Half the cases of gonorrhea in the Denver metropolitan area \\noccurred in 8.4% (34) of the census tracts; these represent neighborhoods \\nconsidered by sexually transmitted diseases (STDs)/acquired immunodeficiency \\nsyndrome (AIDS) field staff to be the focus of gang and drug activity. \\n When compared with 1991, the number of gonorrhea cases diagnosed among \\nmen in the Denver Metro Health Clinic (DMHC, the primary public STD clinic in \\nthe Denver metropolitan area) increased 33% in 1992, and the number of visits \\nby males to the clinic increased 2.4%. Concurrently, the number of cases \\ndiagnosed among women increased by 1%. Among self-identified heterosexual men, \\nthe number of gonorrhea cases diagnosed at DMHC increased 33% and comprised \\n94% of all cases diagnosed in males, while the number of cases diagnosed among \\nself-identified homosexual men remained low (71 and 74 in 1991 and 1992, \\nrespectively). \\n Four selected laboratories in the metropolitan Denver area (i.e., HMO, \\nuniversity hospital, nonprofit family planning, and commercial) were contacted \\nto determine whether gonorrhea culture-positivity rates increased. Gonorrhea \\nculture-positivity rates in three of four laboratories contacted increased \\n23%-33% from 1991 to 1992, while the rate was virtually unchanged in the \\nfourth (i.e., nonprofit family planning). \\n From 1985 through 1991, reported cases of gonorrhea among whites and \\nHispanics in Colorado decreased; in comparison, reported cases among blacks \\n\\nHICNet Medical Newsletter Page 14\\nVolume 6, Number 10 April 20, 1993\\n\\nincreased since 1988 (Figure 1). During 1988-1992, the population in Colorado \\nincreased 9.9% for blacks, 9.8% for Hispanics, and 4.5% for whites. In 1992, \\nthe gonorrhea rate for blacks (1935 per 100,000 persons) was 57 times that for \\nwhites (34 per 100,000) and 12 times that for Hispanics (156 per 100,000) \\n(Table 1). Among black females, reported cases of gonorrhea increased from \\n1988 through 1992 in the 15-19-year age group; among black males, cases \\nincreased from 1989 through 1992 in both the 15-19-and 20-24-year age groups. \\n\\nReported by: KA Gershman, MD, JM Finn, NE Spencer, MSPH, STD/AIDS Program; RE \\nHoffman, MD, State Epidemiologist, Colorado Dept of Health. JM Douglas, MD, \\nDenver Dept of Health and Hospitals. Surveillance and Information Systems Br, \\nDiv of Sexually Transmitted Diseases and HIV Prevention, National Center for \\nPrevention Svcs, CDC. \\n\\nEditorial Note: The increase in reported gonorrhea cases in Colorado in 1992 \\nmay represent an overall increase in the occurrence of this disease or more \\ncomplete reporting stimulated by visitations to laboratories by CDH \\nsurveillance staff during 1991-1992. The increases in confirmed gonorrhea \\ncases at DMHC and in culture-positivity rates in three of four laboratories \\nsuggest a real increase in gonorrhea rather than a reporting artifact. \\nHowever, the stable culture-positivity rate in the nonprofit family planning \\nlaboratory (which serves a network of clinics statewide) indicates that the \\ngonorrhea increase did not uniformly affect all segments of the population. \\n One possible explanation for the increased occurrence of gonorrhea in \\nColorado may be gang- and drug-related sexual behavior, as implicated in a \\nrecent outbreak of drug-resistant gonorrhea and other STDs in Colorado Springs \\n(2). Although the high morbidity census tracts in the Denver metropolitan area \\ncoincide with areas of gang and drug activity, this hypothesis requires \\nfurther assessment. To examine the possible role of drug use -- implicated \\npreviously as a factor contributing to the national increase in syphilis (3-6) \\n-- the CDH STD/AIDS program is collecting information from all persons in whom \\ngonorrhea is diagnosed regarding drug use, exchange of sex for money or drugs, \\nand gang affiliation. \\n The gonorrhea rate for blacks in Colorado substantially exceeds the \\nnational health objective for the year 2000 (1300 per 100,000) (objective \\n19.1a) (7). Race is likely a risk marker rather than a risk factor for \\ngonorrhea and other STDs. Risk markers may be useful for identifying groups at \\ngreatest risk for STDs and for targeting prevention efforts. Moreover, race-\\nspecific variation in STD rates may reflect differences in factors such as \\nsocioeconomic status, access to medical care, and high-risk behaviors. \\n In response to the increased occurrence of gonorrhea in Colorado, \\ninterventions initiated by the CDH STD/AIDS program include 1) targeting \\npartner notification in the Denver metropolitan area to persons in groups at \\nincreased risk (e.g., 15-19-year-old black females and 20-24-year-old black \\nmales); 2) implementing a media campaign (e.g., public service radio \\n\\nHICNet Medical Newsletter Page 15\\nVolume 6, Number 10 April 20, 1993\\n\\nannouncements, signs on city buses, newspaper advertisements, and posters in \\nschools and clinics) to promote awareness of STD risk and prevention targeted \\nprimarily at high-risk groups, and 3) developing teams of peer educators to \\nperform educational outreach in high-risk neighborhoods. The educational \\ninterventions are being developed and implemented with the assistance of \\nmembers of the target groups and with input from a forum of community leaders \\nand health-care providers. \\n\\nReferences\\n\\n1. CDC. Table II. Cases of selected notifiable diseases, United States, weeks \\nending December 26, 1992, and December 28, 1991 (52nd week). MMWR 1993;41:975. \\n\\n2. CDC. Gang-related outbreak of penicillinase-producing Neisseria gonorrhoeae \\nand other sexually transmitted diseases -- Colorado Springs, Colorado, 1989-\\n1991. MMWR 1993;42:25-8. \\n\\n3. CDC. Relationship of syphilis to drug use and prostitution -- Connecticut \\nand Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. MMWR 1988;37:755-8, 764. \\n\\n4. Rolfs RT, Goldberg M, Sharrar RG. Risk factors for syphilis: cocaine use \\nand prostitution. Am J Public Health 1990;80:853-7. \\n\\n5. Andrus JK, Fleming DW, Harger DR, et al. Partner notification: can it \\ncontrol epidemic syphilis? Ann Intern Med 1990;112:539-43. \\n\\n6. Gershman KA, Rolfs RT. Diverging gonorrhea and syphilis trends in the \\n1980s: are they real? Am J Public Health 1991;81:1263-7. \\n\\n7. Public Health Service. Healthy people 2000: national health promotion and \\ndisease prevention objectives--full report, with commentary. Washington, DC: \\nUS Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, 1991; DHHS \\npublication no. (PHS)91-50212. \\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nHICNet Medical Newsletter Page 16\\nVolume 6, Number 10 April 20, 1993\\n\\n Effectiveness in Disease and Injury Prevention\\n Impact of Adult Safety-Belt Use on Restraint Use Among\\n Children less than 11 Years of Age -- Selected States,\\n 1988 and 1989\\n ======================================================\\n SOURCE: MMWR 42(14) DATE: Apr 16, 1993\\n\\n Motor-vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death among children and \\nyoung adults in the United States and account for more than 1 million years of \\npotential life lost before age 65 annually (1). Child safety seats and safety \\nbelts can substantially reduce this loss (2). From 1977 through 1985, all 50 \\nstates passed legislation requiring the use of child safety seats or safety \\nbelts for children. Although these laws reduce injuries to young children by \\nan estimated 8%-59% (3,4), motor-vehicle crash-related injuries remain a major \\ncause of disability and death among U.S. children (1), while the use of \\noccupant restraints among children decreases inversely with age (84% usage for \\nthose aged 0-4 years; 57%, aged 5-11 years; and 29%, aged 12-18 years) (5). In \\naddition, parents who do not use safety belts themselves are less likely to \\nuse restraints for their children (6). To characterize the association between \\nadult safety-belt use and adult-reported consistent use of occupant restraints \\nfor the youngest child aged less than 11 years within a household, CDC \\nanalyzed data obtained from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System \\n(BRFSS) during 1988 and 1989. This report summarizes the findings from this \\nstudy. \\n Data were available for 20,905 respondents aged greater than or equal to \\n18 years in 11 states * that participated in BRFSS -- a population-based, \\nrandom-digit-dialed telephone survey -- and administered a standard Injury \\nControl and Child Safety Module developed by CDC. Of these respondents, 5499 \\n(26%) had a child aged less than 11 years in their household. Each respondent \\nwas asked to specify the child's age and the frequency of restraint use for \\nthat child. The two categories of child restraint and adult safety-belt use in \\nthis analysis were 1) consistent use (i.e., always buckle up) and 2) less than \\nconsistent use (i.e., almost always, sometimes, rarely, or never buckle up). \\nData were weighted to provide estimates representative of each state. Software \\nfor Survey Data Analysis (SUDAAN) (7) was used to calculate point estimates \\nand confidence intervals. Statistically significant differences were defined \\nby p values of less than 0.05. \\n Each of the 11 states had some type of child restraint law. Of these, six \\n(Arizona, Kentucky, Maine, Nebraska, Rhode Island, and West Virginia) had no \\nlaw requiring adults to use safety belts; four (Idaho, Maryland, Pennsylvania, \\nand Washington) had a secondary enforcement mandatory safety-belt law (i.e., a \\nvehicle had to be stopped for a traffic violation before a citation for nonuse \\nof safety belts could be issued); and one state (New York) had a primary \\nenforcement mandatory safety-belt law (i.e., vehicles could be stopped for a \\nsafety-belt law violation alone). In nine states, child-passenger protection \\n\\nHICNet Medical Newsletter Page 17\\nVolume 6, Number 10 April 20, 1993\\n\\nlaws included all children aged less than 5 years, but the other two states \\nused both age and size of the child as criteria for mandatory restraint use. \\nThe analysis in this report subgrouped states into 1) those having a law \\nrequiring adult safety-belt use (law states), and 2) those without such a law \\n(no-law states). \\n Overall, 21% of children aged less than 11 years reportedly were not \\nconsistently restrained during automobile travel. Both child restraint use and \\nadult restraint use were significantly higher (p less than 0.05, chi-square \\ntest) in law states than in no-law states (81.1% versus 74.3% and 58.7% versus \\n43.2%, respectively). \\n High rates of restraint use for children aged less than or equal to 1 \\nyear were reported by both adults indicating consistent and less than \\nconsistent safety-belt use (Figure 1). Adults with consistent use reported \\nhigh rates of child-occupant restraint use regardless of the child's age \\n(range: 95.5% for 1-year-olds to 84.7% for 10-year-olds). In comparison, for \\nadults reporting less than consistent safety-belt use, the rate of child-\\noccupant restraint use declined sharply by the age of the child (range: 93.1% \\nfor 1-year-olds to 28.8% for 10-year-olds). When comparing children of \\nconsistent adult safety-belt users with children of less than consistent adult \\nsafety-belt users, 95% confidence intervals overlap for the two youngest age \\ngroups (i.e., aged less than 1 and 1 year). \\n Reported child-occupant restraint use in law states generally exceeded \\nthat in no-law states, regardless of age of child (Table 1). In addition, \\nhigher adult educational attainment was significantly associated with \\nincreased restraint use for children, a factor that has also been associated \\nwith increased adult safety-belt use (8). \\n\\nReported by: National Center for Injury Prevention and Control; National \\nCenter for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, CDC. \\n\\nEditorial Note: The findings in this report are consistent with others \\nindicating that adults who do not use safety belts themselves are less likely \\nto employ occupant restraints for their children (6,9). Because these \\nnonbelted adults are at increased risk of crashing and more likely to exhibit \\nother risk-taking behaviors, children traveling with them may be at greater \\nrisk for motor-vehicle injury (10). \\n Educational attainment of adult respondents was inversely associated with \\nchild restraint use in this report. Accordingly, occupant-protection programs \\nshould be promoted among parents with low educational attainment. Because low \\neducational attainment is often associated with low socioeconomic status, such \\nprograms should be offered to adults through health-care facilities that serve \\nlow-income communities or through federal programs (i.e., Head Start) that are \\ndirected at parents with young children. \\n Injury-prevention programs emphasize restraining young children. In \\naddition, however, efforts must be intensified to protect child occupants as \\n\\nHICNet Medical Newsletter Page 18\\nVolume 6, Number 10 April 20, 1993\\n\\nthey become older. Parents, especially those with low educational attainment, \\nthose who do not consistently wear safety belts, and those from states that do \\nnot have mandatory safety-belt use laws, should be encouraged to wear safety \\nbelts and to protect their children by using approved child safety seats and \\nsafety belts. Finally, the increased use of restraints among children may \\nincrease their likelihood of using safety belts when they become teenagers -- \\nthe age group characterized by the lowest rate of safety-belt use and the \\nhighest rate of fatal crashes (5). \\n\\nReferences\\n\\n1. CDC. Childhood injuries in the United States. Am J Dis Child 1990;144:627-\\n46. \\n\\n2. Partyka SC. Papers on child restraints: effectiveness and use. Washington, \\nDC: US Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety \\nAdministration, 1988; report no. DOT-HS-807-286. \\n\\n3. Guerin D, MacKinnon D. An assessment of the California child passenger \\nrestraint requirement. Am J Public Health 1985;75:142-4. \\n\\n4. Hall W, Orr B, Suttles D, et al. Progress report on increasing child \\nrestraint usage through local education and distribution programs. Chapel \\nHill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Highway \\nSafety Research Center, 1983. \\n\\n5. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Occupant protection trends \\nin 19 cities. Washington, DC: US Department of Transportation, National \\nHighway Traffic Safety Administration, 1991. \\n\\n6. Wagenaar AC, Molnar LJ, Margolis LH. Characteristics of child safety seat \\nusers. Accid Anal Prev 1988;20:311-22. \\n\\n7. Shah BV, Barnwell BG, Hunt PN, LaVange LM. Software for Survey Data \\nAnalysis (SUDAAN) version 5.50 Software documentation. Research Triangle \\nPark, North Carolina: Research Triangle Institute, 1991. \\n\\n8. Lund AK. Voluntary seat belt use among U.S. drivers: geographic, \\nsocioeconomic and demographic variation. Accid Anal Prev 1986;18:43-50. \\n\\n9. Margolis LH, Wagenaar AC, Molnar LJ. Use and misuse of automobile child \\nrestraint devices. Am J Dis Child 1992;146:361-6. \\n\\n10. Hunter WW, Stutts JC, Stewart JR, Rodgman EA. Characteristics of seatbelt \\nusers and non-users in a state with a mandatory use law. Health Education \\n\\nHICNet Medical Newsletter Page 19\\nVolume 6, Number 10 April 20, 1993\\n\\nResearch 1990;5:161-73. \\n\\n* Arizona, Idaho, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Nebraska, New York, Pennsylvania, \\nRhode Island, Washington, and West Virginia. \\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nHICNet Medical Newsletter Page 20\\nVolume 6, Number 10 April 20, 1993\\n\\n Publication of CDC Surveillance Summaries\\n =========================================\\n SOURCE: MMWR 42(14) DATE: Apr 16, 1993\\n\\n Since 1983, CDC has published the CDC Surveillance Summaries under \\nseparate cover as part of the MMWR series. Each report published in the CDC \\nSurveillance Summaries focuses on public health surveillance; surveillance \\nfindings are reported for a broad range of risk factors and health conditions. \\n Summaries for each of the reports published in the most recent (March 19, \\n1993) issue of the CDC Surveillance Summaries (1) are provided below. All \\nsubscribers to MMWR receive the CDC Surveillance Summaries, as well as the \\nMMWR Recommendations and Reports, as part of their subscriptions.\\n\\n SURVEILLANCE FOR AND COMPARISON OF BIRTH DEFECT PREVALENCES\\n IN TWO GEOGRAPHIC \\n AREAS -- UNITED STATES, 1983-88 \\n\\n Problem/Condition: CDC and some states have developed surveillance \\nsystems to monitor the birth prevalence of major defects. \\n Reporting Period Covered: This report covers birth defects surveillance \\nin metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia, and selected jurisdictions in California for \\nthe years 1983-1988. \\n Description of System: The California Birth Defects Monitoring Program \\nand the Metropolitan Atlanta Congenital Defects Program are two population-\\nbased surveillance systems that employ similar data collection methods. The \\nprevalence estimates for 44 diagnostic categories were based on data for 1983-\\n1988 for 639,837 births in California and 152,970 births in metropolitan \\nAtlanta. The prevalences in the two areas were compared, adjusting for race, \\nsex, and maternal age by using Poisson regression. \\n Results: Regional differences in the prevalence of aortic stenosis, fetal \\nalcohol syndrome, hip dislocation/dysplasia, microcephalus, obstruction of the \\nkidney/ureter, and scoliosis/lordosis may be attributable to general \\ndiagnostic variability. However, differences in the prevalences of arm/hand \\nlimb reduction, encephalocele, spina bifida, or trisomy 21 (Down syndrome) are \\nprobably not attributable to differences in ascertainment, because these \\ndefects are relatively easy to diagnose. \\n Interpretation: Regional differences in prenatal diagnosis and pregnancy \\ntermination may affect prevalences of trisomy 21 and spina bifida. However, \\nthe reason for differences in arm/hand reduction is unknown, but may be \\nrelated to variability in environmental exposure, heterogeneity in the gene \\npool, or random variation. \\n Actions Taken: Because of the similarities of these data bases, several \\ncollaborative studies are being implemented. In particular, the differences in \\nthe birth prevalence of spina bifida and Down syndrome will focus attention on \\nthe impact of prenatal diagnosis. Authors: Jane Schulman, Ph.D., Nancy \\n\\nHICNet Medical Newsletter Page 21\\nVolume 6, Number 10 April 20, 1993\\n\\nJensvold, M.P.H, Gary M. Shaw, Dr.P.H., California Birth Defects Monitoring \\nProgram, March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation. Larry D. Edmonds, M.S.P.H., \\nAnne B. McClearn, Division of Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, \\nNational Center for Environmental Health, CDC. \\n\\n INFLUENZA -- UNITED STATES, 1988-89\\n\\n Problem/Condition: CDC monitors the emergence and spread of new influenza \\nvirus variants and the impact of influenza on morbidity and mortality annually \\nfrom October through May. \\n Reporting Period Covered: This report covers U.S. influenza surveillance \\nconducted from October 1988 through May 1989. \\n Description of System: Weekly reports from the vital statistics offices \\nof 121 cities provided an index of influenza's impact on mortality; 58 WHO \\ncollaborating laboratories reported weekly identification of influenza \\nviruses; weekly morbidity reports were received both from the state and \\nterritorial epidemiologists and from 153 sentinel family practice physicians. \\nNonsystematic reports of outbreaks and unusual illnesses were received \\nthroughout the year. \\n Results: During the 1988-89 influenza season, influenza A(H1N1) and B \\nviruses were identified in the United States with essentially equal frequency \\noverall, although both regional and temporal patterns of predominance shifted \\nover the course of the season. Throughout the season increases in the indices \\nof influenza morbidity in regions where influenza A(H1N1) predominated were \\nsimilar to increases in regions where influenza B predominated. Only 7% of \\nidentified viruses were influenza A(H3N2), but isolations of this subtype \\nincreased as the season waned, and it subsequently predominated during the \\n1989-90 season. During the 1988-89 season outbreaks in nursing homes were \\nreported in association with influenza B and A(H3N2) but not influenza \\nA(H1N1). \\n Interpretation: The alternating temporal and geographic predominance of \\ninfluenza strains A(H1N1) and B during the 1988-89 season emphasizes the \\nimportance of continual attention to regional viral strain surveillance, since \\namantadine is effective only for treatment and prophylaxis of influenza A. \\n Actions Taken: Weekly interim analyses of surveillance data produced \\nthroughout the season allow physicians and public health officials to make \\ninformed choices regarding appropriate use of amantadine. CDC's annual \\nsurveillance allows the observed viral variants to be assessed as candidates \\nfor inclusion as components in vaccines used in subsequent influenza seasons. \\nAuthors: Louisa E. Chapman, M.D., M.S.P.H., Epidemiology Activity, Office of \\nthe Director, Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, National Center for \\nInfectious Diseases; Margaret A. Tipple, M.D., Division of Quarantine, \\nNational Center for Prevention Services, CDC. Suzanne Gaventa Folger, M.P.H., \\nHealth Investigations Branch, Division of Health Studies, Agency for Toxic \\nSubstances and Disease Registry. Maurice Harmon, Ph.D., Connaught \\n\\nHICNet Medical Newsletter Page 22\\nVolume 6, Number 10 April 20, 1993\\n\\nLaboratories, Pasteur-Mirieux Company, Swiftwater, Pennsylvania. Alan P. \\nKendal, Ph.D., European Regional Office, World Health Organization, \\nCopenhagen, Denmark. Nancy J. Cox, Ph.D., Influenza Branch, Division of Viral \\nand Rickettsial Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases; Lawrence B. \\nSchonberger, M.D., M.P.H., Epidemiology Activity, Office of the Director, \\nDivision of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, National Center for Infectious \\nDiseases, CDC. \\n\\nReference\\n\\n1. CDC. CDC surveillance summaries (March 19). MMWR 1993;42(no. SS-1).\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nHICNet Medical Newsletter Page 23\\nVolume 6, Number 10 April 20, 1993\\n\\n\\n\\n::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::\\n Clinical Research News\\n::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::\\n\\n Clinical Research News for\\n Arizona Physicians\\n\\n Vol. 4, No. 4, April 1993 Tucson, Arizona\\n\\nPublished monthly by the Office of Public Affairs at The University of Arizona\\n Health Sciences Center. \\n Copyright 1993, The University of Arizona\\n\\n High Tech Assisted Reproductive Technologies\\n\\nFollowing the birth of the first in vitro fertilization-embryo transfer (IVF-\\nET) baby in 1978, a host of assisted reproductive technologies have been \\ndeveloped that include IVF-ET, gamete intrafallopian tube transfer (GIFT), \\nembryo cryopreservation (freezing) and gamete micromanipulation. Together, \\nthese technologies are referred to as the high-tech assisted reproductive \\ntechnology (ART) procedures. \\n\\nOvulation induction, sperm insemination and surgery for tubal disease and/or \\npathology still are the mainstays of the therapies available for infertility \\nmanagement. However, when these fail, it almost always is appropriate to \\nproceed with one of the ART procedures. \\n\\nTherefore, in addition to a comprehensive basic and general infertility \\nservice at The University of Arizona Center for Reproductive Endocrinology and \\nInfertility, there is a program of Assisted Reproduction that specializes in \\nART procedures. This program serves as a tertiary provider for those patients \\nin the state of Arizona whose infertility problems cannot be resolved by the \\ntraditional therapies. \\n\\nThe following article (on back) describes the ART procedures available in our \\nCenter, clarifies appropriate applications for each, and considers the \\nrealistic expectations for their success. Procedures included are: \\n\\no in vitro \\no fertilization - embryo transfer (IVF-ET), gamete intrafallopian tube \\n transfer \\no (GIFT), cryopreservation of human embryos and gamete micromanipulation. \\nThis article also considers ongoing research in our program that is directed \\ntowards improved success of these technologies. \\n\\n\\nHICNet Medical Newsletter Page 24\\nVolume 6, Number 10 April 20, 1993\\n\\n Future Areas of Research\\n\\nIn addition to ongoing research that is directed exclusively toward the \\nmanagement of infertile couples, we are developing the technology to assist \\ncouples who are at risk for producing embryos with a serious hereditary \\ndisease. \\n\\nThis technology involves biopsying the preimplantation human embryo and then \\nsubjecting the biopsied cells to genetic analysis using either DNA \\namplification or fluorescent in situ hybridization. \\n\\nThere are recent reports of the successful application of DNA amplification by \\nother centers, for example, for diagnosis of the genes for cystic fibrosis and \\nhemophilia. We hope to apply and further focus fluorescent in situ \\nhybridization technology for probing the X chromosome, the identification of \\nwhich will provide a scientific basis for counselling patients who exhibit \\nsex-linked disorders. \\n\\nThe considerable clinical application of such technology lies in the fact that \\nit circumvents the need for prenatal diagnosis, in addition to the possibility \\nof a subsequent termination of affected fetuses, in order to avoid the birth \\nof affected children. \\n\\n\\nCatherine Racowsky, Ph.D.\\nAssociate Professor and Director of Research\\nDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology\\nCollege of Medicine \\nUniversity of Arizona\\nTucson, Arizona\\n\\n Applications, Success Rates and Advances for the\\n Management of Infertility\\n\\nThe following are the ART procedures available at The University of Arizona \\nCenter for Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility. \\n\\n In Vitro Fertilization - Embryo Transfer is the core ART procedure of our \\nAssisted Reproduction Program. This procedure involves retrieval of \\nunfertilized eggs from the ovary, their insemination in vitro in a dish, and \\nthe culture of resultant embryos for 1 or 2 days, before they are transferred \\nto the patient's uterus. All cultures are maintained in an incubator under \\nstrictly controlled atmospheric and temperature conditions. Before being \\nprocessed for use in insemination, semen samples are evaluated in our \\nandrology laboratory using both subjective light microscopy and computer-\\n\\nHICNet Medical Newsletter Page 25\\nVolume 6, Number 10 April 20, 1993\\n\\nassisted semen analyses. To ensure an adequate number of eggs with which to \\nperform IVF-ET, or indeed, GIFT, follicular development is typically \\nstimulated, with gonadotropins (perganol, metrodin), gonadotropin releasing \\nhormone (GnRH, Factrel, lutrepulse) and/or GnRH analogues (lupron, Depo \\nlupron, synarel). Occasionally, however, IVF-ET is accomplished with eggs \\nobtained in non-stimulated cycles. While some programs utilize laparoscopic \\negg retrieval in the operating room with the patient under general anesthesia, \\nwe undertake the less costly approach of ultrasound-guided retrieval in our \\nInfertility Unit, with the patient sedated. \\n Couples who resort to IVF-ET exhibit such pathologies as tubal \\ndeficiencies, ovulatory dysfunction, endometriosis, and/or mild forms of male \\nfactor infertility. According to the United States IVF Registry, the overall \\nsuccess rate for IVF-ET nationwide has stabilized at about 14 percent per \\ncycle. Results from our program, involving 86 patients who have undergone 173 \\nIVF-ET cycles, reflect a comparable success rate. \\n Nevertheless, the overall incidence of success with this procedure is \\ndisconcertingly low and emphasizes the need to address those physiological \\nfactors that limit achievement of a higher percentage of pregnancies. Well \\nrecognized predictors of outcome include patient age, response to exogenous \\novarian stimulation, quality of sperm and number of repeated IVF-ET cycle \\nattempts. However, among these, age is the single most significant determinant \\nof conception. Therefore, it is critical that such patients are referred to an \\nAssisted Reproduction Program at the earliest opportunity following failure of \\ntraditional therapies. \\n The underlying basis for the negative effect of age on fertility has not \\nbeen clearly delineated beyond recognition that: 1) the number of eggs \\navailable for retrieval declines markedly with age; 2) fertilization rates \\nsignificantly decrease in eggs retrieved from patients who are over 40 years; \\nand 3) provided the appropriate hormonal background is present, age is \\nunrelated to uterine competency to sustain pregnancy. Ongoing research in our \\nCenter, therefore, is investigating physiological changes in the egg that may \\nbe impacted by age. We have determined that more than 50 percent of eggs that \\nfail to fertilize in vitro are chromosomally abnormal, and that a significant \\nproportion of these abnormalities are accountable to patient age. Currently, \\nthe only recourse for such patients is to use eggs obtained from a donor. Our \\nprogram has initiated recruitment of volunteer egg donors to satisfy the needs \\nof a list of recipients interested in this form of therapy. \\n\\n GIFT - This high-tech ART procedure is performed in the operating room, \\nusually with the use of a laparoscope and, in contrast to IVF-ET, involves \\nintroducing sperm and freshly retrieved eggs into the lumen of the Fallopian \\ntube (an average of 3 eggs/tube). Under these circumstances, fertilization \\noccurs in vivo and, if excess eggs are retrieved, the remainder undergo IVF, \\nwith subsequent options for embryo transfer in that cycle, or freezing for \\ntransfer in a subsequent cycle. This ART procedure is applied to cases in \\n\\nHICNet Medical Newsletter Page 26\\nVolume 6, Number 10 April 20, 1993\\n\\nwhich there is at least one patent Fallopian tube but the couple has such \\npathologies as ovulatory dysfunction, endometriosis, male factor infertility \\nand/or idiopathic infertility. \\n The data reported in the United States IVF Registry for 1985 through 1990 \\nindicate that the overall success rate with GIFT is higher than that obtained \\nwith the IVF-ET technique (range of clinical pregnancies for GIFT is 24 to 36 \\npercent and for IVF-ET 14 to 18 percent). In view of this fact, one might \\nexpect more patients to be treated with GIFT than IVF-ET. However, in our \\nprogram we have taken into account three basic concerns which, while \\nsubstantially reducing the number of GIFT cycles performed, benefit the \\npatient. These concerns are: 1) the increased costs associated with performing \\na procedure in the operating room; 2) the risks, albeit minimal, of undergoing \\ngeneral anesthesia; and 3) the considerable benefits to be accrued from \\nobtaining direct information on the quality and fertilizability of the eggs, \\nand the developmental competency of resultant embryos. \\n The increased success with GIFT undoubtedly reflects the artificial \\nenvironment provided by the laboratory in the IVF-ET procedure. Between \\nJanuary 1, 1991, and December 31, 1992, we have performed a total of 12 GIFT \\ncycles, with an overall success rate of 20 percent. \\n Embryo cryopreservation, or freezing, is applied in our program when \\nembryos result from residual GIFT eggs or from non-transferred IVF embryos. \\nThis procedure not only provides patients with a subsequent opportunity for \\nsuccess at much reduced costs, but also circumvents the legal and ethical \\nissues relating to disposal of supernumerary embryos. Therefore, as stipulated \\nby the American Fertility Society ethical guidelines for ART programs, from \\nboth a practical and an ethical standpoint, all Assisted Reproduction programs \\nshould have the capability of cryopreserving human embrys. \\n Gamete Micromanipulation - This ART procedure, which is still very new, \\nis applied to couples who are unaccepting of insemination with donor semen but \\nwho have severe male factor infertility (less than 10 million sperm/ml in \\ncombination with fewer than 20 perccent motile sperm, and/or less than 10 \\npercent sperm with normal morphology). We are currently developing the \\nprocedure of sub-zonal insertion (SZI), which entails injecting sperm under \\nthe coating around the egg, the barrier normally penetrated by the sperm \\nthrough enzymatic digestion. \\n Available data from SZI programs world-wide indicate that only 5 to 10 \\npercent of SZI cycles result in a pregnancy. This statistic undoubtedly \\nrelates to limitations imposed by abnormalities inherent in the sperm. \\nTherefore, we are currently focusing on the development of improved techniques \\nfor the recognition and selection of sperm chosen for manipulation. Such \\nefforts are unquestionably worthwhile in view of the fact that this technology \\noffers the only realistic opportunity for severe male factor patients to \\nestablish conception. \\n\\nCatherine Racowsky, Ph.D.\\n\\nHICNet Medical Newsletter Page 27\\nVolume 6, Number 10 April 20, 1993\\n\\nAssociate Professor and Director of Research\\nDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynecology\\nCollege of Medicine \\n--------- end of part 2 ------------\\n\\n---\\n Internet: david@stat.com FAX: +1 (602) 451-1165\\n Bitnet: ATW1H@ASUACAD FidoNet=> 1:114/15\\n Amateur Packet ax25: wb7tpy@wb7tpy.az.usa.na\\n\",\n", " \"From: C.O.EGALON@LARC.NASA.GOV (CLAUDIO OLIVEIRA EGALON)\\nSubject: Re: pushing the envelope\\nArticle-I.D.: rave.1psogpINNksq\\nReply-To: C.O.EGALON@LARC.NASA.GOV (CLAUDIO OLIVEIRA EGALON)\\nDistribution: world\\nOrganization: NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA USA\\nLines: 11\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: tahiti.larc.nasa.gov\\n\\n\\n> flight tests are generally carefully coreographed and just what \\n> is going to be 'pushed' and how\\n> far is precisely planned (despite occasional deviations from plans,\\n> such as the 'early' first flight of the F-16 during its high-speed\\n> taxi tests).\\n\\n.. and Chuck Yeager earlier flights with the X-1...\\n\\n\\n C.O.EGALON@LARC.NASA.GOV\\n\",\n", " \"From: C.H.A.Wong@bradford.ac.uk (CHA WONG)\\nSubject: How can you see the launch of the Space Shuttle ?\\nOrganization: University of Bradford, UK\\nLines: 28\\nX-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL9]\\n\\n\\nSorry for asking a question that's not entirely based on the\\ntechnical aspects of space, but I couldn't find the\\nanswer on the FAQs !\\n\\nI'm currently in the UK, which makes seeing a Space Shuttle\\nlaunch a little difficult.....\\n\\nHowever, I have been selected to be an exchange student\\nat Louisiana State Uni. from August, and I am absolutely\\ndetermined to get to see a Space Shuttle launch sometime\\nduring the year at which I will be in America.\\n\\nI hear there's a bit of a long mailing list, so if someone\\ncan tell me how to get tickets and where to get them from, then\\nplease E-mail me !\\n\\nThanks very much for your patience....\\n\\n(And if anyone else wants to know, tell me and I'll summarize\\nfor you - just to save all those poor people who have to\\npay for their links !)\\n-- \\n=============================== April is the cruellest month\\nAndrew Wong \\\\ Mixing memory and desire\\n-----x----- \\\\\\nE-mail:C.H.A.Wong@bradford.ac.uk \\\\ T.S.Eliot - The Wasteland 1918\\n\",\n", " 'From: turpin@cs.utexas.edu (Russell Turpin)\\nSubject: Re: Eumemics (was: Eugenics)\\nOrganization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin\\nLines: 17\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: saltillo.cs.utexas.edu\\nSummary: Lousy idea.\\n\\n-*----\\nCross-posted and with followups directed to talk.politics.theory.\\n\\n-*----\\nIn article <79700@cup.portal.com> mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson) writes:\\n> Indeed, we are today a nation at risk! The threat is not from bad genes,\\n> but bad memes! Memes are the basic units of culture, as opposed to genes\\n> which are the units of genetics.\\n>\\n> We must expand the public-health laws to include quarantine of people\\n> with harmful memes. ...\\n\\nIn other words, we should jail people who say the wrong \\nthings. In this advocacy, we can see a truly ugly meme.\\nDoes Mark Robert Thorson advocate jailing himself?\\n\\nRussell\\n',\n", " 'From: djf@cck.coventry.ac.uk (Marvin Batty)\\nSubject: Re: What counntries do space surveillance?\\nNntp-Posting-Host: cc_sysk\\nOrganization: Starfleet, Coventry, UK\\nLines: 35\\n\\nThe European Space Agency has involvement with remote earth \\nobservation, and I presume this includes surveillance (optical etc.).\\nSo it\\'s not just the US/USSR(ex) who are in the game.\\n\\nBut what *is* the game? What can be done with space observation?\\nThe military functions of missile spotting, troop spotting etc. are well\\ndocumented, but what about anything else?\\n\\nThe biggest eg I can think of is to get a metal sensing sat over a\\npaying country and scan their territory for precious metals.\\n\\nMore importantly, if radar can spot water vapour (clouds), presumably\\na radar based sat will be capable of spotting rivers,open water and \\n*underground water* from space. This would be a positive life saver\\nfor African or other drought affected countries. Implementing a\\nclean water and irrigation program would be of imense benifit to such\\ncountries and should cut down mortalities considerably.\\n\\nSo how about it? Is there a charity or government agency that would\\npay for a third world country to have their minerals and water deposits\\nmapped?\\n\\nOr is this still sci-fi?\\n\\nMail replies would be great.\\n\\nThought for the day: Thermal energy needs water to make steam so sstick\\nit in the ocean!\\n\\n\\n-- \\n**************************************************************************** \\n Marvin Batty - djf@uk.ac.cov.cck\\n\"And they shall not find those things, with a sort of rafia like base,\\nthat their fathers put there just the night before. At about 8 O\\'clock!\"\\n',\n", " 'From: ron.roth@rose.com (ron roth)\\nSubject: Selective Placebo\\nX-Gated-By: Usenet <==> RoseMail Gateway (v1.70)\\nOrganization: Rose Media Inc, Toronto, Ontario.\\nLines: 34\\n\\n From: romdas@uclink.berkeley.edu (Ella I Baff) writes:\\n\\nJB> RR> \"I don\\'t doubt that the placebo effect is alive and well with\\nJB> RR> EVERY medical modality - estimated by some to be around 20+%,\\nJB> RR> but why would it be higher with alternative versus conventional\\nJB> RR> medicine?\"\\nJB> \\nJB> Because most the the time, closer to 90% in my experience, there is no\\nJB> substance to the \\'alternative\\' intervention beyond the good intentions of the\\nJB> practitioner, which in itself is quite therapeutic. [.......]\\nJB>\\nJB> John Badanes, DC, CA\\nJB> romdas@uclink.berkeley.edu\\n\\n Well, if that\\'s the case in YOUR practice, I have a hard time \\n figuring out how you even managed to make it into the bottom half\\n of your class, or did you create your diplomas with crayons?\\n \\n If someone runs a medical practice with only a 10% success rate,\\n they either tackle problems for which they are not qualified to\\n treat, or they have no conscience and are only in business for\\n fraudulent purposes.\\n\\n OTOH, who are we kidding, the New England Medical Journal in 1984\\n ran the heading: \"Ninety Percent of Diseases are not Treatable by\\n Drugs or Surgery,\" which has been echoed by several other reports.\\n No wonder MDs are not amused with alternative medicine, since\\n the 20% magic of the \"placebo effect\" would award alternative \\n practitioners twice the success rate of conventional medicine...\\n\\n --Ron--\\n---\\n RoseReader 2.00 P003228: Purranoia: the fear your cat is up to something\\n RoseMail 2.10 : Usenet: Rose Media - Hamilton (416) 575-5363\\n',\n", " \"From: ron.roth@rose.com (ron roth)\\nSubject: HYPOGLYCEMIA\\nX-Gated-By: Usenet <==> RoseMail Gateway (v1.70)\\nOrganization: Rose Media Inc, Toronto, Ontario.\\nLines: 31\\n\\n anello@adcs00.fnal.gov (Anthony Anello) writes:\\n\\nA(> Can anyone tell me if a bloodcount of 40 when diagnosed as hypoglycemic is\\nA(> dangerous, i.e. indicates a possible pancreatic problem? One Dr. says no, the\\nA(> other (not his specialty) says the first is negligent and that another blood\\nA(> test should be done. Also, what is a good diet (what has worked) for a hypo-\\nA(> glycemic? TIA.\\nA(> \\nA(> \\nA(> Anthony Anello\\nA(> Fermilab\\nA(> Batavia, Illinois\\n\\n Once you have your hypoglycemia CONFIRMED through the proper \\n channels, you might consider ther following:\\n\\n 1) Chelated Manganese 25-50mg/day.\\n 2) Chelated Chromium 400-600mcg/day.\\n 3) Increase protein through foods or supplements.\\n 4) Avoid supplements/foods high in Potassium, Calcium, Zinc.\\n 5) Avoid Vit C supplements in excess of 100mg.\\n 6) Avoid honey and foods high in simple sugars.\\n 7) Enjoy breads, cereals, grains...\\n\\n Discuss the above with your health practitioner for compatibility\\n with your body chemistry and safety.\\n\\n --Ron--\\n---\\n RoseReader 2.00 P003228: BEER - It's not just for breakfast anymore.\\n RoseMail 2.10 : Usenet: Rose Media - Hamilton (416) 575-5363\\n\",\n", " \"From: king@reasoning.com (Dick King)\\nSubject: Re: Can't wear contacts after RK/PRK?\\nKeywords: radial,keratotomy,contact,lenses\\nArticle-I.D.: kestrel.1993Apr16.172052.27843\\nOrganization: Reasoning Systems, Inc., Palo Alto, CA\\nLines: 22\\nNntp-Posting-Host: drums.reasoning.com\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr16.063425.163999@zeus.calpoly.edu> dfield@flute.calpoly.edu (InfoSpunj (Dan Field)) writes:\\n>I love the FAQ. \\n>\\n>The comment about contact lenses not being an option for any remaining\\n>correction after RK and possibly after PRK is interresting. Why is\\n>this? Does anyone know for sure whether this applies to PRK as well?\\n>\\n>Also, why is it possible to get a correction in PRK with involvement of\\n>only about 5% of the corneal depth, while RK is done to a depth of up to\\n>95%? Why such a difference?\\n\\nIn myopia the cornea is too curved. There is too much of a bulge in the\\ncenter.\\n\\nIn PRK the laser removes a small amount of material from the center.\\n\\nIn RK the surgeon cuts incisions near the edge. They heal, and the scarring\\nreshapes the cornea.\\n\\nEntirely different mechanisms, and the action is in a different place.\\n\\n-dk\\n\",\n", " 'From: dwebb@unl.edu (dale webb)\\nSubject: Re: THE BACK MACHINE - Update\\nOrganization: University of Nebraska--Lincoln\\t\\nLines: 15\\nDistribution: na\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: unlinfo.unl.edu\\n\\n I have a BACK MACHINE and have had one since January. While I have not \\nfound it to be a panacea for my back pain, I think it has helped somewhat. \\nIt MAINLY acts to stretch muscles in the back and prevent spasms associated\\nwith pain. I am taking less pain medication than I was previously. \\n The folks at BACK TECHNOLOGIES are VERY reluctant to honor their return \\npolicy. They extended my \"warranty\" period rather than allow me to return \\nthe machine when, after the first month or so, I was not thrilled with it. \\nThey encouraged me to continue to use it, abeit less vigourously. \\n Like I said, I can\\'t say it is a cure-all, but it keeps me stretched out\\nand I am in less pain.\\n--\\n***********************************************************************\\nDale M. Webb, DVM, PhD * 97% of the body is water. The\\nVeterinary Diagnostic Center * other 3% keeps you from drowning.\\nUniversity of Nebraska, Lincoln *\\n',\n", " \"From: jkjec@westminster.ac.uk (Shazad Barlas)\\nSubject: NEED HELP ON SCARING PLEASE\\nOrganization: University of Westminster\\nDistribution: sci.med\\nLines: 18\\n\\nHi...\\n\\nI need information on scaring. Particularly as a result of grazing the skin\\nI really wanted to know of \\n\\n\\t1. would a scar occur as a result of grazing\\n\\t2. if yes, then would it disappear?\\n\\t3. how long does a graze take to heal?\\n\\t4. will hair grow on it once it has healed?\\n\\t5. what is 'scar tissue'?\\n\\t6. should antiseptic cream be applied to it regularly?\\n\\t7. is it better to keep it exposed and let fresh air at it?\\n\\nPlease help - any info - no matter how small will be appreciated greatly. \\n\\nBUT PLEASE E-MAIL ME DIRECTLY because I dont read this newsgroup often (this\\nis my first time). \\n \\t\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t....Shaz....\\n\",\n", " 'From: baez@guitar.ucr.edu (john baez)\\nSubject: End of the Space Age\\nArticle-I.D.: galaxy.29034\\nOrganization: University of California, Riverside\\nLines: 82\\nNntp-Posting-Host: guitar.ucr.edu\\n\\nThere is an interesting opinion piece in the business section of today\\'s\\nLA Times (Thursday April 15, 1993, p. D1). I thought I\\'d post it to\\nstir up some flame wars - I mean reasoned debate. Let me preface it by\\nsaying that I largely agree that the \"Space Age\" in the romantic sense\\nof several decades ago is over, and that projects like the space station\\nmiss the point at this time. Reading, for example, \"What\\'s New\" -\\nthe weekly physics update we get here on the net - it\\'s clear that the\\nromance of the day lies in the ever more fine-grained manipulation of\\nmatter: by which I include biotechnology, condensed matter physics (with\\nits spinoffs in computer hardware and elsewhere), and the amazing things\\npeople are doing with individual atoms these days. To a large extent, I\\nthink, the romance some people still have with space is a matter of\\nnostalgia. I feel sure that someday we - or more precisely, our \"mind\\nchildren\" - will spread across space (unless we wipe ourselves out); but\\nI think that *manned* space exploration is not what is exciting about\\nwhat we can do *now*. \\n\\nAnyway, let me quote some of this article, but not all...\\n\\n\\nSPACE AGE GLORY FADES FROM VIEW\\n\\nMicheal Schrage (writer, consultant, and research associate at MIT)\\n\\nAt 35, America\\'s Space Age won\\'t have to suffer through the angst of a\\nmidlife crisis.\\n\\nThe reason is that the Space Age is already dead. The technologies no\\nlonger define our times, and the public has grown weary of the multibillion\\n-dollar celestial investments that yield minimal psychic or economic\\nrewards. \\n\\nSpace exploration has mutated from a central focuse of America\\'s science\\nand technology debate into a peripheral issue. Speace is not a\\nmeaningful part of the ongoing industrial competitiveness debate, our\\ntechnology infrastructure discussions or even our defense conversion\\npolicy. \\n\\nTo be sure, America should continue to invest in satellite technologies\\nfor telecommunications and remote sensing - cheap deep-space probes\\nwould be nice too - but the ideal of space as a meaningful driver of\\nscientific and industrial innovation is now dead.\\n\\n.....\\n\\nBefore the change in administrations, it would have been foolish to\\nwrite an obituary for the Space Age. The Bush White House aggressively\\nsupported the space program and proposed spending well over $30 billion\\nto build space station Freedom alone.\\n\\nEven as he proposed budget cuts in other science and technology domains,\\nOffice of Management and Budget Director Richard Darman was an outspoken\\npublic champion of big-ticket space expenditures. The reality that much\\nof the civilian space program - from the shuttle to the Hubble telescope\\nto the space station - was poorly conceived and unimpressively\\nimplemented did not seem to matter much.\\n\\nPolitical inertia and a nostalgic sense of futurism - not a coherent\\nvision or cost-effective sensibilities - determined multibillion-dollar\\nspace budgets.\\n\\nIndeed, with few notable exceptions, such as Voyager, the post-Apollo\\nera is the story of the gold-plated porkification of space exploration\\nwith programs and promises that delivered less for more and more. \\n\\n......\\n\\nWhile the Clinton Administration has kept on the highly regarded Daniel\\nGoldin as administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space\\nAdministration, it seems clear that space exploration is not being\\npositioned as either a symbolic or substantive centerpiece of America\\'s\\ntechnological prowess. The space station budget has - rightly - been\\nslashed. Space is virtually ignored when the Administration champions\\nits competitiveness agenda.\\n\\n......\\n\\n\"I wish this had happened 10 years ago instead of starting to happen\\nnow,\" says Bruce Murray, a Caltech professor who ran NASA\\'s Jet\\nPropulsion Lab in Pasadena. \"We\\'ve put off a lot of things we shouldn\\'t\\nhave.... I would rather see a $10-billion NASA doing well than a\\n$40-billion one filled with white elephants.\"\\n',\n", " 'From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nSubject: Re: HELP for Kidney Stones ..............\\nReply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nOrganization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science\\nLines: 17\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr21.143910.5826@wvnvms.wvnet.edu> pk115050@wvnvms.wvnet.edu writes:\\n>My girlfriend is in pain from kidney stones. She says that because she has no\\n>medical insurance, she cannot get them removed.\\n>\\n>My question: Is there any way she can treat them herself, or at least mitigate\\n>their effects? Any help is deeply appreciated. (Advice, referral to literature,\\n\\nMorphine or demerol is about the only effective way of stopping pain\\nthat severe. Obviously, she\\'ll need a prescription to get such drugs.\\nCan\\'t she go to the county hospital or something?\\n\\n\\n-- \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nGordon Banks N3JXP | \"Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and\\ngeb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu | it is shameful to surrender it too soon.\" \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n',\n", " 'From: noring@netcom.com (Jon Noring)\\nSubject: Re: Good Grief! (was Re: Candida Albicans: what is it?)\\nOrganization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)\\nLines: 26\\n\\nIn article romdas@uclink.berkeley.edu (Ella I Baff) writes:\\n\\n> >If anybody, doctors included, said to me to my face that there is no\\n> >evidence of the \\'yeast connection\\', I cannot guarantee their safety.\\n> >For their incompetence, ripping off their lips is justified as far as\\n> >I am concerned.\\n>\\n>This doesn\\'t sound like Candida Albicans to me.\\n\\nNo, just a little anger. Normally I don\\'t rip people\\'s lips off, except\\nwhen my candida has overcolonized and I become: \"Fungus Man\"! :^)\\n\\nJon\\n\\n-- \\n\\nCharter Member --->>> INFJ Club.\\n\\nIf you\\'re dying to know what INFJ means, be brave, e-mail me, I\\'ll send info.\\n=============================================================================\\n| Jon Noring | noring@netcom.com | |\\n| JKN International | IP : 192.100.81.100 | FRED\\'S GOURMET CHOCOLATE |\\n| 1312 Carlton Place | Phone : (510) 294-8153 | CHIPS - World\\'s Best! |\\n| Livermore, CA 94550 | V-Mail: (510) 417-4101 | |\\n=============================================================================\\nWho are you? Read alt.psychology.personality! That\\'s where the action is.\\n',\n", " \"From: dante@shakala.com (Charlie Prael)\\nSubject: Re: Moonbase race\\nOrganization: Shakala BBS (ClanZen Radio Network) Sunnyvale, CA +1-408-734-2289\\nLines: 20\\n\\nsysmgr@king.eng.umd.edu (Doug Mohney) writes:\\n\\n> Allen, sometimes I think you're OK. And sometimes you tend to rashly leap in\\n> making statement without thinking them out. \\n> \\n> Wanna guess which today?\\n> \\n> You'd need to launch HLVs to send up large amounts of stuff. Do you know \\n> of a private Titan pad? \\n\\n\\nDoug-- Actually, if memory serves, the Atlas is an outgrowth of the old \\nTitan ICBM. If so, there's probably quite a few old pads, albeit in need \\nof some serious reconditioning. Still, Being able to buy the turf and \\npad (and bunkers, including prep facility) at Midwest farmland prices \\nstrikes me as pretty damned cheap.\\n\\n------------------------------------------------------------------\\nCharlie Prael - dante@shakala.com \\nShakala BBS (ClanZen Radio Network) Sunnyvale, CA +1-408-734-2289\\n\",\n", " 'From: baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov (Ron Baalke)\\nSubject: JPL\\'s VLBI Project Meets with International Space Agencies\\nOrganization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory\\nLines: 112\\nDistribution: world\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov\\nKeywords: VLBI, JPL\\nNews-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41 \\n\\nFrom the \"JPL Universe\"\\nApril 23, 1993\\n\\nVLBI project meets with international space agencies\\n\\nBy Ed McNevin\\n Members of JPL\\'s Space Very Long Baseline Interferometry\\n(VLBI) project team recently concluded a week-long series of\\nmeetings with officials from Russia and Japan.\\n The meetings were part of \"Space VLBI Week\" held at JPL in\\nearly March and were intended to maintain cooperation between\\ninternational space agencies participating in the development of\\nthe U.S. Space VLBI Project, a recently approved JPL flight\\nproject set for launch in 1995.\\n U.S. Space VLBI will utilize two Earth-orbiting spacecraft\\n-- the Japanese VSOP (VLBI Space Observing Program) satellite\\nwith its 8-meter radio telescope, and a Russian RADIOASTRON\\n10-meter satellite. Both spacecraft will team up with\\nground-based radio telescopes located around the world to create\\na radio telescope network that astronomers hope will expand radio\\ntelescope observing power by a factor of 10.\\n Japan\\'s VSOP satellite will use a limited six-hour orbit to\\nconduct imaging science, while the Russian RADIOASTRON spacecraft\\nwill exploit a larger, 28-hour Earth orbit to conduct exploratory\\nradio astronomy. Each satellite will point at a source target for\\nroughly 24 hours, while approximately 20 ground-based radio\\ntelescopes will simultaneously point at the same source object\\nwhile within view on Earth.\\n According to Dr. Joel Smith, JPL\\'s project manager for the\\nU.S. Space VLBI, meetings like those held at JPL will permit\\nJapan and Russia, who have little previous experience in radio\\ninterferometry, to establish working relationships with the radio\\nastronomy communities that will be vital during the complex\\nobservations required by the Space VLBI project.\\n \"One of our main activities is developing the methodology\\nfor international coordination, because the two spacecraft\\nsimultaneously rely on the corresponding tracking stations while\\nusing the ground-based radio telescopes to observe the same\\ncelestial objects,\" said Smith.\\n Three new tracking antennas are being built at DSN\\nfacilities and other three other tracking facilities located in\\nJapan, Russia and Green Bank, W.Va. This global network of\\nground-based radio telescopes will use precision clocks and\\nhigh-speed recorders to collect observation data and forward the\\ninformation to a correlator located at the National Radio\\nAstronomy Observatory in Socorro, N.M. The correlator will\\ncombine and process data, then make it available to mission\\ninvestigators in Moscow, Tokyo, and JPL via electronic mail.\\n Smith is optimistic that the massive radio telescope created\\nby the Space VLBI network will provide radio astronomers with\\nbetter resolution than has ever been achieved before by\\nground-based radio telescopes, allowing astronomers to take a\\ncloser look at distant objects in space.\\n \"There is a long history of radio astronomy using\\nground-based telescopes,\" said Smith. \"What we intend to do is to\\nextend radio astronomy into Earth orbit. Our goal is to look\\ndeeper into the cores of galactic nuclei, quasars and other\\nactive radio sources to understand what drives those things we\\nhave seen so far with radio astronomy.\"\\n Smith noted that if one examines \"the active galactic\\nnuclei, you\\'ll find jets appearing to spew at speeds greater than\\nlight, and at energy levels that are millions of times greater\\nthan you would expect.\"\\n He said some astronomers believe that black holes may be\\nlocated in the cores of these galaxies, and that they may fuel\\nthe jets. Smith hopes that \"by using Space VLBI to look further\\ninto the cores, this theory may be supported or disproved.\"\\n Russian space-flight hardware, including transponders and\\ntransmitters, are now being tested in the United States, and\\nJapanese hardware is scheduled to arrive for testing later this\\nyear. Analysis of this hardware will permit U.S. scientists and\\nengineers to understand how to modify the high-speed VLBA\\nCorrelator operating at the NRAO in order to accommodate the odd\\ndata patterns that will originate from the more than 20\\nground-based radio telescopes involved in Space VLBI.\\n Smith is particularly pleased that meetings with the\\nJapanese and Russian space agency officials -- like those held at\\nJPL in March -- have proceeded smoothly. Yet he knows that the\\npolitical uncertainty in Russia could jeopardize that country\\'s\\nparticipation in the project.\\n \"Nothing is ever smooth,\" he said, \"but the Russians have\\nbeen incredibly open with us. We always anticipated some\\nlikelihood that we will not succeed because of political factors\\nbeyond our control, yet there tends to be a way of keeping these\\nthings going, because scientists on both sides are trying hard,\\nand people recognize the value of cooperation at this level.\"\\n Smith points out that the Japanese space agency has more at\\nstake than just fulfilling an international commitment to a\\nscience mission.\\n \"The Japanese have been extremely cooperative, since\\ninternational cooperation is essential to their science mission,\"\\nhe said.\\n But Smith also noted that Japanese space agency officials\\nlook at the U.S. Space VLBI mission as an opportunity to showcase\\nthe technology involved with VSOP spacecraft, and their highly\\nregarded Mach V launch vehicle.\\n Yet regardless of the risks involved in undertaking such an\\nambitious project, JPL\\'s Smith is satisfied that planning for the\\nSpace VLBI Project is beyond the significant financial and\\npolitical hurdles that otherwise might threaten the project.\\n \"Fortunately, we have the virtue of having two partners, and\\nif either falls out, we would still have something with the\\nother. By themselves, both spacecraft are independent,\\nscientifically exciting missions.\"\\n ###\\n ___ _____ ___\\n /_ /| /____/ \\\\ /_ /| Ron Baalke | baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov\\n | | | | __ \\\\ /| | | | Jet Propulsion Lab |\\n ___| | | | |__) |/ | | |__ M/S 525-3684 Telos | The aweto from New Zealand\\n/___| | | | ___/ | |/__ /| Pasadena, CA 91109 | is part caterpillar and\\n|_____|/ |_|/ |_____|/ | part vegetable.\\n\\n',\n", " 'From: Alla V. Kotenko \\nSubject: SALE! MELITTIN (see letter)\\nReply-To: avk@lst.msk.su\\nOrganization: Laboratory Systems & Technology, Ltd.\\nLines: 17\\n\\n MELITTIN\\n\\n In cooperation with the State Scientific Center on Antibiotics\\n we have elaborated our own technology of bee venom components isolation,\\n particularly melitin, using modern chromatographic eduipment by \"Pharmacia\"\\n and \"Millipore\" Companies, with application of only the materials, admitted\\n for manufacturing pharmaceutic production. High quality of our product is\\n acknowledged by the expertise of the Accredited test laboratory firm \"Test\"\\nv/o \"Souzexpertisa\" TPP RF.\\n íÅlittin - no less than 92% of the primary substance content.\\nQuantity:from 100 g up to 5 kg.\\nDate of manufacture: March 1993.\\nPrice:2500 dol.USA per 1g.\\nCertificate:Is on sale\\nAdress:105094,Moscow,Semyenovskiy Val,10-a,\\n\"BOST\"Partnership Ltd.Tel/fax 194-86-04,369-46-68\\n\\n',\n", " \"From: Daniel.Prince@f129.n102.z1.calcom.socal.com (Daniel Prince)\\nSubject: Placebo effects\\nLines: 17\\n\\nI know that the placebo effect is where a patient feels better or \\neven gets better because of his/her belief in the medicine and \\nthe doctor administering it. Is there also an anti-placebo \\neffect where the patient dislikes/distrusts doctors and medicine \\nand therefore doesn't get better or feel better in spite of the \\nmedicine?\\n\\nIs there an effect where the doctor believes so strongly in a \\nmedicine that he/she sees improvement where the is none or sees \\nmore improvement than there is? If so, what is this effect \\ncalled? Is there a reverse of the above effect where the doctor \\ndoesn't believe in a medicine and then sees less improvement than \\nthere is? What would this effect be called? Have these effects \\never been studied? How common are these effects? Thank you in \\nadvance for all replies. \\n\\n... Information is very valuable but dis-information is MUCH more common.\\n\",\n", " 'From: S901924@mailserv.cuhk.hk\\nSubject: Re: Gravity waves, was: Predicting gravity wave quantization & Cosmic Noise\\nSummary: Dong .... Dong .... Do I hear the death-knell of relativity?\\nKeywords: space, curvature, nothing, tesla\\nNntp-Posting-Host: wksb14.csc.cuhk.hk\\nOrganization: Computer Services Centre, C.U.H.K.\\nDistribution: World\\nLines: 36\\n\\nIn article et@teal.csn.org (Eric H. Taylor) writes:\\n>From: et@teal.csn.org (Eric H. Taylor)\\n>Subject: Re: Gravity waves, was: Predicting gravity wave quantization & Cosmic Noise\\n>Summary: Dong .... Dong .... Do I hear the death-knell of relativity?\\n>Keywords: space, curvature, nothing, tesla\\n>Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1993 20:18:04 GMT\\n>In article metares@well.sf.ca.us (Tom Van Flandern) writes:\\n>>crb7q@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Cameron Randale Bass) writes:\\n>>> Bruce.Scott@launchpad.unc.edu (Bruce Scott) writes:\\n>>>> \"Existence\" is undefined unless it is synonymous with \"observable\" in\\n>>>> physics.\\n>>> [crb] Dong .... Dong .... Dong .... Do I hear the death-knell of\\n>>> string theory?\\n>>\\n>> I agree. You can add \"dark matter\" and quarks and a lot of other\\n>>unobservable, purely theoretical constructs in physics to that list,\\n>>including the omni-present \"black holes.\"\\n>>\\n>> Will Bruce argue that their existence can be inferred from theory\\n>>alone? Then what about my original criticism, when I said \"Curvature\\n>>can only exist relative to something non-curved\"? Bruce replied:\\n>>\"\\'Existence\\' is undefined unless it is synonymous with \\'observable\\' in\\n>>physics. We cannot observe more than the four dimensions we know about.\"\\n>>At the moment I don\\'t see a way to defend that statement and the\\n>>existence of these unobservable phenomena simultaneously. -|Tom|-\\n>\\n>\"I hold that space cannot be curved, for the simple reason that it can have\\n>no properties.\"\\n>\"Of properties we can only speak when dealing with matter filling the\\n>space. To say that in the presence of large bodies space becomes curved,\\n>is equivalent to stating that something can act upon nothing. I,\\n>for one, refuse to subscribe to such a view.\" - Nikola Tesla\\n>\\n>----\\n> ET \"Tesla was 100 years ahead of his time. Perhaps now his time comes.\"\\n>----\\n',\n", " 'From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nSubject: Re: Dislocated Shoulder\\nReply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nOrganization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science\\nLines: 19\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr9.181944.5353@e2big.mko.dec.com> steve@caboom.cbm.dec.com (Steve Katz) writes:\\n>\\n>Recently I managed to dislocate my shoulder while\\n>sking. The injury also seems to have damaged the nerves\\n>in my arm. I was wondering if someone could point me towards\\n>some literature that would give me some background into\\n>these types of injuries. Please respond by EMAIL if possible.\\n>\\n\\nYour medical school library should have books on peripheral nerve\\ninjuries. Probably it was your brachial plexus, so look that up.\\n\\n\\n\\n-- \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nGordon Banks N3JXP | \"Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and\\ngeb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu | it is shameful to surrender it too soon.\" \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n',\n", " 'From: stark@dwovax.enet.dec.com (Todd I. Stark)\\nSubject: Re: OCD\\nSummary: Here\\'s the highlights from the DSM-IIIR\\nOrganization: Digital Equipment Corporation\\nLines: 45\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: DWOVAX\\n\\n\\nIn article , sharynk@Hawaii.Edu () writes...\\n>I recently heard of a mental disorder called Obsessive Compulsive\\n>Disorder. What is it? What causes it? Could it be caused by a\\n>nervous breakdown?\\n> \\nObesssive Compulsive Disorder (not to be confused with Obsessive Compulsive\\n_Personality_ Disorder !) is an acute anxiety disorder characterized by\\neither obsessions (persistent intrusive thoughts that cause anxiety when\\nnot entertained), or compulsions (repetitive, ritualistic actions that\\nsimilarly cause intense psychological discomfort when resisted). \\n\\nOCD is often associated with certain forms of depression. \\n\\nExamples of obsessive thoughts are repeated impulses to kill a loved\\none (though not accompanied by anger), or a religious person having \\nrecurrent blasphemous thoughts. Generally, the individual attempts to ignore\\nor suppress the intrusive thoughts by engaging in other activities. \\nThe individual realizes that the thoughts originate from the own mind, rather\\nthan being from an external source.\\n\\nExamples of compulsive actions are constant repetitive hand washing,\\nor other activity that is not realistically related to alleviating a\\nsource of the anxiety.\\n\\nIn OCD, the obsessions or compulsions are highly distressing to the\\nindividual, take an hour or more per day, and significantly impair their\\ndaily routine and social relationships.\\n\\nTreatments include psychotherapy, behavioral methods, and sometimes\\ncertain anti-depressants which have recently been found effective in alleviating\\nobsessions and compulsions.\\n\\nThe standard diagnostic code for OCD, if you want to look it up in the\\nDSM-III manual of psychiatric diagnosis is 300.30 .\\n\\n\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t\\tkind regards,\\n\\n\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t\\ttodd\\n+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+\\n| Todd I. Stark\\t\\t\\t\\t stark@dwovax.enet.dec.com |\\n| Digital Equipment Corporation\\t\\t (215) 354-1273 |\\n| Philadelphia, Pa. USA |\\n| \"(A word is) the skin of a living thought\" Olliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. |\\n+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+\\n',\n", " 'From: rouben@math9.math.umbc.edu (Rouben Rostamian)\\nSubject: Re: Sunrise/ sunset times\\nOrganization: University of Maryland, Baltimore County Campus\\nLines: 60\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: math9.math.umbc.edu\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr21.141824.23536@cbis.ece.drexel.edu> jpw@cbis.ece.drexel.edu (Joseph Wetstein) writes:\\n>\\n>Hello. I am looking for a program (or algorithm) that can be used\\n>to compute sunrise and sunset times.\\n\\nHere is a computation I did a long time ago that computes the length\\nof the daylight. You should be able to convert the information here\\nto sunrise and sunset times.\\n\\n--\\nRouben Rostamian Telephone: 410-455-2458\\nDepartment of Mathematics and Statistics e-mail:\\nUniversity of Maryland Baltimore County bitnet: rostamian@umbc.bitnet\\nBaltimore, MD 21228, USA internet: rouben@math.umbc.edu\\n======================================================================\\nDefinitions:\\n\\nz = the tilt of the axis of the planet away from the normal to its\\norbital plane. In case of the Earth z is about 23.5 degrees, I think.\\nI do not recall the exact value. In case of Uranus, z is almost\\n90 degrees.\\n\\nu = latitude of the location where the length of the day is measured.\\nParis is at about 45 degrees. North pole is at 90.\\n\\na = angular position of the planet around the sun. As a goes from\\n0 to 360 degrees, the planet makes a full circle around the sun.\\nThe spring equinox occurs at a=0.\\n\\nL = daylight fraction = (duration of daylight)/(duration of a full day).\\nOn the equator (u=0) L is always 1/2. Near the north pole (u=90 degrees)\\nL is sometimes one and sometimes zero, depending on the time of the year.\\n\\nComputation:\\nDefine the auxiliary angles p and q by:\\nsin p = sin a sin z\\ncos q = h ( tan u tan p ), (0 < q < 180 degrees)\\n\\nConclusion:\\nL = q / 180 (if q is measured in degrees)\\nL = q / pi (if q is measured in radians)\\n\\nWait! But what is h?\\nThe cutoff function h is defined as follows:\\n\\nh (s) = s if |s| < 1\\n = 1 if s > 1\\n = -1 if s < 1\\n\\nAs an interesting exercise, plot L versus a. The graph will shows\\nhow the length of the daylight varies with the time of the year.\\nExperiment with various choices of latitudes and tilt angles.\\nCompare the behavior of the function at locations above and below\\nthe arctic circle.\\n\\n--\\nRouben Rostamian Telephone: 410-455-2458\\nDepartment of Mathematics and Statistics e-mail:\\nUniversity of Maryland Baltimore County bitnet: rostamian@umbc.bitnet\\nBaltimore, MD 21228, USA internet: rouben@math.umbc.edu\\n',\n", " \"From: bshelley@ucs.indiana.edu ()\\nSubject: Xanax...please provide info\\nNntp-Posting-Host: jh224-718622.ucs.indiana.edu\\nOrganization: Indiana University\\nLines: 9\\n\\nI am currently doing a group research project on the drug Xanax. I would\\nbe exponentially gracious to receive any and all information you could\\nprovide\\nme regarding its usage, history, mechanism of reaction, side effects, and\\nother pertinent information. I don't care how long or how short your \\nresponse is.\\n\\nThanks in advance!\\nBrent E. Shelley\\n\",\n", " 'From: prb@access.digex.com (Pat)\\nSubject: Re: How many read sci.space?\\nOrganization: Express Access Online Communications USA\\nLines: 52\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: access.digex.net\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr16.014506.27923@sol.UVic.CA> rborden@ugly.UVic.CA (Ross Borden) writes:\\n|In article <1qjs1j$306@access.digex.net> prb@access.digex.com (Pat) writes:\\n|>\\n|>\\n|>In the old days, their used to be Arbitron stats\\' that analyzed\\n|>the readership and posting volumes by group and user.\\n|>\\n|>They were available from UUNET. That\\'s how you check the\\n|>readership of Sci.space, not some stupid unscientific attempt\\n|>to flood the newsgroup.\\n|>\\n|>I have abetter idea. WHy don\\'t we all reply directly to the\\n|>origanator of this post, and tell him we read sci.space ;-)\\n|>\\n|>\\n|>pat\\n|\\n|\\tSigh.\\n|\\tI try to make a little joke, I try to inject some humour here\\n|and what happens? In the immortal words of Foghorn Leghorn:\\n|\\n|\\t\"I say, that was a _joke_, son.\"\\n|\\n|\\tI thought that the bit about McElwaine, not to mention the two\\n|smileys, would indicate to even the most humour impaired that I was\\n|JOKING.\\n>\\tSigh.\\n>\\t(And will everyone who pat\\'s suggestion (thanks bunches, pat)\\n>*please* stop sending me email.)\\n>\\n>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n>| I shot a man just to watch him die; | Ross Borden |\\n>| I\\'m going to Disneyland! | rborden@ra.uvic.ca |\\n>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n\\n\\nNow, I had put a Wink at the end of my suggestion indicating it was\\nintensely sarcastic. I can\\'t help it if everyone got all serious.\\n\\nRoss.\\n\\n\\tI never saw your original posting. it dropped on the floor\\nsomewhere. I just saw the trickle down, thought it was intensely\\nstupid, not knowing anything about the joke, mentioned arbitron\\nand left it with an equally stupid joke. Bill in his ever increasing\\ndevotion to thoroughness dug up several arbitron stats.\\n\\nI myself think the arbitron stats are severely methodologically impaired,\\nbut are a good measure of proportion. I don\\'t think anyone\\nknows how many people read news anymore.\\n\\npat\\n',\n", " 'From: abdkw@stdvax (David Ward)\\nSubject: Re: Shuttle Launch Question\\nNews-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1 \\nOrganization: Goddard Space Flight Center - Robotics Lab\\nDistribution: sci\\nLines: 18\\n\\nIn article , ETRAT@ttacs1.ttu.edu (Pack Rat) writes...\\n>There has been something bothering me while watching\\n>NASA Select for a while. Well, I should\\'nt say\\n>bothering, maybe wondering would be better. When\\n>they are going to launch they say (sorry but I forget\\n>exactly who is saying what, OTC to PLT I think)\\n>\"Clear caution & warning memory. Verify no unexpected\\n>errors. ...\". I am wondering what an \"expected error\" might\\n>be. Sorry if this is a really dumb question, but\\n\\n\\nIn pure speculation, I would guess cautions based on hazardous\\npre-launch ops would qualify. Something like \"Caution: SRBs\\nhave just been armed.\" \\n\\nIt does raise an interesting question as to how hard it is to \\npick out an Expected Error from an Unexpected Error in the heat\\nof the moment. \\n',\n", " 'From: nsmca@aurora.alaska.edu\\nSubject: $1bil space race ideas/moon base on the cheap.\\nArticle-I.D.: aurora.1993Apr25.150437.1\\nOrganization: University of Alaska Fairbanks\\nLines: 28\\nNntp-Posting-Host: acad3.alaska.edu\\n\\nThat is an idea.. The most efficient moon habitat.. \\n\\nalso the idea of how to get the people off the moon once the prize was won..\\n\\nAlso the idea of how to rescue someone who is \"dying\" on the moon.\\n\\nMaybe have a area where they can all \"see\" each other, and can help each other\\nif something happens.. \\n\\nI liek the idea of one prize for the first moon landing and return, by a\\nnon-governmental body..\\n\\nAlso the idea of then having a moon habitat race.. \\n\\nI know we need to do somthing to get people involved..\\n\\nEccentric millionaire/billionaire would be nice.. We see how old Ross feels\\nabout it.. After all it would be a great promotional thing and a way to show he\\ndoes care about commericalization and the people.. Will try to broach the\\nsubject to him.. \\n\\nMoonbase on the cheap is a good idea.. NASA and friends seem to take to much\\ntime and give us to expensive stuff that of late does not work (hubble and\\nsuch). Basically what is the difference between a $1mil peice of junk and a\\nmulti $1mil piece of junk.. I know junk..\\n\\n==\\nMichael Adams, nsmca@acad3.alaska.edu -- I\\'m not high, just jacked\\n',\n", " 'From: schumach@convex.com (Richard A. Schumacher)\\nSubject: Re: space news from Feb 1 AW&ST\\nNntp-Posting-Host: starman.convex.com\\nOrganization: CONVEX Computer Corporation, Richardson, Tx., USA\\nX-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer\\n Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and\\n not necessarily those of CONVEX.\\nLines: 10\\n\\n\\n>Marshall is investigating a small but odd pressure rise in one SRB\\n>during the Jan 12 Endeavour launch. It lasted only three seconds and\\n>the thrust difference between the two SRBs was not enough to cause\\n>nozzle gimballing. The SRB casing shows no abnormalities.\\n\\nIs this the one that had the {wrench|pliers} found inside after\\nrecovery?\\n\\n\\n',\n", " 'From: cliff@buster.stafford.tx.us (Cliff Tomplait)\\nSubject: Re: sex problem.\\nOrganization: Buster irby\\nLines: 34\\n\\nls8139@albnyvms.bitnet (larry silverberg) writes:\\n>I have question that I hope is taken seriously, despite the subject content.\\n\\n>Problem: My long time girlfriend lately has not been initiating any sexual\\n>\\tactivity. For the last four months things have changed dramatically.\\n> ...\\n>\\t--to make this shorter-- Summary: nothing that I can think of has\\n>\\t\\t\\t\\tchanged....\\n> ...\\n>She suggested we go to a sex counselor, but I really don\\'t want to (just yet).\\n>Any suggestions would be appreciated.\\n>If you think you can help me, please contact me by e-mail for further info.\\n>PLEASE serious replies only.\\n>Thanks, Larry\\n\\nLarry:\\n\\nThe subject content IS serious; as is the question.\\n\\nOn one hand you state that \"things have changed dramatically\" but, at the\\nsame time nothing you \"can think of has changed\". Your girlfriend seems\\nto want to see a counselor, but you don\\'t. \\n\\nI\\'d recommend that you examine your hesitation to see a counselor. It\\'s\\na very good environment to examine issues. \\n\\nThe fact of the matter is: your girlfriend has a different perception than\\nyou. The TWO of you need to address the issue in order to resolve it.\\n\\nPlease consider going to a counselor with your girlfriend. What could it\\npossibly hurt?\\n\\nCliff (the paramedic)\\n\\n',\n", " 'From: baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov (Ron Baalke)\\nSubject: Galileo Update - 04/22/93\\nOrganization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory\\nLines: 84\\nDistribution: world\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov\\nKeywords: Galileo, JPL\\nNews-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41 \\n\\nForwarded from Neal Ausman, Galileo Mission Director\\n\\n GALILEO\\n MISSION DIRECTOR STATUS REPORT\\n POST-LAUNCH\\n April 16 - 22, 1993\\n\\n\\nSPACECRAFT\\n\\n1. On April 19, cruise science Memory Readouts (MROs) were performed for the\\nExtreme Ultraviolet Spectrometer (EUV), Dust Detector (DDS), and Magnetometer\\n(MAG) instruments. Preliminary analysis indicates the data was received\\nproperly.\\n\\n2. On April 19, a Command Detector Unit Signal-to-Noise Ratio (CDUSNR) test\\nand a Radio Frequency Subsystem Automatic Gain Control (RFSAGC) test were\\nperformed using the LGA-1 (Low Gain Antenna #1) over DSS-63 (Madrid 70 meter\\nantenna) and DSS-61 (Madrid 34 meter antenna), respectively. Data analysis\\nis in process. These tests are periodically performed to provide detailed\\ninformation relative to the telecom command hardware integrity.\\n\\n3. On April 19, a NO-OP command was sent to reset the command loss timer to\\n264 hours, its planned value during this mission phase.\\n\\n4. On April 21, the first of two suppressed carrier/DSN (Deep Space Network)\\nadvanced receiver characterization tests was performed over DSS-14 (Goldstone\\n70 meter antenna). The spacecraft modulation index was varied from 43 degrees\\nto 90 degrees for a range of ground receiver bandwidth settings.\\n\\n5. The AC bus imbalance measurement has not exhibited significant change\\n(greater than 25 DN) throughout this period but the DC bus imbalance\\nmeasurement has. The AC measurement reads 20 DN (4.5 volts). The DC\\nmeasurement has ranged from 43 DN (4.6 volts) to 138 DN (16.2 volts) and\\ncurrently reads 138 DN (16.2 volts). These measurements are consistent with\\nthe model developed by the AC/DC special anomaly team.\\n\\n6. The Spacecraft status as of April 22, 1993, is as follows:\\n\\n a) System Power Margin - 68 watts\\n b) Spin Configuration - Dual-Spin\\n c) Spin Rate/Sensor - 3.15rpm/Star Scanner\\n d) Spacecraft Attitude is approximately 21 degrees\\n off-sun (lagging) and 5 degrees off-earth (leading)\\n e) Downlink telemetry rate/antenna- 40bps(coded)/LGA-1\\n f) General Thermal Control - all temperatures within\\n acceptable range\\n g) RPM Tank Pressures - all within acceptable range\\n h) Orbiter Science- Instruments powered on are the PWS,\\n EUV, UVS, EPD, MAG, HIC, and DDS\\n i) Probe/RRH - powered off, temperatures within\\n acceptable range\\n j) CMD Loss Timer Setting - 264 hours\\n Time To Initiation - 184 hours\\n\\n\\nTRAJECTORY\\n\\n As of noon Thursday, April 22, 1993, the Galileo Spacecraft trajectory\\nstatus was as follows:\\n\\n\\tDistance from Earth 169,747,800 km (1.14 AU)\\n\\tDistance from Sun 286,967,900 km (1.92 AU)\\n\\tHeliocentric Speed 91,200 km per hour\\n\\tDistance from Jupiter 532,735,900 km\\n\\tRound Trip Light Time 18 minutes, 58 seconds\\n\\n\\nSPECIAL TOPIC\\n\\n1. As of April 22, 1993, a total of 70185 real-time commands have been\\ntransmitted to Galileo since Launch. Of these, 65077 were initiated in the\\nsequence design process and 5108 initiated in the real-time command process.\\nIn the past week, one real time command was transmitted: one was initiated in\\nthe sequence design process and none initiated in the real time command\\nprocess. The only command activity was a command to reset the command loss\\ntimer.\\n ___ _____ ___\\n /_ /| /____/ \\\\ /_ /| Ron Baalke | baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov\\n | | | | __ \\\\ /| | | | Jet Propulsion Lab |\\n ___| | | | |__) |/ | | |__ M/S 525-3684 Telos | The aweto from New Zealand\\n/___| | | | ___/ | |/__ /| Pasadena, CA 91109 | is part caterpillar and\\n|_____|/ |_|/ |_____|/ | part vegetable.\\n\\n',\n", " 'From: sbrenner@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (scott.d.brenner)\\nSubject: What\\'s the Difference Between an M.D. and a D.O.?\\nOrganization: AT&T\\nDistribution: usa\\nLines: 30\\n\\nMy wife and I are in the process of selecting a pediatrician for our\\nfirst child (due June 15th). We interviewed a young doctor last week\\nand were very impressed with her. However, I discovered that she is\\nactually not an Medical Doctor (M.D.) but rather a \"Doctor of \\nOsteopathy\" (D.O.). What\\'s the difference? I believe the pediatrician\\n*I* went to for many years was a D.O. and he didn\\'t seem different from\\nany other doctor I\\'ve seen over the years.\\n\\nMy dictionary says that osteopathy is \"a medical therapy that emphasizes\\nmanipulative techniques for correcting somatic abnormalities thought\\nto cause disease and inhibit recovery.\"\\n\\nJeez, this sounds like chiropractic. I remember getting shots and\\nmedicine from *my* pediatrician D.O., and don\\'t remember any \\n\"manipulative techniques\". Perhaps someone could enlighten me as to\\nthe real, practical difference between an M.D. and a D.O. Also, I\\'m\\ninteresting in hearing any opinions on choosing a pediatrician who\\nfollows one or the other medical philosophy.\\n\\nReaders of sci.med: Please respond directly to sbrenner@attmail.com;\\nI do not read this group regularly and probably won\\'t see your response\\nif you just post it here. Sorry for the cross-posting, but I\\'m hoping\\nthere\\'s some expertise here.\\n\\na T d H v A a N n K c S e\\n\\n~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\\nScott D. Brenner AT&T Consumer Communications Services\\nsbrenner@attmail.com Basking Ridge, New Jersey\\n~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\\n',\n", " 'From: glover@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Eric Glover)\\nSubject: Re: What if the USSR had reached the Moon first?\\nNntp-Posting-Host: unseen1.acns.nwu.edu\\nOrganization: Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois.\\nLines: 45\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr06.020021.186145@zeus.calpoly.edu> jgreen@trumpet.calpoly.edu (James Thomas Green) writes:\\n>Suppose the Soviets had managed to get their moon rocket working\\n>and had made it first. They could have beaten us if either:\\n>* Their rocket hadn\\'t blown up on the pad thus setting them back,\\n>and/or\\n>* A Saturn V went boom.\\n\\nThe Apollo fire was harsh, A Saturn V explosion would have been\\nhurtful but The Soviets winning would have been crushing. That could have\\nbeen *the* technological turning point for the US turning us\\nfrom Today\\'s \"We can do anything, we\\'re *the* Super Power\" to a much more\\nreserved attitude like the Soviet Program today.\\n\\nKennedy was gone by 68\\\\69, the war was still on is the east, I think\\nthe program would have stalled badly and the goal of the moon\\nby 70 would have been dead with Nasa trying to figure were they went wrong.\\n \\n>If they had beaten us, I speculate that the US would have gone\\n>head and done some landings, but we also would have been more\\n>determined to set up a base (both in Earth Orbit and on the\\n>Moon). Whether or not we would be on Mars by now would depend\\n>upon whether the Soviets tried to go. Setting up a lunar base\\n>would have stretched the budgets of both nations and I think\\n>that the military value of a lunar base would outweigh the value\\n>of going to Mars (at least in the short run). Thus we would\\n>have concentrated on the moon.\\n\\nI speulate that:\\n+The Saturn program would have been pushed into\\nthe 70s with cost over runs that would just be too evil. \\nNixon still wins.\\n+The Shuttle was never proposed and Skylab never built.\\n+By 73 the program stalled yet again under the fuel crisis.\\n+A string of small launches mark the mid seventies.\\n+By 76 the goal of a US man on the moon is dead and the US space program\\ndrifts till the present day.\\n\\n\\n>/~~~(-: James T. Green :-)~~~~(-: jgreen@oboe.calpoly.edu :-)~~~\\\\ \\n>| \"I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving\\t| \\n>| the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the \\t|\\n>| Moon and returning him safely to the Earth.\" \\t\\t|\\n>| \\t\\t|\\n\\n\\n',\n", " \"From: cook@varmit.mdc.com (Layne Cook)\\nSubject: Lindbergh and the moon (was:Why not give $1G)\\nOrganization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM\\nLines: 19\\nDistribution: world\\nReply-To: cook@varmit.mdc.com (Layne Cook)\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: cook.mdc.com\\n\\nAll of this talk about a COMMERCIAL space race (i.e. $1G to the first 1-year \\nmoon base) is intriguing. Similar prizes have influenced aerospace \\ndevelopment before. The $25k Orteig prize helped Lindbergh sell his Spirit of \\nSaint Louis venture to his financial backers.\\n\\nIf memory serves, the $25k prize would not have been enough to totally \\nreimburse some of the more expensive transatlantic projects (such as \\nFokker's, Nungesser and other multi-engine projects). However Lindbergh \\nultimately kept his total costs below that amount.\\n\\nBut I strongly suspect that his Saint Louis backers had the foresight to \\nrealize that much more was at stake than $25,000.\\n\\nCould it work with the moon? Who are the far-sighted financial backers of \\ntoday?\\n\\nLayne Cook\\ncook@apt.mdc.com \\nMcDonnell Douglas Space Systems Co.\\n\",\n", " 'From: shag@aero.org (Rob Unverzagt)\\nSubject: Re: space food sticks\\nKeywords: food\\nArticle-I.D.: news.1pscc6INNebg\\nOrganization: Organization? You must be kidding.\\nLines: 35\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: aerospace.aero.org\\n\\nIn article <1pr5u2$t0b@agate.berkeley.edu> ghelf@violet.berkeley.edu (;;;;RD48) writes:\\n> I had spacefood sticks just about every morning for breakfast in\\n> first and second grade (69-70, 70-71). They came in Chocolate,\\n> strawberry, and peanut butter and were cylinders about 10cm long\\n> and 1cm in diameter wrapped in yellow space foil (well, it seemed\\n> like space foil at the time). \\n\\nWasn\\'t there a \"plain\" flavor too? They looked more like some\\nkind of extruded industrial product than food -- perfectly\\nsmooth cylinders with perfectly smooth ends. Kinda scary.\\n\\n> The taste is hard to describe, although I remember it fondly. It was\\n> most certainly more \"candy\" than say a modern \"Power Bar.\" Sort of\\n> a toffee injected with vitamins. The chocolate Power Bar is a rough\\n> approximation of the taste. Strawberry sucked.\\n\\nAn other post described it as like a \"microwaved Tootsie Roll\" --\\nwhich captures the texture pretty well. As for taste, they were\\nlike candy, only not very sweet -- does that make sense? I recall\\nliking them for their texture, not taste. I guess I have well\\ndeveloped texture buds.\\n\\n> Man, these were my \"60\\'s.\"\\n\\nIt was obligatory to eat a few while watching \"Captain Scarlet\".\\nDoes anybody else remember _that_, as long as we\\'re off the\\ntopic of space?\\n\\nShag\\n\\n-- \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------\\n Rob Unverzagt |\\n shag@aerospace.aero.org | Tuesday is soylent green day.\\nunverzagt@courier2.aero.org | \\n',\n", " 'From: will@rins.ryukoku.ac.jp (William Reiken)\\nSubject: Re: nuclear waste\\nOrganization: Ryukoku Univ., Seta, Japan\\nLines: 4\\n\\n\\n\\tThanks for the Update.\\n\\n\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t\\tWill...\\n',\n", " \"From: debbie@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Debbie Forest)\\nSubject: Re: Can men get yeast infections?\\nOrganization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee\\nLines: 18\\nDistribution: na\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: 129.89.7.4\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr14.184444.24065@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> jkis_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Da' Beave) writes:\\n>\\n>Well folks, I currently have a yeast infection. I am male.\\n>[...] your best bet (or at least your husband's)\\n>is to treat and cure your infection before any intercourse. If you must, use\\n>a condom. Also, consider other forms of sexual release (ie. handjobs) until\\n>you are cured. \\n\\nThough I can't imagine WANTING to have intercourse during a full-blown\\nyeast infection :-) chances of it being transmitted to the male are quite\\nlow, especially if he's circumcised. But it can happen. \\nAt one point I was getting recurrent yeast infections and the Dr suspected\\nmy boyfriend might have gotten it from me and be reinfecting me. The\\nprescription was interesting. For each day of the medication (a week) I \\nwas to insert the medication, then to have intercourse. The resulting \\naction would help the medicine be spread around in me better, and would \\nsimultaneously treat him. \\n\\n\",\n", " 'From: marco@sdf.lonestar.org (Steve Giammarco)\\nSubject: Re: Is MSG sensitivity superstition?\\nOrganization: sdf public access Unix, Dallas TX 214/436-3281\\nLines: 27\\n\\nIn article <1qk1taINNmr4@calamari.hi.com> rogers@calamari.hi.com (Andrew Rogers) writes:\\n>In article <1993Apr15.153729.13738@walter.bellcore.com> jchen@ctt.bellcore.com writes:\\n>>Chinese, and many other Asians (Japanese, Koreans, etc) have used\\n>>MSG as flavor enhancer for two thousand years. Do you believe that\\n>>they knew how to make MSG from chemical processes? Not. They just\\n>>extracted it from natural food such sea food and meat broth.\\n>\\n>And to add further fuel to the flame war, I read about 20 years ago that\\n>the \"natural\" MSG - extracted from the sources you mention above - does not\\n>cause the reported aftereffects; it\\'s only that nasty \"artificial\" MSG -\\n>extracted from coal tar or whatever - that causes Chinese Restaurant\\n>Syndrome. I find this pretty hard to believe; has anyone else heard it?\\n\\nI was under the (possibly incorrect) assumption that most of the MSG on\\nour foods was made from processing sugar beets. Is this not true? Are \\nthere other sources of MSG?\\n\\nI am one of those folx who react, sometimes strongly, to MSG. However,\\nI also react strongly to sodium chloride (table salt) in excess. Each\\ncauses different symptoms except for the common one of rapid heartbeat\\nand an uncomfortable feeling of pressure in my chest, upper left quadrant.\\n\\n\\n-- \\nSteve Giammarco/5330 Peterson Lane/Dallas TX 75240\\nmarco@sdf.lonestar.org\\nloveyameanit.\\n',\n", " 'From: dietz@cs.rochester.edu (Paul Dietz)\\nSubject: Commercial mining activities on the moon\\nOrganization: University of Rochester\\nLines: 38\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr20.152819.28186@ke4zv.uucp> gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman) writes:\\n\\n > be the site of major commercial activity. As far as we know it has no\\n > materials we can\\'t get cheaper right here on Earth or from asteroids\\n > and comets, aside from the semi-mythic He3 that *might* be useful in low\\n > grade fusion reactors.\\n\\nI don\\'t know what a \"low grade\" fusion reactor is, but the major\\nproblem with 3He (aside from the difficulty in making any fusion\\nreactor work) is that its concentration in lunar regolith is just so\\nsmall -- on the order of 5 ppb or so, on average (more in some\\nfractions, but still very small). Massive amounts of regolith would\\nhave to be processed.\\n\\nThis thread reminds me of Wingo\\'s claims some time ago about the moon\\nas a source of titanium for use on earth. As I recall, Wingo wasn\\'t\\ncontent with being assured that titanium (at .5% in the Earth\\'s crust,\\naverage) would not run out, and touted lunar mines, even though the\\nmarket price of ilmenite concentrate these days is around $.06/pound.\\nThis prompted me to look up large potential terrestrial sources.\\n\\nOn the moon, titanium occurs in basalts; \"high-Ti\" basalts (Apollo 11\\nand 17) have 8-14% titanium dioxide (by weight). This is nice, but...\\nterrestrial continental flood basalts are also typically enriched in\\ntitanium. They very often have 3% TiO2, frequently have 4%, and\\nsometimes even 5% TiO2 (again, by weight). These flood basalts are\\n*enormous* -- millions of cubic kilometers, scattered all over the\\nworld (Siberia, Brazil, the NW United States, Ethiopia, etc.). If\\neven 1% of the basalts are 5% TiO2, this is trillions of tons of TiO2\\nat concentrations only a factor of 2-3 less than in lunar high-Ti\\nbasalts. It is difficult to see how the disadvantages of the moon\\ncould be overcome by such a small increase the concentration of the\\nore (never mind the richer, but less common, terrestrial ores being\\nmined today).\\n\\n\\tPaul F. Dietz\\n\\tdietz@cs.rochester.edu\\n\\n',\n", " 'From: pgf@srl03.cacs.usl.edu (Phil G. Fraering)\\nSubject: Re: Vandalizing the sky.\\nOrganization: Univ. of Southwestern Louisiana\\nLines: 49\\n\\nhoover@mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de (Uwe Schuerkamp) writes:\\n\\n>In article enzo@research.canon.oz.au \\n>(Enzo Liguori) writes:\\n\\n>> hideous vision of the future. Observers were\\n>>startled this spring when a NASA launch vehicle arrived at the\\n>>pad with \"SCHWARZENEGGER\" painted in huge block letters on the\\n\\n>This is ok in my opinion as long as the stuff *returns to earth*.\\n\\n>>What do you think of this revolting and hideous attempt to vandalize\\n>>the night sky? It is not even April 1 anymore.\\n\\n>If this turns out to be true, it\\'s time to get seriously active in\\n>terrorism. This is unbelievable! Who do those people think they are,\\n>selling every bit that promises to make money? I guess we really\\n>deserve being wiped out by uv radiation, folks. \"Stupidity wins\". I\\n>guess that\\'s true, and if only by pure numbers.\\n\\n>\\tAnother depressed planetary citizen,\\n>\\thoover\\n\\n\\nThis isn\\'t inherently bad.\\n\\nThis isn\\'t really light pollution since it will only\\nbe visible shortly before or after dusk (or during the\\nday).\\n\\n(Of course, if night only lasts 2 hours for you, you\\'re probably going\\nto be inconvienenced. But you\\'re inconvienenced anyway in that case).\\n\\nFinally: this isn\\'t the Bronze Age, and most of us aren\\'t Indo\\nEuropean; those people speaking Indo-Eurpoean languages often have\\nmuch non-indo-european ancestry and cultural background. So:\\nplease try to remember that there are more human activities than\\nthose practiced by the Warrior Caste, the Farming Caste, and the\\nPriesthood.\\n\\nAnd why act distressed that someone\\'s found a way to do research\\nthat doesn\\'t involve socialism?\\n\\nIt certianly doesn\\'t mean we deserve to die.\\n--\\nPhil Fraering |\"Seems like every day we find out all sorts of stuff.\\npgf@srl02.cacs.usl.edu|Like how the ancient Mayans had televison.\" Repo Man\\n\\n\\n',\n", " \"From: rind@enterprise.bih.harvard.edu (David Rind)\\nSubject: Re: Adult Chicken Pox\\nDistribution: usa\\nOrganization: Beth Israel Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston Mass., USA\\nLines: 15\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: enterprise.bih.harvard.edu\\n\\nIn article marcbg@feenix.metronet.com\\n (Marc Grant) writes:\\n>all over my bod. At what point am I no longer infectious? My physician's\\n>office says when they are all scabbed over. Is this true?\\n\\nYes.\\n\\n>Is there any medications which can promote healing of the pox? Speed up\\n>healing?\\n\\nAcyclovir started in the first 1-2 days probably speeds recovery and\\ndecreases the formation of new pox.\\n-- \\nDavid Rind\\nrind@enterprise.bih.harvard.edu\\n\",\n", " \"From: jdnicoll@prism.ccs.uwo.ca (James Davis Nicoll)\\nSubject: Re: New planet/Kuiper object found?\\nOrganization: University of Western Ontario, London\\nDistribution: sci\\nNntp-Posting-Host: prism.engrg.uwo.ca\\nLines: 5\\n\\n\\tIf the new Kuiper belt object *is* called 'Karla', the next\\none should be called 'Smiley'.\\n\\n\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t\\tJames Nicoll\\n\\n\",\n", " 'From: doyle+@pitt.edu (Howard R Doyle)\\nSubject: Re: Barbecued foods and health risk\\nOrganization: Pittsburgh Transplan Institute\\nLines: 18\\n\\nIn article dubin@spot.colorado.edu writes:\\n\\n>\\n>I recall that the issue is that fat on the meat liquifies and then\\n>drips down onto the hot elements--whatever they are--that the extreme\\n>heat then catalyzes something in the fat into one or more\\n>carcinogens which then are carried back up onto the meat in the smoke.\\n>\\n \\n\\nHmmm. Care to be more vague?\\n\\n\\n=======================================\\nHoward Doyle\\ndoyle+@pitt.edu\\n\\n\\n',\n", " 'From: nanderso@Endor.sim.es.com (Norman Anderson)\\nSubject: Re: A WRENCH in the works?\\nOrganization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp.\\nLines: 13\\n\\njmcocker@eos.ncsu.edu (Mitch) writes:\\n\\n\\n\\n>effect that one of the SSRBs that was recovered after the\\n>recent space shuttle launch was found to have a wrench of\\n>some sort rattling around apparently inside the case.\\n\\nI heard a similar statement in our local news (UTAH) tonight. They referred\\nto the tool as \"...the PLIERS that took a ride into space...\". They also\\nsaid that a Thiokol (sp?) employee had reported missing a tool of some kind\\nduring assembly of one SRB. No more info as to the location in the SRB.\\nI agree, pretty weird.\\n',\n", " \"From: Donald Mackie \\nSubject: Re: options before back surgery for protruding disc at L4-L5\\nOrganization: UM Anesthesiology\\nLines: 33\\nDistribution: world\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: 141.214.86.38\\nX-UserAgent: Nuntius v1.1.1d9\\nX-XXDate: Fri, 16 Apr 93 15:37:39 GMT\\n\\nSubject: options before back surgery for protruding disc at L4-L5\\nFrom: Alex Miller, amiller@almaden.ibm.com\\nDate: 13 Apr 93 18:30:42 GMT\\nIn article <2241@coyote.UUCP> Alex Miller, amiller@almaden.ibm.com\\nwrites:\\n>After two weeks of limping around with an acute pain in my low back\\n>and right leg, my osteopath sent me to get an MRI which revealed\\n>a protruding (and extruded) disc at L4-L5. I went to a neurosurgeon\\n>who prescribed prednisole (a steroidal anti-inflamitory) and bed\\nrest\\n>for several days. It's been nearly a week and overall I feel \\n>slightly worse - I take darvocet three times a day so I can\\n>deal with daily activities like preparing food and help me\\n>get to sleep. \\n> \\n>I'll see the neurosurgeon tomorrow and of course I'll be asking\\n>whether or not this rest is helpful or if surgery is the next \\n>step. What are my non-surgical options if my goal is to resume\\n>full activity, including competitive cycling. I should add this\\n>condition is, in my opinion, the result of commulative wear and\\n>tear - I've had chronic low-back pain for years - but I managed\\n\\nYou don't say whether or not you have any symptoms other than pain.\\nIf you have numbness, weakness or bladder problems, for example,\\nthese would suggest a need for surgery. If pain is your only symptom\\nyou might do well to find a reputable, multi-disciplinary pain\\nclinic in your area. Chronic low back pain generally doesn't do well\\nwith surgery, acute on chronic pain (as only symptom) doesn't fare\\nmuch better.\\ne correlation between MRI findings and symptoms is controversial.\\n\\nDon Mackie - his opinions\\nUM will disavow...\\n\",\n", " 'From: aws@iti.org (Allen W. Sherzer)\\nSubject: Re: Why not give $1 billion to first year-long moon residents?\\nOrganization: Evil Geniuses for a Better Tomorrow\\nLines: 24\\n\\nIn article <1qve4kINNpas@sal-sun121.usc.edu> schaefer@sal-sun121.usc.edu (Peter Schaefer) writes:\\n\\n>|> > Announce that a reward of $1 billion would go to the first corporation \\n>|> > who successfully keeps at least 1 person alive on the moon for a year. \\n\\n>Oh gee, a billion dollars! That\\'d be just about enough to cover the cost of the\\n>feasability study! Happy, Happy, JOY! JOY!\\n\\nDepends. If you assume the existance of a working SSTO like DC, on billion\\n$$ would be enough to put about a quarter million pounds of stuff on the\\nmoon. If some of that mass went to send equipment to make LOX for the\\ntransfer vehicle, you could send a lot more. Either way, its a lot\\nmore than needed.\\n\\nThis prize isn\\'t big enough to warrent developing a SSTO, but it is\\nenough to do it if the vehicle exists.\\n\\n Allen\\n\\n-- \\n+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+\\n| Lady Astor: \"Sir, if you were my husband I would poison your coffee!\" |\\n| W. Churchill: \"Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it.\" |\\n+----------------------57 DAYS TO FIRST FLIGHT OF DCX-----------------------+\\n',\n", " 'From: nsmca@aurora.alaska.edu\\nSubject: Re: Eco-Freaks forcing Space Mining.\\nArticle-I.D.: aurora.1993Apr23.123433.1\\nOrganization: University of Alaska Fairbanks\\nLines: 43\\nNntp-Posting-Host: acad3.alaska.edu\\n\\nIn article <1r96hb$kbi@access.digex.net>, prb@access.digex.com (Pat) writes:\\n> In article <1993Apr23.001718.1@aurora.alaska.edu> nsmca@aurora.alaska.edu writes:\\n>>In article <1r6b7v$ec5@access.digex.net>, prb@access.digex.com (Pat) writes:\\n>>> Besides this was the same line of horse puckey the mining companies claimed\\n>>> when they were told to pay for restoring land after strip mining.\\n>>===\\n>>I aint talking the large or even the \"mining companies\" I am talking the small\\n>>miners, the people who have themselves and a few employees (if at all).The\\n>>people who go out every year and set up thier sluice box, and such and do\\n>>mining the semi-old fashion way.. (okay they use modern methods toa point).\\n> \\n> \\n> Lot\\'s of these small miners are no longer miners. THey are people living\\n> rent free on Federal land, under the claim of being a miner. The facts are\\n> many of these people do not sustaint heir income from mining, do not\\n> often even live their full time, and do fotentimes do a fair bit\\n> of environmental damage.\\n> \\n> These minign statutes were created inthe 1830\\'s-1870\\'s when the west was\\n> uninhabited and were designed to bring people into the frontier. Times change\\n> people change. DEAL. you don\\'t have a constitutional right to live off\\n> the same industry forever. Anyone who claims the have a right to their\\n> job in particular, is spouting nonsense. THis has been a long term\\n> federal welfare program, that has outlived it\\'s usefulness.\\n> \\n> pat\\n> \\n\\nHum, do you enjoy putting words in my mouth? \\nCome to Nome and meet some of these miners.. I am not sure how things go down\\nsouth in the lower 48 (I used to visit, but), of course to believe the\\nmedia/news its going to heck (or just plain crazy). \\nWell it seems that alot of Unionist types seem to think that having a job is a\\nright, and not a priviledge. Right to the same job as your forbearers, SEE:\\nKennedy\\'s and tel me what you see (and the families they have married into).\\nThere is a reason why many historians and poli-sci types use unionist and\\nsocialist in the same breath.\\nThe miners that I know, are just your average hardworking people who pay there\\ntaxes and earn a living.. But taxes are not the answer. But maybe we could move\\nthis discussion to some more appropriate newsgroup..\\n\\n==\\nMichael Adams, nsmca@acad3.alaska.edu -- I\\'m not high, just jacked\\n',\n", " 'From: yamauchi@ces.cwru.edu (Brian Yamauchi)\\nSubject: DC-X: Choice of a New Generation (was Re: SSRT Roll-Out Speech)\\nOrganization: Case Western Reserve University\\nLines: 27\\nDistribution: world\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: yuggoth.ces.cwru.edu\\nIn-reply-to: jkatz@access.digex.com\\'s message of 21 Apr 1993 22:09:32 -0400\\n\\nIn article <1r4uos$jid@access.digex.net> jkatz@access.digex.com (Jordan Katz) writes:\\n\\n>\\t\\t Speech Delivered by Col. Simon P. Worden,\\n>\\t\\t\\tThe Deputy for Technology, SDIO\\n>\\n>\\tMost of you, as am I, are \"children of the 1960\\'s.\" We grew\\n>up in an age of miracles -- Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles,\\n>nuclear energy, computers, flights to the moon. But these were\\n>miracles of our parent\\'s doing. \\n\\n> Speech by Pete Worden\\n> Delivered Before the U.S. Space Foundation Conference\\n\\n> I\\'m embarrassed when my generation is compared with the last\\n>generation -- the giants of the last great space era, the 1950\\'s\\n>and 1960\\'s. They went to the moon - we built a telescope that\\n>can\\'t see straight. They soft-landed on Mars - the least we\\n>could do is soft-land on Earth!\\n\\nJust out of curiousity, how old is Worden?\\n--\\n_______________________________________________________________________________\\n\\nBrian Yamauchi\\t\\t\\tCase Western Reserve University\\nyamauchi@alpha.ces.cwru.edu\\tDepartment of Computer Engineering and Science\\n_______________________________________________________________________________\\n\\n',\n", " 'From: jib@bonnie.jsc.nasa.gov (J. I. Blackshear Jr.)\\nSubject: DSPSE (was Why Clementine?)\\nReply-To: jib@bonnie.jsc.nasa.gov\\nOrganization: Barrios Technology @ NASA/JSC; Houston\\nLines: 29\\n\\nThe SDIO has \"contracted\" with the NRL (Naval Research Laboratory) to fly the Clementine Mission. BTW we call it DSPSE (Deep Space Project Science Experiment).\\n\\nThe NRL is building the spacecraft, designing the detailed mission and doing the\\nintegration and operations (with help from, JPL & Goddard & prob. some folks I\\nhave left out...don\\'t be mad).\\n\\nI am on the TAMP (Trajectory Analysis & Mission Planning) team and am responsable\\nfor the IV&V of the traj that Goddard/CSC are designing.\\n\\nAs for why SDIO is doing it, some of the reasons are:\\n\\n 1) the safety constraints are too tight to try to run the LIDAR in LEO\\n\\n 2) in LEO we don\\'t get any new radiation data on the sensors, we will get\\n that data on our 9 passages through the Van Allen (sp?) Belts\\n\\n 3) since we are going out there...why not piggy-back some general science\\n\\n 4) the intercept problem is a lot easied over LONG distances and LONG times\\n\\nI am sure there are some things I have forgotten, and some I haven\\'t been told\\nbut, those are the reasons we all talk about.\\n\\n-- \\n\\n\\n Jim Blackshear\\n jib@bonnie.jsc.nasa.gov\\n\\n',\n", " \"From: hancock@lambda.msfc.nasa.gov (thomas hancock)\\nSubject: Re: Proton/Centaur?\\nOrganization: NASA/MSFC\\nLines: 40\\n\\ndennisn@ecs.comm.mot.com (Dennis Newkirk) writes:\\nThe Centaur is controlled technology..\\nState Dept will not allow it to be used outside of US. Sorry.\\n>In article <1993Apr20.211638.168730@zeus.calpoly.edu> jgreen@trumpet.calpoly.edu (James Thomas Green) writes:\\n>>Has anyone looked into the possiblity of a Proton/Centaur combo?\\n>>What would be the benefits and problems with such a combo (other\\n>>than the obvious instability in the XSSR now)?\\n\\n>I haven't seen any speculation about it. But, the Salyut KB (Design Bureau) \\n>was planning a new LH/LOX second stage for the Proton which would boost\\n>payload to LEO from about 21000 to 31500 kg. (Geostationary goes from\\n>2600 kg. (Gals launcher version) to 6000 kg.. This scheme was competing\\n>with the Energia-M last year and I haven't heard which won, except now\\n>I recently read that the Central Specialized KB was working on the \\n>successor to the Soyuz booster which must be the Energia-M. So the early\\n>results are Energia-M won, but this is a guess, nothing is very clear in \\n>Russia. I'm sure if Salyut KB gets funds from someone they will continue \\n>their development. \\n\\n>The Centaur for the Altas is about 3 meters dia. and the Proton \\n>is 4 so that's a good fit for their existing upper stage, the Block-D\\n>which sets inside a shround just under 4 meters dia. I don't know about\\n>launch loads, etc.. but since the Centaur survives Titan launches which\\n>are probably worse than the Proton (those Titan SRB's probably shake things\\n>up pretty good) it seems feasible. EXCEPT, the Centaur is a very fragile\\n>thing and may require integration on the pad which is not available now.\\n>Protons are assembled and transported horizontially. Does anyone know \\n>how much stress in the way of a payload a Centaur could support while\\n>bolted to a Proton horizontally and then taken down the rail road track\\n>and erected on the pad? \\n\\n>They would also need LOX and LH facilities added to the Proton pads \\n>(unless the new Proton second stage is actually built), and of course\\n>any Centaur support systems and facilities, no doubt imported from the\\n>US at great cost. These systems may viloate US law so there are political\\n>problems to solve in addition to the instabilities in the CIS you mention. \\n\\n>Dennis Newkirk (dennisn@ecs.comm.mot.com)\\n>Motorola, Land Mobile Products Sector\\n>Schaumburg, IL\\n\",\n", " 'From: kxgst1+@pitt.edu (Kenneth Gilbert)\\nSubject: Re: Intravenous antibiotics\\nOrganization: University of Pittsburgh\\nLines: 25\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr19.144358.28376@spectrum.xerox.com> leisner@eso.mc.xerox.com writes:\\n:I recently had a case of shingles and my doctors wanted to give me\\n:intravenous Acyclovir.\\n:\\n:It was a pain finding IV sites in my arms...can I have some facts about\\n:how advantageous it is to give intravenous antibiotics rather than oral?\\n:\\n\\nI think some essential information must be missing here, i.e., you must be\\nsuffering from a condition which has caused immunosuppression. There is\\nno indication for IV acyclovir for shingles in an otherwise healthy\\nperson. The oral form can help to reduce the length of symptoms, and may\\neven help prevent the development of post-herpetic neuralgia, but I\\ncertainly would not subject someone to IV therapy without a good reason.\\n\\nTo address your more general question, IV therapy does provide higher and\\nmore consistently high plasma and tissue levels of a drug. For treating a\\nserious infection this is the only way to be sure that a patient is\\ngetting adequate drug levels.\\n\\n-- \\n=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-|-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=\\n= Kenneth Gilbert __|__ University of Pittsburgh =\\n= General Internal Medicine | \"...dammit, not a programmer!\" =\\n=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-|-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=\\n',\n", " 'From: jgreen@trumpet.calpoly.edu (James Thomas Green)\\nSubject: Re: Vulcan? (No, not the guy with the ears!)\\nOrganization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo\\nLines: 31\\n\\n>In article victor@inqmind.bison.mb.ca (Victor Laking) writes:\\n>>From: victor@inqmind.bison.mb.ca (Victor Laking)\\n>>Subject: Vulcan? (No, not the guy with the ears!)\\n>>Date: Sun, 04 Apr 93 19:31:54 CDT\\n>>Does anyone have any info on the apparent sightings of Vulcan?\\n>> \\n>>All that I know is that there were apparently two sightings at \\n>>drastically different times of a small planet that was inside Mercury\\'s \\n>>orbit. Beyond that, I have no other info.\\n>>\\n>>Does anyone know anything more specific?\\n>>\\n\\nAs I heard the story, before Albert came up the the theory\\no\\'relativity and warped space, nobody could account for\\nMercury\\'s orbit. It ran a little fast (I think) for simple\\nNewtonian physics. With the success in finding Neptune to\\nexplain the odd movments of Uranus, it was postulated that there\\nmight be another inner planet to explain Mercury\\'s orbit. \\n\\nIt\\'s unlikely anything bigger than an asteroid is closer to the\\nsun than Mercury. I\\'m sure we would have spotted it by now.\\nPerhaps some professionals can confirm that.\\n\\n\\n/~~~(-: James T. Green :-)~~~~(-: jgreen@oboe.calpoly.edu :-)~~~\\\\ \\n| Heaven, n.: |\\n| A place where the wicked cease from troubling you with talk | \\n| of their own personal affairs, and the good listen with |\\n| attention while you expound your own. |\\n| Ambrose Bierce, \"The Devil\\'s Dictionary\" |\\n',\n", " 'From: moroney@world.std.com (Michael Moroney)\\nSubject: Re: Vulcan? (No, not the guy with the ears!)\\nOrganization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA\\nLines: 21\\n\\nvictor@inqmind.bison.mb.ca (Victor Laking) writes:\\n\\n>Does anyone have any info on the apparent sightings of Vulcan?\\n> \\n>All that I know is that there were apparently two sightings at \\n>drastically different times of a small planet that was inside Mercury\\'s \\n>orbit. Beyond that, I have no other info.\\n\\n>Does anyone know anything more specific?\\n\\n>(Yes, this happened LONG before Star Trek and is apparently where they \\n>got the reference for the \"guy with the ears\".)\\n\\nYes, long before Star Trek. Before Einstein, in fact.\\n\\nVulcan as a planet inside Mercury was hypothesized to explain a perturbation\\nof Mercury\\'s orbit that could not be explained by the known planets. But\\nEinstein\\'s theory of relativity explained Mercury\\'s motion, and analysis\\nof Mercury\\'s motion now shows there are _not_ any planets inside its orbit.\\n\\n-Mike\\n',\n", " 'From: ghasting@vdoe386.vak12ed.edu (George Hastings)\\nSubject: Re: Space on other nets\\nOrganization: Virginia\\'s Public Education Network (Richmond)\\nLines: 17\\n\\n We run \"SpaceNews & Views\" on our STAREACH BBS, a local\\noperation running WWIV software with the capability to link to\\nover 1500 other BBS\\'s in the U.S.A. and Canada through WWIVNet.\\n Having just started this a couple of months ago, our sub us\\ncurrently subscribed by only about ten other boards, but more\\nare being added.\\n We get our news articles re on Internet, via ftp from NASA\\nsites, and from a variety of aerospace related periodicals. We\\nget a fair amount of questions on space topics from students\\nwho access the system.\\n ____________________________________________________________\\n| George Hastings\\t\\tghasting@vdoe386.vak12ed.edu | \\n| Space Science Teacher\\t\\t72407.22@compuserve.com | If it\\'s not\\n| Mathematics & Science Center \\tSTAREACH BBS: 804-343-6533 | FUN, it\\'s\\n| 2304 Hartman Street\\t\\tOFFICE: 804-343-6525 | probably not\\n| Richmond, VA 23223\\t\\tFAX: 804-343-6529 | SCIENCE!\\n ------------------------------------------------------------\\n',\n", " 'From: loss@fs7.ECE.CMU.EDU (Doug Loss)\\nSubject: Re: Death and Taxes (was Why not give $1 billion to...\\nOrganization: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon\\nLines: 55\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr23.000021.1@aurora.alaska.edu> nsmca@aurora.alaska.edu writes:\\n>In article <1993Apr22.162501.747@indyvax.iupui.edu>, tffreeba@indyvax.iupui.edu writes:\\n>> [...] Somebody pointed out, quite correctly, that such rights are\\n>> not anybody\\'s to grant (although I imagine it would be a fait accompli\\n>> situation for the winner.) So how about this? Give the winning group\\n>> (I can\\'t see one company or corp doing it) a 10, 20, or 50 year\\n>> moratorium on taxes.\\n>> \\n>> Tom Freebairn \\n>\\n>\\n>Who says there is no mineral rights to be given? Who says? The UN or the US\\n>Government? \\n\\nTom\\'s right about this. It\\'s only a grantable right if the granter has\\nthe will and the ability to stop anyone from taking it away from you.\\nNever mind the legal status.\\n\\n>Major question is if you decide to mine the moon or Mars, who will stop you?\\n>The UN can\\'t other than legal tom foolerie.. Can the truly inforce it?\\n\\nNick\\'s right about this. It\\'s always easier to obtain forgiveness than\\npermission. Not many people remember that Britain\\'s King George III\\nexpressly forbid his american subjects to cross the alleghany/appalachian\\nmountains. Said subjects basically said, \"Stop us if you can.\" He\\ncouldn\\'t.\\n\\n>If you go to the moon as declare that you are now a soverign nation, who will\\n>stop you from doing it. Maybe not acknowledge you? \\n\\nThat\\'s how the USA started. Of course, that\\'s also how the Bolivarian\\nRepublic started (ca. 1800-1820) in central america. It didn\\'t have\\nquite the staying power of the USA. I\\'m sure there are more examples of\\ngoing far away and then ignoring authority, but none jump to mind right\\nnow.\\n\\n>What can happen is to find a nation which is acknowledged, and offer your\\n>services as a space miner and then go mine the asteroids/mars/moon or what\\n>ever.. As long as yur sponsor does not get in trouble..\\n\\nOr do as some whaling nations do: define whatever activities you want to\\ncarry out as \"scientific research\" which just coincidentally requires\\nthe recovery of megatonnes of minerals (or whatever), then go at it.\\n\\n>Basically find a country who wants to go into space, but can\\'t for soem reason\\n>or another, but who will give you a \"home\".. Such as Saudia Arabia or\\n>whatever..\\n\\nLute Keyser had just this sort of arrangement with Libya (I think) in\\nthe late \\'70\\'s for his commercial space launch project (one of the very\\nearliest). It was killed by Soviet propaganda about NATO cruise\\nmissiles in Africa, which made Libya renege on the arrangement.\\n\\n\\nDoug Loss\\n',\n", " 'From: agc@bmdhh286.bnr.ca (Alan Carter)\\nSubject: Command Loss Timer (Re: Galileo Update - 04/22/93)\\nKeywords: Galileo, JPL\\nNntp-Posting-Host: bmdhh286\\nOrganization: BNR-Europe-Limited, Maidenhead, England\\nLines: 17\\n\\nIn article <22APR199323003578@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov>, baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov (Ron Baalke) writes:\\n|> 3. On April 19, a NO-OP command was sent to reset the command loss timer to\\n|> 264 hours, its planned value during this mission phase.\\n\\nThis activity is regularly reported in Ron\\'s interesting posts. Could\\nsomeone explain what the Command Loss Timer is?\\n\\nThanks, Alan\\n\\n~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\\n1 Belle Vue Court |\"They\\'re unfriendly, which | Home: 0684 564438\\n32 Belle Vue Terrace | is fortunate, really. They\\'d | Away: 0628 784351\\nGreat Malvern | be difficult to like.\" | Work: 0628 794137\\nWorcestershire | |\\nWR14 4PZ | Kerr Avon, Blake\\'s Seven | Temporary: agc@bnr.ca\\nEngland | | Permanent: alan@gid.co.uk\\n~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\\n',\n", " 'From: pearson@tsd.arlut.utexas.edu (N. Shirlene Pearson)\\nSubject: Re: Sunrise/ sunset times\\nNntp-Posting-Host: wren\\nOrganization: Applied Research Labs, University of Texas at Austin\\nLines: 13\\n\\njpw@cbis.ece.drexel.edu (Joseph Wetstein) writes:\\n\\n\\n>Hello. I am looking for a program (or algorithm) that can be used\\n>to compute sunrise and sunset times.\\n\\nWould you mind posting the responses you get?\\nI am also interested, and there may be others.\\n\\nThanks,\\n\\nN. Shirlene Pearson\\npearson@titan.tsd.arlut.utexas.edu\\n',\n", " 'From: ndallen@r-node.hub.org (Nigel Allen)\\nSubject: Water supplies vulnerable to Milwaukee-type disease outbreak\\nOrganization: R-node Public Access Unix - 1 416 249 5366\\nLines: 182\\n\\nHere is a press release from the Natural Resources Defense Council.\\n\\n New Data Show About 100 Major U.S. Water Supplies Vulnerable To\\nMilwaukee-Type Disease Outbreak\\n To: National Desk, Environment Writer\\n Contact: Erik Olson or Sarah Silver, 202-783-7800, both\\n of the Natural Resources Defense Council\\n\\n WASHINGTON, April 14 -- Internal EPA data released\\ntoday by the Natural Resources Defense Council reveals that about\\n100 large water systems -- serving cities from Boston to San\\nFrancisco -- do not filter to remove disease-carrying organisms\\nleaving those communities potentially vulnerable to a disease\\noutbreak similar to the one affecting Milwaukee.\\n The EPA list is attached.\\n \"These internal EPA documents reveal that the safety of water\\nsupplies in many American cities is threatened by inadequate\\npollution controls or filtration,\" said Erik Olson, a senior\\nattorney with NRDC. \"Water contamination isn\\'t just a problem in\\nBangladesh, it\\'s also a problem in Bozeman and Boston.\"\\n \"As of June 29, 1993, about 100 large surface water systems on\\nEPA\\'s list probably will be breaking the law. The 1986 Safe\\nDrinking Water Act requires all surface water systems to either\\nfilter their water or fully protect the rivers or lakes they use\\nfrom pollution,\" Olson continued. Some systems are moving\\ntowards eventually implementing filtration systems but are\\nexpected to miss the law\\'s deadline.\\n Olson pointed out that the threat of contamination is already\\na reality in other cities. A 1991 survey of 66 U.S. surface\\nwater systems by water utility scientists found that 87 percent\\nof raw water samples contained the Milwaukee organism\\ncryptosporidium, and 81 percent contained a similar parasite\\ncalled giardia.\\n Adding to the level of concern, a General Accounting Office\\nstudy released today by House Health and Environment Subcommittee\\nChairman Henry Waxman indicates serious deficiencies in the\\nnation\\'s system for conducting and following through on sanitary\\nsurveys of water systems.\\n \"This new information raises a huge warning sign that millions\\nof Americans can no longer simply turn on their taps and be\\nassured that their water is safe to drink. We must immediately\\nput into place programs to protect water sources from\\ncontamination and where this is not assured, filtration equipment\\nmust be installed to protect the public,\" Olson noted. \"The time\\nhas come for many of the nation\\'s water utilities to stop\\ndragging their feet and to aggressively protect their water from\\ncontamination; consumers are prepared to pay the modest costs\\nneeded to assure their water is safe to drink.\"\\n NRDC is a national non-profit environmental advocacy organization.\\n\\n Systems EPA Indicates Require Filtration and Do Not Adequately\\nProtect Watersheds\\n\\n CONNECTICUT\\n\\n Bridgeport Bridgeport Hydraulic Co.\\n\\n MASSACHUSETTS\\n Boston H2O Resource Author (MWRA)\\n Medford MWRA-Medford Water Dept\\n Melrose MWRA-Melrose Water Dept\\n Hilton MWRA-Hilton Water Dept\\n Needham MWRA-Needham Water Division\\n Newtoncenter MWRA-Newton Water Dept.\\n Marblehead MWRA-Marblehead Water Dept\\n Quincy MWRA-Quincy Water Dept\\n Norwood MWRA-Norwood Water Dept\\n Framingham MWRA-Framingham Water Div\\n Cambridge MWRA-Cambridge Water Dept\\n Canton MWRA-Canton Water Div-DPW\\n Chelsea MWRA-Chelsea Water Dept\\n Everett MWRA-Everett Water Dept\\n Lexington MWRA-201 Bedford (PUO WRKS)\\n Lynn MWRA-Lynn Water & Sewer Co\\n Malden MWRA-Malden Water Division\\n Revere MWRA-Revere Water Dept\\n Woburn MWRA-Woburn Water Dept\\n Swampscott MWRA-Swampscott Water Dept\\n Saugus MWRA-Saugus Water Dept\\n Somerville MWRA-Somerville Water Dept\\n Stoneman MWRA-Stoneman Water Dept\\n Brookline MWRA-Brookline Water Dept\\n Wakefield MWRA-Same as Above\\n Waltham MWRA-Waltham Water Division\\n Watertown MWRA-Watertown Water Division\\n Weston MWRA-Weston Water Dept\\n Dedham MWRA-Dedham-Westwood District\\n Winchester MWRA-Winchester Water & Sewer\\n Winthrop MWRA-Winthrop Water Dept\\n Boston MWRA-Boston Water & Sewer Co\\n S. Hadley MWRA-South Hadley Fire Dist\\n Arlington MWRA-Arlington Water Dept\\n Belmont MWRA-Belmont Water Dept\\n Clinton MWRA-Clinton Water Dept\\n Attleboro Attleboro Water Dept\\n Fitchburg Fitchburg Water Dept\\n Northampton Northampton Water Dept\\n North Adams North Adams Water Dept\\n Amherst Amherst Water Division DPW\\n Gardner Gardner Water Dept\\n Worcester Worcester DPW, Water Oper\\n Westboro Westboro Water Dept\\n Southbridge Southbridge Water Supply Co\\n Newburyport Newburyport Water Dept\\n Hingham Hingham Water Co\\n Brockton Brockton Water Dept\\n\\n MAINE\\n Rockland Camden & Rockland Water Co\\n Bath Bath Water District\\n\\n NEW HAMPSHIRE\\n Keene City of Keene\\n Salem Salem Water Dept\\n\\n VERMONT\\n Barre City Barre City Water System\\n Rutland City Rutland City Water Dept\\n\\n NEW YORK\\n Glens Falls Glens Falls City\\n Yorktown Hts Yorktown Water Storage & Dist\\n Rochester Rochester City\\n Henrietta Henrietta WD\\n Rochester MCWA Upland System\\n Rochester Greece Consolidated\\n New York NYC-Aquaduct Sys (Croton)\\n Chappaqua New Castle/Stanwood WD\\n Beacon Beacon City\\n Mamaronek Westchester Joint Water Works\\n\\n PENNSYLVANIA\\n Bethlehem Bethlehem Public Water Sys\\n Johnstown Greater Johnstown Water Auth\\n Lock Haven City of Lock Haven-Water Dept\\n Shamokin Roaring Creek Water Comp\\n Harrisburg Harrisburg City\\n Hazleton Hazleton City Water Dept\\n Wind Gap Blue Mt Consolidated\\n Apollo Westmoreland Auth\\n Fayettville Guilford Water Auth\\n Humlock Creek PG&W-Ceasetown Reservoir\\n Springbrook PG&W-Waters Reservoir\\n Wilkes Barre PG&W-Gardners Creek\\n Wilkes Barre PG&W-Hill Creek\\n Wilkes Barre PG&W-Plymouth Relief\\n Altoona Altoona City Auth\\n Tamaqua Tamaqua Municipal water\\n Waynesboro Waynesboro Borough Auth\\n Pottsville Schuykill Co Mun Auth\\n\\n VIRGINIA\\n Covington City of Covington\\n Fishersville South River Sa Dist-ACSA\\n\\n SOUTH CAROLINA\\n Greenville Greenville Water Sys\\n\\n MICHIGAN\\n Sault Ste Marie Sault Ste Marie\\n Marquette Marquette\\n\\n MONTANA\\n Butte Butte Water Co\\n Bozeman Bozeman City\\n\\n CALIFORNIA\\n San Francisco City & County of San Fran\\n\\n NEVADA\\n Reno Westpac\\n\\n IDAHO\\n Twin Falls Twin Falls City\\n\\n WASHINGTON\\n Aberdeen Aberdeen Water Dept\\n Centralia Centralia Water Dept\\n\\n -30-\\n-- \\nNigel Allen, Toronto, Ontario, Canada ndallen@r-node.hub.org\\n',\n", " \"From: eder@hsvaic.boeing.com (Dani Eder)\\nSubject: Re: Guns for Space\\nKeywords: Sopa Gun, Space Launcer\\nOrganization: Boeing AI Center, Huntsville, AL\\nLines: 22\\n\\nIn reference to the limits of acceleration with guns launching solid\\nrockets as payloads. Thiokol provided me with samples and data on\\na reinforcement to solid motor grains for high accelerations. Solid\\nmotor propellants usually have a substantial percentage of \\naluminum in the mix. For example, the Space Shuttle SRBs are 16 percent\\nAluminum. The technique is to use a 'foamed aluminum' structure.\\nThe structure looks like the inverse of a set of bubbles (an I suspect\\nsome bubbling process is used to form it). In other words, if you made\\na bunch of bubbles in molten aluminum, then froze it, this is what\\nyou get. It forms a strong network of effectively aluminum wires in\\nall directions. The remaining solid fuel mix is infiltrated into\\nthe voids, and you get aluminum-reinforced solid propellant. The\\nfoamed-aluminum makes up about 6 percent of the total propellant,\\nso there is still aluminum particles in the bulk grain. The major\\nimprovement is the higher resistance to grain cracking, which is the\\nprincipal failure mode for solid propellant.\\n\\nDani Eder\\n\\n-- \\nDani Eder/Meridian Investment Company/(205)464-2697(w)/232-7467(h)/\\nRt.1, Box 188-2, Athens AL 35611/Location: 34deg 37' N 86deg 43' W +100m alt.\\n\",\n", " 'From: uabdpo.dpo.uab.edu!gila005 (Steve Holland)\\nSubject: Re: Crohn\\'s Disease\\nOrganization: UAB - Gastroenterology\\nLines: 32\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr14.174824.12295@westminster.ac.uk>, kxaec@sun.pcl.ac.uk\\n(David Watters) wrote:\\n> \\n> Dear all,\\n> \\n> I am a Crohn\\'s Disease sufferer and I\\'m interested if anyone knows of any current research that is going on into the subject. I\\'ve done some investigation myself so you don\\'t need to spare me any details. I\\'ve had the fistulas, the ileostomy, etc..\\n> \\n> Is a \"cure\" on the horizon ?\\n> \\n> I am not in the medical profession so if you do reply I would appreciate plain speak.\\n> \\n> I\\'d prefer to be mailed direct as I don\\'t always get a chance to read the news.\\n> \\n> Thank you in advance.\\n> \\n> Dave.\\nThe best group to keep you informed is the Crohn\\'s and Colitis Foundation\\nof America. I do not know if the UK has a similar organization. The\\naddress of\\nthe CCFA is \\n\\nCCFA\\n444 Park Avenue South\\n11th Floor\\nNew York, NY 10016-7374\\nUSA\\n\\nThey have a lot of information available and have a number of newsletters.\\n \\nGood Luck.\\n\\nSteve\\n',\n", " 'From: nyeda@cnsvax.uwec.edu (David Nye)\\nSubject: Re: Good Grief! (was Re: Candida Albicans: what is it?)\\nOrganization: University of Wisconsin Eau Claire\\nLines: 29\\n\\n[reply to aldridge@netcom.com (Jacquelin Aldridge)]\\n \\n>Medicine is not a totally scientific endevour.\\n \\nThe acquisition of scientific knowledge is completely scientific. The\\napplication of that knowledge in individual cases may be more art than\\nscience.\\n \\n>There are diseases that haven\\'t been described yet and the root cause\\n>of many diseases now described aren\\'t known. (Read a book on\\n>gastroenterology sometime if you want to see a lot of them.) After\\n>scientific methods have run out then it\\'s the patient\\'s freedom of\\n>choice to try any experimental method they choose. And it\\'s well\\n>recognized by many doctors that medicine doesn\\'t have all the answers.\\n \\nCertainly we don\\'t have all the answers. The question is, what is the\\nmost reliable means of acquiring further medical knowledge? The\\nscientific method has proven itself to be reliable. The *only* reason\\nalternative therapies are shunned by physicians is that their\\npractitioners refuse to submit their theories to rigorous scientific\\nscrutiny, insisting that \"tradition\" or anecdotal evidence are\\nsufficient. These have been shown many times in the past to be very\\nunreliable ways of acquiring reliable knowledge. Crook\\'s ideas have\\nnever been backed up by scientific evidence. His unwillingness to do\\ngood science makes the rest of us doubt the veracity of his contentions.\\n \\nDavid Nye (nyeda@cnsvax.uwec.edu). Midelfort Clinic, Eau Claire WI\\nThis is patently absurd; but whoever wishes to become a philosopher\\nmust learn not to be frightened by absurdities. -- Bertrand Russell\\n',\n", " 'From: sugarman@ra.cs.umb.edu (Steven R. Garman)\\nSubject: WANTED - Optical Shaft Encoders for Telescope\\nNntp-Posting-Host: ra.cs.umb.edu\\nOrganization: University of Massachusetts at Boston\\nLines: 23\\n\\n\\n[Also posted in misc.forsale.wanted,misc.wanted,ne.wanted,ny.wanted,nj.wanted]\\n\\nWANTED: Optical Shaft Encoders\\n\\nQuantity 2\\nSingle-ended\\nIncremental\\n\\nNeeded to encode the movements of a 16\" Cassegrain telescope. The telescope\\nis in the observatory of the Univ. of Mass. at Boston. The project is being\\nmanaged by Mr. George Tucker, a graduate student at UMB. Please call him, or\\nemail/call me, if you have one or two of the specified type of encoder. Of\\ncourse, due to our low funding level we are looking for a price that is\\nsufficiently lower than that given for new encoders. :)\\n\\nGeorge Tucker\\n617-965-3408\\n\\nME:\\n-- \\nsugarman@cs.umb.edu | 6172876077 univ | 6177313637 home | Standard Disclaimer\\nBoston Massachusetts USA\\n',\n", " 'From: prb@access.digex.com (Pat)\\nSubject: Re: Keeping Spacecraft on after Funding Cuts.\\nOrganization: Express Access Online Communications USA\\nLines: 11\\nDistribution: world\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: access.digex.net\\n\\n\\n\\nSome birds require constant management for survival. Pointing a sensor at\\nthe sun, even when powered down, may burn it out. Pointing a\\nparabolic antenna at Sol, from venus orbit may trash the\\nfoci elements.\\n\\nEven if you let teh bird drift, it may get hosed by some\\ncosmic phenomena. \\n\\npat\\n',\n", " 'From: baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov (Ron Baalke)\\nSubject: Magellan Update - 04/16/93\\nOrganization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory\\nLines: 25\\nDistribution: world\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov\\nKeywords: Magellan, JPL\\nNews-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41 \\n\\nForwarded from Doug Griffith, Magellan Project Manager\\n\\n MAGELLAN STATUS REPORT\\n April 16, 1993\\n\\n1. The Magellan mission at Venus continues normally, gathering gravity\\ndata which provides measurement of density variations in the upper\\nmantle which can be correlated to surface topography. Spacecraft\\nperformance is nominal.\\n\\n2. Magellan has completed 7225 orbits of Venus and is now 39 days from\\nthe end of Cycle-4 and the start of the Transition Experiment.\\n\\n3. No significant activities are expected next week, as preparations\\nfor aerobraking continue on schedule.\\n\\n4. On Monday morning, April 19, the moon will occult Venus and\\ninterrupt the tracking of Magellan for about 68 minutes.\\n ___ _____ ___\\n /_ /| /____/ \\\\ /_ /| Ron Baalke | baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov\\n | | | | __ \\\\ /| | | | Jet Propulsion Lab |\\n ___| | | | |__) |/ | | |__ M/S 525-3684 Telos | The aweto from New Zealand\\n/___| | | | ___/ | |/__ /| Pasadena, CA 91109 | is part caterpillar and\\n|_____|/ |_|/ |_____|/ | part vegetable.\\n\\n',\n", " 'From: paulson@tab00.larc.nasa.gov (Sharon Paulson)\\nSubject: Re: food-related seizures?\\nOrganization: NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton VA, USA\\nLines: 48\\n\\t \\nNNTP-Posting-Host: cmb00.larc.nasa.gov\\nIn-reply-to: mcovingt@aisun3.ai.uga.edu\\'s message of Fri, 23 Apr 1993 03:41:24 GMT\\n\\nIn article mcovingt@aisun3.ai.uga.edu (Michael Covington) writes:\\n\\n Newsgroups: sci.med\\n Path: news.larc.nasa.gov!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!emory!athena!aisun3.ai.uga.edu!mcovingt\\n From: mcovingt@aisun3.ai.uga.edu (Michael Covington)\\n Sender: usenet@athena.cs.uga.edu\\n Nntp-Posting-Host: aisun3.ai.uga.edu\\n Organization: AI Programs, University of Georgia, Athens\\n References: <116305@bu.edu> \\n Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1993 03:41:24 GMT\\n Lines: 27\\n\\n In article geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks) writes:\\n >In article <116305@bu.edu> dozonoff@bu.edu (david ozonoff) writes:\\n >>\\n >>Many of these cereals are corn-based. After your post I looked in the\\n >>literature and located two articles that implicated corn (contains\\n >>tryptophan) and seizures. The idea is that corn in the diet might\\n >>potentiate an already existing or latent seizure disorder, not cause it.\\n >>Check to see if the two Kellog cereals are corn based. I\\'d be interested.\\n >\\n >Years ago when I was an intern, an obese young woman was brought into\\n >the ER comatose after having been reported to have grand mal seizures\\n >why attending a \"corn festival\". We pumped her stomach and obtained\\n >what seemed like a couple of liters of corn, much of it intact kernals. \\n >After a few hours she woke up and was fine. I was tempted to sign her out as\\n >\"acute corn intoxication.\"\\n >----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n >Gordon Banks N3JXP | \"Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and\\n\\n How about contaminants on the corn, e.g. aflatoxin???\\n\\n\\n\\n -- \\n :- Michael A. Covington, Associate Research Scientist : *****\\n :- Artificial Intelligence Programs mcovingt@ai.uga.edu : *********\\n :- The University of Georgia phone 706 542-0358 : * * *\\n :- Athens, Georgia 30602-7415 U.S.A. amateur radio N4TMI : ** *** ** <><\\n\\nWhat is aflatoxin?\\n\\nSharon\\n--\\nSharon Paulson s.s.paulson@larc.nasa.gov\\nNASA Langley Research Center\\nBldg. 1192D, Mailstop 156 Work: (804) 864-2241\\nHampton, Virginia. 23681 Home: (804) 596-2362\\n',\n", " \"From: dietz@cs.rochester.edu (Paul Dietz)\\nSubject: Re: Commercial mining activities on the moon\\nOrganization: University of Rochester\\nLines: 31\\n\\nIn article steinly@topaz.ucsc.edu (Steinn Sigurdsson) writes:\\n\\n> Why Paul, it's obvious.\\n> Once chlorine chemistry has been banned on Earth,\\n> as is being advocated by some groups, Ti prices will\\n> sharply increase (we are of course not allowed to\\n> assume any developments in Ti processing).\\n> Lunar Ti will then be eminently competitive for\\n> the trendy jewelry market and certain applications\\n> of National Importance \\n>\\n> :-) :-) :-) \\n\\nWell, there already is a sulfate process for TiO2 purification. The\\nchlorine process is cleaner, however, and for that reason is achieving\\ndominance in the marketplace.\\n\\nMost Ti is used in pigment, btw (as the oxide), where it replaced\\nwhite lead pigment some decades ago. Very little is reduced to the\\nmetal.\\n\\n> Seriously, I'd say there is a flaw in Gary's analysis\\n> in that he assumes an export oriented economy, maybe\\n> the lunatics will just want some native Ti for local\\n> use...\\n\\nWhich merely evades the issue of why those lunatics are\\nthere at all (and, why their children would want to stay.)\\n\\n\\tPaul F. Dietz\\n\\tdietz@cs.rochester.edu\\n\",\n", " 'From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nSubject: Re: OB-GYN residency\\nReply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nOrganization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science\\nLines: 28\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr12.231544.5990@cnsvax.uwec.edu> nyeda@cnsvax.uwec.edu (David Nye) writes:\\n\\n> \\n>I believe it is illegal for a residency to discriminate against FMGs. I\\n\\n\\nIs that true? I know some that won\\'t even interview FMGs. \\nMost programs discriminate, in that given an FMG equally\\nqualified as an American they will take the American. What\\nrights do they actually have? Does it matter if they are\\nUS citizens (most are not)? We have had good luck with FMGs\\nand bad luck. SOme of our very best residents have been FMGs.\\nAlso, our very worst. As it turns out, the worst FMGs are often\\nUS citizens that studied in off-shore medical schools. Of the\\n5 residents fired for incompetence in the 12 years I\\'ve been here \\nin my department, all have been FMGs. 3 were US citizens who studied \\nin Guadalajara, 1 was a US citizen but was trained in the Soviet Union, \\nand one was Philipina. Unfortunately, all are now practicing medicine\\nsomewhere, 3 of them in Neurology after having been picked up by \\nother programs, 1 in psychiatry, and the other in emergency medicine.\\n\\n\\n\\n-- \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nGordon Banks N3JXP | \"Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and\\ngeb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu | it is shameful to surrender it too soon.\" \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n',\n", " 'From: 8725157m@levels.unisa.edu.au\\nSubject: Cold gas roll control thruster tanks\\nOrganization: University of South Australia\\nLines: 5\\n\\nDoes anyone know how to size cold gas roll control thruster tanks\\nfor sounding rockets?\\n\\nThanks in advance,\\nJim.\\n',\n", " 'From: dhartung@chinet.chi.il.us (Dan Hartung)\\nSubject: _The Andromeda Strain_\\nSummary: How well does it hold up?\\nOrganization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX\\nLines: 28\\n\\nJust had the opportunity to watch this flick on A&E -- some 15 years\\nsince I saw it last. \\n\\nI was very interested in the technology demonstrated in this film\\nfor handling infectious diseases (and similar toxic substances).\\nClearly they \"faked\" a lot of the computer & robotic technology;\\ncertainly at the time it was made most of that was science fiction\\nitself, let alone the idea of a \"space germ\". \\n\\nQuite coincidentally [actually this is what got me wanted to see\\nthe movie again] I watched a segment on the otherwise awful _How\\'d\\nThey Do That?_ dealing with a disease researcher at the CDC\\'s top\\nlab. There was description of the elaborate security measures taken\\nso that building will never be \"cracked\" so to speak by man or\\nnature (short of deliberate bombing from the air, perhaps). And\\nthe researchers used \"spacesuits\" similar to that in the film.\\n\\nI\\'m curious what people think about this film -- short of \"silly\".\\nIs such a facility technically feasible today? \\n\\nAs far as the plot, and the crystalline structure that is not Life\\nAs We Know It, that\\'s a whole \\'nother argument for rec.arts.sf.tech\\nor something.\\n-- \\n | Next: a Waco update ... an Ohio prison update ... a Bosnia update ... a |\\n | Russian update ... an abortion update ... and a Congressional update ... |\\n | here on SNN: The Standoff News Network. All news, all standoff, all day |\\n Daniel A. Hartung -- dhartung@chinet.chinet.com -- Ask me about Rotaract\\n',\n", " 'From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nSubject: Re: \"Brain abscess\" definition needed\\nReply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nOrganization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science\\nLines: 16\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr8.123213.1@tardis.mdcorp.ksc.nasa.gov> fresa@tardis.mdcorp.ksc.nasa.gov writes:\\n>Could someone please define a \"brain abscess\" for me? A relative has one near\\n>his cerebellum.\\n\\n\\nA brain abscess is an infection deep in the brain substance. It is\\nhard to cure with antibiotics, since it gets walled off, and usually,\\nit needs surgical drainage.\\n\\n\\n\\n-- \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nGordon Banks N3JXP | \"Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and\\ngeb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu | it is shameful to surrender it too soon.\" \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n',\n", " 'From: eder@hsvaic.boeing.com (Dani Eder)\\nSubject: Re: NASP\\nDistribution: sci\\nOrganization: Boeing AI Center, Huntsville, AL\\nLines: 39\\n\\nI have before me a pertinent report from the United States General\\nAccounting Office:\\n\\nNational Aero-Space Plane: Restructuring Future Research and Development\\nEfforts\\nDecember 1992\\nReport number GAO/NSIAD-93-71\\n\\nIn the back it lists the following related reports:\\n\\nNASP: Key Issues Facing the Program (31 Mar 92) GAO/T-NSIAD-92-26\\n\\nAerospace Plane Technology: R&D Efforts in Japan and Australia\\n(4 Oct 91) GAO/NSIAD-92-5\\n\\nAerospace Plane Technology: R&D Efforts in Europe (25 July 91)\\nGAO/NSIAD-91-194\\n\\nAerospace Technology: Technical Data and Information on Foreign\\nTest Facilities (22 Jun 90) GAO/NSIAD-90-71FS\\n\\nInvestment in Foreign Aerospace Vehicle Research and Technological\\nDevelopment Efforts (2 Aug 89) GAO/T-NSIAD-89-43\\n\\nNASP: A Technology Development and Demonstration Program to Build\\nthe X-30 (27 Apr 88) GAO/NSIAD-88-122\\n\\n\\nOn the inside back cover, under \"Ordering Information\" it says\\n\\n\"The first copy of each GAO report is free. . . . Orders\\nmay also be placed by calling (202)275-6241\\n\"\\n\\nDani\\n\\n-- \\nDani Eder/Meridian Investment Company/(205)464-2697(w)/232-7467(h)/\\nRt.1, Box 188-2, Athens AL 35611/Location: 34deg 37\\' N 86deg 43\\' W +100m alt.\\n',\n", " \"From: prb@access.digex.com (Pat)\\nSubject: Re: Comet in Temporary Orbit Around Jupiter?\\nOrganization: Express Access Online Communications USA\\nLines: 23\\nDistribution: world\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: access.digex.net\\n\\nIn article <6APR199314571378@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov> baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov (Ron Baalke) writes:\\n|Comet Gehrels 3, which was discovered in 1977, was determined to have\\n|been in a temporary Jovian orbit from 1970 to 1973. Comet Shoemaker-Levy 1993e\\n|may remain in orbit around Jupiter long enough to allow Galileo to\\n|make some closeup observations. The orbital trajectory for Comet\\n|Shoemaker-Levy is still being determined.\\na\\n\\nWhat about positional uncertainties in S-L 1993e? I assume we know where\\nand what Galileo is doing within a few meters. But without the\\nHGA, don't we have to have some pretty good ideas, of where to look\\nbefore imaging? If the HGA was working, they could slew around\\nin near real time (Less speed of light delay). But when they were\\nimaging toutatis???? didn't someone have to get lucky on a guess to\\nfind the first images? \\n\\nAlso, I imagine S-L 1993e will be mostly a visual image. so how will\\nthat affect the other imaging missions. with the LGA, there is a real\\ntight allocation of bandwidth. It may be premature to hope for answers,\\nbut I thought i'd throw it on the floor.\\n\\npat\\n\\n\",\n", " \"From: black@sybase.com (Chris Black)\\nSubject: cystic breast disease\\nOrganization: Sybase, Inc.\\nLines: 18\\n\\nMy mom has just been diagnosed with cystic breast disease -- a big\\nrelief, as it was a lump that could have been cancer. Her doctor says\\nshe should go off caffeine and chocolate for 6 months, as well as\\nstopping the estrogen she's been taking for menopause-related reasons.\\nShe's not thrilled with this, I think especially because she just gave\\nup cigarettes -- soon she won't have any pleasures left! Now, I thought\\nI'd heard that cystic breasts were common and not really a health risk.\\nIs this accurate? If so, why is she being told to make various\\nsacrifices to treat something that's not that big of a deal?\\n\\nThanks for any information.\\n\\n-- Chris\\n\\n-- \\nblack@sybase.com\\n\\nNote: My mailer tends to garble subject lines. \\n\",\n", " 'From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)\\nSubject: Re: Why not give $1 billion to first year-long moon residents?\\nOrganization: Texas Instruments Inc\\nLines: 22\\n\\nIn <1993Apr20.101044.2291@iti.org> aws@iti.org (Allen W. Sherzer) writes:\\n\\n>Depends. If you assume the existance of a working SSTO like DC, on billion\\n>$$ would be enough to put about a quarter million pounds of stuff on the\\n>moon. If some of that mass went to send equipment to make LOX for the\\n>transfer vehicle, you could send a lot more. Either way, its a lot\\n>more than needed.\\n\\n>This prize isn\\'t big enough to warrent developing a SSTO, but it is\\n>enough to do it if the vehicle exists.\\n\\nBut Allen, if you can assume the existence of an SSTO there is no need\\nto have the contest in the first place. I would think that what we\\nwant to get out of the contest is the development of some of these\\n\\'cheaper\\' ways of doing things; if they already exist, why flush $1G\\njust to get someone to go to the Moon for a year?\\n\\n-- \\n\"Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don\\'t have the balls to live\\n in the real world.\" -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden\\n------------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nFred.McCall@dseg.ti.com - I don\\'t speak for others and they don\\'t speak for me.\\n',\n", " 'From: doyle+@pitt.edu (Howard R Doyle)\\nSubject: Re: Hernia\\nOrganization: Pittsburgh TRansplant Institute\\nLines: 41\\n\\nIn article sheffner@encore.com (Steve Heffner) writes:\\n>A bit more than a year ago, a hernia in my right groin was\\n>discovered. It had produced a dull pain in that area. The hernia\\n>was repaired using the least intrusive (orthoscopic?) method and a\\n>\"plug and patch\".\\n\\n\\n\\nI suspect you mean laparoscopic instead of orthoscopic.\\n\\n\\n\\n>Now the pain occurs more often. My GP couldn\\'t identify any\\n>specific problem. The surgen who performed the original procedure\\n>now says that yes there is a \"new\" hernia in the same area and he\\n>said that he has to cut into the area for the repair this time.\\n>\\n>My question to the net: Is there a nonintrusive method to\\n>determine if in fact there is a hernia or if the pain is from\\n>something else?\\n\\n\\nBy far the (still) best method to diagnose a hernia is old fashioned\\nphysical examination. If you have an obvious hernia sac coming down \\ninto your scrotum, or a bulge in your groin that is brought about by\\nincreasing intra-abdominal pressure....\\nSometimes is not that obvious. The hernia is small and you can only \\ndetect it by putting your finger into the inguinal canal. \\nWhether you have a recurrent hernia, or this is related to the previous\\noperation, I can\\'t tell you. The person that examined you is in the best\\nposition to make that determination.\\n\\nAre there non-invasive ways of diagnosing a hernia? Every now and then \\nfolks write about CT scans and ultrasounds for this. But these are far\\ntoo expensive, and unlikely to be better than a trained examining finger.\\n\\n\\n====================================\\n\\nHoward Doyle\\ndoyle+@pitt.edu\\n',\n", " 'From: bmdelane@quads.uchicago.edu (brian manning delaney)\\nSubject: Re: Epstein-Barr Syndrome questions\\nKeywords: EBV CFS CFIDS\\nReply-To: bmdelane@midway.uchicago.edu\\nOrganization: University of Chicago\\nLines: 47\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr23.034226.2284@reed.edu> jcherney@reed.edu writes:\\n>Okay, this is a long shot.\\n>\\n>My friend Robin has recurring bouts of mononucleosis-type symptoms, very \\n>regularly. This has been going on for a number of years. She\\'s seen a \\n>number of doctors; six was the last count, I think. Most of them have \\n>said either \"You have mono\" or \"You\\'re full of it; there\\'s nothing wrong \\n>with you.\" One has admitted to having no idea what was wrong with her, \\n>and one has claimed that it is Epstein-Barr syndrome.\\n>\\n>Now, what she told me about EBS is that very few doctors even believe that \\n>it exists. (Obviously, this has been her experience.) So, what\\'s the \\n>story? Is it real? Does the medical profession believe it to be real?\\n>\\n>Has anyone had success is treating EBS? Or is it just something to live \\n>with? Thanks for your assistance.\\n\\nOutbreaks of a chronic-mono-like entity were originally called EBS (or\\nsome variant thereof) because most of the people with this disease had\\nelevated levels of antibodies to the EBV virus. But not all of them\\ndid, which prompted an official renaming of the disease to Chronic\\nFatigue Syndrome (this renaming took place in the Annals of Internal\\nMedicine, Jan. 1988, I believe). Now it\\'s also called Chronic Fatigue\\nand Immune Dysfunction Syndrome (CFIDS), since it seems clear that\\nsome sort of immune disregulation is causing the probs.\\n\\nAstonishly, there are still docs who tell people with massively\\nswollen glands, recurrent fevers and nightsweats, etc., that there\\'s\\nnothing wrong with them. This is not the same thing as saying that the\\nsyndrome may have a (at least partly) psychological cause. The\\ndisagreement among people whose thoughts are worth considering centers\\non just what the cause is. No one knows, but theories include:\\npsychological stress, some sort of virus (a retrovirus, say most --\\nmaybe one of the newly discovered herpes viruses), environmental\\ntoxins, bacteria (and, yes, candida), genes, (and/)or some combo of\\nthese.\\n\\nThere\\'s no outright cure at the moment, but different docs try\\ndifferent things, some of which seem to help.\\n\\nMassive amounts of info on the condition are available these days.\\nPost your Q to alt.med.cfs, and you will be flooded w/facts.\\n\\nNote: There are lots of far better understood (and better treatable)\\ndiseases that look like CFIDS. Make sure these get ruled-out by a good\\ndoc.\\n\\n',\n", " 'From: jbh55289@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Josh Hopkins)\\nSubject: Re: Conference on Manned Lunar Exploration. May 7 Crystal City\\nDistribution: na\\nOrganization: University of Illinois at Urbana\\nLines: 18\\n\\nprb@access.digex.com (Pat) writes:\\n\\n>AW&ST had a brief blurb on a Manned Lunar Exploration confernce\\n>May 7th at Crystal City Virginia, under the auspices of AIAA.\\n\\n>Does anyone know more about this? How much, to attend????\\n\\nA good summary has been posted (thanks), but I wanted to add another comment.\\nI remeber reading the comment that General Dynamics was tied into this, in \\nconnection with their proposal for an early manned landing. Sorry I don\\'t \\nrember where I heard this, but I\\'m fairly sure it was somewhere reputable. \\nAnyone else know anything on this angle?\\n\\nHrumph. They didn\\'t send _me_ anything :(\\n-- \\nJosh Hopkins jbh55289@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu\\n\\t\\t \"Find a way or make one.\"\\n\\t -attributed to Hannibal\\n',\n", " \"From: jge@cs.unc.edu (John Eyles)\\nSubject: diet for Crohn's (IBD)\\nOrganization: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill\\nLines: 16\\nDistribution: usa\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: ceti.cs.unc.edu\\n\\n\\nA friend has what is apparently a fairly minor case of Crohn's\\ndisease.\\n\\nBut she can't seem to eat certain foods, such as fresh vegetables,\\nwithout discomfort, and of course she wants to avoid a recurrence.\\n\\nHer question is: are there any nutritionists who specialize in the\\nproblems of people with Crohn's disease ?\\n\\n(I saw the suggestion of lipoxygnase inhibitors like tea and turmeric).\\n\\nThanks in advance,\\nJohn Eyles\\njge@cs.unc.edu\\n\\n\",\n", " 'From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)\\nSubject: Re: pushing the envelope\\nOrganization: Texas Instruments Inc\\nDistribution: na\\nLines: 35\\n\\nIn <1993Apr3.233154.7045@Princeton.EDU> lije@cognito.Princeton.EDU (Elijah Millgram) writes:\\n\\n\\n>A friend of mine and I were wondering where the expression \"pushing\\n>the envelope\" comes from. Anyone out there know?\\n\\nEvery aircraft has flight constraints for speed/AOA/power. When\\ngraphed, these define the \\'flight envelope\\' of that aircraft,\\npresumably so named because the graphed line encloses (envelopes) the\\narea on the graph that represents conditions where the aircraft\\ndoesn\\'t fall out of the sky. Hence, \\'pushing the envelope\\' becomes\\n\\'operating at (or beyond) the edge of the flight (or operational)\\nenvelope\\'. \\n\\nNote that the envelope isn\\'t precisely known until someone actually\\nflies the airplane in those regions -- up to that point, all there are\\nare the theoretical predictions. Hence, one of the things test pilots\\ndo for a living is \\'push the envelope\\' to find out how close the\\ncorrespondence between the paper airplane and the metal one is -- in\\nessence, \\'pushing back\\' the edges of the theoretical envelope to where\\nthe airplane actually starts to fail to fly. Note, too, that this is\\ndone is a quite calculated and careful way; flight tests are generally\\ncarefully coreographed and just what is going to be \\'pushed\\' and how\\nfar is precisely planned (despite occasional deviations from plans,\\nsuch as the \\'early\\' first flight of the F-16 during its high-speed\\ntaxi tests).\\n\\nI\\'m sure Mary can tell you everything you ever wanted to know about\\nthis process (and then some).\\n\\n-- \\n\"Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don\\'t have the balls to live\\n in the real world.\" -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden\\n------------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nFred.McCall@dseg.ti.com - I don\\'t speak for others and they don\\'t speak for me.\\n',\n", " 'From: PPORTH@hq.nasa.gov (\"Tricia Porth (202\")\\nSubject: Remote Sensing Data\\nX-Added: Forwarded by Space Digest\\nMmdf-Warning: Parse error in original version of preceding line at VACATION.VENARI.CS.CMU.EDU\\nOrganization: [via International Space University]\\nOriginal-Sender: isu@VACATION.VENARI.CS.CMU.EDU\\nDistribution: sci\\nLines: 137\\n\\n=================================================================\\nI am posting this for someone else. Please respond to the \\naddress listed below. Please also excuse the duplication as this \\nmessage has been crossposted. Thanks!\\n=================================================================\\n \\n \\n REQUEST FOR IDEAS FOR APPLICATIONS OF REMOTE SENSING DATABASES \\n VIA THE INTERNET\\n \\nNASA is planning to expand the domain of users of its Earth and space science\\ndata. This effort will:\\n \\n o Use the evolving infrastructure of the U.S. Global Change Research \\n Program including the Mission To Planet Earth (MTPE) and the Earth \\n Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) Programs.\\n \\n o Use the Internet, particularly the High Performance Computing and \\n Communications Program\\'s NREN (National Research and Education \\n Network), as a means of providing access to and distribution of \\n science data and images and value added products.\\n \\n o Provide broad access to and utilization of remotely sensed images in \\n cooperation with other agencies (especially NOAA, EPA, DOE, DEd, \\n DOI/USGS, and USDA). \\n \\n o Support remote sensing image and data users and development \\n communities. \\n \\nThe user and development communities to be included (but not limited to) as\\npart of this effort are educators, commercial application developers (e.g., \\ntelevision weather forecasters), librarians, publishers, agriculture \\nspecialists, transportation, forestry, state and local government planners, and\\naqua business.\\n \\nThis program will be initiated in 1994. Your assistance is requested to \\nidentify potential applications of remote sensing images and data. We would \\nlike your ideas for potential application areas to assist with development of\\nthe Implementation Plan.\\n \\nPLEASE NOTE: THIS IS NOT A REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS. \\n \\nWe are seeking your ideas in these areas: \\n \\n (1) Potential commercial use of remote sensing data and images; \\n \\n (2) Potential noncommercial use of remote sensing data and images in \\n education (especially levels K-12) and other noncommercial areas;\\n \\n (3) Types of on-line capabilities and protocols to make the data more \\n accessible;\\n \\n (4) Additional points of contacts for ideas; and \\n \\n (5) Addresses and names from whom to request proposals. \\n \\nFor your convenience, a standard format for responses is included below. Feel\\nfree to amend it as necessary. Either e-mail or fax your responses to us by\\nMay 5, 1993.\\n \\nE-MAIL: On Internet \"rsdwg@orion.ossa.hq.nasa.gov\" ASCII - No binary \\nattachments please\\n \\nFAX: Ernie Lucier, c/o RSDWG, NASA HQ, FAX 202-358-3098\\n \\nSurvey responses in the following formats may also be placed in the FTP \\ndirectory ~ftp/pub/RSDWG on orion.nasa.gov. Please indicate the format. \\nAcceptable formats are: Word for Windows 2.X, Macintosh Word 4.X and 5.X, and \\nRTF. \\n \\n \\n \\n----------------------------RESPONSE FORMAT--------------------------\\n \\nREQUEST FOR IDEAS FOR APPLICATIONS OF REMOTE SENSING DATABASES VIA THE INTERNET\\n \\n(1) Potential commercial use of remote sensing data and images (if possible,\\nidentify the relevant types of data or science products, user tools, and\\nstandards).\\n \\n \\n \\n \\n \\n \\n \\n(2) Uses of remote sensing data and images in education (especially levels\\nK-12) and other noncommercial areas (if possible, identify the relevant types\\nof data or science products, user tools, and standards). \\n \\n \\n \\n \\n \\n \\n \\n(3) Types of on-line capabilities and protocols to make the data and images\\nmore accessible (if possible, identify relevant types of formats, standards,\\nand user tools)\\n \\n \\n \\n \\n \\n \\n \\n(4) Additional suggested persons or organizations that may be resources for \\nfurther ideas on applications areas. Please include: Name, Organization, \\nAddress and Telephone Number.\\n \\n \\n \\n \\n \\n \\n \\n(5) Organizations, mailing lists (electronic and paper), periodicals, etc. to\\nwhom a solicitation for proposals should be sent when developed. Please \\ninclude: Name, Organization, Address and Telephone Number.\\n \\n \\n \\n(6) We would benefit from knowing why users that know about NASA remote \\nsensing data do not use the data. Is it because they do not have ties to NASA\\ninvestigators, or high cost, lack of accessibility, incompatible data formats,\\npoor area of interest coverage, inadequate spatial or spectral resolution, ...?\\n \\n \\n \\n \\n \\n(7) In case we have questions, please send us your name, address, phone number\\n(and e-mail address if you have one). If you don\\'t wish to send us this\\ninformation, feel free to respond to the survey anonymously. Thank you for\\nyour assistance. \\n \\n \\n',\n", " 'From: romdas@uclink.berkeley.edu (Ella I Baff)\\nSubject: Re: Selective Placebo\\nOrganization: University of California, Berkeley\\nLines: 37\\nDistribution: world\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: uclink.berkeley.edu\\n\\n Ron Roth recommends: \"Once you have your hypoglycemia CONFIRMED through the \\n proper channels, you might consider ther following:...\"\\n [diet omitted]\\n\\n1) Ron...what do YOU consider to be \"proper channels\"...this sounds suspiciously\\nlike a blood chemistry...glucose tolerance and the like...suddenly chemistry \\nexists? You know perfectly well that this person can be saved needless trouble \\nand expense with simple muscle testing and hair analysis to diagnose...no\\n\"CONFIRM\" any aberrant physiology...but then again...maybe that\\'s what you meantby \"proper channels.\"\\n\\n2) Were you able to understand Dick King\\'s post that \"90% of diseases is not thesame thing as 90% of patients\" which was a reply to your inability to critically\\nevaluate the statistic you cited from the New England Journal of Medicine. Couldyou figure out what is implied by the remark \"Of course MDs are ethically bound to not knowingly dispense placebos...\"?\\n\\n3) Ron...have you ever thought about why you never post in misc.health.alterna-\\ntive...and insist instead upon insinuating your untrained, non-medical, often \\ndelusional notions of health and disease into this forum? I suspect from your\\napparent anger toward MDs and heteropathic medicine that there may be an\\nunderlying \\'father problem\\'...of course I can CONFIRM this by surrogate muscle\\ntesting one of my patients while they ponder my theory to see if one of their \\npreviously weak \\'indicator\\' muscles strengthens...or do you have reservations\\nabout my unique methods of diagnosis? Oh..I forgot what you said in an earlier\\npost..\"neither am I concerned of whether or not my study designs meet your or\\nanyone else\\'s criteria of acceptance.\" \\n\\nJohn Badanes, DC, CA\\nromdas@uclink.berkeley.edu\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n \\nideas \\n\\n\\n',\n", " 'From: jkatz@access.digex.com (Jordan Katz)\\nSubject: U.S. Space Foundation Speech\\nOrganization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA\\nLines: 94\\nDistribution: usa\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: access.digex.net\\n\\n\\n Speech by Pete Worden\\n \\n Delivered Before the U.S. Space Foundation Conference\\n \\n Colorado Springs, Colorado\\n \\n April 15, 1993\\n\\n\\n What a delightful opportunity to cause some trouble. For\\nproviding me this forum I would sincerely like to thank the U.S.\\nSpace Foundation. My topic today is the Single Stage Rocket\\nTechnology rocket or SSRT. By I intend to speak of more. How to\\nlower the cost and make rapid progress. SSRT is to my mind --\\nand I hope to convince you -- the erupting a new rallying cry for\\nour generation in space -- Faster, Cheaper, and Better.\\n\\n Faster, Cheaper, Better and SSRT represent the passing of a\\ntorch from one technical generation to another. It is a new\\nthing to be sure -- but it is also a relearning of old things\\nfrom past masters.\\n\\n When we rolled out the SSRT baby two weeks ago, so called\\nexperts told us it violates the laws of physics -- it made no\\nsense. For example, Dr. Eberhart Rachtin - former president of\\nthe Aerospace Corp., said of SSRT in the L.A. Times that it,\\n\"defies the best principles of launching payloads into space.\" \\nWell Dr. Rachtin -- you\\'ve made us mad! What are these\\nprinciples that SSRT defies?\\n\\n Well I\\'ll tell you. It violates the principle that you need\\na giant program office to build space hardware. It violates the\\n\"fact\" that it takes 20 years to build something new. And it\\nviolates the truism that you cant do anything significant for\\nless than many billions of dollars.\\n\\n It took some of the last generation\\'s experts to teach us\\nsome new/old lessons. Werhner Von Braun\\'s first rocket was not a\\nSaturn V. General Schriever\\'s ICBM\\'s didn\\'t take ten years to\\ndemonstrate. And the X-1 airplane didn\\'t cost $1 billion.\\n\\n It took one of the great engineers of the 1950\\'s to remind\\nus of these truths -- Max Hunter. Max, to remind you, was a\\nsenior engineer in the Thor IRBM program, and old faster, better,\\ncheaper success story. Max has been persistent in a vision of a\\nsingle stage reusable space launch system since the 1960\\'s. \\nBecause he knew it had to be done in affordable steps - Build a\\nlittle, Test a little.\\n\\n Next he persuaded us to do a technology demonstration. We\\ndidn\\'t solicit a bunch of requirements -- they\\'d just change\\nevery few years anyway. [ not included in the speech -- The\\nALS/NLS has such ephemeral requirements that it would better\\nknown as \"Shape Shifter\" than \"Space Lifter.\" We didn\\'t spend a\\nlot money -- this X-Rocket only cost $60 million. When\\'s the\\nlast time we even built a new airplane for that? And it didn\\'t\\ntake a lot of time to build -- McDonnell Douglas completed it in\\n18 months. Finally, the government program office consisted of\\none very over-worked Air Force Major -- motivated in part by the\\nthreat that he\\'d get to ride on it in a strapped-on lawn chair if\\nit ran over cost or schedule.\\n\\n As I described what SSRT is -- and isn\\'t keep in mind its\\nonly a first step. There are several more steps -- and steps\\nthat can easily fail -- before the U.S. can field an SSTO. But\\neach step should follow the same principles -- a small management\\nteam -- a few years technology demonstration -- and a modest\\nbudget.\\n\\n Let me show a few details on SSRT and how it might evolve:\\n(See charts)\\n\\n I\\'m embarrassed when my generation is compared with the last\\ngeneration -- the giants of the last great space era, the 1950\\'s\\nand 1960\\'s. They went to the moon - we built a telescope that\\ncan\\'t see straight. They soft-landed on Mars - the least we\\ncould do is soft-land on Earth!\\n\\n But we do have an answer. We can follow their build a\\nlittle, test a little philosophy to produce a truly affordable\\nand routine access to space. I know there are nay sayers among\\nyou -- those who say SSRT is a stunt. It needs more thermal\\nprotection, the engines are wrong, it would be better to land\\nhorizontally, etc, etc.\\n\\n I say to you -- we\\'ll see you at White Sands in June. You\\nbring your view-graphs, and I\\'ll bring my rocketship. If we do\\nwhat we say we can do, then you let us do the next step. [ not\\nincluded in the speech: If we fail -- you still have your\\nprogram offices, staff summary sheets, requirement analyses, and\\ndecade long programs.]\\n\\n I bet on my generation and Max Hunter\\'s idea -- Any Takers?\\n',\n", " 'From: aws@iti.org (Allen W. Sherzer)\\nSubject: Re: Orbital RepairStation\\nOrganization: Evil Geniuses for a Better Tomorrow\\nLines: 20\\n\\nIn article henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:\\n\\n>The biggest problem with this is that all orbits are not alike. It can\\n>actually be more expensive to reach a satellite from another orbit than\\n>from the ground. \\n\\nBut with cheaper fuel from space based sources it will be cheaper to \\nreach more orbits than from the ground.\\n\\nAlso remember, that the presence of a repair/supply facility adds value\\nto the space around it. If you can put your satellite in an orbit where it\\ncan be reached by a ready source of supply you can make it cheaper and gain\\nbenefit from economies of scale.\\n\\n Allen\\n-- \\n+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+\\n| Lady Astor: \"Sir, if you were my husband I would poison your coffee!\" |\\n| W. Churchill: \"Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it.\" |\\n+----------------------58 DAYS TO FIRST FLIGHT OF DCX-----------------------+\\n',\n", " 'From: kpa@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Karl Anderson)\\nSubject: Re: A WRENCH in the works?\\nDisclaimer: This posting represents the poster\\'s views, not necessarily those of IBM\\nNntp-Posting-Host: oslo.rchland.ibm.com\\nOrganization: IBM Rochester\\nLines: 42\\n\\nFrom another space forum\\n> NOW WHERE DID I LEAVE THOSE PLIERS?\\n When workers at the Kennedy Space Center disassembled the STS-56\\n solid rocket boosters they were surprised to find a pair of pliers\\n lodged into the outside base of the right hand SRB. The tool survived\\n the trip from the launch pad up to approximately a 250,000 foot\\n altitude, then down to splashdown and towing back to KSC.\\n\\n NASA spokesperson Lisa Malone told the media,\\n\\n \"It\\'s been a long time since something like this happened. We\\'ve\\n lost washers and bolts (before) but never a tool like this.\"\\n\\n The initial investigation into the incident has shown that a\\n Thiokol Corp. technician noticed and reported his pliers as missing on\\n April 2nd. Unfortunately, the worker\\'s supervisor did not act on the\\n report and Discovery was launched with its \"extra payload\". NASA\\n officials were never told of the missing tool before the April 8th\\n launch date.\\n\\n The free-flying pliers were supposed to be tethered to the SRB\\n technician. When the tool was found in an aft section of the booster,\\n its 18-inch long rope was still attached. The pliers were found in a\\n part of the booster which is not easily visible from the launch pad.\\n|(Ron\\'s ed. note: naaahhh, just too easy)\\n\\n A spokesperson for the Lockheed Space Operations Company said that\\n the Shuttle processor will take \"appropriate action\". Thiokol is a\\n subcontractor to LSOC for work to prepare Shuttle hardware for launch.\\n\\n_________________________________________________________\\n\\nKarl Anderson\\t\\nDEV/2000: Configuration Management/Version Control\\n\\nDept 53K/006-2\\t\\tRochester, Minnesota 55901\\n253-8044\\t\\tTie 8-453-8044\\nINTERNET: karl@vnet.ibm.com\\nPRODIGY: CMMG96A\\n\\n\"To seek, to strive, to find, and not to yield.\"\\n\\t\\t\\tAlfred Lord Tennyson\\n',\n", " \"From: grante@aquarius.rosemount.com (Grant Edwards)\\nSubject: Re: Krillean Photography\\nReply-To: grante@aquarius.rosemount.com (Grant Edwards)\\nOrganization: Rosemount, Inc.\\nLines: 41\\nNntp-Posting-Host: aquarius\\n\\nstgprao@st.unocal.COM (Richard Ottolini) writes:\\n\\n: Living things maintain small electric fields to (1) enhance certain\\n: chemical reactions, (2) promote communication of states with in a\\n: cell, (3) communicate between cells (of which the nervous system is\\n: a specialized example), and perhaps other uses.\\n\\nTrue.\\n\\n: These electric fields change with location and time in a large\\n: organism.\\n\\nAlso True.\\n\\n\\n: Special photographic techniques such as applying external fields in\\n: Kirillian photography interact with these fields or the resistances\\n: caused by these fields to make interesting pictures.\\n\\nNot really. \\n\\nKirlian photography is taking pictures of the corona discharge from\\nobjects (animate or inanimate). The fields applied to the objects are\\nmillions of times larger than any biologically created fields. If you\\nwant to record the biologically created electric fields, you've got to\\nuse low-noise, high-gain sensors typical of EEGs and EKGs. Kirlian\\nphotography is just phun-with-physics type stuff (right up there with\\nsoaking chunks of extra-fine steel wool in liquid oxygen then hitting\\nthem with a hammer -- which, like a Kirlean setup, is fun but possibly\\ndangerous).\\n\\n: Perhaps such pictures will be diagonistic of disease problems in\\n: organisms when better understood. Perhaps not.\\n\\nProbably not.\\n\\n--\\nGrant Edwards |Yow! Vote for ME -- I'm\\nRosemount Inc. |well-tapered, half-cocked,\\n |ill-conceived and\\ngrante@aquarius.rosemount.com |TAX-DEFERRED!\\n\",\n", " 'From: mhollowa@ic.sunysb.edu (Michael Holloway)\\nSubject: Re: Homeopathy: a respectable medical tradition?\\nKeywords: Yes, SCIENCE, stupid!\\nNntp-Posting-Host: engws5.ic.sunysb.edu\\nOrganization: State University of New York at Stony Brook\\nLines: 75\\n\\nIn article homer@tripos.com (Webster Homer) writes:\\n>mhollowa@ic.sunysb.edu (Michael Holloway) writes:\\n>\\n>>Here\\'s your error. I really do think this shows some confusion on your\\n>>part. (Drum roll please) Science isn\\'t so much the gathering of evidence\\n>>to support an \"assertion\" (read: hypothesis) as it is the gathering of\\n>>empirical observations IN ORDER TO MAKE AN HYPOTHESIS. What should\\n>>convince you (or not) shouldn\\'t be the final product so much as *HOW* the\\n>>product was made. \\n>>\\n>Here\\'s your error. There is no observation or hypothesis that is not tainted\\n>by theory. I have a theory, I make observations, those observations will be\\n>made with my theory in mind. \\n\\nYes, absolutely, though I\\'d make the observation in a more general sense of\\nall observations are made by human beings and therefore made with various\\nbiases. \\n\\nBut here your message leaves talk of hypothesis and gets back, once again, \\nto equating the business of science with the end result, the gizmo produced.\\n\\n>Science works very well at developing theories\\n>within paradigms, but is very poor at dealing with paradigm shifts. If I \\n>develop a novel paradigm that explains homeopathy, chinese medicine, or \\n>spontaneous combustion. If the paradigm is useful it will show me the way\\n>to make observations that \"prove\" or \"disprove\" it.\\n\\nMy point isn\\'t so much whether or not you have a novel paradigm but *how* \\nyou come about developing it.\\n\\n>The paradigm of modern medicine is that the body can be reduced to a set of\\n>essentially mechanical operations wherein disease is seen as malfunctions in\\n>the machinery, essentially the old Newtonian model of the world. It seems\\n>likely that theories based upon this paradigm do not give a complete \\n>discription of the universe, medicine, healing etc... Indeed we now \\n>recognize an important psychological component to healing. \\n\\nPerhaps you\\'d admit that this is an oversimplification on your part (the topic\\nof the philosophy of science is made for them, I\\'m making them too) but I\\nthink that it also summarizes popular misconceptions of science and the \\nbusiness of doing science. Biomedical research doesn\\'t make any basic \\nassumptions that aren\\'t the same as any other discipline of scientific\\nresearch. That is, that you make empirical observations, form an hypothesis\\nand test it. Modern medicine has much more to do with biochemistry than \\n\"the old Newtonian model of the world\". And I doubt that many psychologists\\nwould appreciate being put outside this empirical \"world view\". Psychology\\nalso has more to do with biochemistry than spoon bending. \\n\\n>It is also important to distinguish reason from science. Science may be\\n>reasonable, but so are many non-scientific methodologies. Aristotle reasoned\\n>that frogs came from mud by observing one hop out of a puddle. \\n\\nOversimplified, of course, but a good example. This is an empirical observa-\\ntion. It was then tested, though perhaps not by Aristotle, and eventually \\nfound wanting. In the meantime, some folk will \\nhave continued to believe in the spontaneous generation of animal life. \\nThere\\'s nothing at all surprising about this, it\\'s the way the gathering of\\nknowledge works. There are probably more than a few things in my own \\ndiscipline of molecular biology that will be found to be totally off-base,\\neven idiotic, to someone in the future. These future people won\\'t have come\\nto these relevations because they had suddenly gone all Zen-like and had \\na vision in an LSD trip. Someone will have thought of something new and \\ntested it. This is the bit that people who seem to relish misrepresenting\\nscience and research can\\'t seem to wrap their minds around. Science is a \\ncreative process. What I think of as factual and good research can be totally\\nturned on its head tommorrow by new results and theories. \\n\\nAgain, I think it gets down to defining what you mean by \"science\". I often\\ndon\\'t recognize what it is that I do, and am involved in, in the way science\\nis portrayed by popular media or writings of people in the humanities. They\\nportray science as a collection of immutable facts, pronouncements of TRUTH\\nin big gold letters. That\\'s silly. Its as though we just go into the lab,\\nturn over a stone, and come up with a mechanism for transcriptional regula-\\ntion. Its much more interesting than that. It really is a very human\\nprocess.\\n',\n", " 'From: djf@cck.coventry.ac.uk (Marvin Batty)\\nSubject: Re: Vandalizing the sky.\\nNntp-Posting-Host: cc_sysk\\nOrganization: Starfleet, Coventry, UK\\nLines: 30\\n\\nIn article enzo@research.canon.oz.au (Enzo Liguori) writes:\\n>From the article \"What\\'s New\" Apr-16-93 in sci.physics.research:\\n>\\n>........\\n>WHAT\\'S NEW (in my opinion), Friday, 16 April 1993 Washington, DC\\n>\\n>1. SPACE BILLBOARDS! IS THIS ONE THE \"SPINOFFS\" WE WERE PROMISED?\\n>In 1950, science fiction writer Robert Heinlein published \"The\\n>Man Who Sold the Moon,\" which involved a dispute over the sale of\\n>rights to the Moon for use as billboard. NASA has taken the firsteps toward this\\n> hideous vision of the future. Observers were\\n>startled this spring when a NASA launch vehicle arrived at the\\n>pad with \"SCHWARZENEGGER\" painted in huge block letters on the\\n>side of the booster rockets. \\n\\nThings could be worse. A lot worse! In the mid-eighties the\\nteen/adult sci-fi comic 2000AD (Fleetway) produced a short story\\nfeaturing the award winning character \"Judge Dredd\". The story\\nfocussed on an advertising agency of the future who use high powered\\nmulti-coloured lasers/search lights pointed at the moon to paint\\nimages on the moon. Needless to say, this use hacked off a load of lovers,\\nromantics and werewolfs/crazies. The ad guys got chopped, the service\\ndiscontinued. A cautionary tale indeed!\\n\\nMarvin Batty.\\n-- \\n**************************************************************************** \\n Marvin Batty - djf@uk.ac.cov.cck\\n\"And they shall not find those things, with a sort of rafia like base,\\nthat their fathers put there just the night before. At about 8 O\\'clock!\"\\n',\n", " 'From: mmatusev@radford.vak12ed.edu (Melissa N. Matusevich)\\nSubject: Re: Paxil (request)\\nOrganization: Virginia\\'s Public Education Network (Radford)\\nLines: 5\\n\\nI don\\'t know much and in fact, have asked questions here\\nmyself. My doctor told me that Paxil is a \"cleaner\" SRI in that\\nit produces fewer side effects. As to a comparison between\\nZoloft and Prozac, I\\'m not able to remember what he said about\\nthe differences between those two drugs. Sorry\\n',\n", " \"From: prb@access.digex.com (Pat)\\nSubject: Re: space food sticks\\nOrganization: Express Access Online Communications USA\\nLines: 9\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: access.digex.net\\nKeywords: food\\n\\ndillon comments that Space Food Sticks may have bad digestive properties.\\n\\nI don't think so. I think most NASA food products were designed to\\nbe low fiber 'zero-residue' products so as to minimize the difficulties\\nof waste disposal. I'd doubt they'd deploy anything that caused whole sale\\nGI distress. There aren't enough plastic baggies in the world for\\na bad case of GI disease.\\n\\npat\\n\",\n", " \"From: balick@nynexst.com (Daphne Balick)\\nSubject: Re: Altitude adjustment\\nReply-To: balick@nynexst.com\\nOrganization: NYNEX Science & Technology, Inc\\nLines: 32\\n\\n\\n\\nIn article <4159@mdavcr.mda.ca> vida@mdavcr.mda.ca (Vida Morkunas) writes:\\n>I live at sea-level, and am called-upon to travel to high-altitude cities\\n>quite frequently, on business. The cities in question are at 7000 to 9000\\n>feet of altitude. One of them especially is very polluted...\\n\\nMexico City, Bogota, La Paz?\\n>\\n>Often I feel faint the first two or three days. I feel lightheaded, and\\n>my heart seems to pound a lot more than at sea-level. Also, it is very\\n>dry in these cities, so I will tend to drink a lot of water, and keep\\n>away from dehydrating drinks, such as those containing caffeine or alcohol.\\n>\\n\\n>Thing is, I still have symptoms. How can I ensure that my short trips there\\n>(no, I don't usually have a week to acclimatize) are as comfortable as possible?\\n>Is there something else that I could do?\\n\\n---\\n\\nAn unconventional remedy that you might try for altitude sickness in the Andes is\\nchewing coca leaves or taking teas made from coca leaves. You might notice that\\nmany of the natives have wads in their mouths... the tea can be obtained in S.\\nAmerican pharmacies. This remedy alleviates some of the lightheadedness and\\ndizziness - but don't try to jog with it. I've tried this when travelling and\\nhiking in Peru and Ecuador. The amount of cocaine you would ingest are too minute\\nto cause any highs...\\n\\nAlso it is a good idea to eat lightly and dress warm while adjusting to high altitudes.\\n\\n\\n\",\n", " \"From: nyeda@cnsvax.uwec.edu (David Nye)\\nSubject: Re: Need advice with doctor-patient relationship problem\\nArticle-I.D.: cnsvax.1993Apr17.012019.6087\\nOrganization: University of Wisconsin Eau Claire\\nLines: 12\\n\\n[reply to mcovingt@aisun3.ai.uga.edu (Michael Covington)]\\n \\n>Sounds as though his heart's in the right place, but he is not adept at\\n>expressing it. What you received was _meant_ to be a profound apology.\\n>Apologies delivered by overworked shy people often come out like that...\\n \\nThe guy didn't sound too shy to me. He sounded like a jerk. I say ditch\\nhim for someone more knowledgeable and empathetic.\\n \\nDavid Nye (nyeda@cnsvax.uwec.edu). Midelfort Clinic, Eau Claire WI\\nThis is patently absurd; but whoever wishes to become a philosopher\\nmust learn not to be frightened by absurdities. -- Bertrand Russell\\n\",\n", " \"From: jaskew@spam.maths.adelaide.edu.au (Joseph Askew)\\nSubject: Re: the call to space (was Re: Clueless Szaboisms )\\nOrganization: Statistics, Pure & Applied Mathematics, University of Adelaide\\nLines: 34\\n\\nIn article <1pfiuh$64e@access.digex.com> prb@access.digex.com (Pat) writes:\\n\\n>If the japanese are really going for Nukes, why not go with better\\n>technology then we have. AS opposed to BWR/PWRs have they really\\n>considered some of the 3rd generation Inherently safe designs.\\n\\nThe Japanese are still on the learning curve as far as nuclear power goes.\\nThis means that unlike the Germans (who do great things all by themselves)\\nthe Japanese tie up with foreign companies. The major one is Mitsubishi\\n(who else) who have a sharing agreement with GE I think. No chance of a\\nnew design.\\n\\n>Sodium has lots of chemical problems but it really solves design\\n>difficulties. Or the inherently safe types.\\n\\nSodium has *lots* of chemical problems. Like it eats stainless steel. Very\\nslowly but it gets there in the end. Not what I call a desired property.\\nAs for design difficulties, what does sodium do there? It is a bitch and\\nit is only its chemical properties (flwed though they are) that means it\\ngets used. Two loops? That's not a design problem? Isolation from air and\\nwater? That doesn't cause design problems? In comparison BWR's a dream rides!\\n\\n>PWR's work real good, but they need lots of steel, and they are highly\\n>complex systems. Simplicity is a virtue.\\n\\nDon't get none of that in a Liquid Sodium Breeder! More steel, more complexity.\\n\\nJoseph Askew\\n\\n-- \\nJoseph Askew, Gauche and Proud In the autumn stillness, see the Pleiades,\\njaskew@spam.maths.adelaide.edu Remote in thorny deserts, fell the grief.\\nDisclaimer? Sue, see if I care North of our tents, the sky must end somwhere,\\nActually, I rather like Brenda Beyond the pale, the River murmurs on.\\n\",\n", " \"From: mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson)\\nSubject: Re: What are the problems with Nutrasweet (Aspartame)?\\nOrganization: The Portal System (TM)\\nLines: 11\\n\\nPhenylketonuria is a disease in which the body cannot process phenylalanine.\\nIt can build up in the blood and cause seizures and neurological damage.\\nAn odd side effect is that the urine can be deeply colored, like red wine.\\nPeople with the condition must avoid Nutrasweet, chocolate, and anything\\nelse rich in phenylalanine.\\n\\nAspartame is accused of having caused various vague neurological symptoms.\\nPat Robertson's program _The_700_Club_ was beating the drum against\\naspartame rather vigorously for about a year, but that issue seems to\\nhave been pushed to the back burner for the last year or so. Apparently,\\nthe evidence is not very strong, or Pat would still be flailing away.\\n\",\n", " \"From: npm@netcom.com (Nancy P. Milligan)\\nSubject: Re: Need advice with doctor-patient relationship problem\\nOrganization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)\\nLines: 15\\nX-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]\\n\\nI'd dump him. Rude is rude and it seems he enjoys belittling and\\nhumiliating you. But don't just dump him, write to him and tell\\nhim why you are firing him. If you can, think about sending a copy\\nof your letter to whoever is in charge of the clinic where he works, \\nif applicable, or maybe even to the AMA. Don't be vindictive in\\nyour letter, be truthful but VERY firm.\\n\\nBut don't be a victim and just put up with it. Take control! It'll\\nmake you feel great!\\n\\nNancy M.\\n-- \\nNancy P. Milligan\\t\\t\\t\\t\\tnpm@netcom.com\\n\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t or\\n\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t\\tnpm@dale.cts.com\\n\",\n", " \"From: prb@access.digex.com (Pat)\\nSubject: Re: NAVSTAR positions\\nOrganization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA\\nLines: 7\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: access.digex.net\\n\\n C-3's bird may be flaking out and expecting to die soon.\\n\\nor C-3 may orbit over major users areas, and it may be\\nneeded to provide redundancy on that plane while b-4 may orbit\\nover hicksville, and not have muc of a user community.\\n\\npat\\n\",\n", " 'From: cfaks@ux1.cts.eiu.edu (Alice Sanders)\\nSubject: Frozen shoulder and lawn mowing\\nOrganization: Eastern Illinois University\\nLines: 12\\n\\nIhave had a frozen shoulder for over a year or about a year. It is still\\npartially frozen, and I am still in physical therapy every week. But the\\npain has subsided almost completely. UNTIL last week when I mowed the\\nlawn for twenty minutes each, two days in a row. I have a push type power\\nmower. The pain started back up a little bit for the first time in quite\\na while, and I used ice and medicine again. Can anybody explain why this\\nparticular activity, which does not seem to stress me very much generally,\\nshould cause this shoulder problem?\\n\\nThanks.\\n\\nAlice\\n',\n", " \"From: tas@pegasus.com (Len Howard)\\nSubject: Re: Endometriosis\\nSummary: not that rare a condition \\nOrganization: Pegasus, Honolulu\\nLines: 17\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr16.032251.6606@rock.concert.net> naomi@rock.concert.net (Naomi T Courter) writes:\\n>\\n>can anyone give me more information regarding endometriosis? i heard\\n>it's a very common disease among women and if anyone can provide names\\n>of a specialist/surgeon in the north carolina research triangle park\\n>area (raleigh/durham/chapel hill) who is familiar with the condition,\\n>i would really appreciate it.\\n>thanks. \\n>--Naomi\\n\\nNaomi, your best bet is to look in the Yellow Pages and find a listing\\nfor OBGyn doc in the area you wish. Any OBGyn doc is familiar with\\nendometriosis and its treatments.\\nShalom Len Howard MD\\n\\n\\n\\n\",\n", " 'From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nSubject: Re: health care reform\\nArticle-I.D.: pitt.19408\\nReply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nOrganization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science\\nLines: 24\\n\\nIn article custer@wrc.wrgrace.com (Linda Custer) writes:\\n>This is my first post, and I am not even sure it will work. Here goes.\\n>\\n>Did anyone read the editorial on page 70 in the 29 march 1993 edition of Time\\n>Magazine, noting that managed care is extremely inefficient? Of all the possible\\n>clients that Billary could be pandering to, the insurance industry is the worst!\\n>\\n>Comments?\\n \\nI agree. Adding layers of managers and bureaucrats simply eat up\\nmoney that could be spent on those who actually are doing the work\\nsuch as doctors and nurse, and supplies. The most efficient system\\nis probably one that has limited management and a fixed budget such\\nas England\\'s or even Canada\\'s. I\\'m afraid we are on the wrong\\ntrack. The problem may be that the insurance lobby is too powerful.\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n-- \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nGordon Banks N3JXP | \"Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and\\ngeb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu | it is shameful to surrender it too soon.\" \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n',\n", " \"From: noring@netcom.com (Jon Noring)\\nSubject: Re: Good Grief! (was Re: Candida Albicans: what is it?)\\nOrganization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)\\nLines: 32\\n\\nIn article dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer) writes:\\n>In article noring@netcom.com (Jon Noring) writes:\\n\\nGood grief again.\\n\\nWhy the anger? I must have really touched a raw nerve.\\n\\nLet's see: I had symptoms that resisted all other treatments. Sporanox\\ntotally alleviated them within one week. Hmmm, I must be psychotic. Yesss!\\nThat's it - my illness was all in my mind. Thanks Steve for your correct\\ndiagnosis - you must have a lot of experience being out there in trenches,\\ntreating hundreds of patients a week. Thank you. I'm forever in your\\ndebt.\\n\\nJon\\n\\n(oops, gotta run, the men in white coats are ready to take me away, haha,\\nto the happy home, where I can go twiddle my thumbs, basket weave, and\\nmoan about my sinuses.)\\n\\n-- \\n\\nCharter Member --->>> INFJ Club.\\n\\nIf you're dying to know what INFJ means, be brave, e-mail me, I'll send info.\\n=============================================================================\\n| Jon Noring | noring@netcom.com | |\\n| JKN International | IP : 192.100.81.100 | FRED'S GOURMET CHOCOLATE |\\n| 1312 Carlton Place | Phone : (510) 294-8153 | CHIPS - World's Best! |\\n| Livermore, CA 94550 | V-Mail: (510) 417-4101 | |\\n=============================================================================\\nWho are you? Read alt.psychology.personality! That's where the action is.\\n\",\n", " 'From: xrcjd@resolve.gsfc.nasa.gov (Charles J. Divine)\\nSubject: Science News article on Federal R&D\\nOrganization: NASA/GSFC Greenbelt Maryland\\nLines: 8\\n\\nJust a pointer to the article in the current Science News article\\non Federal R&D funding.\\n\\nVery briefly, all R&D is being shifted to gaining current \\ncompetitive advantage from things like military and other work that\\ndoes not have as much commercial utility.\\n-- \\nChuck Divine\\n',\n", " 'From: homer@tripos.com (Webster Homer)\\nSubject: Mind Machines?\\nSummary: Do mind machines work?\\nKeywords: mind sleep Light&Sound\\nOrganization: Tripos Associates, Inc.\\nLines: 19\\n\\nI recently learned about these devices that supposedly induce specific \\nbrain wave frequencies in their users simply by wearing them. Mind machines\\nconsist of LED gogles, head phones, and a microprocessor that controls them.\\nThey strobe the (closed) eye and send sound pulses in sync with the flashing\\nLEDs. I understand that these devices are experimental, but they are available.\\nI\\'ve heard claims that they can induce sleep, and light trance states for\\nrelaxation. Essentially they are supposed to work without aid of drugs etc...\\nI would think that if they work as reported they would be incredibly useful,\\nThe few sources I\\'ve seen are biased (they are selling the things, and a\\nfriend who has tried them claims that \"every home should have one\"). So \\ndo these mind machines (aka Light and Sound machines) work? can they induce\\nalpha, theta, and/or delta waves in a person wearing them? What research if\\nany has been done on them? Could they be used in lieu of a tranquilizer?\\nOr are they just another bit of quackery?\\n\\nWeb Homer\\n\\nhomer@tripos.com\\n \\n',\n", " 'From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nSubject: Re: Fungus \"epidemic\" in CA?\\nReply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nDistribution: na\\nOrganization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science\\nLines: 19\\n\\n>In article steward@cup.portal.com (John Joseph Deltuvia) writes:\\n>\\n>>There was a story a few weeks ago on a network news show about some sort\\n>>of fungus which supposedly attacks the bone structure and is somewhat\\n>>widespread in California. Anybody hear anything about this one?\\n>\\n\\nThe only fungus I know of from California is Coccidiomycosis. I\\nhadn\\'t heard that it attacked bone. It attacks lung and if you\\nare especially unlucky, the central nervous system. Nothing new\\nabout it. It\\'s been around for years. THey call it \"valley\\nfever\", since it is found in the inland valleys, not on the coast.\\n\\n\\n-- \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nGordon Banks N3JXP | \"Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and\\ngeb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu | it is shameful to surrender it too soon.\" \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n',\n", " \"From: Daniel.Prince@f129.n102.z1.calcom.socal.com (Daniel Prince)\\nSubject: Re: Is MSG sensitivity superstition?\\nLines: 12\\n\\n To: milsh@nmr-z.mgh.harvard.edu (Alex Milshteyn)\\n\\n AM> Having said that, i might add, that in MHO, MSG does not enhance\\n AM> flavor enoughf for me to miss it. When I go to chinese places,\\n AM> I order food without MSG. \\n\\nTo me, MSG tastes just like a mixture of salt and sugar. I don't \\nthink that is the case with most people. What does it taste like \\nto you? \\n\\n... If wishes were horses, we'd all have to wear hip boots!\\n * Origin: ONE WORLD Los Angeles 310/372-0987 32b (1:102/129.0)\\n\",\n", " 'From: bobc@sed.stel.com (Bob Combs)\\nSubject: Re: Blow up space station, easy way to do it.\\nOrganization: SED, Stanford Telecom, Reston, VA 22090\\nLines: 16\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr5.184527.1@aurora.alaska.edu> nsmca@aurora.alaska.edu writes:\\n>This might a real wierd idea or maybe not..\\n>\\n>\\n>Why musta space station be so difficult?? why must we have girders? why be\\n>confined to earth based ideas, lets think new ideas, after all space is not\\n>earth, why be limited by earth based ideas??\\n>\\nChoose any or all of the following as an answer to the above:\\n \\n\\n1. Politics\\n2. Traditions\\n3. Congress\\n4. Beauracrats\\n\\n',\n", " \"From: dong@oakhill.sps.mot.com (Don M. Gibson)\\nSubject: Re: Why not give $1 billion to first year-lo\\nNntp-Posting-Host: lexus\\nReply-To: dong@oakhill.sps.mot.com\\nOrganization: Motorola Semiconductor Products Sector\\nLines: 21\\n\\nIn article F23@zoo.toronto.edu, henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:\\n>In article <1993Apr20.101044.2291@iti.org> aws@iti.org (Allen W. Sherzer) writes:\\n>>This prize isn't big enough to warrent developing a SSTO, but it is\\n>>enough to do it if the vehicle exists.\\n>\\n>Actually, there are people who will tell you that it *would* be enough\\n>to do SSTO development, if done privately as a cut-rate operation. Of\\n>course, they may be over-optimistic.\\n>\\n>You can also assume that a working SSTO would have other applications\\n>that would help pay for its development costs.\\n>\\n>I'd be inclined to make the prize somewhat larger, but $1G might be enough.\\n\\nthis all sounds like that Indecent Proposal movie. wouldn't there be\\na lot of people that would try this with little hope of working just\\nto get the dough? if you have a 1:100 chance and it costs you $10Mil,\\nthen you might pay some stooge a few grand to be your lucky hero.\\njust send up a few dozen and 1 is bound to survive enough to make YOU\\nrich.\\n--DonG\\n\",\n", " 'From: jbh55289@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Josh Hopkins)\\nSubject: Vandalizing the sky\\nOrganization: University of Illinois at Urbana\\nLines: 50\\n\\nyamauchi@ces.cwru.edu (Brian Yamauchi) writes:\\n\\n>enzo@research.canon.oz.au (Enzo Liguori) writes:\\n>>WHAT\\'S NEW (in my opinion), Friday, 16 April 1993 Washington, DC\\n\\n>>1. SPACE BILLBOARDS! IS THIS ONE THE \"SPINOFFS\" WE WERE PROMISED?\\n>>In 1950, science fiction writer Robert Heinlein published \"The\\n>>Man Who Sold the Moon,\" which involved a dispute over the sale of\\n>>rights to the Moon for use as billboard. NASA has taken the firsteps toward this\\n>>hideous vision of the future. Observers were\\n>>startled this spring when a NASA launch vehicle arrived at the\\n>>pad with \"SCHWARZENEGGER\" painted in huge block letters on the\\n>>side of the booster rockets. Space Marketing Inc. had arranged\\n>>for the ad to promote Arnold\\'s latest movie.\\n\\n>Well, if you\\'re going to get upset with this, you might as well direct\\n>some of this moral outrage towards Glavcosmos as well. They pioneered\\n>this capitalist application of booster adverts long before NASA.\\n\\nIn fact, you can all direct your ire at the proper target by ingoring NASA \\naltogether. The rocket is a commercial launch vechicle - a Conestoga flying \\na COMET payload. NASA is simply the primary customer. I believe SDIO has a\\nsmall payload as well. The advertising space was sold by the owners of the\\nrocket, who can do whatever they darn well please with it. In addition, these\\nanonymous \"observers\" had no reason to be startled. The deal made Space News\\nat least twice. \\n\\n>>Now, Space Marketing\\n>>is working with University of Colorado and Livermore engineers on\\n>>a plan to place a mile-long inflatable billboard in low-earth\\n>>orbit.\\n>>NASA would provide contractual launch services. However,\\n>>since NASA bases its charge on seriously flawed cost estimates\\n>>(WN 26 Mar 93) the taxpayers would bear most of the expense. \\n\\n>>Is NASA really supporting this junk?\\n\\n>And does anyone have any more details other than what was in the WN\\n>news blip? How serious is this project? Is this just in the \"wild\\n>idea\" stage or does it have real funding?\\n\\nI think its only fair to find that out before everyone starts having a hissy\\nfit. The fact that they bothered to use the conditional tense suggests that\\nit has not yet been approved.\\n\\n\\n-- \\nJosh Hopkins jbh55289@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu\\n\\t\\t \"Find a way or make one.\"\\n\\t -attributed to Hannibal\\n',\n", " 'From: nsmca@aurora.alaska.edu\\nSubject: Old Spacecraft as NAvigation Beacons!\\nArticle-I.D.: aurora.1993Apr21.001555.1\\nOrganization: University of Alaska Fairbanks\\nLines: 8\\nNntp-Posting-Host: acad3.alaska.edu\\n\\nOther idea for old space crafts is as navigation beacons and such..\\nWhy not?? If you can put them on \"safe\" \"pause\" mode.. why not have them be\\nactivated by a signal from a space craft (manned?) to act as a naviagtion\\nbeacon, to take a directional plot on??\\n\\nWierd or what?\\n==\\nMichael Adams, nsmca@acad3.alaska.edu -- I\\'m not high, just jacked\\n',\n", " \"From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)\\nSubject: Re: HST Servicing Mission Scheduled for 11 Days\\nOrganization: U of Toronto Zoology\\nLines: 35\\n\\nIn article <1rd1g0$ckb@access.digex.net> prb@access.digex.com (Pat) writes:\\n>How will said re-boost be done?\\n>Grapple, HST, stow it in Cargo bay, do OMS burn to high altitude, \\n>unstow HST, repair gyros, costar install, fix solar arrays,\\n>then return to earth?\\n\\nActually, the reboost will probably be done last, so that there is a fuel\\nreserve during the EVAs (in case they have to chase down an adrift\\nastronaut or something like that). But yes, you've got the idea -- the\\nreboost is done by taking the whole shuttle up.\\n\\n>My guess is why bother with usingthe shuttle to reboost?\\n>why not grapple, do all said fixes, bolt a small liquid fueled\\n>thruster module to HST, then let it make the re-boost...\\n\\nSomebody has to build that thruster module; it's not an off-the-shelf\\nitem. Nor is it a trivial piece of hardware, since it has to include\\nattitude control (HST's own is not strong enough to compensate for things\\nlike thruster imbalance), guidance (there is no provision to feed gyro\\ndata from HST's own gyros to an external device), and separation (you\\ndon't want it left attached afterward, if only to avoid possible\\ncontamination after the telescope lid is opened again). You also get\\nto worry about whether the lid is going to open after the reboost is\\ndone and HST is inaccessible to the shuttle (the lid stays closed for\\nthe duration of all of this to prevent mirror contamination from\\nthrusters and the like).\\n\\nThe original plan was to use the Orbital Maneuvering Vehicle to do the\\nreboost. The OMV was planned to be a sort of small space tug, well\\nsuited to precisely this sort of job. Unfortunately, it was costing\\na lot to develop and the list of definitely-known applications was\\nrelatively short, so it got cancelled.\\n-- \\nSVR4 resembles a high-speed collision | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology\\nbetween SVR3 and SunOS. - Dick Dunn | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry\\n\",\n", " 'From: euclid@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Euclid K.)\\nSubject: Re: Anti-Viral Herbs\\nArticle-I.D.: news.C51o24.8A4\\nDistribution: na\\nOrganization: University of Illinois at Urbana\\nLines: 38\\n\\nkxgst1+@pitt.edu (Kenneth Gilbert) writes:\\n\\n>Unfortunately it was rather poorly researched, and would not be available\\n>today if it were just invented. Keep in mind however that those were\\n>the days when a bottle of Coca Cola really did contain coca extract and\\n>a certain amount of active cocaine. Times have changed, and our attitudes\\n>need to change with them.\\n Well, yes. That was a part of my point. Aspirin has its problems, but\\nin some situations it is useful. Ditto stuff like licorice root. Taking\\nanything as a drug for theraputic purposes implicitly carries the idea\\nof taking a dose where the benefits are not exceeded by any unwanted,\\nadditional effects. Taking any drug when the potential ill-effects are\\nnot known is a risk assumed by the parties involved, and it may be that\\nin a given situation the risk is worthwhile.\\n Like Prozac, for instance; Prozac has been shown to be theraputic in\\nsome cases where the tri-cyclics fail. But Prozac hasn\\'t been in use\\nthat long, and it really isn\\'t clear what if any effects it may have\\nwhen taken over long periods of time, even though it has been tested\\nby present day standards. Should Prozac be taken off the market because\\nlong-term effects, if any, are not known? IMHO, i\\'d say no.\\n\\neuclid\\n\\n>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=\\n>= Kenneth Gilbert | University of Pittsburgh =\\n>= General Internal Medicine --*-- Pittsburgh, PA =\\n>= kxgst1+@pitt.edu | \"...dammit, not a programmer! =\\n>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=\\n>-- \\n>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=\\n>= Kenneth Gilbert | University of Pittsburgh =\\n>= General Internal Medicine --*-- Pittsburgh, PA =\\n>= kxgst1+@pitt.edu | \"...dammit, not a programmer! =\\n--\\nEuclid K. standard disclaimers apply\\n\"It is a bit ironic that we need the wave model [of light] to understand the\\npropagation of light only through that part of the system where it leaves no\\ntrace.\" --Hudson & Nelson (_University_Physics_)\\n',\n", " \"From: jil@donuts0.uucp (Jamie Lubin)\\nSubject: Re: eye dominance\\nOrganization: Bellcore, Piscataway, NJ\\nLines: 14\\n\\nIn article <19671@pitt.UUCP> geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks) writes:\\n>In article rsilver@world.std.com (Richard Silver) writes:\\n>>\\n>>Is there a right-eye dominance (eyedness?) as there is an\\n>>overall right-handedness in the population? I mean do most\\n>>people require less lens corrections for the one eye than the\\n>>other? If so, what kinds of percentages can be attached to this?\\n>\\n>There is eye dominance same as handedness (and usually for the\\n>same side). It has nothing to do with refractive error, however.\\n\\nI recall reading/seeing that former baseball star Chris Chambliss' hitting\\nabilities were (in part) attributed to a combination of left-handedness &\\nright-eye dominance.\\n\",\n", " 'From: tuinstra@signal.ece.clarkson.edu.soe (Dwight Tuinstra)\\nSubject: Re: Clementine name\\nReply-To: tuinstra@signal.ece.clarkson.edu.soe\\nOrganization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.\\nLines: 21\\nNntp-Posting-Host: signal.ece.clarkson.edu\\n\\nIn article F00001@permanet.org, Mark.Prado@p2.f349.n109.z1.permanet.org (Mark Prado) writes:\\n>Please go just one step further:\\n>How has the word \"Clementine\" been associated with mining?\\n>\\n\\nCould be the (folk?) song \"Clementine\". If memory serves, part of it goes:\\n\\n In a cavern, by a canyon,\\n Excavating for a mine,\\n Dwelt a miner, forty-niner,\\n and his daughter, Clementine.\\n\\nAnyone who watched Huckleberry Hound can sing you the chorus :-) \\nIs there a story/real person behind the song?\\n\\n+========================================================================+\\n| dwight tuinstra best: tuinstra@sandman.ece.clarkson.edu |\\n| tolerable: tuinstrd@craft.camp.clarkson.edu |\\n| |\\n| \"Homo sapiens: planetary cancer?? ... News at six\" |\\n+========================================================================+\\n',\n", " 'From: 18084TM@msu.edu (Tom)\\nSubject: Fred and Tom, ad naseum\\nX-Added: Forwarded by Space Digest\\nOrganization: [via International Space University]\\nOriginal-Sender: isu@VACATION.VENARI.CS.CMU.EDU\\nDistribution: sci\\nLines: 189\\n\\n>>Nick sez;\\nI\\'m not very impressed by the old so-called \"prospecting\" work from\\nLPI, it has almost all been geared towards industrially silly processes on\\nthe moon as an excuse to put astronauts there. [...]\\n\\n>>Fred replies;\\nTranslation: It doesn\\'t support the Nick Szabo Vision of the Future\\nto Which You MUST Subscribe...\\n\\n>Tom sez;\\nFred, we\\'re all supporting what each of us thinks should be done, to some\\ndegree. If you have a problem with what Nick thinks should be done,\\naddress it, instead of just complaining about his doing so.\\n\\n>Fred again;\\nYou really don\\'t get what the \\'complaints\\' are about, do you?\\n [not incredibly clear explanation of complaints...something between\\n feelings regarding Nick\\'s method, and judgments about his meaning]\\n\\nT\\n>>Maybe I\\'d get it if you said what the complaints are about, rather than\\n>>doing the same things that you mean to complain about. When you trash\\n>>people, how am I supposed to read that as \\'trashing people is bad\\'?\\n\\nF\\n>Gee, funny that you get it now, then? Deliberate obtuseness, perhaps?\\n\\n*** Fred\\'s issue #1; Nick\\'s alleged trashing of others ***\\n\\nI only got it when you stopped trashing, and made your point patently,\\ninstead of \\'allegorically\\'. That was my point all along, Fred.\\n\\n>>>>Not only\\n>>>>do you do the same thing on the net (honestly reporting your ideas\\n>>>>on matters of policy and projects in space), but your response was just\\n>>>>baiting, not even part of a debate.\\n\\n>>>I have yet to see Nick enter into anything remotely resembling \"a\\n>>>debate\". I see him flame anyone or anything who disagrees with The\\n>>>One True Szabo Plan; I see him attacking people, calling them \"lazy\\n>>>bastard\" because they had the temerity to disagree with the Almight\\n>>>Nick; I see him questioning peoples ethics, again because they had the\\n>>>temerity to disagree with Lord God Szabo. But debate? BWAAaaahhhaaaa.\\n\\n>>I\\'m glad you can laugh, since your ratio of debate/insult is about the same.\\n\\n>Not even close, Tommy, and generally only when I\\'m dealing with\\n>someone like Nick.\\n\\nI see we are dealing with a problem in a conflict of interpretations, not\\nleast of which is your belief that only you can adequately judge what is\\nand is not debate. Suffice to say that I disagree with you on that last\\npoint. Why don\\'t you take a poll, Fred, if you want some psuedo-objective\\npoint-of-view?\\n\\nAnd, as usual, you defend your insults with \"he started it.\" \"Yeah, I\\ntook some of his research and called it my own, but he started it.\" \"So\\nwhat if I stole his car, he stole my lawnmower first.\" Besides that, I\\nthink it\\'s still open to interpretation whether Nick actually did start it.\\nSo your defense, besides being lame, and contradicting the first part of\\nthe sentence in which it occurs, may not even apply anyway.\\n\\nYour defense reminds me of the guy that broke the borrowed tool: \"I\\nnever borrowed it, I already gave it back, and it was broken when you\\ngave it to me.\" Make up yer mind, Fred!\\n\\n>>>>I\\'m not convinced that people are necessary in all parts of every space-\\n>>>>based process, and your response doesn\\'t tell me a thing about the\\n>>>>reasons why you think they should be, except to impune the motives of\\n>>>>the person with a divergent opinion.\\n\\n>>>Who said I think they should be, Tommy? Show me a note where I said\\n>>>that and I\\'ll eat this terminal. ****See below, Fred****\\n\\n>>Fred, I cocluded that you did, since you took issue with it. The fact\\n>>that my conclusion was incorrect, i.e. that you were taking issue with\\n>>something different, is evidence that your communication style is\\n>>confusing.\\n\\n>Or evidence that your reading and comprehension style are inadequate.\\n\\nFirst, I try to address what I think you meant, for which I am rewarded\\nwith a denial of sorts, and a smart remark. Then, I point out that I am\\nnot clear what you did mean, rather than risking your childish ire, wrongly\\ninterpreting you a second time, and I\\'m stupid for it. I just can\\'t win,\\ncan I, Fred? You\\'ve got a great point here somewhere, it\\'s just that\\nbetween stupid people that you must insult, and your jealous guarding of\\nyour valuable opinions, you never actually get around to making it.\\n\\n>Please quote the \\'it\\' I took issue with. I believe you will see (if\\n>you look) that what I was and am taking issue with is Mr Szabo\\'s idea\\n>that the manned program should be scrapped until such time as his\\n>toaster-based infrastructure is finished. All Hail the Szabo Plan!\\n\\n*** Fred issue #2; Nick\\'s alleged meaning ***\\n\\nToo bad the plan only exists in your mind, instead of Nick\\'s, or you\\nwould have a really good point. Instead you have provided a good reason\\nto ignore your insults, since they are based on incorrect interpretations\\nthat you have made about others. Forgive me for giving your insults more\\nmeaning than they ever should have had.\\n\\nMy reading of what Nick actually said is that \"people aren\\'t required in\\nall parts of all space processes\", so your taking issue with his opinions\\nregarding people in the space program, I read as \"People are required in\\nall parts of all space processes.\" So, help me out, here, Fred, since I\\'m\\nso patently stupid. Did you read Nick wrong? Or are you going to eat\\nyour terminal now? If the latter, I sure hope it\\'s one of those Cheeto and\\nstring models that all the computer mags have been raving about :-)\\n\\nThe point is, _I_ am not stupid because of _your_ incorrect assumption. I\\'d\\nonly be stupid if I insulted you for having made it. But, alas, that\\'s your\\njob, Fred.\\n\\nAnd, finally, your style is confusing, since you tried to make two points,\\nsimultaneously, with an allegory/insult. Sadly, one point addressed a \\'plan\\'\\nthat only existed in your mind, and the other took issue with behaviors that\\nyou do as much as anyone.\\n\\n>More deliberate lack of understanding, Tommy?\\n\\nNo, no, I finally got it. You don\\'t like the plan that Nick\\'s posts made\\nyou imagine. And you don\\'t like Nick\\'s obnoxious behavior, even though\\nit\\'s no worse than your own. Thanks for taking the time with someone as\\ndense as myself.\\n\\n>>>>If you have a problem with Nick\\'s delivery, address that. The way you\\n>>>>bait, you\\'re perpetuating the lack of discourse that you complain of.\\n\\n>>>No, Tommy, the \\'bait\\' is that which elicits the response. *NICK*\\n>>>\\'baits\\'; I just flame him for being an obnoxious fool.\\n\\n>>I don\\'t really care who started it. I read this list to get information\\n>>and other\\'s views on the issues to which it was dedicated, not to be\\n>>your Mom (He started it! No, he did!) or to hear about why Nick is a very\\n>>bad guy. If you think flaming is bad, stop flaming, or at least get to\\n>>the point in the first post, instead of explaining yourself all the time.\\n\\n>That\\'s nice, Tommy. When you pay me to post to the net you can\\n>complain about not getting your money\\'s worth. Perhaps if you weren\\'t\\n>(deliberately?) too thick to get the point the first time I wouldn\\'t\\n>have to waste time \"explaining [myself] all the time\"?\\n\\nOf course, Socrates. How could it be otherwise?\\n\\n>I think it\\'s neat how all this criticism from you started after your\\n>\\'fatherly\\' admonitions to me about how such things should be handled\\n>outside Usenet were somewhat rebuffed. Being a little hypocritical,\\n>Tommy (to go with the immaturity)? Or is this just the pique of a\\n>net.ghod wannabe who got turned down by someone he *thought* was new\\n>(and hence could be \\'instructed\\' -- Tommy, I saw you come on the net).\\n\\nWho cares who came on the net first? If you do, consider that you saw\\nme come on after a brief haitus, before which I was on for about 2 years.\\nIf you had seen me on the net first, you\\'d remember when Nick and I went\\ndown exactly the same road regarding rude, unneccesary behavior. It\\'s\\njust amazing to me that you continue to take issue with behavior that\\'s\\nno worse than your own.\\n\\nLet\\'s see here, my complaints about your obnoxious behavior are hypocritical,\\nwhile your flames against people you decide are flamers isn\\'t, and my\\ncomplaints about your name-calling are immature, while your name-calling\\nisn\\'t. Yeah, right. Maybe if you called me some more names, I might\\nsee it better, Fred.\\n\\n\"Net.ghod wannabe\"? Naturally, Fred, you\\'ve correctly interpreted my\\nmotivations, when yours are impossible to judge from your actions (as\\nyour insulting of people that try, proves). I didn\\'t really care about\\npeople that fill the net with personal garbage, what I really wanted was to\\nimpress everyone. I only put my complaints with your behavior on private\\nmail, not because it belongs there, but because I thought you were such a\\njerk that you\\'d bring it back to the Net, playing right into my hands.\\nAlas, I had no idea what an intellectual master you were, turning tables and\\nbringing the history of these posts to the net, for the noble and valuable\\npurpose of embarassing me. Whether I should feel stupid because I tried\\nto make suggestions to such a superior intellect, or becuase I tried to\\ncommunicate like an adult with a self-righteous ass, still isn\\'t clear.\\n\\nWell, Fred, you exposed me. Now I\\'ll never be able to get a(nother) job\\nwith NASA, since they all know that I\\'m stupider than Fred McCall. Well,\\nI just hope you\\'re happy. Please leave me alone, now. I just don\\'t\\nhave the heart to attempt keeping up with one so far above me. Maybe Nick\\nor Pat can approach your high standards, but I\\'m dropping it now.\\n\\n-Tommy Mac\\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nTom McWilliams 517-355-2178 wk \\\\\\\\ As the radius of vision increases,\\n18084tm@ibm.cl.msu.edu 336-9591 hm \\\\\\\\ the circumference of mystery grows.\\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n',\n", " 'From: ron.roth@rose.com (ron roth)\\nSubject: Selective Placebo\\nX-Gated-By: Usenet <==> RoseMail Gateway (v1.70)\\nOrganization: Rose Media Inc, Toronto, Ontario.\\nLines: 23\\n\\nL(> levin@bbn.com (Joel B Levin) writes:\\nL(> John Badanes wrote:\\nL(> |JB> 1) Ron...what do YOU consider to be \"proper channels\"...\\nL(> \\nL(> | I\\'m glad it caught your eye. That\\'s the purpose of this forum to\\nL(> | educate those, eager to learn, about the facts of life. That phrase\\nL(> | is used to bridle the frenzy of all the would-be respondents, who\\nL(> | otherwise would feel being left out as the proper authorities to be\\nL(> | consulted on that topic. In short, it means absolutely nothing.\\nL(> \\nL(> An apt description of the content of just about all Ron Roth\\'s \\nL(> posts to date. At least there\\'s entertainment value (though it \\nL(> is diminishing).\\n\\n Well, that\\'s easy for *YOU* to say. All *YOU* have to do is sit \\n back, soak it all in, try it out on your patients, and then brag\\n to all your colleagues about that incredibly success rate you\\'re\\n having all of a sudden...\\n\\n --Ron--\\n---\\n RoseReader 2.00 P003228: For real sponge cake, borrow all ingredients.\\n RoseMail 2.10 : Usenet: Rose Media - Hamilton (416) 575-5363\\n',\n", " 'From: flb@flb.optiplan.fi (\"F.Baube[tm]\")\\nSubject: The Area Rule\\nX-Added: Forwarded by Space Digest\\nOrganization: [via International Space University]\\nOriginal-Sender: isu@VACATION.VENARI.CS.CMU.EDU\\nDistribution: sci\\nLines: 12\\n\\nI read it refered to as the \"parabolic cross-section\" rule;\\nthe idea was that if you plot the area of the fuselage cross-\\nsection as a function of the point fore-and-aft along the \\nfuselage, a plot that is a **paraboloid** minimizes somethin\\' \\nor \\'nother (to be technical about it).\\n\\n\\n-- \\n* Fred Baube (tm) * In times of intellectual ferment,\\n* baube@optiplan.fi * advantage to him with the intellect\\n* #include * most fermented\\n* May \\'68, Paris: It\\'s Retrospective Time !! \\n',\n", " 'From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)\\nSubject: Re: Is MSG sensitivity superstition?\\nOrganization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA\\nLines: 78\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr16.155123.447@cunews.carleton.ca> wcsbeau@alfred.carleton.ca (OPIRG) writes:\\n>>So far, I\\'ve seen about a dozen posts of anecdotal evidence, but\\n>>no facts. I suspect there is a strong psychological effect at \\n>>work here. Does anyone have results from a scientific study\\n>>using double-blind trials? \\n>\\n>Check out #27903, just some 20 posts before your own.\\n\\nUm, I hate to break this to you, but article numbers are unique per site.\\nThey have no meaning on other machines.\\n\\n>Maybe you missed it amidst the flurry of responses?\\n\\nYou mean the responses some of which pointed to double-blind tests\\nwhich show no such \"chinese restaurant effect\" unique to MSG\\n(it\\'s elicited by the placebo as well.)\\n\\n>Yet again, the use of this\\n>newsgroup is hampered by people not restricting their posts to matters\\n>they have substantial knowledge of.\\n\\nLike youself? Someone who can read a scientific paper and apparently\\ncome away from it with bizarrely cracked ideas which have nothing to\\ndo with the use of this substance in human nutrition?\\n\\n>For cites on MSG, look up almost anything by John W. Olney, a\\n>toxicologist who has studied the effects of MSG on the brain and on\\n>development. It is undisputed in the literature that MSG is an\\n>excitotoxic food additive,\\n\\nNo, it\\'s undisputed in the literature that glutamate is an amino acid\\nwhich is an excitatory neurotransmitter. There is also evidence that\\nexcessive release of glutamate may be involved in the pathology of certain\\nconditions like stroke, drowning and Lou Gehrig\\'s disease, just to name a few.\\nThis is a completely different issue than the use of this ubiquitous amino acid\\nin foods. People are not receiving intra-ventricular injections of glutamate.\\n\\n>and that its major constituent, glutamate\\n>is essentially the premierie neurotransmitter in the mammalian brain\\n>(humans included).\\n\\nI don\\'t know about premier, but it\\'s certainly an important one.\\n\\n>Too much in the diet, and the system gets thrown off.\\n\\nSez you. Such an effect in humans has not been demonstrated in any\\ncontrolled studies. Infant mice and other models are useful as far\\nas they go, but they\\'re not relevant to the matter at hand. Which is\\nnot to say that I favor its use in things like baby food--a patently\\nridiculous use of the additive. But we have no reason to believe\\nthat MSG in the diet effects humans adversely.\\n\\n>Glutamate and aspartate, also an excitotoxin are necessary in\\n>small amounts, and are freely available in many foods, but the amounts\\n>added by industry are far above the amounts that would normally be\\n>encountered in a ny single food.\\n\\nWrong. Do you know how much aspartate or phenylalanine is in a soft drink?\\nMilligrams worth. Compare that to a glass of milk. Do you know how much\\nglutamate is present in most protein-containing foods compared to that\\nadded by the use of MSG?\\n\\n>By eating lots of junk food,\\n>packaged soups, and diet soft drinks, it is possible to jack your\\n>blood levels so high, that anyone with a sensitivity to these\\n>compounds will suffer numerous *real* physi9logical effects. \\n\\nNotice the subtle covering of her ass here: \"anyone _with a sensitivity_...\"\\nWe\\'re disputing the size of that class.\\n\\n>Read Olney\\'s review paper in Prog. Brain Res, 1988, and check *his*\\n>sources. They are impecable. There is no dispute.\\n\\nImpeccable. There most certainly is a dispute.\\n\\n-- \\nSteve Dyer\\ndyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer\\n',\n", " \"From: prb@access.digex.com (Pat)\\nSubject: Re: Eco-Freaks forcing Space Mining.\\nOrganization: Express Access Online Communications USA\\nLines: 7\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: access.digex.net\\n\\n Besides this was the same line of horse puckey the mining companies claimed\\nwhen they were told to pay for restoring land after strip mining.\\n\\nthey still mine coal in the midwest, but now it doesn't look like\\nthe moon when theyare done.\\n\\npat\\n\",\n", " \"From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)\\nSubject: Re: Moonbase race, NASA resources, why?\\nOrganization: U of Toronto Zoology\\nLines: 33\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr21.210712.1@aurora.alaska.edu> nsmca@aurora.alaska.edu writes:\\n>> So how much would it cost as a private venture, assuming you could talk the\\n>> U.S. government into leasing you a couple of pads in Florida? \\n>\\n>Why must it be a US Government Space Launch Pad? Directly I mean...\\n\\nIn fact, you probably want to avoid US Government anything for such a\\nproject. The pricetag is invariably too high, either in money or in\\nhassles.\\n\\nThe important thing to realize here is that the big cost of getting to\\nthe Moon is getting into low Earth orbit. Everything else is practically\\ndown in the noise. The only part of getting to the Moon that poses any\\nnew problems, beyond what you face in low orbit, is the last 10km --\\nthe actual landing -- and that is not immensely difficult. Of course,\\nyou *can* spend sagadollars (saga- is the metric prefix for beelyuns\\nand beelyuns) on things other than the launches, but you don't have to.\\n\\nThe major component of any realistic plan to go to the Moon cheaply (for\\nmore than a brief visit, at least) is low-cost transport to Earth orbit.\\nFor what it costs to launch one Shuttle or two Titan IVs, you can develop\\na new launch system that will be considerably cheaper. (Delta Clipper\\nmight be a bit more expensive than this, perhaps, but there are less\\nambitious ways of bringing costs down quite a bit.) Any plan for doing\\nsustained lunar exploration using existing launch systems is wasting\\nmoney in a big way.\\n\\nGiven this, questions like whose launch facilities you use are *not* a\\nminor detail; they are very important to the cost of the launches, which\\ndominates the cost of the project.\\n-- \\nAll work is one man's work. | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology\\n - Kipling | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry\\n\",\n", " 'From: jnielsen@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (John F Nielsen)\\nSubject: Re: Good Grief! (was Re: Candida Albicans: what is it?)\\nNntp-Posting-Host: magnusug.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu\\nOrganization: The Ohio State University\\nLines: 45\\n\\nIn article noring@netcom.com (Jon Noring) writes:\\n>In article dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer) writes:\\n>>In article noring@netcom.com (Jon Noring) writes:\\n>\\n>Good grief again.\\n>\\n>Why the anger? I must have really touched a raw nerve.\\n>\\n>Let\\'s see: I had symptoms that resisted all other treatments. Sporanox\\n>totally alleviated them within one week. Hmmm, I must be psychotic. Yesss!\\n>That\\'s it - my illness was all in my mind. Thanks Steve for your correct\\n>diagnosis - you must have a lot of experience being out there in trenches,\\n>treating hundreds of patients a week. Thank you. I\\'m forever in your\\n>debt.\\n>\\n>Jon\\n>\\n>(oops, gotta run, the men in white coats are ready to take me away, haha,\\n>to the happy home, where I can go twiddle my thumbs, basket weave, and\\n>moan about my sinuses.)\\n\\nEver heard of something called the placebo effect? I think Dyer is\\nreacting because it looks to be yet another case of the same old\\nquackery over and over again.\\n\\nIt true that current medical knowledge is limited, but do you realize\\njust HOW MANY quacks exist eager to suck your $$$$. It\\'s playing the\\nlottery at best.\\n\\nIf the results you got were so clear and obvious, would you mind\\ntrying a little experiment to see if it is true? It would be quite\\nsimple. Have sugar pills and have real pills. Take one set for one\\nweek and the other set for another week without knowing which ones are\\nthe real pills. Then at the end of the 2 weeks compare the results.\\nLet\\'s say you\\'re wife would know which are the real ones. If what you\\nare experiencing is true there should be a marked difference between\\neach week. \\n \\njohn\\n\\n-- \\nJohn Nielsen MAGNUS Consultant ______ ______ __ __\\t\\n\"To you Baldrick, the Renaissance was just /\\\\ __ \\\\ /\\\\ ___\\\\ /\\\\ \\\\/\\\\ \\\\\\nsomething that happened to other people, \\\\ \\\\ \\\\/\\\\ \\\\\\\\ \\\\___ \\\\\\\\ \\\\ \\\\_\\\\ \\\\\\nwasn\\'t it?\" - The Black Adder \\\\ \\\\_____\\\\\\\\/\\\\_____\\\\\\\\ \\\\_____\\\\\\n',\n", " 'From: hoover@mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de (Uwe Schuerkamp)\\nSubject: Re: Vandalizing the sky.\\nNntp-Posting-Host: math30.mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de\\nOrganization: Math Madhouse Bielefeld, Germany\\nLines: 26\\n\\nIn article enzo@research.canon.oz.au \\n(Enzo Liguori) writes:\\n\\n> hideous vision of the future. Observers were\\n>startled this spring when a NASA launch vehicle arrived at the\\n>pad with \"SCHWARZENEGGER\" painted in huge block letters on the\\n\\nThis is ok in my opinion as long as the stuff *returns to earth*.\\n\\n>What do you think of this revolting and hideous attempt to vandalize\\n>the night sky? It is not even April 1 anymore.\\n\\nIf this turns out to be true, it\\'s time to get seriously active in\\nterrorism. This is unbelievable! Who do those people think they are,\\nselling every bit that promises to make money? I guess we really\\ndeserve being wiped out by uv radiation, folks. \"Stupidity wins\". I\\nguess that\\'s true, and if only by pure numbers.\\n\\n\\tAnother depressed planetary citizen,\\n\\thoover\\n\\n\\n\\n-- \\nUwe \"Hoover\" Schuerkamp \\t\\t hoover@mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de\\n\\t\\tClear Skies --- Fight light pollution!\\n',\n", " 'From: dbm0000@tm0006.lerc.nasa.gov (David B. Mckissock)\\nSubject: Re: Space Station Redesign, JSC Alternative #4\\nOrganization: NASA Lewis Research Center / Cleveland, Ohio\\nLines: 102\\nDistribution: world\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: tm0006.lerc.nasa.gov\\nNews-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41 \\n\\nIn article <1993Apr23.184732.1105@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>, kjenks@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov writes...\\n\\n {Description of \"External Tank\" option for SSF redesign deleted}\\n\\n>Mark proposed this design at Joe Shea\\'s committee in Crystal City,\\n>and he reports that he was warmly received. However, the rumors\\n>I hear say that a design based on a wingless Space Shuttle Orbiter\\n>seems more likely.\\n\\nYo Ken, let\\'s keep on-top of things! Both the \"External Tank\" and\\n\"Wingless Orbiter\" options have been deleted from the SSF redesign\\noptions list. Today\\'s (4/23) edition of the New York Times reports\\nthat O\\'Connor told the panel that some redesign proposals have\\nbeen dropped, such as using the \"giant external fuel tanks used\\nin launching space shuttles,\" and building a \"station around\\nan existing space shuttle with its wings and tail removed.\"\\n\\nCurrently, there are three options being considered, as presented\\nto the advisory panel meeting yesterday (and as reported in\\ntoday\\'s Times).\\n\\nOption \"A\" - Low Cost Modular Approach\\nThis option is being studied by a team from MSFC. {As an aside,\\nthere are SSF redesign teams at MSFC, JSC, and LaRC supporting\\nthe SRT (Station Redesign Team) in Crystal City. Both LeRC and\\nReston folks are also on-site at these locations, helping the respective\\nteams with their redesign activities.} Key features of this\\noption are:\\n - Uses \"Bus-1\", a modular bus developed by Lockheed that\\'s\\n qualified for STS and ELV\\'s. The bus provides propulsion, GN&C\\n Communications, & Data Management. Lockheed developed this\\n for the Air Force.\\n - A \"Power Station Capability\" is obtained in 3 Shuttle Flights.\\n SSF Solar arrays are used to provide 20 kW of power. The vehicle\\n flies in an \"arrow mode\" to optimize the microgravity environment.\\n Shuttle/Spacelab missions would utilize the vehilce as a power\\n source for 30 day missions.\\n - Human tended capability (as opposed to the old SSF sexist term\\n of man-tended capability) is achieved by the addition of the\\n US Common module. This is a modified version of the existing\\n SSF Lab module (docking ports are added for the International\\n Partners\\' labs, taking the place of the nodes on SSF). The\\n Shuttle can be docked to the station for 60 day missions.\\n The Orbiter would provide crew habitability & EVA capability.\\n - International Human Tended. Add the NASDA & ESA modules, and\\n add another 20 kW of power\\n - Permanent Human Presence Capability. Add a 3rd power module,\\n the U.S. habitation module, and an ACRV (Assured Crew Return\\n Vehicle).\\n\\nOption \"B\" - Space Station Freedom Derived\\nThe Option \"B\" team is based at LaRC, and is lead by Mike Griffin.\\nThis option looks alot like the existing SSF design, which we\\nhave all come to know and love :)\\n\\nThis option assumes a lightweight external tank is available for\\nuse on all SSF assembly flights (so does option \"A\"). Also, the \\nnumber of flights is computed for a 51.6 inclination orbit,\\nfor both options \"A\" and \"B\".\\n\\nThe build-up occurs in six phases:\\n - Initial Research Capability reached after 3 flights. Power\\n is transferred from the vehicle to the Orbiter/Spacelab, when\\n it visits.\\n - Man-Tended Capability (Griffin has not yet adopted non-sexist\\n language) is achieved after 8 flights. The U.S. Lab is\\n deployed, and 1 solar power module provides 20 kW of power.\\n - Permanent Human Presence Capability occurs after 10 flights, by\\n keeping one Orbiter on-orbit to use as an ACRV (so sometimes\\n there would be two Orbiters on-orbit - the ACRV, and the\\n second one that comes up for Logistics & Re-supply).\\n - A \"Two Fault Tolerance Capability\" is achieved after 14 flights,\\n with the addition of a 2nd power module, another thermal\\n control system radiator, and more propulsion modules.\\n - After 20 flights, the Internationals are on-board. More power,\\n the Habitation module, and an ACRV are added to finish the\\n assembly in 24 flights.\\n\\nMost of the systems currently on SSF are used as-is in this option, \\nwith the exception of the data management system, which has major\\nchanges.\\n\\nOption C - Single Core Launch Station.\\nThis is the JSC lead option. Basically, you take a 23 ft diameter\\ncylinder that\\'s 92 ft long, slap 3 Space Shuttle Main Engines on\\nthe backside, put a nose cone on the top, attached it to a \\nregular shuttle external tank and a regular set of solid rocket\\nmotors, and launch the can. Some key features are:\\n - Complete end-to-end ground integration and checkout\\n - 4 tangentially mounted fixed solar panels\\n - body mounted radiators (which adds protection against\\n micrometeroid & orbital debris)\\n - 2 centerline docking ports (one on each end)\\n - 7 berthing ports\\n - a single pressurized volume, approximately 26,000 cubic feet\\n (twice the volume of skylab).\\n - 7 floors, center passageway between floors\\n - 10 kW of housekeeping power\\n - graceful degradation with failures (8 power channels, 4 thermal\\n loops, dual environmental control & life support system)\\n - increased crew time for utilization\\n - 1 micro-g thru out the core module\\n',\n", " \"From: med50003@nusunix1.nus.sg (WANSAICHEONG KHIN-LIN)\\nSubject: Re: Lasers for dermatologists\\nOrganization: National University of Singapore\\nX-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]\\nLines: 12\\n\\nIt is not true that dermatologists gave not reached the laser age, in\\nfact, lasers in dermatological surgery is a very new and exciting field.\\n\\nIt probably won't be effective in tinea pedis because the laser is\\nusually a superficial burn (to avoid any deeper damage). Limited tinea\\npedis can be cured albeit sometimes slowly by topical antifungals as\\nwell as systemic medication i.e. tablets. Finally, a self-diagnosis is\\nnot always reliable, lichen simplex chronicus can look like a fungal\\ninfection and requires very different treatment.\\n\\ngervais\\n\\n\",\n", " 'From: claice@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (Farmer Ted)\\nSubject: Re: Space Debris\\nNntp-Posting-Host: rintintin.colorado.edu\\nOrganization: University of Colorado, Boulder\\nLines: 14\\n\\n> There is this buy at NASA Langley...\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nYES! Give me his name I would greatly appreciate it.\\n\\n\\n\\nRich\\n\\n\"The Earth is a cradle of the mind. But, we cannot live forever in a cradle\"\\n K.E. Tsiolkovski \\n\\t\\t\\t Father of Russian Astronautics\\n',\n", " 'From: berryh@huey.udel.edu (John Berryhill, Ph.D.)\\nSubject: Re: Krillean Photography\\nNntp-Posting-Host: huey.udel.edu\\nOrganization: little scraps of paper, mostly\\nLines: 10\\n\\n\\nI think he means Girlie Photography. A good place to find it is in\\nnon-descript little places that usually just say \"Books\" on the\\noutside of the building in black and white.\\n\\n\\n-- \\n\\n John Berryhill\\n\\n',\n", " 'From: nickh@CS.CMU.EDU (Nick Haines)\\nSubject: Vast Bandwidth Over-runs on NASA thread (was Re: NASA \"Wraps\")\\nIn-Reply-To: wingo%cspara.decnet@Fedex.Msfc.Nasa.Gov\\'s message of 18 Apr 1993 13:56 CDT\\nOriginator: nickh@SNOW.FOX.CS.CMU.EDU\\nNntp-Posting-Host: snow.fox.cs.cmu.edu\\nOrganization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University\\n\\t<17APR199316423628@judy.uh.edu> <1993Apr18.034101.21934@iti.org>\\n\\t<18APR199313560620@judy.uh.edu>\\nLines: 12\\n\\nIn article <18APR199313560620@judy.uh.edu>, Dennis writes about a\\nzillion lines in response to article <1993Apr18.034101.21934@iti.org>,\\nin which Allen wrote a zillion lines in response to article\\n<17APR199316423628@judy.uh.edu>, in which Dennis wrote another zillion\\nlines in response to Allen.\\n\\nHey, can it you guys. Take it to email, or talk.politics.space, or\\nalt.flame, or alt.music.pop.will.eat.itself.the.poppies.are.on.patrol,\\nor anywhere, but this is sci.space. This thread lost all scientific\\ncontent many moons ago.\\n\\nNick Haines nickh@cmu.edu\\n',\n", " \"From: gfk39017@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (George F. Krumins)\\nSubject: Re: space news from Feb 15 AW&ST\\nOrganization: University of Illinois at Urbana\\nLines: 23\\n\\njbreed@doink.b23b.ingr.com (James B. Reed) writes:\\n\\n>In article , henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:\\n>|> [Pluto's] atmosphere will start to freeze out around 2010, and after about\\n>|> 2005 increasing areas of both Pluto and Charon will be in permanent\\n>|> shadow that will make imaging and geochemical mapping impossible.\\n\\nIt's my understanding that the freezing will start to occur because of the\\ngrowing distance of Pluto and Charon from the Sun, due to it's\\nelliptical orbit. It is not due to shadowing effects. \\n\\n>Where does the shadow come from? There's nothing close enough to block\\n>sunlight from hitting them. I wouldn't expect there to be anything block\\n>our view of them either. What am I missing?\\n\\nPluto can shadow Charon, and vice-versa.\\n\\nGeorge Krumins\\n-- \\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n| George Krumins |\\n| gfk39017@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu |\\n| Pufferfish Observatory |\\n\",\n", " 'Subject: Re: Arythmia\\nFrom: perry1@husc10.harvard.edu (Alexis Perry)\\nOrganization: Harvard University Science Center\\nNntp-Posting-Host: husc10.harvard.edu\\nLines: 18\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr22.031423.1@vaxc.stevens-tech.edu> u96_averba@vaxc.stevens-tech.edu writes:\\n\\n>doctors said that he could die from it, and the medication caused\\n>\\n\\tIs it that serious? My EKG often comes back with a few irregular\\nbeats. Another question: Is a low blood potassium level very bad? My\\ndoctor seems concerned, but she tends to worry too much in general.\\n\\n\\n___________________________________________________________________________\\nAlexis Perry\\t\\t\\t\\t\"The less I want the more I get\\nperry1@husc.harvard.edu\\t\\t\\t Make me chaste, but not just yet.\\neliot house box 413\\t\\t\\t It\\'s a promise or a lie\\n(617) 493-6300\\t\\t\\t\\t I\\'ll repent before I die.\"\\n\"Work? Have you lost your mind?!\" \\n\\t\\t\\t-Ren\\t\\t\\t\\t-Sting\\n\\n Nobody really admits to sharing my opinions - last of all Harvard College\\n',\n", " 'From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)\\nSubject: Re: japanese moon landing?\\nOrganization: U of Toronto Zoology\\nLines: 22\\n\\nIn article rls@uihepa.hep.uiuc.edu writes:\\n>allow it to go into lunar orbit without large expenditures of fuel to slow\\n>down. The idea is that \\'natural objects sometimes get captured without\\n>expending fuel, we\\'ll just find the trajectory that makes it possible\". The\\n>originator of the technique said that NASA wasn\\'t interested, but that Japan\\n>was because their probe was small and couldn\\'t hold a lot of fuel for\\n>deceleration.\\n\\nActually, Hiten wasn\\'t originally intended to go into lunar orbit at all,\\nso it indeed didn\\'t have much fuel on hand. The lunar-orbit mission was\\nan afterthought, after Hagoromo (a tiny subsatellite deployed by Hiten\\nduring a lunar flyby) had a transmitter failure and its proper insertion\\ninto lunar orbit couldn\\'t be positively confirmed.\\n\\nIt should be noted that the technique does have disadvantages. It takes\\na long time, and you end up with a relatively inconvenient lunar orbit.\\nIf you want something useful like a low circular polar orbit, you do have\\nto plan to expend a certain amount of fuel, although it is reduced from\\nwhat you\\'d need for the brute-force approach.\\n-- \\nAll work is one man\\'s work. | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology\\n - Kipling | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry\\n',\n", " 'From: aws@iti.org (Allen W. Sherzer)\\nSubject: Re: Eco-Freaks forcing Space Mining.\\nOrganization: Evil Geniuses for a Better Tomorrow\\nLines: 16\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr21.212202.1@aurora.alaska.edu> nsmca@aurora.alaska.edu writes:\\n>Here is a way to get the commericial companies into space and mineral\\n>exploration.\\n>Basically get the eci-freaks to make it so hard to get the minerals on earth..\\n\\nIf raw materials where to cost enough that getting them from space would\\nbe cost effective then the entire world economy would colapse long\\nbefore the space mines could be built.\\n\\n Allen\\n\\n-- \\n+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+\\n| Lady Astor: \"Sir, if you were my husband I would poison your coffee!\" |\\n| W. Churchill: \"Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it.\" |\\n+----------------------55 DAYS TO FIRST FLIGHT OF DCX-----------------------+\\n',\n", " 'From: bradfrd2@ncar.ucar.edu (Mark Bradford)\\nSubject: Astro/Space Frequently Seen Acronyms\\nSupersedes: \\nOrganization: LifeForms Unlimited, Cephalopods\\nLines: 509\\nExpires: 19 May 1993 04:00:04 GMT\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: pad-thai.aktis.com\\nKeywords: long space astro tla acronyms\\nX-Last-Updated: 1992/12/07\\n\\nArchive-name: space/acronyms\\nEdition: 8\\n\\nAcronym List for sci.astro, sci.space, and sci.space.shuttle:\\nEdition 8, 1992 Dec 7\\nLast posted: 1992 Aug 27\\n\\nThis list is offered as a reference for translating commonly appearing\\nacronyms in the space-related newsgroups. If I forgot or botched your\\nfavorite acronym, please let me know! Also, if there\\'s an acronym *not*\\non this list that confuses you, drop me a line, and if I can figure\\nit out, I\\'ll add it to the list.\\n\\nNote that this is intended to be a reference for *frequently seen*\\nacronyms, and is most emphatically *not* encyclopedic. If I incorporated\\nevery acronym I ever saw, I\\'d soon run out of disk space! :-)\\n\\nThe list will be posted at regular intervals, every 30 days. All\\ncomments regarding it are welcome; I\\'m reachable as bradfrd2@ncar.ucar.edu.\\n\\nNote that this just tells what the acronyms stand for -- you\\'re on your\\nown for figuring out what they *mean*! Note also that the total number of\\nacronyms in use far exceeds what I can list; special-purpose acronyms that\\nare essentially always explained as they\\'re introduced are omitted.\\nFurther, some acronyms stand for more than one thing; as of Edition 3 of\\nthe list, these acronyms appear on multiple lines, unless they\\'re simply\\ndifferent ways of referring to the same thing.\\n\\nThanks to everybody who\\'s sent suggestions since the first version of\\nthe list, and especially to Garrett A. Wollman (wollman@griffin.uvm.edu),\\nwho is maintaining an independent list, somewhat more verbose in\\ncharacter than mine, and to Daniel Fischer (dfi@specklec.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de),\\nwho is maintaining a truly HUGE list (535 at last count) of acronyms and\\nterms, mostly in German (which I read, fortunately).\\n\\nSpecial thanks this time to Ken Hollis at NASA, who sent me a copy of NASA\\nReference Publication 1059 Revised: _Space Transportation System and\\nAssociated Payloads: Glossary, Acronyms, and Abbreviations_, a truly\\nmammoth tome -- almost 300 pages of TLAs.\\n\\nSpecial Bonus! At the end of this posting, you will find a perl program\\nwritten by none other than Larry Wall, whose purpose is to scramble the\\nacronym list in an entertaining fashion. Thanks, Larry!\\n\\nA&A: Astronomy and Astrophysics\\nAAO: Anglo-Australian Observatory\\nAAS: American Astronomical Society\\nAAS: American Astronautical Society\\nAAVSO: American Association of Variable Star Observers\\nACE: Advanced Composition Explorer\\nACRV: Assured Crew Return Vehicle (or) Astronaut Crew Rescue Vehicle\\nADFRF: Ames-Dryden Flight Research Facility (was DFRF) (NASA)\\nAGN: Active Galactic Nucleus\\nAGU: American Geophysical Union\\nAIAA: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics\\nAIPS: Astronomical Image Processing System\\nAJ: Astronomical Journal\\nALEXIS: Array of Low Energy X-ray Imaging Sensors\\nALPO: Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers\\nALS: Advanced Launch System\\nANSI: American National Standards Institute\\nAOA: Abort Once Around (Shuttle abort plan)\\nAOCS: Attitude and Orbit Control System\\nAp.J: Astrophysical Journal\\nAPM: Attached Pressurized Module (a.k.a. Columbus)\\nAPU: Auxiliary Power Unit\\nARC: Ames Research Center (NASA)\\nARTEMIS: Advanced Relay TEchnology MISsion\\nASA: Astronomical Society of the Atlantic\\nASI: Agenzia Spaziale Italiano\\nASRM: Advanced Solid Rocket Motor\\nATDRS: Advanced Tracking and Data Relay Satellite\\nATLAS: Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science\\nATM: Amateur Telescope Maker\\nATO: Abort To Orbit (Shuttle abort plan)\\nAU: Astronomical Unit\\nAURA: Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy\\nAW&ST: Aviation Week and Space Technology (a.k.a. AvLeak)\\nAXAF: Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility\\nBATSE: Burst And Transient Source Experiment (on CGRO)\\nBBXRT: Broad-Band X-Ray Telescope (ASTRO package)\\nBEM: Bug-Eyed Monster\\nBH: Black Hole\\nBIMA: Berkeley Illinois Maryland Array\\nBNSC: British National Space Centre\\nBTW: By The Way\\nC&T: Communications & Tracking\\nCCAFS: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station\\nCCD: Charge-Coupled Device\\nCCDS: Centers for the Commercial Development of Space\\nCD-ROM: Compact Disk Read-Only Memory\\nCFA: Center For Astrophysics\\nCFC: ChloroFluoroCarbon\\nCFF: Columbus Free Flyer\\nCFHT: Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope\\nCGRO: (Arthur Holley) Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (was GRO)\\nCHARA: Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy\\nCIRRIS: Cryogenic InfraRed Radiance Instrument for Shuttle\\nCIT: Circumstellar Imaging Telescope\\nCM: Command Module (Apollo spacecraft)\\nCMCC: Central Mission Control Centre (ESA)\\nCNES: Centre National d\\'Etude Spatiales\\nCNO: Carbon-Nitrogen-Oxygen\\nCNSR: Comet Nucleus Sample Return\\nCOBE: COsmic Background Explorer\\nCOMPTEL: COMPton TELescope (on CGRO)\\nCOSTAR: Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement\\nCRAF: Comet Rendezvous / Asteroid Flyby\\nCRRES: Combined Release / Radiation Effects Satellite\\nCSM: Command and Service Module (Apollo spacecraft)\\nCSTC: Consolidated Satellite Test Center (USAF)\\nCTIO: Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory\\nDCX: Delta Clipper eXperimental\\nDDCU: DC-to-DC Converter Unit\\nDFRF: Dryden Flight Research Facility (now ADFRF)\\nDMSP: Defense Meteorological Satellite Program\\nDOD: Department Of Defense (sometimes DoD)\\nDOE: Department Of Energy\\nDOT: Department Of Transportation\\nDSCS: Defense Satellite Communications System\\nDSN: Deep Space Network\\nDSP: Defense Support Program (USAF/NRO)\\nEAFB: Edwards Air Force Base\\nECS: Environmental Control System\\nEDO: Extended Duration Orbiter\\nEGRET: Energetic Gamma Ray Experiment Telescope (on CGRO)\\nEJASA: Electronic Journal of the Astronomical Society of the Atlantic\\nELV: Expendable Launch Vehicle\\nEMU: Extravehicular Mobility Unit\\nEOS: Earth Observing System\\nERS: Earth Resources Satellite (as in ERS-1)\\nESA: European Space Agency\\nESO: European Southern Observatory\\nET: (Shuttle) External Tank\\nETLA: Extended Three Letter Acronym\\nETR: Eastern Test Range\\nEUV: Extreme UltraViolet\\nEUVE: Extreme UltraViolet Explorer\\nEVA: ExtraVehicular Activity\\nFAQ: Frequently Asked Questions\\nFAST: Fast Auroral SnapshoT explorer\\nFFT: Fast Fourier Transform\\nFGS: Fine Guidance Sensors (on HST)\\nFHST: Fixed Head Star Trackers (on HST)\\nFIR: Far InfraRed\\nFITS: Flexible Image Transport System\\nFOC: Faint Object Camera (on HST)\\nFOS: Faint Object Spectrograph (on HST)\\nFRR: Flight-Readiness Review\\nFTP: File Transfer Protocol\\nFTS: Flight Telerobotic Servicer\\nFUSE: Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer\\nFWHM: Full Width at Half Maximum\\nFYI: For Your Information\\nGAS: Get-Away Special\\nGBT: Green Bank Telescope\\nGCVS: General Catalog of Variable Stars\\nGEM: Giotto Extended Mission\\nGEO: Geosynchronous Earth Orbit\\nGDS: Great Dark Spot\\nGHRS: Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph (on HST)\\nGIF: Graphics Interchange Format\\nGLOMR: Global Low-Orbiting Message Relay\\nGMC: Giant Molecular Cloud\\nGMRT: Giant Meter-wave Radio Telescope\\nGMT: Greenwich Mean Time (also called UT)\\nGOES: Geostationary Orbiting Environmental Satellite\\nGOX: Gaseous OXygen\\nGPC: General Purpose Computer\\nGPS: Global Positioning System\\nGRO: Gamma Ray Observatory (now CGRO)\\nGRS: Gamma Ray Spectrometer (on Mars Observer)\\nGRS: Great Red Spot\\nGSC: Guide Star Catalog (for HST)\\nGSFC: Goddard Space Flight Center (NASA)\\nGTO: Geostationary Transfer Orbit\\nHAO: High Altitude Observatory\\nHD: Henry Draper catalog entry\\nHEAO: High Energy Astronomical Observatory\\nHeRA: Hermes Robotic Arm\\nHF: High Frequency\\nHGA: High Gain Antenna\\nHLC: Heavy Lift Capability\\nHLV: Heavy Lift Vehicle\\nHMC: Halley Multicolor Camera (on Giotto)\\nHR: Hertzsprung-Russell (diagram)\\nHRI: High Resolution Imager (on ROSAT)\\nHSP: High Speed Photometer (on HST)\\nHST: Hubble Space Telescope\\nHUT: Hopkins Ultraviolet Telescope (ASTRO package)\\nHV: High Voltage\\nIAPPP: International Amateur/Professional Photoelectric Photometry\\nIAU: International Astronomical Union\\nIAUC: IAU Circular\\nICE: International Cometary Explorer\\nIDA: International Dark-sky Association\\nIDL: Interactive Data Language\\nIGM: InterGalactic Medium\\nIGY: International Geophysical Year\\nIMHO: In My Humble Opinion\\nIOTA: Infrared-Optical Telescope Array\\nIOTA: International Occultation Timing Association\\nIPS: Inertial Pointing System\\nIR: InfraRed\\nIRAF: Image Reduction and Analysis Facility\\nIRAS: InfraRed Astronomical Satellite\\nISAS: Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (Japan)\\nISM: InterStellar Medium\\nISO: Infrared Space Observatory\\nISO: International Standards Organization\\nISPM: International Solar Polar Mission (now Ulysses)\\nISY: International Space Year\\nIUE: International Ultraviolet Explorer\\nIUS: Inertial Upper Stage\\nJEM: Japanese Experiment Module (for SSF)\\nJGR: Journal of Geophysical Research\\nJILA: Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics\\nJPL: Jet Propulsion Laboratory\\nJSC: Johnson Space Center (NASA)\\nKAO: Kuiper Airborne Observatory\\nKPNO: Kitt Peak National Observatory\\nKSC: Kennedy Space Center (NASA)\\nKTB: Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary (from German)\\nLANL: Los Alamos National Laboratory\\nLaRC: Langley Research Center (NASA)\\nLDEF: Long Duration Exposure Facility\\nLEM: Lunar Excursion Module (a.k.a. LM) (Apollo spacecraft)\\nLEO: Low Earth Orbit\\nLeRC: Lewis Research Center (NASA)\\nLEST: Large Earth-based Solar Telescope\\nLFSA: List of Frequently Seen Acronyms (!)\\nLGA: Low Gain Antenna\\nLGM: Little Green Men\\nLH: Liquid Hydrogen (also LH2 or LHX)\\nLLNL: Lawrence-Livermore National Laboratory\\nLM: Lunar Module (a.k.a. LEM) (Apollo spacecraft)\\nLMC: Large Magellanic Cloud\\nLN2: Liquid N2 (Nitrogen)\\nLOX: Liquid OXygen\\nLRB: Liquid Rocket Booster\\nLSR: Local Standard of Rest\\nLTP: Lunar Transient Phenomenon\\nMB: Manned Base\\nMCC: Mission Control Center\\nMECO: Main Engine CutOff\\nMMH: MonoMethyl Hydrazine\\nMMT: Multiple Mirror Telescope\\nMMU: Manned Maneuvering Unit\\nMNRAS: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society\\nMOC: Mars Observer Camera (on Mars Observer)\\nMOL: Manned Orbiting Laboratory\\nMOLA: Mars Observer Laser Altimeter (on Mars Observer)\\nMOMV: Manned Orbital Maneuvering Vehicle\\nMOTV: Manned Orbital Transfer Vehicle\\nMPC: Minor Planets Circular\\nMRSR: Mars Rover and Sample Return\\nMRSRM: Mars Rover and Sample Return Mission\\nMSFC: (George C.) Marshall Space Flight Center (NASA)\\nMTC: Man Tended Capability\\nNACA: National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics (became NASA)\\nNASA: National Aeronautics and Space Administration\\nNASDA: NAtional Space Development Agency (Japan)\\nNASM: National Air and Space Museum\\nNASP: National AeroSpace Plane\\nNBS: National Bureau of Standards (now NIST)\\nNDV: NASP Derived Vehicle\\nNERVA: Nuclear Engine for Rocket Vehicle Application\\nNGC: New General Catalog\\nNICMOS: Near Infrared Camera / Multi Object Spectrometer (HST upgrade)\\nNIMS: Near-Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (on Galileo)\\nNIR: Near InfraRed\\nNIST: National Institute for Standards and Technology (was NBS)\\nNLDP: National Launch Development Program\\nNOAA: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration\\nNOAO: National Optical Astronomy Observatories\\nNRAO: National Radio Astronomy Observatory\\nNRO: National Reconnaissance Office\\nNS: Neutron Star\\nNSA: National Security Agency\\nNSF: National Science Foundation\\nNSO: National Solar Observatory\\nNSSDC: National Space Science Data Center\\nNTR: Nuclear Thermal Rocket(ry)\\nNTT: New Technology Telescope\\nOAO: Orbiting Astronomical Observatory\\nOCST: Office of Commercial Space Transportation\\nOMB: Office of Management and Budget\\nOMS: Orbital Maneuvering System\\nOPF: Orbiter Processing Facility\\nORFEUS: Orbiting and Retrievable Far and Extreme Ultraviolet Spectrometer\\nOSC: Orbital Sciences Corporation\\nOSCAR: Orbiting Satellite Carrying Amateur Radio\\nOSSA: Office of Space Science and Applications\\nOSSE: Oriented Scintillation Spectrometer Experiment (on CGRO)\\nOTA: Optical Telescope Assembly (on HST)\\nOTHB: Over The Horizon Backscatter\\nOTV: Orbital Transfer Vehicle\\nOV: Orbital Vehicle\\nPAM: Payload Assist Module\\nPAM-D: Payload Assist Module, Delta-class\\nPI: Principal Investigator\\nPLSS: Portable Life Support System\\nPM: Pressurized Module\\nPMC: Permanently Manned Capability\\nPMIRR: Pressure Modulated InfraRed Radiometer (on Mars Observer)\\nPMT: PhotoMultiplier Tube\\nPSF: Point Spread Function\\nPSR: PulSaR\\nPV: Photovoltaic\\nPVO: Pioneer Venus Orbiter\\nQSO: Quasi-Stellar Object\\nRCI: Rodent Cage Interface (for SLS mission)\\nRCS: Reaction Control System\\nREM: Rat Enclosure Module (for SLS mission)\\nRF: Radio Frequency\\nRFI: Radio Frequency Interference\\nRIACS: Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science\\nRMS: Remote Manipulator System\\nRNGC: Revised New General Catalog\\nROSAT: ROentgen SATellite\\nROUS: Rodents Of Unusual Size (I don\\'t believe they exist)\\nRSN: Real Soon Now\\nRTG: Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator\\nRTLS: Return To Launch Site (Shuttle abort plan)\\nSAA: South Atlantic Anomaly\\nSAGA: Solar Array Gain Augmentation (for HST)\\nSAMPEX: Solar Anomalous and Magnetospheric Particle EXplorer\\nSAO: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory\\nSAR: Search And Rescue\\nSAR: Synthetic Aperture Radar\\nSARA: Satellite pour Astronomie Radio Amateur\\nSAREX: Search and Rescue Exercise\\nSAREX: Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment\\nSAS: Space Activity Suit\\nSAS: Space Adaptation Syndrome\\nSAT: Synthetic Aperture Telescope\\nS/C: SpaceCraft\\nSCA: Shuttle Carrier Aircraft\\nSCT: Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope\\nSDI: Strategic Defense Initiative\\nSDIO: Strategic Defense Initiative Organization\\nSEI: Space Exploration Initiative\\nSEST: Swedish ESO Submillimeter Telescope\\nSETI: Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence\\nSID: Sudden Ionospheric Disturbance\\nSIR: Shuttle Imaging Radar\\nSIRTF: Space (formerly Shuttle) InfraRed Telescope Facility\\nSL: SpaceLab\\nSLAR: Side-Looking Airborne Radar\\nSLC: Space Launch Complex\\nSLS: Space(lab) Life Sciences\\nSMC: Small Magellanic Cloud\\nSME: Solar Mesosphere Explorer\\nSMEX: SMall EXplorers\\nSMM: Solar Maximum Mission\\nSN: SuperNova (e.g., SN1987A)\\nSNR: Signal to Noise Ratio\\nSNR: SuperNova Remnant\\nSNU: Solar Neutrino Units\\nSOFIA: Stratospheric Observatory For Infrared Astronomy\\nSOHO: SOlar Heliospheric Observatory\\nSPAN: Space Physics and Analysis Network\\nSPDM: Special Purpose Dextrous Manipulator\\nSPOT: Systeme Probatoire pour l\\'Observation de la Terre\\nSPS: Solar Power Satellite\\nSRB: Solid Rocket Booster\\nSRM: Solid Rocket Motor\\nSSF: Space Station Fred (er, Freedom)\\nSSI: Solid-State Imager (on Galileo)\\nSSI: Space Studies Institut\\nSSME: Space Shuttle Main Engine\\nSSPF: Space Station Processing Facility\\nSSRMS: Space Station Remote Manipulator System\\nSST: Spectroscopic Survey Telescope\\nSST: SuperSonic Transport\\nSSTO: Single Stage To Orbit\\nSTIS: Space Telescope Imaging Spectrometer (to replace FOC and GHRS)\\nSTS: Shuttle Transport System (or) Space Transportation System\\nSTScI: Space Telescope Science Institute\\nSWAS: Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite\\nSWF: ShortWave Fading\\nTAL: Transatlantic Abort Landing (Shuttle abort plan)\\nTAU: Thousand Astronomical Unit (mission)\\nTCS: Thermal Control System\\nTDRS: Tracking and Data Relay Satellite\\nTDRSS: Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System\\nTES: Thermal Emission Spectrometer (on Mars Observer)\\nTIROS: Television InfraRed Observation Satellite\\nTLA: Three Letter Acronym\\nTOMS: Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer\\nTPS: Thermal Protection System\\nTSS: Tethered Satellite System\\nUARS: Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite\\nUBM: Unpressurized Berthing Mechanism\\nUDMH: Unsymmetrical DiMethyl Hydrazine\\nUFO: Unidentified Flying Object\\nUGC: Uppsala General Catalog\\nUHF: Ultra High Frequency\\nUIT: Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (Astro package)\\nUKST: United Kingdom Schmidt Telescope\\nUSAF: United States Air Force\\nUSMP: United States Microgravity Payload\\nUT: Universal Time (a.k.a. GMT, UTC, or Zulu Time)\\nUTC: Coordinated Universal Time (a.k.a. UT)\\nUV: UltraViolet\\nUVS: UltraViolet Spectrometer\\nVAB: Vehicle Assembly Building (formerly Vertical Assembly Building)\\nVAFB: Vandenberg Air Force Base\\nVEEGA: Venus-Earth-Earth Gravity Assist (Galileo flight path)\\nVHF: Very High Frequency\\nVLA: Very Large Array\\nVLBA: Very Long Baseline Array\\nVLBI: Very Long Baseline Interferometry\\nVLF: Very Low Frequency\\nVLT: Very Large Telescope\\nVMS: Vertical Motion Simulator\\nVOIR: Venus Orbiting Imaging Radar (superseded by VRM)\\nVPF: Vertical Processing Facility\\nVRM: Venus Radar Mapper (now called Magellan)\\nWD: White Dwarf\\nWFPC: Wide Field / Planetary Camera (on HST)\\nWFPCII: Replacement for WFPC\\nWIYN: Wisconsin / Indiana / Yale / NOAO telescope\\nWSMR: White Sands Missile Range\\nWTR: Western Test Range\\nWUPPE: Wisconsin Ultraviolet PhotoPolarimter Experiment (Astro package)\\nXMM: X-ray Multi Mirror\\nXUV: eXtreme UltraViolet\\nYSO: Young Stellar Object\\n\\n\\n#!/usr/bin/perl\\n# \\'alt\\', An Acronym Scrambling Program, by Larry Wall\\n\\n$THRESHOLD = 2;\\n\\nsrand;\\nwhile (<>) {\\n next unless /^([A-Z]\\\\S+): */;\\n $key = $1;\\n $acro{$key} = $\\';\\n @words = split(/\\\\W+/,$\\');\\n unshift(@words,$key);\\n $off = 0;\\n foreach $word (@words) {\\n next unless $word =~ /^[A-Z]/;\\n *w = $&;\\n vec($w{$word}, $off++ % 6, 1) = 1;\\n }\\n}\\n\\nforeach $letter (A .. Z) {\\n *w = $letter;\\n @w = keys %w;\\n if (@w < $THRESHOLD) {\\n @d = `egrep \\'^$letter\\' /usr/dict/words`;\\n chop @d;\\n push(@w, @d);\\n }\\n}\\n\\nforeach $key (sort keys %acro) {\\n $off = 0;\\n $acro = $acro{$key};\\n $acro =~ s/((([A-Z])[A-Z]*)[a-z]*)/ &pick($3, $2, $1, ++$off) || $& /eg;\\n print \"$key: $acro\";\\n}\\n\\nsub pick {\\n local($letter, $prefix, $oldword, $off) = @_;\\n $i = 0;\\n if (length($prefix) > 1 && index($key,$prefix) < 0) {\\n if ($prefix eq $oldword) {\\n $prefix = \\'\\';\\n }\\n else {\\n $prefix = $letter;\\n }\\n }\\n if (length($prefix) > 1) {\\n local(*w) = substr($prefix,0,1);\\n do {\\n $word = $w[rand @w];\\n } until $word ne $oldword && $word =~ /^$prefix/i || ++$i > 30;\\n $word =~ s/^$prefix/$prefix/i;\\n $word;\\n }\\n elsif (length($prefix) == 1) {\\n local(*w) = $prefix;\\n do {\\n $word = $w[rand @w];\\n } until $word ne $oldword && vec($w{$word}, $off, 1) || ++$i > 10;\\n $word = \"\\\\u\\\\L$word\" if $word =~ tr/a-z/A-Z/;\\n $word;\\n }\\n else {\\n local(*w) = substr($oldword,0,1);\\n do {\\n $word = $w[rand @w];\\n } until $word ne $oldword && $word =~ tr/a-z/A-Z/ == 0 || ++$i > 30;\\n $word;\\n }\\n}\\n\\n\\n-- Mark Bradford (bradfrd2@ncar.ucar.edu) <> To err is human, to moo bovine.\\n \"It\\'s an ill wind that gathers no moss.\"\\n\\n\\n',\n", " \"From: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick)\\nSubject: Re: Is MSG sensitivity superstition?\\nOrganization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera\\nLines: 28\\nDistribution: world\\nReply-To: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: sol1.gps.caltech.edu\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr15.173902.66278@cc.usu.edu>, slyx0@cc.usu.edu writes:\\n=Surprise surprise, different people react differently to different things. One\\n=slightly off the subject case in point. My brother got stung by a bee. I know\\n=he is allergic to bee stings, but that his reaction is severe localized\\n=swelling, not anaphylactic shock. I could not convince the doctors of that,\\n=however, because that's not written in their little rule book.\\n\\nOf course, bee venom isn't a single chemical. Could be your brother is\\nreacting to a different component than the one that causes anaphylactic shock\\nin other people.\\n\\nSimilarly, Chinese food isn't just MSG. There are a lot of other ingredients\\nin it. Why, when someone eats something with lots of ingredients they don't\\nnormally consume, one of which happens to be MSG, do they immediately conclude\\nthat any negative reaction is to the MSG?\\n\\n=I would not be surprised in the least to find out the SOME people have bad\\n=reactions to MSG, including headaches, stomachaches and even vomiting.\\n\\nI'd be surprised if some of these reactions weren't due to other ingredients.\\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nCarl J Lydick | INTERnet: CARL@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU | NSI/HEPnet: SOL1::CARL\\n\\nDisclaimer: Hey, I understand VAXen and VMS. That's what I get paid for. My\\nunderstanding of astronomy is purely at the amateur level (or below). So\\nunless what I'm saying is directly related to VAX/VMS, don't hold me or my\\norganization responsible for it. If it IS related to VAX/VMS, you can try to\\nhold me responsible for it, but my organization had nothing to do with it.\\n\",\n", " 'From: cdm@pmafire.inel.gov (Dale Cook)\\nSubject: Re: MORBUS MENIERE - is there a real remedy?\\nOrganization: WINCO\\nLines: 19\\n\\nIn article <19607@pitt.UUCP> geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks) writes:\\n>>A recent movie, Lorenzo\\'s Oil, offers a perfect example of what\\n>>I\\'m talking about. If you haven\\'t seen it, you should. It\\'s not\\n>\\n>I saw it. It is almost a unique case in history. First, ALD\\n>is a rare but fatal disease. [...] \\n>Their accomplishment was significant. (Of course, it was overplayed\\n>in the movie for dramatic effect. The oil is not curative, and doesn\\'t even\\n>prevent progression, only slows it.) \\n\\nThere\\'s a pretty good article in the the March 6, 1993 New Scientist titled\\n\"Pouring cold water on Lorenzo\\'s oil\". The article states that research\\nhas shown that the oil has no discernable effect on the progression of the\\ndisease in patients in which demyelination has begun. In patients with\\nAMN (a less acute form of the same disease) there is some improvement\\nseen in the ability of nerve fibres to conduct impulses. In ALD patients\\nwho have not yet begun demyelination, the jury is still out.\\n\\n---Dale Cook\\n',\n", " 'From: neal@cmptrc.lonestar.org (Neal Howard)\\nSubject: Re: Science and methodology (was: Homeopathy ... tradition?)\\nOrganization: CompuTrac Inc., Richardson TX\\nLines: 20\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr15.150550.15347@ecsvax.uncecs.edu> ccreegan@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Charles L. Creegan) writes:\\n>\\n>What about Kekule\\'s infamous derivation of the idea of benzene rings\\n>from a daydream of snakes in the fire biting their tails? Is this\\n>specific enough to count? Certainly it turns up repeatedly in basic\\n>phil. of sci. texts as an example of the inventive component of\\n>hypothesizing. \\n\\nI sometimes wonder if Kekule\\'s dream wasn\\'t just a wee bit influenced by\\naromatic solvent vapors ;-) heh heh.\\n\\n\\n-- \\n=============================================================================\\nNeal Howard \\'91 XLH-1200 DoD #686 CompuTrac, Inc (Richardson, TX)\\n\\t doh #0000001200 |355o33| neal@cmptrc.lonestar.org\\n\\t Std disclaimer: My opinions are mine, not CompuTrac\\'s.\\n \"Let us learn to dream, gentlemen, and then perhaps\\n we shall learn the truth.\" -- August Kekule\\' (1890)\\n=============================================================================\\n',\n", " 'From: vida@mdavcr.mda.ca (Vida Morkunas)\\nSubject: Inner Ear Problems from Too Much Flying?\\nOrganization: MacDonald Dettwiler, 13800 Commerce Parkway, Richmond, BC, Canada V6V 2J3\\nLines: 6\\n\\nCan one develop inner-ear problems from too much flying? I hear that pilots\\nand steward/esses have a limit as to the maximum number of flying hours --\\nwhat are these limits? What are the main problems associated with too many\\nlong-haul (over 4 hours) trips?\\n\\nFrequent Flyer.\\n',\n", " 'From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nSubject: Re: amitriptyline\\nReply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nOrganization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science\\nLines: 14\\n\\nIn article <1993Mar27.010702.8176@julian.uwo.ca> roberts@gaul.csd.uwo.ca (Eric Roberts) writes:\\n>Could someone please tell me, what effect an overdose (900-1000mg) of\\n>amitriptyline would have?\\n\\nProbably would not be fatal in an adult at that dose, but could kill\\na child. Patient would be very somnolent, with dilated pupils, low\\nblood pressure. Possibly cardiac arrhythmias. \\n\\n\\n-- \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nGordon Banks N3JXP | \"Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and\\ngeb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu | it is shameful to surrender it too soon.\" \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n',\n", " 'From: bytor@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us\\nSubject: Lupus\\nKeywords: Information wanted\\nArticle-I.D.: cruzio.5254\\nReply-To: bytor@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us\\nLines: 12\\n\\n\\nI have a friend who has just been diagnosed with Lupus, and I know nothing\\nabout this disease. The only thing I do know is that this is some sort of\\nskin disease, and my friend shows no skin rashes - in fact, they used a \\nblood test to determine what had been wrong with an on going sacro-\\nilliac joint problem. \\nI am finding a hard time finding information on this disease. Could\\nanyone please enlighten me as to the particulars of this disease. \\nplease feel free to E-mail me at \\nbytor@cruzio.santa-cruz.ca.us\\n\\nThanks in advance.\\n',\n", " \"From: zellner@stsci.edu\\nSubject: Re: HST Servicing Mission\\nLines: 19\\nOrganization: Space Telescope Science Institute\\nDistribution: world,na\\n\\nIn article <1rd1g0$ckb@access.digex.net>, prb@access.digex.com (Pat) writes: \\n > \\n > \\n > SOmebody mentioned a re-boost of HST during this mission, meaning\\n > that Weight is a very tight margin on this mission.\\n > \\n\\nI haven't heard any hint of a re-boost, or that any is needed.\\n\\n > \\n > why not grapple, do all said fixes, bolt a small liquid fueled\\n > thruster module to HST, then let it make the re-boost. it has to be\\n > cheaper on mass then usingthe shuttle as a tug. \\n\\nNasty, dirty combustion products! People have gone to monumental efforts to\\nkeep HST clean. We certainly aren't going to bolt any thrusters to it.\\n\\nBen\\n\\n\",\n", " 'From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nSubject: Re: Eugenics\\nReply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nOrganization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science\\nLines: 15\\n\\nProbably within 50 years, a new type of eugenics will be possible.\\nMaybe even sooner. We are now mapping the human genome. We will\\nthen start to work on manipulation of that genome. Using genetic\\nengineering, we will be able to insert whatever genes we want.\\nNo breeding, no \"hybrids\", etc. The ethical question is, should\\nwe do this? Should we make a race of disease-free, long-lived,\\nArnold Schwartzenegger-muscled, supermen? Even if we can.\\n\\n\\n\\n-- \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nGordon Banks N3JXP | \"Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and\\ngeb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu | it is shameful to surrender it too soon.\" \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n',\n", " 'From: prb@access.digex.com (Pat)\\nSubject: Conference on Manned Lunar Exploration. May 7 Crystal City\\nOrganization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt MD USA\\nLines: 9\\nDistribution: na\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: access.digex.net\\n\\n\\nAW&ST had a brief blurb on a Manned Lunar Exploration confernce\\nMay 7th at Crystal City Virginia, under the auspices of AIAA.\\n\\nDoes anyone know more about this? How much, to attend????\\n\\nAnyone want to go?\\n\\npat\\n',\n", " 'From: bls101@keating.anu.edu.au (The New, Improved Brian Scearce)\\nSubject: Re: Krillean Photography\\nOrganization: Australian National University\\nLines: 44\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: 150.203.126.9\\nIn-reply-to: todamhyp@charles.unlv.edu\\'s message of Mon, 19 Apr 93 20:56:15 GMT\\n\\nIn-reply-to: todamhyp@charles.unlv.edu\\'s message of Mon, 19 Apr 93 20:56:15 GMT\\nNewsgroups: sci.energy,sci.image.processing,sci.anthropology,alt.sci.physics.new-theories,sci.skeptic,sci.med,alt.alien.visitors\\nSubject: Re: Krillean Photography\\nReferences: <1993Apr19.205615.1013@unlv.edu>\\nDistribution: \\n--text follows this line--\\ntodamhyp@charles.unlv.edu (Brian M. Huey) writes:\\n\\n\\t I am looking for any information/supplies that will allow\\n do-it-yourselfers to take Krillean Pictures. I\\'m thinking\\n that education suppliers for schools might have a appartus for\\n sale, but I don\\'t know any of the companies. Any info is greatly\\n appreciated.\\n\\t In case you don\\'t know, Krillean Photography, to the best of my\\n knowledge, involves taking pictures of an (most of the time) organic\\n object between charged plates. The picture will show energy patterns\\n or spikes around the object photographed, and depending on what type\\n of object it is, the spikes or energy patterns will vary. One might\\n extrapolate here and say that this proves that every object within\\n the universe (as we know it) has its own energy signature.\\n\\nThere have been a number of scientific papers (in peer-reviewed journals)\\npublished about Kirlian photography in the early 1970s. Sorry I can\\'t be\\nmore specific but it is a long time since I read them. They would describe\\nwhat is needed and how to set up the apparatus. \\n\\nThese papers demonstrate that the auras obtained by Kirlian photography can\\nbe completely explained by the effect of the electric currents used on the\\nmoisture in the object being photographed. It has nothing to do with the\\n\"energy signature\" of organic objects.\\n\\nI did a science project on Kirlian photography when I was in high school.\\nI was able to obtain wonderful auras from rocks and pebbles and the like by\\nfirst dunking them in water.\\n\\nBarbara\\n--\\n\\n\\n\\n--\\nbls101@syseng.anu.edu.au\\n\"I generally avoid temptation unless I can\\'t resist it.\" \\n - Mae West \\n',\n", " 'From: drchambe@tekig5.pen.tek.com (Dennis Chamberlin)\\nSubject: Re: PLANETS STILL: IMAGES ORBIT BY ETHER TWIST\\nReply-To: drchambe@tekig5.pen.tek.com\\nOrganization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR.\\nLines: 31\\n\\n\\n----- News saved at 23 Apr 93 22:22:40 GMT\\nIn article <1993Apr22.130923.115397@zeus.calpoly.edu> dmcaloon@tuba.calpoly.edu (David McAloon) writes:\\n>\\n> ETHER IMPLODES 2 EARTH CORE, IS GRAVITY!!!\\n>\\n> This paper BOTH describes how heavenly bodys can be stationary, \\n>ether sucking structures, AND why we observe \"orbital\" motion!!\\n \\n\\n> \"Light-Years\" between galaxies is a misnomer. The distance is \\n>closer to zero, as time and matter are characteristics of this phase \\n>of reality, which dissipates outward with each layer of the onion. \\n>(defining edge = 0 ether spin) \\n\\n> To find out about all of this, I recommend studying history. \\n\\nWell, I\\'m working on it, but getting a little impatient. So far, \\nI\\'ve made it through Egyptian, Chinese, and Greek cultures, and\\nup through the Rennaisance. But so far, these insights just don\\'t \\nseem to be gelling. Perhaps it\\'s in an appendix somewhere.\\n\\nIn its own right, though, the history is kind of fun. Lots of \\ngood yarns in there, with varied and interesting characters. And,\\nmore to come.\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n \\n',\n", " \"From: higgins@fnalf.fnal.gov (Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey)\\nSubject: Re: Science News article on Federal R&D\\nOrganization: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory\\nLines: 24\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: fnalf.fnal.gov\\n\\nIn article , xrcjd@resolve.gsfc.nasa.gov (Charles J. Divine) writes:\\n> Just a pointer to the article in the current Science News article\\n> on Federal R&D funding.\\n> \\n> Very briefly, all R&D is being shifted to gaining current \\n> competitive advantage from things like military and other work that\\n> does not have as much commercial utility.\\n> -- \\n> Chuck Divine\\n\\nGulp.\\n\\n[Disclaimer: This opinion is mine and does not represent the views of\\nFermilab, Universities Research Association, the Department of Energy,\\nor the 49th Ward Regular Science Fiction Organization.]\\n \\n-- \\n O~~* /_) ' / / /_/ ' , , ' ,_ _ \\\\|/\\n - ~ -~~~~~~~~~~~/_) / / / / / / (_) (_) / / / _\\\\~~~~~~~~~~~zap!\\n / \\\\ (_) (_) / | \\\\\\n | | Bill Higgins Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory\\n \\\\ / Bitnet: HIGGINS@FNAL.BITNET\\n - - Internet: HIGGINS@FNAL.FNAL.GOV\\n ~ SPAN/Hepnet: 43011::HIGGINS \\n\",\n", " 'From: jim.zisfein@factory.com (Jim Zisfein) \\nSubject: Re: Migraines and scans\\nDistribution: world\\nOrganization: Invention Factory\\'s BBS - New York City, NY - 212-274-8298v.32bis\\nReply-To: jim.zisfein@factory.com (Jim Zisfein) \\nLines: 37\\n\\nDN> From: nyeda@cnsvax.uwec.edu (David Nye)\\nDN> A neurology\\nDN> consultation is cheaper than a scan.\\n\\nAnd also better, because a neurologist can make a differential\\ndiagnosis between migraine, tension-type headache, cluster, benign\\nintracranial hypertension, chronic paroxysmal hemicrania, and other\\nheadache syndromes that all appear normal on a scan. A neurologist\\ncan also recommend a course of treatment that is appropriate to the\\ndiagnosis.\\n\\nDN> >>Also, since many people are convinced they have brain tumors or other\\nDN> >>serious pathology, it may be cheaper to just get a CT scan then have\\nDN> >>them come into the ER every few weeks.\\nDN> And easier than taking the time to reassure the patient, right?\\nDN> Personally, I don\\'t think this can ever be justified.\\n\\nSigh. It may never be justifiable, but I sometimes do it. Even\\nafter I try to show thoroughness with a detailed history, neurologic\\nexamination, and discussion with the patient about my diagnosis,\\nsalted with lots of reassurance, patients still ask \"why can\\'t you\\norder a scan, so we can be absolutely sure?\" Aunt Millie often gets\\ninto the conversation, as in \"they ignored Aunt Millie\\'s headaches\\nfor years\", and then she died of a brain tumor, aneurysm, or\\nwhatever. If you can get away without ever ordering imaging for a\\npatient with an obviously benign headache syndrome, I\\'d like to hear\\nwhat your magic is.\\n\\nEvery once in a while I am able to bypass imaging by getting an EEG.\\nMind you, I don\\'t think EEG is terribly sensitive for brain tumor,\\nbut the patient feels like \"something is being done\" (as if the\\nhours I spent talking with and examining the patient were\\n\"nothing\"), the EEG has no ionizing radiation, it\\'s *much* cheaper\\nthan CT or MRI, and the EEG brings in some money to my department.\\n---\\n . SLMR 2.1 . E-mail: jim.zisfein@factory.com (Jim Zisfein)\\n \\n',\n", " \"From: dfield@flute.calpoly.edu (InfoSpunj (Dan Field))\\nSubject: Can't wear contacts after RK/PRK?\\nKeywords: radial,keratotomy,contact,lenses\\nOrganization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo\\nLines: 28\\n\\nI love the FAQ. \\n\\nThe comment about contact lenses not being an option for any remaining\\ncorrection after RK and possibly after PRK is interresting. Why is\\nthis? Does anyone know for sure whether this applies to PRK as well?\\n\\nAlso, why is it possible to get a correction in PRK with involvement of\\nonly about 5% of the corneal depth, while RK is done to a depth of up to\\n95%? Why such a difference? I thought the proceedures were simmilar\\nwith the exception of a laser being the cutting tool in PRK. I must not\\nbe understanding all of the differences.\\n\\nIn the FAQ, the vision was considered less clear after the surgery than\\nwith glasses alone. If this is completly attributable to the\\nintentional slight undercorrection, then it can be compensated for when\\nnecessary with glasses (or contacts, if they CAN be worn afterall!). It\\nis important to know if that is not the case, however, and some other\\nconsequence of the surgery would often interfere with clear vision. The\\nfirst thing that came to my mind was a fogging of the lense, which\\nglasses couldn't help. \\n\\nwould not help.\\n\\n-- \\n| Daniel R. Field, AKA InfoSpunj | I'm just a lowly phlebe. |\\n| dfield@oboe.calpoly.edu | |\\n| Biochemistry, Biotechnology | I'm at the phlebottom |\\n| California Polytechnic State U | of the medical totem pole. | \\n\",\n", " 'From: myers@cs.scarolina.edu (Daniel Myers)\\nSubject: Re: Is MSG sensitivity superstition?\\nOrganization: USC Department of Computer Science\\nLines: 39\\n\\nFrequently of late, I have been reacting to something added to\\nrestaurant foods. What happens is that the inside of my throat starts\\nto feel \"puffy\", like I have a cold, and also at times the inside of my\\nmouth (especially the tongue) and lips also feel puffy.\\n\\nThe situations around these symptoms almost always involve restaurants\\n(usually chinese), the most notable cases: a cheap chinese fast food\\nchain, a japanese steak house (I had the steak), and another chinese\\nfast food chain where I SAW the cook put about a tablespoon or two of\\nwhat looked like sugar or salt into my fried rice.\\n\\nI am under the impression that MSG \"enhances\" flavor by causing the\\ntaste buds to swell. If this is correct, I do not find it unreasonable\\nto assume that high doses of MSG can cause other mouth tissues to swell.\\n\\nAlso, as the many of the occurances (including two of the above)\\ninvolved beef, and as beef is frequently tenderized with MSG, this is\\nwhat I suspect as being the cause.\\n\\nI wouldn\\'t be at all surprised if toxicity studies of MSG in animals\\nshowed it as being harmless, as it would be very startling to hear a lab\\nrat or rhesus monkey complain about their throats feeling funny.\\n\\nAnyone who wishes to explain how the majority of food additives are\\ntotally harmless is welcome to e-mail me with the results of any studied\\nthey know of. I will probably respond to them however with a reminder\\nof how long it took to prove that smoking causes cancer (which the\\ntobacco companies still deny).\\n\\n- DM\\n\\n(If I sound grumpy, it\\'s because I had beef with broccoli for lunch\\ntoday, and now it hurts to swallow)\\n\\n--\\n------------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nDan Myers (Madman)\\t\\t| If the creator had intended us to walk \\nmyers@usceast.cs.scarolina.edu\\t| upright, he wouldn\\'t have given us knuckles\\n------------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n',\n", " \"From: romdas@uclink.berkeley.edu (Ella I Baff)\\nSubject: Re: Good Grief! (was Re: Candida Albicans: what is it?)\\nOrganization: University of California, Berkeley\\nLines: 9\\nDistribution: world\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: uclink.berkeley.edu\\n\\n >If anybody, doctors included, said to me to my face that there is no\\n >evidence of the 'yeast connection', I cannot guarantee their safety.\\n >For their incompetence, ripping off their lips is justified as far as\\n >I am concerned.\\n\\nThis doesn't sound like Candida Albicans to me.\\n\\nJohn Badanes, DC, CA\\nromdas@uclink.berkeley.edu\\n\",\n", " 'From: andersom@spot.Colorado.EDU (Marc Anderson)\\nSubject: Miracle Berries anyone?\\nNntp-Posting-Host: spot.colorado.edu\\nOrganization: University of Colorado, Boulder\\nLines: 47\\n\\n[From Kalat, J.W.. (1992): _Biological Psychology_. Wadsworth Publishing Co.\\nBelmont, CA. Pg. 219. Reproduced without permission.]\\n\\n\\n\\nDigression 6.1: Miracle Berries and the Modification of Taste Receptors\\n\\nAlthough the _miracle berry_, a plant native to West Africa is practically\\ntasteless, it temporarily changes the taste of other substances. Miracle\\nberries contain a protein, _miraculin_, that modifies sweet receptors in\\nsuch a way that they can be stimulated by acids (Bartoshuk, Gentile, \\nMoskowitz, & Meiselman, 1974). If you ever get a chance to chew a miracle\\nberry (and I do recommend it), for about the next half an hour all acids \\n(which are normally sour) will taste sweet. They will continue to taste\\nsour as well.\\n\\nMiraculin was, for a time, commercially available in the United States as a\\ndiet aid. The idea was that dieters could coat their tongue with a miraculin\\npill and then eat and drink unsweetened, slightly acidic substances. Such\\nsubstances would taste sweet without providing many calories.\\n\\nA colleague and I once spent an evening experimenting with miracle berries.\\nWe drank straight lemon juice, sauerkraut juice, even vinegar. All tasted\\nextremely sweet. Somehow we forgot how acidic these substances are. We \\nawoke the next day to find our mouths full of ulcers.\\n\\n[... continued discussion of a couple other taste-altering substances ...]\\n\\n\\nRefs: \\n\\nBartoshuk, L.M., Gentile, R.L., Moskowitz, H.R., & Meiselman, H.L. (1974):\\n Sweet taste induced by miracle fruit (_Synsephalum dulcificum_). \\n _Physiology & Behavior_. 12(6):449-456.\\n\\n\\n-------------\\n\\n\\nAnyone ever hear of these things or know where to get them?\\n\\n\\n-marc\\nandersom@spot.colorado.edu\\n\\n\\n\\n',\n", " 'From: Jeff.Cook@FtCollinsCO.NCR.COM (Jeff Cook)\\nSubject: Re: Vandalizing the sky.\\nOrganization: none\\nLines: 51\\nIn-reply-to: enzo@research.canon.oz.au\\'s message of 20 Apr 93 22:36:55 GMT\\n\\nIn article enzo@research.canon.oz.au (Enzo Liguori) writes:\\n\\n>Now, Space Marketing\\n>is working with University of Colorado and Livermore engineers on\\n>a plan to place a mile-long inflatable billboard in low-earth\\n>orbit. NASA would provide contractual launch services. However,\\n>since NASA bases its charge on seriously flawed cost estimates\\n>(WN 26 Mar 93) the taxpayers would bear most of the expense. This\\n>may look like environmental vandalism, but Mike Lawson, CEO of\\n>Space Marketing, told us yesterday that the real purpose of the\\n>project is to help the environment! The platform will carry ozone\\n>monitors he explained--advertising is just to help defray costs.\\n\\nHow could this possibly be \"environmental vandalism\" when there is no\\n\"environment\" to vandalize up there?\\n\\nSince the advertising \"is just to help defray costs\", it\\'s certainly no\\nsurprise that \"the taxpayers would bear most of the expense\". Sounds\\nlike a good idea to me, since the taxpayers would bear _all_ of the\\nexpense if they didn\\'t do the advertising.\\n\\n>What do you think of this revolting and hideous attempt to vandalize\\n>the night sky?\\n\\nGreat idea, they should have done it long ago.\\n\\n>What about light pollution in observations? (I read somewhere else that\\n>it might even be visible during the day, leave alone at night).\\n\\nI can\\'t believe that a mile-long billboard would have any significant\\neffect on the overall sky brightness. Venus is visible during the day,\\nbut nobody complains about that. Besides, it\\'s in LEO, so it would only\\nbe visible during twilight when the sky is already bright, and even if\\nit would have some miniscule impact, it would be only for a short time\\nas it goes zipping across the sky.\\n\\n>Are protesting groups being organized in the States?\\n\\nNo doubt. People are always looking for something to protest about, so\\nit would be no surprise.\\n\\n>Really, really depressed.\\n\\nWell, look on the, er, bright side. Imagine the looks on the faces of\\npeople in primitive tribes out in the middle of nowhere as they look up\\nand see a can of Budweiser flying across the sky... :-D\\n\\n--\\n\\nJeff Cook Jeff.Cook@FtCollinsCO.NCR.com\\n\\n',\n", " \"From: jgarland@kean.ucs.mun.ca\\nSubject: Re: Comet in Temporary Orbit Around Jupiter?\\nLines: 37\\nOrganization: Memorial University. St.John's Nfld, Canada\\n\\nIn article <15APR199315012030@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov>, baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov (Ron Baalke) writes:\\n> In article <1993Apr15.094320.1723@sq.sq.com>, msb@sq.sq.com (Mark Brader) writes...\\n>>> > So how close would the comet have gotten to Jupiter on the pass that\\n>>> > put it into temporary orbit, and how far is it likely to get from\\n>>> > Jupiter before it makes its escape?\\n>>> \\n>>> The answer to all of these questions is we don't know yet.\\n>>> We don't know for sure if the comet is in a temporary orbit.\\n>> \\n>>I see. I wasn't so interested in this particular case as in typical\\n>>behavior, anyway. Can these questions be answered for a previous\\n>>instance, such as the Gehrels 3 that was mentioned in an earlier posting?\\n> \\n> Gehrels 3 was in a temporary Jovian orbit for about 3 or 4 years. I'll\\n> get the orbital elements from Dance of the Planets and post them here.\\n\\nSorry folks, I should have done this, and meant to just after i hit the \\nsend key...\\n\\nOrbital Elements of Comet 1977VII (from Dance files)\\n\\np(au) 3.424346\\ne 0.151899\\ni 1.0988\\ncap_omega(0) 243.5652\\nW(0) 231.1607\\nepoch 1977.04110\\n\\nAlso, perihelions of Gehrels3 were:\\n\\nApril 1973 83 jupiter radii\\nAugust 1970 ~3 jupiter radii\\n\\nHope this helps...I'm even less of an orbital mechanic than I am an artist.\\n\\nJohn Garland\\njgarland@kean.ucs.mun.ca\\n\",\n", " 'From: gallas2@marcus.its.rpi.edu (Sean Michael Gallagher)\\nSubject: Funding for NASA\\nArticle-I.D.: rpi.87g54s_\\nLines: 8\\nNntp-Posting-Host: marcus.its.rpi.edu\\n\\nI am doing a political science paper on the funding of NASA and pork-barrel \\npolitics. I would be interested in information about funding practices and\\nhistories of some of the major programs (Apollo, STS, SSF, etc) and the\\nfunding of SSTO to contrast. Could someone please recommend some sources\\nthat would be useful? Thank you.\\n-- \\nSean Gallagher\\ngallas2@rpi.edu\\n',\n", " \"From: prb@access.digex.com (Pat)\\nSubject: Re: Shuttle oxygen (was Budget Astronaut)\\nOrganization: Express Access Online Communications USA\\nLines: 11\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: access.digex.net\\n\\n\\n\\nI thought that under emergency conditions, the STS can\\nput down at any good size Airport. IF it could take a C-5 or a\\n747, then it can take an orbiter. You just need a VOR/TAC\\n\\nI don't know if they need ILS.\\n\\npat\\n\\nANyone know for sure.\\n\",\n", " \"From: mcovingt@aisun3.ai.uga.edu (Michael Covington)\\nSubject: Re: food-related seizures?\\nNntp-Posting-Host: aisun3.ai.uga.edu\\nOrganization: AI Programs, University of Georgia, Athens\\nLines: 12\\n\\nI'm told that corn allergy is fairly common. My wife has it and it seems\\nto be exacerbated if sugar is eaten with the corn.\\n\\nI suppose that in a person just on the verge of having epilepsy, an\\nallergic reaction might cause a seizure, but I don't really know.\\nGordon?\\n\\n-- \\n:- Michael A. Covington, Associate Research Scientist : *****\\n:- Artificial Intelligence Programs mcovingt@ai.uga.edu : *********\\n:- The University of Georgia phone 706 542-0358 : * * *\\n:- Athens, Georgia 30602-7415 U.S.A. amateur radio N4TMI : ** *** ** <><\\n\",\n", " \"From: ralph.buttigieg@f635.n713.z3.fido.zeta.org.au (Ralph Buttigieg)\\nSubject: Why not give $1 billion to first year-lo\\nOrganization: Fidonet. Gate admin is fido@socs.uts.edu.au\\nLines: 34\\n\\nOriginal to: keithley@apple.com\\nG'day keithley@apple.com\\n\\n21 Apr 93 22:25, keithley@apple.com wrote to All:\\n\\n kc> keithley@apple.com (Craig Keithley), via Kralizec 3:713/602\\n\\n\\n kc> But back to the contest goals, there was a recent article in AW&ST\\nabout a\\n kc> low cost (it's all relative...) manned return to the moon. A General\\n kc> Dynamics scheme involving a Titan IV & Shuttle to lift a Centaur upper\\n kc> stage, LEV, and crew capsule. The mission consists of delivering two\\n kc> unmanned payloads to the lunar surface, followed by a manned mission.\\n kc> Total cost: US was $10-$13 billion. Joint ESA(?)/NASA project was\\n$6-$9\\n kc> billion for the US share.\\n\\n kc> moon for a year. Hmmm. Not really practical. Anyone got a\\n kc> cheaper/better way of delivering 15-20 tonnes to the lunar surface\\nwithin\\n kc> the decade? Anyone have a more precise guess about how much a year's\\n kc> supply of consumables and equipment would weigh?\\n\\nWhy not modify the GD plan into Zurbrin's Compact Moon Direct scheme? let\\none of those early flight carry an O2 plant and make your own.\\n\\nta\\n\\nRalph\\n\\n--- GoldED 2.41+\\n * Origin: VULCAN'S WORLD - Sydney Australia (02) 635-1204 3:713/6\\n(3:713/635)\\n\",\n", " \"From: Donald Mackie \\nSubject: Re: quality control in medicine\\nOrganization: UM Anesthesiology\\nLines: 19\\nDistribution: world\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: 141.214.86.38\\nX-UserAgent: Nuntius v1.1.1d9\\nX-XXDate: Mon, 19 Apr 93 20:19:29 GMT\\n\\nIn article <9307@blue.cis.pitt.edu> Kenneth Gilbert,\\nkxgst1+@pitt.edu writes:\\n>situation. QA activities are a routine part of every hospital's\\n>administrative function and are required by accreditation agencies.\\n There\\n>are even entire publications devoted to QA issues.\\n\\n\\nIndeed. I spend about 60% of my time dealing with quality stuff. It\\nis a hot number. \\nTwo journals worth looking at are:-\\nQuality Review Bulletin. Pub:Joint Commission on Accreditation of\\nHealthcare Organizations, one Renaissance boulevard, Oakbrook\\nTerrace, IL 60181\\nQuality in Health Care. BMJ Publishing Group, Box No. 560B,\\nKennebunkport, ME 04046\\n\\nDon Mackie - his opinions\\nUM Anesthesiology will disavow\\n\",\n", " \"From: rog@cdc.hp.com (Roger Haaheim)\\nSubject: Re: sex problem.\\nArticle-I.D.: news.C52E58.L8G\\nOrganization: HP California Design Center, Santa Clara, CA\\nLines: 15\\nNntp-Posting-Host: hammer.cdc.hp.com\\nX-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]\\n\\nlarry silverberg (ls8139@albnyvms.bitnet) wrote:\\n> Hello out there,\\n\\n> She suggested we go to a sex counselor, but I really don't want to (just yet).\\n\\nInteresting. Does she know you have placed this info request on the\\nnet for the world to see? If not, how do you think she would react\\nif she found out? Why would you accept the advice of unknown entities\\nrather than a counselor?\\n\\n> Any suggestions would be appreciated.\\n\\nSee the counselor.\\n\\nWell, you asked.\\n\",\n", " 'From: rjungcla@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (R. M. Jungclas)\\nSubject: Re: Big amateur rockets\\nOrganization: AT&T Bell Labs - Naperville, IL.\\nDistribution: usa\\nLines: 48\\n\\nIn article pbd@runyon.cim.cdc.com (Paul Dokas) writes:\\n>I was reading Popular Science this morning and was surprised by an ad in\\n>the back. I know that a lot of the ads in the back of PS are fringe\\n>science or questionablely legal, but this one really grabbed my attention.\\n>It was from a company name \"Personal Missle, Inc.\" or something like that.\\n>\\n>Anyhow, the ad stated that they\\'d sell rockets that were up to 20\\' in length\\n>and engines of sizes \"F\" to \"M\". They also said that some rockets will\\n>reach 50,000 feet.\\n>\\n>Now, aside from the obvious dangers to any amateur rocketeer using one\\n>of these beasts, isn\\'t this illegal? I can\\'t imagine the FAA allowing\\n>people to shoot rockets up through the flight levels of passenger planes.\\n>Not to even mention the problem of locating a rocket when it comes down.\\n>\\n>And no, I\\'m not going to even think of buying one. I\\'m not that crazy.\\n>\\n>\\n>-Paul \"mine\\'ll do 50,000 feet and carries 50 pounds of dynamite\" Dokas\\n\\nCould it be Public Missile, Inc in Michigan?\\n\\nFrom the description of ad here, it sounds like they\\'re talking about\\n\"High Power Rocketry\", an outgrowth of model rocketry. This hobby\\nuses non-metallic structural compoments and commerically manufactured\\nengines ranging in impulse classification from G to P. The hobby\\nhas been flourishing from early 1980s and is becoming increasing popular.\\nTechnically this is not consider amateur rocketry.\\n\\nAny rocket with a liftoff weight greater than 3.3 pounds OR using a\\ntotal impulse of G or greater, REQUIRES an FAA waiver to launch.\\nTypically, a group of people get an FAA waiver for specified period\\nof time (ie week, weekend, etc.) at a designated site and time, and\\nall of the launches are then covered under this \"blanket waiver\".\\nThere is also a \"High Power Safety Code\" which designates more\\nspecific rules such as launch field size, etc.\\n\\nFinally, in order to purchase any of the larger (Class B) rocket \\nmotors you need to certified through either the National Association\\nof Rocketry or Tripoli Rocketry Association. Certification procedures\\nrequire a demonstarted handling and \"safe\" flight at a total impulse\\nlevel.\\n\\nFor more information, watch rec.models.rockets newsgroup.\\n\\nR. Michael Jungclas UUCP: att!ihlpb!rjungcla \\nAT&T Bell Labs - Naperville, IL. Internet: rjungcla@ihlpb.att.com\\n\\n',\n", " 'From: paulson@tab00.larc.nasa.gov (Sharon Paulson)\\nSubject: food-related seizures?\\nOrganization: NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton VA, USA\\nLines: 45\\nDistribution: world\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: cmb00.larc.nasa.gov\\n\\nI am posting to this group in hopes of finding someone out there in\\nnetwork newsland who has heard of something similar to what I am going\\nto describe here. I have a fourteen year old daugter who experienced\\na seizure on November 3, 1992 at 6:45AM after eating Kellog\\'s Frosted\\nFlakes. She is perfectly healthy, had never experienced anything like\\nthis before, and there is no history of seizures in either side of the\\nfamily. All the tests (EEG, MRI, EKG) came out negative so the decision\\nwas made to do nothing and just wait to see if it happened again.\\n\\nWell, we were going along fine and the other morning, April 5, she had\\na bowl of another Kellog\\'s frosted kind of cereal, Fruit Loops (I am\\nembarrassed to admit that I even bought that junk but every once\\nin a while...) So I pour it in her bowl and think \"Oh, oh, this is the\\nsame kind of junk she was eating when she had that seizure.\" Ten \\nminutes later she had a full blown seizures. This was her first exposure\\nto a sugar coated cereal since the last seizure.\\n\\nWhen I mentioned what she ate the first time as a possible reason for\\nthe seizure the neurologist basically negated that as an idea. Now\\nafter this second episode, so similar in nature to the first, even\\nhe is scratching his head. Once again her EEG looks normal which I\\nunderstand can happen even when a person has a seizure.\\n\\nOnce again we are waiting. I have been thinking that it would be good\\nto get to as large a group as possible to see if anyone has any\\nexperience with this kind of thing. I know that members of the medical\\ncommunity are sometimes loathe to admit the importance that diet and\\nfoods play in our general health and well-being. Anyway, as you can\\nguess, I am worried sick about this, and would appreciate any ideas\\nanyone out there has. Sorry to be so wordy but I wanted to really get\\nacross what is going on here.\\n\\nThanks.\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n--\\nSharon Paulson s.s.paulson@larc.nasa.gov\\nNASA Langley Research Center\\nBldg. 1192D, Mailstop 156 Work: (804) 864-2241\\nHampton, Virginia. 23681 Home: (804) 596-2362\\n',\n", " 'From: loss@fs7.ECE.CMU.EDU (Doug Loss)\\nSubject: Jemison on Star Trek\\nOrganization: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon\\nLines: 7\\n\\n I saw in the newspaper last night that Dr. Mae Jemison, the first\\nblack woman in space (she\\'s a physician and chemical engineer who flew\\non Endeavour last year) will appear as a transporter operator on the\\n\"Star Trek: The Next Generation\" episode that airs the week of May 31.\\nIt\\'s hardly space science, I know, but it\\'s interesting.\\n\\nDoug Loss\\n',\n", " 'From: mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson)\\nSubject: Re: Eumemics (was: Eugenics)\\nOrganization: The Portal System (TM)\\n <79700@cup.portal.com> \\nLines: 41\\n\\nA person posted certain stuff to this newsgroup, which were highly\\nselected quotes stripped of their context. Here is the complete\\nposting which was quoted (lacking the context of other postings in \\nwhich it was made):\\n\\n> Probably within 50 years, a new type of eugenics will be possible.\\n> Maybe even sooner. We are now mapping the human genome. We will\\n> then start to work on manipulation of that genome. Using genetic\\n> engineering, we will be able to insert whatever genes we want.\\n> No breeding, no \"hybrids\", etc. The ethical question is, should\\n> we do this? Should we make a race of disease-free, long-lived,\\n> Arnold Schwartzenegger-muscled, supermen? Even if we can.\\n\\nProbably within 50 years, it will be possible to disassemble and\\nre-assemble our bodies at the molecular level. Not only will flawless\\ncosmetic surgery be possible, but flawless cosmetic PSYCHOSURGERY.\\n\\nWhat will it be like to store all the prices of shelf-priced bar-coded\\ngoods in your head, and catch all the errors they make in the store\\'s\\nfavor at SAFEWAY? What will it be like to mentally edit and spell-\\ncheck your responses to the questions posed by a phone caller selling\\nVACATION TIME-SHARE OPTIONS?\\n\\nIndeed, we are today a nation at risk! The threat is not from bad genes,\\nbut bad memes! Memes are the basic units of culture, as opposed to genes\\nwhich are the units of genetics.\\n\\nWe stand on the brink of new meme-amplification technologies! Harmful\\nmemes which formerly were restricted in their destructive power will\\nrun rampant over the countryside, laying waste to the real benefits that\\nfuture technology has to offer.\\n\\nFor example, Jeremy Rifkin has been busy trying to whip up emotions\\nagainst the new genetically engineered tomatoes under development at\\nCALGENE. This guy is inventing harmful memes, a virtual memetic Typhoid\\nMary.\\n\\nWe must expand the public-health laws to include quarantine of people\\nwith harmful memes. They should not be allowed to infect other people\\nwith their memes against genetically-engineered food, electromagnetic\\nfields, and the Space Shuttle solid rocket boosters.\\n',\n", " 'From: dbm0000@tm0006.lerc.nasa.gov (David B. Mckissock)\\nSubject: Gibbons Outlines SSF Redesign Guidance\\nNews-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41 \\nNntp-Posting-Host: tm0006.lerc.nasa.gov\\nOrganization: NASA Lewis Research Center / Cleveland, Ohio\\nLines: 76\\n\\nNASA Headquarters distributed the following press\\nrelease today (4/6). I\\'ve typed it in verbatim, for you\\nfolks to chew over. Many of the topics recently\\ndiscussed on sci.space are covered in this.\\n\\nGibbons Outlines Space Station Redesign Guidance\\n\\nDr. John H. Gibbons, Director, Office of Science and\\nTechnology Policy, outlined to the members-designate of\\nthe Advisory Committee on the Redesign of the Space\\nStation on April 3, three budget options as guidance to\\nthe committee in their deliberations on the redesign of\\nthe space station.\\n\\nA low option of $5 billion, a mid-range option of $7\\nbillion and a high option of $9 billion will be\\nconsidered by the committee. Each option would cover\\nthe total expenditures for space station from fiscal\\nyear 1994 through 1998 and would include funds for\\ndevelopment, operations, utilization, Shuttle\\nintegration, facilities, research operations support,\\ntransition cost and also must include adequate program\\nreserves to insure program implementation within the\\navailable funds.\\n\\nOver the next 5 years, $4 billion is reserved within\\nthe NASA budget for the President\\'s new technology\\ninvestment. As a result, station options above $7\\nbillion must be accompanied by offsetting reductions in\\nthe rest of the NASA budget. For example, a space\\nstation option of $9 billion would require $2 billion\\nin offsets from the NASA budget over the next 5 years.\\n\\nGibbons presented the information at an organizational\\nsession of the advisory committee. Generally, the\\nmembers-designate focused upon administrative topics\\nand used the session to get acquainted. They also\\nreceived a legal and ethics briefing and an orientation\\non the process the Station Redesign Team is following\\nto develop options for the advisory committee to\\nconsider.\\n\\nGibbons also announced that the United States and its\\ninternational partners -- the Europeans, Japanese, and\\nCanadians -- have decided, after consultation, to give\\n\"full consideration\" to use of Russian assets in the\\ncourse of the space station redesign process.\\n\\nTo that end, the Russians will be asked to participate\\nin the redesign effort on an as-needed consulting\\nbasis, so that the redesign team can make use of their\\nexpertise in assessing the capabilities of MIR and the\\npossible use of MIR and other Russian capabilities and\\nsystems. The U.S. and international partners hope to\\nbenefit from the expertise of the Russian participants\\nin assessing Russian systems and technology. The\\noverall goal of the redesign effort is to develop\\noptions for reducing station costs while preserving key\\nresearch and exploration capabilities. Careful\\nintegration of Russian assets could be a key factor in\\nachieving that goal.\\n\\nGibbons reiterated that, \"President Clinton is\\ncommitted to the redesigned space station and to making\\nevery effort to preserve the science, the technology\\nand the jobs that the space station program represents.\\nHowever, he also is committed to a space station that\\nis well managed and one that does not consume the\\nnational resources which should be used to invest in\\nthe future of this industry and this nation.\"\\n\\nNASA Administrator Daniel S. Goldin said the Russian\\nparticipation will be accomplished through the East-\\nWest Space Science Center at the University of Maryland\\nunder the leadership of Roald Sagdeev.\\n\\n',\n", " 'From: turpin@cs.utexas.edu (Russell Turpin)\\nSubject: Re: Placebo effects\\nOrganization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin\\nLines: 39\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: im4u.cs.utexas.edu\\nSummary: Yes, researcher bias is a great problem.\\n\\n-*-----\\nIn article <735157066.AA00449@calcom.socal.com> Daniel.Prince@f129.n102.z1.calcom.socal.com (Daniel Prince) writes:\\n> Is there an effect where the doctor believes so strongly in a \\n> medicine that he/she sees improvement where the is none or sees \\n> more improvement than there is? If so, what is this effect \\n> called? Is there a reverse of the above effect where the doctor \\n> doesn\\'t believe in a medicine and then sees less improvement than \\n> there is? What would this effect be called? Have these effects \\n> ever been studied? How common are these effects? Thank you in \\n> advance for all replies. \\n\\nThese effects are a very real concern in conducting studies of new\\ntreatments. Researchers try to limit this kind of effect by \\nperforming studies that are \"blind\" in various ways. Some of these\\nare:\\n\\n o The subjects of the study do not know whether they receive a \\n placebo or the test treatment, i.e., whether they are in the\\n control group or the test group.\\n\\n o Those administering the treatment do not know which subjects \\n receive a placebo or the test treatment.\\n\\n o Those evaluating individual results do not know which subjects\\n receive a placebo or the test treatment.\\n\\nObviously, at the point at which the data is analyzed, one has to \\ndifferentiate the test group from the control group. But the analysis\\nis quasi-public: the researcher describes it and presents the data on\\nwhich it is based so that others can verify it. \\n\\nIt is worth noting that in biological studies where the subjects are\\nanimals, such as mice, there were many cases of skewed results because\\nthose who performed the study did not \"blind\" themselves. It is not\\nconsidered so important to make mice more ignorant than they already\\nare, though it is important that in all respects except the one tested,\\nthe control and test groups are treated alike.\\n\\nRussell\\n',\n", " 'Subject: Space FAQ 02/15 - Network Resources\\nFrom: leech@cs.unc.edu (Jon Leech)\\nExpires: 6 May 1993 19:54:26 GMT\\nOrganization: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill\\nKeywords: Frequently Asked Questions\\nSupersedes: \\nNNTP-Posting-Host: mahler.cs.unc.edu\\nLines: 241\\n\\nArchive-name: space/net\\nLast-modified: $Date: 93/04/01 14:39:15 $\\n\\nNETWORK RESOURCES\\n\\nOVERVIEW\\n\\n You may be reading this document on any one of an amazing variety of\\n computers, so much of the material below may not apply to you. In\\n general, however, systems connected to \\'the net\\' fall in one of three\\n categories: Internet, Usenet, or BITNET. Electronic mail may be sent\\n between these networks, and other resources available on one of these\\n networks are sometimes accessible from other networks by email sent to\\n special \\'servers\\'.\\n\\n The space and astronomy discussion groups actually are composed of\\n several mechanisms with (mostly) transparent connections between them.\\n\\n One mechanism is the mailing list, in which mail is sent to a central\\n distribution point which relays it to all recipients of the list. In\\n addition to the general lists for space (called SPACE Digest for\\n Internet users, and SPACE on BITNET), there are a number of more\\n specialized mailing lists described below.\\n\\n A second mechanism is Usenet \\'netnews\\'. This is somewhat like a bulletin\\n board operating on each system which is a part of the net. Netnews\\n separates contributions into hundreds of different categories based on a\\n \\'group name\\'. The groups dealing most closely with space topics are\\n called \\'sci.space.news\\', \\'sci.space\\', \\'sci.space.shuttle\\', \\'sci.astro\\',\\n and \\'talk.politics.space\\'. Contributors \\'post\\' submissions (called\\n \\'articles\\' in netnews terminology) on their local machine, which sends\\n it to other nearby machines. Similarly, articles sent from nearby\\n machines are stored locally and may be forwarded to other systems, so\\n that an article is posted locally and eventually reaches all the Usenet\\n sites interested in receiving the news group to which the article was\\n posted.\\n\\n Gateway machines redirect the Usenet sci.space group into Internet and\\n BITNET mailing lists and vice versa; the other Usenet groups are not\\n accessible as mailing lists. If you can receive netnews, its more\\n flexible interface and access to a wider range of material usually make\\n it the preferred option.\\n\\nMAILING LISTS\\n\\n SPACE Digest is the main Internet list, and is now being run by the\\n International Space University (in only its second change of management\\n in over a decade). Email space-request@isu.isunet.edu (message body\\n should be in the format \\'subscribe space John Public\\') to join. Note\\n that the moderated SPACE Magazine list is defunct at present for lack of\\n a moderator. Old copies of SPACE Digest since its inception in 1981 are\\n available by anonymous FTP. Retrieve\\n\\tjulius.cs.qub.ac.uk:pub/SpaceDigestArchive/README\\n for further details.\\n\\n Elements is a moderated list for fast distribution of Space Shuttle\\n Keplerian Elements before and during Shuttle flights. NASA two line\\n elements are sent out on the list from Dr. Kelso, JSC, and other sources\\n as they are released. Email to elements-request@telesoft.com to join.\\n\\n GPS Digest is a moderated list for discussion of the Global Positioning\\n System and other satellite navigation positioning systems. Email to\\n gps-request@esseye.si.com to join.\\n\\n Space-investors is a list for information relevant to investing in\\n space-related companies. Email Vincent Cate (vac@cs.cmu.edu) to join.\\n\\n Space-tech is a list for more technical discussion of space topics;\\n discussion has included esoteric propulsion technologies, asteroid\\n capture, starflight, orbital debris removal, etc. Email to\\n space-tech-request@cs.cmu.edu to join. Archives of old digests and\\n selected excerpts are available by anonymous FTP from\\n gs80.sp.cs.cmu.edu (128.2.205.90) in /usr/anon/public/space-tech,\\n or by email to space-tech-request if you don\\'t have FTP access.\\n\\n SEDS-L is a BITNET list for members of Students for the Exploration and\\n Development of Space and other interested parties. Email\\n LISTSERV@TAMVM1.BITNET with a message saying \"SUBSCRIBE SEDS-L your\\n name\". Email saying \"INDEX SEDS-L\" to list the archive contents.\\n\\n SEDSNEWS is a BITNET list for news items, press releases, shuttle status\\n reports, and the like. This duplicates material which is also found in\\n Space Digest, sci.space, sci.space.shuttle, and sci.astro. Email\\n LISTSERV@TAMVM1.BITNET saying \"SUBSCRIBE SEDSNEWS your name\" to join.\\n Email saying \"INDEX SEDSNEWS\" to list the archive contents.\\n\\n Ron Baalke (baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov) runs a mailing list which\\n carries the contents of the sci.space.news Usenet group. Email him\\n to join the list.\\n\\n As a general note, please mail to the *request* address to get off a\\n mailing list. SPACE Digest, for example, relays many inappropriate\\n \\'please remove me from this list\\' messages which are sent to the list\\n address rather than the request address.\\n\\nPERIODICALLY UPDATED INFORMATION\\n\\n In addition to this FAQ list, a broad variety of topical information is\\n posted to the net (unless otherwise noted, in the new group\\n sci.space.news created for this purpose). Please remember that the\\n individuals posting this information are performing a service for all\\n net readers, and don\\'t take up their time with frivolous requests.\\n\\n ACRONYMS\\n\\tGarrett Wollman (wollman@UVM.EDU) posts an acronym list around the\\n\\tfirst of each month.\\n\\n ASTRO-FTP LIST\\n\\tVeikko Makela (veikko.makela@helsinki.fi) posts a monthly list of\\n\\tanonymous FTP servers containing astronomy and space related\\n\\tmaterial to sci.space and sci.astro.\\n\\n AVIATION WEEK\\n\\tHenry Spencer (henry@zoo.toronto.edu) posts summaries of\\n\\tspace-related stories in the weekly _Aviation Week and Space\\n\\tTechnology_.\\n\\n BUYING TELESCOPES\\n\\tRonnie Kon (ronnie@cisco.com) posts a guide to buying telescopes to\\n\\tsci.astro.\\n\\n ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF THE ASA\\n\\tDon Barry (don@chara.gsu.edu) posts the monthly Electronic Journal\\n\\tof the Astronomical Society of the Atlantic to sci.astro.\\n\\n FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL\\n\\tSwaraj Jeyasingh (sjeyasin@axion.bt.co.uk) posts summaries of\\n\\tspace-related news from _Flight International_. This focuses more on\\n\\tnon-US space activities than Aviation Week.\\n\\n LARGE ASTRONOMICAL PROJECTS\\n\\tRobert Bunge (rbunge@access.digex.com) posts a list describing many\\n\\t\"Large Telescope Projects Either Being Considered or in the Works\"\\n\\tto sci.astro.\\n\\n NASA HEADLINE NEWS & SHUTTLE REPORTS\\n\\tPeter Yee (yee@ames.arc.nasa.gov) posts a variety of NASA material,\\n\\tincluding NASA Headline News (with the schedule for NASA SELECT),\\n\\tshuttle payload briefings and flight manifests, and KSC shuttle\\n\\tstatus reports. For Usenet users, much of this material appears in\\n\\tthe group sci.space.shuttle.\\n\\n NASA UPDATES\\n\\tRon Baalke (baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov) posts frequent updates from\\n\\tJPL, Ames, and other centers on the Ulysses, Gailileo, Pioneer,\\n\\tMagellan, Landsat, and other missions.\\n\\n ORBITAL ELEMENT SETS\\n\\tTS Kelso (tkelso@blackbird.afit.af.mil) posts orbital elements from\\n\\tNASA Prediction Bulletins.\\n\\n\\tMike Rose (mrose@stsci.edu) posts orbital elements for the Hubble\\n\\tSpace Telescope to sci.astro.\\n\\n\\tJost Jahn (j.jahn@abbs.hanse.de) posts ephemerides for asteroids,\\n\\tcomets, conjunctions, and encounters to sci.astro.\\n\\n SATELLITE LAUNCHES\\n\\tRichard Langley (lang@unb.ca) posts SPACEWARN Bulletin, which\\n\\tdescribes recent launch/orbital decay information and satellites\\n\\twhich are useful for scientific activities. Recent bulletins are\\n\\tavailable by anonymous FTP from nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov in\\n\\tANON_DIR:[000000.ACTIVE.SPX].\\n\\n SHUTTLE MANIFEST\\n\\tKen Hollis (gandalf@pro-electric.cts.com) posts a compressed version\\n\\tof the Space Shuttle launch manifest to sci.space.shuttle. This\\n\\tincludes dates, times, payloads, and information on how to see\\n\\tlaunches and landings.\\n\\n SOLAR ACTIVITY\\n\\tCary Oler (oler@hg.uleth.ca) posts Solar Terrestrial reports\\n\\t(describing solar activity and its effect on the Earth) to\\n\\tsci.space. The report is issued in part from data released by the\\n\\tSpace Enviroment Services Center, Boulder Colorado. The intro\\n\\tdocument needed to understand these reports is available by\\n\\tanonymous FTP from solar.stanford.edu (36.10.0.4) in\\n\\tpub/understanding_solar_terrestrial_reports. nic.funet.fi\\n\\t(128.214.6.100) also has this document in\\n\\t/pub/misc/rec.radio.shortwave/solarreports and is an archive site\\n\\tfor the reports (please note this site is in Europe, and the\\n\\tconnection to the US is only 56KB). A new primary archive site,\\n\\txi.uleth.ca (142.66.3.29), has recently been established and will be\\n\\tactively supported.\\n\\n SOVIET SPACE ACTIVITIES\\n\\tGlenn Chapman (glennc@cs.sfu.ca) posts summaries of Soviet space\\n\\tactivities.\\n\\n SPACE ACTIVIST NEWSLETTER\\n\\tAllen Sherzer (aws@iti.org) posts a newsletter, \"One Small Step for\\n\\ta Space Activist,\" to talk.politics.space. It describes current\\n\\tlegislative activity affecting NASA and commercial space activities.\\n\\n SPACE EVENTS CALENDAR\\n\\tRon Baalke (baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov) posts a calendar including\\n\\tanniversaries, conferences, launch dates, meteor showers and\\n\\teclipses, and other space-related events.\\n\\n SPACE NEWS\\n\\tJohn Magliacane (kd2bd@ka2qhd.UUCP) posts \"SpaceNews\" (covering\\n\\tAMSATs, NOAA and other weather satellites, and other ham\\n\\tinformation) to rec.radio.amateur.misc and sci.space.\\n\\n SPACE REPORT\\n\\tJonathan McDowell (mcdowell@cfa.harvard.edu) posts \"Jonathan\\'s Space\\n\\tReport\" covering launches, landings, reentries, status reports,\\n\\tsatellite activities, etc.\\n\\n TOWARD 2001\\n\\tBev Freed (freed@nss.fidonet.org) posts \"Toward 2001\", a weekly\\n\\tglobal news summary reprinted from _Space Calendar_ magazine.\\n\\n\\nWARNING ABOUT NON-PUBLIC NETWORKS\\n\\n (Included at the suggestion of Eugene Miya, who wrote the item)\\n\\n NASA has an internal system of unclassified electronic mail and bulletin\\n boards. This system is not open for public use. Specifically, NASA\\n personnel and procurement operations are regarded with some sensitivity.\\n Contractors must renegotiate their contracts. The Fair and Open\\n Procurement Act does not look kindly to those having inside information.\\n Contractors and outsiders caught using this type of information can\\n expect severe penalities. Unauthorized access attempts may subject you\\n to a fine and/or imprisonment in accordance with Title 18, USC, Section\\n 1030. If in fact you should should learn of unauthorized access, contact\\n NASA personnel.\\n\\n Claims have been made on this news group about fraud and waste. None\\n have ever been substantiated to any significant degree. Readers\\n detecting Fraud, Waste, Abuse, or Mismanagement should contact the NASA\\n Inspector General (24-hours) at 800-424-9183 (can be anonymous) or write\\n\\n\\tNASA\\n\\tInspector General\\n\\tP.O. Box 23089\\n\\tL\\'enfant Plaza Station\\n\\tWashington DC 20024\\n\\nNEXT: FAQ #3/15 - Online (and some offline) sources of images, data, etc.\\n',\n", " 'From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)\\nSubject: Re: fibromyalgia\\nOrganization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA\\n\\nIn article <93Apr5.133521edt.1231@smoke.cs.toronto.edu> craig@cs.toronto.edu (Craig MacDonald) writes:\\n>> It may be extremely\\n>>common, something like 5% of the population. It is treatable with\\n>>tricyclic antidepressant-type drugs (Elavil, Pamelor). \\n>\\n>Why is it treated with antidepressants? Is it considered a\\n>psychogenic condition?\\n\\nNo. That these drugs happen to be useful as antidepressants is neither\\nhere nor there.\\n\\n-- \\nSteve Dyer\\ndyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer\\n',\n", " 'From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nSubject: Re: Donating organs\\nReply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nOrganization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science\\nLines: 24\\n\\nIn article <1993Mar25.161109.13101@sbcs.sunysb.edu> mhollowa@ic.sunysb.edu (Michael Holloway) writes:\\n\\n>Dr. Banks, \\n>\\tI don\\'t know if you make a point of keeping up with liver transplant\\n>research but you\\'re certainly in the right place for these questions. Has \\n>there been anything recent in \"Transplant Proceedings\" or somesuch, on \\n>xenografts? How about liver section transplants from living donors? \\n>\\n\\nI\\'m sure the Pittsburgh group has published the baboon work, but I\\ndon\\'t know where. In Chicago they were doing lobe transplants from\\nliving donors, and I\\'m sure they\\'ve published. I don\\'t read the\\ntransplant literature. I just see the liver transplant patients\\nwhen they get into neurologic trouble (pretty frequent), so that\\nand the newspapers and scuttlebutt is the way I keep up with what\\nthey are doing. Howard Doyle works with them, and can tell you more.\\n\\n\\n\\n-- \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nGordon Banks N3JXP | \"Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and\\ngeb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu | it is shameful to surrender it too soon.\" \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n',\n", " 'From: mrw9e@fulton.seas.Virginia.EDU (Michael Robert Williams)\\nSubject: Re: Orion drive in vacuum -- how?\\nOrganization: University of Virginia\\nLines: 25\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr17.053333.15696@sfu.ca> Leigh Palmer writes:\\n>In article <1qn4bgINN4s7@mimi.UU.NET> James P. Goltz, goltz@mimi.UU.NET\\n>writes:\\n>> Background: The Orion spacedrive was a theoretical concept.\\n>\\n>It was more than a theoretical concept; it was seriously pursued by\\n>Freeman Dyson et al many years ago. I don\\'t know how well-known this is,\\n>but a high explosive Orion prototype flew (in the atmosphere) in San\\n>Diego back in 1957 or 1958. I was working at General Atomic at the time,\\n>but I didn\\'t learn about the experiment until almost thirty years later,\\n>when \\n>Ted Taylor visited us and revealed that it had been done. I feel sure\\n>that someone must have film of that experiment, and I\\'d really like to\\n>see it. Has anyone out there seen it?\\n>\\n>Leigh\\n\\nNope, I haven\\'t seen the film, but Taylor\\'s biography (\"The Curve of \\nBinding Energy\") contains a short section on Orion and this test flight.\\nApparently it was quite impressi, and got von Braun very excited.\\n\\nIn Real Life:Mike Williams | Perpetual Grad Student\\ne-mail :mrw9e@virginia.edu| - It\\'s not just a job, it\\'s an indenture\\n---------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n\"If you ever have a world of your own, plan ahead- don\\'t eat it.\" ST:TNG\\n',\n", " \"From: ghasting@vdoe386.vak12ed.edu (George Hastings)\\nSubject: Re: Soviet space book\\nOrganization: Virginia's Public Education Network (Richmond)\\nLines: 13\\n\\n I have received my copies of Cosmonautics 1990 and\\nCosmonautics 1991, as well as Soviet Space 1990 and Space\\nStation [MIR] Handbook from Aerospace Ambassadors with no\\nproblem.\\n I'm getting ready to FAX them some material in Huntsville,\\nand I'll include a printout of your inquiry.\\n ____________________________________________________________\\n| George Hastings\\t\\tghasting@vdoe386.vak12ed.edu | \\n| Space Science Teacher\\t\\t72407.22@compuserve.com | If it's not\\n| Mathematics & Science Center \\tSTAREACH BBS: 804-343-6533 | FUN, it's\\n| 2304 Hartman Street\\t\\tOFFICE: 804-343-6525 | probably not\\n| Richmond, VA 23223\\t\\tFAX: 804-343-6529 | SCIENCE!\\n ------------------------------------------------------------\\n\",\n", " 'From: tkelso@afit.af.mil (TS Kelso)\\nSubject: Two-Line Orbital Element Set: Space Shuttle\\nKeywords: Space Shuttle, Orbital Elements, Keplerian\\nNntp-Posting-Host: scgraph.afit.af.mil\\nOrganization: Air Force Institute of Technology\\nLines: 21\\n\\nThe most current orbital elements from the NORAD two-line element sets are\\ncarried on the Celestial BBS, (513) 427-0674, and are updated daily (when\\npossible). Documentation and tracking software are also available on this\\nsystem. As a service to the satellite user community, the most current\\nelements for the current shuttle mission are provided below. The Celestial\\nBBS may be accessed 24 hours/day at 300, 1200, 2400, 4800, or 9600 bps using\\n8 data bits, 1 stop bit, no parity.\\n\\nElement sets (also updated daily), shuttle elements, and some documentation\\nand software are also available via anonymous ftp from archive.afit.af.mil\\n(129.92.1.66) in the directory pub/space.\\n\\nSTS 56 \\n1 22621U 93 23 A 93105.58333333 .00090711 00000-0 25599-3 0 249\\n2 22621 57.0029 144.8669 0004136 304.2989 134.3206 15.92851555 1179\\n1993 023B \\n1 22623U 93 23 B 93103.37312705 .00041032 00000-0 11888-3 0 86\\n2 22623 57.0000 155.1150 0004422 293.4650 66.5967 15.92653917 803\\n--\\nDr TS Kelso Assistant Professor of Space Operations\\ntkelso@afit.af.mil Air Force Institute of Technology\\n',\n", " 'From: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick)\\nSubject: Re: Krillean Photography\\nOrganization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera\\nLines: 24\\nDistribution: world\\nReply-To: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: sol1.gps.caltech.edu\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr19.205615.1013@unlv.edu>, todamhyp@charles.unlv.edu (Brian M. Huey) writes:\\n=I think that\\'s the correct spelling..\\n=\\tI am looking for any information/supplies that will allow\\n=do-it-yourselfers to take Krillean Pictures. I\\'m thinking\\n=that education suppliers for schools might have a appartus for\\n=sale, but I don\\'t know any of the companies. Any info is greatly\\n=appreciated.\\n=\\tIn case you don\\'t know, Krillean Photography, to the best of my\\n=knowledge, involves taking pictures of an (most of the time) organic\\n=object between charged plates. The picture will show energy patterns\\n=or spikes around the object photographed, and depending on what type\\n=of object it is, the spikes or energy patterns will vary. One might\\n=extrapolate here and say that this proves that every object within\\n=the universe (as we know it) has its own energy signature.\\n\\nGo to the library and look up \"corona discharge.\"\\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nCarl J Lydick | INTERnet: CARL@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU | NSI/HEPnet: SOL1::CARL\\n\\nDisclaimer: Hey, I understand VAXen and VMS. That\\'s what I get paid for. My\\nunderstanding of astronomy is purely at the amateur level (or below). So\\nunless what I\\'m saying is directly related to VAX/VMS, don\\'t hold me or my\\norganization responsible for it. If it IS related to VAX/VMS, you can try to\\nhold me responsible for it, but my organization had nothing to do with it.\\n',\n", " 'From: noring@netcom.com (Jon Noring)\\nSubject: Re: Is MSG sensitivity superstition?\\nOrganization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)\\nLines: 45\\n\\nIn article dpc47852@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Daniel Paul Checkman) writes:\\n>bruce@Data-IO.COM (Bruce Reynolds) writes:\\n>\\n>>Anecedotal evidence is worthless. Even doctors who have been using a drug\\n>>or treatment for years, and who swear it is effective, are often suprised\\n>>at the results of clinical trials. Whether or not MSG causes describable,\\n>>reportable, documentable symptoms should be pretty simple to discover. \\n\\nBut it is quite a leap in logic to observe one situation where anecdotal\\nevidence led nowhere and therefore conclude that anecdotal evidence will\\nNEVER lead anywhere. I\\'m sure somebody here can provide an example where\\nanecdotal evidence (and the interpretation of it) was upheld/verified by\\nfollow-on rigorous clinical trials.\\n\\n\\n>I tend to disagree- I think anecdotal evidence, provided there is a lot of it,\\n>and it is fairly consistent, will is very important. First, it points to the\\n>necessity of doing a study, and second, it at least says that the effects are\\n>all psychological (or possibly allergy in this case). As I\\'ve pointed out \\n>person\\'s \"make-believe\" can easily be another person\\'s reality...\\n\\nGood point. There has been a tendency by some on this newsgroup to \"circle\\nthe wagons\" to the viewpoint that anecdotal medical evidence is worthless\\n(maybe to counter the claims of those who are presenting anecdotal evidence\\nto support controversial subjects, such as the \"yeast hypothesis\"). But\\nevidence is evidence - it requires a \"jury\" or a process to sort it out and\\ndetermine the truth from the junk. Medicine must continue to strive to better\\nunderstand the workings of the body/mind for the purpose of alleviating\\nillness - anecdotal evidence is just one piece of the puzzle; it is not\\nworthless. Rather, it can help focus limited resources in the right direction.\\n\\nJon Noring\\n\\n-- \\n\\nCharter Member --->>> INFJ Club.\\n\\nIf you\\'re dying to know what INFJ means, be brave, e-mail me, I\\'ll send info.\\n=============================================================================\\n| Jon Noring | noring@netcom.com | |\\n| JKN International | IP : 192.100.81.100 | FRED\\'S GOURMET CHOCOLATE |\\n| 1312 Carlton Place | Phone : (510) 294-8153 | CHIPS - World\\'s Best! |\\n| Livermore, CA 94550 | V-Mail: (510) 417-4101 | |\\n=============================================================================\\nWho are you? Read alt.psychology.personality! That\\'s where the action is.\\n',\n", " \"From: mhollowa@ic.sunysb.edu (Michael Holloway)\\nSubject: Re: Science and methodology (was: Homeopathy ... tradition?)\\nKeywords: science errors Turpin \\nNntp-Posting-Host: engws5.ic.sunysb.edu\\nOrganization: State University of New York at Stony Brook\\nLines: 16\\n\\nIn article lady@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Lee Lady) writes:\\n>\\n>Furthermore, the big bucks approach to science promotes what I think is\\n>one of the most significant errors in science: choosing to investigate\\n>questions because they can be readily handled by the currently\\n>fashionable methodology (or because one can readily get institutional\\n>or corporate sponsorship for them) instead of directing attention to\\n>those questions which seem to have fundamental significance.\\n\\nShades of James Watson! That's exactly the way many workers have described\\ntheir misgivings about the Human Genome Project. If you take a rigid \\ndefinition of scientific research, the mere accumulation of data is not \\ndoing science. One of the early arguments against the project were that the \\nresources would be better used to focus on specific genetics-related \\nproblems rather than just going off and collecting maps and sequence. \\nThe project can't be so narrowly defined or easily described now though.\\n\",\n", " 'From: steinly@topaz.ucsc.edu (Steinn Sigurdsson)\\nSubject: Re: Commercial mining activities on the moon\\nOrganization: Lick Observatory/UCO\\nLines: 42\\n\\t\\n\\t<1993Apr20.223807.16712@cs.rochester.edu>\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: topaz.ucsc.edu\\nIn-reply-to: dietz@cs.rochester.edu\\'s message of 20 Apr 93 22:38:07 GMT\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr20.223807.16712@cs.rochester.edu> dietz@cs.rochester.edu (Paul Dietz) writes:\\n\\n In article steinly@topaz.ucsc.edu (Steinn Sigurdsson) writes:\\n\\n > Why Paul, it\\'s obvious.\\n > Once chlorine chemistry has been banned on Earth,\\n > as is being advocated by some groups, Ti prices will\\n\\n > :-) :-) :-) \\n\\n Well, there already is a sulfate process for TiO2 purification. The\\n chlorine process is cleaner, however, and for that reason is achieving\\n dominance in the marketplace.\\n\\nDarn, caught by the white hot heat of technological progress again...\\n\\n Most Ti is used in pigment, btw (as the oxide), where it replaced\\n white lead pigment some decades ago. Very little is reduced to the\\n metal.\\n\\nSpoilsport. Hence the need for increasing fashion\\nemphasis on anodise Ti jewelry...\\n\\n > Seriously, I\\'d say there is a flaw in Gary\\'s analysis\\n > in that he assumes an export oriented economy, maybe\\n > the lunatics will just want some native Ti for local\\n > use...\\n\\n Which merely evades the issue of why those lunatics are\\n there at all (and, why their children would want to stay.)\\n\\nI did not evade the issue at all. I clearly stated that\\nthis would be from diabolical foresight in establishing\\na sheltered industrial base for the upcoming Great War ;-)\\nVery cost effective if you use the right accounting method :-)\\n\\n* Steinn Sigurdsson \\t\\t\\t Lick Observatory \\t *\\n* steinly@lick.ucsc.edu\\t\\t \"standard disclaimer\" \\t *\\n* But, oh, love is strange \\t\\t\\t\\t\\t *\\n* and you have to learn to take the crunchy with the smooth, *\\n* I suppose \\t\\t\\t\\t - B.B. 1983 *\\n\\n',\n", " \"From: ak949@yfn.ysu.edu (Michael Holloway)\\nSubject: Re: ORGAN DONATION AND TRANSPLANTATION FACT SHEET\\nOrganization: St. Elizabeth Hospital, Youngstown, OH\\nLines: 32\\nReply-To: ak949@yfn.ysu.edu (Michael Holloway)\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: yfn.ysu.edu\\n\\n\\nIn a previous article, dougb@comm.mot.com (Doug Bank) says:\\n\\n>In article <1993Apr12.205726.10679@sbcs.sunysb.edu>, mhollowa@ic.sunysb.edu \\n>|> Organ donors are healthy people who have died suddenly, usually \\n>|> through accident or head injury. They are brain dead. The \\n>|> organs are kept alive through mechanical means.\\n>\\n>OK, so how do you define healthy people?\\n>\\n>My wife cannot donate blood because she has been to a malarial region\\n>in the past three years. In fact, she tried to have her bone marrow\\n>typed and they wouldn't even do that! Why?\\n>\\n>I can't donate blood either because not only have I been to a malarial\\n>region, but I have also been diagnosed (and surgically treated) for\\n>testicular cancer. The blood bank wont accept blood from me for 10\\n>years. \\n\\nObviously, it wouldn't be of much help to treat one problem by knowingly \\nintroducing another. Cancer mestastizes. My imperfect understanding of \\nthe facts are that gonadal cancer is particularly dangerous in this regard. \\nI haven't done the research on it, but I don't recall ever hearing of a \\ncase of cancer being transmitted by a blood transfusion. Probably just a \\ncommon sense kind of arbitrary precaution. Transmissable diseases like \\nmalaria though are obviously another story.\\n\\n\\n-- \\nMichael Holloway\\nE-mail: mhollowa@ccmail.sunysb.edu (mail to freenet is forwarded)\\nphone: (516)444-3090\\n\",\n", " 'From: MAILRP%ESA.BITNET@vm.gmd.de\\nSubject: message from Space Digest\\nX-Added: Forwarded by Space Digest\\nOrganization: [via International Space University]\\nOriginal-Sender: isu@VACATION.VENARI.CS.CMU.EDU\\nDistribution: sci\\nLines: 62\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nPress Release No.19-93\\nParis, 22 April 1993\\n\\nUsers of ESA\\'s Olympus satellite report on the outcome of\\ntheir experiments\\n\\n\"Today Europe\\'s space telecommunications sector would not\\nbe blossoming as it now does, had OLYMPUS not provided\\na testbed for the technologies and services of the 1990s\". This\\nsummarises the general conclusions of 135 speakers and 300\\nparticipants at the Conference on Olympus Utilisation held in\\nSeville on 20-22-April 1993. The conference was organised by\\nthe European Space Agency (ESA) and the Spanish Centre for\\nthe Development of Industrial Technology (CDTI).\\n\\nOLYMPUS has been particularly useful :\\n- in bringing satellite telecommunications to thousands of\\n new users, thanks to satellite terminals with very small\\n antennas (VSATs). OLYMPUS experiments have tested\\n data transmission, videoconferencing, business television,\\n distance teaching and rural telephony, to give but a few\\n examples.\\n\\n- in opening the door to new telecommunications services\\n which could not be accommodated on the crowded lower-\\n frequency bands; OLYMPUS was the first satellite over\\n Europe to offer capacity in the 20/30 GHz band.\\n\\n- in establishing two-way data relay links OLYMPUS\\n received for the first time in Europe, over several months,\\n high-volume data from a low-Earth orbiting spacecraft and\\n then distributed it to various centres in Europe.\\n\\nWhen OLYMPUS was launched on 12 July 1989 it was the\\nworld\\'s largest telecommunications satellite; and no other\\nsatellite has yet equalled its versatility in combining four\\ndifferent payloads in a wide variety of frequency bands.\\n\\nOLYMPUS users range from individual experimenters to some\\nof the world\\'s largest businesses. Access to the satellite is\\ngiven in order to test new telecommunications techniques or\\nservices; over the past four years some 200 companies and\\norganisations made use of this opportunity, as well as over\\n100 members of the EUROSTEP distance-learning\\norganisation.\\n\\n\\n\\nAs the new technologies and services tested by these\\nOLYMPUS users enter the commercial market, they then\\nmake use of operational satellites such as those of\\nEUTELSAT.\\n\\nOLYMPUS utilisation will continue through 1993 and 1994,\\nwhen the spacecraft will run out of fuel as it approaches the\\nend of its design life.\\n\\n \\n',\n", " 'From: ghelf@violet.berkeley.edu (;;;;RD48)\\nSubject: Re: space food sticks\\nKeywords: food\\nArticle-I.D.: agate.1pr5u2$t0b\\nOrganization: University of California, Berkeley\\nLines: 19\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: violet.berkeley.edu\\n\\nI had spacefood sticks just about every morning for breakfast in\\nfirst and second grade (69-70, 70-71). They came in Chocolate,\\nstrawberry, and peanut butter and were cylinders about 10cm long\\nand 1cm in diameter wrapped in yellow space foil (well, it seemed\\nlike space foil at the time). \\n\\nThe taste is hard to describe, although I remember it fondly. It was\\nmost certainly more \"candy\" than say a modern \"Power Bar.\" Sort of\\na toffee injected with vitamins. The chocolate Power Bar is a rough\\napproximation of the taste. Strawberry sucked.\\n\\nMan, these were my \"60\\'s.\"\\n\\n\\n-- \\nGavin Helf\\nUC Berkeley Political Science\\nBerkeley-Stanford Program in Soviet Studies\\nghelf@violet.berkeley.edu\\n',\n", " \"From: stgprao@st.unocal.COM (Richard Ottolini)\\nSubject: Re: Krillean Photography\\nOrganization: Unocal Corporation\\nLines: 20\\n\\nLiving things maintain small electric fields to (1) enhance certain\\nchemical reactions, (2) promote communication of states with in a cell,\\n(3) communicate between cells (of which the nervous system is a specialized\\nexample), and perhaps other uses. These electric fields change with location\\nand time in a large organism. Special photographic techniques such as applying\\nexternal fields in Kirillian photography interact with these fields or the resistances\\ncaused by these fields to make interesting pictures. Perhaps such pictures will\\nbe diagonistic of disease problems in organisms when better understood. Perhaps not.\\n\\nStudying the overall electric activity of biological systems is several hundred\\nyears old, but not a popular activity. Perhaps, except in the case of a few\\ntissues like nerves and the electric senses of fishes, it is hard to reduce the\\ninvestigation into small pieces that can be clearly analyzed. There are some\\nhints that manipulating electric fields is a useful therapy such as speeding\\nthe healing of broken bones, but not understood why.\\n\\nBioelectricity has a long association with mysticism. Ideas such as Frankenstein\\nreanimation go back to the most early electrical experiments on tissue such as\\nwhen Volta invented the battery. I personally don't care to revert to supernatural\\ncause to explain things we don't yet understand.\\n\",\n", " \"From: ls8139@albnyvms.bitnet (larry silverberg)\\nSubject: Re: Good Grief! (was Re: Candida Albicans: what is it?)\\nReply-To: ls8139@albnyvms.bitnet\\nOrganization: University of Albany, SUNY\\nLines: 126\\n\\nIn article , noring@netcom.com (Jon Noring) writes:\\n>In article rind@enterprise.bih.harvard.edu (David Rind) writes:\\n>>In article davpa@ida.liu.se (David Partain) writes:\\n>\\n>>>Someone I know has recently been diagnosed as having Candida Albicans, \\n>>>a disease about which I can find no information. Apparently it has something\\n>>>to do with the body's production of yeast while at the same time being highly\\n>>>allergic to yeast. Can anyone out there tell me any more about it?\\n\\nI have a lot of info about this disease. I am posting a small amount of\\nit that I extracted. If more is required, e-mail me @\\nls8139@gemini.albany.edu. Please, it takes me some time to upload it, so\\nbe advised, only request it if you *really* want it.\\n\\nhere is some info from InfoTrac - Health Reference Center\\n\\nAlso, check you local of univeristy library. They most likely have the\\nInfoTrac cd-rom this info was taken from......\\n====================================\\n\\nInfoTrac - Health Reference Center ~ Oct '89 - Oct '92\\n\\n Heading: CANDIDA ALBICANS\\n !Dictionary Definition\\n\\n 1. Mosby's Medical and Nursing Dictionary, 2nd edition\\n COPYRIGHT 1986 The C.V. Mosby Company \\n \\n Candida albicans \\n -------------------------------------------------------\\n A common, budding, yeastlike, microscopic fungal \\n organism normally present in the mucous membranes of \\n the mouth, intestinal tract, and vagina and on the skin\\n of healthy people. Under certain circumstances, it may \\n cause superficial infections of the mouth or vagina \\n and, less commonly, serious invasive systemic infection\\n and toxic reaction. See also candidiasis.\\n\\n==============================\\n\\nInfoTrac - Health Reference Center ~ Oct '89 - Oct '92\\n THE MATERIAL CONTAINED IN Health Reference Center ~ Oct '89 - Oct '92 IS PROVIDED\\n ONLY FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES AND SHOULD NOT BE CONSTRUED AS\\n MEDICAL ADVICE OR INSTRUCTION. CONSULT YOUR HEALTH PROFESSIONAL\\n FOR ADVICE RELATING TO A MEDICAL PROBLEM OR CONDITION.\\n\\n\\n Heading: CANDIDA ALBICANS\\n\\n 1. Yogurt cure for Candida. (acidophilus) il v22 East\\n West Natural Health July-August '92 p17(1) \\n TEXT AVAILABLE\\n TEXT \\nCOPYRIGHT East West Partners 1992 \\n Another folk remedy receives the blessing of medical study. \\nResearchers have found that eating a cup of yogurt a day drastically \\nreduces a woman's chances of getting vaginal candida, a yeast infection.\\n For the year-long study, researchers at Long Island Jewish Medical \\nCenter in New Hyde Park, New York, recruited 13 women who suffered from \\nchronic yeast infections. For the first 6 months, the women each day ate\\n8 ounces of yogurt containing Lactobacillus acidophilus. For the second \\n6 months, the women did not eat yogurt. The researchers examined the \\nwomen each month and found that incidents of colonization and infection \\nwere significantly lower during the period when the women ate yogurt. \\n The fungus Candida albicans can live in the body without doing harm. \\nIt is an overproliferation of the fungus that leads to infection. The \\nresearchers concluded that the L. acidophilus bacteria found in some \\nbrands of yogurt retard overgrowth of the fungus. Streptococcus \\nthermophilus and L. bulgaricus are the two bacteria most commonly used \\nin commercial yogurt production. Neither one appears to exert a \\nprotective effect against Candida albicans, however. Women who want to \\ntry yogurt as a preventive measure should choose a brand that lists \\nacidophilus in its contents. \\n--- end ---\\n \\n\\n \\n===================================\\n\\nInfoTrac - Health Reference Center ~ Oct '89 - Oct '92\\n THE MATERIAL CONTAINED IN Health Reference Center ~ Oct '89 - Oct '92 IS PROVIDED\\n ONLY FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES AND SHOULD NOT BE CONSTRUED AS\\n MEDICAL ADVICE OR INSTRUCTION. CONSULT YOUR HEALTH PROFESSIONAL\\n FOR ADVICE RELATING TO A MEDICAL PROBLEM OR CONDITION.\\n\\n\\n Heading: CANDIDA ALBICANS\\n\\n 1. Candida (Monilia). (Infections Caused by Fungi) \\n (Infectious Diseases) by Harold C. Neu The Columbia \\n Univ. Coll. of Physicians & Surgeons Complete Home \\n Medical Guide Edition 2 '89 p472(1) \\n TEXT AVAILABLE\\n TEXT \\nCOPYRIGHT Crown Publishers Inc. 1989 \\n Candida (Monilia) \\n This disease is usually caused by Candida albicans, a fungus that we \\nall carry at one time or another. In some circumstances, though, the \\norganisms proliferate, producing symptomatic infection of the mouth, \\nintestines, vagina, or skin. When the mouth or vagina are infected, the \\ndisease is commonly called thrush. \\n Vaginitis caused by Candida often afflicts women on birth control \\npills or antibiotics. There is itching and a white, cheesy discharge. \\nAmong narcotic addicts, Candida infections can lead to heart valve \\ninflammation. \\n Diagnosis of Candida infections is confirmed by cultures and blood \\ntests. Treatment can be with amphotericin B or orally with ketoconazole.\\nThere is no evidence that Candida in the intestine of normal individuals\\nleads to disease. All people at one time or another have Candida in \\ntheir intestines. Claims for any benefit from special diets or chronic \\nantifungal agents is not based on any solid evidence. \\n--- end ---\\n\\n\\n\\n==========================\\nI hope this is informative.\\nLarry\\n\\n~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\\nLive From New York, It's SATURDAY NIGHT...\\n\\nTonight's special guest:\\nLawrence Silverberg from The State University of New York @ Albany\\naka:ls8139@gemini.Albany.edu\\n~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\\n\",\n", " 'From: wats@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM (Bruce Watson)\\nSubject: Re: Boom! Whoosh......\\nOrganization: Alpha Science Computer Network, Denver, Co.\\nLines: 14\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr21.024423.29182@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu+ wdwells@nyx.cs.du.edu (David \"Fuzzy\" Wells) writes:\\n+\\n+I love the idea of an inflatable 1-mile long sign.... It will be a\\n+really neat thing to see it explode when a bolt (or even better, a\\n+Westford Needle!) comes crashing into it at 10 clicks a sec. \\n+\\nPageos and two Echo balloons were inflated with a substance\\nwhich expanded in vacuum. Once inflated the substance was no longer\\nneeded since there is nothing to cause the balloon to collapse.\\nThis inflatable structure could suffer multiple holes with no \\ndisastrous deflation.\\n\\n-- \\nBruce Watson (wats@scicom.alphaCDC.COM) Bulletin 629-49 Item 6700 Extract 75,131\\n',\n", " 'From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)\\nSubject: Re: Command Loss Timer (Re: Galileo Update - 04/22/93)\\nKeywords: Galileo, JPL\\nOrganization: Texas Instruments Inc\\nLines: 25\\n\\nIn <1993Apr23.103038.27467@bnr.ca> agc@bmdhh286.bnr.ca (Alan Carter) writes:\\n\\n>In article <22APR199323003578@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov>, baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov (Ron Baalke) writes:\\n>|> 3. On April 19, a NO-OP command was sent to reset the command loss timer to\\n>|> 264 hours, its planned value during this mission phase.\\n\\n>This activity is regularly reported in Ron\\'s interesting posts. Could\\n>someone explain what the Command Loss Timer is?\\n\\nThe Command Loss Timer is a timer that does just what its name says;\\nit indicates to the probe that it has lost its data link for receiving\\ncommands. Upon expiration of the Command Loss Timer, I believe the\\nprobe starts a \\'search for Earth\\' sequence (involving antenna pointing\\nand attitude changes which consume fuel) to try to reestablish\\ncommunications. No-ops are sent periodically through those periods\\nwhen there are no real commands to be sent, just so the probe knows\\nthat we haven\\'t forgotten about it.\\n\\nHope that\\'s clear enough to be comprehensible. \\n\\n-- \\n\"Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don\\'t have the balls to live\\n in the real world.\" -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden\\n------------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nFred.McCall@dseg.ti.com - I don\\'t speak for others and they don\\'t speak for me.\\n',\n", " 'From: jchen@wind.bellcore.com (Jason Chen)\\nSubject: Re: Is MSG sensitivity superstition?\\nNntp-Posting-Host: wind.bellcore.com\\nReply-To: jchen@ctt.bellcore.com\\nOrganization: Bell Communications Research\\nLines: 21\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr15.135941.16105@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com>, dougb@comm.mot.com (Doug Bank) writes:\\n\\n|> I woke up at 2 AM and puked my guts outs.\\n|> I threw up for so long that (I\\'m not kidding) I pulled a muscle in\\n|> my tongue. Dry heaves and everything. No one else got sick, and I\\'m\\n|> not allergic to anything that I know of. \\n\\nThe funny thing is the personaly stories about reactions to MSG vary so\\ngreatly. Some said that their heart beat speeded up with flush face. Some\\nclaim their heart \"skipped\" beats once in a while. Some reacted with\\nheadache, some stomach ache. Some had watery eyes or running nose, some\\nhad itchy skin or rashes. More serious accusations include respiration \\ndifficulty and brain damage. \\n\\nNow here is a new one: vomiting. My guess is that MSG becomes the number one\\nsuspect of any problem. In this case. it might be just food poisoning. But\\nif you heard things about MSG, you may think it must be it.\\n\\nJason Chen\\n\\n\\n',\n", " 'Organization: Queen\\'s University at Kingston\\nFrom: Graydon \\nSubject: Re: What if the USSR had reached the Moon first?\\n <1993Apr7.124724.22534@yang.earlham.edu>\\n <1993Apr12.161742.22647@yang.earlham.edu>\\n <93107.144339SAUNDRSG@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> <1993Apr18.091051.14496@ke4zv.uucp>\\nLines: 38\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr18.091051.14496@ke4zv.uucp>, gary@ke4zv.uucp (Gary Coffman)\\nsays:\\n>In article <93107.144339SAUNDRSG@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> Graydon\\n> writes:\\n>>This is turning into \\'what\\'s a moonbase good for\\', and I ought\\n>>not to post when I\\'ve a hundred some odd posts to go, but I would\\n>>think that the real reason to have a moon base is economic.\\n>>Since someone with space industry will presumeably have a much\\n>>larger GNP than they would _without_ space industry, eventually,\\n>>they will simply be able to afford more stuff.\\n>\\n>If I read you right, you\\'re saying in essence that, with a larger\\n>economy, nations will have more discretionary funds to *waste*\\n>on a lunar facility. That was certainly partially the case with Apollo,\\n>but real Lunar colonies will probably require a continuing military,\\n>scientific, or commercial reason for being rather than just a \"we have\\n>the money, why not?\" approach.\\n\\nI was assuming that there won\\'t be a moon base unless it makes a\\nprofit, actually. If it does, well, that gives a larger GNP which\\nleads to being able to spend more money on your military, including\\ngosh-wow space stuff. (assuming it\\'s profitable, rather than paying\\nfor itself.)\\n>\\n>It\\'s conceivable that Luna will have a military purpose, it\\'s possible\\n>that Luna will have a commercial purpose, but it\\'s most likely that\\n>Luna will only have a scientific purpose for the next several hundred\\n>years at least. Therefore, Lunar bases should be predicated on funding\\n>levels little different from those found for Antarctic bases. Can you\\n>put a 200 person base on the Moon for $30 million a year? Even if you\\n>use grad students?\\n\\nYou might be able to _run_ one for that; put it there, hardly.\\n\\nWhy do you think at least a couple centuries before there will\\nbe significant commerical activity on the Moon?\\n\\nGraydon\\n',\n", " 'Subject: Broken rib\\nFrom: jc@oneb.almanac.bc.ca\\nOrganization: The Old Frog\\'s Almanac, Nanaimo, B.C.\\nKeywords: advice needed\\nSummary: long term problems?\\nLines: 17\\n\\nHello, I am not sure if this is the right conference to ask this\\nquestion, however, Here I go.. I am a commercial fisherman and I \\nfell about 3 weeks ago down into the hold of the boat and broke or\\ncracked a rib and wrenched and bruised my back and left arm.\\n My question, I have been to a doctor and was told that it was \\nbest to do nothing and it would heal up with no long term effect, and \\nindeed I am about 60 % better, however, the work I do is very \\nhard and I am still not able to go back to work. The thing that worries me\\nis the movement or \"clunking\" I feel and hear back there when I move \\ncertain ways... I heard some one talking about the rib they broke \\nyears ago and that it still bothers them.ÿ. any opinions?\\nthanx and cheers\\n\\n jc@oneb.almanac.bc.ca (John Cross)\\n The Old Frog\\'s Almanac (Home of The Almanac UNIX Users Group) \\n(604) 245-3205 (v32) (604) 245-4366 (2400x4)\\n Vancouver Island, British Columbia Waffle XENIX 1.64 \\n',\n", " 'From: prb@access.digex.com (Pat)\\nSubject: Re: The Area Rule\\nOrganization: Express Access Online Communications USA\\nLines: 20\\nDistribution: sci\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: access.digex.net\\n\\n\\n\\nI am sure Mary or Henry can describe this more aptly then me.\\nBut here is how i understand it.\\n\\nAt Speed, Near supersonic. The wind behaves like a fluid pipe.\\nIt becomes incompressible. So wind has to bend away from the\\nwing edges. AS the wing thickens, the more the pipes bend.\\n\\nIf they have no place to go, they begin to stall, and force\\ncompression, stealing power from the vehicle (High Drag).\\n\\nIf you squeeze the fuselage, so that these pipes have aplace to bend\\ninto, then drag is reduced. \\n\\nEssentially, teh cross sectional area of the aircraft shoulf\\nremain constant for all areas of the fuselage. That is where the wings are\\nsubtract, teh cross sectional area of the wings from the fuselage.\\n\\npat\\n',\n", " 'From: tony@nexus.yorku.ca (Anthony Wallis)\\nSubject: \"Choleric\" and The Great NT/NF Semantic War.\\nOrganization: York University\\nLines: 64\\n\\n[Cross-posted from alt.psychology.personality since it talks about\\n physician\\'s personalities. Apologies to sci.med readers not\\n familiar with the Myers-Briggs \"NT/NF\" personality terms. But,\\n in a word or two, the NTs (iNtuitive->Thinkers) are approximately your\\n philosophy/science/tech pragmatic types, and the NFs (iNtuitive-Feelers)\\n are your humanities/social-\"science\"/theology idealistic types. They\\n hate each others\\' guts (:-)) but tend to inter-marry.\\n The letter \"J\" is a reference to conscienciousness/decisiveness.]\\n\\nJon Noring emits typical NF-type stuff \\n> [Physicians] are just responding in their natural way:\\n> Hyper-Choleric Syndrome (HCS). ..\\n> ..it is fascinating that a disproportionate number of\\n> physicians will type out as NT ..\\n> One driving characteristic of an NT, especially an NTJ, is their obvious\\n> choleric behavior (driver, type A, etc.) - the extreme emotional need to\\n> control, to lead, and/or to be the best or the most competent. ..\\n\\nPlease get it right, Jon.\\n(This NTJ has a strong desire to correct semantic mistakes,\\n because the NFs of this world are fouling the once-pristine NT\\n intellectual nest with their verbal poop.)\\n\\nThe dominant correlation is NT <-> Phlegmatic (and _not_ NT <-> Choleric).\\nOne of the semantic roots of \"choleric\" is the idea of \"hot\" (emotional)\\nand one of the semantic roots of \"phlegmatic\" is \"cold\" (unemotional).\\n\\nHere is a thumbnail sketch (taken from Hans Eysenck, refering to Wundt)\\nrelating the Ancient Greek quadratic typology with modern terms:\\n------------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n Emotional \\n ^\\n (\"Melancholic\") | (\"Choleric\")\\n | \\n Thoughtful Suspicious | Quickly-aroused Hotheaded\\n Unhappy Worried | Egocentric Histrionic\\n Anxious | Exhibitonist \\n Serious | Active \\n Unchangeable < ------------------------------------------------> Changeable\\n Calm | Playful \\n Reasonable | Carefree\\n Steadfast Persistent | Hopeful Sociable\\n Highly-principled Controlled | Controlled Easy-going\\n | \\n (\"Phlegmatic\") | (\"Sanguine\")\\n |\\n v\\n Non-emotional\\n------------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n\\nI suspect that your characterisation of NTs as \"choleric\" is what\\nyou psych-types call a \"projection\" of your own NF-ness onto us.\\n\\n> Maybe we need more NF doctor\\'s. :^)\\n\\nPerhaps in serious pediatics and \"my little boy\\'s got a runny\\nnose, doctor\" general practice, but, please God, not in neurology,\\nopthamology, urology, etc. etc. And NF-psychiatry should seperate\\nfrom NT-(i.e. real) psychiatry and be given a new name .. something \\nlike \"channeling\" :-).\\n\\n--\\ntony@nexus.yorku.ca = Tony Wallis, York University, Toronto, Canada\\n\\n',\n", " \"From: stephens@geod.emr.ca (Dave Stephenson)\\nSubject: Re: Clementine Science Team Selected\\nNntp-Posting-Host: ngis.geod.emr.ca\\nOrganization: Dept. of Energy, Mines, and Resources, Ottawa\\nLines: 32\\n\\nnickh@CS.CMU.EDU (Nick Haines) writes:\\n\\n>In article stephens@geod.emr.ca (Dave Stephenson) writes:\\n\\n> Remember the first government scientist in the British Empire was\\n> the Astronomer Royal, who was paid [...] from the Department\\n> of Ordinance Budget (i.e. the military). Flamsteed House (the original\\n> RGO) was built out of Army Surplus Scrap ( A gate house at the Tower of\\n> London ?), and paid for by the sale of time expired gunpowder [...]\\n\\n>At the time, astronomy was vital to the military, in that navigation\\n>and cartography were of primary impoortance to the military, and good\\n>cartography was impossible without good astronomy.\\n\\n>The relevance these daysis somewhat less obvious.\\n\\n>Nick\\n\\nIt still applies, except the astronomy these days is Very Long Baseline\\nRadio Astronomy coupled to GPS and Satellite Laser Ranging. The data\\nfrom NASA's and the Naval Observatory's (among others) is a vital \\nsource of data for studies into crustal dynamics, Earth rotation, and\\npurturbations. Every time there is a leap second added to the New Year,\\nremember the military and science are still co-habiting nicely. The\\nsame VLBI was used to track Gallileo as it passed the Earth, and used\\nso little fuel that it can afford to observe Ida. \\n \\n--\\nDave Stephenson\\nGeodetic Survey of Canada\\nOttawa, Ontario, Canada\\nInternet: stephens@geod.emr.ca\\n\",\n", " 'From: banschbach@vms.ocom.okstate.edu\\nSubject: How To Prevent Kidney Stone Formation\\nLines: 154\\nNntp-Posting-Host: vms.ocom.okstate.edu\\nOrganization: OSU College of Osteopathic Medicine\\n\\nI got asked in Sci. Med. Nutrition about vitamin C and oxalate production(\\ntoxic, kidney stone formation?). I decided to post my answer here as well \\nbecause of the recent question about kidney stones. Not long after I got \\ninto Sci. Med. I got flamed by a medical fellow for stating that magnesium \\nwould prevent kidney stone formation. I\\'m going to state it again here.\\nBut the best way to prevent kidney stones from forming is to take B6 \\nsupplements. Read on to find out why(I have my asbestos suit on now guys).\\n\\nVitamin C will form oxalic acid. But large doses are needed (above 6 grams \\nper day).\\n\\n\\t1. Review Article \"Nutritional factors in calcium containing kidney \\n\\t stones with particular emphasis on Vitamin C\" Int. Clin. Nutr. Rev.\\n\\t 5(3):110-129(1985).\\n\\nBut glycine also forms oxalic acid(D-amino acid oxidases). For both \\nglycine and vitamin C, one of the best ways to drastically reduce this \\nproduction is not to cut back on dietary intake of vitamin C or glycine, \\nbut to increase your intake of vitamin B6.\\n\\n\\t2. \"Control of hyperoxaluria with large doses of pyridoxine in \\n\\t patients with kidney stones\" Int. Urol. Nephrol. 20(4):353-59(1988)\\n\\t 200 to 500 mg of B6 each day significasntly decreased the urinary \\n\\t excretion of oxalate over the 18 month treatment program.\\n\\n\\t3. The action of pyridoxine in primary hyperoxaluria\" Clin. Sci. 38\\n\\t :277-86(1970). Patients receiving at least 150mg B6 each day \\n\\t showed a significant reduction in urinary oxalate levels.\\n\\nFor gylcine, this effect is due to increased transaminase activity(B6 is \\nrequired for transaminase activity) which makes less glycine available for \\noxidative deamination(D-amino acid oxidases). For vitamin C, the effect is \\nquite different. There are different pathways for vitamin C catabolism. \\nThe pathway that leads to oxalic acid formation will usually have 17 to 40% \\nof the ingested dose going into oxalic acid. But this is highly variable \\nand the vitamin C review article pointed out that unless the dose gets upto \\n6 grams per day, not too much vitamin C gets catabolized to form oxalic \\nacid. At very high doses of vitamin C(above 10 grams per day), more of the \\nextra vitamin C (more than 40% conversion) can end up as oxalic acid. In a \\nvery early study on vitamin C and oxalic production(Proc. Soc. Exp. Biol. \\nMed. 85:190-92(1954), intakes of 2 grams per day up to 9 grams per day \\nincreased the average oxalic acid excretion from 38mg per day up to 178mg \\nper day. Until 8 grams per day was reached, the average excreted was \\nincreased by only 3 to 12mg per day(2 gram dose, 4 gram dose, 8 gram dose \\nand 9gram dose). 8 grams jumped it to 45mg over the average excretion \\nbefore supplementation and 9 grams jumped it to 150 mg over the average \\nbefore supplementation.\\n\\nB6 is required by more enzymes than any other vitamin in the body. There \\nare probably some enzymes that require vitamin B6 that we don\\'t know about \\nyet. Vitamin C catabolism is still not completely understood but the \\nspeculation is that this other pathway that does not form oxalic acid must \\nhave an enzyme in it that requires B6. Differences in B6 levels could then \\nexplain the very variable production of oxalic acid from a vitamin C \\nchallenge(this is not the preferred route of catabolism). Increasing your \\nintake of B6 would then result in less oxalic acid being formmed if you \\ntake vitamin C supplements. Since the typical American diet is deficient \\nin B6, some researchers believe that the main cause of calcium-oxalate \\nkidney stones is B6 deficiency(especially since so little oxalic acid gets \\nabsorbed from the gut). Diets providing 0 to 130mg of oxalic acid per day \\nshowed absolutely no change in urinary excretion of oxalate(Urol Int.35:309\\n-15,1980). If 400mg was present each day, there was a significant increase \\nin urinary oxalate excretion.\\n\\n\\tHere are the high oxalate foods:\\n\\n\\t1. Beans, coca, instant coffee, parsley, rhubarb, spinach and tea.\\n\\t Contain at least 25mg/100grams\\n\\n\\t2. Beet tops, carrots, celery, chocolate, cumber, grapefruit, kale, \\n\\t peanuts, pepper, sweet potatoe.\\n\\t Contain 10 to 25 mg/100grams.\\n\\nIf the threshold is 130mg per day, you can see that you really have a lot \\nof latitude in food selection. A recent N.Eng.J. Med. article also points \\nout that one good way to prevent kidney stone formation is to increase your \\nintake of calcium which will prevent most of the dietary oxalate from being \\nabsorbed at all. If you also increase your intake of B6, you shouldn\\'t \\nhave to worry about kidney stones at all. The RDA for B6 is 2mg per day for \\nmales and 1.6mg per day for females(directly related to protein intake).\\nB6 can be toxic(nerve damage) if it is consumed in doses of 500mg or more \\nper day for an extended peroid(weeks to months). \\n\\nThe USDA food survey done in 1986 had an average intake of 1.87 mg per day \\nfor males and 1.16mg per day for females living in the U.S. Coupled with \\nthis low intake was a high protein diet(which greatly increases the B6 \\nrequirement), as well as the presence of some of the 40 different drugs that \\neither block B6 absorption, are metabolic antagonists of B6, or promote B6 \\nexcretion in the urine. Common ones are: birth control pills, alcohol,\\nisoniazid, penicillamine, and corticosteroids. I tell my students to \\nsupplement all their patients that are going to get any of the drugs that \\nincrease the B6 requirement. The dose recommended for patients taking \\nbirth control pills is 10-15mg per day and this should work for most of the \\nother drugs that increase the B6 requirement(this would be on top of your \\ndietary intake of B6). Any patient that has a history of kidney stone \\nformation should be given B6 supplements.\\n\\nOne other good way to prevent kidney stone formation is to make sure your \\nCa/Mg dietary ratio is 2/1. Magnesium-oxalate is much more soluble than is \\ncalcium-oxalate.\\n\\n\\t4. \"The magnesium:calcium ratio in the concentrated urines of \\npatients with calcium oxalate calculi\"Invest. Urol 10:147(1972)\\n\\n\\t5. \"Effect of magnesium citrate and magnesium oxide on the \\ncrystallization of calcium in urine: changes producted by food-magnesium \\ninteraction\"J. Urol. 143(2):248-51(1990).\\n\\n\\t6.Review Article, \"Magnesium in the physiopathology and treatment \\nof renal calcium stones\" J. Presse Med. 161(1):25-27(1987).\\n\\nThere are actually about three times as many articles published in the \\nmedical literature on the role of magnesium in preventing kidney stone \\nformation than there are for B6. I thought that I was being pretty safe in \\nstating that magnesium would prevent kidney stone formation in an earlier \\npost in this news group but good old John A. in Mass. jumped all over me. I \\nguess that he doesn\\'t read the medical literature. Oh well, since kidney \\nstones can be a real pain and a lot of people suffer from them, I thought \\nI\\'d tell you how you can avoid the pain and stay out of the doctor\\'s office.\\n\\nMartin Banschbach, Ph.D.\\nProfessor of Biochemistry and Chairman\\nDepartment of Biochemistry and Microbiology\\nOSU College of Osteopathic Medicine\\n1111 W. 17th Street\\nTulsa, Ok. 74107\\n\\n\"Without discourse, there is no remembering, without remembering, there is \\nno learning, without learning, there is only ignorance\". From a wise man \\nwho lived in China, many, many years ago. I think that it still has \\nmeaning in today\\'s world.\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n',\n", " 'From: mcelwre@cnsvax.uwec.edu\\nSubject: LARSONIAN Astronomy and Physics\\nOrganization: University of Wisconsin Eau Claire\\nLines: 552\\n\\n\\n\\n LARSONIAN Astronomy and Physics\\n\\n Orthodox physicists, astronomers, and astrophysicists \\n CLAIM to be looking for a \"Unified Field Theory\" in which all \\n of the forces of the universe can be explained with a single \\n set of laws or equations. But they have been systematically \\n IGNORING or SUPPRESSING an excellent one for 30 years! \\n\\n The late Physicist Dewey B. Larson\\'s comprehensive \\n GENERAL UNIFIED Theory of the physical universe, which he \\n calls the \"Reciprocal System\", is built on two fundamental \\n postulates about the physical and mathematical natures of \\n space and time: \\n \\n (1) \"The physical universe is composed ENTIRELY of ONE \\n component, MOTION, existing in THREE dimensions, in DISCRETE \\n UNITS, and in two RECIPROCAL forms, SPACE and TIME.\" \\n \\n (2) \"The physical universe conforms to the relations of \\n ORDINARY COMMUTATIVE mathematics, its magnitudes are \\n ABSOLUTE, and its geometry is EUCLIDEAN.\" \\n \\n From these two postulates, Larson developed a COMPLETE \\n Theoretical Universe, using various combinations of \\n translational, vibrational, rotational, and vibrational-\\n rotational MOTIONS, the concepts of IN-ward and OUT-ward \\n SCALAR MOTIONS, and speeds in relation to the Speed of Light \\n (which Larson called \"UNIT VELOCITY\" and \"THE NATURAL \\n DATUM\"). \\n \\n At each step in the development, Larson was able to \\n MATCH objects in his Theoretical Universe with objects in the \\n REAL physical universe, (photons, sub-atomic particles \\n [INCOMPLETE ATOMS], charges, atoms, molecules, globular star \\n clusters, galaxies, binary star systems, solar systems, white \\n dwarf stars, pulsars, quasars, ETC.), even objects NOT YET \\n DISCOVERED THEN (such as EXPLODING GALAXIES, and GAMMA-RAY \\n BURSTS). \\n \\n And applying his Theory to his NEW model of the atom, \\n Larson was able to precisely and accurately CALCULATE inter-\\n atomic distances in crystals and molecules, compressibility \\n and thermal expansion of solids, and other properties of \\n matter. \\n\\n All of this is described in good detail, with-OUT fancy \\n complex mathematics, in his books. \\n \\n\\n\\n BOOKS of Dewey B. Larson\\n \\n The following is a complete list of the late Physicist \\n Dewey B. Larson\\'s books about his comprehensive GENERAL \\n UNIFIED Theory of the physical universe. Some of the early \\n books are out of print now, but still available through \\n inter-library loan. \\n \\n \"The Structure of the Physical Universe\" (1959) \\n \\n \"The Case AGAINST the Nuclear Atom\" (1963)\\n \\n \"Beyond Newton\" (1964) \\n \\n \"New Light on Space and Time\" (1965) \\n \\n \"Quasars and Pulsars\" (1971) \\n \\n \"NOTHING BUT MOTION\" (1979) \\n [A $9.50 SUBSTITUTE for the $8.3 BILLION \"Super \\n Collider\".] \\n [The last four chapters EXPLAIN chemical bonding.]\\n\\n \"The Neglected Facts of Science\" (1982) \\n \\n \"THE UNIVERSE OF MOTION\" (1984)\\n [FINAL SOLUTIONS to most ALL astrophysical\\n mysteries.] \\n \\n \"BASIC PROPERTIES OF MATTER\" (1988)\\n\\n All but the last of these books were published by North \\n Pacific Publishers, P.O. Box 13255, Portland, OR 97213, and \\n should be available via inter-library loan if your local \\n university or public library doesn\\'t have each of them. \\n\\n Several of them, INCLUDING the last one, are available \\n from: The International Society of Unified Science (ISUS), \\n 1680 E. Atkin Ave., Salt Lake City, Utah 84106. This is the \\n organization that was started to promote Larson\\'s Theory. \\n They have other related publications, including the quarterly \\n journal \"RECIPROCITY\". \\n\\n \\n\\n Physicist Dewey B. Larson\\'s Background\\n \\n Physicist Dewey B. Larson was a retired Engineer \\n (Chemical or Electrical). He was about 91 years old when he \\n died in May 1989. He had a Bachelor of Science Degree in \\n Engineering Science from Oregon State University. He \\n developed his comprehensive GENERAL UNIFIED Theory of the \\n physical universe while trying to develop a way to COMPUTE \\n chemical properties based only on the elements used. \\n \\n Larson\\'s lack of a fancy \"PH.D.\" degree might be one \\n reason that orthodox physicists are ignoring him, but it is \\n NOT A VALID REASON. Sometimes it takes a relative outsider \\n to CLEARLY SEE THE FOREST THROUGH THE TREES. At the same \\n time, it is clear from his books that he also knew ORTHODOX \\n physics and astronomy as well as ANY physicist or astronomer, \\n well enough to point out all their CONTRADICTIONS, AD HOC \\n ASSUMPTIONS, PRINCIPLES OF IMPOTENCE, IN-CONSISTENCIES, ETC.. \\n \\n Larson did NOT have the funds, etc. to experimentally \\n test his Theory. And it was NOT necessary for him to do so. \\n He simply compared the various parts of his Theory with OTHER \\n researchers\\' experimental and observational data. And in \\n many cases, HIS explanation FIT BETTER. \\n \\n A SELF-CONSISTENT Theory is MUCH MORE than the ORTHODOX \\n physicists and astronomers have! They CLAIM to be looking \\n for a \"unified field theory\" that works, but have been \\n IGNORING one for over 30 years now! \\n \\n \"Modern physics\" does NOT explain the physical universe \\n so well. Some parts of some of Larson\\'s books are FULL of \\n quotations of leading orthodox physicists and astronomers who \\n agree. And remember that \"epicycles\", \"crystal spheres\", \\n \"geocentricity\", \"flat earth theory\", etc., ALSO once SEEMED \\n to explain it well, but were later proved CONCEPTUALLY WRONG. \\n \\n \\n Prof. Frank H. Meyer, Professor Emeritus of UW-Superior, \\n was/is a STRONG PROPONENT of Larson\\'s Theory, and was (or \\n still is) President of Larson\\'s organization, \"THE \\n INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF UNIFIED SCIENCE\", and Editor of \\n their quarterly Journal \"RECIPROCITY\". He moved to \\n Minneapolis after retiring. \\n \\n\\n\\n \"Super Collider\" BOONDOGGLE!\\n \\n I am AGAINST contruction of the \"Superconducting Super \\n Collider\", in Texas or anywhere else. It would be a GROSS \\n WASTE of money, and contribute almost NOTHING of \"scientific\" \\n value. \\n \\n Most physicists don\\'t realize it, but, according to the \\n comprehensive GENERAL UNIFIED Theory of the late Physicist \\n Dewey B. Larson, as described in his books, the strange GOOFY \\n particles (\"mesons\", \"hyperons\", ALLEGED \"quarks\", etc.) \\n which they are finding in EXISTING colliders (Fermi Lab, \\n Cern, etc.) are really just ATOMS of ANTI-MATTER, which are \\n CREATED by the high-energy colliding beams, and which quickly \\n disintegrate like cosmic rays because they are incompatible \\n with their environment. \\n \\n A larger and more expensive collider will ONLY create a \\n few more elements of anti-matter that the physicists have not \\n seen there before, and the physicists will be EVEN MORE \\n CONFUSED THAN THEY ARE NOW! \\n \\n Are a few more types of anti-matter atoms worth the $8.3 \\n BILLION cost?!! Don\\'t we have much more important uses for \\n this WASTED money?! \\n \\n \\n Another thing to consider is that the primary proposed \\n location in Texas has a serious and growing problem with some \\n kind of \"fire ants\" eating the insulation off underground \\n cables. How much POISONING of the ground and ground water \\n with insecticides will be required to keep the ants out of \\n the \"Supercollider\"?! \\n \\n \\n Naming the \"Super Collider\" after Ronald Reagon, as \\n proposed, is TOTALLY ABSURD! If it is built, it should be \\n named after a leading particle PHYSICIST. \\n \\n\\n\\n LARSONIAN Anti-Matter\\n \\n In Larson\\'s comprehensive GENERAL UNIFIED Theory of the \\n physical universe, anti-matter is NOT a simple case of \\n opposite charges of the same types of particles. It has more \\n to do with the rates of vibrations and rotations of the \\n photons of which they are made, in relation to the \\n vibrational and rotational equivalents of the speed of light, \\n which Larson calls \"Unit Velocity\" and the \"Natural Datum\". \\n \\n In Larson\\'s Theory, a positron is actually a particle of \\n MATTER, NOT anti-matter. When a positron and electron meet, \\n the rotational vibrations (charges) and rotations of their \\n respective photons (of which they are made) neutralize each \\n other. \\n \\n In Larson\\'s Theory, the ANTI-MATTER half of the physical \\n universe has THREE dimensions of TIME, and ONLY ONE dimension \\n of space, and exists in a RECIPROCAL RELATIONSHIP to our \\n MATERIAL half. \\n \\n\\n\\n LARSONIAN Relativity\\n \\n The perihelion point in the orbit of the planet Mercury \\n has been observed and precisely measured to ADVANCE at the \\n rate of 574 seconds of arc per century. 531 seconds of this \\n advance are attributed via calculations to gravitational \\n perturbations from the other planets (Venus, Earth, Jupiter, \\n etc.). The remaining 43 seconds of arc are being used to \\n help \"prove\" Einstein\\'s \"General Theory of Relativity\". \\n \\n But the late Physicist Dewey B. Larson achieved results \\n CLOSER to the 43 seconds than \"General Relativity\" can, by \\n INSTEAD using \"SPECIAL Relativity\". In one or more of his \\n books, he applied the LORENTZ TRANSFORMATION on the HIGH \\n ORBITAL SPEED of Mercury. \\n \\n Larson TOTALLY REJECTED \"General Relativity\" as another \\n MATHEMATICAL FANTASY. He also REJECTED most of \"Special \\n Relativity\", including the parts about \"mass increases\" near \\n the speed of light, and the use of the Lorentz Transform on \\n doppler shifts, (Those quasars with red-shifts greater than \\n 1.000 REALLY ARE MOVING FASTER THAN THE SPEED OF LIGHT, \\n although most of that motion is away from us IN TIME.). \\n \\n In Larson\\'s comprehensive GENERAL UNIFIED Theory of the \\n physical universe, there are THREE dimensions of time instead \\n of only one. But two of those dimensions can NOT be measured \\n from our material half of the physical universe. The one \\n dimension that we CAN measure is the CLOCK time. At low \\n relative speeds, the values of the other two dimensions are \\n NEGLIGIBLE; but at high speeds, they become significant, and \\n the Lorentz Transformation must be used as a FUDGE FACTOR. \\n [Larson often used the term \"COORDINATE TIME\" when writing \\n about this.] \\n \\n \\n In regard to \"mass increases\", it has been PROVEN in \\n atomic accelerators that acceleration drops toward zero near \\n the speed of light. But the formula for acceleration is \\n ACCELERATION = FORCE / MASS, (a = F/m). Orthodox physicists \\n are IGNORING the THIRD FACTOR: FORCE. In Larson\\'s Theory, \\n mass STAYS CONSTANT and FORCE drops toward zero. FORCE is \\n actually a MOTION, or COMBINATIONS of MOTIONS, or RELATIONS \\n BETWEEN MOTIONS, including INward and OUTward SCALAR MOTIONS. \\n The expansion of the universe, for example, is an OUTward \\n SCALAR motion inherent in the universe and NOT a result of \\n the so-called \"Big Bang\" (which is yet another MATHEMATICAL \\n FANTASY). \\n \\n \\n \\n THE UNIVERSE OF MOTION\\n\\n I wish to recommend to EVERYONE the book \"THE UNIVERSE \\n OF MOTION\", by Dewey B. Larson, 1984, North Pacific \\n Publishers, (P.O. Box 13255, Portland, Oregon 97213), 456 \\n pages, indexed, hardcover. \\n \\n It contains the Astrophysical portions of a GENERAL \\n UNIFIED Theory of the physical universe developed by that \\n author, an UNrecognized GENIUS, more than thirty years ago. \\n \\n It contains FINAL SOLUTIONS to most ALL Astrophysical \\n mysteries, including the FORMATION of galaxies, binary and \\n multiple star systems, and solar systems, the TRUE ORIGIN of \\n the \"3-degree\" background radiation, cosmic rays, and gamma-\\n ray bursts, and the TRUE NATURE of quasars, pulsars, white \\n dwarfs, exploding galaxies, etc.. \\n \\n It contains what astronomers and astrophysicists are ALL \\n looking for, if they are ready to seriously consider it with \\n OPEN MINDS! \\n \\n The following is an example of his Theory\\'s success: \\n In his first book in 1959, \"THE STRUCTURE OF THE PHYSICAL \\n UNIVERSE\", Larson predicted the existence of EXPLODING \\n GALAXIES, several years BEFORE astronomers started finding \\n them. They are a NECESSARY CONSEQUENCE of Larson\\'s \\n comprehensive Theory. And when QUASARS were discovered, he \\n had an immediate related explanation for them also. \\n \\n\\n \\n GAMMA-RAY BURSTS\\n\\n Astro-physicists and astronomers are still scratching \\n their heads about the mysterious GAMMA-RAY BURSTS. They were \\n originally thought to originate from \"neutron stars\" in the \\n disc of our galaxy. But the new Gamma Ray Telescope now in \\n Earth orbit has been detecting them in all directions \\n uniformly, and their source locations in space do NOT \\n correspond to any known objects, (except for a few cases of \\n directional coincidence). \\n \\n Gamma-ray bursts are a NECESSARY CONSEQUENCE of the \\n GENERAL UNIFIED Theory of the physical universe developed by \\n the late Physicist Dewey B. Larson. According to page 386 of \\n his book \"THE UNIVERSE OF MOTION\", published in 1984, the \\n gamma-ray bursts are coming from SUPERNOVA EXPLOSIONS in the \\n ANTI-MATTER HALF of the physical universe, which Larson calls \\n the \"Cosmic Sector\". Because of the relationship between the \\n anti-matter and material halves of the physical universe, and \\n the way they are connected together, the gamma-ray bursts can \\n pop into our material half anywhere in space, seemingly at \\n random. (This is WHY the source locations of the bursts do \\n not correspond with known objects, and come from all \\n directions uniformly.) \\n \\n I wonder how close to us in space a source location \\n would have to be for a gamma-ray burst to kill all or most \\n life on Earth! There would be NO WAY to predict one, NOR to \\n stop it! \\n \\n Perhaps some of the MASS EXTINCTIONS of the past, which \\n are now being blamed on impacts of comets and asteroids, were \\n actually caused by nearby GAMMA-RAY BURSTS! \\n \\n\\n\\n LARSONIAN Binary Star Formation\\n \\n About half of all the stars in the galaxy in the \\n vicinity of the sun are binary or double. But orthodox \\n astronomers and astrophysicists still have no satisfactory \\n theory about how they form or why there are so many of them. \\n \\n But binary star systems are actually a LIKELY \\n CONSEQUENCE of the comprehensive GENERAL UNIFIED Theory of \\n the physical universe developed by the late Physicist Dewey \\n B. Larson. \\n \\n I will try to summarize Larsons explanation, which is \\n detailed in Chapter 7 of his book \"THE UNIVERSE OF MOTION\" \\n and in some of his other books. \\n \\n First of all, according to Larson, stars do NOT generate \\n energy by \"fusion\". A small fraction comes from slow \\n gravitational collapse. The rest results from the COMPLETE \\n ANNIHILATION of HEAVY elements (heavier than IRON). Each \\n element has a DESTRUCTIVE TEMPERATURE LIMIT. The heavier the \\n element is, the lower is this limit. A star\\'s internal \\n temperature increases as it grows in mass via accretion and \\n absorption of the decay products of cosmic rays, gradually \\n reaching the destructive temperature limit of lighter and \\n lighter elements. \\n \\n When the internal temperature of the star reaches the \\n destructive temperature limit of IRON, there is a Type I \\n SUPERNOVA EXPLOSION! This is because there is SO MUCH iron \\n present; and that is related to the structure of iron atoms \\n and the atom building process, which Larson explains in some \\n of his books [better than I can]. \\n \\n When the star explodes, the lighter material on the \\n outer portion of the star is blown outward in space at less \\n than the speed of light. The heavier material in the center \\n portion of the star was already bouncing around at close to \\n the speed of light, because of the high temperature. The \\n explosion pushes that material OVER the speed of light, and \\n it expands OUTWARD IN TIME, which is equivalent to INWARD IN \\n SPACE, and it often actually DISAPPEARS for a while. \\n \\n Over long periods of time, both masses start to fall \\n back gravitationally. The material that had been blown \\n outward in space now starts to form a RED GIANT star. The \\n material that had been blown OUTWARD IN TIME starts to form a \\n WHITE DWARF star. BOTH stars then start moving back toward \\n the \"MAIN SEQUENCE\" from opposite directions on the H-R \\n Diagram. \\n \\n The chances of the two masses falling back into the \\n exact same location in space, making a single lone star \\n again, are near zero. They will instead form a BINARY \\n system, orbiting each other. \\n \\n According to Larson, a white dwarf star has an INVERSE \\n DENSITY GRADIENT (is densest at its SURFACE), because the \\n material at its center is most widely dispersed (blown \\n outward) in time. This ELIMINATES the need to resort to \\n MATHEMATICAL FANTASIES about \"degenerate matter\", \"neutron \\n stars\", \"black holes\", etc.. \\n \\n\\n\\n LARSONIAN Solar System Formation\\n\\n If the mass of the heavy material at the center of the \\n exploding star is relatively SMALL, then, instead of a single \\n white dwarf star, there will be SEVERAL \"mini\" white dwarf \\n stars (revolving around the red giant star, but probably \\n still too far away in three-dimensional TIME to be affected \\n by its heat, etc.). These will become PLANETS! \\n \\n In Chapter 7 of THE UNIVERSE OF MOTION, Larson used all \\n this information, and other principles of his comprehensive \\n GENERAL UNIFIED Theory of the physical universe, to derive \\n his own version of Bode\\'s Law. \\n \\n\\n\\n \"Black Hole\" FANTASY!\\n\\n I heard that physicist Stephen W. Hawking recently \\n completed a theoretical mathematical analysis of TWO \"black \\n holes\" merging together into a SINGLE \"black hole\", and \\n concluded that the new \"black hole\" would have MORE MASS than \\n the sum of the two original \"black holes\". \\n \\n Such a result should be recognized by EVERYone as a RED \\n FLAG, causing widespread DOUBT about the whole IDEA of \"black \\n holes\", etc.! \\n \\n After reading Physicist Dewey B. Larson\\'s books about \\n his comprehensive GENERAL UNIFIED Theory of the physical \\n universe, especially his book \"THE UNIVERSE OF MOTION\", it is \\n clear to me that \"black holes\" are NOTHING more than \\n MATHEMATICAL FANTASIES! The strange object at Cygnus X-1 is \\n just an unusually massive WHITE DWARF STAR, NOT the \"black \\n hole\" that orthodox astronomers and physicists so badly want \\n to \"prove\" their theory. \\n \\n \\n By the way, I do NOT understand why so much publicity is \\n being given to physicist Stephen Hawking. The physicists and \\n astronomers seem to be acting as if Hawking\\'s severe physical \\n problem somehow makes him \"wiser\". It does NOT! \\n \\n I wish the same attention had been given to Physicist \\n Dewey B. Larson while he was still alive. Widespread \\n publicity and attention should NOW be given to Larson\\'s \\n Theory, books, and organization (The International Society of \\n Unified Science). \\n \\n \\n \\n ELECTRO-MAGNETIC PROPULSION\\n\\n I heard of that concept many years ago, in connection \\n with UFO\\'s and unorthodox inventors, but I never was able to \\n find out how or why they work, or how they are constructed. \\n \\n I found a possible clue about why they might work on \\n pages 112-113 of the book \"BASIC PROPERTIES OF MATTER\", by \\n the late Physicist Dewey B. Larson, which describes part of \\n Larson\\'s comprehensive GENERAL UNIFIED Theory of the physical \\n universe. I quote one paragraph: \\n \\n \"As indicated in the preceding chapter, the development \\n of the theory of the universe of motion arrives at a totally \\n different concept of the nature of electrical resistance. \\n The electrons, we find, are derived from the environment. It \\n was brought out in Volume I [Larson\\'s book \"NOTHING BUT \\n MOTION\"] that there are physical processes in operation which \\n produce electrons in substantial quantities, and that, \\n although the motions that constitute these electrons are, in \\n many cases, absorbed by atomic structures, the opportunities \\n for utilizing this type of motion in such structures are \\n limited. It follows that there is always a large excess of \\n free electrons in the material sector [material half] of the \\n universe, most of which are uncharged. In this uncharged \\n state the electrons cannot move with respect to extension \\n space, because they are inherently rotating units of space, \\n and the relation of space to space is not motion. In open \\n space, therefore, each uncharged electron remains permanently \\n in the same location with respect to the natural reference \\n system, in the manner of a photon. In the context of the \\n stationary spatial reference system the uncharged electron, \\n like the photon, is carried outward at the speed of light by \\n the progression of the natural reference system. All \\n material aggregates are thus exposed to a flux of electrons \\n similar to the continual bombardment by photons of radiation. \\n Meanwhile there are other processes, to be discussed later, \\n whereby electrons are returned to the environment. The \\n electron population of a material aggregate such as the earth \\n therefore stabilizes at an equilibrium level.\" \\n \\n Note that in Larson\\'s Theory, UNcharged electrons are \\n also massLESS, and are basically photons of light of a \\n particular frequency (above the \"unit\" frequency) spinning \\n around one axis at a particular rate (below the \"unit\" rate). \\n (\"Unit velocity\" is the speed of light, and there are \\n vibrational and rotational equivalents to the speed of light, \\n according to Larson\\'s Theory.) [I might have the \"above\" and \\n \"below\" labels mixed up.] \\n \\n Larson is saying that outer space is filled with mass-\\n LESS UN-charged electrons flying around at the speed of \\n light! \\n \\n If this is true, then the ELECTRO-MAGNETIC PROPULSION \\n fields of spacecraft might be able to interact with these \\n electrons, or other particles in space, perhaps GIVING them a \\n charge (and mass) and shooting them toward the rear to \\n achieve propulsion. (In Larson\\'s Theory, an electrical charge \\n is a one-dimensional rotational vibration of a particular \\n frequency (above the \"unit\" frequency) superimposed on the \\n rotation of the particle.) \\n \\n The paragraph quoted above might also give a clue to \\n confused meteorologists about how and why lightning is \\n generated in clouds. \\n\\n\\n\\n SUPPRESSION of LARSONIAN Physics\\n\\n The comprehensive GENERAL UNIFIED Theory of the physical \\n universe developed by the late Physicist Dewey B. Larson has \\n been available for more than 30 YEARS, published in 1959 in \\n his first book \"THE STRUCTURE OF THE PHYSICAL UNIVERSE\". \\n \\n It is TOTALLY UN-SCIENTIFIC for Hawking, Wheeler, Sagan, \\n and the other SACRED PRIESTS of the RELIGION they call \\n \"science\" (or \"physics\", or \"astronomy\", etc.), as well as \\n the \"scientific\" literature and the \"education\" systems, to \\n TOTALLY IGNORE Larson\\'s Theory has they have. \\n \\n Larson\\'s Theory has excellent explanations for many \\n things now puzzling orthodox physicists and astronomers, such \\n as gamma-ray bursts and the nature of quasars. \\n \\n Larson\\'s Theory deserves to be HONESTLY and OPENLY \\n discussed in the physics, chemistry, and astronomy journals, \\n in the U.S. and elsewhere. And at least the basic principles \\n of Larson\\'s Theory should be included in all related courses \\n at UW-EC, UW-Madison, Cambridge, Cornell University, and \\n elsewhere, so that students are not kept in the dark about a \\n worthy alternative to the DOGMA they are being fed. \\n \\n \\n\\n For more information, answers to your questions, etc., \\n please consult my CITED SOURCES (especially Larson\\'s BOOKS). \\n\\n\\n\\n UN-altered REPRODUCTION and DISSEMINATION of this \\n IMPORTANT partial summary is ENCOURAGED. \\n\\n\\n Robert E. McElwaine\\n B.S., Physics and Astronomy, UW-EC\\n \\n\\n',\n", " 'Subject: Why isolate it?\\nFrom: chinsz@eis.calstate.edu (Christopher Hinsz)\\nOrganization: Calif State Univ/Electronic Information Services\\nLines: 13\\n\\n\\tDoes anyone on this newsgroup happen to know WHY morphine was\\nfirst isolated from opium? If you know why, or have an idea for where I\\ncould look to find this info, please mail me.\\n\\tCSH\\nany suggestionas would be greatly appreciated\\n\\n--\\n \"Kilimanjaro is a pretty tricky climb. Most of it\\'s up, until you reach\\nthe very, very top, and then it tends to slope away rather sharply.\"\\n\\t\\t\\t\\t\\tSir George Head, OBE (JC)\\n------------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nLOGIC: \"The point is frozen, the beast is dead, what is the difference?\"\\n\\t\\t\\t\\t\\tGavin Millarrrrrrrrrr (JC)\\n',\n", " 'From: mhollowa@ic.sunysb.edu (Michael Holloway)\\nSubject: Re: Science and methodology (was: Homeopathy ... tradition?)\\nNntp-Posting-Host: engws5.ic.sunysb.edu\\nOrganization: State University of New York at Stony Brook\\nLines: 54\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr16.155919.28040@cs.rochester.edu> fulk@cs.rochester.edu (Mark Fulk) writes:\\n>In article sasghm@theseus.unx.sas.com (Gary Merrill) writes:\\n>>\\n>>In article <1993Apr15.200344.28013@cs.rochester.edu>, fulk@cs.rochester.edu (Mark Fulk) writes:\\n>>What is wrong with the above observation is that it explicitly gives the\\n>>impression (and you may not in fact hold this view) that the common (perhaps\\n>>even the \"correct\") approach for a scientist to follow is to sit around\\n>>having flights of fancy and scheming on the basis of his jealousies and\\n>>petty hatreds.\\n>\\n>Flights of fancy, and other irrational approaches, are common. The crucial\\n>thing is not to sit around just having fantasies; they aren\\'t of any use\\n>unless they make you do some experiments. I\\'ve known a lot of scientists\\n>whose fantasies lead them on to creative work; usually they won\\'t admit\\n>out loud what the fantasy was, prior to the consumption of a few beers.\\n\\nThe danger in philosophizing about science is that theory and generalization \\ncan end up being far removed from the actual day-to-day of the grunt at the\\nbench. Yes, its great to be involved in a process were I can walk into the\\nlab after a heavy night of dreaming and just do something for the hell of it\\n(as long as my advisor doesn\\'t catch me - which is easy enough to do), but \\nstamping out such behavior seems to be the purpose in life of grant review \\ncommittees and the peer review process in general. In today\\'s world that\\'s \\nwhat determines what science is: what gets funded. And a damn good thing to.\\nFlights of fantasy just don\\'t have much chance of producing anything, at \\nleast not in biomedical research. The surest way for a graduate student to\\nruin their life is to work in a lab where the boss is more concerned with \\nfleshing out his/her fantasies than with having the student work on a project\\nthat actually has a good chance of producing some results. MD\\'s seem to \\nbe particularly prone to this aberrant behavior. \\n\\n>(Simple example: Warren Jelinek noticed an extremely heavy band on a DNA\\n>electrophoresis gel of human ALU fragments. He got very excited, hoping that\\n>he\\'d seen some essential part of the control mechanism for eukaryotic\\n>genes. This fantasy led him to sequence samples of the band and carry out\\n>binding assays. The result was a well-conserved, 400 or so bp, sequence\\n>that occurs about 500,000 times in the human genome. Unfortunately for\\n>Warren\\'s fantasy, it turns out to be a transposon that is present in\\n>so many copies because it replicates itself and copies itself back into\\n>the genome. On the other hand, the characteristics of transposons were\\n>much elucidated; the necessity of a cellular reverse transcriptase was\\n>recognized; and the standard method of recognizing human DNA was created.\\n>Other species have different sets of transposons. Fortunately for me,\\n>Warren and I used to eat dinner at T.G.I. Fridays all the time.)\\n\\nI have to agree with Gary Merrill\\'s response to this. I\\'ve read alot of the\\nAlu and middle repetitive sequence work and it\\'s really very interesting, \\ngood work with implications for many fields in molecular genetics. It\\'s \\nreally an example of how a well reasoned project turned up interesting \\nresults that were unexpected.\\n\\nMike\\n\\n\\n',\n", " 'From: dsc@gemini.gsfc.nasa.gov (Doug S. Caprette)\\nSubject: CS chemical agent\\nOrganization: CDP VLBI\\nLines: 10\\n\\n\\n\\nCan anyone provide information on CS chemical agent--the tear gas used recently\\nin WACO. Just what is it chemically, and what are its effects on the body?\\n\\ndsc@gemini.gsfc.nasa.gov \\n | Regards, | Hughes STX | Code 926.9 GSFC |\\n | Doug Caprette | Lanham, Maryland | Greenbelt, MD 20771 |\\n -------------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n\"A path is laid one stone at a time\" -- The Giant\\n',\n", " 'From: dietz@cs.rochester.edu (Paul Dietz)\\nSubject: Re: nuclear waste\\nOrganization: University of Rochester\\nLines: 41\\n\\nIn article <843@rins.ryukoku.ac.jp> will@rins.ryukoku.ac.jp (William Reiken) writes:\\n\\n>> The real reason why accelerator breeders or incinerators are not being\\n>> built is that there isn\\'t any reason to do so. Natural uranium is\\n>> still too cheap, and geological disposal of actinides looks\\n>> technically reasonable.\\n>>\\n>\\n>\\tNovember/December, 1987 page 21 - \"Science and Technology in Japan\".\\n>\\t\\t\\tSeawater Uranium Recovery Experiment\\n>\\t\"The ground uranium reserves are estimated at about 3.6 million tons,\\n> and it is anticipated that the demand and supply balance will collapse by the\\n> end of the 20th century. In Japan, a resources poor country, technological\\n> development are now under way to economically collect uranium dissolved in\\n> seawater. The total quanity of uranium dissolved in seawater is estimated\\n> to be about 4.6 billion tons, a huge amount when compared with ground uranium\\n> reserves.......\"\\n\\n\\nI hate to pour cold water on this, but currently seawater extracted\\nuranium, even using the new, improved fiber absorbers from Japan, is\\nabout 20 times more expensive than uranium on the spot market.\\nUranium is *very* cheap right now, around $10/lb. Right now, there\\nare mines closing because they can\\'t compete with places like Cigar\\nLake in Canada (where the ore is so rich they present safety hazards\\nto the mines, who work in shielded vehicles). Plenty of other sources\\n(for example, uranium from phosphate processing) would come on line before\\nuranium reached $200/lb.\\n\\n\"Demand and supply balance will collapse\" is nonsense. Supply and\\ndemand always balance; what changes is the price. Is uranium going\\nto increase in price by a factor of 20 by the end of the century?\\nNot bloody likely. New nuclear reactors are not being built\\nat a sufficient rate.\\n\\nUranium from seawater is interesting, but it\\'s a long term project, or\\na project that the Japanese might justify on grounds of\\nself-sufficiency.\\n\\n\\tPaul F. Dietz\\n\\tdietz@cs.rochester.edu\\n',\n", " 'From: hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin)\\nSubject: Re: Science and Methodology\\nOrganization: Purdue University Statistics Department\\nDistribution: inet\\nLines: 28\\n\\nIn article <1qk92lINNl55@im4u.cs.utexas.edu> turpin@cs.utexas.edu (Russell Turpin) writes:\\n\\n>In article lady@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Lee Lady) writes:\\n>> The difference between a Nobel Prize level scientist and a mediocre\\n>> scientist does not lie in the quality of their empirical methodology. \\n>> It depends on the quality of their THINKING. \\n\\n\\t\\t\\t....................\\n\\n>Lee Lady is correct when she asserts that the difference between\\n>Einstein and the average post-doc physicist is the quality of\\n>their thought. But what is the difference between Einstein and a\\n>genius who would be a great scientist but whose great thoughts\\n>are scientifically screwy?\\n\\nThis example is probably wrong. There is the case of one famous\\nphysicist telling another that he was probably wrong. As I recall\\nthe quote:\\n\\n\\tYour ideas are crazy, to be sure. But they are not crazy\\n\\tenough to be right.\\n\\nThe typical screwball is only somewhat screwy.\\n-- \\nHerman Rubin, Dept. of Statistics, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette IN47907-1399\\nPhone: (317)494-6054\\nhrubin@snap.stat.purdue.edu (Internet, bitnet) \\n{purdue,pur-ee}!snap.stat!hrubin(UUCP)\\n',\n", " 'From: wats@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM (Bruce Watson)\\nSubject: Re: First Spacewalk\\nDistribution: sci\\nOrganization: Alpha Science Computer Network, Denver, Co.\\nLines: 13\\n\\nIn article henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:\\n>In article <1ppm7j$ip@access.digex.net> prb@access.digex.com (Pat) writes:\\n|>I thought the area rule was pioneered by Boeing.\\n|>NASA guys developed the rule, but no-one knew if it worked\\n|>until Boeing built the hardware 727 and maybe the FB-111?????\\n|\\n|Nope. The decisive triumph of the area rule was when Convair's YF-102 --\\n|contractually commmitted to being a Mach 1.5 fighter and actually found\\n|to be incapable of going supersonic in level flight -- was turned into\\n|the area-ruled YF-102A which met the specs. This was well before either\\n|the 727 or the FB-111; the 102 flew in late 1953, and Convair spent most\\n|of the first half of 1954 figuring out what went wrong and most of the\\n|second half building the first 102A.\\n|-- \\n|All work is one man's work. | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology\\n| - Kipling | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry\\n\\n\\n\\nGood thing i stuck in a couple of question marks up there.\\n\\nI seem to recall, somebody built or at least proposed a wasp waisetd\\nPassenger civil transport. I thought it was a 727, but maybe it\\nwas a DC- 8,9??? Sure it had a funny passenger compartment,\\nbut on the other hand it seemed to save fuel.\\n\\nI thought Area rules applied even before transonic speeds, just\\nnot as badly.\\n\\npat\\n\",\n", " 'From: higgins@fnalf.fnal.gov (Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey)\\nSubject: Re: Level 5?\\nOrganization: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory\\nLines: 20\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: fnalf.fnal.gov\\n\\nIn article <19930422.121236.246@almaden.ibm.com>, Wingert@vnet.IBM.COM (Bret Wingert) writes:\\n> 3. The Onboard Flight Software project was rated \"Level 5\" by a NASA team.\\n> This group generates 20-40 KSLOCs of verified code per year for NASA.\\n\\nWill someone tell an ignorant physicist where the term \"Level 5\" comes\\nfrom? It sounds like the RISKS Digest equivalent of Large, Extra\\nLarge, Jumbo... Or maybe it\\'s like \"Defcon 5...\"\\n\\nI gather it means that Shuttle software was developed with extreme\\ncare to have reliablility and safety, and almost everything else in\\nthe computing world is Level 1, or cheesy dime-store software. Not\\nsurprising. But who is it that invents this standard, and how come\\neveryone but me seems to be familiar with it?\\n\\nOf course, what Shakespeare | Bill Higgins, Beam Jockey\\nORIGINALLY wrote was \"First thing | Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory \\nwe do, let\\'s kill all the EDITORS.\"| Bitnet: HIGGINS@FNAL.BITNET \\nBut for some reason it didn\\'t | Internet: HIGGINS@FNAL.FNAL.GOV \\nsurvive past the first draft. | SPAN/Hepnet: 43011::HIGGINS \\n-- David D. \"Laserdave\" Levine (davidl@ssd.intel.com)\\n',\n", " \"From: jason@ab20.larc.nasa.gov (Jason Austin)\\nSubject: Re: Barbecued foods and health risk\\nOrganization: NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA\\nLines: 28\\nReply-To: Jason C. Austin \\nNNTP-Posting-Host: ab20.larc.nasa.gov\\nIn-reply-to: rsilver@world.std.com's message of Sat, 17 Apr 1993 15:02:18 GMT\\n\\nIn article rsilver@world.std.com (Richard Silver) writes:\\n-> \\n-> Some recent postings remind me that I had read about risks \\n-> associated with the barbecuing of foods, namely that carcinogens \\n-> are generated. Is this a valid concern? If so, is it a function \\n-> of the smoke or the elevated temperatures? Is it a function of \\n-> the cooking elements, wood or charcoal vs. lava rocks? I wish \\n-> to know more. Thanks. \\n\\n\\tI've read mixed opinions on this. Singed meat can contain\\ncarcinogens, but unless you eat barbecued meat every meal, you're\\nprobably not at much risk. I think I will live life on the edge and\\ngrill my food.\\n\\n\\tI've also read that using petroleum based charcoal starter can\\nput some unwanted toxins in your food, or at least unwanted odor.\\nI've been using egg carton cups dipped in paraffin for fire starters,\\nand it actually lights faster and easier than lighter fluid. Several\\npeople have told me that they have excellent results with a chimney,\\nbasically a steel cylinder with wholes punched in the side. I've been\\nmeaning to get one of these, but one hasn't presented itself while\\nI've been out shopping. You can make one from a coffee can, but I buy\\nmy coffee as whole beans in a bag, so I haven't had a big enough can\\nlaying around.\\n--\\nJason C. Austin\\nj.c.austin@larc.nasa.gov\\n\\n\",\n", " 'From: aldridge@netcom.com (Jacquelin Aldridge)\\nSubject: Re: Good Grief! (was Re: Candida Albicans: what is it?)\\nOrganization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)\\nLines: 121\\n\\ndyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer) writes:\\n\\n>In article noring@netcom.com (Jon Noring) writes:\\n>>>There is no convincing evidence that such a disease exists.\\n>>There\\'s a lot of evidence, it just hasn\\'t been adequately gathered and\\n>>published in a way that will convince the die-hard melancholic skeptics\\n>>who quiver everytime the word \\'anecdote\\' or \\'empirical\\' is used.\\n\\n>Snort. Ah, there go my sinuses again.\\n\\n>>For example, Dr. Ivker, who wrote the book \"Sinus Survival\", always gives,\\n\\n>Oh, wow. A classic textbook. Hey, they laughed at Einstein, too!\\n\\n>>before any other treatment, a systemic anti-fungal (such as Nizoral) to his\\n>>new patients IF they\\'ve been on braod-spectrum anti-biotics 4 or more times\\n>>in the last two years. He\\'s kept a record of the results, and for over \\n>>2000 patients found that over 90% of his patients get significant relief\\n>>of allergic/sinus symptoms. Of course, this is only the beginning for his\\n>>program.\\n\\n>Yeah, I\\'ll bet. Tomorrow, the world.\\n\\n>Listen, uncontrolled studies like this are worthless.\\n\\n>>In my case, as I reported a few weeks ago, I was developing the classic\\n>>symptoms outlined in \\'The Yeast Connection\\' (I agree it is a poorly \\n>>written book): e.g., extreme sensitivity to plastics, vapors, etc. which\\n>>I never had before (started in November). Within one week of full dosage\\n>>of Sporanox, the sensitivity to chemicals has fully disappeared - I can\\n>>now sit on my couch at home without dying after two minutes. I\\'m also\\n>>*greatly* improved in other areas as well.\\n\\n>I\\'m sure you are. You sound like the typical hysteric/hypochondriac who\\n>responds to \"miracle cures.\"\\n\\n>>Of course, I have allergy symptoms, etc. I am especially allergic to\\n>>molds, yeasts, etc. It doesn\\'t take a rocket scientist to figure out that\\n>>if one has excessive colonization of yeast in the body, and you have a\\n>>natural allergy to yeasts, that a threshold would be reached where you\\n>>would have perceptible symptoms.\\n\\n>Yeah, \"it makes sense to me\", so of course it should be taken seriously.\\n>Snort.\\n\\n>>Also, yeast do produce toxins of various\\n>>sorts, and again, you don\\'t have to be a rocket scientist to realize that\\n>>such toxins can cause problems in some people.\\n\\n>Yeah, \"it sounds reasonable to me\".\\n\\n>>Of course, the $60,000\\n>>question is whether a person who is immune compromised (as tests showed I was\\n>>from over 5 years of antibiotics, nutritionally-deficiencies because of the\\n>>stress of infections and allergies, etc.),\\n\\n>Oh, really? _What_ tests? Immune-compromised, my ass.\\n>More like credulous malingerer. This is a psychiatric syndrome.\\n\\n>>can develop excessive yeast\\n>>colonization somewhere in the body. It is a tough question to answer since\\n>>testing for excessive yeast colonization is not easy. One almost has to\\n>>take an empirical approach to diagnosis. Fortunately, Sporanox is relatively\\n>>safe unlike past anti-fungals (still have to be careful, however) so there\\'s\\n>>no reason any longer to withhold Sporanox treatment for empirical reasons.\\n\\n>You know, it\\'s a shame that a drug like itraconazole is being misused\\n>in this way. It\\'s ridiculously expensive, and potentially toxic.\\n>The trouble is that it isn\\'t toxic enough, so it gets abused by quacks.\\n\\n>>BTW, some would say to try Nystatin. Unfortunately, most yeast grows hyphae\\n>>too deep into tissue for Nystatin to have any permanent affect. You\\'ll find\\n>>a lot of people who are on Nystatin all the time.\\n\\n>The only good thing about nystatin is that it\\'s (relatively) cheap\\n>and when taken orally, non-toxic. But oral nystatin is without any\\n>systemic effect, so unless it were given IV, it would be without\\n>any effect on your sinuses. I wish these quacks would first use\\n>IV nystatin or amphotericin B on people like you. That would solve\\n>the \"yeast\" problem once and for all.\\n\\n>>In summary, I appreciate all of the attempts by those who desire to keep\\n>>medicine on the right road. But methinks that some who hold too firmly\\n>>to the party line are academics who haven\\'t been in the trenches long enough\\n>>actually treating patients. If anybody, doctors included, said to me to my\\n>>face that there is no evidence of the \\'yeast connection\\', I cannot guarantee\\n>>their safety. For their incompetence, ripping off their lips is justified as\\n>>far as I am concerned.\\n\\n>Perhaps a little Haldol would go a long way towards ameliorating\\n>your symptoms.\\n\\n>Are you paying for this treatment out of your own pocket? I\\'d hate\\n>to think my insurance premiums are going towards this.\\n\\n>Steve Dyer\\n\\nDyer, you\\'re rude. Medicine is not a totallly scientific endevour. It\\'s\\noften practiced in a disorganized manner. Most early treatment of\\nnon-life threatening illness is done on a guess, hazarded after anecdotal\\nevidence given by the patient. It\\'s an educated guess, by a trained person,\\nbut it\\'s still no more than a guess.\\nIt\\'s cheaper and simpler to medicate first and only deal further with those\\npeople who don\\'t respond.\\n\\nThere are diseases that haven\\'t been described yet and the root cause of many\\ndiseases now described aren\\'t known. (Read a book on gastroenterology\\nsometime if you want to see a lot of them.) After scientific methods have\\nrun out then it\\'s the patient\\'s freedom of choice to try any experimental\\nmethod they choose. And it\\'s well recognized by many doctors that medicine\\ndoesn\\'t have all the answers.\\n\\nThis person said that they had relief by taking the medicine. Maybe it\\'s a\\nmiracle cure, maybe it\\'s valid. How do you know? \\n\\nYou might argue with the reasoning, the conclusions. But your disparaging\\nattack is unwarranted. Why don\\'t you present an convincing argument for you\\nr beliefs, instead of wasting our time in an ad hominem attack.\\n\\n-Jackie-\\n \\n',\n", " \"From: baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov (Ron Baalke)\\nSubject: Re: japanese moon landing?\\nOrganization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory\\nLines: 16\\nDistribution: world\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov\\nNews-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41 \\n\\nIn article dannyb@panix.com (Daniel Burstein) writes:\\n>A short story in the newspaper a few days ago made some sort of mention\\n>about how the Japanese, using what sounded like a gravity assist, had just\\n>managed to crash (or crash-land) a package on the moon.\\n\\nThe Japanese spacecraft, Hiten, crashed on the Moon last weekend. For the\\npast three years it has made several lunar flybys and even did some\\naerobraking experiments with Earth's atmosphere. It was placed in lunar\\norbit in February 1992, and I guess it finally ran out of fuel and was\\nunable to maintain its orbit around the Moon. \\n ___ _____ ___\\n /_ /| /____/ \\\\ /_ /| Ron Baalke | baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov\\n | | | | __ \\\\ /| | | | Jet Propulsion Lab |\\n ___| | | | |__) |/ | | |__ M/S 525-3684 Telos | The aweto from New Zealand\\n/___| | | | ___/ | |/__ /| Pasadena, CA 91109 | is part caterpillar and\\n|_____|/ |_|/ |_____|/ | part vegetable.\\n\",\n", " \"From: jmetz@austin.ibm.com ()\\nSubject: Re: Twitching eye?\\nOriginator: jmetz@jmetz.austin.ibm.com\\nOrganization: IBM Austin\\nLines: 4\\n\\n\\n I had this one time. I attributed it to a lack of sleep since it disappeared\\nafter a few nights of good zzz's.\\n\\n\",\n", " \"Organization: Queen's University at Kingston\\nFrom: Graydon \\nSubject: Re: Gamma Ray Bursters. Where are they?\\n <1993Apr24.221344.1@vax1.mankato.msus.edu>\\nLines: 8\\n\\nIf all of these things have been detected in space, has anyone\\nlooked into possible problems with the detectors?\\n\\nThat is, is there some mechanism (cosmic rays, whatever) that\\ncould cause the dector to _think_ it was seeing one of these\\nthings?\\n\\nGraydon\\n\",\n", " 'From: kwp@wag.caltech.edu (Kevin W. Plaxco)\\nSubject: Re: Boom! Whoosh......\\nOrganization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA\\nLines: 22\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: sgi1.wag.caltech.edu\\n\\nIn article <37147@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM> wats@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM (Bruce Watson) writes:\\n>+\\n>Pageos and two Echo balloons were inflated with a substance\\n>which expanded in vacuum. \\n\\nCalled \"gas\".\\n\\n>Once inflated the substance was no longer\\n>needed since there is nothing to cause the balloon to collapse.\\n>This inflatable structure could suffer multiple holes with no \\n>disastrous deflation.\\n\\nThe balloons were in sufficiently low orbit that they experienced\\nsome air resistance. When they were finally punctured, this \\npreasure (and the internal preasure that was needed to maintain\\na spherical shape against this resistance) caused them to\\ncatastrophically deflated. The large silvered shards\\nthat remained were easily visible for some time before\\nreentry, though no longer useful as a passive transponder.\\n\\nThe billboard should pop like a dime store balloon.\\n\\n',\n", " 'From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nSubject: Re: High Prolactin\\nReply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nOrganization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science\\nLines: 12\\n\\nIn article <93088.112203JER4@psuvm.psu.edu> JER4@psuvm.psu.edu (John E. Rodway) writes:\\n>Any comments on the use of the drug Parlodel for high prolactin in the blood?\\n>\\n\\nIt can suppress secretion of prolactin. Is useful in cases of galactorrhea.\\nSome adenomas of the pituitary secret too much.\\n\\n-- \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nGordon Banks N3JXP | \"Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and\\ngeb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu | it is shameful to surrender it too soon.\" \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n',\n", " 'From: km@cs.pitt.edu (Ken Mitchum)\\nSubject: Re: Open letter to Hillary Rodham Clinton (#7)\\nArticle-I.D.: pitt.19425\\nReply-To: km@cs.pitt.edu (Ken Mitchum)\\nOrganization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science\\nLines: 3\\n\\nHow about posting one of her replies to your letters?\\n\\n-km\\n',\n", " 'From: wingo%cspara.decnet@Fedex.Msfc.Nasa.Gov\\nSubject: Re: NASA \"Wraps\"\\nOrganization: University of Houston\\nLines: 160\\nDistribution: world\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: judy.uh.edu\\nNews-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41 \\n\\nIn article <1993Apr18.034101.21934@iti.org>, aws@iti.org (Allen W. Sherzer) writes...\\n>In article <17APR199316423628@judy.uh.edu> wingo%cspara.decnet@Fedex.Msfc.Nasa.Gov writes:\\n> \\n>>I don\\'t care who told you this it is not generally true. I see EVERY single\\n>>line item on a contract and I have to sign it. There is no such thing as\\n>>wrap at this university. \\n> \\n>Dennis, I have worked on or written proposals worth tens of millions\\n>of $$. Customers included government (including NASA), for profit and\\n>non-profit companies. All expected a wrap (usually called a fee). Much\\n>of the work involved allocating and costing the work of subcontractors.\\n>The subcontractors where universities, for-profits, non-profits, and\\n>even some of the NASA Centers for the Commercialization of Space. ALL\\n>charged fees as part of the work. Down the street is one of the NASA\\n>commercialization centers; they charge a fee.\\n> \\n\\nYou totally forgot the original post that you posted Allen. In that post\\nyou stated that the \"wrap\" was on top of and in addition to any overhead.\\nGeez in this post you finally admit that this is not true.\\n\\n>Now, I\\'m sure your a competent engineer Dennis, but you clearly lack\\n>experience in several areas. Your posts show that you don\\'t understand\\n>the importance of integration in large projects. You also show a lack\\n>of understanding of costing efforts as shown by your belief that it\\n>is reasonable to charge incremental costs for everything. This isn\\'t\\n>a flame, jsut a statement.\\n\\nCome your little ol buns down here and you will find out who is doing\\nwhat and who is working on integration. This is simply an ad hominum\\nattack and you know it.\\n\\n> \\n>Your employer DOES charge a fee. You may not see it but you do.\\n>\\n\\nOf course there is a fee. It is for administration. Geez Allen any\\norganization has costs but there is a heck of a difference in legitimate\\ncosts, such as libraries and other things that must be there to support\\na program and \"wrap\" as you originally stated it.You stated that wrap\\nwas on top of all of the overhead which a couple of sentences down you\\nsay is not true. Which is it Allen?\\n\\n>>>Sounds like they are adding it to their overhead rate. Go ask your\\n>>>costing people how much fee they add to a project.\\n> \\n>>I did they never heard of it but suggest that, like our president did, that\\n>>any percentage number like this is included in the overhead.\\n> \\n>Well there you are Dennis. As I said, they simply include the fee in\\n>their overhead. Many seoparate the fee since the fee structure can\\n>change depending on the customer.\\n>\\n\\nAs you have posted on this subject Allen, you state that wrap is over and\\nabove overhead and is a seperate charge. You admit here that this is wrong.\\nNasa has a line item budget every year. I have seen it Allen. Get some\\nnumbers from that detailed NASA budget and dig out the wrap numbers and then\\nhowl to high heaven about it. Until you do that you are barking in the wind.\\n\\n>>No Allen you did not. You merely repeated allegations made by an Employee\\n>>of the Overhead capital of NASA. \\n> \\n>Integration, Dennis, isn\\'t overhead.\\n> \\n>>Nothing that Reston does could not be dont\\n>>better or cheaper at the Other NASA centers where the work is going on.\\n>\\n\\nIntegration could be done better at the centers. Apollo integration was \\ndone here at Msfc and that did not turn out so bad. The philosophy of\\nReston is totally wrong Allen. There you have a bunch of people who are\\ncompletely removed from the work that they are trying to oversee. There\\nis no way that will ever work. It has never worked in any large scale project\\nthat it was ever tried on. Could you imagine a Reston like set up for \\nApollo?\\n\\n>Dennis, Reston has been the only NASA agency working to reduce costs. When\\n>WP 02 was hemoraging out a billion $$, the centers you love so much where\\n>doing their best to cover it up and ignore the problem. Reston was the\\n>only place you would find people actually interested in solving the\\n>problems and building a station.\\n>\\n\\nOh you are full of it Allen on this one. I agree that JSC screwed up big.\\nThey should be responsible for that screw up and the people that caused it\\nreplaced. To make a stupid statement like that just shows how deep your\\nbias goes. Come to MSFC for a couple of weeks and you will find out just\\nhow wrong you really are. Maybe not, people like you believe exactly what\\nthey want to believe no matter what the facts are contrary to it. \\n\\n>>Kinda funny isn\\'t it that someone who talks about a problem like this is\\n>>at a place where everything is overhead.\\n> \\n>When you have a bit more experience Dennis, you will realize that\\n>integration isn\\'t overhead. It is the single most important part\\n>of a successful large scale effort.\\n>\\n\\nI agree that integration is the single most important part of a successful\\nlarge scale effort. What I completly disagree with is seperating that\\nintegration function from the people that are doing the work. It is called\\nleadership Allen. That is what made Apollo work. Final responsibility for\\nthe success of Apollo was held by less than 50 people. That is leadership\\nand responsibility. There is neither when you have any organization set up\\nas Reston is. You could take the same people and move them to JSC or MSFC\\nand they could do a much better job. Why did it take a year for Reston to\\nfinally say something about the problem? If they were on site and part of the\\nprocess then the problem would have never gotten out of hand in the first place.\\n\\nThere is one heck of a lot I do not know Allen, but one thing I do know is that\\nfor a project to be successful you must have leadership. I remember all of the\\nturn over at Reston that kept SSF program in shambles for years do you? It is\\nlack of responsibility and leadership that is the programs problem. Lack of\\nleadership from the White House, Congress and at Reston. Nasa is only a\\nsymptom of a greater national problem. You are so narrowly focused in your\\nefforts that you do not see this.\\n\\n>>Why did the Space News artice point out that it was the congressionally\\n>>demanded change that caused the problems? Methinks that you are being \\n>>selective with the facts again.\\n> \\n>The story you refer to said that some NASA people blamed it on\\n>Congress. Suprise suprise. The fact remains that it is the centers\\n>you support so much who covered up the overheads and wouldn\\'t address\\n>the problems until the press published the story.\\n> \\n>Are you saying the Reston managers where wrong to get NASA to address\\n>the overruns? You approve of what the centers did to cover up the overruns?\\n>\\n\\nNo, I am saying that if they were located at JSC it never would have \\nhappened in the first place.\\n\\n>>If it takes four flights a year to resupply the station and you have a cost\\n>>of 500 million a flight then you pay 2 billion a year. You stated that your\\n>>\"friend\" at Reston said that with the current station they could resupply it\\n>>for a billion a year \"if the wrap were gone\". This merely points out a \\n>>blatent contridiction in your numbers that understandably you fail to see.\\n> \\n>You should know Dennis that NASA doesn\\'t include transport costs for\\n>resuply. That comes from the Shuttle budget. What they where saying\\n>is that operational costs could be cut in half plus transport.\\n> \\n>>Sorry gang but I have a deadline for a satellite so someone else is going\\n>>to have to do Allen\\'s math for him for a while. I will have little chance to\\n>>do so.\\n> \\n>I do hope you can find the time to tell us just why it was wrong of\\n>Reston to ask that the problems with WP 02 be addressed.\\n> \\nI have the time to reitereate one more timet that if the leadership that is\\nat reston was on site at JSC the problem never would have happened, totally\\nignoring the lack of leadership of congress. This many headed hydra that\\nhas grown up at NASA is the true problem of the Agency and to try to \\nchange the question to suit you and your bias is only indicative of\\nyour position.\\n\\nDennis, University of Alabama in Huntsville\\n\\n',\n", " 'From: gene@theporch.raider.net (Gene Wright)\\nSubject: Re: Why not give $1 billion to first year-long moon residents?\\nOrganization: The MacInteresteds of Nashville, Tn.\\nLines: 8\\n\\nYou forget that Apollo was a Government program and had to start \\nrelatively from scratch. Some people at NASA think that this could work. \\nOne of them replied to me personally after I posted this original message \\nseveral days ago. I have heard Jerry Pournelle suggest this idea before.\\n\\n--\\n gene@theporch.raider.net (Gene Wright)\\ntheporch.raider.net 615/297-7951 The MacInteresteds of Nashville\\n',\n", " 'From: choueiry@liasun1.epfl.ch (Berthe Y. Choueiry)\\nSubject: French to English translation of medical terms\\nOrganization: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne\\nLines: 41\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: liasun1.epfl.ch\\n\\nDear Netters,\\n\\nI am not sure whether this is the right place to post my query, but I\\nthought there may be some bilingual physicians in this newsgroup that\\ncould help. Please, excuse me for overloading the bandwidth.\\n\\nI am trying to build a resource allocation program for managing a\\nsurgical operating unit in a hospital. The user interface is in\\nEnglish, however the terms of medical specialties I was given are in\\nFrench :-( I have no medical dictionary handy, mine is a technical\\nuniversity :-((\\n\\nI need to get the translation into English (when there is one) of the\\nfollowing words. They refer to medical categories of operating rooms\\n(theaters). I admit they may not be universally \"used\".\\n\\n1- sceptique\\n2- orl\\n3- brulure/brule\\'\\n4- ne\\'onatal\\n5- pre\\'natal\\n6- pre\\'mature\\'\\n7- neurochirurgie (neuro-surgery??)\\n8- chirurgie ge\\'ne\\'rale\\n9- chirurgie plastique\\n10- urologie (urology??)\\n\\nThank you for you help.\\nCheers,\\n\\n---------\\nBerthe Y. Choueiry\\n\\nchoueiry@lia.di.epfl.ch\\nLIA-DI, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Ecublens\\nCH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland\\nVoice: +41-21-693.52.77 and +41-21-693.66.78 \\tFax: +41-21-693.52.25\\n\\n--------\\nps: please reply by e-mail if possible since I scan too quickly\\nthrough the messages of this newsgroup.\\n',\n", " 'From: bed@intacc.uucp (Deb Waddington)\\nSubject: INFO NEEDED: Gaucher\\'s Disease\\nDistribution: Everywhere\\nExpires: 01 Jun 93\\nReply-To: bed@intacc.UUCP (Deb Waddington)\\nOrganization: Matrix Artists\\' Network\\nLines: 33\\n\\n\\nI have a 42 yr old male friend, misdiagnosed as having\\n osteopporosis for two years, who recently found out that his\\n illness is the rare Gaucher\\'s disease. \\n\\nGaucher\\'s disease symptoms include: brittle bones (he lost 9 \\n inches off his hieght); enlarged liver and spleen; internal\\n bleeding; and fatigue (all the time). The problem (in Type 1) is\\n attributed to a genetic mutation where there is a lack of the\\n enzyme glucocerebroside in macrophages so the cells swell up.\\n This will eventually cause death.\\n\\nEnyzme replacement therapy has been successfully developed and\\n approved by the FDA in the last few years so that those patients\\n administered with this drug (called Ceredase) report a remarkable\\n improvement in their condition. Ceredase, which is manufactured\\n by biotech biggy company--Genzyme--costs the patient $380,000\\n per year. Gaucher\\'s disease has justifyably been called \"the most\\n expensive disease in the world\".\\n\\nNEED INFO:\\nI have researched Gaucher\\'s disease at the library but am relying\\n on netlanders to provide me with any additional information:\\n**news, stories, reports\\n**people you know with this disease\\n**ideas, articles about Genzyme Corp, how to get a hold of\\n enough money to buy some, programs available to help with\\n costs.\\n**Basically ANY HELP YOU CAN OFFER\\n\\nThanks so very much!\\n\\nDeborah \\n',\n", " \"From: DPierce@world.std.com (Richard D Pierce)\\nSubject: Re: Some Recent Observations by Hubble\\nKeywords: HST, Pluto, Uranus\\nOrganization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA\\nLines: 13\\n\\nIn article <15APR199316461058@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov> baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov (Ron Baalke) writes:\\n>Here are some recent observations taken by the Hubble Space Telescope:\\n>\\n> o Observations were made using the High Speed Photometer of the Planet\\n> Uranus during an occultation by a faint star in Capricornus.\\n ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^\\nWow! I knew Uranus is a long way off, but I didn't think it was THAT far away!\\n\\n-- \\n| Dick Pierce |\\n| Loudspeaker and Software Consulting |\\n| 17 Sartelle Street Pepperell, MA 01463 |\\n| (508) 433-9183 (Voice and FAX) |\\n\",\n", " \"From: nsmca@aurora.alaska.edu\\nSubject: Re: Portable Small Ground Station?dir\\nArticle-I.D.: aurora.1993Apr5.185700.1\\nOrganization: University of Alaska Fairbanks\\nLines: 21\\nNntp-Posting-Host: acad3.alaska.edu\\n\\nIn article , henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:\\n> In article <1993Apr2.214705.1@aurora.alaska.edu> nsmca@aurora.alaska.edu writes:\\n>>How difficult would it be to set up your own ground station?\\n> \\n> Ground station for *what*? At one extreme, some of the amateur-radio\\n> satellites have sometimes been reachable with hand-held radios. At the\\n> other, nothing you can do in your back yard will let you listen in on\\n> Galileo. Please be more specific.\\n> -- \\n> All work is one man's work. | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology\\n> - Kipling | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry\\n\\n\\nSPECIFIC:\\nBasically to be able to do the things the big dadies can do.. Monitor, and\\ncontrol if need be the Shuttle...\\n\\nSuch as the one in Australia and such....\\n\\n==\\nMichael Adams, nsmca@acad3.alaska.edu -- I'm not high, just jacked\\n\",\n", " 'From: baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov (Ron Baalke)\\nSubject: HST Servicing Mission Scheduled for 11 Days\\nOrganization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory\\nLines: 88\\nDistribution: world\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov\\nKeywords: HST\\nNews-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41 \\n\\nEd Campion\\nHeadquarters, Washington, D.C. April 23, 1993\\n(Phone: 202/358-1780)\\n\\nKyle Herring\\nJohnson Space Center, Houston\\n(Phone: 713/483-5111)\\n\\nRELEASE: 93-76\\n\\nHUBBLE TELESCOPE SERVICING MISSION SCHEDULED FOR ELEVEN DAYS\\n\\n\\tThe December flight of Endeavour on Space Shuttle mission STS-61 to\\nservice the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has been scheduled as an 11 day\\nmission designed to accommodate a record five spacewalks with the capability\\nfor an additional two, if needed.\\n\\n\\tThe decision to schedule five extravehicular activities, or EVAs, was\\nreached following extensive evaluations of underwater training, maneuver times\\nrequired using the Shuttle\\'s robot arm based on software simulations and actual\\nEVA tasks on previous missions.\\n\\n\\t\"Basically what we\\'ve done by going to five EVAs rather than three is\\nto repackage our margin so that we have the capability to respond to the\\ndynamics, or unknowns, of spacewalks,\" Mission Director Randy Brinkley said.\\n\"It improves the probabilities for mission success while providing added\\nflexibility and adaptability for reacting to real-time situations.\"\\n\\n\\tIn laying out the specific tasks to be completed on each of the\\nspacewalks, officials have determined that changing out the gyros, solar arrays\\nand the Wide Field/Planetary Camera (WF/PC) and installing the Corrective\\nOptics Space Telescope Axial Replacement (COSTAR) are priority objectives\\nduring the mission.\\n\\n\\t\"When we looked at accomplishing all of the tasks, highest through\\nlowest priority, and recognizing that the major tasks -- gyros, solar arrays,\\nWF/PC and COSTAR -- would consume most of the time set aside for each\\nspacewalk, five EVAs were deemed appropriate,\" said Milt Heflin, Lead Flight\\nDirector for the mission.\\n\\n\\tWhile the five spacewalks will be unprecedented, the use of two\\nalternating spacewalk teams will alleviate placing more stress on the crew than\\nprevious missions requiring two, three or four EVAs.\\n\\n\\t\"We have paid close attention to lessons learned during previous\\nspacewalks and factored these into our timeline estimates for five EVAs,\"\\nHeflin said. \"In planning for all Space Shuttle missions, it is necessary to\\nformulate a work schedule that represents as realistic a timeline as possible\\nto accomplish the mission objectives.\"\\n\\n\\tPlanning currently calls for at least five water tank training sessions\\nthat include support from the Mission Control Center, called joint integrated\\nsimulations, lasting between 10 and 36 hours. In addition, many stand alone\\nunderwater training \"runs\" will practice individual tasks in each spacewalk.\\n\\n\\tVarious refinements to the specific tasks on each spacewalk will be\\nmade based on actual training experience during the months prior to the\\nmission. Also, lessons learned from other spacewalks leading up to the flight\\nwill be valuable in assisting the STS-61 crew in its training techniques.\\n\\n\\tEndeavour\\'s June flight and Discovery\\'s July mission both will include\\nspacewalks to evaluate some of the unique tools to be used on the HST mission.\\nThe evaluations will help in better understanding the differences between the\\nactual weightlessness of space and the ground training in the water tanks at\\nthe Johnson Space Center, Houston, and the Marshall Space Flight Center,\\nHuntsville, Ala.\\n\\n\\tAlso, the inflight spacewalking experiences will assist in gaining\\nfurther insight into the time required for the various tasks and expand the\\nexperience levels among the astronaut corps, the flight controllers and\\ntrainers.\\n\\n\\tDesigned to be serviced by a Space Shuttle crew, Hubble was built with\\ngrapple fixtures and handholds to assist in the capture and repair procedures.\\n\\n\\tThe telescope was launched aboard Discovery in April 1990. At that\\ntime the NASA mixed fleet manifest showed the first revisit mission to HST in\\n1993 to change out science instruments and make any repairs that may have\\nbecome necessary.\\n\\n- end -\\n ___ _____ ___\\n /_ /| /____/ \\\\ /_ /| Ron Baalke | baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov\\n | | | | __ \\\\ /| | | | Jet Propulsion Lab |\\n ___| | | | |__) |/ | | |__ M/S 525-3684 Telos | The aweto from New Zealand\\n/___| | | | ___/ | |/__ /| Pasadena, CA 91109 | is part caterpillar and\\n|_____|/ |_|/ |_____|/ | part vegetable.\\n\\n',\n", " \"From: jimj@contractor.EBay.Sun.COM (Jim Jones)\\nSubject: Post-fever rashes: I get 'em every time\\nOrganization: Sun Microsystems, Inc. Mt. View, Ca.\\nLines: 18\\nDistribution: world\\nReply-To: jimj@contractor.EBay.Sun.COM (Jim Jones)\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: contractor.ebay.sun.com\\n\\nThe subject-line says it: every time I run a fever, I get an amazing\\nrosy rash over my torso and arms. Fortunately, it doesn't itch.\\n\\nThe rash always comes on the day after the\\nfever breaks and no matter what the illness was: cold, flu, whatever.\\nIt started happening about four years ago after I moved to my current\\ntown, although I don't know if that has anything to do with anything.\\n\\nSeverity and persistance of the rash seems to vary with the fever:\\na severe or long-lasting fever brings a long-lasting rash. A mild fever\\nseems to bring rashes that go away faster. \\n\\nAnybody know what might be causing this? It's no more than an \\nembarassment, but I'd be curious to know what's going on. Am I carrying\\nsome kind of fever-resistant bug that goes wild when fever knocks out\\nits competition?\\n\\nJim Jones\\n\",\n", " 'From: king@reasoning.com (Dick King)\\nSubject: Re: Selective Placebo\\nOrganization: Reasoning Systems, Inc., Palo Alto, CA\\nLines: 20\\nNntp-Posting-Host: drums.reasoning.com\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr17.125545.22457@rose.com> ron.roth@rose.com (ron roth) writes:\\n>\\n> OTOH, who are we kidding, the New England Medical Journal in 1984\\n> ran the heading: \"Ninety Percent of Diseases are not Treatable by\\n> Drugs or Surgery,\" which has been echoed by several other reports.\\n> No wonder MDs are not amused with alternative medicine, since\\n> the 20% magic of the \"placebo effect\" would award alternative \\n> practitioners twice the success rate of conventional medicine...\\n\\n1: \"90% of diseases\" is not the same thing as \"90% of patients\".\\n\\n In a world with one curable disease that strikes 100 people, and nine\\n incurable diseases which strikes one person each, medical science will cure\\n 91% of the patients and report that 90% of diseases have no therapy.\\n\\n2: A disease would be counted among the 90% untreatable if nothing better than\\n a placebo were known. Of course MDs are ethically bound to not knowingly\\n dispense placebos...\\n\\n-dk\\n',\n", " 'From: abdkw@stdvax (David Ward)\\nSubject: Re: Questions about Titan IV and Ariane 5\\nDistribution: sci\\nOrganization: Goddard Space Flight Center - Robotics Lab\\nLines: 26\\nNews-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1\\n\\nIn article , gwg33762@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Garret W. Gengler) writes...\\n>In sci.space you write:\\n> \\n>>Try the ENVIRONET database at GSFC. FTP to envnet.gsfc.nasa.gov or \\n>>128.183.104.16, or call (310)286-5690. They have data on STS, Ariane, Titan, \\n>>Atlas, Delta and Scout launch environments.\\n> \\n>Howdy. Thanks for the info.\\n> \\n>I tried \"anonymous\" FTP there, but it didn\\'t work.\\n>I also tried telnetting to the same address, but it asked for a login\\n>and password, although there was a note saying that the new username for\\n>environet was \"envnet\". \\n> \\n>Anyways, do you have any idea what else I should try?\\n> \\n>Thanks,\\n>Garret\\n> \\n> \\nThe home office number for ENVIRONET is (301) 286-5690 (note area\\ncode change). A friend of mine used to use it to get LDEF data, but\\nhe had to apply for a login name and password. I have a call in for\\nmore info, which I hope to get in the morning.\\n\\nDavid W. @ GSFC\\n',\n", " 'From: leech@cs.unc.edu (Jon Leech)\\nSubject: Space FAQ 04/15 - Calculations\\nSupersedes: \\nOrganization: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill\\nLines: 334\\nDistribution: world\\nExpires: 6 May 1993 19:56:03 GMT\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: mahler.cs.unc.edu\\nKeywords: Frequently Asked Questions\\n\\nArchive-name: space/math\\nLast-modified: $Date: 93/04/01 14:39:12 $\\n\\nPERFORMING CALCULATIONS AND INTERPRETING DATA FORMATS\\n\\n COMPUTING SPACECRAFT ORBITS AND TRAJECTORIES\\n\\n References that have been frequently recommended on the net are:\\n\\n \"Fundamentals of Astrodynamics\" Roger Bate, Donald Mueller, Jerry White\\n 1971, Dover Press, 455pp $8.95 (US) (paperback). ISBN 0-486-60061-0\\n\\n NASA Spaceflight handbooks (dating from the 1960s)\\n\\tSP-33 Orbital Flight Handbook (3 parts)\\n\\tSP-34 Lunar Flight Handbook (3 parts)\\n\\tSP-35 Planetary Flight Handbook (9 parts)\\n\\n\\tThese might be found in university aeronautics libraries or ordered\\n\\tthrough the US Govt. Printing Office (GPO), although more\\n\\tinformation would probably be needed to order them.\\n\\n M. A. Minovitch, _The Determination and Characteristics of Ballistic\\n Interplanetary Trajectories Under the Influence of Multiple Planetary\\n Attractions_, Technical Report 32-464, Jet Propulsion Laboratory,\\n Pasadena, Calif., Oct, 1963.\\n\\n\\tThe title says all. Starts of with the basics and works its way up.\\n\\tVery good. It has a companion article:\\n\\n M. Minovitch, _Utilizing Large Planetary Perubations for the Design of\\n Deep-Space Solar-Probe and Out of Ecliptic Trajectories_, Technical\\n Report 32-849, JPL, Pasadena, Calif., 1965.\\n\\n\\tYou need to read the first one first to realy understand this one.\\n\\tIt does include a _short_ summary if you can only find the second.\\n\\n\\tContact JPL for availability of these reports.\\n\\n \"Spacecraft Attitude Dynamics\", Peter C. Hughes 1986, John Wiley and\\n\\tSons.\\n\\n \"Celestial Mechanics: a computational guide for the practitioner\",\\n Lawrence G. Taff, (Wiley-Interscience, New York, 1985).\\n\\n\\tStarts with the basics (2-body problem, coordinates) and works up to\\n\\torbit determinations, perturbations, and differential corrections.\\n\\tTaff also briefly discusses stellar dynamics including a short\\n\\tdiscussion of n-body problems.\\n\\n\\n COMPUTING PLANETARY POSITIONS\\n\\n More net references:\\n\\n Van Flandern & Pullinen, _Low-Precision Formulae for Planetary\\n Positions_, Astrophysical J. Supp Series, 41:391-411, 1979. Look in an\\n astronomy or physics library for this; also said to be available from\\n Willmann-Bell.\\n\\n\\tGives series to compute positions accurate to 1 arc minute for a\\n\\tperiod + or - 300 years from now. Pluto is included but stated to\\n\\thave an accuracy of only about 15 arc minutes.\\n\\n _Multiyear Interactive Computer Almanac_ (MICA), produced by the US\\n Naval Observatory. Valid for years 1990-1999. $55 ($80 outside US).\\n Available for IBM (order #PB93-500163HDV) or Macintosh (order\\n #PB93-500155HDV). From the NTIS sales desk, (703)-487-4650. I believe\\n this is intended to replace the USNO\\'s Interactive Computer Ephemeris.\\n\\n _Interactive Computer Ephemeris_ (from the US Naval Observatory)\\n distributed on IBM-PC floppy disks, $35 (Willmann-Bell). Covers dates\\n 1800-2049.\\n\\n \"Planetary Programs and Tables from -4000 to +2800\", Bretagnon & Simon\\n 1986, Willmann-Bell.\\n\\n\\tFloppy disks available separately.\\n\\n \"Fundamentals of Celestial Mechanics\" (2nd ed), J.M.A. Danby 1988,\\n Willmann-Bell.\\n\\n\\tA good fundamental text. Includes BASIC programs; a companion set of\\n\\tfloppy disks is available separately.\\n\\n \"Astronomical Formulae for Calculators\" (4th ed.), J. Meeus 1988,\\n Willmann-Bell.\\n\\n \"Astronomical Algorithms\", J. Meeus 1991, Willmann-Bell.\\n\\n\\tIf you actively use one of the editions of \"Astronomical Formulae\\n\\tfor Calculators\", you will want to replace it with \"Astronomical\\n\\tAlgorithms\". This new book is more oriented towards computers than\\n\\tcalculators and contains formulae for planetary motion based on\\n\\tmodern work by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the U.S. Naval\\n\\tObservatory, and the Bureau des Longitudes. The previous books were\\n\\tall based on formulae mostly developed in the last century.\\n\\n\\tAlgorithms available separately on diskette.\\n\\n \"Practical Astronomy with your Calculator\" (3rd ed.), P. Duffett-Smith\\n 1988, Cambridge University Press.\\n\\n \"Orbits for Amateurs with a Microcomputer\", D. Tattersfield 1984,\\n Stanley Thornes, Ltd.\\n\\n\\tIncludes example programs in BASIC.\\n\\n \"Orbits for Amateurs II\", D. Tattersfield 1987, John Wiley & Sons.\\n\\n \"Astronomy / Scientific Software\" - catalog of shareware, public domain,\\n and commercial software for IBM and other PCs. Astronomy software\\n includes planetarium simulations, ephemeris generators, astronomical\\n databases, solar system simulations, satellite tracking programs,\\n celestial mechanics simulators, and more.\\n\\n\\tAndromeda Software, Inc.\\n\\tP.O. Box 605\\n\\tAmherst, NY 14226-0605\\n\\n\\n COMPUTING CRATER DIAMETERS FROM EARTH-IMPACTING ASTEROIDS\\n\\n Astrogeologist Gene Shoemaker proposes the following formula, based on\\n studies of cratering caused by nuclear tests.\\n\\n\\t\\t (1/3.4)\\n D = S S c K W\\t : crater diameter in km\\n\\t g p f n\\n\\n\\t (1/6)\\n S = (g /g )\\t\\t : gravity correction factor for bodies other than\\n g\\t e t\\t\\t Earth, where g = 9.8 m/s^2 and g\\tis the surface\\n\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t e\\t\\t t\\n\\t\\t\\t gravity of the target body. This scaling is\\n\\t\\t\\t cited for lunar craters and may hold true for\\n\\t\\t\\t other bodies.\\n\\n\\t\\t(1/3.4)\\n S = (p / p )\\t : correction factor for target density p ,\\n p\\t a t\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t t\\n\\t\\t\\t p = 1.8 g/cm^3 for alluvium at the Jangle U\\n\\t\\t\\t a\\n\\t\\t\\t crater site, p = 2.6 g/cm^3 for average\\n\\t\\t\\t rock on the continental shields.\\n\\n C\\t\\t\\t : crater collapse factor, 1 for craters <= 3 km\\n\\t\\t\\t in diameter, 1.3 for larger craters (on Earth).\\n\\n\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t (1/3.4)\\n K\\t\\t\\t : .074 km / (kT TNT equivalent)\\n n\\t\\t\\t empirically determined from the Jangle U\\n\\t\\t\\t nuclear test crater.\\n\\n\\t 3\\t\\t 2\\t\\t 19\\n W = pi * d\\t* delta * V / (12 * 4.185 * 10 )\\n\\t\\t\\t : projectile kinetic energy in kT TNT equivalent\\n\\t\\t\\t given diameter d, velocity v, and projectile\\n\\t\\t\\t density delta in CGS units. delta of around 3\\n\\t\\t\\t g/cm^3 is fairly good for an asteroid.\\n\\n An RMS velocity of V = 20 km/sec may be used for Earth-crossing\\n asteroids.\\n\\n Under these assumptions, the body which created the Barringer Meteor\\n Crater in Arizona (1.13 km diameter) would have been about 40 meters in\\n diameter.\\n\\n More generally, one can use (after Gehrels, 1985):\\n\\n Asteroid\\t Number of objects Impact probability Impact energy\\n diameter (km)\\t\\t (impacts/year)\\t (* 5*10^20 ergs)\\n\\n 10\\t\\t\\t 10\\t\\t 10^-8\\t\\t10^9\\n 1\\t\\t\\t 1 000\\t\\t 10^-6\\t\\t10^6\\n 0.1\\t 100 000\\t\\t 10^-4\\t\\t10^3\\n\\n assuming simple scaling laws. Note that 5*10^20 ergs = 13 000 tons TNT\\n equivalent, or the energy released by the Hiroshima A-bomb.\\n\\n References:\\n\\n Gehrels, T. 1985 Asteroids and comets. _Physics Today_ 38, 32-41. [an\\n\\texcellent general overview of the subject for the layman]\\n\\n Shoemaker, E.M. 1983 Asteroid and comet bombardment of the earth. _Ann.\\n\\tRev. Earth Planet. Sci._ 11, 461-494. [very long and fairly\\n\\ttechnical but a comprehensive examination of the\\n\\t subject]\\n\\n Shoemaker, E.M., J.G. Williams, E.F. Helin & R.F. Wolfe 1979\\n\\tEarth-crossing asteroids: Orbital classes, collision rates with\\n\\tEarth, and origin. In _Asteroids_, T. Gehrels, ed., pp. 253-282,\\n\\tUniversity of Arizona Press, Tucson.\\n\\n Cunningham, C.J. 1988 _Introduction to Asteroids: The Next Frontier_\\n\\t(Richmond: Willman-Bell, Inc.) [covers all aspects of asteroid\\n\\tstudies and is an excellent introduction to the subject for people\\n\\tof all experience levels. It also has a very extensive reference\\n\\tlist covering essentially all of the reference material in the\\n\\tfield.]\\n\\n\\n MAP PROJECTIONS AND SPHERICAL TRIGNOMETRY\\n\\n Two easy-to-find sources of map projections are the \"Encyclopaedia\\n Brittanica\", (particularly the older volumes) and a tutorial appearing\\n in _Graphics Gems_ (Academic Press, 1990). The latter was written with\\n simplicity of exposition and suitability of digital computation in mind\\n (spherical trig formulae also appear, as do digitally-plotted examples).\\n\\n More than you ever cared to know about map projections is in John\\n Snyder\\'s USGS publication \"Map Projections--A Working Manual\", USGS\\n Professional Paper 1395. This contains detailed descriptions of 32\\n projections, with history, features, projection formulas (for both\\n spherical earth and ellipsoidal earth), and numerical test cases. It\\'s a\\n neat book, all 382 pages worth. This one\\'s $20.\\n\\n You might also want the companion volume, by Snyder and Philip Voxland,\\n \"An Album of Map Projections\", USGS Professional Paper 1453. This\\n contains less detail on about 130 projections and variants. Formulas are\\n in the back, example plots in the front. $14, 250 pages.\\n\\n You can order these 2 ways. The cheap, slow way is direct from USGS:\\n Earth Science Information Center, US Geological Survey, 507 National\\n Center, Reston, VA 22092. (800)-USA-MAPS. They can quote you a price and\\n tell you where to send your money. Expect a 6-8 week turnaround time.\\n\\n A much faster way (about 1 week) is through Timely Discount Topos,\\n (303)-469-5022, 9769 W. 119th Drive, Suite 9, Broomfield, CO 80021. Call\\n them and tell them what you want. They\\'ll quote a price, you send a\\n check, and then they go to USGS Customer Service Counter and pick it up\\n for you. Add about a $3-4 service charge, plus shipping.\\n\\n A (perhaps more accessible) mapping article is:\\n\\n\\tR. Miller and F. Reddy, \"Mapping the World in Pascal\",\\n\\tByte V12 #14, December 1987\\n\\n\\tContains Turbo Pascal procedures for five common map projections. A\\n\\tdemo program, CARTOG.PAS, and a small (6,000 point) coastline data\\n\\tis available on CompuServe, GEnie, and many BBSs.\\n\\n Some references for spherical trignometry are:\\n\\n\\t_Spherical Astronomy_, W.M. Smart, Cambridge U. Press, 1931.\\n\\n\\t_A Compendium of Spherical Astronomy_, S. Newcomb, Dover, 1960.\\n\\n\\t_Spherical Astronomy_, R.M. Green, Cambridge U. Press., 1985 (update\\n\\tof Smart).\\n\\n\\t_Spherical Astronomy_, E Woolard and G.Clemence, Academic\\n\\tPress, 1966.\\n\\n\\n PERFORMING N-BODY SIMULATIONS EFFICIENTLY\\n\\n\\t\"Computer Simulation Using Particles\"\\n\\tR. W. Hockney and J. W. Eastwood\\n\\t(Adam Hilger; Bristol and Philadelphia; 1988)\\n\\n\\t\"The rapid evaluation of potential fields in particle systems\",\\n\\tL. Greengard\\n\\tMIT Press, 1988.\\n\\n\\t A breakthrough O(N) simulation method. Has been parallelized.\\n\\n\\tL. Greengard and V. Rokhlin, \"A fast algorithm for particle\\n\\tsimulations,\" Journal of Computational Physics, 73:325-348, 1987.\\n\\n\\t\"An O(N) Algorithm for Three-dimensional N-body Simulations\", MSEE\\n\\tthesis, Feng Zhao, MIT AILab Technical Report 995, 1987\\n\\n\\t\"Galactic Dynamics\"\\n\\tJ. Binney & S. Tremaine\\n\\t(Princeton U. Press; Princeton; 1987)\\n\\n\\t Includes an O(N^2) FORTRAN code written by Aarseth, a pioneer in\\n\\t the field.\\n\\n\\tHierarchical (N log N) tree methods are described in these papers:\\n\\n\\tA. W. Appel, \"An Efficient Program for Many-body Simulation\", SIAM\\n\\tJournal of Scientific and Statistical Computing, Vol. 6, p. 85,\\n\\t1985.\\n\\n\\tBarnes & Hut, \"A Hierarchical O(N log N) Force-Calculation\\n\\tAlgorithm\", Nature, V324 # 6096, 4-10 Dec 1986.\\n\\n\\tL. Hernquist, \"Hierarchical N-body Methods\", Computer Physics\\n\\tCommunications, Vol. 48, p. 107, 1988.\\n\\n\\n INTERPRETING THE FITS IMAGE FORMAT\\n\\n If you just need to examine FITS images, use the ppm package (see the\\n comp.graphics FAQ) to convert them to your preferred format. For more\\n information on the format and other software to read and write it, see\\n the sci.astro.fits FAQ.\\n\\n\\n SKY (UNIX EPHEMERIS PROGRAM)\\n\\n The 6th Edition of the Unix operating system came with several software\\n systems not distributed because of older media capacity limitations.\\n Included were an ephmeris, a satellite track, and speech synthesis\\n software. The ephmeris, sky(6), is available within AT&T and to sites\\n possessing a Unix source code license. The program is regarded as Unix\\n source code. Sky is <0.5MB. Send proof of source code license to\\n\\n\\tE. Miya\\n\\tMS 258-5\\n\\tNASA Ames Research Center\\n\\tMoffett Field, CA 94035-1000\\n\\teugene@orville.nas.nasa.gov\\n\\n\\n THREE-DIMENSIONAL STAR/GALAXY COORDINATES\\n\\n To generate 3D coordinates of astronomical objects, first obtain an\\n astronomical database which specifies right ascension, declination, and\\n parallax for the objects. Convert parallax into distance using the\\n formula in part 6 of the FAQ, convert RA and declination to coordinates\\n on a unit sphere (see some of the references on planetary positions and\\n spherical trignometry earlier in this section for details on this), and\\n scale this by the distance.\\n\\n Two databases useful for this purpose are the Yale Bright Star catalog\\n (sources listed in FAQ section 3) or \"The Catalogue of Stars within 25\\n parsecs of the Sun\" (in pub/SPACE/FAQ/stars.data and stars.doc on\\n ames.arc.nasa.gov).\\n\\n\\nNEXT: FAQ #5/15 - References on specific areas\\n',\n", " 'From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nSubject: Re: Use of codine in narcolepsy.\\nReply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nOrganization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science\\nLines: 18\\n\\nIn article <1993Mar26.005148.7899@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> stevel@aio.jsc.nasa.gov (Steve Lancaster) writes:\\n\\n>3) Is there any way around the scheduled drug mess so that he can use\\n>just the substance that works and not one adulterated with Tylenol? \\n>Can the MD perscribe a year long supply on one script? His doctor\\n>basically refused to prescribe it, saying \"His clinic does not prescribe\\n>controled substances. Its is \\'company\\' rule.!\"\\n>\\nShort of changes by the feds, there is no way. Codeine alone is very\\ndifficult to prescribe without a lot of hassles. Tylenol #3 is the\\nbest compromise. That way he can get refills. The amount of acetominophen\\nhe is getting with his codeine won\\'t hurt him any.\\n\\n-- \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nGordon Banks N3JXP | \"Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and\\ngeb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu | it is shameful to surrender it too soon.\" \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n',\n", " 'From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nSubject: Re: health care reform\\nReply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nOrganization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science\\nLines: 20\\n\\nIn article custer@wrc.wrgrace.com (Linda Custer) writes:\\n>\\n>Also, I\\'m not sure that physician fees at the very, very highest levels\\n>don\\'t have to come down. (I\\'m not talking about the bulk of physicians\\n>making good but not great salaries who have mega-loans from medical school\\n>debts.) I\\'d also like to see some strong ethics with teeth for physicians\\n\\nI agree that some specialties have gotten way out of line. The main\\nproblem is the payment method for procedures rather than time distorts\\nthe system. I hope they will fix that. But I\\'m afraid, as usual,\\nthe local doc is going to take the brunt. People grouse about paying\\n$50 to see their home doctor in his office, but don\\'t mind paying\\n$20,000 to have brain surgery. They think their local doc is cheating\\nthem but worship the feet of the neurosurgeon who saved their life.\\nWhat they don\\'t realize is that we need more local docs and fewer\\n-- \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nGordon Banks N3JXP | \"Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and\\ngeb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu | it is shameful to surrender it too soon.\" \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n',\n", " \"From: uck@netcom.com (Tom Chamberlain)\\nSubject: Buzz Aldrin's Race Into Space?\\nOrganization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)\\nLines: 6\\n\\nHas anyone heard of or Played Buzz Aldrin's Race into Space?\\n\\nDoes anyone know when it is expected to be released...?\\n\\nThanx, Tom.\\n\\n\",\n", " 'From: Lawrence Curcio \\nSubject: Re: Big amateur rockets\\nOrganization: Doctoral student, Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA\\nLines: 26\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: po3.andrew.cmu.edu\\nIn-Reply-To: \\n\\nLet\\'s see. These aren\\'t, in a strict sense, amateur rockets. That term\\ndenotes rockets, the engines of which are constructed by the user. The\\nrockets you describe are called HPR, or high power rockets, to\\ndistinguish them from (smaller) model rockets. They use factory-made\\nammonium perchlorate composite propellants in phenolic plastic engines\\nwith graphite nozzles. The engines are classified by impulse. A \"D\"\\nengine, for example, can have no more than 20 newton-seconds of impulse.\\nAn \"F\" engine can have no more than 40 ns. Each letter corresponds to a\\ndoubling of the maximum impulse. So far, engines up to size \"O\" are\\navailable pretty much off the shelf. Engines of size H and above are\\nshipped as Class B explosives, and as such are controlled. Engines of\\nsize F and below are shipped as Class C explosives, and are not as\\ncontrolled. Class F engines, BTW, are not HPR engines, but model rocket\\nengines. (Class G engines go in and out of legal limbo.)\\n\\nThere is an HPR Society, The Tripoli Rocket Society, I believe, which\\nholds events at various sites throughout the year, with all legalities\\n(FAA waiver included) taken care of. The National Association of\\nRocketry is more concerned with engines below H, though it is involved\\nin HPR as well. These societies certify users of HPR rockets, and\\ncompanies will not sell to uncertified individuals.\\n\\nBottom Line: It\\'s legit. I suggest you send for a catalog - but forget\\nthe dynamite, will ya?\\n\\n-Larry C.\\n',\n", " 'From: egb7390@ucs.usl.edu (Boutte Erika G)\\nSubject: M. contagiosem\\nOrganization: The Wild Wacky World of Dolly Parton Clones in Zero Gravity \\nLines: 16\\n\\n\\nI was wondering if anyone had any information about Molluscous contagiosem.\\nI acquired it, and fortunately got rid of it, but the question still lingers\\nin my mind: Where did it come from? The little bit of info that I have \\nreceived about it in the past states that it can be transmitted sexually, but\\nalso occurs in small children on the hands, feet and genitalia.\\n\\nAny information will be greatly appreciated.\\n\\n\\n\\n\"I grow old, I grow old;\\nI shall wear my trousers rolled.\"\\n\\n -T. S. Eliot\\n\\n',\n", " \"From: prb@access.digex.com (Pat)\\nSubject: Why DC-1 will be the way of the future.\\nOrganization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt MD USA\\nLines: 20\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: access.digex.net\\n\\n\\n\\nI once read an article on Computer technology which stated that \\nevery new computer technology was actually lower and slower then what it\\nreplaced. Silicon was less effective then the germanium products\\nthen available. GaAs was less capable then Silicon. Multi-processors\\nwere slower then existent single processors.\\n\\nWhat the argument was, though was that these new technologies promised either\\ntheoretically future higher performance or lower cost or higher densities.\\n\\nI think that the DC-1 may g=fit into this same model.\\n\\nELV's can certainly launch more weight then a SSRT, but \\nan SSRT offers the prospect of greater cycle times and lower costs.\\n\\nThis is kind of a speculative posting, but I thought i'd throw it out as\\na hjistorical framework for those interested in the project.\\n\\npat\\n\",\n", " \"From: Nigel@dataman.demon.co.uk (Nigel Ballard)\\nSubject: Re: Adult Chicken Pox \\nDistribution: world\\nOrganization: Infamy Inc.\\nReply-To: Nigel@dataman.demon.co.uk\\nX-Newsreader: Simple NEWS 1.90 (ka9q DIS 1.21)\\nLines: 19\\n\\n\\n>I am 35 and am recovering from a case of Chicken Pox which I contracted\\n>from my 5 year old daughter. I have quite a few of these little puppies\\n>all over my bod. At what point am I no longer infectious? My physician's\\n>office says when they are all scabbed over. Is this true?\\n\\nI have been in the same boat as you last year. I've tried four times to\\nsend you an email response, but your end doesn't seem to accept my mail?\\nPlease let me know if you receive this.\\n\\nCheers Nigel\\n\\n ************************************************************************\\n * NIGEL BALLARD | INT: nigel@dataman.demon.co.uk | VACANT LOT *\\n * BOURNEMOUTH UK | CIS: 100015.2644 RADIO-G1HOI | FOR RENT *\\n ************************************************************************\\n DIARIES OF THE FAMOUS...\\n Colonel Custer...Surrounded by Indians, just when I fancied a Chinese!\\n\\n\",\n", " \"From: jbreed@doink.b23b.ingr.com (James B. Reed)\\nSubject: Re: space news from Feb 15 AW&ST\\nNntp-Posting-Host: doink\\nReply-To: jbreed@ingr.com\\nOrganization: Intergraph Electronics\\nLines: 10\\n\\nIn article , henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:\\n|> [Pluto's] atmosphere will start to freeze out around 2010, and after about\\n|> 2005 increasing areas of both Pluto and Charon will be in permanent\\n|> shadow that will make imaging and geochemical mapping impossible.\\n\\nWhere does the shadow come from? There's nothing close enough to block\\nsunlight from hitting them. I wouldn't expect there to be anything block\\nour view of them either. What am I missing?\\n\\n\\tJim\\n\",\n", " 'From: francis@ircam.fr (Joseph Francis)\\nSubject: Re: Krillean Photography\\nOrganization: Inst. de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique, Paris\\nLines: 50\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr19.205615.1013@unlv.edu> todamhyp@charles.unlv.edu (Brian M. Huey) writes:\\n>I think that\\'s the correct spelling..\\n\\nCrullerian.\\n\\n>\\tI am looking for any information/supplies that will allow\\n>do-it-yourselfers to take Krillean Pictures. I\\'m thinking\\n>that education suppliers for schools might have a appartus for\\n>sale, but I don\\'t know any of the companies. Any info is greatly\\n>appreciated.\\n\\nCrullerian photography isn\\'t educational, except in a purely satiric\\nsense.\\n\\n>\\tIn case you don\\'t know, Krillean Photography, to the best of my\\n>knowledge, involves taking pictures of an (most of the time) organic\\n>object between charged plates. The picture will show energy patterns\\n>or spikes around the object photographed, and depending on what type\\n>of object it is, the spikes or energy patterns will vary. One might\\n>extrapolate here and say that this proves that every object within\\n>the universe (as we know it) has its own energy signature.\\n\\nCrullerian photography involves putting donuts between grease-covered\\nhot metal plates while illuminating them with a Krypton Stroboscope.\\nThrough a unique iteration involving the 4th-dimensional projection of\\na torus through the semi-stochastic interactions of hot monomolecular\\nlipid layers covering the metal plates (the best metal is iron since\\nit repels Vampires and Succubi) the donuts start developing flutes,\\nand within moments actually become poly-crenellated hot greasy\\nbreadtubes. Some people believe that food is the way to a man\\'s heart,\\nbut most psychics agree that there is nothing like hot Crullers for\\nbreakfast; the chemical composition of crullers is a mystery, some\\nthought evidence of Charles Fort\\'s channeling in Stevie Wonder\\'s\\nproduction of \"The Secret Life of Plants\" when played backwards in the\\ntheatre of unnaturally fertile Findhorn Farms has deduced that they\\nare complex carbohydrates ordinarily only found by spectoscopy in the\\nMagellenic Clouds. I called Devi on my Orgone Box and asked her if\\nthis was really the case, and she TM levitated me a letter across the\\nAtlantic to tell me it was indeed not just another case of\\nmisunderstanding Tesla, though the Miskatonic University hasn\\'t\\nconfirmed anything at all. At least the Crullers taste good; I got the\\nrecipe from Kaspar Hauser.\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n-- \\n| Le Jojo: Fresh \\'n\\' Clean, speaking out to the way you want to live\\n| today; American - All American; doing, a bit so, and even more so.\\n',\n", " 'From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nSubject: Re: Name of MD\\'s eyepiece?\\nReply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nOrganization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science\\nLines: 13\\n\\nIn article clarke@watson.ibm.com (Ed Clarke) writes:\\n>|> |It\\'s not an eyepiece. It is called a head mirror. All doctors never\\n>\\n>A speculum?\\n\\nThe speculum is the little cone that fits on the end of the otoscope.\\nThere are also vaginal specula that females and gynecologists are\\nall too familiar with.\\n-- \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nGordon Banks N3JXP | \"Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and\\ngeb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu | it is shameful to surrender it too soon.\" \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n',\n", " 'From: jbh55289@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Josh Hopkins)\\nSubject: Re: Solar Sail Data\\nOrganization: University of Illinois at Urbana\\nLines: 24\\n\\nhiggins@fnalf.fnal.gov (Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey) writes:\\n\\n>snydefj@eng.auburn.edu (Frank J. Snyder) writes:\\n\\n>> I am looking for any information concerning projects involving Solar\\n>> Sails. [...]\\n>> Are there any groups out there currently involved in such a project ?\\n\\nBill says ...\\n\\n>Also there is a nontechnical book on solar sailing by Louis Friedman,\\n>a technical one by a guy whose name escapes me (help me out, Josh),\\n\\nI presume the one you refer to is \"Space Sailing\" by Jerome L. Wright. He \\nworked on solar sails while at JPL and as CEO of General Astronautics. I\\'ll\\nfurnish ordering info upon request.\\n\\nThe Friedman book is called \"Starsailing: Solar Sails and Interstellar Travel.\"\\nIt was available from the Planetary Society a few years ago, I don\\'t know if\\nit still is.\\n-- \\nJosh Hopkins jbh55289@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu\\n\\t\\t \"Find a way or make one.\"\\n\\t -attributed to Hannibal\\n',\n", " 'From: kxgst1+@pitt.edu (Kenneth Gilbert)\\nSubject: Re: REQUEST: Gyro (souvlaki) sauce\\nOrganization: University of Pittsburgh\\nLines: 19\\n\\nIn article <1r8pcn$rm1@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> Donald_Mackie@med.umich.edu (Donald Mackie) writes:\\n:In article <1993Apr22.205341.172965@locus.com> Michael Trofimoff,\\n:tron@fafnir.la.locus.com writes:\\n:>Would anyone out there in \\'net-land\\' happen to have an\\n:>authentic, sure-fire way of making this great sauce that\\n:>is used to adorn Gyro\\'s and Souvlaki?\\n:\\n:I\\'m not sure of the exact recipe, but I\\'m sure acidophilus is one of\\n:the major ingredients. :-)\\n:\\n\\nThe only recipies I\\'ve ever seen for this include plain yogurt, finely\\nchopped cucumber and a couple of crushed cloves of garlic -- yummy.\\n\\n-- \\n=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-|-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=\\n= Kenneth Gilbert __|__ University of Pittsburgh =\\n= General Internal Medicine | \"...dammit, not a programmer!\" =\\n=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-|-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=\\n',\n", " \"From: jmcocker@eos.ncsu.edu (Mitch)\\nSubject: *** HELP I NEED SOME ADDRESSES ***\\nOriginator: jmcocker@c00137-100lez.eos.ncsu.edu\\nReply-To: jmcocker@eos.ncsu.edu (Mitch)\\nOrganization: North Carolina State University, Project Eos\\nLines: 21\\n\\n\\nHi all,\\n\\n I'm trying to get mailing addresses for the following\\ncompanies. Specifically, I need addresses for their personnel\\noffices or like bureau. The companies are:\\n\\n\\t- AMROC\\n\\t- Orbital Sciences Corp. (sp?)\\n\\t- Spacehab, Inc. (I know this one is somewhere in \\n\\t\\t \\t Seattle, WA, or at least part of it is.)\\n\\t- Space Industries, Inc. (Somewhere in Houston)\\n\\t- Space Enterprises Inc.\\n\\nIf anybody could point me in the right direction on this, I\\nwould be most appreciative. I prefer an email response, but I\\nwill post a summary if sufficient interest exists.\\n\\nThanks,\\n\\nMitch-------------------------------->jmcocker@eos.ncsu.edu\\n\",\n", " 'From: kaminski@netcom.com (Peter Kaminski)\\nSubject: Re: Krillean Photography\\nLines: 101\\nOrganization: The Information Deli - via Netcom / San Jose, California\\n\\n[Newsgroups: m.h.a added, followups set to most appropriate groups.]\\n\\nIn <1993Apr19.205615.1013@unlv.edu> todamhyp@charles.unlv.edu (Brian M.\\nHuey) writes:\\n\\n>I am looking for any information/supplies that will allow\\n>do-it-yourselfers to take Krillean Pictures.\\n\\n(It\\'s \"Kirlian\". \"Krillean\" pictures are portraits of tiny shrimp. :)\\n\\n[...]\\n\\n>One might extrapolate here and say that this proves that every object\\n>within the universe (as we know it) has its own energy signature.\\n\\nI think it\\'s safe to say that anything that\\'s not at 0 degrees Kelvin\\nwill have its own \"energy signature\" -- the interesting questions are\\nwhat kind of energy, and what it signifies.\\n\\nI\\'d check places like Edmund Scientific (are they still in business?) --\\nor I wonder if you can find ex-Soviet Union equipment for sale somewhere\\nin the relcom.* hierarchy.\\n\\nSome expansion on Kirlian photography:\\n\\nFrom the credulous side: [Stanway, Andrew, _Alternative Medicine: A Guide\\nTo Natural Therapies_, ISBN 0-14-008561-0, New York: Viking Penguin, 1986,\\np211, p188. A not-overly critical but still useful overview of 32\\nalternative health therapies.]\\n\\n ...the Russian engineer Semyon Kirlian and his wife Valentina during the\\n 1950s. Using alternating currents of high frequency to \\'illuminate\\'\\n their subjects, they photographed them. They found that if an object\\n was a good conductor (such as a metal) the picture showed only its\\n surface, while the pictures of poor conductors showed the inner\\n structure of the object even if it were optically opaque. They found\\n too that these high frequency pictures could distinguish between dead\\n and living objects. Dead ones had a constant outline whilst living ones\\n were subject to changes. The object\\'s life activity was also visible in\\n highly variable colour patterns.\\n\\n High frequency photography has now been practised for twenty years in\\n the Soviet Union but only a few people in the West have taken it up\\n seriously. Professor Douglas Dean in New York and Professor Philips at\\n Washington University in St Louis have produced Kirlian photographs and\\n others have been produced in Brazil, Austria and Germany.\\n\\n Using Kirlian photography it is possible to show an aura around people\\'s\\n fingers, notably around those of healers who are concentrating on\\n healing someone. Normally, blue and white rays emanate from the fingers\\n but, when a subject becomes angry or excited, the aura turns red and\\n spotty. The Soviets are now using Kirlian photography to diagnose\\n diseases which cannot be diagnosed by any other method. They argue that\\n in most illnesses there is a preclinical stage during which the person\\n isn\\'t actually ill but is about to be. They claim to be able to\\n foretell a disease by photographing its preclinical phase.\\n\\n But the most exciting phenomenon illustrated by Kirlian photography is\\n the phantom effect. During high frequency photography of a leaf from\\n which a part had been cut, the photograph gave a complete picture of the\\n leaf with the removed part showing up faintly. This is extremely\\n important because it backs up the experiences of psychics who can \\'see\\'\\n the legs of amputees as if they were still there. The important thing\\n about the Kirlian phantoms though is that the electromagnetic pattern\\n can\\'t possibly represent a secondary phenomenon -- or the field would\\n vanish when the piece of leaf or leg vanished. The energy grid\\n contained in a living object must therefore be far more significant than\\n the actual object itself.\\n\\n [...]\\n\\n Kirlian photography has shown how water mentally \\'charged\\' by a healer\\n has a much richer energy field around it than ordinary water...\\n\\n\\nFrom the incredulous side: [MacRobert, Alan, \"Reality shopping; a\\nconsumer\\'s guide to new age hokum.\", _Whole Earth Review_, Autumn 1986,\\nvNON4 p4(11). An excellent article providing common-sense guidelines for\\nevaluating paranormal claims, and some of the author\\'s favorite examples\\nof hokum.]\\n\\n The crank usually works in isolation from everyone else in his field of\\n study, making grand discoveries in his basement. Many paranormal\\n movements can be traced back to such people -- Kirlian photography, for\\n instance. If you pump high-voltage electricity into anything it will\\n emit glowing sparks, common knowledge to electrical workers and\\n hobbyists for a century. It took a lone basement crank to declare that\\n the sparks represent some sort of spiritual aura. In fact, Kirlian\\n photography was subjected to rigorous testing by physicists John O.\\n Pehek, Harry J. Kyler, and David L. Faust, who reported their findings\\n in the October 15, 1976, issue of Science. Their conclusion: The\\n variations observed in Kirlian photographs are due solely to moisture on\\n the surface of the body and not to mysterious \"auras\" or even\\n necessarily to changes in mood or mental state. Nevertheless,\\n television shows, magazines, and books (many by famous\\n parapsychologists) continue to promote Kirlian photography as proof of\\n the unknown.\\n\\n-- \\nPeter Kaminski\\nkaminski@netcom.com\\n',\n", " 'From: rousseaua@immunex.com\\nSubject: Re: Barbecued foods and health risk\\nDistribution: world\\nOrganization: Immunex Corporation, Seattle, WA\\nLines: 19\\n\\nWhile in grad school, I remember a biochemistry friend of mine working with\\n\"heat shock proteins\". Apparently, burning protein will induce changes in he\\nDNA. Whether these changes survive the denaturing that occurs during digestion\\nI don\\'t know, but I never eat burnt food because of this. \\n\\nAlso, many woods contain toxins. As they are burnt, it would seem logical that\\nsome may volatilise, and get into the BBQed food. Again, I don\\'t know if these\\ntoxins (antifungal and anti-woodeater compounds) would survive the rather harsh\\nconditions of the stomach and intestine, and then would they be able to cross\\nthe intestinal mucosa?\\n\\nMaybe someone with more biochemical background than myself (which is almost\\n*anyone*... :)) can shed some light on heat shock proteins and the toxins that\\nmay be in the wood used to make charcoal and BBQ.\\n\\nAnne-Marie Rousseau\\ne-mail: rousseaua@immunex.com\\nWhat I say has nothing to do with Immunex.\\n\\n',\n", " 'From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)\\nSubject: Re: Analgesics with Diuretics\\nOrganization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA\\n\\nIn article Lawrence Curcio writes:\\n>I sometimes see OTC preparations for muscle aches/back aches that\\n>combine aspirin with a diuretic.\\n\\nYou certainly do not see OTC preparations advertised as such.\\nThe only such ridiculous concoctions are nostrums for premenstrual\\nsyndrome, ostensibly to treat headache and \"bloating\" simultaneously.\\nThey\\'re worthless.\\n\\n>The idea seems to be to reduce\\n>inflammation by getting rid of fluid. Does this actually work? \\n\\nThat\\'s not the idea, and no, they don\\'t work.\\n\\n-- \\nSteve Dyer\\ndyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer\\n',\n", " \"From: ruca@pinkie.saber-si.pt (Rui Sousa)\\nSubject: Re: Potential World-Bearing Stars?\\nIn-Reply-To: dan@visix.com's message of Mon, 12 Apr 1993 19:52:23 GMT\\nLines: 17\\nOrganization: SABER - Sistemas de Informacao, Lda.\\n\\nIn article dan@visix.com (Daniel Appelquist) writes:\\n\\n\\n I'm on a fact-finding mission, trying to find out if there exists a list of\\n potentially world-bearing stars within 100 light years of the Sun...\\n Is anyone currently working on this sort of thing? Thanks...\\n\\n Dan\\n -- \\n\\nIn principle, any star resembling the Sun (mass, luminosity) might have planets\\nlocated in a suitable orbit. There several within 100 ly of the sun. They are\\nsingle stars, for double or multiple systems might be troublesome. There's a\\nlist located at ames.arc.nasa.gov somewhere in pub/SPACE. I think it is called\\nstars.dat. By the way, what kind of project, if I may know?\\n\\nRui\\n-- \\n*** Infinity is at hand! Rui Sousa\\n*** If yours is big enough, grab it! ruca@saber-si.pt\\n\\n All opinions expressed here are strictly my own\\n\",\n", " \"From: prb@access.digex.com (Pat)\\nSubject: Re: Why not give $1 billion to first year-long moon residents?\\nOrganization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA\\nLines: 26\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: access.digex.net\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr21.150545.24058@iti.org> aws@iti.org (Allen W. Sherzer) writes:\\n|In article henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:\\n|\\n|\\n|In spite of my great respect for the people you speak of, I think their\\n|cost estimates are a bit over-optimistic. If nothing else, a working SSTO\\n|is at least as complex as a large airliner and has a smaller experience\\n|base. It therefore seems that SSTO development should cost at least as\\n|much as a typical airliner development. That puts it in the $3G to $5G\\n|range.\\n>\\n\\nAlan,\\n\\n\\tdon't forget, a HUGE cost for airliner developement is FAA\\ncertification. the joke is when the paperwork exceeds teh weight\\nof the airplane, it will fly.\\n\\nThe SR-71, and teh X-15 both highly ambitious aero-space projects were done\\non very narrow engineering budgets. Partly because they didn't spend much\\non paper pushing. There is some company in missouri trying to\\nget funding to build light commercial transporters on a low cost basis,\\nmostly by reducing FAA certification costs.\\n\\npat\\n\\n\",\n", " \"From: ski@wpi.WPI.EDU (Joseph Mich Krzeszewski)\\nSubject: Re: Krillean Photography\\nOrganization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute\\nLines: 12\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: wpi.wpi.edu\\n\\nI seem to recall that there was an article in Radio Electronics about this\\nsubject. In fact I have a copy of the article in front of me, but I can't\\nfind anywhere in the article a refrence as to what month it was in. The system\\nthey describe uses an automobile ignition coil for the high voltage. The \\narticle even includes some information on what kind of film to use and where \\nto get it. \\n\\nHope this helps.\\n\\nJoseph M. Krzeszewski\\nski@WPI.wpi.edu\\n\\n\",\n", " \"From: jfare@53iss6.Waterloo.NCR.COM (Jim Fare)\\nSubject: Re: Endometriosis\\nReply-To: jfare@53iss6.Waterloo.NCR.COM (Jim Fare)\\nDistribution: world\\nOrganization: Imaging Systems Division, NCR Corp, Waterloo, Ont., CANADA\\nLines: 26\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr16.032251.6606@rock.concert.net> naomi@rock.concert.net (Naomi T Courter) writes:\\n>can anyone give me more information regarding endometriosis? i heard\\n>it's a very common disease among women and if anyone can provide names\\n>...\\n>--Naomi\\n\\nEndometriosis is where cells that would normally be lining the uteris exist\\noutside the uteris. Sometimes this causes problems, often it doesn't.\\nThere is generally no need to remove pockets of endometriosis unless they are\\ncausing other problems. One lady I know had Endometriosis in an ovary. \\nThis caused her a _great_ deal of pain. Another lady I know has an \\nendometrial cyst in her abdominal wall; she is not having it removed.\\n\\nThe American Fertility Society has information on this and they probably \\nmaintain a list of physicians in all parts of the continent that deal with\\nendometriosis. You can reach them at:\\n\\nThe American Fertility Society\\n2140 11th Ave South\\nSuite 200\\nBirmingham, Alabama 35205-2800\\n(205)933-8494\\n\\n [J.F.]\\n\\n\\n\",\n", " \"From: rcj2@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (ray.c.jender)\\nSubject: Looking for a doctor\\nOrganization: AT&T\\nDistribution: usa\\nKeywords: San Francisco\\nLines: 9\\n\\n\\n\\tI was kind of half watching Street Stories last night\\n\\tand one of the segments was about this doctor in\\n\\tS.F. who provides a service of investigating treatment\\n\\tfor various diseases. I'm pretty sure his name is\\n\\tDr. Mark Renniger (sp?) or close to that. \\n\\tDid anyone else watch this? I'd like to get his\\n\\tcorrect name and address/phone number if possible.\\n\\tThanks.\\n\",\n", " \"From: hdsteven@solitude.Stanford.EDU (H. D. Stevens)\\nSubject: Re: Proton/Centaur?\\nOrganization: stanford\\nLines: 59\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr21.190156.7769@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com>, dennisn@ecs.comm.mot.com (Dennis Newkirk) writes:\\n|> In article <1993Apr20.211638.168730@zeus.calpoly.edu> jgreen@trumpet.calpoly.edu (James Thomas Green) writes:\\n|> >Has anyone looked into the possiblity of a Proton/Centaur combo?\\n|> >What would be the benefits and problems with such a combo (other\\n|> >than the obvious instability in the XSSR now)?\\n|> \\n|> \\n|> The Centaur for the Altas is about 3 meters dia. and the Proton \\n|> is 4 so that's a good fit for their existing upper stage, the Block-D\\n|> which sets inside a shround just under 4 meters dia. I don't know about\\n|> launch loads, etc.. but since the Centaur survives Titan launches which\\n|> are probably worse than the Proton (those Titan SRB's probably shake things\\n|> up pretty good) it seems feasible. EXCEPT, the Centaur is a very fragile\\n|> thing and may require integration on the pad which is not available now.\\n|> Protons are assembled and transported horizontially. Does anyone know \\n|> how much stress in the way of a payload a Centaur could support while\\n|> bolted to a Proton horizontally and then taken down the rail road track\\n|> and erected on the pad? \\n\\nThe Centaur that is being built for T4 would be a better bet to integrate \\nonto the Proton as the T4/Centaur is designed for the Extremely Harsh \\nenvorinment of the T4 launch. It is also closer to 4 m in diameter. \\n\\nYou've hit on the real kicker, however. The Centaur is pressure stabilized. \\nIt cannot hold up its own weight without pressure in the tanks. Additionally, \\nthe pressure difference between the two tanks must be maintained to ~+/- 5 psi. \\nThat is rather tight to be rocking and rolling on the train. The pressure \\nstabilization is how centaur achieves the performance. On numerous occasions\\n(when I was there 88-91) the AF wanted to see what it would take to make \\na non-pressure stabilized centaur. The answer -- a centaur not worth launching. \\n\\nThe Atlas/Centaur does not require on-pad integration, however the T4/Centaur\\ndoes. I believe the on-pad integration is to a great extent due to the \\ncleanliness requirements and PFL configuration, so maybe something can be \\ndone there........\\n\\n\\n|> \\n|> They would also need LOX and LH facilities added to the Proton pads \\n|> (unless the new Proton second stage is actually built), and of course\\n|> any Centaur support systems and facilities, no doubt imported from the\\n|> US at great cost. These systems may viloate US law so there are political\\n|> problems to solve in addition to the instabilities in the CIS you mention. \\n\\nThe addition of LOX/LH facilities is critical as the centaur tops off as it \\nlifts off. A LHe facility is also needed. I don't know what the proton uses \\nfor fuel, but since they are derived from ICBM's I would suspect that they \\nuse storable propellants which don't have the ullage problem that cryo's \\ndo. If there is no cryo at the sight at all, the addition of these systems \\ncould be big $$, not to mention the real tech transfer issues involved with \\nproviding centaur GSE to Russia. That issue alone might be enough to kill \\nthis idea. \\n\\n-- \\nH.D. Stevens\\nStanford University\\t\\t\\tEmail:hdsteven@sun-valley.stanford.edu\\nAerospace Robotics Laboratory\\t\\tPhone:\\t(415) 725-3293 (Lab)\\nDurand Building\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t(415) 722-3296 (Bullpen)\\nStanford, CA 94305\\t\\t\\tFax:\\t(415) 725-3377\\n\",\n", " \"From: Lauger@ssdgwy.mdc.com (John Lauger)\\nSubject: Imitrex and heart attacks?\\nOrganization: McDonnell Douglas Aerospace\\nLines: 20\\nDistribution: world\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: q5020598.mdc.com\\n\\nMy girlfriend just started taking Imitrex for her migraine headaches. Her\\nneurologist diagnosed her as having depression and suffering from rebound\\nheadaches due to daily doses of analgesics. She stopped taking all\\nanalgesics and caffine as of last Thursday (4/15). The weekend was pretty\\nbad, but she made it through with the help of Imitrex about every 18 hours.\\n Her third injection of Imitrex, during the worst of the withdrawl on\\nFriday and six hours after the first of the day, left her very sick. Skin\\nwas flushed, sweating, vomiting and had severe headache pain. It subsided\\nin an hour or so. Since then, she has been taking Imitrex as needed to\\ncontrol the pain. Immediately after taking it, she has increased head pain\\nfor ten minutes, dizziness and mild nausea and mild chest pains. A friend\\nof hers mentioned that her doctor was wary of Imitrex because it had caused\\nheart attacks in several people. Apparently the mild chest pains were\\ncommon in these other people prior to there attacks. Is this just rumor? \\nHas anyone else heard of these symptoms? My girlfriend also has Mitral\\nValve Prolapse.\\n\\nOpinions are mine or others but definately not MDA's!\\nLauger@ssdgwy.mdc.com\\nMcDonnell Douglas Aerospace, Huntington Beach, California, USA\\n\",\n", " \"From: David.Anderman@ofa123.fidonet.org\\nSubject: LRDPA news\\nX-Sender: newtout 0.08 Feb 23 1993\\nLines: 28\\n\\n Many of you at this point have seen a copy of the \\nLunar Resources Data Purchase Act by now. This bill, also known as the Back to \\nthe Moon bill, would authorize the U.S. \\ngovernment to purchase lunar science data from private \\nand non-profit vendors, selected on the basis of competitive bidding, with an \\naggregate cap on bid awards of $65 million. \\n If you have a copy of the bill, and can't or don't want to go through \\nall of the legalese contained in all Federal legislation,don't both - you have \\na free resource to evaluate the bill for you. Your local congressional office, \\nlisted in the phone book,is staffed by people who can forward a copy of the\\nbill to legal experts. Simply ask them to do so, and to consider supporting\\nthe Lunar Resources Data Purchase Act. \\n If you do get feedback, negative or positive, from your congressional \\noffice, please forward it to: David Anderman\\n3136 E. Yorba Linda Blvd., Apt G-14, Fullerton, CA 92631,\\nor via E-Mail to: David.Anderman@ofa123.fidonet.org. \\n Another resource is your local chapter of the National Space Society. \\nMembers of the chapter will be happy to work with you to evaluate and support \\nthe Back to the Moon bill. For the address and telephone number of the nearest \\nchapter to you, please send E-mail, or check the latest issue of Ad Astra, in \\na library near you.\\n Finally, if you have requested, and not received, information about\\nthe Back to the Moon bill, please re-send your request. The database for the\\nbill was recently corrupted, and some information was lost. The authors of the \\nbill thank you for your patience.\\n\\n\\n--- Maximus 2.01wb\\n\",\n", " \"From: drickel@bounce.mentorg.com (Dave Rickel)\\nSubject: Re: Quaint US Archaisms\\nArticle-I.D.: news.1993Apr06.090626.21880\\nOrganization: Mentor Graphics\\nLines: 14\\nOriginator: drickel@bounce\\nNntp-Posting-Host: bounce.mentorg.com\\n\\n\\nIn article , nickh@CS.CMU.EDU (Nick Haines) writes:\\n|> Oh, and the other advantage is that you don't have shit constants like\\n|> 32.??? hanging around.\\n\\nNo, instead you have stupid things like 3600 and 86400 and 31556925.9747 and\\n299792.458 and 9.80665 and ...\\n\\nHow many cc's in a ml anyway? The metric system has its problems, just not\\nas many of them.\\n\\n\\ndavid rickel\\ndrickel@sjc.mentorg.com\\n\",\n", " 'From: Wingert@vnet.IBM.COM (Bret Wingert)\\nSubject: Re: Level 5?\\nOrganization: IBM, Federal Systems Co. Software Services\\n IBM, Federal Systems Co. Software Services\\nDisclaimer: This posting represents the poster\\'s views, not those of IBM\\nNews-Software: UReply 3.1\\nLines: 91\\n\\nIn Henry Spencer writes:\\n>In article <1993Apr21.134436.26140@mksol.dseg.ti.com> mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:\\n>>>>(given that I\\'ve heard the Shuttle software rated as Level 5 ...\\n>>>Level 5? Out of how many? ...\\n>>\\n>>... Also keep in mind that it was\\n>>*not* achieved through the use of sophisticated tools, but rather\\n>>through a \\'brute force and ignorance\\' attack on the problem during the\\n>>Challenger standdown - they simply threw hundreds of people at it and\\n>>did the whole process by hand...\\n>\\n>I think this is a little inaccurate, based on Feynman\\'s account of the\\n>software-development process *before* the standdown. Fred is basically\\n>correct: no sophisticated tools, just a lot of effort and painstaking\\n>care. But they got this one right *before* Challenger; Feynman cited\\n>the software people as exemplary compared to the engine people. (He\\n>also noted that the software people were starting to feel management\\n>pressure to cut corners, but hadn\\'t had to give in to it much yet.)\\n>\\n>Among other things, the software people worked very hard to get things\\n>right for the major pre-flight simulations, and considered a failure\\n>during those simulations to be nearly as bad as an in-flight failure.\\n>As a result, the number of major-simulation failures could be counted\\n>on one hand, and the number of in-flight failures was zero.\\n>\\n>As Fred mentioned elsewhere, this applies only to the flight software.\\n>Software that runs experiments is typically mostly put together by the\\n>experimenters, and gets nowhere near the same level of Tender Loving Care.\\n>(None of the experimenters could afford it.)\\n>--\\n>All work is one man\\'s work. | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology\\n> - Kipling | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry\\n>\\nNews-Software: UReply 3.1\\nX-X-From: Wingert@VNET.IBM.com (Bret Wingert)\\n \\n\\nIn Henry Spencer writes:\\n>In article <1993Apr21.134436.26140@mksol.dseg.ti.com> mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:\\n>>>>(given that I\\'ve heard the Shuttle software rated as Level 5 ...\\n>>>Level 5? Out of how many? ...\\n>>\\n>>... Also keep in mind that it was\\n>>*not* achieved through the use of sophisticated tools, but rather\\n>>through a \\'brute force and ignorance\\' attack on the problem during the\\n>>Challenger standdown - they simply threw hundreds of people at it and\\n>>did the whole process by hand...\\n>\\n>I think this is a little inaccurate, based on Feynman\\'s account of the\\n>software-development process *before* the standdown. Fred is basically\\n>correct: no sophisticated tools, just a lot of effort and painstaking\\n>care. But they got this one right *before* Challenger; Feynman cited\\n>the software people as exemplary compared to the engine people. (He\\n>also noted that the software people were starting to feel management\\n>pressure to cut corners, but hadn\\'t had to give in to it much yet.)\\n>\\n>As Fred mentioned elsewhere, this applies only to the flight software.\\n>Software that runs experiments is typically mostly put together by the\\n>experimenters, and gets nowhere near the same level of Tender Loving Care.\\n ========================================================================\\nA couple of points on this thread.\\n\\n1. We have been using our processes since way before Challenger. Challenger\\n in and of it self did not uncover flaws.\\n\\n2. What Mr. Spencer says is by and large true. We have a process that is\\n not dependent on \"sophisticated tools\" (CASE tools?). However, tools\\n cannot fix a bad process. Also, tool support for HAL/S (the Shuttle\\n Language) is somewhat limited.\\n\\n3. The Onboard Flight Software project was rated \"Level 5\" by a NASA team.\\n This group generates 20-40 KSLOCs of verified code per year for NASA.\\n\\n4. Feel free to call me if you or your organization is interested in more info\\n on our software development process.\\n\\nBret Wingert\\n\\n\\n(713)-282-7534\\nFAX: (713)-282-8077\\n\\n\\nBret Wingert\\n\\n\\n(713)-282-7534\\nFAX: (713)-282-8077\\n\\n\\n',\n", " 'Subject: Origin of Morphine\\nFrom: chinsz@eis.calstate.edu (Christopher Hinsz)\\nOrganization: Calif State Univ/Electronic Information Services\\nLines: 20\\n\\n\\tI am sorry to once again bother those of you on this newsgroup. \\nIf you have any suggestions as to where I might find out about the subject\\nof this letter (the origin of Morphine, ie. who first isolsted it, and why\\nhe/she attempted such an experiment). Once agian any suggestion would be\\nappreciated.\\n\\tCSH\\np.s. My instructer insists that I get 4 rescources from this newsgroup, so\\nplease send me and info you think may be helpful. Facts that you know,\\nbut don\\'t know what book they\\'re from are ok.\\nATTENTION: If you do NOT like seeing letters such as this one on your\\nnewsgroup direct all complaints to my instructor at \\n\\n\\n--\\n \"Kilimanjaro is a pretty tricky climb. Most of it\\'s up, until you reach\\nthe very, very top, and then it tends to slope away rather sharply.\"\\n\\t\\t\\t\\t\\tSir George Head, OBE (JC)\\n------------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nLOGIC: \"The point is frozen, the beast is dead, what is the difference?\"\\n\\t\\t\\t\\t\\tGavin Millarrrrrrrrrr (JC)\\n',\n", " 'From: buenneke@monty.rand.org (Richard Buenneke)\\nSubject: DC-X Rollout Report\\nX-Added: Forwarded by Space Digest\\nOrganization: [via International Space University]\\nOriginal-Sender: isu@VACATION.VENARI.CS.CMU.EDU\\nDistribution: sci\\nLines: 124\\n\\n\\nMcDonnell Douglas rolls out DC-X\\n\\n HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif. -- On a picture-perfect Southern\\nCalifornia day, McDonnell Douglas rolled out its DC-X rocket ship last\\nSaturday. The company hopes this single-stage rocket technology\\ndemonstrator will be the first step towards a single-stage-to-orbit (SSTO)\\nrocket ship.\\n\\n The white conical vehicle was scheduled to go to the White Sands\\nMissile Range in New Mexico this week. Flight tests will start in\\nmid-June.\\n\\n Although there wasn\\'t a cloud in the noonday sky, the forecast for\\nSSTO research remains cloudy. The SDI Organization -- which paid $60\\nmillion for the DC-X -- can\\'t itself afford to fund full development of a\\nfollow-on vehicle. To get the necessary hundreds of millions required for\\na sub-orbital DC-XA, SDIO is passing a tin cup among its sister government\\nagencies.\\n\\n SDIO originally funded SSTO research as a way to cut the costs for\\norbital deployments of space-based sensors and weapns. However, recent\\nchanges in SDI\\'s political marching orders and budget cuts have made SSTO\\nless of a priority. Today, the agency is more interested in using DC-X as\\na step towards a low-cost, reusable sounding rocket.\\n\\n SDIO has already done 50 briefings to other government agencies,\\nsaid Col. Simon \"Pete\" Worden, SDIO\\'s deputy for technology. But Worden\\ndeclined to say how much the agencies would have to pony up for the\\nprogram. \"I didn\\'t make colonel by telling my contractors how much money I\\nhave available to spend,\" he quipped at a press conference at McDonnell\\nDouglas Astronautics headquarters.\\n\\n While SDIO has lowered its sights on the program\\'s orbital\\nobjective, agency officials hail the DC-X as an example of the \"better,\\nfaster, cheaper\" approach to hardware development. The agency believes\\nthis philosophy can produce breakthroughs that \"leapfrog\" ahead of\\nevolutionary technology developments.\\n\\n Worden said the DC-X illustrates how a \"build a little, test a\\nlittle\" approach can produce results on time and within budget. He said\\nthe program -- which went from concept to hardware in around 18 months --\\nshowed how today\\'s engineers could move beyond the \"miracles of our\\nparents\\' time.\"\\n\\n \"The key is management,\" Worden said. \"SDIO had a very light hand\\non this project. We had only one overworked major, Jess Sponable.\"\\n\\n Although the next phase may involve more agencies, Worden said\\nlean management and a sense of government-industry partnership will be\\ncrucial. \"It\\'s essential we do not end up with a large management\\nstructure where the price goes up exponentially.\"\\n\\n SDIO\\'s approach also won praise from two California members of the\\nHouse Science, Space and Technology Committee. \"This is the direction\\nwe\\'re going to have to go,\" said Rep. George Brown, the committee\\'s\\nDemocratic chairman. \"Programs that stretch aout 10 to 15 years aren\\'t\\nsustainable....NASA hasn\\'t learned it yet. SDIO has.\"\\n\\n Rep. Dana Rohrbacher, Brown\\'s Republican colleague, went further.\\nJoking that \"a shrimp is a fish designed by a NASA design team,\"\\nRohrbacher doubted that the program ever would have been completed if it\\nwere left to the civil space agency.\\n\\n Rohrbacher, whose Orange County district includes McDonnell\\nDouglas, also criticized NASA-Air Force work on conventional, multi-staged\\nrockets as placing new casings around old missile technology. \"Let\\'s not\\nbuild fancy ammunition with capsules on top. Let\\'s build a spaceship!\"\\n\\n Although Rohrbacher praised SDIO\\'s sponsorship, he said the\\nprivate sector needs to take the lead in developing SSTO technology.\\n\\n McDonnell Douglas, which faces very uncertain prospects with its\\nC-17 transport and Space Station Freedom programs, were more cautious\\nabout a large private secotro commitment. \"On very large ventures,\\ncompanies put in seed money,\" said Charles Ordahl, McDonnell Douglas\\'\\nsenior vice president for space systems. \"You need strong government\\ninvestments.\"\\n\\n While the government and industry continue to differ on funding\\nfor the DC-XA, they agree on continuing an incremental approach to\\ndevelopment. Citing corporate history, they liken the process to Douglas\\nAircraft\\'s DC aircraft. Just as two earlier aircraft paved the way for\\nthe DC-3 transport, a gradual evolution in single-stage rocketry could\\neventually lead to an orbital Delta Clipper (DC-1).\\n\\n Flight tests this summer at White Sands will \"expand the envelope\"\\nof performance, with successive tests increasing speed and altitude. The\\nfirst tests will reach 600 feet and demonstrate hovering, verticle\\ntake-off and landing. The second series will send the unmanned DC-X up to\\n5,000 feet. The third and final series will take the craft up to 20,000\\nfeet.\\n\\n Maneuvers will become more complex on third phase. The final\\ntests will include a \"pitch-over\" manever that rotates the vehicle back\\ninto a bottom-down configuration for a soft, four-legged landing.\\n\\n The flight test series will be supervised by Charles \"Pete\"\\nConrad, who performed similar maneuvers on the Apollo 12 moon landing.\\nNow a McDonnell Douglas vice president, Conrad paised the vehicles\\naircraft-like approach to operations. Features include automated\\ncheck-out and access panels for easy maintainance.\\n\\n If the program moves to the next stage, engine technology will\\nbecome a key consideration. This engine would have more thrust than the\\nPratt & Whitney RL10A-5 engines used on the DC-X. Each motor uses liquid\\nhydrogen and liquid oxygen propellants to generate up to 14,760 pounds of\\nthrust\\n\\n Based on the engine used in Centaur upper stages, the A-5 model\\nhas a thrust champer designed for sea level operation and three-to-on\\nthrottling capability. It also is designed for repeat firings and rapid\\nturnaround.\\n\\n Worden said future single-stage rockets could employ\\ntri-propellant engine technology developed in the former Soviet Union.\\nThe resulting engines could burn a dense hydrocarbon fuel at takeoff and\\nthen switch to liquid hydrogen at higher altitudes.\\n\\n The mechanism for the teaming may already be in place. Pratt has\\na technology agreement with NPO Energomash, the design bureau responsible\\nfor the tri-propellant and Energia cryogenic engines.\\n\\n\\n',\n", " \"From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)\\nSubject: Re: Keeping Spacecraft on after Funding Cuts.\\nOrganization: U of Toronto Zoology\\nLines: 15\\n\\nIn article <19930423.010821.639@almaden.ibm.com> nicho@vnet.ibm.com writes:\\n>>Since we don't have the money to keep them going now, how will\\n>>changing them to a seperate agency help anything?\\n>>\\n>How about transferring control to a non-profit organisation that is\\n>able to accept donations to keep craft operational.\\n\\nThe problem is, you can't raise adequate amounts of money that way.\\nThe Viking Fund tried. They did succeed, in a way, but only because\\nof the political impact of their fundraising. The actual amount of\\nmoney they raised was fairly inconsequential; it would not have kept\\nthe Viking lander going by itself.\\n-- \\nAll work is one man's work. | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology\\n - Kipling | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry\\n\",\n", " 'Subject: Space FAQ 03/15 - Data Sources\\nFrom: leech@cs.unc.edu (Jon Leech)\\nExpires: 6 May 1993 19:55:35 GMT\\nOrganization: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill\\nKeywords: Frequently Asked Questions\\nSupersedes: \\nNNTP-Posting-Host: mahler.cs.unc.edu\\nLines: 463\\n\\nArchive-name: space/data\\nLast-modified: $Date: 93/04/01 14:39:07 $\\n\\nONLINE AND OTHER SOURCES OF IMAGES, DATA, ETC.\\n\\n\\nINTRODUCTION\\n\\n A wide variety of images, data, catalogs, information releases, and\\n other material dealing with space and astronomy may be found on the net.\\n A few sites offer direct dialup access or remote login access, while the\\n remainder support some form of file transfer. Many sites are listed as\\n providing \\'anonymous FTP\\'. This refers to the File Transfer Protocol on\\n the Internet. Sites not connected to the Internet cannot use FTP\\n directly, but there are a few automated FTP servers which operates via\\n email. Send mail containing only the word HELP to ftpmail@decwrl.dec.com\\n or bitftp@pucc.princeton.edu, and the servers will send you instructions\\n on how to make requests.\\n\\n The sources with the broadest selection of material are the NASA Ames\\n SPACE archive and the National Space Science Data Center.\\n\\n Don\\'t even ask for images to be posted to the net. The data volume is\\n huge and nobody wants to spend the time on it.\\n\\n\\nVIEWING IMAGES\\n\\n The possible combinations of image formats and machines is forebodingly\\n large, and I won\\'t attempt to cover common formats (GIF, etc.) here. To\\n read PDS and VICAR (and many other) formats on Unix systems running X,\\n use XV 2.11, available by anonymous FTP from export.lcs.mit.edu\\n (18.24.0.12) in contrib/xv-2.11.tar.Z and the other standard X11 FTP\\n sites.\\n\\n The FAQ for the Usenet group alt.binaries.pictures discusses image\\n formats and how to get image viewing software. A copy of this document\\n is available by anonymous FTP from the Usenet FAQ archives at\\n pit-manager.mit.edu (18.72.1.58), in directory\\n pub/usenet/alt.binaries.pictures.\\n\\n\\nONLINE ARCHIVES\\n\\n NASA AMES\\n\\n Extensive archives are maintained at NASA Ames and are available via\\n anonymous FTP or an email server. These archives include many images and\\n a wide variety of documents including this FAQ list, NASA press\\n releases, shuttle launch advisories, and mission status reports. Please\\n note that these are NOT maintained on an official basis.\\n\\n FTP users should connect to ames.arc.nasa.gov (128.102.18.3) and look in\\n pub/SPACE. pub/SPACE/Index contains a listing of files available in the\\n archive (the index is about 200K by itself).\\n\\n To access the archives by email, send a letter to\\n archive-server@ames.arc.nasa.gov (or ames!archive-server). In the\\n subject of your letter (or in the body), use commands like:\\n\\n\\tsend SPACE Index\\n\\tsend SPACE SHUTTLE/ss01.23.91.\\n\\n The capitalization of the subdirectory names is important. All are in\\n caps. Only text files are handled by the email server at present; use\\n one of the FTP email servers described in the introduction to this\\n section for images or programs.\\n\\n The Magellan Venus and Voyager Jupiter, Saturn, and Uranus CD-ROM image\\n disks have been put online in the CDROM and CDROM2 directories. The\\n disks will be rotated on a weekly basis. Thousands of images are\\n available in these collections.\\n\\n The GIF directory contains images in GIF format. The VICAR directory\\n contains Magellan images in VICAR format (these are also available in\\n the GIF directory). A PC program capable of displaying these files is\\n found in the IMDISP directory (see the item \"VIEWING IMAGES\" below).\\n\\n The NASA media guide describes the various NASA centers and how to\\n contact their public affairs officers; this may be useful when pursuing\\n specific information. It\\'s in MISC/media.guide.\\n\\n Any problems with the archive server should be reported to Peter Yee\\n (yee@ames.arc.nasa.gov).\\n\\n\\n NASA ASTROPHYSICS DATA SYSTEM\\n\\n The ADS is a distributed data retrieval system which is easy to use and\\n provides uniform access to ground-based and space-based astronomy data\\n from NASA data centers across the country. It currently has over 140\\n data catalogs of radio, infrared, optical, UV, and X-ray data which can\\n be queried by position or any other parameter in the catalog. The ADS\\n also provides tools to manipulate and plot tabular results. In addition,\\n ADS has a Beta version of an Abstracts Service which allows users to\\n query over 125,000 abstracts of astronomy papers since 1975 by authors,\\n keywords, title words, or abstract text words.\\n\\n ADS use requires direct Internet access. For more info and to sign up to\\n become a user, email ads@cuads.coloradu.edu. The User\\'s Guide and\\n \"QuickStart\" Guide are available by anonymous FTP to sao-ftp.harvard.edu\\n in directory pub/ads/ADS_User_Guide (PostScript files).\\n\\n Contact Carolyn Stern Grant (stern@cfa.harvard.edu).\\n\\n\\n NASA JET PROPULSION LAB (MISSION INFORMATION AND IMAGES)\\n\\n pubinfo.jpl.nasa.gov (128.149.6.2) is an anonymous FTP site operated by\\n the JPL Public Information Office, containing news releases, status\\n reports, fact sheets, images, and other data on JPL missions. It may\\n also be reached by modem at (818)-354-1333 (no parity, 8 data bits, 1\\n stop bit).\\n\\n Contact newsdesk@jplpost.jpl.nasa.gov or phone (818)-354-7170.\\n\\n\\n NASA LANGLEY (TECHNICAL REPORTS)\\n\\n techreports.larc.nasa.gov is an anonymous FTP site offering technical\\n reports. To get started, cd to directory pub/techreports/larc/92 and\\n retrieve files README and abstracts.92. Most files are compressed\\n PostScript. The reports are also in a WAIS database with the following\\n description:\\n\\n\\t(:source\\n\\t :version 3\\n\\t :ip-name \"techreports.larc.nasa.gov\"\\n\\t :tcp-port 210\\n\\t :database-name \"nasa-larc-abs\"\\n\\t :cost 0.00\\n\\t :cost-unit :free\\n\\t :maintainer \"M.L.Nelson@LaRC.NASA.GOV\"\\n\\t :description \"NASA Langley Research Center Technical Reports\\n\\n Contact tr-admin@techreports.larc.nasa.gov.\\n\\n\\n NASA SPACELINK\\n\\n SpaceLink is an online service located at Marshall Space Flight Center\\n in Huntsville, Alabama. The system is specifically designed for\\n teachers. The data base is arranged to provide easy access to current\\n and historical information on NASA aeronautics, space research, and\\n technology transfer information. Also included are suggested classroom\\n activities that incorporate information on NASA projects to teach a\\n number of scientific principles. Unlike bulletin board systems, NASA\\n Spacelink does not provide for interaction between callers. However it\\n does allow teachers and other callers to leave questions and comments\\n for NASA which may be answered by regular mail. Messages are answered\\n electronically, even to acknowledge requests which will be fulfilled by\\n mail. Messages are generally handled the next working day except during\\n missions when turnaround times increase. The mail system is closed-loop\\n between the user and NASA.\\n\\n SpaceLink also offers downloadable shareware and public domain programs\\n useful for science educators as well as space graphics and GIF images\\n from NASA\\'s planetary probes and the Hubble Telescope.\\n\\n You can dial in at (205)-895-0028 (300/1200/2400/9600(V.32) baud, 8\\n bits, no parity, 1 stop bit), or telnet to spacelink.msfc.nasa.gov\\n (128.158.13.250, also known as xsl.msfc.nasa.gov) if you\\'re on the\\n Internet. Anonymous FTP capability (password guest) is now available.\\n\\n Most of this information is also available from the Ames server in\\n directory SPACELINK.\\n\\n\\n NATIONAL SPACE SCIENCE DATA CENTER (NSSDC)\\n\\n The National Space Science Data Center is the official clearinghouse for\\n NASA data. The data catalog (*not* the data itself) is available online.\\n Internet users can telnet to nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov (128.183.36.23) and\\n log in as \\'NODIS\\' (no password). You can also get the catalog by sending\\n email to \\'request@nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov\\'.\\n\\n You can also dial in at (301)-286-9000 (300, 1200, or 2400 baud, 8 bits,\\n no parity, one stop). At the \"Enter Number:\" prompt, enter MD and\\n carriage return. When the system responds \"Call Complete,\" enter a few\\n more carriage returns to get the \"Username:\" and log in as \\'NODIS\\' (no\\n password).\\n\\n The system is menu-driven; topics available as of 3/93 are:\\n\\n\\t1 -\\tMaster Directory - NASA & Global Change\\n\\t2 -\\tPersonnel Information Management System\\n\\t3 -\\tNimbus-7 GRID TOMS Data\\n\\t4 -\\tInterplanetary Medium Data (OMNI)\\n\\t5 -\\tRequest data and/or information from NSSDC\\n\\t6 -\\tGeophysical Models\\n\\t7 -\\tCANOPUS Newsletter\\n\\t8 -\\tInternational Ultraviolet Explorer Data Request\\n\\t9 -\\tCZCS Browse and Order Utility\\n\\t10 -\\tAstronomical Data Center (ADC)\\n\\t11 -\\tSTEP Bulletin Board Service\\n\\t12 -\\tStandards and Technology Information System\\n\\t13 -\\tPlanetary Science & Magellan Project Information\\n\\t14 -\\tOther Online Data Services at NSSDC\\n\\t15 -\\tCD-ROMS Available at NSSDC\\n\\n For users with Internet access, datasets are made available via\\n anonymous FTP once you select the desired datasets from the online\\n catalog. For other users, data may be ordered on CD-ROM and in other\\n formats. Among the many types of data available are Voyager, Magellan,\\n and other planetary images, Earth observation data, and star catalogs.\\n Viewers for Macintosh and IBM systems are also available. As an example\\n of the cost, an 8 CD set of Voyager images is $75. Data may ordered\\n online, by email, or by physical mail. The postal address is:\\n\\n\\tNational Space Science Data Center\\n\\tRequest Coordination Office\\n\\tGoddard Space Flight Center\\n\\tCode 633\\n\\tGreenbelt, MD 20771\\n\\n\\tTelephone: (301) 286-6695\\n\\n\\tEmail address:\\t request@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov\\n\\n\\n SPACE TELESCOPE SCIENCE INSTITUTE ELECTRONIC INFORMATION SERVICE\\n\\n stsci.edu (130.167.1.2) has a large amount of information about the\\n Hubble Space Telescope available by anonymous FTP, such as status\\n reports and newsletters, in addition to material oriented towards HST\\n observers and proposers. Get the top level README file to begin with.\\n Contact Pete Reppert (reppert@stsci.edu) or Chris O\\'Dea\\n (odea@stsci.edu).\\n\\n\\n STARCAT\\n\\n The Space Telescope European Coordination Facility, at ESO/Garching\\n provides on-line access to a huge astronomical database, featuring\\n\\n\\t- Observation log files of several satellites/telescopes\\n\\t (IUE,IRAS,HST,NTT...).\\n\\t- Spectra and images (IUE, HST).\\n\\t- Most of the astronomical catalogues (SAO, HR, NGC, PPM, IRAS,\\n\\t Veron, GSC and many others, more than 50) in a very convenient\\n\\t way (give center+radius+kind of objects, and you get the\\n\\t corresponding files!).\\n\\n Log on as ``starcat\\'\\' (no password) on node stesis.hq.eso.org\\n (134.171.8.100) or on STESIS (DECnet). The files created can be\\n retreived by FTP. Contact: Benoit Pirenne, bpirenne@eso.org (phone +49\\n 89 320 06 433) at ST-ECF\\n\\n\\n ASTRONOMICAL DATABASES\\n\\n The full SAO stellar database is *NOT* available online, probably due to\\n the 40 MB size. It may be ordered on magnetic tape from the NSSDC. A\\n subset containing position and magnitude only is available by FTP (see\\n \"Astronomy Programs\" below).\\n\\n nic.funet.fi (128.214.6.100) has a large collection of astronomical\\n programs for many types of computers, databases of stars and deep sky\\n objects, and general astronomy information in directory /pub/astro. This\\n site is mainly for European users, but overseas connections are\\n possible.\\n\\n The Ames archives contain a database of 8,436 galaxies including name,\\n RA, declination, magnitude, and radial velocity in MISC/galaxy.dat.\\n Supplied by Wayne Hayes (wayne@csri.utoronto.ca).\\n\\n iris1.ucis.dal.ca (129.173.18.107) has a number of GIFs from Voyager,\\n Hubble, and other sources available by anonymous FTP in pub/gif (most of\\n this data is also in SPACE/GIF on the Ames server). Please restrict\\n access to 5pm - 8am Atlantic time.\\n\\n pomona.claremont.edu has the Yale Bright Star catalog for anonymous FTP\\n in directory [.YALE_BSC]. Contact James Dishaw\\n (jdishaw@hmcvax.claremont.edu).\\n\\n The Hubble Guide Star catalog is available on CD-ROM for the Mac and PC\\n for $49.95 US (catalog # ST101).\\n\\n\\tAstronomical Society of the Pacific\\n\\t390 Ashton Ave.\\n\\tSan Francisco, CA 94112\\n\\tPhone: (415) 337-2624 9 AM - 3 PM Pacific Time\\n\\tFAX: (415) 337-5205\\n\\n For German (and possibly other European) readers, Jost Jahn has a\\n service to distribute astronomical data to interested amateurs at cost.\\n About 30-40 catalogs are available for DM 6..8/disk. Several floppy disk\\n formats are available. Because of the expense of receiving email on his\\n system, he asks that you contact him by physical mail:\\n\\n\\tJost Jahn\\n\\tNeustaedter Strasse 11\\n\\tW-3123 Bodenteich\\n\\tGERMANY\\n\\tPhone: FRG-5824-3197\\n\\n\\n ASTRONOMY PROGRAMS\\n\\n Various astronomy-related programs and databases posted to the net in\\n the past are archived for anonymous FTP at multiple sites, including\\n ftp.uu.net (137.39.1.9). Also see the ASTRO-FTP list posted to sci.astro\\n monthly, which is more complete than this list.\\n\\n Astonomical/Space-related sources of interest in comp.sources.unix:\\n\\n Volume 8:\\t phoon\\tmoon phase and date routines\\n Volume 12,13: starchart\\tstarchart program & Yale Star data\\n Volume 15:\\t moontool\\tshows moon phase picture on Suns\\n Volume 16:\\t sao\\t\\treduced SAO catalog\\n\\n Astonomical/Space-related sources of interest in comp.sources.misc:\\n\\n Volume 8:\\t moon\\tanother moon phase program\\n Volume 11:\\t starchart\\tstarchart program, version 3.2\\n Volume 11:\\t n3emo-orbit orbit: track earth satellites\\n Volume 12:\\t starchart2\\tstarchart program, update to version 3.2.1\\n Volume 13:\\t jupmoons\\tplotter for Jupiter\\'s major moons [in perl]\\n Volume 13:\\t lunisolar\\tlunisolar (not sure what this does)\\n Volume 14:\\t ephem-4.21\\tastronomical ephemeris, v4.21\\n Volume 14:\\t n3emo-orbit patch to orbit 3.7\\n Volume 18:\\t planet\\tplanet generation simulator\\n\\n Elwood Downey (e_downey@tasha.cca.cr.rockwell.com), the author of\\n \"ephem\", has offered to mail copies to people who can\\'t find it on one\\n of the archives.\\n\\n XSAT, an X Window System based satellite tracking program, is\\n available by anonymous FTP from export.lcs.mit.edu (18.24.0.12) in\\n contrib/xsat1.0.tar.Z. Contact Dave Curry (davy@ecn.purdue.edu)\\n for more information.\\n\\n Xsky, a computerized sky atlas for the X Window System, is available for\\n anonymous FTP on arizona.edu in the directory [.SOFTWARE.UNIX.XSKY] as\\n xsky.tarz. Contact Terry R. Friedrichsen (terry@venus.sunquest.com) for\\n more information.\\n\\n The \"Variable Stars Analysis Software Archive\" is available via\\n anonymous FTP from kauri.vuw.ac.nz (130.195.11.3) in directory\\n pub/astrophys. This is intended for specialists in this field, and they\\n would appreciate people from outside New Zealand confining their FTP\\n access to the astrophys directory, as they pay a significant amount for\\n Internet access. Contents are relatively sparse at present due to the\\n youth of the archive - contributions are encouraged. Contact the archive\\n administrator, Timothy Banks (bankst@kauri.vuw.ac.nz) for more\\n information.\\n\\n The \"IDL Astronomy Users Library\" is available by anonymous FTP from\\n idlastro.gsfc.nasa.gov (128.183.57.82). This is a central repository for\\n general purpose astronomy procedures written in IDL, a commercial image\\n processing, plotting, and programming language. Contact Wayne Landsman\\n (landsman@stars.gsfc.nasa.gov) for more information.\\n\\n\\n ORBITAL ELEMENT SETS\\n\\n The most recent orbital elements from the NASA Prediction Bulletins are\\n carried on the Celestial BBS, (513)-427-0674. Documentation and tracking\\n software are also available on this system. The Celestial BBS may be\\n accessed 24 hours/day at 300, 1200, or 2400 baud using 8 data bits, 1\\n stop bit, no parity.\\n\\n Orbital element sets are available via anonymous FTP from the\\n following sites:\\n\\n archive.afit.af.mil (129.92.1.66)\\t NASA,TVRO,Shuttle\\n directory: /pub/space\\n\\n ftp.funet.fi (128.214.6.100)\\t NASA,TVRO,Molczan,CelBBS,\\n directory: /pub/astro/pc/satel\\t Shuttle (*)\\n\\n kilroy.jpl.nasa.gov (128.149.1.165) NASA,Molczan\\n directory: /pub/space/\\n\\n\\n SPACE DIGEST ARCHIVES\\n\\n Copies of back issues of Space Digest are archived on\\n LISTSERV@UGA.BITNET. Send mail containing the message \"INDEX SPACE\" to\\n get an index of files; send it the message \"GET filename filetype\" to\\n get a particular file.\\n\\n\\nLANDSAT AND NASA PHOTOS\\n\\n You can get black-and-white 1:1M prints, negatives, or positives for\\n $10, $18, $12 respectively for any Landsat data more than 2 years old\\n from EDC, (Eros (Earth Resources Orbiting Satellite) Data Center). Call\\n them at (605)-594-6511. You get 80 meter resolution from the MSS\\n scanner, 135x180 kilometers on a picture 135x180 mm in size. I think you\\n have to select one band from (green, red, near IR, second near IR), but\\n I\\'m not sure. Digitial data is also available at higher prices.\\n\\n Transparencies of all NASA photos available to the public can be\\n borrowed from the NASA photo archive; you can have copies or prints\\n made.\\n\\n\\t NASA Audio-Visual Facility\\n\\t 918 North Rengstorff Ave\\n\\t Mountain View, CA 94043\\n\\t (415)-604-6270\\n\\n\\nPLANETARY MAPS\\n\\n The USGS address for maps of the planets is:\\n\\n U.S. Geological Survey,\\n Distribution Branch,\\n Box 25286, Federal Center, Bldg. 41\\n Denver, CO 80225\\n\\n Maps cost $2.40 to $3.10 per sheet (a few come in sets of 2 or 3 sheets).\\n\\n The best global maps of Mars based on Viking images are 1:15,000,000\\n scale in 3 sheets. These maps are:\\n\\n I-1535 (2 sheets only) - relief, albedo, names\\n I-1535\\n I-1618 (3 sheets) - relief, names\\n I-2030 (3 sheets) - relief, topographic contours\\n I-1802-A,B,C (3 sheets) - geology\\n\\n There are many other maps as well: 30 sheets at 1:5,000,000 scale in\\n relief, albedo, geology, photomosaic forms (not all 30 sheets available\\n in all formats); 140 sheets at 1:2,000,000 scale as photomosaics of the\\n whole planet, about 100 sheets of interesting sites at 1:500,000 scale\\n in photomosaic format, and lots of special sheets.\\n\\n Then there are maps of Mercury, Venus, the Moon, the four Galilean\\n Satellites, six moons of Saturn and five of Uranus. [Phil Stooke\\n (stooke@vaxr.sscl.uwo.ca), the author of this item, has offered to\\n respond to email requests for information on any topic relating to lunar\\n and planetary maps.]\\n\\n\\nCOMETARY ORBIT DATA\\n\\n The Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams and the Minor Planet\\n Center announce the sixth edition of the Catalogue of Cometary Orbits in\\n IAU Circular 4935. The catalogue contains 1292 entries which represent\\n all known comets through November 1989 and is 96 pages long.\\n Non-subscribers to the Circulars may purchase the catalogue for $15.00\\n while the cost to subscribers is $7.50. The basic catalogue in ASCII\\n along with a program to extract specific orbits and calculate\\n ephemerides is available on MS-DOS 5.25-inch 2S2D diskette at a cost of\\n $75.00 (the program requires an 8087 math coprocessor). The catalogue\\n alone is also available by e-mail for $37.50 or on magnetic tape for\\n $300.00.\\n\\n Except for the printed version of the catalogue, the various magnetic\\n media or e-mail forms of the catalogue do not specifically meantion\\n non-subscribers. It is possible that these forms of the catalogue may\\n not be available to non-subscribers or that their prices may be more\\n expensive than those given. Mail requests for specific information and\\n orders to:\\n\\n\\tCentral Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams\\n\\tSmithsonian Astrophysical Observatory\\n\\tCambridge, MA 02138, USA\\n\\n\\nNEXT: FAQ #4/15 - Performing calculations and interpreting data formats\\n',\n", " 'From: kelley@vet.vet.purdue.edu (Stephen Kelley)\\nSubject: Re: Should I be angry at this doctor?\\nOrganization: Purdue University SVM\\nDistribution: na\\nLines: 32\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr21.155714.1@stsci.edu> mryan@stsci.edu writes:\\n- Am I justified in being pissed off at this doctor?\\n- \\n- Last Saturday evening my 6 year old son cut his finger badly with a knife.\\n- I took him to a local \"Urgent and General Care\" clinic at 5:50 pm. The \\n\\n\\t[story deleted]\\n\\n- be bothered. My son did get three stitches at the emergency room. I\\'m still \\n- trying to find out who is in charge of that clinic so I can write them a \\n- letter. We will certainly never set foot in that clinic again.\\n- \\n\\nThe people in charge already know what kind of \\'care\\' they are \\nproviding, and they don\\'t give a rat\\'s ass about your repeat business.\\n\\nYou are much more likely to do some good writing to local newspapers,\\nand broadcast news shows. If you do, keep the letter short and to the point\\nso they don\\'t discard it out of hand, and emphasize exactly what you\\nare upset about.\\n\\nIt\\'s possible that the local health department can help you complain to \\nsomeone official, but really, that \\'clinic\\' exists for the sole purpose \\nof generating walk-in income through advertising, and *nothing* you can do \\nwill change them -- all you can hope for is to help someone else avoid them.\\n\\nI\\'m glad it sounds like your son did ok, anyway.\\n\\nMy opinion only, of course,\\nSteve\\n\\n\\n',\n", " \"From: SASTLS@MVS.sas.com (Tamara Shaffer)\\nSubject: Re: seizures ( infantile spasms )\\nNntp-Posting-Host: sdcmvs.mvs.sas.com\\nOrganization: SAS Institute Inc.\\nLines: 16\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr20.184034.13779@dbased.nuo.dec.com>,\\ndufault@lftfld.enet.dec.com (MD) writes:\\n \\n>\\n> The reason I'm posting this article to this newsgroup is to:\\n>1. gather any information about this disorder from anyone who might\\n> have recently been *e*ffected by it ( from being associated with\\n> it or actually having this disorder ) and\\n>2. help me find out where I can access any medical literature associated\\n> with seizures over the internet.\\n \\nI tried to e-mail you but it bounced back. Please e-mail me and\\nI will give you someone's name who might be very helpful. You might\\nalso post your message to misc.kids.\\nTAMARA\\nsastls@mvs.sas.com\\n\",\n", " 'From: rlennip4@mach1.wlu.ca (robert lennips 9209 U)\\nSubject: Re: PLANETS STILL: IMAGES ORBIT BY ETHER TWIST\\nX-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]\\nOrganization: Wilfrid Laurier University\\nLines: 2\\n\\nPlease get a REAL life.\\n\\n',\n", " \"From: nyeda@cnsvax.uwec.edu (David Nye)\\nSubject: Re: Can't Breathe\\nOrganization: University of Wisconsin Eau Claire\\nLines: 15\\n\\n[reply to ron.roth@rose.com (ron roth)]\\n \\n>While you're right that the S vertebrae are attached to each other,\\n>the sacrum, to my knowledge, *can* be adjusted either directly, or\\n>by applying pressure on the pubic bone...\\n \\nRon, you're an endless source of misinformation! There ARE no sacral\\nvertebrae. There is a bone called the sacrum at the end of the spine.\\nIt is a single, solid bone except in a few patients who have a\\nlumbarized S1 as a normal variant. How do you adjust a solid bone,\\nbreak it? No, don't tell me, I don't want to know.\\n \\nDavid Nye (nyeda@cnsvax.uwec.edu). Midelfort Clinic, Eau Claire WI\\nThis is patently absurd; but whoever wishes to become a philosopher\\nmust learn not to be frightened by absurdities. -- Bertrand Russell\\n\",\n", " \"From: billc@col.hp.com (Bill Claussen)\\nSubject: RE: alt.psychoactives\\nOrganization: HP Colorado Springs Division\\nLines: 35\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: hpcspe17.col.hp.com\\n\\nFYI...I just posted this on alt.psychoactives as a response to\\nwhat the group is for......\\n\\n\\nA note to the users of alt.psychoactives....\\n\\nThis group was originally a takeoff from sci.med. The reason for\\nthe formation of this group was to discuss prescription psychoactive\\ndrugs....such as antidepressents(tri-cyclics, Prozac, Lithium,etc),\\nantipsychotics(Melleral(sp?), etc), OCD drugs(Anafranil, etc), and\\nso on and so forth. It didn't take long for this group to degenerate\\ninto a psudo alt.drugs atmosphere. That's to bad, for most of the\\nserious folks that wanted to start this group in the first place have\\nleft and gone back to sci.med, where you have to cypher through\\nhundreds of unrelated articles to find psychoactive data.\\n\\nIt was also to discuss real-life experiences and side effects of\\nthe above mentioned.\\n\\nOh well, I had unsubscribed to this group for some time, and I decided\\nto check it today to see if anything had changed....nope....same old\\nnine or ten crap articles that this group was never intended for.\\n\\nI think it is very hard to have a meaningfull group without it\\nbeing moderated...too bad.\\n\\nOh well, obviously, no one really cares.\\n\\nBill Claussen\\n\\n\\nWould anyone be interested in starting a similar moderated group?\\n\\nBill Claussen\\n\\n\",\n", " 'From: matthew@phantom.gatech.edu (Matthew DeLuca)\\nSubject: Re: Boom! Whoosh......\\nOrganization: The Dorsai Grey Captains\\nLines: 13\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: oit.gatech.edu\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr21.024423.29182@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> wdwells@nyx.cs.du.edu (David \"Fuzzy\" Wells) writes:\\n\\n>I hear that it will supposedly coincide\\n>with the Atlanta Olympics. \\n\\nEven worse, the city of Atlanta has a proposal before it to rent space on this\\norbiting billboard. Considering the caliber of people running this city, \\nthere\\'s no telling what we\\'re going to have leering down at us from orbit.\\n-- \\nMatthew DeLuca\\nGeorgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332\\nuucp:\\t ...!{decvax,hplabs,ncar,purdue,rutgers}!gatech!prism!matthew\\nInternet: matthew@phantom.gatech.edu\\n',\n", " \"From: mcovingt@aisun3.ai.uga.edu (Michael Covington)\\nSubject: Re: Any info. on Vasomotor Rhinitis\\nOrganization: AI Programs, University of Georgia, Athens\\nLines: 15\\nNntp-Posting-Host: aisun3.ai.uga.edu\\n\\n(Disclaimer: I'm a sufferer, not a doctor.)\\n\\nI'm not sure there's a really sharp distinction between allergic and\\nvasomotor rhinitis. Basically, vasomotor rhinitis means your nose is\\nstuffy when it has no reason to be (not even an identifiable allergy).\\n\\nDecongestants and steroid sprays work for vasomotor rhinitis. Also,\\nI can get surprising relief from purely superficial measures such as\\nsaline moisturizing spray and moisturizing gel.\\n\\n-- \\n:- Michael A. Covington, Associate Research Scientist : *****\\n:- Artificial Intelligence Programs mcovingt@ai.uga.edu : *********\\n:- The University of Georgia phone 706 542-0358 : * * *\\n:- Athens, Georgia 30602-7415 U.S.A. amateur radio N4TMI : ** *** ** <><\\n\",\n", " \"From: markmc@halcyon.com (Mark McWiggins)\\nSubject: Re: Barbecued foods and health risk\\nOrganization: Northwest Nexus Inc.\\nLines: 5\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: nwfocus.wa.com\\n\\nAlso, don't forget that it's better for your health to enjoy your steak\\nthan to resent your sprouts ...\\n-- \\nMark McWiggins Hermes & Associates\\t\\t+1 206 632 1905 (voice)\\nmarkmc@halcyon.com Box 31356, Seattle WA 98103-1356 +1 206 632 1738 (fax)\\n\",\n", " 'From: rind@enterprise.bih.harvard.edu (David Rind)\\nSubject: Re: Arrhythmia\\nOrganization: Beth Israel Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston Mass., USA\\nLines: 26\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: enterprise.bih.harvard.edu\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr22.205509.23198@husc3.harvard.edu>\\n perry1@husc10.harvard.edu (Alexis Perry) writes:\\n>In article <1993Apr22.031423.1@vaxc.stevens-tech.edu>\\n u96_averba@vaxc.stevens-tech.edu writes:\\n\\n>>doctors said that he could die from it, and the medication caused\\n\\n>\\tIs it that serious? My EKG often comes back with a few irregular\\n>beats. Another question: Is a low blood potassium level very bad? My\\n>doctor seems concerned, but she tends to worry too much in general.\\n\\nThe term arrhythmia is usually used to encompass a wide range of abnormal\\nheart rhythms (cardiac dysrhythmias). Some of them are very serious\\nwhile others are completely benign. Having \"a few irregular beats\"\\non an EKG could be serious depending on what those beats were and\\nwhen they occurred, or could be of no significance.\\n\\nLow blood potassium levels probably predispose people with underlying\\nheart disease to develop arrhythmias. Very low potassium levels are\\nclearly dangerous, but it is not clear how much of a problem\\nlow-end-of-normal levels are: a lot of cardiologists seem to treat\\nanyone with even a mildly low-normal potassium level.\\n\\n-- \\nDavid Rind\\nrind@enterprise.bih.harvard.edu\\n',\n", " 'From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nSubject: Re: food-related seizures?\\nReply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nOrganization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science\\nLines: 21\\n\\nIn article <116305@bu.edu> dozonoff@bu.edu (david ozonoff) writes:\\n>\\n>Many of these cereals are corn-based. After your post I looked in the\\n>literature and located two articles that implicated corn (contains\\n>tryptophan) and seizures. The idea is that corn in the diet might\\n>potentiate an already existing or latent seizure disorder, not cause it.\\n>Check to see if the two Kellog cereals are corn based. I\\'d be interested.\\n\\nYears ago when I was an intern, an obese young woman was brought into\\nthe ER comatose after having been reported to have grand mal seizures\\nwhy attending a \"corn festival\". We pumped her stomach and obtained\\nwhat seemed like a couple of liters of corn, much of it intact kernals. \\nAfter a few hours she woke up and was fine. I was tempted to sign her out as\\n\"acute corn intoxication.\"\\n\\n\\n-- \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nGordon Banks N3JXP | \"Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and\\ngeb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu | it is shameful to surrender it too soon.\" \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n',\n", " 'From: baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov (Ron Baalke)\\nSubject: Re: Life on Mars???\\nOrganization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory\\nLines: 24\\nDistribution: world\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov\\nNews-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41 \\n\\nIn article , henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes...\\n>In article <1993Apr20.120311.1@pa881a.inland.com> schiewer@pa881a.inland.com (Don Schiewer) writes:\\n>There are currently no particular plans to do any further searches for life.\\n\\nNot quite true. One of the instruments on Mars Observer will be searching\\nfor potential fossil sites. \\n\\n>>Are we going back to Mars to look at this face agian?\\n> \\n>Mars Observer, currently approaching Mars, will probably try to get a better\\n>image or two of the \"face\" at some point. It\\'s not high priority; nobody\\n>takes it very seriously. The shadowed half of the face does not look very\\n>face-like, so all it will take is one shot at a different sun angle to ruin\\n>the illusion.\\n\\nThe face and the Viking landing sites will be targeted by the high-resolution\\ncamera on Mars Observer.\\n ___ _____ ___\\n /_ /| /____/ \\\\ /_ /| Ron Baalke | baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov\\n | | | | __ \\\\ /| | | | Jet Propulsion Lab |\\n ___| | | | |__) |/ | | |__ M/S 525-3684 Telos | The aweto from New Zealand\\n/___| | | | ___/ | |/__ /| Pasadena, CA 91109 | is part caterpillar and\\n|_____|/ |_|/ |_____|/ | part vegetable.\\n\\n',\n", " 'From: cain@geomag.gly.fsu.edu (Joe Cain)\\nSubject: Re: Keeping Spacecraft on after Funding Cuts.\\nOrganization: Florida State University Geology Dept.\\nLines: 4\\n\\nThis discussion is better followed in talk.politics.space\\nJoseph Cain\\t\\tcain@geomag.gly.fsu.edu \\ncain@fsu.bitnet\\t\\tscri::cain\\n(904) 644-4014\\t\\tFAX (904) 644-4214 or -0098\\n',\n", " 'From: jscotti@lpl.arizona.edu (Jim Scotti)\\nSubject: Re: Comet in Temporary Orbit Around Jupiter?\\nOrganization: Lunar & Planetary Laboratory, Tucson AZ.\\nLines: 33\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr21.170817.15845@sq.sq.com> msb@sq.sq.com (Mark Brader) writes:\\n>\\n>> > > Also, peri[jove]s of Gehrels3 were:\\n>> > > \\n>> > > April 1973 83 jupiter radii\\n>> > > August 1970 ~3 jupiter radii\\n>\\n>> > Where 1 Jupiter radius = 71,000 km = 44,000 mi = 0.0005 AU. ...\\n>\\n>> Sorry, _perijoves_...I\\'m not used to talking this language.\\n>\\n>Thanks again. One final question. The name Gehrels wasn\\'t known to\\n>me before this thread came up, but the May issue of Scientific American\\n>has an article about the \"Inconstant Cosmos\", with a photo of Neil\\n>Gehrels, project scientist for NASA\\'s Compton Gamma Ray Observatory.\\n>Same person?\\n\\nNeil Gehrels is Prof. Tom Gehrels son. Tom Gehrels was the discoverer\\nof P/Gehrels 3 (as well as about 4 other comets - the latest of which\\ndoes not bear his name, but rather the name \"Spacewatch\" since he was\\nobserving with that system when he found the latest comet). \\n\\n>-- \\n>Mark Brader, SoftQuad Inc., Toronto\\t\"Information! ... We want information!\"\\n>utzoo!sq!msb, msb@sq.com\\t\\t\\t\\t-- The Prisoner\\n\\n---------------------------------------------\\nJim Scotti \\n{jscotti@lpl.arizona.edu}\\nLunar & Planetary Laboratory\\nUniversity of Arizona\\nTucson, AZ 85721 USA\\n---------------------------------------------\\n',\n", " 'From: jim.zisfein@factory.com (Jim Zisfein) \\nSubject: Need advice with doctor-patient relationship problem\\nDistribution: world\\nOrganization: Invention Factory\\'s BBS - New York City, NY - 212-274-8298v.32bis\\nReply-To: jim.zisfein@factory.com (Jim Zisfein) \\nLines: 13\\n\\nML> From: libman@hsc.usc.edu (Marlena Libman)\\nML> I need advice with a situation which occurred between me and a physican\\nML> which upset me.\\n\\nML> My questions: (1) Should I continue to have this doctor manage my care?\\n\\nThat\\'s easy: No. You wouldn\\'t take your computer into a repair\\nshop where they were rude to you, even if they were competent in\\ntheir business. Why would you take your own body into a \"repair\\nshop\" where the \"repairman\" has such a bad attitude?\\n---\\n . SLMR 2.1 . E-mail: jim.zisfein@factory.com (Jim Zisfein)\\n \\n',\n", " 'From: zowie@daedalus.stanford.edu (Craig \"Powderkeg\" DeForest)\\nSubject: Re: Cold Gas tanks for Sounding Rockets\\nOrganization: Stanford Center for Space Science and Astrophysics\\nLines: 29\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: daedalus.stanford.edu\\nIn-reply-to: rdl1@ukc.ac.uk\\'s message of 16 Apr 93 14:28:07 GMT\\n\\nIn article <3918@eagle.ukc.ac.uk> rdl1@ukc.ac.uk (R.D.Lorenz) writes:\\n >Does anyone know how to size cold gas roll control thruster tanks\\n >for sounding rockets?\\n\\n Well, first you work out how much cold gas you need, then make the\\n tanks big enough.\\n\\nOur sounding rocket payload, with telemetry, guidance, etc. etc. and a\\ntelescope cluster, weighs around 1100 pounds. It uses freon jets for\\nsteering and a pulse-width-modulated controller for alignment (ie\\nduring our eight minutes in space, the jets are pretty much\\ncontinuously firing on a ~10% duty cycle or so...). The jets also\\nneed to kill residual angular momentum from the spin stabilization, and\\nflip the payload around to look at the Sun.\\n\\nWe have two freon tanks, each holding ~5 liters of freon (I\\'m speaking\\nonly from memory of the last flight). The ground crew at WSMR choose how\\nmuch freon to use based on some black-magic algorithm. They have\\nextra tank modules that just bolt into the payload stack.\\n\\nThis should give you an idea of the order of magnitude for cold gas \\nquantity. If you really need to know, send me email and I\\'ll try to get you\\nin touch with our ground crew people.\\n\\nCheers,\\nCraig\\n\\n--\\nDON\\'T DRINK SOAP! DILUTE DILUTE! OK!\\n',\n", " 'From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nSubject: Re: Homeopathy: a respectable medical tradition?\\nReply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nOrganization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science\\nLines: 26\\n\\nIn article jag@ampex.com (Rayaz Jagani) writes:\\n\\n>\\n>From Miranda Castro, _The Complete Homeopathy Handbook_,\\n>ISBN 0-312-06320-2, oringinally published in Britain in 1990.\\n>\\n>From Page 10,\\n>.. and in 1946, when the National Health Service was established,\\n>homeopathy was included as an officially approved method\\n>of treatment.\\n\\nI was there in 1976. I suppose it must have died out since 1946,\\nthen. Certainly I never heard of any homeopaths or herbalists in\\nthe employ of the NHS. Perhaps the law codified it but the authorities\\nrefused to hire any homeopaths. A similar law in the US allows\\nchiropractors to practice in VA hospitals but I\\'ve never seen one\\nthere and I don\\'t know of a single VA that has hired a chiropractor.\\nThere are a lot of Britons on the net, so someone should be able to\\ntell us if the NHS provides homeopaths for you.\\n\\n\\n-- \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nGordon Banks N3JXP | \"Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and\\ngeb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu | it is shameful to surrender it too soon.\" \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n',\n", " \"From: molnar@Bisco.CAnet.CA (Tom Molnar)\\nSubject: sudden numbness in arm\\nOrganization: UTCC\\nLines: 30\\n\\nI experienced a sudden numbness in my left arm this morning. Just after\\nI completed my 4th set of deep squats. Today was my weight training\\nday and I was just beginning my routine. All of a sudden at the end of\\nthe 4th set my arm felt like it had gone to sleep. It was cold, turned pale,\\nand lost 60% of its strength. The weight I used for squats wasn't that\\nheavy, I was working hard but not at 100% effort. I waited for a few \\nminutes, trying to shake the arm back to life and then continued with\\nchest exercises (flyes) with lighter dumbells than I normally use. But\\nI dropped the left dumbell during the first set, and experienced continued\\narm weakness into the second. So I quit training and decided not to do my\\nusual hour on the ski machine either. I'll take it easy for the rest of\\nthe day.\\n\\nMy arm is *still* somewhat numb and significantly weaker than normal --\\nmy hand still tingles a bit down to the thumb. Color has returned to normal\\nand it is no longer cold. \\n\\nHorrid thoughts of chunks of plaque blocking a major artery course through\\nmy brain. I'm 34, vegetarian, and pretty fit from my daily exercise\\nregimen. So that can't be it. Could a pinched nerve from the bar\\ncause these symptoms (I hope)?\\n\\nHas this happened to anyone else?\\nNothing like this has ever happened to me before. Does it come with age?\\n\\nThanks,\\nTom\\n-- \\nTom Molnar\\nUnix Systems Group, University of Toronto Computing & Communications.\\n\",\n", " 'From: dchien@hougen.seas.ucla.edu (David H. Chien)\\nSubject: Orbit data - help needed\\nOrganization: SEASnet, University of California, Los Angeles\\nLines: 43\\n\\nI have the \"osculating elements at perigee\" of an orbit, which I need\\nto convert to something useful, preferably distance from the earth\\nin evenly spaced time intervals. A GSM coordinate system is preferable,\\nbut I convert from other systems. C, pascal, or fortran code, or\\nif you can point me to a book or something that\\'d be great.\\n\\nhere\\'s the first few lines of the file.\\n\\n0 ()\\n1 (2X, A3, 7X, A30)\\n2 (2X, I5, 2X, A3, 2X, E24.18)\\n3 (4X, A3, 7X, E24.18)\\n1 SMA SEMI-MAJOR AXIS\\n1 ECC ECCENTRICITY\\n1 INC INCLINATION\\n1 OMG RA OF ASCENDING NODE\\n1 POM ARGUMENT OF PERICENTRE\\n1 TRA TRUE ANOMALY\\n1 HAP APOCENTRE HEIGHT\\n1 HPE PERICENTRE HEIGHT\\n2 3 BEG 0.167290000000000000E+05\\n3 SMA 0.829159999999995925E+05\\n3 ECC 0.692307999999998591E+00\\n3 INC 0.899999999999999858E+02\\n3 OMG 0.184369999999999994E+03\\n3 POM 0.336549999999999955E+03\\n3 TRA 0.359999999999999943E+03\\n3 HAP 0.133941270127999174E+06\\n3 HPE 0.191344498719999910E+05\\n2 1 REF 0.167317532658774153E+05\\n3 SMA 0.829125167527418671E+05\\n3 ECC 0.691472268118590319E+00\\n3 INC 0.899596754214342091E+02\\n3 OMG 0.184377521828175002E+03\\n3 POM 0.336683788851850579E+03\\n3 TRA 0.153847166458030088E-05\\n3 HAP 0.133866082767180880E+06\\n3 HPE 0.192026707383028306E+05\\n\\nThanks in advance,\\n\\nlarry kepko\\nlkepko@igpp.ucla.edu\\n',\n", " \"From: prb@access.digex.com (Pat)\\nSubject: Re: Moonbase race, NASA resources, why?\\nOrganization: Express Access Online Communications USA\\nLines: 9\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: access.digex.net\\n\\n\\nHenry,\\n\\ndidn't the Little Joe and Big Joe get built in under a year?\\n6 months for little Joe, and 12 Months for Big Joe?\\n\\ni thought i saw something on that for a old mercury film.\\n\\npat\\n\",\n", " 'From: steinly@topaz.ucsc.edu (Steinn Sigurdsson)\\nSubject: Re: Commercial mining activities on the moon\\nOrganization: Lick Observatory/UCO\\nLines: 26\\n\\t<1993Apr20.204838.13217@cs.rochester.edu>\\t\\t<1993Apr20.223807.16712@cs.rochester.edu>,\\n\\t<1r46j3INN14j@mojo.eng.umd.edu>\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: topaz.ucsc.edu\\nIn-reply-to: sysmgr@king.eng.umd.edu\\'s message of 21 Apr 1993 19:16:51 GMT\\n\\nIn article <1r46j3INN14j@mojo.eng.umd.edu> sysmgr@king.eng.umd.edu (Doug Mohney) writes:\\n\\n In article , steinly@topaz.ucsc.edu (Steinn Sigurdsson) writes:\\n\\n >Very cost effective if you use the right accounting method :-)\\n\\n Sherzer Methodology!!!!!!\\n\\nHell, yes. I\\'m not going to let a bunch of seven suits tell\\nme what the right way to estimate cost effectiveness is, at\\nleast not until they can make their mind up long enough\\nto leave their scheme stable for a fiscal year or two.\\n\\n\\nSeriously though. If you were to ask the British government\\nwhether their colonisation efforts in the Americas were cost\\neffective, what answer do you think you\\'d get? What if you asked\\nin 1765, 1815, 1865, 1915 and 1945 respectively? ;-)\\n\\n* Steinn Sigurdsson \\t\\t\\tLick Observatory \\t*\\n* steinly@lick.ucsc.edu\\t\\t\"standard disclaimer\" \\t*\\n* If you ever have to go to Shoeburyness\\t\\t\\t*\\n* Take the A-road, the ok road, that\\'s the best!\\t\\t*\\n* Go motoring on The A13!\\t- BB 1983\\t\\t\\t*\\n\\n\\n',\n", " \"From: wats@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM (Bruce Watson)\\nSubject: Re: Boom! Whoosh......\\nOrganization: Alpha Science Computer Network, Denver, Co.\\nLines: 19\\n\\nIn article <1r6mcgINNe87@gap.caltech.edu+ kwp@wag.caltech.edu (Kevin W. Plaxco) writes:\\n+In article <37147@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM+ wats@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM (Bruce Watson) writes:\\n+++\\n++Once inflated the substance was no longer\\n++needed since there is nothing to cause the balloon to collapse.\\n++This inflatable structure could suffer multiple holes with no \\n++disastrous deflation.\\n+\\n+preasure (and the internal preasure that was needed to maintain\\n+a spherical shape against this resistance) caused them to\\n+catastrophically deflated. The large silvered shards\\n+\\n+The billboard should pop like a dime store balloon.\\n\\nNo, you're wrong about this. Give me some time to get my references.\\n\\n\\n-- \\nBruce Watson (wats@scicom.alphaCDC.COM) \\n\",\n", " 'From: libman@hsc.usc.edu (Marlena Libman)\\nSubject: Need advice with doctor-patient relationship problem\\nOrganization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA\\nLines: 64\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: hsc.usc.edu\\n\\nI need advice with a situation which occurred between me and a physican\\nwhich upset me. I saw this doctor for a problem with recurring pain.\\nHe suggested medication and a course of treatment, and told me that I\\nneed to call him 7 days after I begin the medication so that he may\\nmonitor its effectiveness, as well as my general health.\\n\\nI did exactly as he asked, and made the call (reaching his secretary).\\nI explained to her that I was following up at the doctor\\'s request,\\nand that I was worried because the pain episodes were becoming more\\nfrequent and the medication did not seem effective.\\n\\nThe doctor called me back, and his first words were, \"Whatever you want,\\nyou\\'d better make it quick. I\\'m very busy and don\\'t have time to chit-\\nchat with you!\" I told him I was simply following his instructions to\\ncall on the 7th day to status him, and that I was feeling worse. I \\nthen asked if perhaps there was a better time for us to talk when he\\nhad more time. He responded, \"Just spit it out now because no time is\\na good time.\" (Said in a raised voice.) I started to feel upset and\\ntried to explain quickly what was going on with my condition but my\\nnervousness interfered with my choice of words and I kind of stuttered\\nand then said \"well, never mind\" and he said he\\'ll talk to various\\ncolleagues about other medications and he\\'ll call me some other time.\\n\\nThis doctor called me that evening and said because I didn\\'t express\\nmyself well, he was confused about what I wanted. At this point I\\nwas pretty upset and I told him (in an amazingly polite voice considering\\nhow angry I felt) that his earlier manner had hurt my feelings. He told\\nme that he just doesn\\'t have time to \"rap with patients\" and thought\\nthat was what I wanted. I told him that to assume I was calling to\\n\"rap\" was insulting, and said again that I was just following through\\non his orders. He responded that he resented the implication that he \\nfelt I was making that he was not interested in learning about what his\\npatients have to say about their condition status. He then gave me\\nthis apology: \"I am sorry that there was a miscommunication and you\\nmistakenly thought I was insulting. I am not trying to insult you\\nbut I am not that knowledgeable about pain, and I don\\'t have a lot of\\ntime to deal with that.\" He then told me to call him the next day\\nfor further instructions on how do deal with my pain and medication.\\n\\nI am still upset and have not yet called.\\n\\nMy questions: (1) Should I continue to have this doctor manage my care?\\n(2) Since I am in pain off and on, I realize that this may cause me to\\nbe more anxietous so am I perhaps over-reacting or overly sensitive?\\nIf this doctor refers me to his colleague who knows more about the type\\nof pain I have, he still wants me to status him on my condition but\\nnow I am afraid to call him.\\n\\n\\t\\t\\t--Marlena\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n',\n", " \"From: uabdpo.dpo.uab.edu!gila005 (Stephen Holland)\\nSubject: Re: Prednisone...what are the significant long term side effects?\\nOrganization: Gastroenterology - Univ of Alabama\\nLines: 30\\n\\n> >I have been taking prednisone 5mg twice a day for a while to control\\n> >Ulcerative Colitis. It seems like if I reduce the dosage, the problem\\n> >becomes worse. At this point, i see myself taking prednisone for a long\\n> >long time, perhaps for ever. I was wondering about long term major side\\n> >effects, things like potential birth defects, arthritis etc. I have been\\n> >putting on weight, my face looks puffed and round, experience sudden mood\\n> >swings. As I understand, these are all short term.\\n\\nI second what Spenser Aden said in reply. Additionally, it is hard to say\\nwhat type of response you ar3e having to prednisone since you did not say\\nhow long you have been on it. Patients are generally kept on steroids for\\nmonths before thinking about tapering. Alternatives to daily dosing are \\nevery other day dosing, in your case 20mg every other day would be a start.\\nAnother option if it is not possible to get you off prednisone is to start\\nazathioprine. Like Spenser said, you should generally be on another drug\\nin addition to your prednisone, like asulfidine. A lot of the specifics\\nabout options, though, depends on severity, location, and duration of \\ndisease, as well as histology, so take advice off the net for what it\\nis worth. \\n\\nI treat patients with UC and Crohn's. An educated patient is a good \\npatient, but let your doctor know where the advice came from so things\\ncan be put in context. You should also be a member of the Crohn's and\\nColitis Foundation of America. 1-800-932-2423 office / 1-800-343-3637\\ninfo hotline.\\n\\nBest of Luck to you.\\n\\nSteve Holland.\\ngila005@uabdpo.dpo.uab.edu\\n\",\n", " 'From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nSubject: Re: Fingernail \"moons\"\\nReply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nOrganization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science\\nLines: 16\\n\\nIn article <733196190.AA00076@calcom.socal.com> Daniel.Prince@f129.n102.z1.calcom.socal.com (Daniel Prince) writes:\\n\\n>I only have lunulas on my thumbs. Is there any medical \\n>significance to that finding? Thank you in advance for all \\n>replies.\\n>\\n\\nTry peeling the skin back at the base of your other fingernails\\n(not too hard, now, don\\'t want to hurt yourself). You\\'ll find\\nnice little lunulas there if you can peel it back enough. \\n\\n-- \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nGordon Banks N3JXP | \"Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and\\ngeb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu | it is shameful to surrender it too soon.\" \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n',\n", " 'From: wdwells@nyx.cs.du.edu (David \"Fuzzy\" Wells)\\nSubject: Re: Space Debris\\nOrganization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.\\nLines: 6\\n\\n>There is a guy in NASA Johnson Space Center that might answer \\n>your question. I do not have his name right now but if you follow \\n>up I can dig that out for you.\\n\\nKeesler, Loftus, Potter, Stansbery, Kubriek....?\\n\\n',\n", " 'From: nyeda@cnsvax.uwec.edu (David Nye)\\nSubject: Re: Krillean Photography\\nOrganization: University of Wisconsin Eau Claire\\nLines: 21\\n\\n[reply to todamhyp@charles.unlv.edu (Brian M. Huey)]\\n \\n>I think that\\'s the correct spelling..\\n \\nKirilian.\\n \\n>The picture will show energy patterns or spikes around the object\\n>photographed, and depending on what type of object it is, the spikes or\\n>energy patterns will vary. One might extrapolate here and say that this\\n>proves that every object within the universe (as we know it) has its\\n>own energy signature.\\n \\nThere turned out to be a very simple, conventional explanation for the\\nphenomenon. I can\\'t recall the details, but I believe it had to do with\\nthe object between the plates altering the field because of purely\\nmechanical properties like capacitance. The \"aura\" was caused by direct\\nexposure of the film from variations in field strength.\\n \\nDavid Nye (nyeda@cnsvax.uwec.edu). Midelfort Clinic, Eau Claire WI\\nThis is patently absurd; but whoever wishes to become a philosopher\\nmust learn not to be frightened by absurdities. -- Bertrand Russell\\n',\n", " \"From: Daniel.Prince@f129.n102.z1.calcom.socal.com (Daniel Prince)\\nSubject: Re: Can men get yeast infections?\\nLines: 13\\n\\n To: smithmc@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Lost Boy)\\n\\n LB> I know from personal experience that men CAN get yeast infections. I \\n LB> get rather nasty ones from time to time, mostly in the area of the\\n LB> scrotum and the base of the penis. \\n\\nI used to have problems with recurrent athlete's foot until I \\nstarted drying between my toes with my blow drier after each time \\nI bathe. I also dry my pubic area while I am at it to prevent \\nproblems. You might want to try it.\\n\\n... My cat types with his tail.\\n * Origin: ONE WORLD Los Angeles 310/372-0987 32b (1:102/129.0)\\n\",\n", " 'From: looper@cco.caltech.edu (Mark D. Looper)\\nSubject: Re: Command Loss Timer (Re: Galileo Update - 04/22/93)\\nOrganization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena\\nLines: 23\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: sandman.caltech.edu\\nKeywords: Galileo, JPL\\n\\nprb@access.digex.com (Pat) writes:\\n\\n>Galileo\\'s HGA is stuck. \\n\\n>The HGA was left closed, because galileo had a venus flyby.\\n\\n>If the HGA were pointed att he sun, near venus, it would\\n>cook the foci elements.\\n\\n>question: WHy couldn\\'t Galileo\\'s course manuevers have been\\n>designed such that the HGA did not ever do a sun point.?\\n\\nThe HGA isn\\'t all that reflective in the wavelengths that might \"cook the\\nfocal elements\", nor is its figure good on those scales--the problem is\\nthat the antenna _itself_ could not be exposed to Venus-level sunlight,\\nlest like Icarus\\' wings it melt. (I think it was glues and such, as well\\nas electronics, that they were worried about.) Thus it had to remain\\nfurled and the axis _always_ pointed near the sun, so that the small\\nsunshade at the tip of the antenna mast would shadow the folded HGA.\\n(A larger sunshade beneath the antenna shielded the spacecraft bus.)\\n\\n--Mark Looper\\n\"Hot Rodders--America\\'s first recyclers!\"\\n',\n", " 'From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)\\nSubject: Re: Lunar Colony Race! By 2005 or 2010?\\nOrganization: U of Toronto Zoology\\nLines: 18\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr21.140804.15028@draper.com> mrf4276@egbsun12.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Matthew R. Feulner) writes:\\n>|> Need to find atleast $1billion for prize money.\\n>\\n>My first thought is Ross Perot. After further consideration, I think he\\'d\\n>be more likely to try to win it...but come in a disappointing third.\\n>Try Bill Gates. Try Sam Walton\\'s kids.\\n\\nWhen the Lunar Society\\'s $500M estimate of the cost of a lunar colony was\\nmentioned at Making Orbit, somebody asked Jerry Pournelle \"have you talked\\nto Bill Gates?\". The answer: \"Yes. He says that if he were going to\\nsink that much money into it, he\\'d want to run it -- and he doesn\\'t have\\nthe time.\"\\n\\n(Somebody then asked him about Perot. Answer: \"Having Ross Perot on your\\nboard may be a bigger problem than not having the money.\")\\n-- \\nAll work is one man\\'s work. | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology\\n - Kipling | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry\\n',\n", " 'From: MUNIZB%RWTMS2.decnet@rockwell.com (\"RWTMS2::MUNIZB\")\\nSubject: Alaska Pipeline and Space Station!\\nX-Added: Forwarded by Space Digest\\nOrganization: [via International Space University]\\nOriginal-Sender: isu@VACATION.VENARI.CS.CMU.EDU\\nDistribution: sci\\nLines: 16\\n\\non Date: 01 Apr 93 18:03:12 GMT, Ralph Buttigieg \\nwrites:\\n/Why can\\'t the government just be a tennant? Private commercial concerns\\n/could just build a space station system and charge rent to the government\\n/financed researchers wanting to use it.\\n\\nI believe that this was the thought behind the Industrial Space Facility. I\\ndon\\'t remember all the details, but I think Space Services (?) wanted NASA to \\nsign an anchor tenancy deal in order to help secure some venture capital but \\nNASA didn\\'t like the deal. (I\\'m sure I\\'ll hear about it if I\\'m wrong!)\\n\\nDisclaimer: Opinions stated are solely my own (unless I change my mind).\\nBen Muniz MUNIZB%RWTMS2.decnet@consrt.rockwell.com w(818)586-3578\\nSpace Station Freedom:Rocketdyne/Rockwell:Structural Loads and Dynamics\\n \"Man will not fly for fifty years\": Wilbur to Orville Wright, 1901\\n\\n',\n", " 'From: ken@sugra.uucp (Kenneth Ng)\\nSubject: Re: nuclear waste\\nOrganization: Private Computer, Totowa, NJ\\nLines: 18\\n\\nIn article <1993Mar31.191658.9836@mksol.dseg.ti.com: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:\\n:Just a bit off, Phil. We don\\'t reprocess nuclear fuel because what\\n:you get from the reprocessing plant is bomb-grade plutonium. It is\\n:also cheaper, given current prices of things, to simply fabricate new\\n:fuel rods rather than reprocess the old ones, creating potentially\\n:dangerous materials (from a national security point of view) and then\\n:fabricate that back into fuel rods.\\n\\nFabricating with reprocessed plutonium may result in something that may go\\nkind of boom, but its hardly decent bomb grade plutonium. If you want bomb\\ngrade plutonium use a research reactor, not a power reactor. But if you want\\na bomb, don\\'t use plutonium, use uranium.\\n\\n-- \\nKenneth Ng\\nPlease reply to ken@eies2.njit.edu for now.\\n\"All this might be an elaborate simulation running in a little device sitting\\non someone\\'s table\" -- J.L. Picard: ST:TNG\\n',\n", " 'From: landis@stsci.edu (Robert Landis,S202,,)\\nSubject: Re: Space Debris\\nReply-To: landis@stsci.edu\\nOrganization: Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore MD\\nLines: 14\\n\\nAnother fish to check out is Richard Rast -- he works\\nfor Lockheed Missiles, but is on-site at NASA Johnson.\\n\\nNick Johnson at Kaman Sciences in Colo. Spgs and his\\nfriend, Darren McKnight at Kaman in Alexandria, VA.\\n\\nGood luck.\\n\\nR. Landis\\n\\n\"Behind every general is his wife.... and...\\n behind every Hillary is a Bill . .\"\\n\\n\\n',\n", " 'From: apryan@vax1.tcd.ie\\nSubject: Order MOORE\\'s book to restore Great Telescope\\nLines: 41\\nNntp-Posting-Host: vax1.tcd.ie\\nOrganization: Trinity College Dublin\\nLines: 41\\n\\nSeveral people have enquired about the availability of the book about the\\nGreat 72\" reflector built at Birr Castle, Ireland in 1845 which remained the\\nlargest in the world until the the start of the 20th century.\\n\\n\"The Astronomy of Birr Castle\" was written by Patrick Moore who now sits on\\nthe committee which is going to restore the telescope. (The remains are on\\npublic display all year round - the massive support walls, the 60 foot long\\ntube, and other bits and pieces). This book is the definitivie history of\\nhow one man, the Third Earl of Rosse, pulled off the most impressive\\ntechnical achievement, perhaps ever, in the history of the telescope, and\\nthe discoveries made with the instrument.\\n\\nPatrick Moore is donating all proceeds from the book\\'s sale to help restore\\nthe telescope. Astronomy Ireland is making the book available world wide by\\nmail order. It\\'s a fascinating read and by ordering a copy you bring the day\\nwhen we can all look through it once again that little bit nearer.\\n\\n=====ORDERING INFORMATION=====\\n\"The Astronomy of Birr Castle\" Dr. Patrick Moore, xii, 90pp, 208mm x 145mm.\\nPrice:\\nU.S.: US$4.95 + US$2.95 post & packing (add $3.50 airmail)\\nU.K. (pounds sterling): 3.50 + 1.50 post & packing\\nEUROPE (pounds sterling): 3.50 + 2.00 post and packing\\nREST OF WORLD: as per U.S. but funds payable in US$ only.\\n\\nPAYMENT:\\nMake all payments to \"Astronomy Ireland\".\\nCREDIT CARD: MASTERCARD/VISA/EUROCARD/ACCESS accepted by email or snail\\nmail: give card number, name & address, expiration date, and total amount.\\nPayments otherwise must be by money order or bank draft.\\nSend to our permanent address: P.O.Box 2888, Dublin 1, Ireland.\\n\\nYou can also subscribe to \"Astronomy & Space\" at the same time. See below:\\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nTony Ryan, \"Astronomy & Space\", new International magazine, available from:\\n Astronomy Ireland, P.O.Box 2888, Dublin 1, Ireland.\\n6 issues (one year sub.): UK 10.00 pounds, US$20 surface (add US$8 airmail).\\nACCESS/VISA/MASTERCARD accepted (give number, expiration date, name&address).\\n\\n (WORLD\\'S LARGEST ASTRO. SOC. per capita - unless you know better? 0.033%)\\nTel: 0891-88-1950 (UK/N.Ireland) 1550-111-442 (Eire). Cost up to 48p per min\\n',\n", " \"From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)\\nSubject: Re: food-related seizures?\\nOrganization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA\\n\\nMy comments about the Feingold Diet have no relevance to your\\ndaughter's purported FrostedFlakes-related seizures. I can't imagine\\nwhy you included it.\\n\\n-- \\nSteve Dyer\\ndyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer\\n\",\n", " \"From: jhwitten@cs.ruu.nl (Jurriaan Wittenberg)\\nSubject: Re: Magellan Update - 04/16/93\\nOrganization: Utrecht University, Dept. of Computer Science\\nKeywords: Magellan, JPL\\nLines: 29\\n\\nIn <19APR199320262420@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov> baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov \\n(Ron Baalke) writes:\\n\\n>Forwarded from Doug Griffith, Magellan Project Manager\\n>\\n> MAGELLAN STATUS REPORT\\n> April 16, 1993\\n>\\n>\\n>2. Magellan has completed 7225 orbits of Venus and is now 39 days from\\n>the end of Cycle-4 and the start of the Transition Experiment.\\nSorry I think I missed a bit of info on this Transition Experiment. What is it?\\n\\n>4. On Monday morning, April 19, the moon will occult Venus and\\n>interrupt the tracking of Magellan for about 68 minutes.\\nWill this mean a loss of data or will the Magellan transmit data later on ??\\n\\nBTW: When will NASA cut off the connection with Magellan?? Not that I am\\nlooking forward to that day but I am just curious. I believe it had something\\nto do with the funding from the goverment (or rather _NO_ funding :-)\\n\\nok that's it for now. See you guys around,\\nJurriaan.\\n \\n-- \\n-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-\\n|----=|=-<- - - - - - JHWITTEN@CS.RUU.NL- - - - - - - - - - - - ->-=|=----|\\n|----=|=-<-Jurriaan Wittenberg- - -Department of ComputerScience->-=|=----|\\n|____/|\\\\_________Utrecht_________________The Netherlands___________/|\\\\____|\\n\",\n", " 'From: Donald Mackie \\nSubject: Re: Seeking advice/experience with back problem\\nOrganization: UM Anesthesiology\\nLines: 20\\nDistribution: world\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: 141.214.86.38\\nX-UserAgent: Nuntius v1.1.1d9\\nX-XXDate: Fri, 16 Apr 93 15:41:32 GMT\\n\\nIn article janet.m.cooper,\\njmcooper@cbnewsk.cb.att.com writes:\\n>The mother of a friend of mine is experiencing a disabling back\\n>pain. After MRIs, CT scans, and doctors visits she has been\\npresented\\n>with 2 alternatives: \\n>(1) live with the pain\\n>or (2) undergo a somewhat\\n>risky operation which may leave her paralyzed. She also has a \\n\\nSince her symptoms are only pain she would do weel to seek the\\nadvice of a good, multi-disciplinary pain clinic. It is distressing\\nto think that people are stll being told they have to \"live with the\\npain\" when many options for pain management (rather than treating\\nMRI findings) are available. A good pain clinic will accept that\\nthis lady\\'s problem is her pain and set about finding ways of\\nrelieveing that.\\n\\nDon Mackie - his opinions\\nUM Anesthesiology will disavow...\\n',\n", " 'From: C.O.EGALON@LARC.NASA.GOV (CLAUDIO OLIVEIRA EGALON)\\nSubject: Re: Space Debris\\nOrganization: NASA Langley Research Center\\nLines: 7\\nDistribution: world\\nReply-To: C.O.EGALON@LARC.NASA.GOV (CLAUDIO OLIVEIRA EGALON)\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: tahiti.larc.nasa.gov\\n\\nThere is a guy in NASA Johnson Space Center that might answer \\nyour question. I do not have his name right now but if you follow \\nup I can dig that out for you.\\n\\nC.O.Egalon@larc.nasa.gov\\n\\nClaudio Oliveira Egalon\\n',\n", " \"From: prb@access.digex.com (Pat)\\nSubject: Re: nuclear waste\\nOrganization: Express Access Online Communications USA\\nLines: 45\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: access.digex.net\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr6.125608.7506@mksol.dseg.ti.com> mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:\\n|In <1993Apr2.150038.2521@cs.rochester.edu> dietz@cs.rochester.edu (Paul Dietz) writes:\\n|>>\\n|>>Paul, quite frankly I'll believe that this is really going to work on\\n|>>the typical trash one needs to process when I see them put a couple\\n|>>tons in one end and get (relatively) clean material out the other end,\\n|>>plus be able to run it off its own residual power. Sounds almost like\\n|>>perpetual motion, doesn't it?\\n|\\n|I will believe that this process comes even close to approaching\\n|technological and economic feasibility (given the mixed nature of the\\n|trash that will have to be run through it as opposed to the costs of\\n|separating things first and having a different 'run' for each\\n|actinide) when I see them dump a few tons in one end and pull\\n|(relatively) clean material out the other. Once the costs,\\n|technological risks, etc., are taken into account I still class this\\n|one with the idea of throwing waste into the sun. Sure, it's possible\\n|and the physics are well understood, but is it really a reasonable\\n|approach? \\n|\\n\\nHow is it ever going to be an Off- the Shelf Technology if someone doesn't\\ndo it? Maybe we should do this as part of the SSF design goals. ;-)\\n\\nGee fred. After your bitter defense of 20 KHz power as a Basic technology\\nfor SSF, Id think you would support a minor research program like this.\\n\\nAnd does anyone who knows more Particle physics then me, know if the IPNS\\ncould Prove this technology?\\n\\n|\\n|>The real reason why accelerator breeders or incinerators are not being\\n|>built is that there isn't any reason to do so. Natural uranium is\\n|>still too cheap, and geological disposal of actinides looks\\n|>technically reasonable.\\n|\\n\\nIt may also help there is political gridlock on the entire\\nnuclear technical agenda. There were big political opponenents to\\nFast Breeder Technologies. WIPP is being fought to death in Courts.\\nEven if you could make a nuclear incinerator, do you really think\\neven Deaf SMith County Nevada would accept it? NIMBY'ism rules\\nnuclear power concerns. Only the medical community has been\\nable to overrule nuclear technology opposition. \\n\\n\",\n", " \"From: collins@well.sf.ca.us (Steve Collins)\\nSubject: Re: Orbital RepairStation\\nNntp-Posting-Host: well.sf.ca.us\\nOrganization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link\\nLines: 29\\n\\n\\nThe difficulties of a high Isp OTV include:\\nLong transfer times (radiation damage from VanAllen belts for both\\n the spacecraft and OTV\\nArcjets or Xenon thrusters require huge amounts of power so you have\\nto have either nuclear power source (messy, dangerous and source of\\nradiation damage) or BIG solar arrays (sensitive to radiation, or heavy)\\nthat make attitude control and docking a big pain.\\n\\nIf you go solar, you have to replace the arrays every trip, with\\ncurrent technology. Nuclear power sources are strongly restricted\\nby international treaty.\\n\\nRefueling (even for very high Isp like xenon) is still required and]\\nturn out to be a pain.\\n\\nYou either have to develop autonomous rendezvous or long range teleoperation\\nto do docking or ( and refueling) .\\n\\nYou still can't do much plane change because the deltaV required is so high!\\n\\nThe Air Force continues to look at doing things this way though. I suppose\\nthey are biding their time till the technology becomes available and\\nthe problems get solved. Not impossible in principle, but hard to\\ndo and marginally cheaper than one shot rockets, at least today.\\n\\nJust a few random thoughts on high Isp OTV's. I designed one once...\\n\\n Steve Collins\\n\",\n", " 'From: yamauchi@ces.cwru.edu (Brian Yamauchi)\\nSubject: Griffin / Office of Exploration: RIP\\nOrganization: Case Western Reserve University\\nLines: 19\\nDistribution: world\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: yuggoth.ces.cwru.edu\\n\\nAny comments on the absorbtion of the Office of Exploration into the\\nOffice of Space Sciences and the reassignment of Griffin to the \"Chief\\nEngineer\" position? Is this just a meaningless administrative\\nshuffle, or does this bode ill for SEI?\\n\\nIn my opinion, this seems like a Bad Thing, at least on the surface.\\nGriffin seemed to be someone who was actually interested in getting\\nthings done, and who was willing to look an innovative approaches to\\ngetting things done faster, better, and cheaper. It\\'s unclear to me\\nwhether he will be able to do this at his new position.\\n\\nDoes anyone know what his new duties will be?\\n--\\n_______________________________________________________________________________\\n\\nBrian Yamauchi\\t\\t\\tCase Western Reserve University\\nyamauchi@alpha.ces.cwru.edu\\tDepartment of Computer Engineering and Science\\n_______________________________________________________________________________\\n\\n',\n", " 'From: prb@access.digex.com (Pat)\\nSubject: Re: Stephen Hawking Tours JPL\\nOrganization: Express Access Online Communications USA\\nLines: 23\\nDistribution: world\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: access.digex.net\\nKeywords: JPL\\n\\nIn article <23APR199317325771@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov> baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov (Ron Baalke) writes:\\n> Using a model of Mars Observer, Albee spent several minutes\\n>describing the project and the spacecraft\\'s features. In answer\\n>to a question from Hawking, Chahine described a proposed\\n>drag-free satellite, but confirmed that at this point, \"it\\'s only\\n>a concept.\" Chahine, who had met Hawking at Caltech about five\\n\\n\\nToo bad they didn\\'t give him a tour of the CGRO data?\\n\\nI think he\\'d be fascinated by the Gamma ray bursters. The mind of\\nhawking might even propose a mechanism.\\n\\n\\nSO what\\'s a drag free satellite? coated with WD-40? carries an\\naluminum-gold set of grateful dead albums? inquiring minds\\nwant to know?\\n\\nAnd why would MO carry any features for being drag free? I thought\\naero-braking was a possible MO experimental activity?\\n\\npat\\n\\n',\n", " \"From: klier@iscsvax.uni.edu\\nSubject: Re: How about a crash program in basic immunological research?\\nOrganization: University of Northern Iowa\\nLines: 22\\n\\nIn article <221@ky3b.UUCP>, km@ky3b.pgh.pa.us (Ken Mitchum) writes:\\n> As a physician, I almost never get sick: usually, when something horrendous\\n> is going around, I either don't get it at all or get a very mild case.\\n> When I do get really sick, it is always something unusual.\\n> \\n> This was not the situation when I was in medical school, particularly on\\n> pediatrics.... Pediatrics for me was three solid\\n> months of illness, and I had a temp of 104 when I took the final exam!\\n> \\n> I think what happens is that during training, and beyond, we are constantly\\n> exposed to new things, and we have the usual reactions to them, so that later\\n> on, when challenged with something, it is more likely a re-exposure for us,\\n> so we deal with it well and get a mild illness. \\n\\nThis is also commonly seen in new teachers. The first few years, they're\\nsick a lot, but gradually seem to build up immunities to almost everything\\ncommon. Come to think of it, I was about my healthiest when I was\\nworking in a pathogens lab, exposed to who-knows-what all the time. Pre-OSHA,\\nof course.\\n\\nKay Klier Biology Dept UNI\\n \\n\",\n", " 'From: akins@cbnewsd.cb.att.com (kay.a.akins)\\nSubject: Re: food-related seizures?\\nOrganization: AT&T\\nSummary: seizures and foods\\nLines: 35\\n\\nIn article , paulson@tab00.larc.nasa.gov (Sharon Paulson) writes:\\n> I am posting to this group in hopes of finding someone out there in\\n> network newsland who has heard of something similar to what I am going\\n> to describe here. I have a fourteen year old daugter who experienced\\n> a seizure on November 3, 1992 at 6:45AM after eating Kellog\\'s Frosted\\n> Flakes. She is perfectly healthy, had never experienced anything like\\n> this before, and there is no history of seizures in either side of the\\n> family. All the tests (EEG, MRI, EKG) came out negative so the decision\\n> was made to do nothing and just wait to see if it happened again.\\n> \\n> Well, we were going along fine and the other morning, April 5, she had\\n> a bowl of another Kellog\\'s frosted kind of cereal, Fruit Loops (I am\\n> embarrassed to admit that I even bought that junk but every once\\n> in a while...) So I pour it in her bowl and think \"Oh, oh, this is the\\n> same kind of junk she was eating when she had that seizure.\" Ten \\n> minutes later she had a full blown seizures. This was her first exposure\\n> to a sugar coated cereal since the last seizure.......\\n\\nMy daughter has Epilepsy and I attend a monthly parent support group.\\nJust Wednesday night, a mother was telling how she decided to throw\\nall the junk food out and see if it made a difference in her 13 year-old\\'s\\nseizures. He was having about one seizure per week. She reported that\\nshe did this on Thursday (3/11), he had a seizure on Saturday and then\\nwent 4 weeks without a seizure!! On Easter he went to Grandma\\'s and ate \\ncandy, pop - anything he wanted. He had a seizure the next day. She \\nsees sensitivity to nutrasweet, sugar, colors, caffine and corn. With\\ncorn she says, he gets very nervous and aggresive. \\n\\nWith my own daughter (age 7) , I think she is also sensitive and stays\\naway from those foods on her own. She has never had gum, won\\'t eat\\ncandy, prefers an apple to a cookie, doesn\\'t like chocolate and won\\'t\\neven use toothpaste!!! Her brother, on the other hand, is a junk food\\naddict! \\n\\nHope this helps. Good Luck.\\n',\n", " 'From: wsun@jeeves.ucsd.edu (Fiberman)\\nSubject: erythromycin\\nOrganization: University of California, San Diego\\nLines: 4\\nNntp-Posting-Host: jeeves.ucsd.edu\\n\\nIs erythromycin effective in treating pneumonia?\\n\\n-fm\\n\\n',\n", " \"From: 18084TM@msu.edu (Tom)\\nSubject: Space Clippers launched\\nX-Added: Forwarded by Space Digest\\nOrganization: [via International Space University]\\nOriginal-Sender: isu@VACATION.VENARI.CS.CMU.EDU\\nDistribution: sci\\nLines: 14\\n\\n\\n\\n> SPACE CLIPPERS LAUNCHED SUCCESSFULLY\\n\\nWhen I first saw this, I thought for a second that it was a headline from\\nThe Star about the pliers found in the SRB recently.\\n\\nY'know, sometimes they have wire-cutters built in :-)\\n\\n-Tommy Mac\\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nTom McWilliams 517-355-2178 wk \\\\\\\\ As the radius of vision increases,\\n18084tm@ibm.cl.msu.edu 336-9591 hm \\\\\\\\ the circumference of mystery grows.\\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n\",\n", " \"From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)\\nSubject: Re: Orion drive in vacuum -- how?\\nOrganization: U of Toronto Zoology\\nLines: 17\\n\\nIn article <1quh78INNf45@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> pjs@euclid.jpl.nasa.gov writes:\\n>> >The National Air & Space Museum has both the prototype and the film.\\n>> >When I was there, some years ago, they had the prototype on display...\\n>> Great! I'll visit the National Air and Space Museum at the end of the\\n>> month...\\n>\\n>Sorry to put a damper on your plans, but I was there three weeks ago and\\n>it wasn't there. Not that I would have known to look for it, of course,\\n>but I combed the space exhibits pretty thoroughly and something like that\\n>would have caught my attention instantly.\\n\\nIt wasn't especially prominent, as I recall. However, quite possibly it's\\nno longer on display; NASM, like most museums, has much more stuff than it\\ncan display at once, and does rotate the displays occasionally.\\n-- \\nAll work is one man's work. | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology\\n - Kipling | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry\\n\",\n", " 'Subject: prozac\\nFrom: agilmet@eis.calstate.edu (Adriana Gilmete)\\nOrganization: Calif State Univ/Electronic Information Services\\nLines: 3\\n\\nCan anyone help me find any information on the drug Prozac? I am writing\\na report on the inventors , Eli Lilly and Co., and the product. I need as\\nmuch help as I can get. Thanks a lot, Adriana Gilmete.\\n',\n", " \"From: kilty@ucrengr (kathleen richards)\\nSubject: Re: Lyme vaccine\\nReply-To: karicha@eis.calstate.edu\\nLines: 12\\nNntp-Posting-Host: ucrengr\\nX-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]\\n\\nJeff, \\n\\nIf you have time to type it in I'd love to have the reference for that\\npaper! thanks!\\n\\n--\\n\\nkathleen richards email: karicha@eis.calstate.edu\\n\\n ~Sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug!~\\n -dire straits\\n\\n\",\n", " \"Organization: ESOC European Space Operations Centre\\nFrom: \\nSubject: Re: Apollo Training in Iceland\\nDistribution: sci\\nLines: 10\\n\\nThe Apollo astronauts also trained at (in) Meteor Crater in the Flagstaff\\narea (Arizona). There is now a museum with a space shop.\\nCaution: they ease you by 6$. Compared to a KSC visit it's not worth.\\n\\n-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-\\nThorsten Nedderhut | Disclaimer:\\nmbp Software & Systems GmbH |\\nc/o ESA/ESOC/FCSD/OAD/STB | Neither ESA nor mbp is responsible\\nDarmstadt, Germany | for my postings!\\ntnedderh@esoc.bitnet |\\n\",\n", " 'From: georgec@eng.umd.edu (George B. Clark)\\nSubject: Re: chronic sinus and antibiotics\\nOrganization: University of Maryland\\nLines: 4\\nDistribution: na\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: athens.eng.umd.edu\\nKeywords: sinus, antibiotics, antibacterial\\n\\nYou can also swab the inside of your nose with Bacitracin using a\\nQ tip. Bacitracin is an antibiotic that can be bought OTC as an\\nointment in a tube. The doctor I listen to on the radio says to apply\\nit for 30 days, while you are taking other antibiotics by mouth.\\n',\n", " \"Organization: Queen's University at Kingston\\nFrom: Graydon \\nSubject: Re: What if the USSR had reached the Moon first?\\n <1993Apr7.124724.22534@yang.earlham.edu>\\n <1993Apr12.161742.22647@yang.earlham.edu>\\nLines: 9\\n\\nThis is turning into 'what's a moonbase good for', and I ought\\nnot to post when I've a hundred some odd posts to go, but I would\\nthink that the real reason to have a moon base is economic.\\n\\nSince someone with space industry will presumeably have a much\\nlarger GNP than they would _without_ space industry, eventually,\\nthey will simply be able to afford more stuff.\\n\\nGraydon\\n\",\n", " \"From: sysmgr@king.eng.umd.edu (Doug Mohney)\\nSubject: Re: *Doppelganger* (was Re: Vulcan? No, not Spock or Haphaestus)\\nArticle-I.D.: mojo.1qkn6rINNett\\nReply-To: sysmgr@king.eng.umd.edu\\nDistribution: world\\nOrganization: Computer Aided Design Lab, U. of Maryland College Park\\nLines: 17\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: queen.eng.umd.edu\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr15.170048.1@fnalf.fnal.gov>, higgins@fnalf.fnal.gov (Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey) writes:\\n\\n>This was known as *Journey to the Far Side of the Sun* in the United\\n>States and as *Doppelganger* in the U.K... Later, they went\\n>on to do more live-action SF series: *UFO* and *Space: 1999*.\\n>\\n>The astronomy was lousy, but the lifting-body spacecraft, VTOL\\n>airliners, and mighty Portugese launch complex were *wonderful* to\\n>look at.\\n\\nThey recycled a lot of models and theme music for UFO. Some of the\\nconcepts even showed up in SPACE: 1999. \\n\\n\\n\\n Software engineering? That's like military intelligence, isn't it?\\n -- > SYSMGR@CADLAB.ENG.UMD.EDU < --\\n\",\n", " 'From: steinly@topaz.ucsc.edu (Steinn Sigurdsson)\\nSubject: Re: Commercial mining activities on the moon\\n\\t<1993Apr20.152819.28186@ke4zv.uucp>\\n\\t<1993Apr20.204838.13217@cs.rochester.edu>\\nOrganization: Lick Observatory/UCO\\nLines: 53\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: topaz.ucsc.edu\\nIn-reply-to: dietz@cs.rochester.edu\\'s message of 20 Apr 93 20:48:38 GMT\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr20.204838.13217@cs.rochester.edu> dietz@cs.rochester.edu (Paul Dietz) writes:\\n\\n In article <1993Apr20.152819.28186@ke4zv.uucp> gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman) writes:\\n\\n > be the site of major commercial activity. As far as we know it has no\\n > materials we can\\'t get cheaper right here on Earth or from asteroids\\n > and comets, aside from the semi-mythic He3 that *might* be useful in low\\n > grade fusion reactors.\\n\\n problem with 3He (aside from the difficulty in making any fusion\\n reactor work) is that its concentration in lunar regolith is just so\\n small -- on the order of 5 ppb or so, on average (more in some\\n\\n This thread reminds me of Wingo\\'s claims some time ago about the moon\\n as a source of titanium for use on earth. As I recall, Wingo wasn\\'t\\n ...\\n even 1% of the basalts are 5% TiO2, this is trillions of tons of TiO2\\n at concentrations only a factor of 2-3 less than in lunar high-Ti\\n basalts. It is difficult to see how the disadvantages of the moon\\n could be overcome by such a small increase the concentration of the\\n ore (never mind the richer, but less common, terrestrial ores being\\n mined today).\\n\\nWhy Paul, it\\'s obvious.\\nOnce chlorine chemistry has been banned on Earth,\\nas is being advocated by some groups, Ti prices will\\nsharply increase (we are of course not allowed to\\nassume any developments in Ti processing).\\nLunar Ti will then be eminently competitive for\\nthe trendy jewelry market and certain applications\\nof National Importance \\n\\n:-) :-) :-) \\n\\n\\n(oops, this is sci.space... wrong rules of debate ;-)\\n\\n\\nSeriously, I\\'d say there is a flaw in Gary\\'s analysis\\nin that he assumes an export oriented economy, maybe\\nthe lunatics will just want some native Ti for local\\nuse... as to why Lunar natives are cost effective, \\nanalysis has shown they will be critical in providing\\na sheltered manufacturing base, technological innovation,\\ncritical materials and manpower in the war between\\nthe Allies and Central Powers in about two hundred years...\\n\\n;-)\\n\\n| Steinn Sigurdsson\\t|I saw two shooting stars last night\\t\\t|\\n| Lick Observatory\\t|I wished on them but they were only satellites\\t|\\n| steinly@lick.ucsc.edu |Is it wrong to wish on space hardware?\\t\\t|\\n| \"standard disclaimer\"\\t|I wish, I wish, I wish you\\'d care - B.B. 1983\\t|\\n',\n", " 'From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nSubject: Re: My New Diet --> IT WORKS GREAT !!!!\\nReply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nOrganization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science\\nLines: 20\\n\\nIn article <1993Mar27.142431.25188@inmet.camb.inmet.com> mazur@bluefin.camb.inmet.com (Beth Mazur) writes:\\n>In article <1ov4toINNh0h@lynx.unm.edu> bhjelle@carina.unm.edu () writes:\\n>\\n>On the other hand, we do a good job of implying that the person who\\n>weighs 400lbs is \"overeating\" when in fact, the body probably doesn\\'t\\n>make any moral judgements about its composition. Conceivably, the \\n>body works just as hard maintaining its weight at 400 as someone else\\'s\\n>does at 200.\\n>\\n\\nUndoubtedly it does, to maintain such a weight. And it does so\\nprimarily by overeating. If it didn\\'t, the weight would drop\\nback to normal.\\n\\n\\n-- \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nGordon Banks N3JXP | \"Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and\\ngeb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu | it is shameful to surrender it too soon.\" \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n',\n", " \"From: loss@fs7.ECE.CMU.EDU (Doug Loss)\\nSubject: Re: Crazy? or just Imaginitive?\\nOrganization: Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon\\nLines: 22\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr21.205403.1@aurora.alaska.edu> nsmca@aurora.alaska.edu writes:\\n>\\n>Unfortunately H. Beam Piper killed him self just weeks short of having his\\n>first book published, and have his ideas see light.. Such a waste.\\n>\\n>\\nPiper lived in my town (Williamsport, PA) when he killed himself. It\\nwas in the early '60's. He had had more than a few books published by\\nthat time, but he was down on his luck financially. Rumor was that he\\nwas hunting urban pigeons with birdshot for food. He viewed himself as\\na resourceful man, and (IMO) decided to check out gracefully if he\\ncouldn't support himself. The worst part is that John Campbell, the\\nlong-time editor of Astounding/Analog SF magazine had cut a check for\\nPiper's most recent story, and said check was in the mail. If Campbell\\nhad known Piper's straits, I'm sure he would have phoned to say hang on.\\nCampbell was like that.\\n\\nI wish it had happened differently. I always enjoyed Piper's stuff.\\n\\nDoug Loss\\n\\n\\n\",\n", " 'From: 18084TM@msu.edu (Tom)\\nSubject: Nasa (dis)incentives\\nX-Added: Forwarded by Space Digest\\nOrganization: [via International Space University]\\nOriginal-Sender: isu@VACATION.VENARI.CS.CMU.EDU\\nDistribution: sci\\nLines: 23\\n\\n[questions and issues WRT congress raised and discussed}\\n\\nDennis Replies;\\n>Now black when it is white is just white. Except that when black is called\\n>white money is put into the system in a study to find out just when it is\\n>justified to call black, white. It is also apparant that when white is called\\n>black, just the opposite occurs. Now white is a color, but when white is\\n>called black, it calls into question the validity of the color spectrum.\\n...\\n>It is a given however that NASA nor the military, whose competence in\\n>differentating black from white is well known (remember the black and\\n>white paint on the Saturn V rocket?) That nothing will occur here either.\\n>When black and white are used by congress, who cares nothing for results,\\n>just more money for pork barrel jobs brought about by the black/white\\n>controversy....\\n\\nDennis, why must you always see things in black and white terms? :-)\\n\\n-Tommy Mac\\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nTom McWilliams 517-355-2178 wk \\\\\\\\ As the radius of vision increases,\\n18084tm@ibm.cl.msu.edu 336-9591 hm \\\\\\\\ the circumference of mystery grows.\\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n',\n", " 'Subject: Life on Mars???\\nFrom: schiewer@pa881a.inland.com (Don Schiewer)\\nOrganization: Inland Steel Company, East Chicago, IN\\nNntp-Posting-Host: pa881a\\nNntp-Posting-User: schiewer\\nLines: 9\\n\\nWhat is the deal with life on Mars? I save the \"face\" and heard \\nassociated theories. (which sound thin to me)\\n\\nAre we going back to Mars to look at this face agian?\\nDoes anyone buy all the life theories?\\n\\n-- \\nDon Schiewer | Internet schiewer@pa881a.inland.com | Onward Great\\nInland Steel | UUCP: !uucp!pa881a.inland!schiewer | Stream...\\n',\n", " 'Subject: What are knots?\\nFrom: ng4@husc11.harvard.edu (Ho Leung Ng)\\nNntp-Posting-Host: husc11.harvard.edu\\nLines: 8\\n\\n What exactly are knots, those sore, tight spots in your muscles?\\nIn certain kinds of massage, people try and break up these knots; it this\\nreally helpful?\\n\\n\\nHo Leung Ng\\nng4@husc.harvard.edu\\n\\n',\n", " 'From: noring@netcom.com (Jon Noring)\\nSubject: Re: Great Post! (was Re: Candida (yeast) Bloom...) (VERY LONG)\\nOrganization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)\\nLines: 38\\n\\nIn article turpin@cs.utexas.edu (Russell Turpin) writes:\\n\\n>I hope Gordon Banks did not mean to imply that notions such as\\n>hard-to-see candida infections causing various problems should not\\n>be investigated. Many researchers have made breakthroughs by \\n>figuring out how to investigate things that were previously thought\\n>\"virtually impossible to test for.\"\\n>\\n>Indeed, I would be surprised if \"candida overbloom\" were such a\\n>phenomena. I would think that candida would produce signature\\n>byproducts whose measure would then set a lower bound on the \\n>extent of recent infection. I realize this might get quite \\n>tricky and difficult, probably expensive, and likely inconvenient\\n>or uncomfortable to the subjects, but that is not the same as \\n>\"virtually impossible.\"\\n\\nI recall reading in the recently revised edition of the \"Yeast Connection\"\\nthat there is indeed work by researchers to do this. Of course, they are\\nworking on the theory that candida overbloom with penetration into mucus\\nmembrane tissue with associated \"mild\" inflammatory response can and does\\noccur in a large number of people. If you reject this \"yeast hypothesis\",\\nthen I\\'d guess you\\'d view this research as one more wasteful and quixotic\\nendeavor. Stay tuned.\\n\\nJon Noring\\n\\n-- \\n\\nCharter Member --->>> INFJ Club.\\n\\nIf you\\'re dying to know what INFJ means, be brave, e-mail me, I\\'ll send info.\\n=============================================================================\\n| Jon Noring | noring@netcom.com | |\\n| JKN International | IP : 192.100.81.100 | FRED\\'S GOURMET CHOCOLATE |\\n| 1312 Carlton Place | Phone : (510) 294-8153 | CHIPS - World\\'s Best! |\\n| Livermore, CA 94550 | V-Mail: (510) 417-4101 | |\\n=============================================================================\\nWho are you? Read alt.psychology.personality! That\\'s where the action is.\\n',\n", " 'From: caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX)\\nSubject: Re: My New Diet --> IT WORKS GREAT !!!!\\nOrganization: Omen Technology INC, Portland Rain Forest\\nLines: 38\\n\\nIn article geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks) writes:\\n>In article <1993Apr22.001642.9186@omen.UUCP> caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX) writes:\\n>\\n>>>>>Can you provide a reference to substantiate that gaining back\\n>>>>>the lost weight does not constitute \"weight rebound\" until it\\n>>>>>exceeds the starting weight? Or is this oral tradition that\\n>>>>>is shared only among you obesity researchers?\\n>>>>\\n>>>>Annals of NY Acad. Sci. 1987\\n>>>>\\n>>>Hmmm. These don\\'t look like references to me. Is passive-aggressive\\n>>>behavior associated with weight rebound? :-)\\n>>\\n>>I purposefully left off the page numbers to encourage the reader to\\n>>study the volumes mentioned, and benefit therefrom.\\n>>\\n>\\n>Good story, Chuck, but it won\\'t wash. I have read the NY Acad Sci\\n>one (and have it). This AM I couldn\\'t find any reference to\\n>\"weight rebound\". I\\'m not saying it isn\\'t there, but since you\\n>cited it, it is your responsibility to show me where it is in there.\\n>There is no index. I suspect you overstepped your knowledge base,\\n>as usual.\\n>----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n>Gordon Banks N3JXP | \"Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and\\n>geb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu | it is shameful to surrender it too soon.\" \\n>----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n\\nIt\\'s on page 315, about 2 1/2 inches up from the bottom and an inch in\\nfrom the right.\\n\\nAt least we know what some people *haven\\'t* read and remembered.\\n\\n-- \\nChuck Forsberg WA7KGX ...!tektronix!reed!omen!caf \\nAuthor of YMODEM, ZMODEM, Professional-YAM, ZCOMM, and DSZ\\n Omen Technology Inc \"The High Reliability Software\"\\n17505-V NW Sauvie IS RD Portland OR 97231 503-621-3406\\n',\n", " 'From: kfl@access.digex.com (Keith F. Lynch)\\nSubject: Re: My New Diet --> IT WORKS GREAT !!!!\\nOrganization: Express Access Public Access UNIX, Greenbelt, Maryland USA\\nLines: 58\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: access.digex.net\\n\\nIn article <19600@pitt.UUCP> geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks) writes:\\n> Keith is the only person I have ever heard of that keeps the weight\\n> off without any conscious effort to control eating behavior. ... most\\n> of us have to diet a lot to keep from going back to morbid obesity.\\n\\nI attribute my success to several factors:\\n\\nVery low fat. Except when someone else has cooked a meal for me,\\nI only eat fruit, vegetables, and whole grain or bran cereals. I\\nestimate I only get about 5 to 10 percent of my calories from fat.\\n\\nVery little sugar or salt.\\n\\nVery high fiber. Most Americans get about 10 grams. 25 to 35 are\\nrecommended. I get between 50 and 150. Sometimes 200. (I\\'ve heard\\nof people taking fiber pills. It seems unlikely that pills can\\ncontain enough fiber to make a difference. It would be about as\\nlikely as someone getting fat by popping fat pills. Tablets are\\njust too small, unless you snarf down hundreds of them daily.)\\n\\nMy \"clean your plate\" conditioning works *for* me. Eating the last\\n10% takes half my eating time, and gives satiety a chance to catch\\nup, so I don\\'t still feel hungry and go start eating something else.\\n\\nI don\\'t eat when I\\'m not hungry (unless I\\'m sure I\\'ll get hungry\\nshortly, and eating won\\'t be practical then).\\n\\nI bike to work, 22 miles a day, year round. Fast. I also bike to\\nstores, movies, and everywhere else, as I\\'ve never owned a car.\\nI estimate this burns about 1000 calories a day. It also helps\\nbuild and maintain muscle mass, prevent insulin resistance (diabetes\\nruns in my family), and increase my metabolism. (Even so, my\\nmetabolism is so low that when I\\'m at rest I\\'m most comfortable\\nwith a temperature in the 90s (F), and usually wear a sweater if\\nit drops to 80.) Cycling also motivates me to avoid every excess\\nounce. (Cyclists routinely pay a premium for cycling products that\\nweigh slightly less than others. But it\\'s easier and cheaper to trim\\nweight from the rider than from the vehicle.)\\n\\nThere\\'s no question in my mind that my metabolism is radically\\ndifferent from that of most people who have never been fat. Fortunately,\\nit isn\\'t different in a way that precludes excellent health.\\n\\nObviously, I can\\'t swear that every obese person who does what I\\'ve\\ndone will have the success I did. But I\\'ve never yet heard of one who\\ndid try it and didn\\'t succeed.\\n\\n> I think all of us cycle. One\\'s success depends on how large the\\n> fluctuations in the cycle are. Some people can cycle only 5 pounds.\\n\\nI\\'m sure everyone\\'s weight cycles, whether or not they\\'ve ever been fat.\\nI usually eat extremely little salt. When I do eat something salty,\\nmy weight can increase overnight by as much as ten pounds. It comes\\noff again over a week or two.\\n-- \\nKeith Lynch, kfl@access.digex.com\\n\\nf p=2,3:2 s q=1 x \"f f=3:2 q:f*f>p!\\'q s q=p#f\" w:q p,?$x\\\\8+1*8\\n',\n", " 'From: gnb@leo.bby.com.au (Gregory N. Bond)\\nSubject: Re: Area Rule (was Re: Space Research Spin Off)\\nArticle-I.D.: bby.1993Apr6.064720.6920\\n\\t<1pnuke$idn@access.digex.net> \\n\\t<1ppm7j$ip@access.digex.net> <1993Apr5.133619.1@fnalf.fnal.gov>\\nOrganization: Burdett, Buckeridge & Young, Melbourne, Australia\\nLines: 9\\nIn-Reply-To: higgins@fnalf.fnal.gov\\'s message of 5 Apr 93 13:36:19 -0600\\nNntp-Posting-Host: leo-gw\\n\\nCan somebody elaborate on \"Area Ruling\". I gather it\\'s something to\\ndo with aerodynamics of trans-sonic planes, and can be summarised as\\n\"Coke bottle good, Coke can bad\". Anyone provide more details,\\nderivation etc?\\n--\\nGregory Bond Burdett Buckeridge & Young Ltd Melbourne Australia\\n Knox\\'s 386 is slick. Fox in Sox, on Knox\\'s Box\\n Knox\\'s box is very quick. Plays lots of LSL. He\\'s sick!\\n(Apologies to John \"Iron Bar\" Mackin.)\\n',\n", " 'From: milsh@nmr-z.mgh.harvard.edu (Alex Milshteyn)\\nSubject: Re: Is MSG sensitivity superstition?\\nOrganization: Mass General Hospital CIPR \\nLines: 35\\n\\nIn article meltsner@crd.ge.com writes:\\n>\\n>\\n>I wouldn\\'t call it a double-blind, but one local restaurant\\'s soup\\n>provokes an impressive migraine headache for my wife -- that one\\n>take-out and no other... \\n\\nNothing unisual.\\nQuote:\\n\"\\nChinese Restaurant Syndrome (CRS):\\na transient syndrome, associated with arterial dilatation, due to ingestion\\nof monosodium glutamate, which is used liberally in seasoning chinese\\nfood; it is characterized by throbbing of the head, lightheadedness,\\ntightness of the jaw, neck and shoulders, and bachache.\\n\"\\nEnd quote.\\nSource: Dorland\\'s Illustrated Medical Dictionary, 27th edition, 1988, W.B. Saunders, p 1632.\\n\\nThis was known long ago. Brain produces and uses some MSG naturally,\\nbut not in doses it is served at some chinese places. \\nHaving said that, i might add, that in MHO, MSG does not enhance\\nflavor enoughf for me to miss it. When I go to chinese places,\\nI order food without MSG. Goos places will do it for you.\\nA prerequisite for such a service would be a waiter, capable of\\nunderstanding, what you want.\\n\\n\\nGood Luck.\\n\\n\\nam\\n-- \\nAlexander M. Milshteyn M.D. \\nCIPR, MGH in Boston, MA. (617)724-9507 Vox (617)726-7830 Fax\\n',\n", " 'From: kxgst1+@pitt.edu (Kenneth Gilbert)\\nSubject: Re: quality control in medicine\\nOrganization: University of Pittsburgh\\nLines: 20\\n\\nIn article <93108.003258U19250@uicvm.uic.edu> U19250@uicvm.uic.edu writes:\\n:Does anybody know of any information regarding the implementaion of total\\n: quality management, quality control, quality assurance in the delivery of\\n: health care service. I would appreciate any information. If there is enough\\n:interest, I will post the responses.\\n\\n\\nThis is in fact a hot topic in medicine these days, and much of the\\nmedical literature is devoted to this. The most heavily funded studies\\nthese days are for outcome research, and physicians (and others!) are\\nconstantly questionning whether what we do it truly effective in any given\\nsituation. QA activities are a routine part of every hospital\\'s\\nadministrative function and are required by accreditation agencies. There\\nare even entire publications devoted to QA issues.\\n\\n-- \\n=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-|-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=\\n= Kenneth Gilbert __|__ University of Pittsburgh =\\n= General Internal Medicine | \"...dammit, not a programmer!\" =\\n=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-|-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=\\n',\n", " 'From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)\\nSubject: Re: Is MSG sensitivity superstition?\\nOrganization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA\\nLines: 91\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr17.184435.19725@cunews.carleton.ca> wcsbeau@alfred.carleton.ca (OPIRG) writes:\\n>Many people responded with more anecdotal stories; I think its safe to\\n>say the original poster is already familiar with such stories.\\n>Presumably, he wants hard info to substantiate or refute claims about\\n>MSG making people ill. \\n\\nThere has been NO hard info provided about MSG making people ill.\\nThat\\'s the point, after all.\\n\\n>>Like youself? Someone who can read a scientific paper and apparently\\n>>come away from it with bizarrely cracked ideas which have nothing to\\n>>do with the use of this substance in human nutrition?\\n>Have you read Olney\\'s work? I fail to see how citing results from\\n>peer-reviewed studies qualifies as \"bizarrely cracked\".\\n\\nThat\\'s because these \"peer-reviewed\" studies are not addressing\\nthe effects of MSG in people, they\\'re looking at animal models.\\nYou can\\'t walk away from this and start ranting about gloom and\\ndoom as if there were any documented deleterious health effects\\ndemonstrated in humans. Note that I wouldn\\'t have any argument\\nwith a statement like \"noting that animal administration has pro-\\nduced the following [blah, blah], we must be careful about its\\nuse in humans.\" This is precisely NOT what you said.\\n\\n>Tests have been done on Rhesus monkeys, as well. I have never seen a\\n>study where the mode of administration was intra-ventricular. The Glu\\n>and Asp were administered orally. Some studies used IV and SC.\\n>Intra-ventricular is not a normal admin. method for food tox. studies,\\n>for obvious reasons. You must not have read the peer-reviewed works\\n>that I referred to or you would never have come up with this brain\\n>injection bunk.\\n\\nIt most certainly is for neurotoxicology. You know, studies of\\nglutamate involve more than \"food science\".\\n\\n>Pardon me, but where are you getting this from? Have you read the\\n>journals? Have you done a thorough literature search?\\n\\nSo, point us to the studies in humans, please. I\\'m familiar with\\nthe literature, and I\\'ve never seen any which relate at all to\\nOlney\\'s work in animals and the effects of glutamate on neurons.\\n\\n>The point is exceeding the window. Of course, they\\'re amino acids.\\n>Note that people with PKU cannot tolerate any phenylalanine.\\n\\nWell, actually, they HAVE to tolerate some phenylalanine; it\\'s a\\nessential amino acid. They just try to get as little as is healthy\\nwithout producing dangerous levels of phenylalanine and its metabolites\\nin the blood.\\n\\n>Olney\\'s research compared infant human diets. Specifically, the amount\\n>of freely available Glu in mother\\'s milk versus commercial baby foods,\\n>vs. typical lunch items from the Standard American Diet such as packaged\\n>soup mixes. He found that one could exceed the projected safety margin\\n>for infant humans by at least four-fold in a single meal of processed\\n>foods. Mother\\'s milk was well below the effective dose.\\n\\nGoodness, I\\'m not saying that it\\'s good to feed infants a lot of\\nglutamate-supplemented foods. It\\'s just that this \"projected safety\\nmargin\" is a construct derived from animal models and given that,\\nyou can \"prove\" anything you like. We\\'re talking prudent policy in\\ninfant nutrition here, yet you\\'re misrepresenting it as received wisdom.\\n\\n>>>Read Olney\\'s review paper in Prog. Brain Res, 1988, and check *his*\\n>>>sources. They are impecable. There is no dispute.\\n>>\\n>>Impeccable. There most certainly is a dispute.\\n>\\n>Between who? Over what? I would be most interested in seeing you\\n>provide peer-reviewed non-food-industry-funded citations to articles\\n>disputing that MSG has no effects whatsoever. \\n\\nYou mean \"asserting\". You\\'re being intellectually dishonest (or just\\nplain confused), because you\\'re conflating reports which do not necessarily\\nhave anything to do with each other. Olney\\'s reports would argue a potential\\nfor problems in human infants, but that\\'s not to say that this says anything\\nwhatsoever about the use of MSG in most foods, nor does he provide any\\nstudies in humans which indicate any deleterious effects (for obvious\\nreasons.) It says nothing about MSG\\'s contribtion to the phenomenon\\nof the \"Chinese Restaurant Syndrome\". It says nothing about the frequent\\ninability to replicate anecdotal reports of MSG sensitivity in the lab.\\n\\n>>dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com \\n>Hmm. \".com\". Why am I not surprised?\\n>- Dianne Murray wcsbeau@ccs.carleton.ca\\n\\nProbably one of the dumber remarks you\\'ve made.\\n\\n-- \\nSteve Dyer\\ndyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer\\n',\n", " 'From: palmer@cco.caltech.edu (David M. Palmer)\\nSubject: Re: Boom! Whoosh......\\nOrganization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena\\nLines: 39\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: alumni.caltech.edu\\n\\nmatthew@phantom.gatech.edu (Matthew DeLuca) writes:\\n\\n>In article <1993Apr21.024423.29182@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> wdwells@nyx.cs.du.edu (David \"Fuzzy\" Wells) writes:\\n\\n>>I hear that it will supposedly coincide\\n>>with the Atlanta Olympics. \\n\\n>Even worse, the city of Atlanta has a proposal before it to rent space on this\\n>orbiting billboard. Considering the caliber of people running this city, \\n>there\\'s no telling what we\\'re going to have leering down at us from orbit.\\n\\nI would just like to point out that it is much easier to place an\\nobject at orbital altitude than it is to place it with orbital\\nvelocity. For a target 300 km above the surface of Earth,\\nyou need a delta-v of 2.5 km/s. Assuming that rockets with specific\\nimpulses of 300 seconds are easy to produce, a rocket with a dry\\nweight of 50 kg would require only about 65 kg of fuel+oxidizer.\\nA small dispersal charge embedded in about 20 kg of sand or\\nbirdshot (depending on the nature of the structure) would be\\nthe payload. I am sure the whole project is well within\\nthe capability of the amateur rocketry community.\\n\\nIt sounds like a good Science Fair project--\\'Reduction\\nof Light Pollution Through Applied Ballistics\\'.\\nOr, it could be part of the Challenge Prize being discussed\\nhere: $1 billion for the first person to spend 1 year\\non the moon, $1 million for the first erradication of\\nan orbital eyesore/CCD burner. I wouldpledge $1000\\nfor the first person to bring it down, and I am sure\\nthere are at least 999 other astronomers, nature lovers,\\nor just plain people of good taste who would do likewise.\\n\\nOf course, a Gerald Bull solution might be simpler.\\n(Either the solution Gerald Bull would apply--the use\\nof a large caliber gun; or the solution which was applied\\nto Gerald Bull--the use of a small caliber gun.)\\n-- \\n\\t\\tDavid M. Palmer\\t\\tpalmer@alumni.caltech.edu\\n\\t\\t\\t\\t\\tpalmer@tgrs.gsfc.nasa.gov\\n',\n", " \"From: noring@netcom.com (Jon Noring)\\nSubject: Need Reference: Multiple Personalities Disorders and Allergies\\nOrganization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)\\nLines: 28\\n\\nI heard third-hand (not the best form of information) that there was recently\\npublished results of a study on Multiple-Personality-Disorder Syndrome\\npatients revealing some interesting clues that the root cause of allergy may\\nhave a psychological trigger or basis. What I heard about this study was that\\nin one 'personality', a MPDS patient exhibited no observable or clinical signs\\nof inhalant allergy (scratch tests were used, according to what I heard),\\nwhile in other personalities they showed obvious allergy symptoms, including\\ntesting a full ++++ on scratch tests for particular inhalants.\\n\\nIf this is true, it is truly fascinating.\\n\\nBut, I'd like to know if this study was ever done, and if so, what the study\\nreally showed, and where the study is published. Any help out there?\\n\\nJon Noring\\n\\n-- \\n\\nCharter Member --->>> INFJ Club.\\n\\nIf you're dying to know what INFJ means, be brave, e-mail me, I'll send info.\\n=============================================================================\\n| Jon Noring | noring@netcom.com | |\\n| JKN International | IP : 192.100.81.100 | FRED'S GOURMET CHOCOLATE |\\n| 1312 Carlton Place | Phone : (510) 294-8153 | CHIPS - World's Best! |\\n| Livermore, CA 94550 | V-Mail: (510) 417-4101 | |\\n=============================================================================\\nWho are you? Read alt.psychology.personality! That's where the action is.\\n\",\n", " \"From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)\\nSubject: Re: Orion drive in vacuum -- how?\\nOrganization: U of Toronto Zoology\\nLines: 12\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr17.053333.15696@sfu.ca> Leigh Palmer writes:\\n>... a high explosive Orion prototype flew (in the atmosphere) in San\\n>Diego back in 1957 or 1958... I feel sure\\n>that someone must have film of that experiment, and I'd really like to\\n>see it. Has anyone out there seen it?\\n\\nThe National Air & Space Museum has both the prototype and the film.\\nWhen I was there, some years ago, they had the prototype on display and\\nthe film continuously repeating.\\n-- \\nAll work is one man's work. | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology\\n - Kipling | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry\\n\",\n", " 'From: lindae@netcom.com\\nSubject: Re: MORBUS MENIERE - is there a real remedy?\\nOrganization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)\\nLines: 87\\n\\nIn article <19392@pitt.UUCP> geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks) writes:\\n>In article lindae@netcom.com writes:\\n>\\n>>\\n>>My biggest resentment is the doctor who makes it seem like most\\n>>people with dizziness can be cured. That\\'s definitely not the\\n>>case. In most cases, like I said above, it is a long, tedious\\n>>process that may or may not end up in a partial cure. \\n>>\\n>\\n>Be sure to say \"chronic\" dizziness, not just dizziness. Most\\n>patients with acute or subacute dizziness will get better.\\n>The vertiginous spells of Meniere\\'s will also eventually go\\n>away, however, the patient is left with a deaf ear.\\n\\nAll true. And all good points.\\n\\n>\\n>>To anyone suffering with vertigo, dizziness, or any variation\\n>>thereof, my best advice to you (as a fellow-sufferer) is this...\\n>>just keep searching...don\\'t let the doctors tell you there\\'s\\n>>nothing that can be done...do your own research...and let your\\n>\\n>This may have helped you, but I\\'m not sure it is good general\\n>advice. The odds that you are going to find some miracle with\\n>your own research that is secret or hidden from general knowledge\\n>for this or any other disease are slim. When good answers to these\\n\\n>then, spending a great deal of time and energy on the medical\\n>problem may divert that energy from more productive things\\n>in life. A limited amount should be spent to assure yourself\\n>that your doctor gave you the correct story, but after it becomes\\n>clear that you are dealing with a problem for which medicine\\n>has no good solution, perhaps the best strategy is to join\\n>the support group and keep abreast of new findings but not to\\n>make a career out of it.\\n\\nWell, making a career out of it is a bit strong. I still believe\\nthat doing your own research is very, very necessary. I would\\nnot have progressed as much as I have today, unless I had spent\\nthe many hours in Stanford\\'s Med Library as I have done.\\nAnd 5 years ago, it was clear that there was no medicine that \\nwould help me. So should I have stopped searching. Thank\\ngoodness I didn\\'t. Now I found that there is indeed medicine\\nthat helps me. \\n\\nI think that what you\\'ve said is kind of idealistic. That you\\nwould go to one doctor, get a diagnosis, maybe get a second\\nopinion, and then move on with your life.\\nJust as an example... having seen 6 of the top specialists in \\nthis field in the country, I have received 6 different diagnoses.\\nThese are the top names, the ones that people come to from all over\\nthe country. I have HAD to sort all of this out myself. Going\\nto a support group (and in fact, HEADING that support group) was \\nhelpful for a while, but after a point, I found it very\\nunproductive. It was much more productive to do library research,\\nmake phone calls and put together the pieces of the puzzle myself.\\n\\nA recent movie, Lorenzo\\'s Oil, offers a perfect example of what\\nI\\'m talking about. If you haven\\'t seen it, you should. It\\'s not\\na put down of doctor\\'s and neither is what I\\'m saying. Doctors are\\nonly human and can only do so much. But there are those of us\\nout here who are intelligent and able to sometimes find a missing\\npiece of the puzzle that might have otherwise gone unnoticed.\\n\\nI guess I\\'m biased because dizziness is one of those weird things\\nthat is still so unknown. If I had a broken arm, or a weak heart,\\nor failing kidneys, I might not have the same opinion. That\\'s because \\nthose things are much more tangible and have much more concise \\ndefinitions and treatments. With dizziness, you just have to\\ndecide to live with it or decide to live with it while trying to\\nfind your way out of it.\\n\\n\\nI have chosen the latter.\\n\\n\\nLinda\\nlindae@netcom.netcom.com\\n\\n\\n>\\n>-- \\n>----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n>Gordon Banks N3JXP | \"Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and\\n>geb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu | it is shameful to surrender it too soon.\" \\n>----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n',\n", " 'From: prb@access.digex.com (Pat)\\nSubject: Re: HST Servicing Mission Scheduled for 11 Days\\nOrganization: Express Access Online Communications USA\\nLines: 23\\nDistribution: world\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: access.digex.net\\nKeywords: HST\\n\\n\\n\\nSOmebody mentioned a re-boost of HST during this mission, meaning\\nthat Weight is a very tight margin on this mission.\\n\\nHow will said re-boost be done?\\n\\nGrapple, HST, stow it in Cargo bay, do OMS burn to high altitude, \\n\\nunstow HST, repair gyros, costar install, fix solar arrays,\\n\\nthen return to earth?\\n\\nMy guess is why bother with usingthe shuttle to reboost?\\n\\nwhy not grapple, do all said fixes, bolt a small liquid fueled\\nthruster module to HST, then let it make the re-boost. it has to be\\ncheaper on mass then usingthe shuttle as a tug. that way, now that\\nthey are going to need at least 5 spacewalks, then they can carry\\nan EDO pallet, and sit on station and even maybe do the solar array\\ntilt motor fix.\\n\\npat\\n',\n", " 'From: mmatusev@radford.vak12ed.edu (Melissa N. Matusevich)\\nSubject: Re: Emphysema question\\nOrganization: Virginia\\'s Public Education Network (Radford)\\nLines: 13\\n\\nThanks for all your assistance. I\\'ll see if he can try a\\ndifferent brand of patches, although he\\'s tried two brands\\nalready. Are there more than two?\\n\\nMelissa\\n\\n---\\n mmatusev@radford.vak12ed.edu\\n\\n\"After a time you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing\\nafter all as wanting. It is not logical, but it is often true.\"\\n\\nSpock to Stonn\\n',\n", " 'From: mcovingt@aisun3.ai.uga.edu (Michael Covington)\\nSubject: Re: food-related seizures?\\nNntp-Posting-Host: aisun3.ai.uga.edu\\nOrganization: AI Programs, University of Georgia, Athens\\nLines: 27\\n\\nIn article geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks) writes:\\n>In article <116305@bu.edu> dozonoff@bu.edu (david ozonoff) writes:\\n>>\\n>>Many of these cereals are corn-based. After your post I looked in the\\n>>literature and located two articles that implicated corn (contains\\n>>tryptophan) and seizures. The idea is that corn in the diet might\\n>>potentiate an already existing or latent seizure disorder, not cause it.\\n>>Check to see if the two Kellog cereals are corn based. I\\'d be interested.\\n>\\n>Years ago when I was an intern, an obese young woman was brought into\\n>the ER comatose after having been reported to have grand mal seizures\\n>why attending a \"corn festival\". We pumped her stomach and obtained\\n>what seemed like a couple of liters of corn, much of it intact kernals. \\n>After a few hours she woke up and was fine. I was tempted to sign her out as\\n>\"acute corn intoxication.\"\\n>----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n>Gordon Banks N3JXP | \"Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and\\n\\nHow about contaminants on the corn, e.g. aflatoxin???\\n\\n\\n\\n-- \\n:- Michael A. Covington, Associate Research Scientist : *****\\n:- Artificial Intelligence Programs mcovingt@ai.uga.edu : *********\\n:- The University of Georgia phone 706 542-0358 : * * *\\n:- Athens, Georgia 30602-7415 U.S.A. amateur radio N4TMI : ** *** ** <><\\n',\n", " \"From: bebmza@sru001.chvpkh.chevron.com (Beverly M. Zalan)\\nSubject: Re: Frequent nosebleeds\\nReply-To: bebmza@sru001.chvpkh.chevron.com (Beverly M. Zalan)\\nOrganization: chevron\\nLines: 24\\nX-Newsreader: InterCon TCP/Connect II 1.1\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr17.195202.28921@freenet.carleton.ca>, \\nab961@Freenet.carleton.ca (Robert Allison) writes:\\n\\n> \\n> \\n> I have between 15 and 25 nosebleeds each week, as a result of a genetic \\n> predisposition to weak capillary walls (Osler-Weber-Rendu). \\n> Fortunately, each nosebleed is of short duration. \\n> \\n> Does anyone know of any method to reduce this frequency? My younger \\n> brothers each tried a skin transplant (thigh to nose lining), but their \\n> nosebleeds soon returned. I've seen a reference to an herb called Rutin \\n> that is supposed to help, and I'd like to hear of experiences with it, \\n> or other techniques. \\n> -- \\n\\n\\nMy 6 year son is so plagued. Lots of vaseline up his nose each night seems \\nto keep it under control. But let him get bopped there, and he'll recur for \\ndays! Also allergies, colds, dry air all seem to contribute. But again, the \\nvaseline, or A&D ointment, or neosporin all seem to keep them from recurring.\\n\\n\\nBev Zalan\\n\",\n", " 'From: young@serum.kodak.com (Rich Young)\\nSubject: Re: Barbecued foods and health risk\\nOriginator: young@sasquatch\\nNntp-Posting-Host: sasquatch\\nReply-To: young@serum.kodak.com\\nOrganization: Clinical Diagnostics Division, Eastman Kodak Company\\nLines: 24\\n\\nIn article rsilver@world.std.com (Richard Silver) writes:\\n>\\n>Some recent postings remind me that I had read about risks \\n>associated with the barbecuing of foods, namely that carcinogens \\n>are generated. Is this a valid concern? If so, is it a function \\n>of the smoke or the elevated temperatures? Is it a function of \\n>the cooking elements, wood or charcoal vs. lava rocks? I wish \\n>to know more. Thanks. \\n\\n From THE TUFTS UNIVERSITY GUIDE TO TOTAL NUTRITION: Stanley Gershoff, \\n Ph.D., Dean of Tufts University School of Nutrition; HarperPerennial, 1991\\n (ISBN #0-06-272007-4):\\n\\n\\t\"The greatest hazard of barbecuing is that the cook will not use\\n\\t enough caution and get burned. Some people suggest that the\\n\\t barbecuing itself is dangerous, because the smoke, which is \\n\\t absorbed by the meat, contains benzopyrene, which, in its pure form,\\n\\t has been known to cause cancer in laboratory animals. However,\\n\\t in order to experience the same results, people would have to\\n\\t consume unrealistically large quantities of barbecued meat at a\\n\\t time.\"\\n\\n\\n-Rich Young (These are not Kodak\\'s opinions.)\\n',\n", " \"From: rick@trystro.uucp (Richard Nickle)\\nSubject: Re: How to read sci.space without netnews\\nOrganization: The Trystro System (617) 625-7155 v.32/v.42bis\\nLines: 27\\n\\nIn article mwm+@cs.cmu.edu (Mark Maimone) writes:\\n>In article <734975852.F00001@permanet.org> Mark.Prado@p2.f349.n109.z1.permanet.org (Mark Prado) writes:\\n>>If anyone knows anyone else who would like to get sci.space,\\n>>but doesn't have an Internet feed (or has a cryptic Internet\\n>>feed), I would be willing to feed it to them.\\t\\n>\\n>\\tKudos to Mark for his generous offer, but there already exists a\\n>large (email-based) forwarding system for sci.space posts: Space Digest.\\n>It mirrors sci.space exactly, and provides simple two-way communication.\\n>\\nI think Mark was talking about making it available to people who didn't\\nhave email in the first place.\\n\\nIf anybody in the Boston area wants a sci.space feed by honest-to-gosh UUCP\\n(no weird offline malreaders), let me know. I'll also hand out logins to\\nanyone who wants one, especially the Boston Chapter of NSS (which I keep forgetting\\nto re-attend).\\n\\n>Questions, comments to space-request@isu.isunet.edu\\n>-- \\n>Mark Maimone\\t\\t\\t\\tphone: +1 (412) 268 - 7698\\n>Carnegie Mellon Computer Science\\temail: mwm@cmu.edu\\n\\n\\n-- \\nrichard nickle\\t\\trick@trystro.uucp\\t617-625-7155 v.32/v.42bis\\n\\t\\t\\tthink!trystro!rick\\tsomerville massachusetts\\n\",\n", " 'From: ffujita@s.psych.uiuc.edu (Frank Fujita)\\nSubject: Re: \"Choleric\" and The Great NT/NF Semantic War.\\nOrganization: University of Illinois at Urbana\\nLines: 6\\n\\nAlso remember that most people map the\\nsanguine/choleric/melencholic/phlegmatic division onto the extraversion\\nand neuroticism dimensions (Like Eysenck) and that the MBTI does not\\ndeal with neuroticism (Costa & McCrae).\\n\\nFrank Fujita\\n',\n", " 'From: Chris W. Johnson \\nSubject: Re: New DC-x gif\\nOrganization: University of Texas at Austin Computation Center\\nLines: 20\\nDistribution: world\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: gargravarr.cc.utexas.edu\\nX-UserAgent: Nuntius v1.1.1d20\\nX-XXMessage-ID: \\nX-XXDate: Thu, 15 Apr 93 19:42:41 GMT\\n\\nIn article Andy Cohen,\\nCohen@ssdgwy.mdc.com writes:\\n> I just uploaded \"DCXart2.GIF\" to bongo.cc.utexas.edu...after Chris Johnson\\n> moves it, it\\'ll probably be in pub/delta-clipper.\\n\\nThanks again Andy.\\n\\nThe image is in pub/delta-clipper now. The name has been changed to \\n\"dcx-artists-concept.gif\" in the spirit of verboseness. :-)\\n\\n----Chris\\n\\nChris W. Johnson\\n\\nInternet: chrisj@emx.cc.utexas.edu\\nUUCP: {husc6|uunet}!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!chrisj\\nCompuServe: >INTERNET:chrisj@emx.cc.utexas.edu\\nAppleLink: chrisj@emx.cc.utexas.edu@internet#\\n\\n...wishing the Delta Clipper team success in the upcoming DC-X flight tests.\\n',\n", " \"Subject: Re: Broken rib\\nFrom: jc@oneb.almanac.bc.ca\\nOrganization: The Old Frog's Almanac, Nanaimo, B.C.\\nKeywords: advice needed\\nSummary: thanx for the comeback\\nLines: 7\\n\\nHello , I think you are probaly right, in spite of the movement\\nit is getting better each day. cheers\\n\\n jc@oneb.almanac.bc.ca (John Cross)\\n The Old Frog's Almanac (Home of The Almanac UNIX Users Group) \\n(604) 245-3205 (v32) (604) 245-4366 (2400x4)\\n Vancouver Island, British Columbia Waffle XENIX 1.64 \\n\",\n", " 'From: pan@panda.Stanford.EDU (Doug Pan)\\nSubject: Re: Is MSG sensitivity superstition?\\nIn-Reply-To: mossman@cea.Berkeley.EDU\\'s message of 15 Apr 1993 19:41:40 GMT\\nOrganization: InterViews/Allegro group, Stanford University\\n\\t<1993Apr13.144340.3549@news.cs.brandeis.edu>\\n\\t<1993Apr14.012946.114440@zeus.calpoly.edu>\\n\\t<1993Apr14.122647.16364@tms390.micro.ti.com>\\n\\t<1993Apr15.135941.16105@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com>\\n\\t<1qkdpk$5k6@agate.berkeley.edu>\\nLines: 26\\n\\nIn article <1qkdpk$5k6@agate.berkeley.edu> mossman@cea.Berkeley.EDU (Amy Mossman) writes:\\n\\n> I had a similar reaction to Chinese food but came to a completly different\\n> conclusion. I\\'ve eaten Chinese food for ages and never had problems. I went\\n> with some Chinese Malaysian friends to a swanky Chinses rest. and they ordered\\n> lots of stuff I had never seen before. The only thing I can remember of that\\n> meal was the first course, scallops served in the shell with a soy-type sauce.\\n> I thought, \"Well, I\\'ve only had scallops once and I was sick after but that\\n> could have been a coincidence\". That night as I sat on the bathroom floor,\\n> sweating and emptying my stomach the hard way, I decided I would never touch\\n> another scallop. I may not be allergic but I don\\'t want to take the chance.\\n\\nI don\\'t react to scallops, but did have discomforts with clam juice\\nserved at (American) waterfront seafood bars. I don\\'t know whether\\nthe juice is homemade or from cans.\\n\\nThe following is my first encounter with the Chinese Restaurant\\nSyndrome. Ten years ago, about an hour after having Won Ton Soup I\\ncollapsed in a chair with my face feeling puffed up, my scalp\\ntingling, my feet too weak to stand up. The symptoms lasted for about\\n20 minutes. Determined to find out the cause of my first reaction, I\\nwent back to the Chinese restuarant and ordered the same dish. The\\nsame thing happened. A quick look inside the kitchen revealed nothing\\nout of the ordinary.\\n\\nI\\'ve also had a mild attack after having soup at a Thai restuarant.\\n',\n", " 'From: dan@visix.com (Daniel Appelquist)\\nSubject: Re: PLANETS STILL: IMAGES ORBIT BY ETHER TWIST\\nReply-To: dan@visix.com (Daniel Appelquist)\\nOrganization: Visix Software, Reston, Virginia\\nLines: 11\\n\\ndmcaloon@tuba.calpoly.edu (David McAloon) writes:\\n[Lots of trippy stuff deleted]\\n\\nWow... What is this guy smoking and WHERE can I GET SOME?\\n\\nDan\\n-- \\nDaniel K. Appelquist|QUANTA is the electronically published and distributed\\ndan@visix.com |magazine of science fiction and fantasy. For more\\n703-758-2712 |information, send mail to quanta+@andrew.cmu.edu or,\\n703-758-0233 (Fax) |for back issues, ftp export.acs.cmu.edu, id:anonymous.\\n',\n", " 'From: aws@iti.org (Allen W. Sherzer)\\nSubject: Re: HLV for Fred (was Re: Prefab Space Station?)\\nArticle-I.D.: iti.1993Apr6.124456.14123\\nOrganization: Evil Geniuses for a Better Tomorrow\\nLines: 22\\n\\nIn article jbh55289@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Josh Hopkins) writes:\\n\\n>>[Titan III is the cheapest US launcher on a $/lb basis]\\n\\n>In that case it\\'s rather ironic that they are doing so poorly on the commercial\\n>market. Is there a single Titan III on order?\\n\\nThey have a few problems. The biggest technical problem is the need to find\\ntwo satellites going to the same rough orbit for a luanch.\\n\\nThey also don\\'t show much interest in commercial launches. There is more\\nmoney to be made churning out Titan IV\\'s for the government. After all,\\nit isn\\'t every day you find a sucker, er, customer who thinks paying\\nthree times the commercial rate for launch services is a good idea!\\n\\n Allen\\n\\n-- \\n+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+\\n| Allen W. Sherzer | \"A great man is one who does nothing but leaves |\\n| aws@iti.org | nothing undone\" |\\n+----------------------71 DAYS TO FIRST FLIGHT OF DCX-----------------------+\\n',\n", " 'From: kjenks@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov\\nSubject: Re: Russian Email Contacts.\\nOrganization: NASA/JSC/GM2, Space Shuttle Program Office\\nX-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]\\nLines: 10\\n\\nI am coordinating the Space Shuttle Program Office\\'s e-mail traffic to\\nNPO Energia for our on-going Joint Missions. I have several e-mail\\naddresses for NPO Energia folks, but I won\\'t post them on the \\'Net for\\nobvious reasons. If you need to know, give me a yell.\\n\\n-- Ken Jenks, NASA/JSC/GM2, Space Shuttle Program Office\\n kjenks@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov (713) 483-4368\\n\\n \"The earth is the cradle of humanity, but mankind will not stay in\\n the cradle forever.\" -- Konstantin Tsiolkvosky\\n',\n", " 'From: gnb@leo.bby.com.au (Gregory N. Bond)\\nSubject: Re: Why not give $1 billion to first year-long moon residents?\\nIn-Reply-To: gene@theporch.raider.net\\'s message of Sun, 18 Apr 1993 19:29:40 GMT\\nNntp-Posting-Host: leo-gw\\nOrganization: Burdett, Buckeridge & Young, Melbourne, Australia\\nLines: 32\\n\\nIn article <6ZV82B2w165w@theporch.raider.net> gene@theporch.raider.net (Gene Wright) writes:\\n\\n Announce that a reward of $1 billion would go to the first corporation \\n who successfully keeps at least 1 person alive on the moon for a\\n year. \\n\\nAnd with $1B on offer, the problem of \"keeping them alive\" is highly\\nlikely to involve more than just the lunar environment! \\n\\n\"Oh Dear, my freighter just landed on the roof of ACME\\'s base and they\\nall died. How sad. Gosh, that leaves us as the oldest residents.\"\\n\\n\"Quick Boss, the slime from YoyoDyne are back, and this time they\\'ve\\ngot a tank! Man the guns!\"\\n\\nOne could imagine all sorts of technologies being developed in that\\nsort of environment.....\\n\\nGreg.\\n\\n(I\\'m kidding, BTW, although the problem of winner-takes-all prizes is\\nthat it encourages all sorts of undesirable behaviour - witness\\nmilitary procurement programs. And $1b is probably far too small a\\nreward to encourage what would be a very expensive and high risk\\nproposition.)\\n\\n\\n--\\nGregory Bond Burdett Buckeridge & Young Ltd Melbourne Australia\\n Knox\\'s 386 is slick. Fox in Sox, on Knox\\'s Box\\n Knox\\'s box is very quick. Plays lots of LSL. He\\'s sick!\\n(Apologies to John \"Iron Bar\" Mackin.)\\n',\n", " 'From: C599143@mizzou1.missouri.edu (Matthew Q Keeler de la Mancha)\\nSubject: Infant Immune Development Question\\nNntp-Posting-Host: mizzou1.missouri.edu\\nOrganization: University of Missouri\\nLines: 10\\n\\nAs an animal science student, I know that a number of animals transfer\\nimmunoglobin to thier young through thier milk. In fact, a calf _must_\\nhave a sufficient amount of colostrum (early milk) within 12 hours to\\neffectively develop the immune system, since for the first (less than)\\n24 hours the intestines are \"open\" to the IG passage. My question is,\\ndoes this apply to human infants to any degree?\\n \\nThanks for your time responding,\\nMatthew Keeler\\nc599143@mizzou1.missouri.edu\\n',\n", " 'From: uabdpo.dpo.uab.edu!gila005 (Stephen Holland)\\nSubject: Re: diet for Crohn\\'s (IBD)\\nOrganization: Gastroenterology - Univ. of Alabama\\nLines: 54\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr23.211108.26887@midway.uchicago.edu>,\\nbmdelane@quads.uchicago.edu (brian manning delaney) wrote:\\n> \\n> One thing that I haven\\'t seen in this thread is a discussion of the\\n> relation between IBD inflammation and the profile of ingested fatty\\n> acids (FAs).\\n> \\n> I was diagnosed last May w/Crohn\\'s of the terminal ileum. When I got\\n> out of the hospital I read up on it a bit, and came across several\\n> studies investigating the role of EPA (an essentially FA) in reducing\\n> inflammation. The evidence was mixed. [Many of these studies are\\n> discussed in \"Inflammatory Bowel Disease,\" MacDermott, Stenson. 1992.]\\n> \\n> But if I recall correctly, there were some methodological bones to be\\n> picked with the studies (both the ones w/pos. and w/neg. results). In\\n> the studies patients were given EPA (a few grams/day for most of the\\n> studies), but, if I recall correctly, there was no restriction of the\\n> _other_ FAs that the patients could consume. From the informed\\n> layperson\\'s perspective, this seems mistaken. If lots of n-6 FAs are\\n> consumed along with the EPA, then the ratio of \"bad\" prostanoid\\n> products to \"good\" prostanoid products could still be fairly \"bad.\"\\n> Isn\\'t this ratio the issue?\\n> \\n> What\\'s the view of the gastro. community on EPA these days? EPA\\n> supplements, along with a fairly severe restriction of other FAs\\n> appear to have helped me significantly (though it could just be the\\n> low absolute amount of fat I eat -- 8-10% calories).\\n> \\n> -Brian \\n\\nAs you note, the research is mixed, so there is no consensus on the\\nrole of fatty acids in Ulcerative colitis. There is a role for short\\nchain fatty acids in patients with colostomies and rectal pouches\\nthat are inflammed (Short is butyrate and shorter). There may be a role\\nfor treatment of UC with Short chain fatty acids, and I am looking \\nforward to the upcoming AGA meeting in Boston to see what people are\\ndoing. \\n\\nYou raise a hypothesis about the studies and restriction of other\\nfatty acids. You should contact the authors directly about that or\\neven write a letter to the editor - it is a good point. By the way,\\nthe abbreviation EPA is not in general use, so I do not know what \\nfatty acid you are speaking about.\\n\\nAnd to Brian an U of C --- There is a physician named Stephen Hanauer\\nthere who is a recognized expert in the treatment of IBD. You might \\ngive him a call. He is interested in new combinations of drugs for \\nthe treatment of IBD. If you call please say hello to him from me,\\nI was looking at U of C for a position, and perhaps still am. And\\nbe sure to look into joining the CCFA.\\n\\nBest of Luck.\\n\\nSteve Holland\\n',\n", " 'From: david@stat.com (David Dodell)\\nSubject: HICN610 Medical News Part 4/4\\nReply-To: david@stat.com (David Dodell)\\nDistribution: world\\nOrganization: Stat Gateway Service, WB7TPY\\nLines: 577\\n\\n------------- cut here -----------------\\nlimits of AZT\\'s efficacy and now suggest using the drug either sequentially \\nwith other drugs or in a kind of AIDS treatment \"cocktail\" combining a number \\nof drugs to fight the virus all at once. \"Treating people with AZT alone \\ndoesn\\'t happen in the real world anymore,\" said Dr. Mark Jacobson of the \\nUniversity of California--San Francisco. Also, with recent findings \\nindicating that HIV replicates rapidly in the lymph nodes after infection, \\nphysicians may begin pushing even harder for early treatment of HIV-infected \\npatients.\\n================================================================== \\n\\n\"New Infectious Disease Push\" American Medical News (04/05/93) Vol. 36, No. \\n13, P. 2 \\n\\n The Center for Disease Control will launch a worldwide network to track \\nthe spread of infectious diseases and detect drug-resistant or new strains in \\ntime to help prevent their spread. The network is expected to cost between \\n$75 million and $125 million but is an essential part of the Clinton \\nadministration\\'s health reform plan, according to the CDC and outside \\nexperts. The plan will require the CDC to enhance surveillance of disease in \\nthe United States and establish about 15 facilities across the world to \\ntrack disease. \\n\\n ===================================================================== \\n April 13, 1993 \\n ===================================================================== \\n\\n\"NIH Plans to Begin AIDS Drug Trials at Earlier Stage\" Nature (04/01/93) Vol. \\n362, No. 6419, P. 382 (Macilwain, Colin) \\n\\n\\nHICNet Medical Newsletter Page 42\\nVolume 6, Number 10 April 20, 1993\\n\\n The National Institutes of Health has announced it will start treating \\nHIV-positive patients as soon as possible after seroconversion, resulting \\nfrom recent findings that show HIV is active in the body in large numbers \\nmuch earlier than was previously believed. Anthony Fauci, director of the \\nU.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), said, \\n\"We must address the question of how to treat people as early as we possibly \\ncan with drugs that are safe enough to give people for years and that will \\nget around microbial resistance.\" He said any delay would signify questions \\nover safety and resistance rather than a lack of funds. Fauci, who co-\\nauthored one of the two papers published last week in Nature, rejects the \\nargument by one of his co-authors, Cecil Fox, that the new discovery \\nindicates that \"$1 billion spent on vaccine trials\" has been \"a waste of time \\nand money\" because the trials were started too long after the patients were \\ninfected and were ended too quickly. John Tew of the Medical College of \\nVirginia in Richmond claims that the new evidence strongly backs the argument \\nfor early treatment of HIV-infected patients. AIDS activists welcomed the \\nnew information but said the scientific community has been slow to understand \\nthe significance of infection of the lymph tissue. \"We\\'ve known about this \\nfor five years, but we\\'re glad it is now in the public domain,\" said Jesse \\nDobson of the California-based Project Inform. But Peter Duesberg, who \\nbelieves that AIDS is independent of HIV and is a result of drug abuse in the \\nWest, said, \"We are several paradoxes away from an explanation of AIDS--even \\nif these papers are right.\" \\n\\n ====================================================================== \\n April 14, 1993 \\n ====================================================================== \\n\\n\"Risk of AIDS Virus From Doctors Found to Be Minimal\" Washington Post \\n(04/14/93), P. A9 \\n\\n The risk of HIV being transmitted from infected health-care \\nprofessionals to patients is minimal, according to new research published in \\ntoday\\'s Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). This finding \\nsupports previous conclusions by health experts that the chance of \\ncontracting HIV from a health care worker is remote. Three studies in the \\nJAMA demonstrate that thousands of patients were treated by two HIV-positive \\nsurgeons and dentists without becoming infected with the virus. The studies \\nwere conducted by separate research teams in New Hampshire, Maryland, and \\nFlorida. Each study started with an HIV-positive doctor or dentist and \\ntested all patients willing to participate. The New Hampshire study found \\nthat none of the 1,174 patients who had undergone invasive procedures by an \\nHIV-positive orthopedic surgeon contracted HIV. In Maryland, 413 of 1,131 \\npatients operated on by a breast surgery specialist at Johns Hopkins Hospital \\nwere found to be HIV-negative. Similarly in Florida, 900 of 1,192 dental \\n\\nHICNet Medical Newsletter Page 43\\nVolume 6, Number 10 April 20, 1993\\n\\npatients, who all had been treated by an HIV-positive general dentist, were \\ntested and found to be negative for HIV. The Florida researchers, led by \\nGordon M. Dickinson of the University of Miami School of Medicine, said, \\n\"This study indicates that the risk for transmission of HIV from a general \\ndentist to his patients is minimal in a setting in which universal \\nprecautions are strictly observed.\" Related Story: Philadelphia Inquirer \\n(04/14) P. A6 \\n====================================================================== \\n\"Alternative Medicine Advocates Divided Over New NIH Research Program\" AIDS \\nTreatment News (04/02/93) No. 172, P. 6 (Gilden, Dave) \\n\\n The new Office of Alternative Medicine at the National Institutes of \\nHealth has raised questions about the NIH\\'s commitment to an effort that uses \\nunorthodox or holistic therapeutic methods. The OAM is a small division of \\nthe NIH, with its budget only at $2 million dollars compared to more than $10 \\nbillion for the NIH as a whole. In addition, the money for available \\nresearch grants is even smaller. About $500,000 to $600,000 total will be \\navailable this year for 10 or 20 grants. Kaiya Montaocean, of the Center for \\nNatural and Traditional Medicine in Washington, D.C., says the OAM is afraid \\nto become involved in AIDS. \"They have to look successful and there is no \\neasy answer in AIDS,\" she said. There is also a common perception that the \\nOAM will focus on fields the NIH establishment will find non-threatening, \\nsuch as relaxation techniques and acupuncture. When the OAM called for an \\nadvisory committee conference of about 120 people last year, the AIDS \\ncommunity was largely missing from the meeting. In addition, activists\\' \\ngeneral lack of contact with the Office has added suspicion that the epidemic \\nwill be ignored. Jon Greenberg, of ACT-UP/New York, said, \"The OAM advisory \\npanel is composed of practitioners without real research experience. It \\nwill take them several years to accept the nature of research.\" \\nNevertheless, Dr. Leanna Standish, research director and AIDS investigator \\nat the Bastyr College of Naturopathic Medicine in Seattle, said, \"Here is a \\nwonderful opportunity to fund AIDS research. It\\'s only fair to give the \\nOffice time to gel, but it\\'s up to the public to insist that it\\'s much, much \\nmore [than public relations].\" \\n====================================================================== \\n\"Herpesvirus Decimates Immune-cell Soldiers\" Science News (04/03/93) Vol. 143, \\nNo. 14, P. 215 (Fackelmann, Kathy A.) \\n\\n Scientists conducting test tube experiments have found that herpesvirus-\\n6 can attack the human immune system\\'s natural killer cells. This attack \\ncauses the killer cells to malfunction, diminishing an important component in \\nthe immune system\\'s fight against diseases. Also, the herpesvirus-6 may be a \\nfactor in immune diseases, such as AIDS. In 1989, Paolo Lusso\\'s research \\nfound that herpesvirus-6 attacks another white cell, the CD4 T-lymphocyte, \\nwhich is the primary target of HIV. Lusso also found that herpesvirus-6 can \\n\\nHICNet Medical Newsletter Page 44\\nVolume 6, Number 10 April 20, 1993\\n\\nkill natural killer cells. Scientists previously knew that the natural \\nkiller cells of patients infected with HIV do not work correctly. Lusso\\'s \\nresearch represents the first time scientists have indicated that natural \\nkiller cells are vulnerable to any kind of viral attack, according to Anthony \\nL. Komaroff, a researcher with Harvard Medical School. Despite the test-tube \\nfindings, scientists are uncertain whether the same result occurs in the \\nbody. Lusso\\'s team also found that herpesvirus-6 produces the CD4 receptor \\nmolecule that provides access for HIV. CD4 T-lymphocytes express this surface \\nreceptor, making them vulnerable to HIV\\'s attack. Researchers concluded that \\nherpesvirus-6 cells can exacerbate the affects of HIV. \\n\\n ====================================================================== \\n April 15, 1993 \\n ==================================================================== \\n\\n\"AIDS and Priorities in the Global Village: To the Editor\" Journal of the \\nAmerican Medical Association (04/07/93) Vol. 269, No. 13, P. 1636 (Gellert, \\nGeorge and Nordenberg, Dale F.) \\n\\n All health-care workers are obligated and responsible for not only \\nensuring that politicians understand the dimensions of certain health \\nproblems, but also to be committed to related policies, write George Gellert \\nand Dale F. Nordenberg of the Orange County Health Care Agency, Santa Ana, \\nCalif., and the Emory University School of Public Health in Atlanta, Ga., \\nrespectively. Dr. Berkley\\'s editorial on why American doctors should care \\nabout the AIDS epidemic beyond the United States details several reasons for \\nthe concerted interest that all countries share in combating AIDS. It should \\nbe noted that while AIDS leads in hastening global health interdependence, it \\nis not the only illness doing so. Diseases such as malaria and many \\nrespiratory and intestinal pathogens have similarly inhibited the economic \\ndevelopment of most of humanity and acted to marginalize large populations. \\nBerkley mentions the enormous social and economic impact that AIDS will have \\non many developing countries, and the increased need for international \\nassistance that will result. Berkley also cites the lack of political \\naggressiveness toward the AIDS epidemic in its first decade. But now there \\nis a new administration with a promise of substantial differences in approach \\nto international health and development in general, and HIV/AIDS in \\nparticular. Vice President Al Gore proposes in his book \"Earth in the \\nBalance\" a major environmental initiative that includes sustainable \\ninternational development, with programs to promote literacy, improve child \\nsurvival, and disseminate contraceptive technology and access throughout the \\ndeveloping world. If enacted, this change in policy could drastically \\nchange the future of worldwide health. \\n==================================================================== \\n\"AIDS and Priorities in the Global Village: In Reply\" Journal of the American \\n\\nHICNet Medical Newsletter Page 45\\nVolume 6, Number 10 April 20, 1993\\n\\nMedical Association (04/07/93) Vol. 269, No. 13, P. 1636 (Berkley, Seth) \\n\\n Every nation should tackle HIV as early and aggressively as possible \\nbefore the disease reaches an endemic state, even at a cost of diverting less \\nattention to some other illnesses, writes Seth Berkley of the Rockefeller \\nFoundation in New York, N.Y., in reply to a letter by Drs. Gellert and \\nNordenberg. Although it is true that diseases other than AIDS, such as \\nmalaria and respiratory and intestinal illnesses, have similarly inhibited \\neconomic development in developing countries and deserve much more attention \\nthan they are getting, Berkley disagrees with the contention that AIDS is \\nreceiving too much attention. HIV differs from other diseases, in most \\ndeveloping countries because it is continuing to spread. For most endemic \\ndiseases, the outcome of neglecting interventions for one year is another \\nyear of about the same level of needless disease and death. But with AIDS \\nand its increasing spread, the cost of neglect, not only in disease burden \\nbut financially, is much greater. Interventions in the early part of a \\nrampantly spreading epidemic like HIV are highly cost-effective because each \\nindividual infection prevented significantly interrupts transmission. Berkley \\nsays he agrees with Gellert and Nordenberg about the gigantic social and \\neconomic effects of AIDS and about the need for political leadership. But he \\nconcludes that not only is assertive political leadership needed in the \\nUnited States for the AIDS epidemic, but even more so in developing countries \\nwith high rates of HIV infection and where complacency about the epidemic \\nhas been the rule.\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nHICNet Medical Newsletter Page 46\\nVolume 6, Number 10 April 20, 1993\\n\\n\\n\\n::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::\\n AIDS/HIV Articles\\n::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::\\n\\n First HIV Vaccine Trial Begins in HIV-Infected Children\\n H H S N E W S\\n ********************************************************************\\n U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES\\n March 29, 1993\\n\\n\\n First HIV Vaccine Therapy Trial Begins In HIV-Infected Children\\n\\n\\nThe National Institutes of Health has opened the first trial of experimental \\nHIV vaccines in children who are infected with the human immunodeficiency \\nvirus (HIV), the virus that causes AIDS. \\n\\nThe trial will compare the safety of three HIV experimental vaccines in 90 \\nchildren recruited from at least 12 sites nationwide. Volunteers must be HIV-\\ninfected but have no symptoms of HIV disease. \\n\\nHHS Secretary Donna E. Shalala said this initial study can be seen as \"a \\nhopeful milestone in our efforts to ameliorate the tragedy of HIV-infected \\nchildren who now face the certainty they will develop AIDS.\" \\n\\nAnthony S. Fauci, M.D., director of the National Institute of Allergy and \\nInfectious Diseases and of the NIH Office of AIDS Research, said the trial \"is \\nthe first step in finding out whether vaccines can help prevent or delay \\ndisease progression in children with HIV who are not yet sick.\" If these \\nvaccines prove to be safe, more sophisticated questions about their \\ntherapeutic potential will be assessed in Phase II trials. \\n\\nThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates 10,000 children in \\nthe United States have HIV. By the end of the decade, the World Health \\nOrganization projects 10 million children will be infected worldwide. \\n\\nThe study will enroll children ages 1 month to 12 years old. NIAID, which \\nfunds the AIDS Clinical Trials Group network, anticipates conducting the trial \\nat nine ACTG sites around the country and three sites participating in the \\nACTG but funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human \\nDevelopment. \\n\\nPreliminary evidence from similar studies under way in infected adults shows \\nthat certain vaccines can boost existing HIV-specific immune responses and \\n\\nHICNet Medical Newsletter Page 47\\nVolume 6, Number 10 April 20, 1993\\n\\nstimulate new ones. It will be several years, however, before researchers \\nknow how these responses affect the clinical course of the disease. \\n\\nThe results from the pediatric trial, known as ACTG 218, will be examined \\nclosely for other reasons as well. \"This trial will provide the first insight \\ninto how the immature immune system responds to candidate HIV vaccines,\" said \\nDaniel Hoth, M.D., director of NIAID\\'s division of AIDS. \"We need this \\ninformation to design trials to test whether experimental vaccines can prevent \\nHIV infection in children.\" \\n\\nIn the United States, most HIV-infected children live in poor inner-city \\nareas, and more than 80 percent are minorities, mainly black or Hispanic. \\n\\nNearly all HIV-infected children acquire the virus from their mothers during \\npregnancy or at birth. An infected mother in the United States has more than \\na one in four chance of transmitting the virus to her baby. As growing \\nnumbers of women of childbearing age become exposed to HIV through injection \\ndrug use or infected sexual partners, researchers expect a corresponding \\nincrease in the numbers of infected children. \\n\\nHIV disease progresses more rapidly in infants and children than in adults. \\nThe most recent information suggests that 50 percent of infants born with HIV \\ndevelop a serious AIDS-related infection by 3 to 6 years of age. These \\ninfections include severe or frequent bouts of common bacterial illnesses of \\nchildhood that can result in seizures, pneumonia, diarrhea and other symptoms \\nleading to nutritional problems and long hospital stays. \\n\\nAt least half of the children in the trial will be 2 years of age or younger \\nto enable comparison of the immune responses of the younger and older \\nparticipants. All volunteers must have well-documented HIV infection but no \\nsymptoms of HIV disease other than swollen lymph glands or a mildly swollen \\nliver or spleen. They cannot have received any anti-retroviral or immune-\\nregulating drugs within one month prior to their entry into the study. \\n\\nStudy chair John S. Lambert, M.D., of the University of Rochester Medical \\nSchool, and co- chair Samuel Katz, M.D., of Duke University School of \\nMedicine, will coordinate the trial assisted by James McNamara, M.D., medical \\nofficer in the pediatric medicine branch of NIAID\\'s division of AIDS. \\n\\n\"We will compare the safety of the vaccines by closely monitoring the children \\nfor any side effects, to see if one vaccine produces more swollen arms or \\nfevers, for example, than another,\" said Dr. McNamara. \"We\\'ll also look at \\nwhether low or high doses of the vaccines stimulate immune responses or other \\nsignificant laboratory or clinical effects.\" He emphasized that the small \\nstudy size precludes comparing these responses or effects among the three \\n\\nHICNet Medical Newsletter Page 48\\nVolume 6, Number 10 April 20, 1993\\n\\nproducts. \\n\\nThe trial will test two doses each of three experimental vaccines made from \\nrecombinant HIV proteins. These so-called subunit vaccines, each genetically \\nengineered to contain only a piece of the virus, have so far proved well-\\ntolerated in ongoing trials in HIV-infected adults. \\n\\nOne vaccine made by MicroGeneSys Inc. of Meriden, Conn., contains gp160--a \\nprotein that gives rise to HIV\\'s surface proteins--plus alum adjuvant. \\nAdjuvants boost specific immune responses to a vaccine. Presently, alum is \\nthe only adjuvant used in human vaccines licensed by the Food and Drug \\nAdministration. \\n\\nBoth of the other vaccines--one made by Genentech Inc. of South San Francisco \\nand the other by Biocine, a joint venture of Chiron and CIBA-Geigy, in \\nEmeryville, Calif.--contain the major HIV surface protein, gp120, plus \\nadjuvant. The Genentech vaccine contains alum, while the Biocine vaccine \\ncontains MF59, an experimental adjuvant that has proved safe and effective in \\nother Phase I vaccine trials in adults. \\n\\nA low dose of each product will be tested first against a placebo in 15 \\nchildren. Twelve children will be assigned at random to be immunized with the \\nexperimental vaccine, and three children will be given adjuvant alone, \\nconsidered the placebo. Neither the health care workers nor the children will \\nbe told what they receive. \\n\\nIf the low dose is well-tolerated, controlled testing of a higher dose of the \\nexperimental vaccine and adjuvant placebo in another group of 15 children will \\nbegin. \\n\\nEach child will receive six immunizations--one every four weeks for six \\nmonths--and be followed-up for 24 weeks after the last immunization. \\n\\nFor more information about the trial sites or eligibility for enrollment, call \\nthe AIDS Clinical Trials Information Service, 1-800-TRIALS-A, from 9 a.m. to 7 \\np.m., EST weekdays. The service has Spanish-speaking information specialists \\navailable. Information on NIAID\\'s pediatric HIV/AIDS research is available \\nfrom the Office of Communications at (301) 496- 5717. \\n\\nNIH, CDC and FDA are agencies of the U.S. Public Health Service in HHS. For \\npress inquiries only, please call Laurie K. Doepel at (301) 402-1663.\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nHICNet Medical Newsletter Page 49\\nVolume 6, Number 10 April 20, 1993\\n\\n NEW EVIDENCE THAT THE HIV CAN CAUSE DISEASE INDEPENDENTLY\\n News from the National Institute of Dental Research\\n\\nThere is new evidence that the human immunodeficiency virus can cause disease \\nindependently of its ability to suppress the immune system, say scientists at \\nthe National Institues of Health. \\n\\nThey report that HIV itself, not an opportunistic infection, caused scaling \\nskin conditions to develop in mice carrying the genes for HIV. Although the \\nHIV genes were active in the mice, they did not compromise the animals\\' \\nimmunity, the researchers found. This led them to conclude that the HIV \\nitself caused the skin disease. \\n\\nOur findings support a growing body of evidence that HIV can cause disease \\nwithout affecting the immune system, said lead author Dr. Jeffrey Kopp of the \\nNational Institute of Dental Research (NIDR). Dr. Kopp and his colleagues \\ndescribed their study in the March issue of AIDS Research and Human \\nRetroviruses. \\n\\nDeveloping animal models of HIV infection has been difficult, since most \\nanimals, including mice, cannot be infected by the virus. To bypass this \\nproblem, scientists have developed HIV-transgenic mice, which carry genes for \\nHIV as well as their own genetic material. \\n\\nNIDR scientists created the transgenic mice by injecting HIV genes into mouse \\neggs and then implanting the eggs into female mice. The resulting litters \\ncontained both normal and transgenic animals. \\n\\nInstitute scientists had created mice that carried a complete copy of HIV \\ngenetic material in l988. Those mice, however, became sick and died too soon \\nafter birth to study in depth. In the present study, the scientists used an \\nincomplete copy of HIV, which allowed the animals to live longer. \\n\\nSome of the transgenic animals developed scaling, wart-like tumors on their \\nnecks and backs. Other transgenic mice developed thickened, crusting skin \\nlesions that covered most of their bodies, resembling psoriasis in humans. No \\nskin lesions developed in their normal, non-transgenic littermates. \\n\\nStudies of tissue taken from the wart-like skin tumors showed that they were a \\ntype of noncancerous tumor called papilloma. Although the papillomavirus can \\ncause these skin lesions, laboratory tests showed no sign of that virus in the \\nanimals. \\n\\nTissue samples taken from the sick mice throughout the study revealed the \\npresence of a protein-producing molecule made by the HIV genetic material. \\n\\nHICNet Medical Newsletter Page 50\\nVolume 6, Number 10 April 20, 1993\\n\\nEvidence of HIV protein production proved that the viral genes were \"turned \\non,\" or active, said Dr. Kopp. \\n\\nThe scientists found no evidence, however, of compromised immunity in the \\nmice: no increase in their white blood cell count and no signs of common \\ninfections. The fact that HIV genes were active but the animals\\' immune \\nsystems were not suppressed confirms that the virus itself was causing the \\nskin lesions, Dr. Kopp said. \\n\\nFurther proof of HIV gene involvement came from a test in which the scientists \\nexposed the transgenic animals to ultraviolet light. The light increased HIV \\ngenetic activity causing papillomas to develop on formerly healthy skin. \\nPapilloma formation in response to increased HIV genetic activity proved the \\ngenes were responsible for the skin condition, the scientists said. No \\nlesions appeared on normal mice exposed to the UV light. \\n\\nThe transgenic mice used in this study were developed at NIDR by Dr. Peter \\nDickie, who is now with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious \\nDiseases. \\n\\nCollaborating on the study with Dr. Kopp were Mr. Charles Wohlenberg, Drs. \\nNickolas Dorfman, Joseph Bryant, Abner Notkins, and Paul Klotman, all of NIDR; \\nDr. Stephen Katz of the National Cancer Institute; and Dr. James Rooney, \\nformerly with NIDR and now with Burroughs Wellcome.\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nHICNet Medical Newsletter Page 51\\nVolume 6, Number 10 April 20, 1993\\n\\n Clinical Consultation Telephone Service for AIDS\\n H H S N E W S\\n ********************************************\\n U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES\\n\\n March 4, 1993\\n\\n\\n HHS Secretary Donna E. Shalala today announced the first nationwide \\nclinical consultation telephone service for doctors and other health care \\nprofessionals who have questions about providing care to people with HIV \\ninfection or AIDS. \\n The toll-free National HIV Telephone Consulting Service is staffed by a \\nphysician, a nurse practitioner and a pharmacist. It provides information on \\ndrugs, clinical trials and the latest treatment methods. The service is \\nfunded by the Health Resources and Services Administration and operates out of \\nSan Francisco General Hospital. \\n Secretary Shalala said, \"One goal of this project is to share expertise \\nso patients get the best care. A second goal is to get more primary health \\ncare providers involved in care for people with HIV or AIDS, which reduces \\ntreatment cost by allowing patients to remain with their medical providers and \\ncommunity social support networks. Currently, many providers refer patients \\nwith HIV or AIDS to specialists or other providers who have more experience.\" \\n Secretary Shalala said, \"This clinical expertise should be especially \\nhelpful for physicians and providers who treat people with HIV or AIDS in \\ncommunities and clinical sites where HIV expertise is not readily available.\" \\n The telephone number for health care professionals is 1-800-933-3413, and \\nit is accessible from 10:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. EST (7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. PST) \\nMonday through Friday. During these times, consultants will try to answer \\nquestions immediately, or within an hour. At other times, physicians and \\nhealth care providers can leave an electronic message, and questions will be \\nanswered as quickly as possible. \\n Health care professionals may call the service to ask any question \\nrelated to providing HIV care, including the latest HIV/AIDS drug treatment \\ninformation, clinical trials information, subspecialty case referral, \\nliterature searches and other information. The service is designed for health \\ncare professionals rather than patients, families or others who have alternate \\nsources of information or materials. \\n When a health care professional calls the new service, the call is taken \\nby either a clinical pharmacist, primary care physician or family nurse \\npractitioner. All staff members have extensive experience in outpatient and \\ninpatient primary care for people with HIV-related diseases. The consultant \\nasks for patient-specific information, including CD4 cell count, current \\nmedications, sex, age and the patient\\'s HIV history. \\n This national service has grown out of a 16-month local effort that \\n\\nHICNet Medical Newsletter Page 52\\nVolume 6, Number 10 April 20, 1993\\n\\nresponded to nearly 1,000 calls from health care providers in northern \\nCalifornia. The initial project was funded by HRSA\\'s Bureau of Health \\nProfessions, through its Community Provider AIDS Training (CPAT) project, and \\nby the American Academy of Family Physicians. \\n \"When providers expand their knowledge, they also improve the quality of \\ncare they are able to provide to their patients,\" said HRSA Administrator \\nRobert G. Harmon. M.D., M.P.H. \"This project will be a great resource for \\nhealth care professionals and the HIV/AIDS patients they serve.\" \\n \"This service has opened a new means of communication between health care \\nprofessionals and experts on HIV care management,\" said HRSA\\'s associate \\nadministrator for AIDS and director of the Bureau of Health Resources \\nDevelopment, G. Stephen Bowen, M.D., M.P.H. \"Providers who treat people with \\nHIV or AIDS have access to the latest information on new drugs, treatment \\nmethods and therapies for people with HIV or AIDS.\" \\n HRSA is one of eight U.S. Public Health Service agencies within HHS. \\n\\n\\n AIDS Hotline Numbers for Consumers\\n\\n CDC National AIDS Hotline -- 1-800-342-AIDS\\n for information in Spanish - 1-800-344-SIDA\\n AIDS Clinical Trials (English & Spanish) -- 1-800-TRIALS-A\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nHICNet Medical Newsletter Page 53\\n\\x0c\\n------------- cut here -----------------\\n-- This is the last part ---------------\\n\\n---\\n Internet: david@stat.com FAX: +1 (602) 451-1165\\n Bitnet: ATW1H@ASUACAD FidoNet=> 1:114/15\\n Amateur Packet ax25: wb7tpy@wb7tpy.az.usa.na\\n',\n", " 'From: stephens@geod.emr.ca (Dave Stephenson)\\nSubject: Re: Space Advertising (2 of 2)\\nNntp-Posting-Host: ngis.geod.emr.ca\\nOrganization: Dept. of Energy, Mines, and Resources, Ottawa\\nLines: 15\\n\\nAs for SF and advertising in space. There is a romantic episode\\nin Mead\\'s \"The Big Ball of Wax\" where the lovers are watching \\nthe constellation Pepsi Cola rising over the horizon and noting\\nthe some \\'stars\\' had slipped cause the Teamsters were on strike.\\n\\nThis was the inspiration for my article on orbiting a formation\\nof space mirrors published in Spaceflight in 1986. As the reviews\\nsaid: this seems technically feasible, and could be commercially viable\\nbut is it aesthetically desirable? These days the only aesthetics\\nthat count are the ones you can count!\\n--\\nDave Stephenson\\nGeological Survey of Canada\\nOttawa, Ontario, Canada\\nInternet: stephens@geod.emr.ca\\n',\n", " 'From: robink@hparc0.aus.hp.com (Robin Kenny)\\nSubject: Re: Boom! Whoosh......\\nOrganization: HP Australasian Response Centre (Melbourne)\\nX-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8.5]\\nLines: 26\\n\\nDavid Fuzzy Wells (wdwells@nyx.cs.du.edu) wrote:\\n\\n: I love the idea of an inflatable 1-mile long sign.... It will be a\\n: really neat thing to see it explode when a bolt (or even better, a\\n: Westford Needle!) comes crashing into it at 10 clicks a sec. \\n\\n: Whooooooooshhhhhh...... \\n\\n: \\n ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^\\n\\nJust a thought... (let\\'s pretend it IS INFLATED and PRESSURIZED) wouldn\\'t\\nthere be a large static electricity build up around the puncture?\\nIf the metalization is behind a clear sandwich (ie. insulated) then the \\ndeflating balloon would generate electrical interference - \"noise\"\\n\\nBy the way, any serious high velocity impact would simply cut a \"Bugs\\nBunny\" hole through the wall, highly unlikely to \"BOOM\", and the fabric\\nwould almost certainly be ripstop.\\n\\n\\nRegards, Robin Kenny - a private and personal opinion, not in any way\\n endorsed, authorised or known by my employers.\\n ______________________________________________________________________\\n What the heck would I know about Space? I\\'m stuck at the \\n bottom of this huge gravity well!\\n',\n", " \"From: pyron@skndiv.dseg.ti.com (Dillon Pyron)\\nSubject: Re: How many read sci.space?\\nLines: 11\\nNntp-Posting-Host: skndiv.dseg.ti.com\\nReply-To: pyron@skndiv.dseg.ti.com\\nOrganization: TI/DSEG VAX Support\\n\\n\\nThere are actually only two of us. I do Henry, Fred, Tommy and Mary. Oh yeah,\\nthis isn't my real name, I'm a bald headed space baby.\\n--\\nDillon Pyron | The opinions expressed are those of the\\nTI/DSEG Lewisville VAX Support | sender unless otherwise stated.\\n(214)462-3556 (when I'm here) |\\n(214)492-4656 (when I'm home) |Texans: Vote NO on Robin Hood. We need\\npyron@skndiv.dseg.ti.com |solutions, not gestures.\\nPADI DM-54909 |\\n\\n\",\n", " 'From: vonwaadn@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu\\nSubject: Panic Disorder - more success stories\\nOrganization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services\\nLines: 32\\n\\nI posted this to sci.psychology on April 3, and after seeing\\nyour post here on panice disorder thought it would be\\nrelevant.\\n\\n-----\\n\\nMy research indicates that two schools of thought exist.\\nthe literature promoting medication says it\\'s the superior\\ntreatment. Not surprisingly, literature promoting cognitive\\ntherapy also claims to be superior.\\n\\nWhat are the facts? Early in my research I didn\\'t have a\\nbias towards either medication or cognitive therapy. I\\nwas interested in a treatment that worked. After reading\\njournals published after 1986, the cognitive therapy camp\\nclaims a higher success rate (approx 80%), a lower drop-out\\nrate, and no side effects associated with medication.\\n\\nLars-Goran Ost published an excellent article titled\\n\"Applied Relaxation: Description of a coping technique and\\na review of controlled studies.\" This is from Behav. Res. Ther.,\\nvol. 25, no. 5, pp. 397-409, 1987. The article provides\\ninstructions on how to perform applied relaxation (AR).\\nBriefly, you start with two 15 minute sessions daily, and\\nprogress in 8-12 weeks to performing 10-15 thirty second sessions\\ndaily.\\n\\nI\\'ll snail mail this article to anyone interested (USA only please;\\nInternational please pay for postage).\\n\\nMark\\nvonwaadn@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu\\n',\n", " 'From: pete@smtl.demon.co.uk (Pete Phillips)\\nSubject: Nebulisers and particle Size\\nX-Address: Bridgend, S. Wales, CF31 1JP\\nReply-To: pete@smtl.demon.co.uk\\nOrganization: Surgical Materials Testing Laboratory\\nX-Fax: +44 656 667291\\nX-Phone: +44 656 652166\\nLines: 25\\n\\n\\nHi,\\n\\nwe are just completing a project on nebuliser performance, and have a\\nwealth of data on particle size and output which we are going to use\\nto adjudicate a contract next week.\\n\\nAlthough the output data is easy for us to present, there seems to be\\nlittle concensus on the optimum diameter of the nebulised droplets for\\nstraightforward inhalation therapy (eg: for asthmatics).\\n\\nSome say that the droplets must be smaller than 5 microns, whilst\\nothers say that if they are too small they will not be effective.\\n\\nAnyone up on this topic who could summarise the current status ?\\n\\nCheers,\\nPete\\n-- \\nPete Phillips, Deputy Director, Surgical Materials Testing Lab, \\nBridgend General Hospital, S. Wales. 0656-652166 pete@smtl.demon.co.uk \\n--\\n\"The Four Horse Oppressors of the Apocalypse were Nutritional\\nDeprivation, State of Belligerency, Widespread Transmittable Condition\\nand Terminal Inconvenience\" - Official Politically Correct Dictionary\\n',\n", " 'From: noring@netcom.com (Jon Noring)\\nSubject: Great Post! (was Re: Candida (yeast) Bloom...) (VERY LONG)\\nSummary: Warning, lots of words in typical Phlegmatic fashion\\nOrganization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)\\nLines: 447\\n\\n\\nGREAT post Martin. Very informative, well-balanced, and humanitarian\\nwithout neglecting the need for scientific rigor.\\n\\n\\n(Cross-posted to alt.psychology.personality since some personality typing\\nwill be discussed at the beginning - Note: I\\'ve set all followups to sci.med\\nsince most of my comments are more sci.med oriented and I\\'m sure most of the\\nreplies, if any, will be med-related.)\\n\\n\\nIn article banschbach@vms.ocom.okstate.edu writes:\\n\\n>I can not believe the way this thread on candida(yeast) has progressed.\\n>Steve Dyer and I have been exchanging words over the same topic in Sci. \\n>Med. Nutrition when he displayed his typical reserve and attacked a woman \\n>poster for being treated by a licenced physician for a disease that did \\n>not exist. Calling this physician a quack was reprehensible, Steve, and I \\n>see that you and some of the others are doing it here as well. \\n\\nThey are just responding in their natural way: Hyper-Choleric Syndrome (HCS).\\nOops, that is not a recognized \"illness\" in the psychological community,\\nbetter not say that since it therefore must not, and never will, exist. :^)\\n\\nActually, it is fascinating that a disproportionate number of physicians\\nwill type out as NT (for those not familiar with the Myers-Briggs system,\\njust e-mail me and I\\'ll send a summary file to you). In the general\\npopulation, NT\\'s comprise only about 12% of the population, but among\\nphysicians it is much much higher (I don\\'t know the exact percentage -\\nany help here a.p.p.er\\'s?)\\n\\nOne driving characteristic of an NT, especially an NTJ, is their obvious\\ncholeric behavior (driver, type A, etc.) - the extreme emotional need to\\ncontrol, to lead, and/or to be the best or the most competent. If they are\\nalso extroverted, they are best described as \"Field Marshalls\". This trait\\nis very valuable and essential in our society - we need people who want to\\nlead, to strive to overcome the elements, to seek and thirst for knowledge,\\nto raise the level of competency, etc. The great successes in science and\\ntechnology are in large part due to the vision (an N trait) and scientifically-\\nminded approach (T trait) of the NT personality (of course, the other types\\nand temperaments have their own positive contributions as well). However,\\nwhen the NT person has self-image challenges, the \"dark-side\" of this\\npersonality type usually comes out, which should be obvious to all.\\n\\nA physician who is a strong NT and who has not learned to temper their\\ntemperament will be extremely business-like (lack of empathy or feeling),\\nand is very compelled to have total control over their patient (the patient\\nmust be obedient to their diagnosis and prescription without question). I\\'ve\\nknown many M.D.\\'s of this temperament and suffice to say I don\\'t oblige them\\nwith a followup visit, no matter how competent I think they are (and they\\nusually are very competent from a knowledge viewpoint since that is an\\nextreme drive of theirs - to know the most, to know it all).\\n\\nMaybe we need more NF doctor\\'s. :^)\\n\\nEnough on this subject - let\\'s move on to candida bloom.\\n\\n\\n>Let me tell you who the quacks really are, these are the physicans who have \\n>no idea how the human body interacts with it\\'s environment and how that \\n>balance can be altered by diet and antibiotics... Could it just be\\n>professional jealousy? I couldn\\'t help Elaine or Jon but somebody else did.\\n\\nYou\\'ve helped me already by your post. Of course, I believe that I have\\nbeen misdiagnosed on the net as suffering from \\'anal retentivitis\\', but being\\nthe phlegmatic I am, maybe I was just a little too harsh on a few people\\nmyself in past posts. Let\\'s all try to raise the level of this discussion\\nabove the level of anal effluent.\\n\\n\\n>...Humans have all \\n>kinds of different organisms living in the GI system (mouth, stomach, small \\n>and large intestine), sinuses, vagina and on the skin. These are \\n>nonpathogenic because they do not cause disease in people unless the immune \\n>system is compromised. They are also called nonpathogens because unlike \\n>the pathogenic organisms that cause human disease, they do not produce \\n>toxins as they live out their merry existence in and on our body. But any of \\n>these organisms will be considered pathogenic if it manages to take up \\n>residence within the body. A poor mucus membrane barrier can let this \\n>happen and vitamin A is mainly responsible for setting up this barrier.\\n\\nIn my well-described situation (in prior posts), I definitely was immune\\nstressed. Blood tests showed my vitamin A levels were very low. My sinuses\\nwere a mess - no doubt the mucosal lining and the cilia were heavily damaged.\\nI also was on antibiotics 15 times in 4 years! In the end, even two weeks\\nof Ceftin did not work and I had confirmed diagnoses of a chronic bacterial\\ninfection of the sinuses via cat-scans, mucus color (won\\'t get into the\\ndetails), and other symptoms. Three very traditional ENT\\'s made this\\ndiagnosis (I did not have any cultures done, however, because of the\\ndifficulty of doing this right and because my other symptoms clearly showed\\na bacterial infection). Enough of this background (provided to help you\\nunderstand where I was when I make comments about my Sporanox anti-fungal\\ntherapy below).\\n\\n\\nThe first question I have is this. Can fungus penetrate a little way into poor\\nmucus membrane tissue, maybe via hyphae, thus causing symptoms, without being\\nconsidered \\'systemic\\' in the classic sense? It is sort of an inbetween\\ninfection.\\n\\n\\n>Steve got real upset with Elaine\\'s doctor because he was using anti-fungals \\n>and vitamin A for her GI problems. If Steve really understoood what \\n>vitamin A does in the body, he would not(or at least should not) be calling \\n>Elaine\\'s doctor a quack.\\n\\nI was concerned, too, because of the toxicity of vitamin A. My doctor, after\\nmy blood tests, put me on 75,000 IU of vitamin A for one week only, then\\ndropped it down to 25,000 IU for the next couple of weeks. I also received\\nzinc and other supplementation, since all of these interrelate in fairly\\ncomplex ways as my doctor explained (he\\'s one of those \\'evil\\' orthomolecular\\nspecialists). I had a blood test three weeks later and vitamin A was normal,\\nhe then stopped me on all vitamin A (except for some in a multi-vitamin)\\nsupplement), and made sure that I maintain a 50,000 IU/day of beta carotene.\\nCall me carrot face. :^)\\n\\nHopefully, Elaine\\'s doctor will take a similar, careful approach and to\\nall supplements. I\\'m even reevaluating some supplements I\\'m taking, for\\nexample, niacin in fairly large dosages, 1 gram/day, which Steve Dyer had\\ngood information about on sci.med.nutrition. If niacin only has second-order\\nimprovement in symptomatic relief of my sinus allergies, then it probably is\\nnot worth taking such a large dose long-term and risking liver damage.\\n\\n\\n>survives. If it gets access to a lot of glucose, it blooms and over rides \\n>the other organisms living with it in the sinuses, GI tract or vagina. In \\n\\nThough I do now believe, based on my successful therapy with Sporanox, that\\nI definitely had some excessive growth of fungus (unknown species) in my\\nsinuses, I still want to ask the question: have there been any studies that\\ndemonstrate candida \"blooms\" in the sinuses with associated sinus irritation\\n(sinusitis/rhinitis)? (My sinus irritation reduced significantly after one\\nweek of Sporanox and no other new treatments were implemented during this\\ntime - I did not have any noticeable GI track problems before starting on\\nSporanox, but some for a few days after which then went away - considered\\nnormal).\\n\\nBTW, my doctor dug out one of his medical reference books (sorry, can\\'t\\nremember which one), and found an obscure comment dating back into the 1950\\'s\\nwhich stated that people can develop contained (non-lethal or non-serious)\\naspergillis infestations (aspergiliosis) of the sinuses leading to sinus\\ninflammation symptoms. I\\'ll have to dig out that reference again since it\\nis relevant to this discussion.\\n\\n\\n>some people do really develop a bad inflammatory process at the mucus \\n>membrane or skin bloom site. Whether this is an allergic like reaction to \\n>the candida or not isn\\'t certain.\\n\\nMy doctor tested me (I believe a RAST or RAST similar test) for allergic\\nresponse to specificially Candida albicans, and I showed a strong positive.\\nAnother question, would everybody show the same strong positive so this test\\nis essentially useless? And, assuming it is true that Candida can grow\\npart-way into the mucus membrane tissue, and the concentration exceeds a \\nthreshold amount, could not a person who tests as having an allergy to\\nCandida definitely develop allergic symptoms, such as mucus membrane\\nirritation due to the body\\'s allergic response? As I said in an earlier post,\\none does not need to be a rocket scientist, or have a M.D. degree or a \\nPh.D. in biochemistry to see the plausibility of this hypothesis.\\n\\nBTW, and I\\'ll repost this again. Dr. Ivker, in his book, \"Sinus Survival\",\\nhas routinely given, before anything else, Nizoral (a pre-Sporanox systemic\\nanti-fungal, not as safe and not as good as Sporanox) to his new chronic\\nsinusitis patients IF they have been on antibiotics four or more times in\\nthe last two years. He claims that out of 2000 or so patients, well over\\n90% notice some relief of sinus inflammation and other symptoms, but it\\ndoesn\\'t cure it by any means, implying the so-called yeast/fungus infection\\nis not the primary cause, but a later complication. He\\'s also found that\\nnystatin, whether taken internally, or put into a sinus spray, does not help.\\n\\nThis implies (of course assuming that excessive yeast/fungus bloom is\\naggravating the sinus inflammation) that the yeast/fungus has grown partway\\ninto the tissue since nystatin will not kill yeast/fungus other than by\\ndirect contact - it is not absorbed into the blood stream. Again, I admit,\\nlots of \\'ifs\\', and \\'implies\\', which doesn\\'t please the hard-core NT who\\nhas to have the double-blind study or it\\'s a non-issue, but one has to start\\nwith some plausible hypothesis/explanation, a strawman, if you will.\\n\\n\\n>If it\\'s internal, only symptoms can be used and these symptoms are pretty \\n>nondescript. \\n\\nThis brings up an interesting observation used by those who will deny\\nand reject any and all aspects of the \\'yeast hypothesis\\' until the\\nappropriate studies are done. And that is if you can\\'t observe or culture\\nthe yeast \"bloom\" in the gut or sinus, then there\\'s no way to diagnose or\\neven recognize the disease. And I know they realize that it is virtually\\nimpossible to test for candida overbloom in any part of the body that cannot\\nbe easily observed since candida is everywhere in the body.\\n\\nIt\\'s a real Catch-22.\\n\\nAnother Catch-22: Those who totally reject the \\'yeast hypothesis\\' say that\\nno studies have been done (actually studies have been done, but if it\\'s not\\nup to a certain standard then it is, from their perspective, a non-study which\\nshould not even be considered). I agree that the appropriate studies should\\nbe done, and that will take big $ to do it right. However, in order to\\nconvince the funding agencies in these austere times to open their wallets,\\nyou literally have to give them evidence, and the only acceptable evidence to\\ncompete with other proposals is paradoxically to do almost the exact study\\nneeded funding. That is, you have to do 90% of the study before you even get\\nfunding (as a scientist at a National Lab, I\\'m very aware of this for the\\nsmaller funded projects). I\\'m afraid that even if Dr. Ivker and 100 other\\ndoctors got together, pooled their practice\\'s case histories and anecdotes\\ninto a compelling picture, and approach the funding agencies, they would get\\nnowhere, even if they were able to publish their statistical results.\\n\\nIt is obvious from the comments by some of the doctors here is that they have\\n*decided* excessive yeast colonization in the gut or sinuses leading to\\nnoticeable non-lethal symptoms does not exist, and is not even a tenable\\nhypothesis, so any amount of case histories or compiled anecdotal evidence\\nto the contrary will never change their mind, and not only that, they would\\nalso oppose the needed studies because in their minds it\\'s a done issue - \\nexcessive yeast growth leading to diffuse allergic symptoms does not, will\\nnot, and cannot exist. Period. Kind of tough to dialog with those who hold\\nsuch a viewpoint. Kind of reminds me of Lister...\\n\\n\\n>Candida is kept in check in most people by the normal bacterial flora in \\n>the sinuses, the GI tract(mouth, stomach and intestines) and in the \\n>vaginal tract which compete with it for food. The human immune system \\n>ususally does not bother itself with these(nonpathogenic organisms) unless \\n>they broach the mucus membrane \"barrier\". If they do, an inflammatory \\n>response will be set up. Most Americans are not getting enough vitamin A \\n>from their diets. About 30% of all American\\'s die with less Vitamin A than \\n>they were born with(U.S. autopsy studies). While this low level of vitamin \\n>A does not cause pathology(blindness) it does impair the mucus membrane \\n>barrier system. This would then be a predisposing factor for a strong \\n>inflammatory response after a candida bloom. \\n\\nAren\\'t there also other nutrients necessary to the proper working of the\\nsinus mucus membranes and cilia?\\n\\n\\n>While diabetics can suffer from a candida \"bloom\" the most common cause of \\n>this type of bloom is the use of broad spectrum antibiotics which \\n>knock down many different kinds of bacteria in the body and remove the main \\n>competition for candida as far as food is concerned. While drugs are \\n>available to handle candida, many patients find that their doctor will not \\n>use them unless there is evidence of a systemic infection. The toxicity of \\n>the anti-fungal drugs does warrant some caution. But if the GI or sinus \\n>inflammation is suspected to be candida(and recent use of a broad spectrum \\n>antibiotic is the smoking gun), then anti-fungal use should be approrpriate \\n>just as the anti-fungal creams are an appropriate treatment for recurring \\n>vaginal yeast infections, in spite of what Mr. Steve Dyer says.\\n\\nAgain, the evidence from mycological studies indicate that many yeast/fungus\\nspecies can grow hyphae (\"roots\") into deep tissue, similar to mold growing\\nin bread. You can continue to kill the surface, such as nystatin does, but\\nyou can\\'t kill that which is deeper in the tissue without using a systemic\\nanti-fungal such as itraconazole (Sporanox) or some of the older ones such\\nas Nizoral which are more toxic and not as effective. This is why, as has\\nbeen pointed out by recent studies (sent to me by a doctor I\\'ve been in\\ne-mail contact with - thanks), that nystatin is not effective in the long-\\nterm treatment of GI tract \"candidiasis\". It\\'s like trying to weed a garden\\nby cutting off what\\'s above the ground but leaving the roots ready to come\\nout again once you walk away.\\n\\nThe $60000 question is whether a contained candida \"bloom\" can partially\\ngrow into tissue through the mucus membranes, causing some types of symptoms\\nin susceptible people (e.g., allergy), without becoming \"systemic\" in the\\nclassical sense of the word - something in between strictly an excessive\\nbloom not causing any problems and the full-blown systemic infection that\\nis potentially lethal.\\n\\n\\n>In the GI system, the ano-rectal region seems to be a particularly good \\n>reservoir for candida and the use of pantyhose by many women creates a very \\n>favorable environment around the rectum for transfer(through moisture and \\n>humidity) of candida to the vaginal tract. One of the most effctive ways to \\n>minimmize this transfer is to wear undyed cotton underwear. \\n\\nAlso, if one is an \\'anal retentive\\', like I\\'ve been diagnosed in a prior\\npost, that can also provide more sites for excessive candida growth. ;^)\\n\\n\\n>If the bloom occurs in the anal area, the burning, swelling, pain and even \\n>blood discharge make many patients think that they have hemorroids. If the \\n>bloom manages to move further up the GI tract, very diffuse symptomatology \\n>occurs(abdominal discomfort and blood in the stool). This positive stool \\n>for occult blood is what sent Elaine to her family doctor in the first \\n>place. After extensive testing, he told her that there was nothing wrong \\n>but her gut still hurt. On to another doctor, and so on. Richard Kaplan \\n>has told me throiugh e-mail that he considers occult blood tests in stool \\n>specimens to be a waste of time and money because of the very large number of \\n>false positives(candida blooms guys?). If my gut hurt me on a constant \\n>basis, I would want it fixed. Yes it\\'s nice to know that I don\\'t have \\n>colon cancer but what then is causing my distress? When I finally find a \\n>doctor who treats me and gets me 90% better, Steve Dyer calls him a quack.\\n\\nAs I\\'ve said in private e-mail, there are flaws in our current medical system\\nthat make it difficult or even impossible for a physician to attempt\\nalternative therapies AFTER the approved/proven/accepted therapies don\\'t work.\\nFor example, I went to three ENT\\'s, who all said that I will just have to live\\nwith my acute/chronic sinusitis after the ab\\'s failed (they did mention\\nsurgery to open up the ostia, but my ostia weren\\'t plugged and it would not\\nget to the root cause of my condition). After three months of aggressive and\\nfairly non-standard therapy (Sporanox, body nutrient level monitoring and\\nequalization, vitamin C, lentinen, echinacea, etc.), my health has vastly\\nimproved to where I was two years ago, before my health greatly deteriorated.\\nOf course, skeptics would say that maybe if I did nothing I would have\\nimproved anyway, but that view is stretching things quite far because of the\\nexperience of the three ENT\\'s I saw who said that I\\'d just have to \"live with\\nit\". I\\'m confident I will reach what one could call a total \"cure\". The\\nanti-fungal program I undertook was one necessary step in that direction\\nbecause of my overuse of ab\\'s for the last four years. (Note: for those\\nhaving sinus problems, may I suggest the book by Dr. Ivker I mention above.\\nBe sure to get the revised edition.)\\n\\n\\n>...I have often wondered what an M.D. with chronic \\n>GI distress or sinus problems would do about the problem that he tells his \\n>patients is a non-existent syndrome.\\n\\nDr. Ivker started off having chronic and severe sinus problems, and his\\nvisits to several ENT\\'s totally floored him when they said \"you\\'ll just have\\nto live with it\". He spent several years trying everything - standard and\\nnon-standard, until he was essentially cured of chronic sinusitis. He now\\nshares his approach in his book and I can honestly say that I am on the road\\nto recovery following some parts of it. His one recommendation to take a\\nsystemic anti-fungal at the beginning of treatment IF you have a history of\\nanti-biotic overuse has been proven to him time and time again in his own\\npractice. I\\'m sure if I commented to him of the hard-core beliefs of the anti-\\n\"yeast hypothesis\" posters that he would have definite things to say, such as,\\n\"it\\'s worked wonders for me in almost two thousand cases\", to put it mildly.\\nI also would not be surprised if he would say that they are the ones violating\\ntheir moral obligations to help the patient.\\n\\nMaybe those doctors who are reading this who have a practice and are\\nconfronted by a patient having symptoms that could be due to the \"hypothetical\\nyeast overgrowth\" (e.g., they fit some of the profiles the pro-yeast people\\nhave identified), should consider anti-fungal therapy IF all other avenues\\nhave been exhausted. Remember, theory and practice are two different things -\\nyou cannot have one without the other, they are synergistic. If a doctor does\\nsomething non-standard yet produces noticeable symptomatic relief in over a\\nthousand of his patients, shouldn\\'t you at least sit up and take notice?\\nMaybe you ought to trust what he says and begin hypothesizing why it works\\ninstead of why it shouldn\\'t work. I\\'m afraid a lot of doctors have become\\nso enamored with \"scientific correctness\" that they are ignoring the patients\\nthey have sworn to help. You have to do both; both have to be balanced, which\\nwe don\\'t see from some of the posters to this group. There comes a point when\\nyou just have to use a little common sense, and maybe an empirical approach\\n(such as trying a good systemic anti-fungal such as Sporanox) after having\\nexhausted all the other avenues. I was one of those who the traditional\\nmedical establishment was not able to help, so I did the natural thing: I\\nwent to a couple of doctor\\'s who are (somewhat) outside this establishment,\\nand as a result I have found significant relief.\\n\\nWould it not be better if the traditional medical establishment can set up\\nsome kind of mechanism where any doctor, without fear of being sued or having\\nhis license pulled, can try experimental and unproven (beyond a doubt)\\ntherapies for his/her patients that finally reach the point where all the\\naccepted therapies are ineffective? I\\'d like to hear a doctor tell me:\\n\"well, I\\'ve tried all the therapies that are approved and accepted in this\\ncountry, and since they clearly don\\'t work for you, I now have the authority\\nto use experimental, unproven techniques that seem to have helped others. I\\ncan\\'t promise anything, and there are some risks. You will have to sign\\nsomething saying you understand the experimental and possibly risky nature of\\nthese unproven therapies, and I\\'ll have to register your case at the State\\nBoard.\" Anyway, if my ENT had suggested this to me, I would\\'ve jumped on this\\npronto instead of going to one of those doctors who, for either altruistic\\nreasons, or for greed, is practicing these alternative therapies with much\\nrisk to him/her (risk meaning losing their license) and possibly to the\\npatient. Such a mechanism would keep control in the more mainstream medicine,\\nand also provide valuable data that would essentially be free. It also would\\nbe morally and ethically better than the current system by showing the\\ncompassion of the medical community to the patient - that it\\'s doing everything\\nit can within reason to help the patient. It is the lack of such a mechanism\\nthat is leading large numbers of people to try alternative therapies, some of\\nwhich seem to work (like my case), and others of which will never work at all\\n(true quackery).\\n\\nI better get off my soapbox before this post reaches 500K in size.\\n\\n\\n>If taken orally, it can also become a major bacteria in the gut. Through \\n>aresol sprays, it has also been used to innoculate the sinus membranes.\\n>But before this innoculation occurs, the mucus membrane barrier system \\n>needs to be strengthened. This is accomplished by vitamin A, vitamin C and \\n>some of the B-complex vitamins. Diet surveys repeatedly show that Americans \\n>are not getting enough B6 and folate. These are probably the segement of \\n>the population that will have the greatest problem with this non-existent \\n>disorder(candida blooms after antibiotic therapy).\\n\\nWhat dosage of B6 appears to be necessary to promote the healing and proper\\nworking of the mucos memebranes?\\n\\n\\n>Some of the above material was obtained from \"Natural Healing\" by Mark \\n>Bricklin, Published by Rodale press, as well as notes from my human \\n>nutrition course. I will be posting a discussion of vitamin A sometime in \\n>the future, along with reference citings to point out the extremely \\n>important role that vitamin A plays in the mucus membrane defense system in \\n>the body and why vitamin A should be effective in dealing with candida \\n>blooms. Another effective dietary treatment is to restrict carbohydrate \\n>intake during the treatment phase, this is especially important if the GI \\n>system is involved. If candida can not get glucose, it\\'s not going to out \\n>grow the bacteria and you then give bacteria, which can use amino acids and \\n>fatty acids for energy, a chance to take over and keep the candida in check \\n>once carbohydrate is returned to the gut.\\n\\nI\\'d like to see the role of complex carbohydrates, such as starch.\\n\\n\\n>If Steve and some of the other nay-sayers want to jump all over this post, \\n>fine. I jumped all over Steve in Sci. Med. Nutrition because he verbably \\n>accosted a poster who was seeking advice about her doctor\\'s use of vitamin \\n>A and anti-fungals for a candida bloom in her gut. People seeking advice \\n>from newsnet should not be treated this way. Those of us giving of our \\n>time and knowledge can slug it out to our heart\\'s content. If you saved \\n>your venom for me Steve and left the helpless posters who are timidly \\n>seeking help alone, I wouldn\\'t have a problem with your behavior. \\n\\nBrave soul you are. The venom on Usenet can be quite toxic unless one\\ndevelops an immunity to it. One year ago, my phlegmatic self would have\\nbacked down right away from an attack of cholericitis. But my immune\\nsystem, and my computer system, have been hardened from gradual\\ndesensitization. I now kind of like being called \"anal retentive\" - it has\\na nice ring to it. I also was very impressed by how it just flowed into the\\npost - truly classic, worthy of a blue (or maybe brown) ribbon. I might\\neven cross-post it to alt.best.of.internet. Hmmm...\\n\\n\\n>Martin Banschbach, Ph.D.\\n>Professor of Biochemistry and Chairman\\n>Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology\\n>OSU College of Osteopathic Medicine\\n\\nThanks again for a great and informative post. I hope others who have\\nresearched this area and are lurking in the background will post their\\nthoughts as well, no matter their views on this subject.\\n\\nJon Noring\\n\\n\\n-- \\n\\nCharter Member --->>> INFJ Club.\\n\\nIf you\\'re dying to know what INFJ means, be brave, e-mail me, I\\'ll send info.\\n=============================================================================\\n| Jon Noring | noring@netcom.com | |\\n| JKN International | IP : 192.100.81.100 | FRED\\'S GOURMET CHOCOLATE |\\n| 1312 Carlton Place | Phone : (510) 294-8153 | CHIPS - World\\'s Best! |\\n| Livermore, CA 94550 | V-Mail: (510) 417-4101 | |\\n=============================================================================\\nWho are you? Read alt.psychology.personality! That\\'s where the action is.\\n',\n", " \"From: prb@access.digex.com (Pat)\\nSubject: Re: Biosphere II\\nOrganization: Express Access Online Communications USA\\nLines: 22\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: access.digex.net\\n\\nIn article <19930419.062802.166@almaden.ibm.com> nicho@vnet.ibm.com writes:\\n|In <1q77ku$av6@access.digex.net> Pat writes:\\n|>The Work is privately funded, the DATA belongs to SBV. I don't see\\n|>either george or Fred, scoriating IBM research division for\\n|>not releasing data.\\n| We publish plenty kiddo,you just have to look.\\n\\n\\nNever said you didn't publish, merely that there is data you don't\\npublish, and that no-one scoriates you for those cases. \\n\\nIBM research publishes plenty, it's why you ended up with 2 Nobel\\nprizes in the last 10 years, but that some projects are deemed\\ncompany confidential. ATT Bell Labs, keeps lots of stuff private,\\nLike Karamankars algorithm. Private moeny is entitled to do what\\nit pleases, within the bounds of Law, and For all the keepers of the\\ntemple of SCience, should please shove their pointy little heads\\nup their Conically shaped Posterior Orifices. \\n\\npat\\n\\n\\twho just read the SA article on Karl Fehrabend(sp???)\\n\",\n", " \"From: palmer@cco.caltech.edu (David M. Palmer)\\nSubject: Re: Gamma Ray Bursters. WHere are they.\\nOrganization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena\\nLines: 53\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: alumni.caltech.edu\\n\\nprb@access.digex.com (Pat) writes:\\n\\n> What evidence indicates that Gamma Ray bursters are very far away?\\n\\n>Given the enormous power, i was just wondering, what if they are\\n>quantum black holes or something like that fairly close by?\\n\\n>Why would they have to be at galactic ranges? \\n\\nGamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) are seen coming equally from all directions.\\nHowever, given the number of bright ones, there are too few faint\\nones to be consistent with being equally dense for as far\\nas we can see--it is as if they are all contained within\\na finite sphere (or a sphere with fuzzy edges) with us at the\\ncenter. (These measurements are statistical, and you can\\nalways hide a sufficiently small number of a different\\ntype of GRB with a different origin in the data. I am assuming\\nthat there is only one population of GRBs).\\n\\nThe data indicates that we are less than 10% of the radius of the center\\nof the distribution. The only things the Earth is at the exact center\\nof are the Solar system (at the scale of the Oort cloud of comets\\nway beyond Pluto) and the Universe. Cosmological theories, placing\\nGRBs throughout the Universe, require supernova-type energies to\\nbe released over a timescale of milliseconds. Oort cloud models\\ntend to be silly, even by the standards of astrophysics.\\n\\nIf GRBs were Galactic (i.e. distributed through the Milky Way Galaxy)\\nyou would expect them to be either concentrated in the plane of\\nthe Galaxy (for a 'disk' population), or towards the Galactic center\\n(for a spherical 'halo' population). We don't see this, so if they\\nare Galactic, they must be in a halo at least 250,000 light years in\\nradius, and we would probably start to see GRBs from the Andromeda\\nGalaxy (assuming that it has a similar halo.) For comparison, the\\nEarth is 25,000 light-years from the center of the Galaxy.\\n\\n>my own pet theory is that it's Flying saucers entering\\n>hyperspace :-)\\n\\nThe aren't concentrated in the known spacelanes, and we don't\\nsee many coming from Zeta Reticuli and Tau Ceti.\\n\\n>but the reason i am asking is that most everyone assumes that they\\n>are colliding nuetron stars or spinning black holes, i just wondered\\n>if any mechanism could exist and place them closer in.\\n\\nThere are more than 130 GRB different models in the refereed literature.\\nRight now, the theorists have a sort of unofficial moratorium\\non new models until new observational evidence comes in.\\n\\n-- \\n\\t\\tDavid M. Palmer\\t\\tpalmer@alumni.caltech.edu\\n\\t\\t\\t\\t\\tpalmer@tgrs.gsfc.nasa.gov\\n\",\n", " \"From: dante@shakala.com (Charlie Prael)\\nSubject: Re: army in space\\nOrganization: Shakala BBS (ClanZen Radio Network) Sunnyvale, CA +1-408-734-2289\\nLines: 23\\n\\nktj@beach.cis.ufl.edu (kerry todd johnson) writes:\\n\\n> Is anybody out there willing to discuss with me careers in the Army that deal\\n> with space? After I graduate, I will have a commitment to serve in the Army,\\n> and I would like to spend it in a space-related field. I saw a post a long\\n> time ago about the Air Force Space Command which made a fleeting reference to\\n> its Army counter-part. Any more info on that would be appreciated. I'm \\n> looking for things like: do I branch Intelligence, or Signal, or other? To\\n> whom do I voice my interest in space? What qualifications are necessary?\\n> Etc, etc. BTW, my major is computer science engineering.\\n\\nKerry-- I'm guessing a little at this, because it's been a few years \\nsince I saw the info, but you will probably want to look at Air Defense \\nArtillery as a specialty, or possibly Signals. The kind of thing you're \\nlooking for is SDI-type assignments, but it'll be pretty prosaic stuff.\\nThings like hard-kill ATBM missiles, some of the COBRA rigs -- that kind \\nof thing. \\n\\nHope that gives you some ideas on where to look, though.\\n\\n------------------------------------------------------------------\\nCharlie Prael - dante@shakala.com \\nShakala BBS (ClanZen Radio Network) Sunnyvale, CA +1-408-734-2289\\n\",\n", " 'From: mt90dac@brunel.ac.uk (Del Cotter)\\nSubject: Re: Crazy? or just Imaginitive?\\nOrganization: Brunel University, West London, UK\\nLines: 26\\n\\n<1993Apr21.205403.1@aurora.alaska.edu> nsmca@aurora.alaska.edu writes:\\n\\n>So some of my ideas are a bit odd, off the wall and such, but so was Wilbur and\\n>Orville Wright, and quite a few others.. Sorry if I do not have the big degrees\\n>and such, but I think (I might be wrong, to error is human) I have something\\n>that is in many ways just as important, I have imagination, dreams. And without\\n>dreams all the knowledge is worthless.. \\n\\nOh, and us with the big degrees don\\'t got imagination, huh?\\n\\nThe alleged dichotomy between imagination and knowledge is one of the most\\npernicious fallacys of the New Age. Michael, thanks for the generous\\noffer, but we have quite enough dreams of our own, thank you.\\n\\nYou, on the other hand, are letting your own dreams go to waste by\\nfailing to get the maths/thermodynamics/chemistry/(your choices here)\\nwhich would give your imagination wings.\\n\\nJust to show this isn\\'t a flame, I leave you with a quote from _Invasion of \\nthe Body Snatchers_:\\n\\n\"Become one of us; it\\'s not so bad, you know\"\\n-- \\n \\',\\' \\' \\',\\',\\' | | \\',\\' \\' \\',\\',\\'\\n \\', ,\\',\\' | Del Cotter mt90dac@brunel.ac.uk | \\', ,\\',\\' \\n \\',\\' | | \\',\\' \\n',\n", " \"From: ls8139@albnyvms.bitnet (larry silverberg)\\nSubject: podiatry School info?\\nReply-To: ls8139@albnyvms.bitnet\\nOrganization: University of Albany, SUNY\\nLines: 21\\n\\nHello,\\n\\nI am planning on attending Podiatry School next year.\\n\\nI have narrowed my choices to the Pennsylvania College of Podiatric\\nMedicine, in Philadelphia, or the California College of Podiatric\\nMedicine in San Francisco. \\n\\nIf anyone has any information or oppinions about these two schools, please\\ntell me. I am having a hard time deciding which one to attend, and must\\nmake a decision very soon. \\n\\nthank you, Larry\\n\\n~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\\nLive From New York, It's SATURDAY NIGHT...\\n\\nTonight's special guest:\\nLawrence Silverberg from The State University of New York @ Albany\\naka:ls8139@gemini.Albany.edu\\n~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\\n\",\n", " \"From: lundby@rtsg.mot.com (Walter F. Lundby)\\nSubject: Re: Is MSG sensitivity superstition?\\nNntp-Posting-Host: accord2\\nOrganization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group\\nLines: 23\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr20.173019.11903@llyene.jpl.nasa.gov> julie@eddie.jpl.nasa.gov (Julie Kangas) writes:\\n>\\n>As for how foods taste: If I'm not allergic to MSG and I like\\n>the taste of it, why shouldn't I use it? Saying I shouldn't use\\n>it is like saying I shouldn't eat spicy food because my neighbor\\n>has an ulcer.\\n>\\n Nobody is saying that you shouldn't be allowed to use msg. Just\\ndon't force it on others. If you have food that you want to \\nenhance with msg just put the MSG on the table like salt. It is\\nthen the option of the eater to use it. If you make a commerical\\nproduct, just leave it out. You can include a packet (like some\\nsalt packets) if you desire.\\n\\nSalt, pepper, mustard, ketchup, pickles ..... are table options.\\nTreat MSG the same way. I wouldn't shove my condiments down your\\nthroat, don't shove yours down mine.\\n\\nWFL\\n\\n-- \\nWalter Lundby\\n\\n\",\n", " \"From: sysmgr@king.eng.umd.edu (Doug Mohney)\\nSubject: Re: Commercial mining activities on the moon\\nOrganization: Computer Aided Design Lab, U. of Maryland College Park\\nLines: 10\\nReply-To: sysmgr@king.eng.umd.edu\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: queen.eng.umd.edu\\n\\nIn article , steinly@topaz.ucsc.edu (Steinn Sigurdsson) writes:\\n\\n>Very cost effective if you use the right accounting method :-)\\n\\nSherzer Methodology!!!!!!\\n\\n\\n\\n Software engineering? That's like military intelligence, isn't it?\\n -- > SYSMGR@CADLAB.ENG.UMD.EDU < --\\n\",\n", " 'From: texx@ossi.com (Robert \"Texx\" Woodworth)\\nSubject: Re: Can men get yeast infections?\\nOrganization: Open Systems Solutions Inc.\\nLines: 16\\nDistribution: na\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: nym.ossi.com\\n\\nnoring@netcom.com (Jon Noring) writes:\\n\\n>In article Tammy.Vandenboom@launchpad.unc.edu (Tammy Vandenboom) writes:\\n\\n>>Here\\'s a potentially stupid question to possibly the wrong news group, but. .\\n>>\\n>>Can men get yeast infections? Spread them? What kind of symptoms?\\n>>Similar as women\\'s? I have a yeast infection and my husband (who is a\\n>>natural paranoid on a good day) is sure he\\'s gonna catch it and keeps\\n>>asking me what it\\'s like. I\\'m not sure what his symptoms would be. . \\n\\n>The answer is yes and no. I\\'m sure others on sci.med can expand on this.\\n\\nRecently someone posted an account of this.\\nUnfortunately it was posted to alt.tasteless so the gross details were emphasized\\ninstead of th e actual scientific facts.\\n',\n", " \"From: ritley@uimrl7.mrl.uiuc.edu ()\\nSubject: MYSTERY ILLNESS WITH SPOTS\\nReply-To: ritley@uiucmrl.bitnet ()\\nOrganization: Materials Research Lab\\nLines: 13\\n\\n\\n\\nI attended high school in the San Jose, California area in the early 1980's,\\nand I remember a (smallish) outbreak of a strange illness, in which\\npeople developed measles-like spots on their bodies. This condition\\nseemed to last only a few days, and I don't recall anyone reporting any other\\nsymptoms. I seem to recall reading somewhere that this was believed to have\\nbeen viral in nature, but I don't know for sure.\\n\\nHowever, I have been curious since then about this.\\n\\nAnyone have any ideas about what this might have been?\\n\\n\",\n", " \"Subject: Re: Vandalizing the sky.\\nFrom: thacker@rhea.arc.ab.ca\\nOrganization: Alberta Research Council\\nNntp-Posting-Host: rhea.arc.ab.ca\\nLines: 13\\n\\nIn article , enzo@research.canon.oz.au (Enzo Liguori) writes:\\n\\n<<>>\\n\\n> What about light pollution in observations? (I read somewhere else that\\n> it might even be visible during the day, leave alone at night).\\n\\n> Really, really depressed.\\n> \\n> Enzo\\n\\nNo need to be depressed about this one. Lights aren't on during the day\\nso there shouldn't be any daytime light pollution.\\n\",\n", " 'From: dfitts@carson.u.washington.edu (Douglas Fitts)\\nSubject: Re: RA treatment question\\nOrganization: University of Washington\\nLines: 24\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: carson.u.washington.edu\\n\\neulenbrg@carson.u.washington.edu (Julia Eulenberg) writes:\\n\\n>I\\'m assuming that you mean Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA). I\\'ve never heard \\n>of the \"cold treatment\" you mentioned. I can\\'t imagine how it would \\n>work, since most of us who have Rh.Arthr./RA seem to have more problems\\n>in cold weather than in warm weather. Would be interested to hear more!\\n>Z\\n>Z\\n\\n\\nNo, obviously talking about Research Assistants. I favor a high protein,\\nlow fat diet, barely adequate salary on a fixed time schedule, four hours\\nof sleep a night, continuous infusion of latte, unpredictable praise \\nmixed randomly with anxiety-provoking, everpresent glances with \\nlowered eyebrows, unrealistic promises of rapid publication, and \\nevery three months a dinner consisting of nothing but microbrewery ale\\nand free pretzels. Actually, mine hails from San Diego, and indeed \\nhas more problems in Seattle in cold weather than in warm.\\n\\nDoug Fitts\\ndfitts@u.washington.edu\\n\\n\\n\\n',\n", " 'From: sheffner@encore.com (Steve Heffner)\\nSubject: Hernia\\nOrganization: Encore Computer Corporation\\nNntp-Posting-Host: condor.encore.com\\nLines: 20\\n\\nA bit more than a year ago, a hernia in my right groin was\\ndiscovered. It had produced a dull pain in that area. The hernia\\nwas repaired using the least intrusive (orthoscopic?) method and a\\n\"plug and patch\".\\n\\nThe doctor considered the procedure a success.\\n\\nA few months later the same pain returned. The doctor said that\\nhe could find nothing wrong in the area of the hernia repair.\\n\\nNow the pain occurs more often. My GP couldn\\'t identify any\\nspecific problem. The surgen who performed the original procedure\\nnow says that yes there is a \"new\" hernia in the same area and he\\nsaid that he has to cut into the area for the repair this time.\\n\\nMy question to the net: Is there a nonintrusive method to\\ndetermine if in fact there is a hernia or if the pain is from\\nsomething else?\\n\\nSteve Heffner\\n',\n", " 'From: rjb3@cbnewsk.cb.att.com (robert.j.brown)\\nSubject: Re: Human breast-feeding : Myths or reality ?\\nOrganization: AT&T\\nSummary: experience with three children\\nLines: 32\\n\\nIn article , homer@tripos.com (Webster Homer) writes:\\n> rjasoar@vnet.IBM.COM (Robert J. Alexander MD) writes:\\n> \\n> I have an additional question. How long should a mother breast feed her\\n> child? A friend of mine is still nursing her two year old. Is this beneficial?\\n> Her ex-husband is trying to use her coninued nursing of a two year old as\\n> \"proof\" of her being unfit to be a mother. What studies have been done\\n> on breast feeding past a year etc... upon the psychological health of the\\n> child? \\n> \\n> \\n> Web Homer\\n> \\n\\nMy wife breast-fed my three boys 12 months, 16 months, and 29 months\\nrespectively and they are 18, 16, and 10 years old respectively. So\\nfar everybody seems fairly normal. I noticed a negative correlation\\nwith ear infections and length of time nursed in my very small sample.\\nI do notice that the 16 and 18 year old seem to eat a lot, could that\\nbe from the breast feeding :-) ?\\n\\nI don\\'t understand the \"unfit mother\" charge other than any tactic is\\nnot too low down for some folks during divorce/child custody battles.\\n\\nMost of the developing nations practice breast feeding to 3 and 4 years\\nold. Are they screwed up because of it ? Would they be much better\\noff if they could use cow\\'s milk or commercial formula ? Doctors ?\\n\\nBobby - akgua!rjb\\n\\n\\n\\n',\n", " 'From: gary@ke4zv.uucp (Gary Coffman)\\nSubject: Re: What if the USSR had reached the Moon first?\\nReply-To: gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman)\\nOrganization: Destructive Testing Systems\\nLines: 38\\n\\nIn article nickh@CS.CMU.EDU (Nick Haines) writes:\\n>In article <1993Apr18.091051.14496@ke4zv.uucp> gary@ke4zv.uucp (Gary Coffman) writes:\\n> If I read you right, you\\'re saying in essence that, with a larger\\n> economy, nations will have more discretionary funds to *waste* on a\\n> lunar facility. That was certainly partially the case with Apollo,\\n> but real Lunar colonies will probably require a continuing\\n> military, scientific, or commercial reason for being rather than\\n> just a \"we have the money, why not?\" approach.\\n>\\n>Ah, but the whole point is that money spent on a lunar base is not\\n>wasted on the moon. It\\'s not like they\\'d be using $1000 (1000R?) bills\\n>to fuel their moon-dozers. The money to fund a lunar base would be\\n>spent in the country to which the base belonged. It\\'s a way of funding\\n>high-tech research, just like DARPA was a good excuse to fund various\\n>fields of research, under the pretense that it was crucial to the\\n>defense of the country, or like ESPRIT is a good excuse for the EC to\\n>fund research, under the pretense that it\\'s good for pan-European\\n>cooperation.\\n>\\n>Now maybe you think that government-funded research is a waste of\\n>money (in fact, I\\'m pretty sure you do), but it does count as\\n>investment spending, which does boost the economy (and just look at\\n>the size of that multiplier :->).\\n\\nActually I favor government funded research. It *is* a pump prime\\nfor a lot of basic technologies. I also understand the short term\\nvalue of high tech welfare programs. But they can\\'t substitute for\\nlong range wealth generation via commercial enterprise. That\\'s what\\'s\\nneeded to maintain a healthy economy *anywhere*, on Earth or Luna.\\nI don\\'t see that long term potential on Luna due to a bunch of\\nfactors I outline in another post.\\n\\nGary\\n-- \\nGary Coffman KE4ZV | You make it, | gatech!wa4mei!ke4zv!gary\\nDestructive Testing Systems | we break it. | uunet!rsiatl!ke4zv!gary\\n534 Shannon Way | Guaranteed! | emory!kd4nc!ke4zv!gary \\nLawrenceville, GA 30244 | | \\n',\n", " \"From: mstern@lindsay.Princeton.EDU (Marlene J. Stern)\\nSubject: Recurrent Respiratory Papillomatosis\\nOriginator: news@nimaster\\nNntp-Posting-Host: lindsay.princeton.edu\\nOrganization: Princeton University\\nDistribution: nj\\nLines: 43\\n\\n\\nWe will be holding a bake and craft sale at Communiversity in Princeton on \\nNassau Street, Saturday April 24th 12-4 p.m. to benefit the Recurrent \\nRespiratory Papillomatosis Foundation, a nonprofit foundation established to \\nencourage research toward a cure for Recurrent Respiratory Papillomatosis. Our \\nthree year old daughter suffers from this disease. Below is a press release \\nthat appeared in local newspapers. Hope you can join us.\\n\\n\\nOn Saturday, April 24 as part of Communiversity in Princeton, a local family \\nwill be having a bake and craft sale to raise money for and create public \\nawareness about a rare disease called Recurrent Respiratory Papillomatosis.\\n\\nBill and Marlene Stern's daughter Lindsay is afflicted with this disease \\ncharacterized by tumors attacking the inside of the larynx, vocal cords and \\ntrachea. Caused by a virus, the tumors grow, block the air passages and would \\nlead to death from suffocation without continual surgery to remove the growths. \\nThree year old Lindsay has undergone 11 operations thus far since her diagnosis \\nlast year and faces the prospect of over a hundred operations throughout her \\nlifetime. \\n\\nEven though the disease is hardly a household word, it has affected the lives \\nof enough people to inspire the formation of the Recurrent Respiratory \\nPapillomatosis Foundation, a non-profit foundation whose goals are to provide \\nsupport for patients and families by networking patients and publishing a \\nnewsletter, enhance awareness of RRP at the local and national level, and aid \\nin the prevention, cure, and treatment.\\n\\nSince medical researchers know that the virus causing the disease is similar to \\nthose viruses causing warts, they feel a cure would be within reach if money \\nwere available for research. Because RRP is rare, it not only gets scant \\nattention but also paltry funds to search for a cure. Part of the RRP \\nFoundation's mission is to change that. \\n\\nAnyone interested in contributing items to the bake and craft sale, please call \\nMarlene or Bill at 609-890-0502. Monetary donations can be made at the \\nFoundation's booth during Communiversity, April 24th, 12 to 4 p.m., in downtown \\nPrinceton, or sent directly to:\\n\\n\\t\\t\\tThe Recurrent Respiratory Foundation\\n\\t 50 Wesleyan Drive\\n\\t Hamilton Sq., NJ 08690.\\nThanks mstern@lindsay.princeton.edu\\n\",\n", " 'From: MUNIZB%RWTMS2.decnet@rockwell.com (\"RWTMS2::MUNIZB\")\\nSubject: Space Activities in Tucson, AZ ?\\nX-Added: Forwarded by Space Digest\\nOrganization: [via International Space University]\\nOriginal-Sender: isu@VACATION.VENARI.CS.CMU.EDU\\nDistribution: sci\\nLines: 7\\n\\nI would like to find out about space engineering employment and educational\\nopportunities in the Tucson, Arizona area. E-mail responses appreciated.\\nMy mail feed is intermittent, so please try one or all of these addresses.\\n\\nBen Muniz w(818)586-3578 MUNIZB%RWTMS2.decnet@beach.rockwell.com \\nor: bmuniz@a1tms1.remnet.ab.com MUNIZB%RWTMS2.decnet@consrt.rockwell.com\\n\\n',\n", " \"From: jim.zisfein@factory.com (Jim Zisfein) \\nSubject: food-related seizures?\\nDistribution: world\\nOrganization: Invention Factory's BBS - New York City, NY - 212-274-8298v.32bis\\nReply-To: jim.zisfein@factory.com (Jim Zisfein) \\nLines: 27\\n\\nSP> From: paulson@tab00.larc.nasa.gov (Sharon Paulson)\\nSP> to describe here. I have a fourteen year old daugter who experienced\\nSP> a seizure on November 3, 1992 at 6:45AM after eating Kellog's Frosted\\nSP> Flakes.\\n\\nSP> Well, we were going along fine and the other morning, April 5, she had\\nSP> a bowl of another Kellog's frosted kind of cereal, Fruit Loops (I am\\n\\nSP> When I mentioned what she ate the first time as a possible reason for\\nSP> the seizure the neurologist basically negated that as an idea. Now\\nSP> after this second episode, so similar in nature to the first, even\\nSP> he is scratching his head.\\n\\nThere's no data that sugar-coated cereals cause seizures. I haven't\\neven seen anything anecdotal on it. Given how common they are eaten\\n- do you know any child or adolescent who *doesn't* eat the stuff? -\\nI think that if there were a relationship we would know it by now.\\nAlso, there's nothing weird in those cereals. As far as the brain\\nis concerned (except for a few infantile metabolic disorders such as\\ngalactosemia), sugar is sugar, regardless if it is coated on cereal,\\nsprinkled onto cereal, or dissolved in soda, coffee or whatever.\\n\\nThere was some interest a few years ago in aspartame lowering\\nseizure thresholds, but I don't believe anything ever came of it.\\n---\\n . SLMR 2.1 . E-mail: jim.zisfein@factory.com (Jim Zisfein)\\n \\n\",\n", " \"From: kturner@copper.denver.colorado.edu (Kathleen J Turner)\\nSubject: Mystery Illness with eye problems\\nOrganization: University of Colorado at Denver\\nLines: 29\\n\\n\\n\\tA friend has the following symptoms which have occurred periodically\\nevery few months for the last 3 years. An episode begins with extreme\\ntiredness followed by:\\n\\n\\t1. traveling joint pains and stiffness affecting mostly the elbows,\\n\\tknees, and hips.\\n\\t2. generalized muscle pains\\n\\t3. tinnitus and a feeling of pressure in her ears\\n\\t4. severe sweating occuring both at night and during the day\\n\\t5. hemorrhaging in both eyes. Her opthamologist calls it peripheral\\n retinal hemorhages and says it looks similar to diabetic retinopathy. (She\\n isn't diabetic--they checked.\\n\\t6. distorted color vision and distorted vision in general (telephone\\n\\t poles do not appear to be straight)\\n\\t7. loss of peripheral vision.\\n \\t\\n\\tMany tests have been run and all are normal except for something \\ncalled unidentified bright objects found on a MRI of her brain. The only\\nthing that seems to alleviate one of these episodes is prednisone. At\\ntimes she had been on 60 mg per day. Whenever she gets down to 10-15 mg\\nthe symptoms become acute again.\\n\\n\\tShe is quite concerned because the retinal hemorrhages are becoming\\nworse with each episode and her vision is suffering. None of the docs she\\nhas seen have any idea what this condition is or what can be done to stop\\nit. Any suggestions or advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in \\nadvance. Kathy Turner\\n\\t\\n\",\n", " \"From: dennisn@ecs.comm.mot.com (Dennis Newkirk)\\nSubject: Re: Proton/Centaur?\\nOrganization: Motorola\\nNntp-Posting-Host: 145.1.146.43\\nLines: 37\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr20.211638.168730@zeus.calpoly.edu> jgreen@trumpet.calpoly.edu (James Thomas Green) writes:\\n>Has anyone looked into the possiblity of a Proton/Centaur combo?\\n>What would be the benefits and problems with such a combo (other\\n>than the obvious instability in the XSSR now)?\\n\\nI haven't seen any speculation about it. But, the Salyut KB (Design Bureau) \\nwas planning a new LH/LOX second stage for the Proton which would boost\\npayload to LEO from about 21000 to 31500 kg. (Geostationary goes from\\n2600 kg. (Gals launcher version) to 6000 kg.. This scheme was competing\\nwith the Energia-M last year and I haven't heard which won, except now\\nI recently read that the Central Specialized KB was working on the \\nsuccessor to the Soyuz booster which must be the Energia-M. So the early\\nresults are Energia-M won, but this is a guess, nothing is very clear in \\nRussia. I'm sure if Salyut KB gets funds from someone they will continue \\ntheir development. \\n\\nThe Centaur for the Altas is about 3 meters dia. and the Proton \\nis 4 so that's a good fit for their existing upper stage, the Block-D\\nwhich sets inside a shround just under 4 meters dia. I don't know about\\nlaunch loads, etc.. but since the Centaur survives Titan launches which\\nare probably worse than the Proton (those Titan SRB's probably shake things\\nup pretty good) it seems feasible. EXCEPT, the Centaur is a very fragile\\nthing and may require integration on the pad which is not available now.\\nProtons are assembled and transported horizontially. Does anyone know \\nhow much stress in the way of a payload a Centaur could support while\\nbolted to a Proton horizontally and then taken down the rail road track\\nand erected on the pad? \\n\\nThey would also need LOX and LH facilities added to the Proton pads \\n(unless the new Proton second stage is actually built), and of course\\nany Centaur support systems and facilities, no doubt imported from the\\nUS at great cost. These systems may viloate US law so there are political\\nproblems to solve in addition to the instabilities in the CIS you mention. \\n\\nDennis Newkirk (dennisn@ecs.comm.mot.com)\\nMotorola, Land Mobile Products Sector\\nSchaumburg, IL\\n\",\n", " 'From: aws@iti.org (Allen W. Sherzer)\\nSubject: Re: Moonbase race\\nOrganization: Evil Geniuses for a Better Tomorrow\\nLines: 16\\n\\nIn article <1r46o9INN14j@mojo.eng.umd.edu> sysmgr@king.eng.umd.edu writes:\\n\\n>So how much would it cost as a private venture, assuming you could talk the\\n>U.S. government into leasing you a couple of pads in Florida? \\n\\nWhy would you want to do that? The goal is to do it cheaper (remember,\\nthis isn\\'t government). Instead of leasing an expensive launch pad,\\njust use a SSTO and launch from a much cheaper facility.\\n\\n Allen\\n\\n-- \\n+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+\\n| Lady Astor: \"Sir, if you were my husband I would poison your coffee!\" |\\n| W. Churchill: \"Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it.\" |\\n+----------------------56 DAYS TO FIRST FLIGHT OF DCX-----------------------+\\n',\n", " 'From: schaefer@sal-sun121.usc.edu (Peter Schaefer)\\nSubject: Re: Why not give $1 billion to first year-long moon residents?\\nOrganization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA\\nLines: 29\\nDistribution: world\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: sal-sun121.usc.edu\\n\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr19.130503.1@aurora.alaska.edu>, nsmca@aurora.alaska.edu writes:\\n|> In article <6ZV82B2w165w@theporch.raider.net>, gene@theporch.raider.net (Gene Wright) writes:\\n|> > With the continuin talk about the \"End of the Space Age\" and complaints \\n|> > by government over the large cost, why not try something I read about \\n|> > that might just work.\\n|> > \\n|> > Announce that a reward of $1 billion would go to the first corporation \\n|> > who successfully keeps at least 1 person alive on the moon for a year. \\n|> > Then you\\'d see some of the inexpensive but not popular technologies begin \\n|> > to be developed. THere\\'d be a different kind of space race then!\\n|> > \\n|> > --\\n|> > gene@theporch.raider.net (Gene Wright)\\n|> > theporch.raider.net 615/297-7951 The MacInteresteds of Nashville\\n|> ====\\n|> If that were true, I\\'d go for it.. I have a few friends who we could pool our\\n|> resources and do it.. Maybe make it a prize kind of liek the \"Solar Car Race\"\\n|> in Australia..\\n|> Anybody game for a contest!\\n|> \\n|> ==\\n|> Michael Adams, nsmca@acad3.alaska.edu -- I\\'m not high, just jacked\\n\\n\\nOh gee, a billion dollars! That\\'d be just about enough to cover the cost of the\\nfeasability study! Happy, Happy, JOY! JOY!\\n\\nPeter F. Schaefer\\n',\n", " 'From: aliceb@tea4two.Eng.Sun.COM (Alice Taylor)\\nSubject: accupuncture and AIDS\\nOrganization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.\\nLines: 8\\nDistribution: world\\nReply-To: aliceb@tea4two.Eng.Sun.COM\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: tea4two\\n\\nA friend of mine is seeing an acupuncturist and\\nwants to know if there is any danger of getting\\nAIDS from the needles.\\n\\nThanks,\\n\\n\\t-alice\\n\\n',\n", " 'From: wdwells@nyx.cs.du.edu (David \"Fuzzy\" Wells)\\nSubject: Boom! Whoosh......\\nOrganization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.\\nLines: 22\\n\\n\\nAnd one of my profs is the chief engineer for the project (Dr. Ron\\nHumble, Univ. Colorado at Colorado Springs).\\n\\nI love the idea of an inflatable 1-mile long sign.... It will be a\\nreally neat thing to see it explode when a bolt (or even better, a\\nWestford Needle!) comes crashing into it at 10 clicks a sec. \\n\\n Whooooooooshhhhhh...... \\n\\n\\n\\nI hear that it will supposedly coincide\\nwith the Atlanta Olympics. \\n\\n\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t\\tFuzzy.\\n===============================================================================\\n_ __/| | Lt. David \"Fuzzy\" Wells | \"I want peace on earth,\\n\\\\\\'o.O\\' | HQ AFSPACECOM/CNA | goodwill toward men.\" \\n=(___)= | \"We do debris\" |\"We\\'re the government. We don\\'t do that \\n U ...ack!| wdwells@esprit.uccs.edu | that sort of thing.\" -SNEAKERS \\n===============================================================================\\n',\n", " 'From: wcsbeau@superior.carleton.ca (OPIRG)\\nSubject: Re: Is MSG sensitivity superstition?\\nOrganization: Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada\\nLines: 101\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr15.190711.22190@walter.bellcore.com> jchen@ctt.bellcore.com writes:\\n\\n\\n>The funny thing is the personaly stories about reactions to MSG vary so\\n>greatly. Some said that their heart beat speeded up with flush face. Some\\n>claim their heart \"skipped\" beats once in a while.\\n\\nBoth of these symptoms are related - tachycardia. Getting a flushed\\nface is due to the heart pumping the blood faster than a regular\\npulse. I suspect this is related to an increase in sodium levels in\\nthe blood, since note *sodium chloride* monosodium glutamate. Both are\\nsodium compounds. Our bodies require sodium, but like everything else,\\none can get too much of a good thing.\\n\\n>Some reacted with headache, \\n\\nAgain, this could be related to increased blood flow from increased\\nheart rate, from the sodium in the MSG. Distended crainial arteries,\\nessentially. One of many causes of headaches. There is no discrepency\\nher, necessarily.\\n\\n\\n>some stomach ache.\\n\\nWell stomache ache and vomiting tend to be related. Again, not\\nnecessarily a discrepency. More likely a related reaction. Vomiting\\noccurs as a response to get rid of a noxious compound an organism has\\neaten. If a person can\\'t digest the stuff (entirely possible - the\\nlist of stuff people are allergic to is quite long), and lacks an\\nenzyme to break it down, gastrointestinal distress (stomach or belly\\nache) would be expected.\\n\\n\\n> Some had watery eyes or running nose,\\n\\n\\nThese are respiratory reactions, and are now considered to be similar\\nto vomitting. They are a way for the body to dispose of noxious\\ncompounds. They are adaptiove responses. Of course, it is possible\\nsome other food or environmental compound could be responsible for the\\nsymptoms. But it\\'s important to remember that a lot opf these effets\\ncan be additive, synergystic, subtractive, etc, etc. It would be\\nnecessary to know exactly what was in a dish, and what else the person\\nwas exposed to. Respiratory does sound suspicious BUT resopiration\\nand heart rate are connected. Things in the body are far from\\nsimple...very inetractive place, the vertebrate body.\\n \\n> some\\n>had itchy skin or rashes. \\n\\nPeople respond in a myriad of ways to the same compound. It depends\\nupon what it is about the compound that \"pisses off\" their body.\\nPollen, for example, of some plants aggrivates breathing in many\\npeople, because, when inhaled, it sets of the immune system, and an\\nhistamine attack is launched. The immune system goes overboard,\\ncausing the allergic person a lot of misery. And someone with an\\nallergy to some pollens will have trouble with some herb teas that\\ncontain pollens (Chamomile, linden, etc). Drinking the substance can\\nperturb that person\\'s system as much as inhaling it. \\n\\n>More serious accusations include respiration \\n>difficulty \\n\\nSee above. And don\\'t think that heart rate changes, and circulatory\\nproblems are not serious. They can be deadly.\\n\\nand brain damage. \\n\\nThe area of the brain effected is the neuroendocrine system\\ncontrolling the release of gonadotropin, the supra-hormone controlling\\nthe cyclical release of testosterone and estradiol, as well as somatostatin,\\nand other steroids. Testing for effective dose would be, uh, a wee bit unethical.\\n\\n\\n>Now here is a new one: vomiting. My guess is that MSG becomes the number one\\n>suspect of any problem. In this case. it might be just food\\npoisoning. \\n\\nAbsolutely. But it could also be some synergystic mess from eating ,\\nsay, undetected shrimp or mushrooms (to which many are allergic), plus\\ntoo much alcohol, and inhaling too much diesel fumes biking home,\\nplus, let\\'s say, having contracted flu from one\\'s sig. other 3 days\\nbefore from drinking out of the same glass. Could be all sorts of\\nthings.\\n\\nBut it might be the MSG. \\n\\n>if you heard things about MSG, you may think it must be it.\\n\\nIf noone else got sick, its likely not food poisoning. Probably\\nstomach flu or an undetected thing the guy\\'s allergic to.\\n\\n\\nAnyway, the human body\\'s not a machine; people vary widely in their\\nresponses, and a lot of reactions are due to combinations of things.\\n\\n Dianne Murray wcsbeau@ccs.carleton.ca\\n\\n\\n',\n", " 'From: jfc@athena.mit.edu (John F Carr)\\nSubject: Re: Gamma Ray Bursters. WHere are they.\\nOrganization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology\\nLines: 12\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: achates.mit.edu\\n\\n\\nIf gamma ray bursters are extragalactic, would absorption from the\\ngalaxy be expected? How transparent is the galactic core to gamma\\nrays?\\n\\nHow much energy does a burster put out? I know energy depends on\\ndistance, which is unknown. An answer of the form _X_ ergs per\\nmegaparsec^2 is OK.\\n\\n\\n--\\n John Carr (jfc@athena.mit.edu)\\n',\n", " 'From: ray@engr.LaTech.edu (Bill Ray)\\nSubject: Re: Acutane, Fibromyalgia Syndrome and CFS\\nOrganization: Louisiana Tech University\\nLines: 8\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: ee02.engr.latech.edu\\nX-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]\\n\\nDaniel Prince (Daniel.Prince@f129.n102.z1.calcom.socal.com) wrote:\\n\\n: ... I think they should rename Waco TX to Wacko TX!\\n\\nI know it is just a joke, but please remember: the people of Waco\\ndid not ask David Koresh to be a lunatic there, he just happened.\\nWaco is a lovely town. I would think someone living in the home\\nof flakes and nut would be more sensitive :-)\\n',\n", " 'From: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick)\\nSubject: Re: Is MSG sensitivity superstition?\\nOrganization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera\\nLines: 28\\nDistribution: world\\nReply-To: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: sol1.gps.caltech.edu\\n\\nIn article <1qmlgaINNjab@hp-col.col.hp.com>, cab@col.hp.com (Chris Best) writes:\\n=\\n=Jason Chen writes:\\n=> Now here is a new one: vomiting. My guess is that MSG becomes the number one\\n=> suspect of any problem. In this case. it might be just food poisoning. But\\n=> if you heard things about MSG, you may think it must be it.\\n=\\n=----------\\n=\\n=Yeah, it might, if you only read the part you quoted. You somehow left \\n=out the part about \"we all ate the same thing.\" Changes things a bit, eh?\\n\\nPerhaps. Now, just what leads you to believe that it was MSG and not some\\nother ingredient in the food that made you ill?\\n\\n=These people aren\\'t condemning Chinese food, Mr. Chen - just one of its \\n=(optional) ingredients. Try not to take it so personally.\\n\\nAnd you\\'re condemning one particular ingredient without any evidence that\\nthat\\'s the ingredient to which you reacted.\\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nCarl J Lydick | INTERnet: CARL@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU | NSI/HEPnet: SOL1::CARL\\n\\nDisclaimer: Hey, I understand VAXen and VMS. That\\'s what I get paid for. My\\nunderstanding of astronomy is purely at the amateur level (or below). So\\nunless what I\\'m saying is directly related to VAX/VMS, don\\'t hold me or my\\norganization responsible for it. If it IS related to VAX/VMS, you can try to\\nhold me responsible for it, but my organization had nothing to do with it.\\n',\n", " 'From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nSubject: Re: Menangitis question\\nArticle-I.D.: pitt.19439\\nReply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nOrganization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science\\nLines: 42\\n\\nIn article brooksby@brigham.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Glen W Brooksby) writes:\\n>This past weekend a friend of mine lost his 13 month old\\n>daughter in a matter of hours to a form of menangitis. The\\n>person informing me called it \\'Nicereal Meningicocis\\' (sp?).\\n>In retrospect, the disease struck her probably sometime on \\n>Friday evening and she passed away about 2:30pm on Saturday.\\n>The symptoms seemed to be a rash that started small and\\n>then began progressing rapidly. She began turning blue\\n>eventually which was the tip-off that this was serious\\n>but by that time it was too late (this is all second hand info.).\\n>\\n>My question is:\\n>Is this an unusual form of Menangitis? How is it transmitted?\\n>How does it work (ie. how does it kill so quickly)?\\n>\\n\\nNo, the neiseria meningococcus is one of the most common\\nforms of meningitis. It\\'s the one that sometimes sweeps\\nschools or boot camp. It is contagious and kills by attacking\\nthe covering of the brain, causing the blood vessels to thrombose\\nand the brain to swell up.\\n\\nIt is very treatable if caught in time. There isn\\'t much time,\\nhowever. The rash is the tip off. Infants are very susceptible\\nto dying from bacterial meningitis. Any infant with a fever who\\nbecomes stiff or lethargic needs to be rushed to a hospital where\\na spinal tap will show if they have meningitis. Seizures can also\\noccur.\\n\\n>Immediate family members were told to take some kind of medication\\n>to prevent them from being carriers, yet they didn\\'t have\\n>any concerns about my wife and I coming to visit them.\\n>\\n\\nIt can live in the throat of carriers. Don\\'t worry, you won\\'t get \\nit from them, especially if they took the medication.\\n\\n-- \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nGordon Banks N3JXP | \"Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and\\ngeb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu | it is shameful to surrender it too soon.\" \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n',\n", " 'From: jgreen@trumpet.calpoly.edu (James Thomas Green)\\nSubject: Re: Keeping Spacecraft on after Funding Cuts.\\nArticle-I.D.: zeus.1993Apr22.003719.101323\\nOrganization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo\\nLines: 32\\n\\nprb@access.digex.com (Pat) Pontificated: \\n>\\n>\\n>Some birds require constant management for survival. Pointing a sensor at\\n>the sun, even when powered down, may burn it out. Pointing a\\n>parabolic antenna at Sol, from venus orbit may trash the\\n>foci elements.\\n>\\nWhat I was getting at in my post is whether or not it might be\\npossible to put enough brains on board future deep-space probes\\nfor them to automatically avoid such things as looking at the\\nsun or going into an uncontrolled tumble. \\n\\nI heard once that the voyagers had a failsafe routine built in\\nthat essentially says \"If you never hear from Earth again,\\nhere\\'s what to do.\" This was a back up in the event a receiver\\nburnt out but the probe could still send data (limited, but\\nstill some data). \\n\\n>Even if you let teh bird drift, it may get hosed by some\\n>cosmic phenomena. \\n>\\nSince this would be a shutdown that may never be refunded for\\nstartup, if some type of cosmic BEM took out the probe, it might\\nnot be such a big loss. Obviously you can\\'t plan for\\neverything, but the most obvious things can be considered.\\n\\n\\n/~~~(-: James T. Green :-)~~~~(-: jgreen@oboe.calpoly.edu :-)~~~\\\\ \\n| \"I know you believe you understand what it is that you | \\n| think I said. But I am not sure that you realize that |\\n| what I said is not what I meant.\" |\\n',\n", " 'From: caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX)\\nSubject: Re: My New Diet --> IT WORKS GREAT !!!!\\nOrganization: Omen Technology INC, Portland Rain Forest\\nLines: 34\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr5.191712.7543@inmet.camb.inmet.com> mazur@bluefin.camb.inmet.com (Beth Mazur) writes:\\n>In <1993Apr03.1.6627@omen.UUCP> caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX) writes:\\n>>Gordon, your experience is valid for many, but not all. The\\n>>fact that you know a few people who have been overweight and are\\n>>now stable at a lower (normal or just less?) weight does not\\n>>contradict the observation that only 5-10 per cent can maintain\\n>>ideal weight with current technology.\\n>\\n>Actually, the observation is that only 5-10% of those who seek help\\n>from your so-called \"diet evangelists\" can maintain their weight. I\\n>happen to agree with Keith Lynch that there are many people who can\\n>and do lose weight on their own, and who are not reflected in the\\n>dismal failure rate that is often quoted.\\n>\\n>Wasn\\'t there a study where a researcher asked a more general population,\\n>perhaps some part of a university community, about weight loss and he/she\\n>found that a much higher percentage had lost and maintained? \\n\\nIn fact Adiposity 101 mentions a similar study (search for \"life\\nevents\" in any recent version of Adiposity 101).\\n\\nThe problem with anecdotal reports about individuals who have\\nlost weight and kept it off is that we don\\'t know what caused\\nthe weight gain in the first place. This is critical because\\nsomeone who gains weight because of something temporary (drug\\neffect, life event, etc.) may appear successful at dieting when\\nthe weight loss was really the result of reversing the temporary\\ncondition that caused the weight gain.\\n\\n-- \\nChuck Forsberg WA7KGX ...!tektronix!reed!omen!caf \\nAuthor of YMODEM, ZMODEM, Professional-YAM, ZCOMM, and DSZ\\n Omen Technology Inc \"The High Reliability Software\"\\n17505-V NW Sauvie IS RD Portland OR 97231 503-621-3406\\n',\n", " 'From: slyx0@cc.usu.edu\\nSubject: Re: Is MSG sensitivity superstition?\\nOrganization: Utah State University\\nLines: 37\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr15.190711.22190@walter.bellcore.com>, jchen@wind.bellcore.com (Jason Chen) writes:\\n> In article <1993Apr15.135941.16105@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com>, dougb@comm.mot.com (Doug Bank) writes:\\n> \\n> |> I woke up at 2 AM and puked my guts outs.\\n> |> I threw up for so long that (I\\'m not kidding) I pulled a muscle in\\n> |> my tongue. Dry heaves and everything. No one else got sick, and I\\'m\\n> |> not allergic to anything that I know of. \\n> \\n> The funny thing is the personaly stories about reactions to MSG vary so\\n> greatly. Some said that their heart beat speeded up with flush face. Some\\n> claim their heart \"skipped\" beats once in a while. Some reacted with\\n> headache, some stomach ache. Some had watery eyes or running nose, some\\n> had itchy skin or rashes. More serious accusations include respiration \\n> difficulty and brain damage. \\n> \\n> Now here is a new one: vomiting. My guess is that MSG becomes the number one\\n> suspect of any problem. In this case. it might be just food poisoning. But\\n> if you heard things about MSG, you may think it must be it.\\n\\nSurprise surprise, different people react differently to different things. One\\nslightly off the subject case in point. My brother got stung by a bee. I know\\nhe is allergic to bee stings, but that his reaction is severe localized\\nswelling, not anaphylactic shock. I could not convince the doctors of that,\\nhowever, because that\\'s not written in their little rule book.\\n\\nI would not be surprised in the least to find out the SOME people have bad\\nreactions to MSG, including headaches, stomachaches and even vomiting. Not that\\nthe stuff is BAD or POISON and needs to be banned, but people need to be aware\\nthat it can have a bad effect on SOME people.\\n\\nLone Wolf\\n\\n Happy are they who dream dreams,\\nEd Philips And pay the price to see them come true.\\nslyx0@cc.usu.edu \\n -unknown\\n \\n',\n", " 'From: levin@bbn.com (Joel B Levin)\\nSubject: Re: Selective Placebo\\nLines: 19\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: fred.bbn.com\\n\\nron.roth@rose.com (ron roth) writes:\\n\\n|JB> romdas@uclink.berkeley.edu (Ella I Baff) writes:\\n|JB> \\n|JB> Ron Roth recommends: \"Once you have your hypoglycemia CONFIRMED through the\\n|JB> proper channels, you might consider the following:...\"\\n|JB> [diet omitted]\\n|JB> \\n|JB> 1) Ron...what do YOU consider to be \"proper channels\"...this sounds suspiciously\\n\\n| I\\'m glad it caught your eye. That\\'s the purpose of this forum to\\n| educate those, eager to learn, about the facts of life. That phrase\\n| is used to bridle the frenzy of all the would-be respondents, who\\n| otherwise would feel being left out as the proper authorities to be\\n| consulted on that topic. In short, it means absolutely nothing.\\n\\nAn apt description of the content of just about all ronroth\\'s posts to\\ndate. At least there\\'s entertainment value (though it is\\ndiminishing).\\n',\n", " \"From: jgd@dixie.com (John De Armond)\\nSubject: Re: Do we need a Radiologist to read an Ultrasound?\\nOrganization: Dixie Communications Public Access. The Mouth of the South.\\nLines: 28\\n\\nE.J. Draper writes:\\n\\n>If it were my wife, I would insist that a radiologist be involved in the\\n>process. Radiologist are intensively trained in the process of\\n>interpreting diagnostic imaging data and are aware of many things that\\n>other physicians aren't aware of. \\n\\nMaybe, maybe not. A new graduate would obviously be well trained (but\\nperhaps without sufficient experience). A radiologist trained 10 or\\n15 years ago who has not kept his continuing education current is a \\nwhole 'nuther matter. A OB who HAS trained in modern radiology technology\\nis certainly more qualified than the latter and at least equal to \\nthe former.\\n\\n>Would you want a radiologist to\\n>deliver your baby? If you wouldn't, then why would you want a OB/GYN to\\n>read your ultrasound study?\\n\\nIf the radiologist is also trained in OB/GYN, why not?\\n\\nJohn\\n\\n-- \\nJohn De Armond, WD4OQC |Interested in high performance mobility? \\nPerformance Engineering Magazine(TM) | Interested in high tech and computers? \\nMarietta, Ga | Send ur snail-mail address to \\njgd@dixie.com | perform@dixie.com for a free sample mag\\nLee Harvey Oswald: Where are ya when we need ya?\\n\",\n", " \"From: jec@watson.ibm.com\\nSubject: Contraceptive pill\\nReply-To: jec@zurich.ibm.com\\nDisclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not necessarily those of IBM\\nNntp-Posting-Host: mythen.zurich.ibm.com\\nOrganization: Watson Research Center\\nLines: 9\\n\\nA very simple question : it seems to me that the contraceptive\\npill just prevents the ovule to nest in the vagina and forces it to\\nfall every month. But it does not prevent the fertilzation of the \\novule. Is it true ? If yes, is there a risk of extra-uterine\\npregnancy, that is the development of the ovule inside the Fallopian\\ntube ?\\n\\nJ.Cherbonnier\\njec@zurich.ibm.com\\n\",\n", " \"From: francis@ircam.fr (Joseph Francis)\\nSubject: Re: Can't wear contacts after RK/PRK?\\nKeywords: radial,keratotomy,contact,lenses\\nOrganization: IRCAM, Paris (France)\\nLines: 45\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr16.063425.163999@zeus.calpoly.edu> dfield@flute.calpoly.edu (InfoSpunj (Dan Field)) writes:\\n>I love the FAQ. \\n>\\n>The comment about contact lenses not being an option for any remaining\\n>correction after RK and possibly after PRK is interresting. Why is\\n>this? Does anyone know for sure whether this applies to PRK as well?\\n\\nI've had PRK.\\n\\nI would suggest asking a doctor about contacts. Mine said yes to\\ncontacts. I think the scars from RK would preclude contacts.\\n\\n>Also, why is it possible to get a correction in PRK with involvement of\\n>only about 5% of the corneal depth, while RK is done to a depth of up to\\n>95%? Why such a difference? I thought the proceedures were simmilar\\n>with the exception of a laser being the cutting tool in PRK. I must not\\n>be understanding all of the differences.\\n\\nNo. RK makes radial cuts around the circumference of the cornea, up to\\n8 I think, and these change the curvature of the cornea through stress\\nchages. PRK vaporizes (burns) away a thin layer from the front of the\\ncornea making the optical axis of the eye shorter. The laser doesn't\\ncut in PRK, it vaporizes. In RK, the eye is cut into.\\n\\n>In the FAQ, the vision was considered less clear after the surgery than\\n>with glasses alone. If this is completly attributable to the\\n>intentional slight undercorrection, then it can be compensated for when\\n>necessary with glasses (or contacts, if they CAN be worn afterall!). It\\n>is important to know if that is not the case, however, and some other\\n>consequence of the surgery would often interfere with clear vision. The\\n>first thing that came to my mind was a fogging of the lense, which\\n>glasses couldn't help. \\n>\\n>would not help.\\n\\nI find my vision is more clear for some things, and less clear for\\nothers, only at night. I notice a definite haloing at night in the\\ndarkness when I look at automobile headlamps, though this is not\\nsomething I spend inordinate amounts of time doing. For ordinary\\nthings, my vision, in particular having a fully-operating peripheral\\nvision, is clearer than with glasses, or contacts.\\n\\n-- \\n| Le Jojo: Fresh 'n' Clean, speaking out to the way you want to live\\n| today; American - All American; doing, a bit so, and even more so.\\n\",\n", " 'From: rsilver@world.std.com (Richard Silver)\\nSubject: Barbecued foods and health risk\\nOrganization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA\\nLines: 10\\n\\n\\nSome recent postings remind me that I had read about risks \\nassociated with the barbecuing of foods, namely that carcinogens \\nare generated. Is this a valid concern? If so, is it a function \\nof the smoke or the elevated temperatures? Is it a function of \\nthe cooking elements, wood or charcoal vs. lava rocks? I wish \\nto know more. Thanks. \\n\\n\\n \\n',\n", " \"From: mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson)\\nSubject: Re: Barbecued foods and health risk\\nOrganization: The Portal System (TM)\\nLines: 72\\n\\nThis reminds me of the last Graham Kerr cooking show I saw. Today he\\nsmoked meat on the stovetop in a big pot! He used a strange technique\\nI'd never seen before.\\n\\nHe took a big pot with lid, and placed a tray in it made from aluminum foil.\\nThe tray was about the size and shape of a typical coffee-table ash tray,\\nmade by crumpling a sheet of foil around the edges.\\n\\nIn the tray, he placed a couple spoonfuls of brown sugar, a similar\\nquantity of brown rice (he said any rice will do), the contents of two\\nteabags of Earl Grey tea, and a few cloves.\\n\\nOn top of this was placed an ordinary aluminum basket-type steamer, with\\ntwo chicken breasts in it. The lid was put on, and the whole assembly\\nwent on the stovetop at high heat for 10 or 12 minutes.\\n\\nLater, he removed what looked like smoked chicken breasts. What surprises\\nand concerns me are:\\n\\n1) No wood chips. Where does the smoke flavor come from?\\n\\n2) About 5 or 10 years ago, I remember hearing that carmel color\\n (obtained by caramelizing sugar -- a common coloring and flavoring\\n agent) had been found to be carcinogenic. I believe they injected\\n it under the skin of rats, or something. If the results were conclusive,\\n caramel color would not be legal in the U.S., yet it is still being\\n used. Was the initial research result found to be incorrect, or what?\\n\\n3) About 5 or 10 years ago, I remember Earl Grey tea being implicated\\n as carcinogenic, because it contains oil of bergamot (an extract\\n from the skin of a type of citrus fruit). Does anyone know whatever\\n happened with that story? If it were carcinogenic, Earl Grey tea\\n could not have it as an additive, yet it apparently continues to do\\n so.\\n\\nWRT natural wood smoke (I've smoking a duck right now, as it happens),\\nI've noticed that a heavily-smoked food item will have an unpleasant tangy\\ntaste when eaten directly out of the smoker if the smoke has only recently\\nstopped flowing. I find the best taste to be had by using dry wood chips,\\ngetting lots of smoke right up at the beginning of the cooking process,\\nthen slowly barbequing for hours and hours without adding additional wood chips.\\n\\nMy theory is that the unpleasant tangy molecules are low-molecular weight\\nstuff, like terpenes, and that the smoky flavor molecules are some sort\\nof larger molecule more similar to tar. The long barbeque time after\\nthe initial intensive smoke drives off the low-molecular weight stuff,\\njust leaving the flavor behind. Does anyone know if my theory is correct?\\n\\nI also remember hearing that the combustion products of fat dripping\\non the charcoal and burning are carcinogenic. For that reason, and because\\nit covers the product with soot and some unpleasant tanginess, I only grill\\nnon-drippy meats like prawns directly over hot coals. I do stuff like this\\nduck by indirect heat. I have a long rectangular Weber, and I put the coals\\nat one end and the meat at the other end. The fat drops directly on the\\nfloor below the meat, and next time I use the barbeque I make the fire\\nin that end to burn off the fat and help ignite the coals.\\n\\nAnd yet another reason I've heard not to smoke or barbeque meat is that\\nsmoked cured meat, like pork sausage and bacon, contains\\nnitrosamines, which are carcinogenic. I'm pretty sure this claim actually\\nhas some standing, don't know about the others.\\n\\nAn amusing incident I recall was the Duncan Hines scandal, when it was\\ndiscovered that the people who make Duncan Hines cake mix were putting\\na lot of ethylene dibromide (EDB) into the cake mix to suppress weevils.\\nThis is a fumigant which is known to be carcinogenic.\\nThe guy who represented the company in the press conference defended\\nhimself by saying that the risk from eating Duncan Hines products every day\\nfor a year would be equal to the cancer risk from eating two charcoal-\\nbroiled steaks. What a great analogy! When I first heard that, my\\nimmediate reaction was we should make that a standard unit! One charcoal\\nbroiled steak would be equivalent to 0.5 Duncans!\\n\",\n", " \"From: prb@access.digex.com (Pat)\\nSubject: Gamma Ray Bursters. WHere are they.\\nOrganization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt MD USA\\nLines: 16\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: access.digex.net\\n\\n What evidence indicates that Gamma Ray bursters are very far away?\\n\\nGiven the enormous power, i was just wondering, what if they are\\nquantum black holes or something like that fairly close by?\\n\\nWhy would they have to be at galactic ranges? \\n\\nmy own pet theory is that it's Flying saucers entering\\nhyperspace :-)\\n\\nbut the reason i am asking is that most everyone assumes that they\\nare colliding nuetron stars or spinning black holes, i just wondered\\nif any mechanism could exist and place them closer in.\\n\\npat \\n\\n\",\n", " \"From: pchurch@swell.actrix.gen.nz (Pat Churchill)\\nSubject: Re: eye dominance\\nOrganization: Actrix Networks\\nLines: 21\\n\\n\\n> In article rsilver@world.std.com (Richard Silver) writes:\\n> >\\n> >Is there a right-eye dominance (eyedness?) as there is an\\n> >overall right-handedness in the population? I mean do most\\n> >people require less lens corrections for the one eye than the\\n> >other? If so, what kinds of percentages can be attached to this?\\n\\nI have a long sighted eye and a short sighted eye. My right eye tends\\nto cut out when I look at distant things, my left eye when I am close\\nup. I had specs to balance things up a bit but could do without them.\\nI thought that, one way or another, I would always be able to see\\nclearly. Unfortunately middle age is rearing its ugly head and I can\\nno longer see close up objects clearly. Maybe it's just that my arms\\nare getting shorter :-)\\n\\n-- \\n^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^\\n The floggings will continue until morale improves \\n pchurch@swell.actrix.gen.nz Pat Churchill, Wellington New Zealand \\n:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: \\n\",\n", " \"From: sbrun@oregon.uoregon.edu (Sarah Anne Brundage)\\nSubject: Re: Krillean Photography\\nArticle-I.D.: oregon.21APR199316170714\\nDistribution: world\\nOrganization: University of Oregon\\nLines: 14\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: oregon.uoregon.edu\\nNews-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41\\n\\n>I did a science project on Kirlian photography when I was in high school.\\n>I was able to obtain wonderful auras from rocks and pebbles and the like by\\n>first dunking them in water.\\n> \\n I know this is a little weird, but I know that World magazine (you know,\\nNational Geo. for children) did a very simple and concise article on Kirlian\\nphotography. They had some neat pictures, too. A friend of mine's mother had\\na book on Kirlian photography, only it's photographs took a radiologist to \\ninterpret. They (World magazine) warned us all that it was very dangerous,\\nprobably to stop curious children from experimenting with it. Mind you, this\\nwas 10 years ago, at least. (And boy, does that say something about my age)\\n\\nSarah Brundage\\nsbrun@oregon.uoregon.edu\\n\",\n", " \"From: willner@head-cfa.harvard.edu (Steve Willner)\\nSubject: Re: Orion drive in vacuum -- how?\\nOrganization: Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA, USA\\nLines: 19\\n\\n\\nIn article , henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry\\nSpencer) writes: \\n> The National Air & Space Museum has both the prototype and the film.\\n\\n> However, quite possibly it's\\n> no longer on display; NASM, like most museums, has much more stuff than it\\n> can display at once, and does rotate the displays occasionally.\\n\\nThe NASM photo archives are open to the public. All (or almost all)\\nstill pictures in the collection are available for viewing, but I\\ndon't know about films. At least it might be worth a try. I'm not\\nsure if appointments are necessary, but I think not.\\n\\nGood luck, and let us know what you find.\\n-- \\nSteve Willner Phone 617-495-7123 Bitnet: willner@cfa\\nCambridge, MA 02138 USA Internet: willner@cfa.harvard.edu\\n member, League for Programming Freedom; contact lpf@uunet.uu.net\\n\",\n", " 'From: news&aio.jsc.nasa.gov (USENET News System)\\nSubject: Re: Oily skin - problem?\\nArticle-I.D.: aio.1993Apr6.133244.14717\\nDistribution: sci.med\\nOrganization: Lockheed Engineering & Sciences Co.\\nLines: 17\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr5.044140.1@vaxc.stevens-tech.edu>, u92_hwong@vaxc.stevens-tech.edu writes:\\n> \\n> Hi there,\\n> \\n> \\tI have a very oily skin. My problem is when I wash my face, it becomes\\n> oily in half an hour. Especially in the nose region. Is this an illness? How\\n> can I prevent it from occuring in such short time? Is there a cleanser out\\n> there that will do a better job -- that is after cleaning, my face won\\'t become\\n> oily in such a short time.\\n> \\n> \\tThank you for any suggestion.\\n> \\n>if this is a disease, everyone should have it. My skin has always been oily -\\ni used to say \"if i were hot enough, you could fry an egg on my oily face\".\\ni am now 50 yrs old and my skin looks younger (i\\'m told) than some people\\'s\\nskin at 30 (it\\'s still oily). i have only a very few tiny wrinkles. Thank\\nyour lucky stars for that skin. \\n',\n", " 'From: pyron@skndiv.dseg.ti.com (Dillon Pyron)\\nSubject: Re: A WRENCH in the works?\\nLines: 31\\nNntp-Posting-Host: skndiv.dseg.ti.com\\nReply-To: pyron@skndiv.dseg.ti.com\\nOrganization: TI/DSEG VAX Support\\n\\n\\nIn article <25228@ksr.com>, jfw@ksr.com (John F. Woods) writes:\\n>nanderso@Endor.sim.es.com (Norman Anderson) writes:\\n>>jmcocker@eos.ncsu.edu (Mitch) writes:\\n>>>effect that one of the SSRBs that was recovered after the\\n>>>recent space shuttle launch was found to have a wrench of\\n>>>some sort rattling around apparently inside the case.\\n>>I heard a similar statement in our local news (UTAH) tonight. They referred\\n>>to the tool as \"...the PLIERS that took a ride into space...\". They also\\n>>said that a Thiokol (sp?) employee had reported missing a tool of some kind\\n>>during assembly of one SRB.\\n\\nIt was a test of the first reusable tool.\\n\\n>\\n>I assume, then, that someone at Thiokol put on their \"manager\\'s hat\" and said\\n>that pissing off the customer by delaying shipment of the SRB to look inside\\n>it was a bad idea, regardless of where that tool might have ended up.\\n>\\n>Why do I get the feeling that Thiokol \"manager\\'s hats\" are shaped like cones?\\n\\nPointy so they can find them or so they will stick into their pants better, and\\nbe closer to their brains?\\n--\\nDillon Pyron | The opinions expressed are those of the\\nTI/DSEG Lewisville VAX Support | sender unless otherwise stated.\\n(214)462-3556 (when I\\'m here) |\\n(214)492-4656 (when I\\'m home) |Texans: Vote NO on Robin Hood. We need\\npyron@skndiv.dseg.ti.com |solutions, not gestures.\\nPADI DM-54909 |\\n\\n',\n", " \"From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)\\nSubject: Re: what are the problems with nutrasweet (aspartame)\\nOrganization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA\\nLines: 30\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr17.181013.3743@uvm.edu> hbloom@moose.uvm.edu (*Heather*) writes:\\n>Nutrasweet is a synthetic sweetener a couple thousand times sweeter than\\n>sugar. Some people are concerned about the chemicals that the body produces \\n>when it degrades nutrasweet. It is thought to form formaldehyde and known to\\n>for methanol in the degredation pathway that the body uses to eliminate \\n>substances. The real issue is whether the levels of methanol and formaldehyde\\n>produced are high enough to cause significant damage, as both are toxic to\\n>living cells. All I can say is that I will not consume it. \\n\\nAspartame is the methyl ester of a dipeptide, so a product of its\\nhydrolysis is going to be methanol, which can then be oxidized to\\nformaldehyde. The amounts of methanol formed from the ingestion of\\naspartame-containing foods are completely in the metabolic noise,\\nsince you're forming equally minute amounts of methanol from other\\ncomponents of food all the time. In studies involving administration\\nof high doses of the additive, blood methanol levels were undetectable.\\nMethanol is a poison only in quantities seen in human poisonings,\\nsay 5ml and above. This is a consequence of its oxidation to formaldehyde\\nand formic acid, two quite reactive compounds which at high enough levels\\ncan damage tissues like the retina and kidney, because at such high doses\\nthe body's detoxification system is overwhelmed. Interestingly, one\\ntreatment for early methanol poisoning is to get the person drunk on\\nethyl alcohol--vodka or an equivalent. That's because ethanol is\\nmetabolized preferentially over methanol by the enzymes in the liver.\\nIf the methanol stays as methanol and isn't metabolized to formaldehyde,\\nit is actually relatively non-toxic.\\n\\n-- \\nSteve Dyer\\ndyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer\\n\",\n", " \"From: nyeda@cnsvax.uwec.edu (David Nye)\\nSubject: Re: Acutane, Fibromyalgia Syndrome and CFS\\nOrganization: University of Wisconsin Eau Claire\\nLines: 37\\n\\n[reply to Daniel.Prince@f129.n102.z1.calcom.socal.com (Daniel Prince]\\n \\n>There is a person on the FIDO CFS echo who claims that he was cured of\\n>CFS by taking accutane. He also claims that you are using it in the\\n>treatment of Fibromyalgia Syndrome. Are you using accutane in the\\n>treatment of Fibromyalgia Syndrome?\\n \\nYes.\\n \\n>Have you used it for CFS?\\n \\nIt seems to work equally well for CFS, another hint that these may be\\ndifferent facets of the same underlying process.\\n \\n>Have you gotten good results with it?\\n \\nYes. The benefit is usually evident within a few days of starting it.\\nMost of the patients for whom it has worked well continued low-dose\\namitriptyline, daily aerobic excersise, and a regular sleep schedule\\n(current standard therapy). Because of the cost (usually > $150/mo.,\\ndepending on dose) and potential for significant side effects like\\ncorneal injury and birth defects, I currently reserve it for those who\\nfail conventional treatment. It is important that the person\\nprescribing it have some experience with it and follow the patient\\nclosely.\\n \\n>Are you aware of any double blind studies on the use of accutane in\\n>these conditions? Thank you in advance for all replies.\\n \\nAs far as I know, I am the only person looking at it currently. I\\nshould get off my duff and finish writing up some case reports. I'm not\\nan academic physician, so I don't feel the pressure to publish or perish\\nand I don't have the time during the work day for such things.\\n \\nDavid Nye (nyeda@cnsvax.uwec.edu). Midelfort Clinic, Eau Claire WI\\nThis is patently absurd; but whoever wishes to become a philosopher\\nmust learn not to be frightened by absurdities. -- Bertrand Russell\\n\",\n", " 'From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)\\nSubject: Re: Alaska Pipeline and Space Station!\\nOrganization: Texas Instruments Inc\\nLines: 45\\n\\nIn <1pq7rj$q2u@access.digex.net> prb@access.digex.com (Pat) writes:\\n\\n>In article <1993Apr5.160550.7592@mksol.dseg.ti.com> mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:\\n>|\\n>|I think this would be a great way to build it, but unfortunately\\n>|current spending rules don\\'t permit it to be workable. For this to\\n>|work it would be necessary for the government to guarantee a certain\\n>|minimum amount of business in order to sufficiently reduce the risk\\n>|enough to make this attractive to a private firm. Since they\\n>|generally can\\'t allocate money except one year at a time, the\\n>|government can\\'t provide such a tenant guarantee.\\n\\n\\n>Fred.\\n\\n>\\tTry reading a bit. THe government does lots of multi year\\n>contracts with Penalty for cancellation clauses. They just like to be\\n>damn sure they know what they are doing before they sign a multi year\\n>contract. THe reason they aren\\'t cutting defense spending as much\\n>as they would like is the Reagan administration signed enough\\n>Multi year contracts, that it\\'s now cheaper to just finish them out.\\n\\nI don\\'t have to \"try reading a bit\", Pat. I *work* as a government\\ncontractor and know what the rules are like. Yes, they sign some\\n(damned few -- which is why everyone is always having to go to\\nWashington to see about next week\\'s funding) multi-year contracts;\\nthey also aren\\'t willing to include sufficient cancellation penalties\\nwhen they *do* decide to cut the multi-year contract and not pay on it\\n(which can happen arbitrarily at any time, no matter what previous\\nplans were) to make the risk acceptable of something like putting up a\\nprivate space station with the government as the expected prime\\noccupant.\\n\\nI\\'d like a source for that statement about \"the reason they aren\\'t\\ncutting defense spending as much as they would like\"; I just don\\'t buy\\nit. The other thing I find a bit \\'funny\\' about your posting, Pat, is\\nthat several other people answered the question pretty much the same\\nway I did; mine is the one you comment (and incorrectly, I think) on.\\nI think that says a lot. You and Tommy should move in together.\\n\\n-- \\n\"Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don\\'t have the balls to live\\n in the real world.\" -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden\\n------------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nFred.McCall@dseg.ti.com - I don\\'t speak for others and they don\\'t speak for me.\\n',\n", " \"From: jfare@53iss6.Waterloo.NCR.COM (Jim Fare)\\nSubject: ringing ears\\nKeywords: ringing ears, sleep, depression\\nReply-To: jfare@53iss6.Waterloo.NCR.COM (Jim Fare)\\nDistribution: world\\nOrganization: Imaging Systems Division, NCR Corp, Waterloo, Ont., CANADA\\nLines: 15\\n\\n\\n\\nA friend of mine has a trouble with her ears ringing. The ringing is so loud\\nthat she has great difficulty sleeping at night. She says that she hasn't \\nhad a normal night's sleep in about 6 months (she looks like it too :-().\\nThis is making her depressed so her doctor has put her on anti-depressants.\\n\\nThe ringing started rather suddenly about 6 months ago. She is quickly losing\\nsleep, social life and sanity over this.\\n\\nDoes anyone know of any treatments for this? Any experience? Coping\\nmechanisms? Any opinions on the anti-depressant drugs?\\n\\n [J.F.]\\n\\n\",\n", " 'From: vgwlu@dunsell.calgary.chevron.com (greg w. luft)\\nSubject: Relief of Pain Caused by Cancer\\nOrganization: chevron\\nLines: 51\\n\\n\\n I am not sure if this is the proper group to post this to but here goes anyway.\\n\\n About five years ago my mother was diagnosed with having cancer in the lymph nodes\\n under one of her arms. After the doctors removed the cancerous area she had full movement\\n of her arm with only slight aching under her arm when she moved it. Over the course of\\n the next two years the aching got more severe and her complaining to the doctors produced\\n the explanation that it was scar tissue causing the pain. At this time her doctor \\n suggested that some physiotherapy should be employed to break up the scar tissue.\\n\\n While attending one of her therapy sessions, while her arm was being \\n manipulated, some damage occured (nerve?) which caused the level of pain to permanently\\n increase severly (controlled by Tylenol 3s) and some loss of use of the arm (\\n palsied wrist and almost no outward lateral movement). With great persistence on her part\\n the doctors looked further into the issue and discovered that not all of the cancer had\\n been removed and another tumor had grown under the arm. This was removed also but the\\n pain in the arm has not decreased. The doctors are not sure exactly why the pain is \\n persisting but feel some sort of nerve damage has occured and they have employed Tylenol 3\\n and soon Morphine to relieve the pain. She has tried acupuncture by this only provides\\n minor reductions in pain and is only short term. \\n\\n My questions are: \\n\\n Has anyone has heard of similar cases and what, if anything, was done to reduce the\\n levels of pain?\\n\\n Are their methods to block nerves so that the pain can be reduced?\\n\\n Are their methods to restore nerves so that loss of arm function can be restored?\\n\\n\\n Any general suggestions on pain reduction would be greatly appreciated.\\n \\n \\n Please respond by email because I do not always get chance to read this group.\\n\\n If anyone knows of some literature that may be useful to this case or another newsgroup\\n that I should be posting this to it would also be appreciated.\\n \\n \\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n-- \\nGregory W. Luft Internet: vgwlu@calgary.chevron.com\\nChevron Petroleum Techonology Company Tel: (403) 234-6238\\n500, Fifth Ave. S.W. Fax: (403) 234-5215\\nCalgary, Alberta, Canada T2P 0L7\\n',\n", " \"From: mhollowa@ic.sunysb.edu (Michael Holloway)\\nSubject: Transplant Recipients Newsletter, April `93[D[D[D[D[D[D[D[D[D[D[D[D[D[D[D[D[D[D[D[D[DInternational Newsletter, April `93\\nNntp-Posting-Host: engws5.ic.sunysb.edu\\nOrganization: State University of New York at Stony Brook\\nLines: 180\\n\\nThis will be the first of monthly postings of the newsletter of \\nthe Long Island Chapter of the Transplant Recipients \\nInternational Organization (TRIO). Unfortunately, I was unable \\nto post it before the date of this month's meeting. I'm \\nposting it anyway, and posting it world-wide instead of \\nregional, in the hopes that some of the information may be \\nuseful or illustrative. Also, I hope it can be used as an \\nexample and inspiration for the posting of other newsletters \\nand data related to organ transplantation and donation. \\n\\nMike\\n\\nTransplant Recipients\\nInternational Organization\\nLong Island Chapter\\nP.O. Box 922\\nHuntington, NY 11743-0922\\t\\t NEWSLETTER\\n516/421-3258\\n APRIL 1993 \\n VOLUME IV No. 8\\n\\n\\nNEXT MEETING\\n\\n\\nThe next meeting is WEDNESDAY APRIL 14 at 8 pm at the Knights \\nof Columbus Emerald Manor, 517 Uniondale Avenue in Uniondale. \\nOur guest speaker will be Dr. Lewis Teperman. Dr. Teperman \\ntrained in Pittsburgh under Dr. Starzl and is now the Assistant \\nDirector of the Liver Transplant Program at New York University \\nMedical Center. Dr. Teperman will discuss current trends in \\ntransplantation and treatment and will answer questions. He is \\na long time friend of TRIO, surgeon to many of our members, and \\nalways a gracious and delightful guest. It is sure to be a \\nvery informative, interesting and engaging evening. Our \\nhospitality committee, Bette and Vito Suglia and Jim Spence \\nwill be well prepared, and at last the weather should be \\ncooperative. We hope to see a very large gathering to welcome \\nDr. Teperman. \\n\\n WEDNESDAY APRIL 14 K of C UNIONDALE\\n\\n\\nLAST MEETING\\n\\nIt has been noted here before that the Long Island Chapter of \\nTRIO has extraordinary power in predicting bad weather, being \\nable to forecast rain, sleet and snow fully a month in advance. \\nNo TV weatherman can match us. This time we not only scored \\nagain, but we were also able to disable the Long Island \\nRailroad, making travel REALLY difficult. None the less, many \\nbraved the snow and we had an interesting meeting and good \\nconversation. Our scheduled speaker, Mrs. Elizabeth Linnehan, \\na professional nutritionist, had a family emergency and was not \\nable to attend. She hope she will be with us in the fall to \\ndiscuss diet and medications. However, Ms. Jennifer Friedman, \\nan image consultant and sister of a liver transplant recipient \\nwas kind enough to step in on very short notice. Ms. Friedman \\ngave us a lot of good advice about choosing clothes and makeup, \\n(even a bit for men) to help us look well and healthy and to \\nminimize some of the cosmetic effects of some of the medicine \\nand drugs we take. We are most grateful to Jennifer and thank \\nher for an entertaining evening.\\n\\n\\n\\nANNUAL MEETING\\n\\nIn addition to welcoming Dr. Teperman, the April meeting is \\nalso the Annual meeting of the Chapter. This is the official \\nnotice of the meeting as required by our By-Laws. The main \\npurpose of the meeting is to review the past year, solicit \\nmember views and ideas for better ways to meet their needs, and \\nto elect members of the Board of Directors for the coming two \\nyear term. The nominating committee has prepared the following \\nslate for the Board.\\n\\n Anne (Liver Recipient) and Don Treffeisen\\n Robert (Heart Recipient) and Eulene Smith\\n Vito (Kidney Recipient) and Bette Suglia\\n Kay Grenzig (Liver Recipient)\\n Jan Schichtel (Kidney Recipient)\\n Larry Juliano (Kidney Recipient)\\n David Bekofsky (Director Public Education LITP)\\n\\nThose remaining on the Board for another year are:\\n\\n Robert Carroll (Liver, Kidney & Pancreas Recipient)\\n Jerry (Kidney Recipient) and Jeanne Eichhorn\\n Ron (Kidney Donor) and Marie Healy\\n Peter Smith (Bone Marrow Recipient)\\n Patricia Ann Yankus (Kidney and Pancreas Recipient)\\n Walter Ruzak (Kidney Recipient)\\n\\nThis may seem to be a big Board, but many hands make light work \\nand with our various medical uncertainties, it is good to have \\nbackups for all the jobs on the Board. Therefore, in addition \\nto the slate being presented for voting, nominations will also \\nbe accepted from the floor. There is no set number of Board \\nmembers and there is plenty of work. \\n\\nIn addition, brief treasurer's and membership reports will be \\ngiven and the floor will be open for any new business, \\nsuggestions, or comments anyone would like to bring up.\\n\\nWe will keep the formal meeting short so that we can spend the \\nmajority of the time with Dr. Teperman.\\n\\nFUTURE MEETINGS\\n\\nRemember the scheduled guests for the rest of the year. \\n\\n May 12 Dr. Peter Shaprio, Chief of Psychiatry\\n Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center\\n\\n June 9 Dr. Felix Rappaport, Director of the Stony \\n Brook Kidney Transplant Program. \\n\\nPlan on being with us the second Wednesday of each month.\\n\\nNOTDAW\\n\\nThe week of April 18-24 is National Organ and Tissue Donor \\nAwareness Week. NOTDAW. While we are planning news releases, \\nspeaking engagements and meetings with Supervisors Gullata and \\nGaffney, we have decided not to have our softball game \\nbecause of two year's experience with miserable weather. \\n\\nWe all can help spread the word on donor awareness, however. We \\nhave found it effective to ask your pastor, or rabbi to publish \\na letter or announcement in the parish bulletin, allow you to \\naddress the congregation, or include mention of the gift of \\nlife in his sermon. Attached to this Newsletter is a sample \\nletter and fact sheet you can use. Thank you.\\n\\nDR. STARZL TO BE HONORED \\n\\nThe Long Island Chapter of the American Liver Foundation will \\nhold its annual Auction and Dinner Dance on May 7th at the \\nFountainbleu on Jericho Turnpike in Jericho. Dr. Thomas \\nStarzl will be the honored guest. Tickets are $50 person and \\nare going fast. If you'd like to meet Dr. Starzl, call Anne \\nTreffeisen at (516) 421-3258 for details.\\n\\nMEMBERSHIP NEWS \\n\\nCongratulations to Al Reese. Al received his heart transplant \\nin Pittsburgh after waiting 3 1/2 years. He is home and doing \\nwell after only 12 days in hospital.\\n\\nArthur Michaels, liver recipient, is planning to run the Boston \\nMarathon in April. What fantastic proof that transplantation \\nworks! We hope the national press notices. \\n \\nBob McCormack, after a persistent bout with infection, had his \\ntransplanted kidney removed. He is home now, back on dialysis \\nand feeling better. \\n\\nNicole Healy, kidney recipient and daughter of Ron and Marie, \\nspent the past several weeks in hospital in Miami with problems \\nencountered on vacation. Marie has been with her in Florida. \\nThey are back in New York where Nicole's treatment will \\ncontinue. We wish Nicole a speedy recovery. \\n\\nKay Grenzig, liver recipient, is mending now after a bad fall \\nthat resulted in a broken arm and a broken leg. Kay is a \\ncandidate for the Board so we need her well soon.\\n \\nAnd best wishes to all coming out of the flu. It was a tough \\nwinter for many, but the tulips are just under the snow.\\n\\nSEE YOU......WEDNESDAY APRIL 14 8 PM K of C UNIONDALE \\n DR. LEWIS TEPERMAN\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\",\n", " 'From: kxgst1+@pitt.edu (Kenneth Gilbert)\\nSubject: Re: Any info. on Vasomotor Rhinitis\\nOrganization: University of Pittsburgh\\nLines: 21\\n\\nIn article <1r1t1a$njq@europa.eng.gtefsd.com> draper@gnd1.wtp.gtefsd.com writes:\\n:I recently attended an allery seminar. Steroid Nasal sprays were \\n:discussed. Afterward on a one-on-one basis, I asked the speaker what if \\n:none of the Vancanese, Beconase, Nasalide, Nasalcort, or Nasalchrom work \\n:nor do any oral decongestants work. She replied that she saw an article on \\n:Vasomotor Rhinitis. That this is not an allergic reaction and that nothing \\n:other than the Afrin\\'s and such would work. (Which in my case is true).\\n\\nThere has been some recent research on vasomotor rhinitis that shows that\\nipratroprium bromide (Atrovent) inhaled nasally is an effective treatment\\nfor many sufferers. It has been approved for this use and is available\\nwith a nasal adaptor in Canada. In the US the FDA has yet to approve this\\nuse of the drug, but it is available as an oral inhaler (for COPD), and\\nthese can be adapted for intranasal use.\\n\\n\\n-- \\n=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-|-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=\\n= Kenneth Gilbert __|__ University of Pittsburgh =\\n= General Internal Medicine | \"...dammit, not a programmer!\" =\\n=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-|-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=\\n',\n", " 'From: ron.roth@rose.com (ron roth)\\nSubject: Selective Placebo\\nX-Gated-By: Usenet <==> RoseMail Gateway (v1.70)\\nOrganization: Rose Media Inc, Toronto, Ontario.\\nLines: 33\\n\\nK(> king@reasoning.com (Dick King) writes:\\nK(>\\nK(> RR> ron.roth@rose.com (ron roth) wrote:\\nK(> RR> OTOH, who are we kidding, the New England Medical Journal in 1984\\nK(> RR> ran the heading: \"Ninety Percent of Diseases are not Treatable by\\nK(> RR> Drugs or Surgery,\" which has been echoed by several other reports.\\nK(> RR> No wonder MDs are not amused with alternative medicine, since\\nK(> RR> the 20% magic of the \"placebo effect\" would award alternative \\nK(> RR> practitioners twice the success rate of conventional medicine...\\nK(> \\nK(> 1: \"90% of diseases\" is not the same thing as \"90% of patients\".\\nK(> \\nK(> In a world with one curable disease that strikes 100 people, and nine\\nK(> incurable diseases which strikes one person each, medical science will cure\\nK(> 91% of the patients and report that 90% of diseases have no therapy.\\nK(> \\nK(> 2: A disease would be counted among the 90% untreatable if nothing better than\\nK(> a placebo were known. Of course MDs are ethically bound to not knowingly\\nK(> dispense placebos...\\nK(> \\nK(> -dk\\n \\n Hmmm... even *without* the ;-) at the end, I didn\\'t think anyone\\n was going to take the mathematics or statistics of my post seriously.\\n \\n I only hope that you had the same thing in mind with your post, \\n otherwise you would need at least TWO ;-)\\'s at the end to help \\n anyone understand your calculations above...\\n\\n --Ron--\\n---\\n RoseReader 2.00 P003228: This mind intentionally left blank.\\n RoseMail 2.10 : Usenet: Rose Media - Hamilton (416) 575-5363\\n',\n", " 'From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nSubject: Re: Sleeping Pill OD\\nReply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nOrganization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science\\nLines: 22\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr9.051039.715@scott.skidmore.edu> dfederma@scott.skidmore.edu (daniel federman) writes:\\n>\\n>A friend of mine took appoximately 60 CVS sleeping pills, each\\n>containing 25mg of diphenhydramine, I think. That\\'s 1500 mg, total.\\n\\n>\\tI\\'m worried, though, about the long-term effects. Since he\\n>never had his stomach pumped, will he have liver or brain damage? Any\\n>information would be greatly appreciated.\\n\\nShouldn\\'t have. But he may need to see the shrink about why he\\nwanted to kill himself. Depressed people can be succesfully treated\\nusually.\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n-- \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nGordon Banks N3JXP | \"Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and\\ngeb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu | it is shameful to surrender it too soon.\" \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n',\n", " \"From: rjf@lzsc.lincroftnj.ncr.com (51351[efw]-Robert Feddeler(MT4799)T343)\\nSubject: Re: centrifuge\\nOrganization: AT&T Middletown N.J. U.S.A.\\nX-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]\\nDistribution: usa\\nLines: 16\\n\\nMr. Blue (car@access.digex.com) wrote:\\n: Could somebody explain to me what a centrifuge is and what it is\\n: used for? I vaguely remembre it being something that spins test tubes\\n: around really fast but I cant remember why youd want to do that?\\n\\n\\nPurely recreational. They get bored sitting in that\\nrack all the time.\\n\\n\\n\\n--\\nbob.\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t | I only smile when I lie,\\nYou can learn more in a bar\\t\\t | And I'll tell you why...\\n\\tthan you can in a lawyer's office. |\\nWere these more than just my opinions, they would have cost a bit more.\\n\",\n", " 'From: sysmgr@king.eng.umd.edu (Doug Mohney)\\nSubject: Re: Boom! Whoosh......\\nOrganization: Computer Aided Design Lab, U. of Maryland College Park\\nLines: 24\\nReply-To: sysmgr@king.eng.umd.edu\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: queen.eng.umd.edu\\n\\nIn article , henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:\\n>In article <1r46ofINNdku@gap.caltech.edu> palmer@cco.caltech.edu (David M. Palmer) writes:\\n>>>orbiting billboard...\\n>>\\n>>I would just like to point out that it is much easier to place an\\n>>object at orbital altitude than it is to place it with orbital\\n>>velocity. For a target 300 km above the surface of Earth,\\n>>you need a delta-v of 2.5 km/s. \\n>Unfortunately, if you launch this from the US (or are a US citizen),\\n>you will need a launch permit from the Office of Commercial Space\\n>Transportation, and I think it may be difficult to get a permit for\\n>an antisatellite weapon... :-)\\n\\nWell Henry, we are often reminded how CANADA is not a part of the United States\\n(yet). You could have quite a commercial A-SAT, er sky-cleaning service going\\nin a few years. \\n\\n\"Toronto SkySweepers: Clear skies in 48 hours, or your money back.\"\\n\\t Discount rates available for astro-researchers. \\n\\n\\n\\n Software engineering? That\\'s like military intelligence, isn\\'t it?\\n -- > SYSMGR@CADLAB.ENG.UMD.EDU < --\\n',\n", " 'From: jfw@ksr.com (John F. Woods)\\nSubject: Re: A WRENCH in the works?\\nOrganization: Kendall Square Research Corp.\\nLines: 15\\n\\nnanderso@Endor.sim.es.com (Norman Anderson) writes:\\n>jmcocker@eos.ncsu.edu (Mitch) writes:\\n>>effect that one of the SSRBs that was recovered after the\\n>>recent space shuttle launch was found to have a wrench of\\n>>some sort rattling around apparently inside the case.\\n>I heard a similar statement in our local news (UTAH) tonight. They referred\\n>to the tool as \"...the PLIERS that took a ride into space...\". They also\\n>said that a Thiokol (sp?) employee had reported missing a tool of some kind\\n>during assembly of one SRB.\\n\\nI assume, then, that someone at Thiokol put on their \"manager\\'s hat\" and said\\nthat pissing off the customer by delaying shipment of the SRB to look inside\\nit was a bad idea, regardless of where that tool might have ended up.\\n\\nWhy do I get the feeling that Thiokol \"manager\\'s hats\" are shaped like cones?\\n',\n", " 'From: jennise@opus.dgi.com (Milady Printcap the goddess of peripherals)\\nSubject: RE: Looking for a little research help\\nOrganization: Dynamic Graphics Inc.\\nLines: 6\\nDistribution: usa\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: opus.dgi.com\\n\\nFound it! Thanks. I got several offers for help. I appreciate it and\\nwill be contacting those people via e-mail.\\n\\nThanks again...\\n\\njennise\\n',\n", " \"From: mcovingt@aisun3.ai.uga.edu (Michael Covington)\\nSubject: Re: Twitching eyelid\\nSummary: Different cause\\nNntp-Posting-Host: aisun3.ai.uga.edu\\nOrganization: AI Programs, University of Georgia, Athens\\nLines: 9\\n\\nI'm surprised nobody mentioned that twitching of the eyelid can be a\\nsymptom of an infection, especially if it also itches or stings.\\n(It happened to me, and antibiotic eyedrops cleared it up nicely.)\\n\\n-- \\n:- Michael A. Covington internet mcovingt@ai.uga.edu : *****\\n:- Artificial Intelligence Programs phone 706 542-0358 : *********\\n:- The University of Georgia fax 706 542-0349 : * * *\\n:- Athens, Georgia 30602-7415 U.S.A. amateur radio N4TMI : ** *** **\\n\",\n", " \"From: simon@cyklop.nada.kth.se (Simon Tardell)\\nSubject: Re: Sunrise/ sunset times\\nNntp-Posting-Host: cyklop.nada.kth.se\\nOrganization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden\\nLines: 14\\n\\nIn <1993Apr21.141824.23536@cbis.ece.drexel.edu> jpw@cbis.ece.drexel.edu (Joseph Wetstein) writes:\\n\\n>Hello. I am looking for a program (or algorithm) that can be used\\n>to compute sunrise and sunset times.\\n\\n>I would appreciate any advice.\\n\\nI once thought it would be easiest fitting a sine to the times. But not.\\nThis gave discrepancy of upto six minutes. If you fit a sine series\\nyou'll get a very good fit after just three or four terms though. This\\npresumably has to do with the eccentricity of the Earths orbit.\\n\\n-- \\nSimon Tardell, Ff88, simon@nada.kth.se V}ga v{gra cgs!\\n\",\n", " 'From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nSubject: Re: ORGAN DONATION AND TRANSPLANTATION FACT SHEET\\nReply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nOrganization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science\\nLines: 26\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr13.150018.641@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com> dougb@ecs.comm.mot.com writes:\\n\\n>My wife cannot donate blood because she has been to a malarial region\\n>in the past three years. In fact, she tried to have her bone marrow\\n>typed and they wouldn\\'t even do that! Why?\\n>\\nThe FDA, I believe. Rules say no blood or blood products donations\\nfrom anyone who has been in a malarial area for 3 years. I was a platelet\\ndonor until my Thailand trip and my blood bank was very disappointed\\nto find out they couldn\\'t use me for 3 years.\\n\\n>\\n>When the secretary of state asked me if I wanted to donate my\\n>organs I said no because I figured that no one would want them\\n>given my history. Was I correct?\\n>\\nNot necessarily. The same rules may not apply to organ donation\\nas to blood donation. In fact, I\\'m sure they don\\'t.\\n\\n\\n\\n-- \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nGordon Banks N3JXP | \"Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and\\ngeb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu | it is shameful to surrender it too soon.\" \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n',\n", " 'From: kxgst1+@pitt.edu (Kenneth Gilbert)\\nSubject: Re: Do we need a Radiologist to read an Ultrasound?\\nOrganization: University of Pittsburgh\\nLines: 31\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr20.180835.24033@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com> dougb@ecs.comm.mot.com writes:\\n:My wife\\'s ob-gyn has an ultrasound machine in her office. When\\n:the doctor couldn\\'t hear a fetal heartbeat (13 weeks) she used\\n:the ultrasound to see if everything was ok. (it was)\\n:\\n:On her next visit, my wife asked another doctor in the office if\\n:they read the ultrasounds themselves or if they had a radiologist\\n:read the pictures. The doctor very vehemently insisted that they\\n:were qualified to read the ultrasound and radiologists were NOT!\\n:\\n:[stuff deleted]\\n\\nThis is one of those sticky areas of medicine where battles frequently\\nrage. With respect to your OB, I suspect that she has been certified in\\nultrasound diagnostics, and is thus allowed to use it and bill for its\\nuse. Many cardiologists also use ultrasound (echocardiography), and are\\nin fact considered by many to be the \\'experts\\'. I am not sure where OBs\\nstand in this regard, but I suspect that they are at least as good as the\\nradioligists (flame-retardant suit ready).\\n \\n \\n \\n \\n \\n\\n\\n-- \\n=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-|-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=\\n= Kenneth Gilbert __|__ University of Pittsburgh =\\n= General Internal Medicine | \"...dammit, not a programmer!\" =\\n=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-|-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=\\n',\n", " 'From: gene@theporch.raider.net (Gene Wright)\\nSubject: NASA Special Publications for Voyager Mission?\\nOrganization: The MacInteresteds of Nashville, Tn.\\nLines: 12\\n\\nI have two books, both NASA Special Publications, on the Voyager \\nMissions. One is titled \"Voyages to Jupiter\" the other \"Voyage to Saturn\" \\nThese were excellent books put together after the encounters with each \\nplanet. \\n\\nThe question is: Did NASA ever put together a similar book for either the \\nUranus encounter or Neptune? If so, what SP number is it and where can it \\nbe obtained? If not, why didn\\'t they?\\n\\n--\\n gene@theporch.raider.net (Gene Wright)\\ntheporch.raider.net 615/297-7951 The MacInteresteds of Nashville\\n',\n", " \"From: jdnicoll@prism.ccs.uwo.ca (James Davis Nicoll)\\nSubject: Re: Why DC-1 will be the way of the future.\\nOrganization: University of Western Ontario, London\\nNntp-Posting-Host: prism.engrg.uwo.ca\\nLines: 9\\n\\n\\tHmmm. I seem to recall that the attraction of solid state record-\\nplayers and radios in the 1960s wasn't better performance but lower\\nper-unit cost than vacuum-tube systems.\\n\\n\\tMind you, my father was a vacuum-tube fan in the 60s (Switched\\nto solid-state in the mid-seventies and then abruptly died; no doubt\\nthere's a lesson in that) and his account could have been biased.\\n\\n\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t\\tJames Nicoll\\n\",\n", " 'From: HoffmanE@space1.spacenet.jhuapl.edu (Hoffman, Eric J.)\\nSubject: Re: Drag free satellites\\nOrganization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway\\nLines: 37\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu\\n\\nIn article <1raee7$b8s@access.digex.net> prb@access.digex.com (Pat) writes:\\n>In article <23APR199317325771@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov> baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov\\n(Ron Baalke) writes:\\n>> In answer\\n>>to a question from Hawking, Chahine described a proposed\\n>>drag-free satellite, but confirmed that at this point, \"it\\'s only\\n>>a concept.\"\\n>\\n>SO what\\'s a drag free satellite? coated with WD-40?\\n\\n\\n TRIAD, the first drag-free satellite, was designed and built by the \\nJohns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory and launched 2 Sept 1972. The \\nsatellite was in three sections separated by two booms. The central section \\nhoused the DISCOS Disturbance Compensation System, which consisted of a proof \\nmass of special non-magnetic alloy housed within a spherical cavity. The \\nproof mass flew a true gravitational orbit, free from drag and radiation \\npressure. Teflon microthrusters kept the body of the satellite centered \\naround the proof mass, thereby flying the entire satellite drag free.\\n\\n TRIAD was one of the APL-designed Navy Navigation Satellites. The \\n2nd-generation operational navigation satellites flying today (NOVA) use a \\nsingle-axis version of DISCOS. TRIAD was also the sixth APL satellite to be \\npowered by an RTG (APL flew the first nuclear power supply in space, in 1961).\\n\\n Further info on TRIAD, DISCOS, etc. can be found in \"Spacecraft Design \\nInnovations in the APL Space Department,\" Johns Hopkins APL Technical Digest, \\nVol. 13, No. 1 (1992).\\n\\n --Eric Hoffman\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n',\n", " 'From: goltz@mimi.UU.NET (James P. Goltz)\\nSubject: Orion drive in vacuum -- how?\\nOrganization: UUNET Technologies Inc, Falls Church, VA, USA\\nLines: 31\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: mimi.uu.net\\n\\n\\n Background: The Orion spacedrive was a theoretical concept. It\\nwould be a drive using thermonuclear explosions to drive a spacecraft.\\nThe idea was that you\\'d detonate devices with somewhere from one to\\nten megatons yield behind a \"pusher plate\" attached to the main\\nspacecraft. The shock wave from the explosions would transfer\\nmomentum to the ship.\\n\\n Now, in an atmosphere I can see this. The energy of the explosion\\nheats the atmosphere, which expands explosively and slams a shock wave\\ninto the pusher plate. But in a vacuum, only two things I can see are\\ngoing to hit the plate: fission/fusion products (barium, krypton,\\nhelium, neutrons, evaporated bomb casing) and electromagnetic\\nradiation (gammas mostly, some light/heat from irradiated fission\\nproducts).\\n\\n Would this work? I can\\'t see the EM radiation impelling very much\\nmomentum (especially given the mass of the pusher plate), and it seems\\nto me you\\'re going to get more momentum transfer throwing the bombs\\nout the back of the ship than you get from detonating them once\\nthey\\'re there.\\n\\n I must be missing something. Would someone enlighten me via email?\\n\\n Thanks.\\n\\n-- \\n\\t--Jim\\n\\n---\\nJim Goltz AlterNet Engineer goltz@uunet.uu.net\\n',\n", " 'From: tong@ohsu.edu (Gong Tong)\\nSubject: Re: Is MSG sensitivity superstition?\\nArticle-I.D.: ohsu.1993Apr16.194316.25522\\nOrganization: Oregon Health Sciences University\\nLines: 48\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr16.155123.447@cunews.carleton.ca> wcsbeau@alfred.carleton.ca (OPIRG) writes:\\n>In article <1993Apr14.122647.16364@tms390.micro.ti.com> david@tms390.micro.ti.com (David Thomas) writes:\\n>\\n>>>In article <13APR199308003715@delphi.gsfc.nasa.gov>, packer@delphi.gsfc.nasa.gov (Charles Packer) writes:\\n>>>>Is there such a thing as MSG (monosodium glutamate) sensitivity?\\n>>>>I saw in the NY Times Sunday that scientists have testified before \\n>>>>an FDA advisory panel that complaints about MSG sensitivity are\\n>>>>superstition. Anybody here have experience to the contrary? \\n>>>>\\n>>>>I\\'m old enough to remember that the issue has come up at least\\n>>>>a couple of times since the 1960s. Then it was called the\\n>>>>\"Chinese restaurant syndrome\" because Chinese cuisine has\\n>>>>always used it.\\n>>\\n>>So far, I\\'ve seen about a dozen posts of anecdotal evidence, but\\n>>no facts. I suspect there is a strong psychological effect at \\n>>work here. Does anyone have results from a scientific study\\n>>using double-blind trials? \\n>\\n>Check out #27903, just some 20 posts before your own. Maybe you missed\\n>it amidst the flurry of responses? Yet again, the use of this\\n>newsgroup is hampered by people not restricting their posts to matters\\n>they have substantial knowledge of.\\n>\\n>For cites on MSG, look up almost anything by John W. Olney, a\\n>toxicologist who has studied the effects of MSG on the brain and on\\n>development. It is undisputed in the literature that MSG is an\\n>excitotoxic food additive, and that its major constituent, glutamate\\n>is essentially the premierie neurotransmitter in the mammalian brain\\n>(humans included). Too much in the diet, and the system gets thrown\\n>off. Glutamate and aspartate, also an excitotoxin are necessary in\\n>small amounts, and are freely available in many foods, but the amounts\\n>added by industry are far above the amounts that would normally be\\n>encountered in a ny single food. By eating lots of junk food,\\n>packaged soups, and diet soft drinks, it is possible to jack your\\n>blood levels so high, that anyone with a sensitivity to these\\n>compounds will suffer numerous *real* physi9logical effects. \\n>Read Olney\\'s review paper in Prog. Brain Res, 1988, and check *his*\\n>sources. They are impecable. There is no dispute.\\n>\\n> --Dianne Murray wcsbeau@ccs.carleton.ca\\n\\nIn order to excitotoxin effects of MSG, MSG that in blood must go through \\nblood-brain barrier that I am not sure MSG can go through or not. In normal condition, the concentration of glutamate in the cerebrospinal fluid is about \\n2 uM that is high enough to activate one type of glutamate receptor-the NMDA\\nreceptor. But the question is Neuron and glial cell in the brain have a lots of transport to get glutamate into Neuron or glial. So no one know exact concentration of glutamate is around neurons. \\n\\nGlutamate is most important neurotransmitter in the central nervous system. It is involved in not only in daily life like the controling of movement, it is alsoinvolved in develpoment, memory and learn (it is involved in Logn-term potentialtion that be thought is the basis of learning). \\n',\n", " \"From: todamhyp@charles.unlv.edu (Brian M. Huey)\\nSubject: Krillean Photography\\nOriginator: todamhyp@charles.cs.unlv.edu\\nOrganization: University of Nevada at Las Vegas, College of Engineering\\nLines: 20\\n\\nI think that's the correct spelling..\\n\\tI am looking for any information/supplies that will allow\\ndo-it-yourselfers to take Krillean Pictures. I'm thinking\\nthat education suppliers for schools might have a appartus for\\nsale, but I don't know any of the companies. Any info is greatly\\nappreciated.\\n\\tIn case you don't know, Krillean Photography, to the best of my\\nknowledge, involves taking pictures of an (most of the time) organic\\nobject between charged plates. The picture will show energy patterns\\nor spikes around the object photographed, and depending on what type\\nof object it is, the spikes or energy patterns will vary. One might\\nextrapolate here and say that this proves that every object within\\nthe universe (as we know it) has its own energy signature.\\n\\n\\n-- \\n_\\x08D_\\x08I_\\x08S_\\x08C_\\x08L_\\x08A_\\x08I_\\x08M_\\x08E_\\x08R_\\x08: I can neither confirm nor deny any opinions\\nexpressed in this article directly reflect my own personal or\\npolitical views and furthermore, if they did, I would not be at\\nliberty to yield such an explanation of these alleged opinions.\\n\",\n", " 'From: hdsteven@solitude.Stanford.EDU (H. D. Stevens)\\nSubject: Re: Inflatable Mile-Long Space Billboards (was Re: Vandalizing the sky.)\\nOrganization: stanford\\nLines: 38\\n\\nIn article , yamauchi@ces.cwru.edu (Brian Yamauchi) writes:\\n|> >NASA would provide contractual launch services. However,\\n|> >since NASA bases its charge on seriously flawed cost estimates\\n|> >(WN 26 Mar 93) the taxpayers would bear most of the expense. This\\n|> >may look like environmental vandalism, but Mike Lawson, CEO of\\n|> >Space Marketing, told us yesterday that the real purpose of the\\n|> >project is to help the environment! The platform will carry ozone\\n|> >monitors he explained--advertising is just to help defray costs.\\n|> \\n|> This may be the purpose for the University of Colorado people. My\\n|> guess is that the purpose for the Livermore people is to learn how to\\n|> build large, inflatable space structures.\\n|> \\n\\nThe CU people have been, and continue to be big ozone scientists. So \\nthis is consistent. It is also consistent with the new \"Comercial \\napplications\" that NASA and Clinton are pushing so hard. \\n|> \\n|> >Is NASA really supporting this junk?\\n\\nDid anyone catch the rocket that was launched with a movie advert \\nall over it? I think the rocket people got alot of $$ for painting \\nup the sides with the movie stuff. What about the Coke/Pepsi thing \\na few years back? NASA has been trying to find ways to get other \\npeople into the space funding business for some time. Frankly, I\\'ve \\nthought about trying it too. When the funding gets tight, only the \\ninnovative get funded. One of the things NASA is big on is co-funding. \\nIf a PI can show co-funding for any proposal, that proposal has a SIGNIFICANTLY\\nhigher probability of being funded than a proposal with more merit but no \\nco-funding. Once again, money talks!\\n\\n\\n-- \\nH.D. Stevens\\nStanford University\\t\\t\\tEmail:hdsteven@sun-valley.stanford.edu\\nAerospace Robotics Laboratory\\t\\tPhone:\\t(415) 725-3293 (Lab)\\nDurand Building\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t(415) 722-3296 (Bullpen)\\nStanford, CA 94305\\t\\t\\tFax:\\t(415) 725-3377\\n',\n", " 'From: tkelso@afit.af.mil (TS Kelso)\\nSubject: Two-Line Orbital Element Set: Space Shuttle\\nKeywords: Space Shuttle, Orbital Elements, Keplerian\\nNntp-Posting-Host: scgraph.afit.af.mil\\nOrganization: Air Force Institute of Technology\\nLines: 21\\n\\nThe most current orbital elements from the NORAD two-line element sets are\\ncarried on the Celestial BBS, (513) 427-0674, and are updated daily (when\\npossible). Documentation and tracking software are also available on this\\nsystem. As a service to the satellite user community, the most current\\nelements for the current shuttle mission are provided below. The Celestial\\nBBS may be accessed 24 hours/day at 300, 1200, 2400, 4800, or 9600 bps using\\n8 data bits, 1 stop bit, no parity.\\n\\nElement sets (also updated daily), shuttle elements, and some documentation\\nand software are also available via anonymous ftp from archive.afit.af.mil\\n(129.92.1.66) in the directory pub/space.\\n\\nSTS 56 \\n1 22621U 93 23 A 93105.06179397 .00044513 00000-0 12649-3 0 230\\n2 22621 57.0022 147.2850 0004246 288.7332 38.0941 15.92991629 1084\\n1993 023B \\n1 22623U 93 23 B 93103.37312705 .00041032 00000-0 11888-3 0 86\\n2 22623 57.0000 155.1150 0004422 293.4650 66.5967 15.92653917 803\\n--\\nDr TS Kelso Assistant Professor of Space Operations\\ntkelso@afit.af.mil Air Force Institute of Technology\\n',\n", " 'From: cain@geomag.gly.fsu.edu (Joe Cain)\\nSubject: Drag free satellites (was: Stephen Hawking Tours JPL)\\nKeywords: JPL\\nOrganization: Florida State University Geology Dept.\\nLines: 23\\n\\nIn article <1raee7$b8s@access.digex.net> prb@access.digex.com (Pat) writes:\\n>In article <23APR199317325771@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov> baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov (Ron Baalke) writes:\\n>> In answer\\n>>to a question from Hawking, Chahine described a proposed\\n>>drag-free satellite, but confirmed that at this point, \"it\\'s only\\n>>a concept.\" \\n>\\n>SO what\\'s a drag free satellite? coated with WD-40?\\n\\n\\tI am puzzled by the term \"concept.\" Drag free may already have\\nbeen flown. It was the idea behind putting up a spacecraft that would\\nmore accurately respond to motions from the Earth\\'s gravity field and\\nignore drag. It was proposed many years ago and involved a ball\\nfloating between sensors whose job it was to signal to little\\nadjustment jets to keep the ball away from them. The ball itself would\\nthen be in a drag free condition and respond only to gravity\\nanisotropies, whereas the spacecraft itself would be continuously\\nadjusting its position to compensate for drag.\\n\\n\\nJoseph Cain\\t\\tcain@geomag.gly.fsu.edu \\ncain@fsu.bitnet\\t\\tscri::cain\\n(904) 644-4014\\t\\tFAX (904) 644-4214 or -0098\\n',\n", " 'From: matthew@phantom.gatech.edu (Matthew DeLuca)\\nSubject: Re: nuclear waste\\nOrganization: The Dorsai Grey Captains\\nLines: 15\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: oit.gatech.edu\\n\\nIn article <844@rins.ryukoku.ac.jp> will@rins.ryukoku.ac.jp (William Reiken) writes:\\n\\n>\\tOk, so how about the creation of oil producing bacteria? I figure\\n>that if you can make them to eat it up then you can make them to shit it.\\n>Any comments?\\n\\nSure. Why keep using oil? A hydrogen/electric economy would likely be\\ncleaner and more efficient in the long run. The laws of supply and demand\\nshould get the transition underway before we reach a critical stage of\\nshortage.\\n-- \\nMatthew DeLuca\\nGeorgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332\\nuucp:\\t ...!{decvax,hplabs,ncar,purdue,rutgers}!gatech!prism!matthew\\nInternet: matthew@phantom.gatech.edu\\n',\n", " 'From: turpin@cs.utexas.edu (Russell Turpin)\\nSubject: Re: Science and methodology (was: Homeopathy ... tradition?)\\nOrganization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin\\nLines: 123\\nDistribution: inet\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: im4u.cs.utexas.edu\\nSummary: More in response to Lee Lady.\\nKeywords: science errors Turpin NLP\\n\\n-*----\\nI think that part of the problem is that I have proposed a\\ndefinition of science that I intended to be interpreted broadly\\nand that Lee Lady has interpreted fairly narrowly. My definition\\nis this: Science is the investigation of the empirical that avoids\\nmistakes in reasoning and methodology discovered from previous\\nwork. Lee Lady writes:\\n\\n> I don\\'t think that science should be defined in a way that some \\n> of the activities that lead to really important science --- namely\\n> thinking and informal exploration --- are not recognized as\\n> scientific work. \\n\\nUnless one classifies \"thinking and informal exploration\" as a\\nmistake, they fall under my definition. I hope no one would\\nconsider speculation, thinking, and informal exploration as\\nunscientific. \\n\\nIn article lady@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Lee Lady) writes:\\n> Seriously, I\\'m not sure whether I misjudged you or not, in one respect. \\n> I still have a major problem, though, with your insistence that science \\n> is mainly about avoiding mistakes. ...\\n\\nHere is where I think we are talking at cross-purposes. It is not\\nclear to me that the kind of definition I have proposed should be\\ntaken as describing what \"science is mainly about.\" Consider,\\nfor example, a definition of invertebrates as all animals lacking\\na backbone. This fairly tells what is an invertebrate and\\nwhat is not an invertebrate, but it hardly tells you what\\ninvertebrates are all about. One can read this definition and\\nstill not know that 95% of all animal species are invertebrates,\\nthat invertebrates possess a remarkably broad range of form, that\\nsome invertebrate groups -- such as insects and nematodes -- are\\nubiquitous in all ecosystems, etc. In short, knowing the\\ndefinition of invertebrates does *not* tell one what they are\\n\"mainly about.\"\\n\\nThe misunderstanding here is my fault. I did not give sufficient\\ncontext for people to understand my proposed definition.\\n\\n> Okay, so let\\'s see if we agree on this: FIRST of all, there are degrees \\n> of certainty. It might be appropriate, for instance, to demand carefully \\n> controlled trials before we accept as absolute scientific truth (to the \\n> extent that there is any such thing) the effectiveness of a certain \\n> treatment. On the other hand, highly favorable clinical experience, even \\n> if uncontrolled, can be adequate to justify a *preliminary* judgement that\\n> a treatment is useful. ...\\n>\\n> SECONDLY, it makes sense to be more tolerant in our standards of \\n> evidence for a pronounced effect than for one that is marginal. \\n\\nI agree on both counts. As an example of the second, it would only\\ntake a few cases of curing rabies to convince most veterinarians\\nthat a treatment was effective, despite a lack of controls. \\n\\nAs to the first, I do not think it is useful to talk about\\n\"absolute scientific truth.\" I think it is more useful to talk\\nabout the kinds of evidence that various claims have and the\\nkinds of evidence IN PARTICULAR FIELDS that in the past have\\nproven faulty or reliable. The latter is obviously a matter of\\ndegree, and in each field, practitioners try to discover the\\nrelevance of different kinds of evidence. \\n\\nOne of the primary mistakes that marks the advocacy of an idea as\\npsuedo-science is that the advocacy lacks any sense of proportion\\nregarding the kinds of evidence related to the proposed claim,\\nthe kinds of evidence that are actually relevant to it, and the\\nhistorical reasons in the field that certain kinds of evidence\\nare given more weight than others. It is perfectly alright to\\nspeculate. I have read quite a few refereed papers that\\nspeculated left and right. But the authors were careful to\\nidentify the notions as speculative, to list what little evidence\\nwas presently available for them, and to describe how research\\ncould proceed to either put the notion on more firm footing or to\\nuncover its problems. Often what distinguishes whether a paper\\nof this sort passes muster is the thoughtfulness with which the\\nauthor sets the context and paves the way for future work. (It\\nis in this area that many proponents of speculative ideas fail.)\\n\\n> The folks over in sci.psychology have a hundred and one excuses not to\\n> make this simple test. They claim that only an elaborate outcome study\\n> will be satisfactory --- a study of the sort that NLP practitioners, \\n> many of whom make a barely marginal living from their practice, can ill \\n> afford to do. (Most of them are also just plain not interested, because \\n> the whole idea seems frivolous. And since they\\'re not part of the\\n> scientific establishment, they have no tangible rewards to gain \\n> from scientific acceptance.) \\n\\nI think a lot of scientists steer away from things that --\\ndeserving or not -- garner a patina of kookiness. When\\nproponents of some practice see no value in more careful\\ninvestigation of that practice, that sets alarms ringing in many\\nresearchers\\' minds. \\n\\nThis is unfortunate, because there is undoubtedly some\\nintersection between things that are worth investigating and\\nthings that are advocated by those who seem careless or\\nunreasonable in their advocacy. On the other hand, I can\\nunderstand why many scientists would just as soon select other\\ndirections for research. As Gordon Banks has pointed out, no one\\nwants to become this generation\\'s Rhine.\\n\\n> One academic in sci.psychology said that it would be completely \\n> unscientific for him to test the phobia cure since it hasn\\'t \\n> been described in a scientific journal. ...\\n\\nI think this is absurd. \\n\\n> Actually, at least one fairly careful academic study has been done \\n> (with favorable results), but it\\'s apparently not acceptable because\\n> it\\'s a doctoral dissertation and not published in a refereed journal.\\n\\nI wonder why the results were not published. In my field,\\ndissertation results are typically summarized in papers that are\\nsubmitted to journals. Often the papers are accepted for\\npublication before the dissertation is finished. (This certainly\\neases one\\'s defense.)\\n\\nFinally, I hope Lee Lady will forgive me from commenting either\\non NLP or the discussion of it in sci.psychology. I know little\\nabout either and so have nothing to offer.\\n\\nRussell\\n',\n", " \"From: janet@ntmtv.com (Janet Jakstys)\\nSubject: Exercise and Migraine\\nNntp-Posting-Host: pegasus\\nOrganization: Northern Telecom Inc, Mountain View, CA\\nLines: 24\\n\\nWe were talking about Migraine and Exercise (I'm the one who can't\\nfathom the thought of exercise during migraine...). Anyway, turning\\nthe thread around, the other day I played tennis during my lunch\\nhour. I'm out of tennis shape so it was very intense exercise. I\\ngot overheated, and dehydrated. Afterwards, I noticed a tingling\\nsensation all over my head then about 2 hours later, I could feel\\na migraine start. (I continued to drink water in the afternoon.)\\nI took cafergot, but it didn't help and the pain started although\\nit wasn't as intense as it usually is and about 9pm that night, the\\npain subsided.\\n\\nThis isn't the first time that I've had a migraine occur after exercise.\\nI'm wondering if anyone else has had the same experience and I wonder\\nwhat triggers the migraine in this situation (heat buildup? dehydration?).\\nI'm not giving up tennis so is there anything I can do (besides get into \\nshape and don't play at high noon) to prevent this?\\n\\nThanks,\\n-- \\n**********************************************************************\\nJanet Jakstys UUCP:{ames,mcdcup}!ntmtv!janet\\nNorthern Telecom INTERNET:janet@ntmtv.com\\nMtn. View, CA.\\n**********************************************************************\\n\",\n", " 'From: roos@Operoni.Helsinki.FI (Christophe Roos)\\nSubject: Wanted: Rat cell line (adrenal gland/cortical c.)\\nSummary: Where can I find a rat cell line\\nKeywords: adrenal_gland cortical_cell cell_line rat\\nOrganization: Institute of Biotechnology (Univ. Helsinki)\\nLines: 14\\n\\nI am looking for a rat cell line of adrenal gland / cortical cell -type. I \\nhave been looking at ATCC without success and would very much appreciate any \\nhelp.\\n\\nThank you for reading this.\\n\\nChristophe Roos\\n\\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nInstitute of Biotechnology Fax: +358 0 4346028\\nPOBox 45, Valimotie 7 E-mail: Christophe.Roos@Helsinki.Fi\\nUniversity of Helsinki X-400: /G=Christophe/S=Roos\\nSF-00014 Finland /O=Helsinki/A=fumail/C=Fi\\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n',\n", " 'From: daviss@sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov (S.F. Davis)\\nSubject: Re: japanese moon landing/temporary orbit\\nOrganization: NSPC\\nLines: 46\\n\\nIn article , pgf@srl03.cacs.usl.edu (Phil G. Fraering) writes:\\n|> rls@uihepa.hep.uiuc.edu (Ray Swartz (Oh, that guy again)) writes:\\n|> \\n|> >The gravity maneuvering that was used was to exploit \\'fuzzy regions\\'. These\\n|> >are described by the inventor as exploiting the second-order perturbations in a\\n|> >three body system. The probe was launched into this region for the\\n|> >earth-moon-sun system, where the perturbations affected it in such a way as to\\n|> >allow it to go into lunar orbit without large expenditures of fuel to slow\\n|> >down. The idea is that \\'natural objects sometimes get captured without\\n|> >expending fuel, we\\'ll just find the trajectory that makes it possible\". The\\n|> >originator of the technique said that NASA wasn\\'t interested, but that Japan\\n|> >was because their probe was small and couldn\\'t hold a lot of fuel for\\n|> >deceleration.\\n|> \\n|> \\n|> I should probably re-post this with another title, so that\\n|> the guys on the other thread would see that this is a practical\\n|> use of \"temporary orbits...\"\\n|> \\n|> Another possible temporary orbit:\\n|> \\n|> --\\n|> Phil Fraering |\"Seems like every day we find out all sorts of stuff.\\n|> pgf@srl02.cacs.usl.edu|Like how the ancient Mayans had televison.\" Repo Man\\n|> \\n|> \\n\\nIf you are really interested in these orbits and how they are obtained\\nyou should try and find the following paper:\\n\\n Hiroshi Yamakawa, Jun\\'ichiro Kawaguchi, Nobuaki Ishii, \\n and Hiroki Matsuo, \"A Numerical Study of Gravitational Capture\\n Orbit in the Earth-Moon System,\" AAS-92-186, AAS/AIAA Spaceflight\\n Mechanics Meeting, Colorado Springs, Colorado, 1992.\\n\\nThe references included in this paper are quite interesting also and \\ninclude several that are specific to the HITEN mission itself. \\n\\n|--------------------------------- ******** -------------------------|\\n| * _!!!!_ * |\\n| Steven Davis * / \\\\ \\\\ * |\\n| daviss@sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov * () * | \\n| * \\\\>_db_\\n\\n4/06/93: GIBBONS OUTLINES SPACE STATION REDESIGN GUIDANCE\\n\\nNASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C.\\nApril 6, 1993\\n\\nRELEASE: 93-64\\n\\n Dr. John H. Gibbons, Director, Office of Science and Technology\\nPolicy, outlined to the members-designate of the Advisory Committee on the\\nRedesign of the Space Station on April 3, three budget options as guidance\\nto the committee in their deliberations on the redesign of the space\\nstation.\\n\\n A low option of $5 billion, a mid-range option of $7 billion and a\\nhigh option of $9 billion will be considered by the committee. Each\\noption would cover the total expenditures for space station from fiscal\\nyear 1994 through 1998 and would include funds for development,\\noperations, utilization, Shuttle integration, facilities, research\\noperations support, transition cost and also must include adequate program\\nreserves to insure program implementation within the available funds.\\n\\n Over the next 5 years, $4 billion is reserved within the NASA\\nbudget for the President\\'s new technology investment. As a result,\\nstation options above $7 billion must be accompanied by offsetting\\nreductions in the rest of the NASA budget. For example, a space station\\noption of $9 billion would require $2 billion in offsets from the NASA\\nbudget over the next 5 years.\\n\\n Gibbons presented the information at an organizational session of\\nthe advisory committee. Generally, the members-designate focused upon\\nadministrative topics and used the session to get acquainted. They also\\nreceived a legal and ethics briefing and an orientation on the process the\\nStation Redesign Team is following to develop options for the advisory\\ncommittee to consider.\\n\\n Gibbons also announced that the United States and its\\ninternational partners -- the Europeans, Japanese and Canadians -- have\\ndecided, after consultation, to give \"full consideration\" to use of\\nRussian assets in the course of the space station redesign process.\\n\\n To that end, the Russians will be asked to participate in the\\nredesign effort on an as-needed consulting basis, so that the redesign\\nteam can make use of their expertise in assessing the capabilities of MIR\\nand the possible use of MIR and other Russian capabilities and systems.\\nThe U.S. and international partners hope to benefit from the expertise of\\nthe Russian participants in assessing Russian systems and technology. The\\noverall goal of the redesign effort is to develop options for reducing\\nstation costs while preserving key research and exploration capabilitiaes.\\nCareful integration of Russian assets could be a key factor in achieving\\nthat goal.\\n\\n Gibbons reiterated that, \"President Clinton is committed to the\\nredesigned space station and to making every effort to preserve the\\nscience, the technology and the jobs that the space station program\\nrepresents. However, he also is committed to a space station that is well\\nmanaged and one that does not consume the national resources which should\\nbe used to invest in the future of this industry and this nation.\"\\n\\n NASA Administrator Daniel S. Goldin said the Russian\\nparticipation will be accomplished through the East-West Space Science\\nCenter at the University of Maryland under the leadership of Roald\\nSagdeev.\\n\\n------- End of Blind-Carbon-Copy\\n',\n", " 'From: euclid@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Euclid K.)\\nSubject: Re: GETTING AIDS FROM ACUPUNCTURE NEEDLES\\nArticle-I.D.: news.C5wGEs.K6u\\nOrganization: University of Illinois at Urbana\\nLines: 19\\n\\nmatthews@Oswego.EDU (Harry Matthews) writes:\\n\\n>I had electrical pulse nerve testing done a while back. The needles were taken\\n>from a dirty drawer in an instrument cart and were most certainly NOT\\n>sterile or even clean for that matter. More than likely they were fresh\\n>from the previous patient. I WAS concerned, but I kept my mouth shut. I\\n>probably should have raised hell!\\n\\tCould you describe in more detail the above procedure? I\\'ve never\\nheard about it.\\n\\tAnd yes, if they pierced you with the needles you probably should have\\nprotested. \\n\\neuclid\\n \\n--\\nEuclid K. standard disclaimers apply\\n\"It is a bit ironic that we need the wave model [of light] to understand the\\npropagation of light only through that part of the system where it leaves no\\ntrace.\" --Hudson & Nelson (_University_Physics_)\\n',\n", " 'From: leech@cs.unc.edu (Jon Leech)\\nSubject: Space FAQ 08/15 - Addresses\\nSupersedes: \\nOrganization: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill\\nLines: 230\\nDistribution: world\\nExpires: 6 May 1993 19:58:29 GMT\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: mahler.cs.unc.edu\\nKeywords: Frequently Asked Questions\\n\\nArchive-name: space/addresses\\nLast-modified: $Date: 93/04/01 14:38:55 $\\n\\nCONTACTING NASA, ESA, AND OTHER SPACE AGENCIES/COMPANIES\\n\\nMany space activities center around large Government or International\\nBureaucracies.\\tIn the US that means NASA. If you have basic information\\nrequests: (e.g., general PR info, research grants, data, limited tours, and\\nESPECIALLY SUMMER EMPLOYMENT (typically resumes should be ready by Jan. 1),\\netc.), consider contacting the nearest NASA Center to answer your questions.\\n\\nEMail typically will not get you any where, computers are used by\\ninvestigators, not PR people. The typical volume of mail per Center is a\\nmultiple of 10,000 letters a day. Seek the Public Information Office at one\\nof the below, this is their job:\\n\\nNASA (The National Aeronautics and Space Administration) is the\\ncivilian space agency of of the United States Federal Government.\\nIt reports directly to the White House and is not a Cabinet\\npost such as the military Department of Defense. Its 20K+ employees\\nare civil servants and hence US citizens. Another 100K+ contractors\\nalso work for NASA.\\n\\nNASA CENTERS\\n\\n NASA Headquarters (NASA HQ)\\n Washington DC 20546\\n (202)-358-1600\\n\\n\\tAsk them questions about policy, money, and things of political\\n\\tnature. Direct specific questions to the appropriate center.\\n\\n NASA Ames Research Center (ARC)\\n Moffett Field, CA 94035\\n (415)-694-5091\\n\\n\\tSome aeronautical research, atmosphere reentry, Mars and Venus\\n\\tplanetary atmospheres. \"Lead center\" for Helicopter research,\\n\\tV/STOL, etc. Runs Pioneer series of space probes.\\n\\n NASA Ames Research Center\\n Dryden Flight Research Facility [DFRF]\\n P. O. Box 273\\n Edwards, CA 93523\\n (805)-258-8381\\n\\n\\tAircraft, mostly. Tested the shuttle orbiter landing\\n\\tcharacteristics. Developed X-1, D-558, X-3, X-4, X-5, XB-70, and of\\n\\tcourse, the X-15.\\n\\n NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)\\n Greenbelt, MD 20771\\n [Outside of Washington DC]\\n (301)-344-6255\\n\\n\\tEarth orbiting unmanned satellites and sounding rockets. Developed\\n\\tLANDSAT.\\n\\n Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)\\n California Institute of Technology\\n 4800 Oak Grove Dr.\\n Pasadena, CA 91109\\n (818)-354-5011\\n\\n\\tThe \"heavies\" in planetary research probes and other unmanned\\n\\tprojects (they also had a lot to do with IRAS). They run Voyager,\\n\\tMagellan, Galileo, and will run Cassini, CRAF, etc. etc.. For\\n\\timages, probe navigation, and other info about unmanned exploration,\\n\\tthis is the place to go.\\n\\n\\tJPL is run under contract for NASA by the nearby California\\n\\tInstitute of Technology, unlike the NASA centers above. This\\n\\tdistinction is subtle but critical. JPL has different requirements\\n\\tfor unsolicited research proposals and summer hires. For instance in\\n\\tthe latter, an SF 171 is useless. Employees are Caltech employees,\\n\\tcontractors, and for the most part have similar responsibilities.\\n\\tThey offer an alternative to funding after other NASA Centers.\\n\\n\\tA fact sheet and description of JPL is available by anonymous\\n\\tFTP in\\n\\n\\t ames.arc.nasa.gov:pub/SPACE/FAQ/JPLDescription\\n\\n NASA Johnson Manned Space Center (JSC)\\n Houston, TX 77058\\n (713)-483-5111\\n\\n\\tJSC manages Space Shuttle, ground control of manned missions.\\n\\tAstronaut training. Manned mission simulators.\\n\\n NASA Kennedy Space Flight Center (KSC)\\n Titusville, FL 32899\\n (407)-867-2468\\n\\n\\tSpace launch center. You know this one.\\n\\n NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC)\\n Hampton, VA 23665\\n [Near Newport News, VA]\\n (804)-865-2935\\n\\n\\tOriginal NASA site. Specializes in theoretical and experimental\\n\\tflight dynamics. Viking. Long Duration Exposure Facility.\\n\\n NASA Lewis Research Center (LeRC)\\n 21000 Brookpark Rd.\\n Cleveland, OH 44135\\n (216)-433-4000\\n\\n\\tAircraft/Rocket propulsion. Space power generation. Materials\\n\\tresearch.\\n\\n NASA Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC)\\n Huntsville, AL 35812\\n (205)-453-0034\\n\\n\\tDevelopment, production, delivery of Solid Rocket Boosters, External\\n\\tTank, Orbiter main engines. Propulsion and launchers.\\n\\n Michoud Assembly Facility\\n Orleans Parish\\n New Orleans, LA 70129\\n (504)-255-2601\\n\\n\\tShuttle external tanks are produced here; formerly Michoud produced\\n\\tfirst stages for the Saturn V.\\n\\n Stennis Space Center\\n Bay St. Louis, Mississippi 39529\\n (601)-688-3341\\n\\n\\tSpace Shuttle main engines are tested here, as were Saturn V first\\n\\tand second stages. The center also does remote-sensing and\\n\\ttechnology-transfer research.\\n\\n Wallops Flight Center\\n Wallops Island, VA 23337\\n (804)824-3411\\n\\t Aeronautical research, sounding rockets, Scout launcher.\\n\\n Manager, Technology Utilization Office\\n NASA Scientific and Technical Information Facility\\n Post Office Box 8757\\n Baltimore, Maryland 21240\\n\\n Specific requests for software must go thru COSMIC at the Univ. of\\n Georgia, NASA\\'s contracted software redistribution service. You can\\n reach them at cosmic@uga.bitnet.\\n\\n NOTE: Foreign nationals requesting information must go through their\\n Embassies in Washington DC. These are facilities of the US Government\\n and are regarded with some degree of economic sensitivity. Centers\\n cannot directly return information without high Center approval. Allow\\n at least 1 month for clearance. This includes COSMIC.\\n\\nThe US Air Force Space Command can be contacted thru the Pentagon along with\\n other Department of Defense offices. They have unacknowledged offices in\\n Los Angeles, Sunnyvale, Colorado Springs, and other locations. They have\\n a budget which rivals NASA in size.\\n\\nARIANESPACE HEADQUARTERS\\n Boulevard de l\\'Europe\\n B.P. 177\\n 91006 Evry Cedex\\n France\\n\\nARIANESPACE, INC.\\n 1747 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Suite 875\\n Washington, DC 20006\\n (202)-728-9075\\n\\nEUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY (ESA)\\n 955 L\\'Enfant Plaza S.W.\\n Washington, D.C. 20024\\n (202)-488-4158\\n\\nNATIONAL SPACE DEVELOPMENT AGENCY (NASDA)\\n 4-1 Hamamatsu-Cho, 2 Chome\\n Minato-Ku, Tokyo 105, JAPAN\\n\\nSOYUZKARTA\\n 45 Vologradsij Pr.\\n Moscow 109125\\n USSR\\n\\nSPACE CAMP\\n Alabama Space and Rocket Center\\tU.S. SPACE CAMP\\n 1 Tranquility Base\\t\\t\\t6225 Vectorspace Blvd\\n Huntsville, AL 35805\\t\\tTitusville FL 32780\\n (205)-837-3400\\t\\t\\t(407)267-3184\\n\\n Registration and mailing list are handled through Huntsville -- both\\n camps are described in the same brochure.\\n\\n Programs offered at Space Camp are:\\n\\n\\tSpace Camp - one week, youngsters completing grades 4-6\\n\\tSpace Academy I - one week, grades 7-9\\n\\tAviation Challenge - one week high school program, grades 9-11\\n\\tSpace Academy II - 8 days, college accredited, grades 10-12\\n\\tAdult Program - 3 days (editorial comment: it\\'s great!)\\n\\tTeachers Program - 5 days\\n\\nSPACE COMMERCE CORPORATION (U.S. agent for Soviet launch services)\\n 504 Pluto Drive\\t\\t 69th flr, Texas Commerce Tower\\n Colorado Springs, CO 80906\\t Houston, TX 77002\\n (719)-578-5490\\t\\t (713)-227-9000\\n\\nSPACEHAB\\n 600 Maryland Avenue, SW\\n Suite 201 West\\n Washington, DC 20004\\n (202)-488-3483\\n\\nSPOT IMAGE CORPORATION\\n 1857 Preston White Drive,\\n Reston, VA 22091\\n (FAX) (703)-648-1813 (703)-620-2200\\n\\n\\nOTHER COMMERCIAL SPACE BUSINESSES\\n\\n Vincent Cate maintains a list with addresses and some info for a variety\\nof companies in space-related businesses. This is mailed out on the\\nspace-investors list he runs (see the \"Network Resources\" FAQ) and is also\\navailable by anonymous ftp from furmint.nectar.cs.cmu.edu (128.2.209.111) in\\n/usr/vac/ftp/space-companies.\\n\\n\\nNEXT: FAQ #9/15 - Schedules for space missions, and how to see them\\n',\n", " 'From: etxmow@garbo.ericsson.se (Mats Winberg)\\nSubject: Re: HELP for Kidney Stones ..............\\nNntp-Posting-Host: garboc29.ericsson.se\\nOrganization: Ericsson\\nLines: 15\\n\\n\\n Isn\\'t there a relatively new treatment for kidney stones involving\\n a non-invasive use of ultra-sound where the patient is lowered\\n into some sort of liquid when he/she undergoes treatment? I\\'m sure\\n I\\'ve read about it somewhere. If I remember it correctly it is a\\n painless and effective treatment.\\n A couple of weeks ago I visited a hospital here in Stockholm and\\n saw big signs showing the way to the \"Kidney stone chrusher\" ...\\n\\n\\n\\n Mats Winberg\\n Stockholm, Sweden\\n\\n\\t \\n',\n", " \"From: szabo@techbook.com (Nick Szabo)\\nSubject: SSF Redesign: Constellation\\nSummary: decentralize & automate functions\\nKeywords: space station, constellation\\nArticle-I.D.: techbook.C51z6E.CL1\\nOrganization: TECHbooks --- Public Access UNIX --- (503) 220-0636\\nLines: 89\\n\\nSSF is up for redesign again. Let's do it right this\\ntime! Let's step back and consider the functionality we want:\\n\\n[1] microgravity/vacuum process research\\n[2] life sciences research (adaptation to space)\\n[3] spacecraft maintenence \\n\\nThe old NASA approach, explified by Shuttle and SSF so far, was to\\ncentralize functionality. These projects failed to meet\\ntheir targets by a wide margin: the military and commercial users \\ntook most of their payloads off Shuttle after wasting much effort to \\ntie their payloads to it, and SSF has crumbled into disorganization\\nand miscommunication. Over $50 billion has been spent on these\\ntwo projects with no reduction in launch costs and littel improvement\\nin commercial space industrialization. Meanwhile, military and commercial \\nusers have come up with a superior strategy for space development: the \\nconstellation. \\n\\nFirstly, different functions are broken down into different \\nconstellations placed in the optimal orbit for each function:\\nthus we have the GPS/Navstar constellation in 12-hour orbits,\\ncomsats in Clarke and Molniya orbits, etc. Secondly, the task\\nis distributed amongst several spacecraft in a constellation,\\nproviding for redundancy and full coverage where needed.\\n\\nSSF's 3 main functions require quite different environments\\nand are also prime candidates for constellization.\\n\\n[1] We have the makings of a microgravity constellation now:\\nCOMET and Mir for long-duration flights, Shuttle/Spacelab for\\nshort-duration flights. The best strategy for this area is\\ninexpensive, incremental improvement: installation of U.S. facilities \\non Mir, Shuttle/Mir linkup, and transition from Shuttle/Spacelab\\nto a much less expensive SSTO/Spacehab/COMET or SSTO/SIF/COMET.\\nWe might also expand the research program to take advantage of \\ninteresting space environments, eg the high-radiation Van Allen belt \\nor gas/plasma gradients in comet tails. The COMET system can\\nbe much more easily retrofitted for these tasks, where a \\nstation is too large to affordably launch beyond LEO.\\n\\n[2] We need to study life sciences not just in microgravity,\\nbut also in lunar and Martian gravities, and in the radiation\\nenvironments of deep space instead of the protected shelter\\nof LEO. This is a very long-term, low-priority project, since\\nastronauts will have little practical use in the space program\\nuntil costs come down orders of magnitude. Furthermore, using\\nastronauts severely restricts the scope of the investigation,\\nand the sample size. So I propose LabRatSat, a constellation\\ntether-bolo satellites that test out various levels of gravity\\nin super-Van-Allen-Belt orbits that are representative of the\\nradiation environment encountered on Earth-Moon, Earth-Mars,\\nEarth-asteroid, etc. trips. The miniaturized life support\\nmachinery might be operated real-time from earth thru a VR\\ninterface. AFter several orbital missions have been flown,\\nfollow-ons can act as LDEFs on the lunar and Martian surface,\\ntesting out the actual environment at low cost before $billions\\nare spent on astronauts.\\n\\n[3] By far the largest market for spacecraft servicing is in \\nClarke orbit. I propose a fleet of small teleoperated\\nrobots and small test satellites on which ground engineers can\\npractice their skills. Once in place, robots can pry stuck\\nsolar arrays and antennas, attach solar battery power packs,\\ninject fuel, etc. Once the fleet is working, it can be\\nspun off to commercial company(s) who can work with the comsat\\ncompanies to develop comsat replaceable module standards.\\n\\nBy applying the successful constellation strategy, and getting\\nrid of the failed centralized strategy of STS and old SSF, we\\nhave radically improved the capability of the program while\\ngreatly cutting its cost. For a fraction of SSF's pricetag,\\nwe can fix satellites where the satellites are, we can study\\nlife's adaptation to a much large & more representative variety \\nof space environments, and we can do microgravity and vacuum\\nresearch inexpensively and, if needed, in special-purpose\\norbits.\\n\\nN.B., we can apply the constellation strategy to space exploration\\nas well, greatly cutting its cost and increasing its functionality. \\nMars Network and Artemis are two good examples of this; more ambitiously \\nwe can set up a network of native propellant plants on Mars that can be used\\nto fuel planet-wide rover/ballistic hopper prospecting and\\nsample return. The descendants of LabRatSat's technology can\\nbe used as a Mars surface LDEF and to test out closed-ecology\\ngreenhouses on Mars at low cost.\\n\\n\\n-- \\nNick Szabo\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t szabo@techboook.com\\n\",\n", " \"From: nicho@vnet.IBM.COM (Greg Stewart-Nicholls)\\nSubject: Re: Biosphere II\\nReply-To: nicho@vnet.ibm.com\\nDisclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not those of IBM\\nNews-Software: UReply 3.1\\nX-X-From: nicho@vnet.ibm.com\\n <1q77ku$av6@access.digex.net>\\nLines: 10\\n\\nIn <1q77ku$av6@access.digex.net> Pat writes:\\n>The Work is privately funded, the DATA belongs to SBV. I don't see\\n>either george or Fred, scoriating IBM research division for\\n>not releasing data.\\n We publish plenty kiddo,you just have to look.\\n -----------------------------------------------------------------\\n .sig files are like strings ... every yo-yo's got one.\\n\\nGreg Nicholls ... nicho@vnet.ibm.com (business) or\\n nicho@olympus.demon.co.uk (private)\\n\",\n", " \"Subject: good book\\nFrom: RGINZBERG@eagle.wesleyan.edu (Ruth Ginzberg)\\nDistribution: world\\nOrganization: Philosophy Dept., Wesleyan University\\nNntp-Posting-Host: wesleyan.edu\\nX-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.20Lines: 48\\nLines: 48\\n\\nHaving been gone for 10 days, I'm way behind on my News reading, so many\\npardons if I am repeating something that has been said already.\\n\\nI read a good book while I was away, THE ANTIBIOTIC PARADOX: HOW MIRACLE DRUGS\\nARE DESTROYING THE MIRACLE, Stuart B. Levy, M.D., 1992, Plenum Press,\\nISBN:0-306-44331-7.\\n\\nIt is about drug resistant microorganisms & the history of antibiotics. It\\nis interesting & written at a level which I think many sci.med readers would\\nappreciate -- which is: it assumes an intelligent reader who is capable of\\nunderstanding scientific concepts, but who may not yet have been exposed to\\nthis particular information. I.e., it assumes you are smart enough to\\nunderstand it, but it does not assume that you already have a degree in\\nmicrobiology or medicine. Table of contents:\\n\\nChapter 1\\n\\tFrom Tragedy the Antibiotic Age is Born\\nChapter 2\\n\\tThe Disease and the Cure: The Microscopic World of Bacteria and\\n\\tAntibiotics\\nChapter 3\\n\\tReliance on Medicine and Self-Medication: The Seeds of Antibiotic\\n\\tMisuse\\nChapter 4\\n\\tAntibiotic Resistance: Microbial Adaptation and Evolution\\nChapter 5\\n\\tThe Antibiotic Myth\\nChapter 6\\n\\tAntibiotics, Animals and the Resistance Gene Pool\\nChapter 7\\n\\tFurther Ecological Considerations: Antibiotic Use in Agriculture,\\n\\tAquaculture, Pets, and Minor Animal Species\\nChapter 8\\n\\tFuture Prospects: New Advances Against Potential Disaster\\nChapter 9\\n\\tThe Individual and Antibiotic Resistance\\nChapter 10\\n\\tAntibiotic Resistance: A Societal Issue at Local, National, and\\n\\tInternational Levels.\\n\\nIncludes bibliography and index.\\n\\nI personally found that it made very good Airplane-Reading.\\n-rg\\n\\n------------------------\\nRuth Ginzberg \\nPhilosophy Department;Wesleyan University;USA\\n\",\n", " \"From: gsh7w@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Greg Hennessy)\\nSubject: Re: Keeping Spacecraft on after Funding Cuts.\\nOrganization: University of Virginia\\nLines: 13\\n\\nIn article <1r6aqr$dnv@access.digex.net> prb@access.digex.com (Pat) writes:\\n#The better question should be.\\n#Why not transfer O&M of all birds to a separate agency with continous funding\\n#to support these kind of ongoing science missions.\\n\\nSince we don't have the money to keep them going now, how will\\nchanging them to a seperate agency help anything?\\n\\n--\\n-Greg Hennessy, University of Virginia\\n USPS Mail: Astronomy Department, Charlottesville, VA 22903-2475 USA\\n Internet: gsh7w@virginia.edu \\n UUCP:\\t\\t...!uunet!virginia!gsh7w\\n\",\n", " 'From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nSubject: Re: OB-GYN residency\\nReply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nOrganization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science\\nLines: 30\\n\\nIn article <1r12bv$55e@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu> Donald_Mackie@med.umich.edu (Donald Mackie) writes:\\n>\\n>FMGs who are not citizens are, like all aliens, in a difficult\\n>situation. Only citizens get to vote here, so non-citizens are of\\n>little or no interest to legislators. Also, the non-citizen may well\\n>be in the middle of processing for resident alien status. There is a\\n>stron sense that rocking the boat (eg. suing a residency program)\\n>will delay the granting of that status, perhaps for ever.\\n>\\n\\nOne should be aware that foreign doctors admitted for training\\nare ineligible to apply for resident alien status. In order\\nto get the green card they have to return to their country and\\napply at the embassy there. Of course, many somehow get around\\nthis problem. Often it is by agreeing to practice in a town\\nwith a need and then the congressman from that district tacks\\na rider onto a bill saying \"Dr. X will be allowed to have permanent\\nresidency in the US.\" A lot of bills in congress have such riders\\nattached to them. Marrying a US citizen is the most common, although\\nnow they are even cracking down on that and trying to tell US\\ncitizens they must follow their spouse back to the Phillipines, or\\nwhereever.\\n\\n\\n\\n-- \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nGordon Banks N3JXP | \"Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and\\ngeb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu | it is shameful to surrender it too soon.\" \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n',\n", " 'From: kxgst1+@pitt.edu (Kenneth Gilbert)\\nSubject: Re: Smoker\\'s Lungs\\nArticle-I.D.: blue.7934\\nOrganization: University of Pittsburgh\\nLines: 21\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr5.123315.48837@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> bennett@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:\\n>How long does it take a smoker\\'s lungs to clear of the tar after quitting? \\n>Does your chances of getting lung cancer decrease quickly or does it take\\n>a considerable amount of time for that to happen?\\n\\nThe answer to your first question is rather difficult to answer without\\ndoing a lot of autopsies. The second question is something that\\'s been\\nknown for some time. It appears that within about 15 years of quitting\\nsmoking a person\\'s risk for developing lung cancer drops to that of the\\nperson who never smoked (assuming you do not get lung cancer in the\\ninterim!). The risk to someone who smoked the equivalent of a pack per\\nday for 40 years is around 20 times as high as a non-smoker. Still\\nrather low overall, but significant. Personally, I\\'d be more concerned\\nabout heart disease secondary to smoking -- it\\'s much more common, and\\neven a small increase in risk is significant there.\\n\\n-- \\n=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-|-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=\\n= Kenneth Gilbert __|__ University of Pittsburgh =\\n= General Internal Medicine | \"...dammit, not a programmer! =\\n=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-|-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=\\n',\n", " \"From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)\\nSubject: Re: Moonbase race\\nOrganization: U of Toronto Zoology\\nLines: 23\\n\\nIn article <3HgF3B3w165w@shakala.com> dante@shakala.com (Charlie Prael) writes:\\n>Doug-- Actually, if memory serves, the Atlas is an outgrowth of the old \\n>Titan ICBM...\\n\\nNope, you're confusing separate programs. Atlas was the first-generation\\nUS ICBM; Titan I was the second-generation one; Titan II, which all the\\nTitan launchers are based on, was the third-generation heavy ICBM. There\\nwas essentially nothing in common between these three programs.\\n\\n(Yes, *three* programs. Despite the similarity of names, Titan I and\\nTitan II were completely different missiles. They didn't even use the\\nsame fuels, never mind the same launch facilities.)\\n\\n>If so, there's probably quite a few old pads, albeit in need \\n>of some serious reconditioning. Still, Being able to buy the turf and \\n>pad (and bunkers, including prep facility) at Midwest farmland prices \\n>strikes me as pretty damned cheap.\\n\\nSorry, the Titan silos (a) can't handle the Titan launchers with their\\nlarge SRBs, (b) can't handle *any* sort of launcher without massive\\nviolations of normal range-safety rules (nobody cares about such things\\nin the event of a nuclear war, but in peacetime they matter), and (c) were\\nscrapped years ago.\\n\",\n", " 'From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nSubject: Re: Toxoplasmosis\\nReply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nOrganization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science\\nLines: 33\\n\\nIn article <1240002@isoit109.BBN.HP.COM> sude@isoit109.BBN.HP.COM (#Susanne Denninger) writes:\\n>\\n>1. How dangerous is it ? From whom is it especially dangerous ?\\n>\\nDangerous only to immune suppressed persons and fetuses. To them,\\nit is extremely dangerous. Most of the rest of us have already had\\nit and it isn\\'t dangerous at all.\\n\\n>2. How is it transmitted (I read about raw meat and cats, but I\\'d like to\\n> have more details) ?\\n>\\nCat feces are the worst. Pregnant women should never touch the litter box.\\n\\n>3. What can be done to prevent infection ?\\n>\\nCook your meat. Watch it with pets.\\n\\n>4. What are the symptoms and long-term effects ?\\n>\\nYou\\'ll have to read up on it. \\n\\n>5. What treatments are availble ?\\n>\\n\\nThere is an effective antibiotic that can keep it in check.\\nOf course, it can\\'t reverse damage already done, such as in\\na fetus.\\n\\n-- \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nGordon Banks N3JXP | \"Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and\\ngeb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu | it is shameful to surrender it too soon.\" \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n',\n", " 'Subject: Burzynski\\'s \"Antineoplastons\"\\nFrom: jschwimmer@wccnet.wcc.wesleyan.edu (Josh Schwimmer)\\nDistribution: world\\nOrganization: Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT USA\\nNntp-Posting-Host: consultants.con.wesleyan.edu\\nLines: 20\\n\\nI\\'ve recently listened to a tape by Dr. Stanislaw Burzynski, in which he \\nclaims to have discovered a series naturally occuring peptides with anti-\\ncancer properties that he names antineoplastons. Burzynski says that his \\nwork has met with hostility in the United States, despite the favorable \\nresponses of his subjects during clinical trials.\\n\\nWhat is the generally accepted opinion of Dr. Burzynski\\'s research? He \\npaints himself as a lone researcher with a new breakthrough battling an \\nintolerant medical establishment, but I have no basis from which to judge \\nhis claims. Two weeks ago, however, I read that the NIH\\'s Department of \\nAlternative Medicine has decided to focus their attention on Burzynski\\'s \\nwork. Their budget is so small that I imagine they wouldn\\'t investigate a \\ntreatment that didn\\'t seem promising.\\n\\nAny opinions on Burzynski\\'s antineoplastons or information about the current \\nstatus of his research would be appreciated.\\n\\n--\\nJoshua Schwimmer\\njschwimmer@eagle.wesleyan.edu\\n',\n", " \"From: nicho@vnet.IBM.COM (Greg Stewart-Nicholls)\\nSubject: Re: Why not give $1 billion to first year-long moon residents?\\nReply-To: nicho@vnet.ibm.com\\nDisclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not those of IBM\\nNews-Software: UReply 3.1\\nX-X-From: nicho@vnet.ibm.com\\n <1993Apr20.001428.724@indyvax.iupui.edu>\\nLines: 14\\n\\nIn <1993Apr20.001428.724@indyvax.iupui.edu> tffreeba@indyvax.iupui.edu writes:\\n>Let's play a game - What would be a reasonable reward? What companies would\\n>have a reasonable shot at pulling off such a feat? Just where in the\\n>budget would the reward come from? Should there be a time limit? Would a\\n>straight cash money award be enough or should we throw in say . . .\\n>exclusive mining rights for the first fifty years? You get the idea.\\n A cash award is OK. A time limit would be nice. You can't give away\\nmining rights (assuming there's anything to mine) because you don't own\\nthem.\\n -----------------------------------------------------------------\\n .sig files are like strings ... every yo-yo's got one.\\n\\nGreg Nicholls ... nicho@vnet.ibm.com (business) or\\n nicho@olympus.demon.co.uk (private)\\n\",\n", " 'From: caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX)\\nSubject: Re: My New Diet --> IT WORKS GREAT !!!!\\nOrganization: Omen Technology INC, Portland Rain Forest\\nLines: 33\\n\\nIn article <19687@pitt.UUCP> geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks) writes:\\n>\\n>In article <1993Apr13.093300.29529@omen.UUCP> caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX) writes:\\n>>\\n>>\"Weight rebound\" is a term used in the medical literature on\\n>>obesity to denote weight regain beyond what was lost in a diet\\n>>cycle. There are any number of terms which mean one thing to\\n>\\n>Can you provide a reference to substantiate that gaining back\\n>the lost weight does not constitute \"weight rebound\" until it\\n>exceeds the starting weight? Or is this oral tradition that\\n>is shared only among you obesity researchers?\\n\\nNot one, but two:\\n\\nObesity in Europe 88,\\nproceedings of the 1st European Congress on Obesity\\n\\nAnnals of NY Acad. Sci. 1987\\n\\n\\n>-- \\n>----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n>Gordon Banks N3JXP | \"Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and\\n>geb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu | it is shameful to surrender it too soon.\" \\n>----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n\\n\\n-- \\nChuck Forsberg WA7KGX ...!tektronix!reed!omen!caf \\nAuthor of YMODEM, ZMODEM, Professional-YAM, ZCOMM, and DSZ\\n Omen Technology Inc \"The High Reliability Software\"\\n17505-V NW Sauvie IS RD Portland OR 97231 503-621-3406\\n',\n", " 'From: ruegg@med.unc.edu (Robert G. Ruegg)\\nSubject: Re: Eugenics\\nKeywords: gene pool; wisdom; virtue\\nNntp-Posting-Host: naples.med.unc.edu\\nOrganization: UNC-CH School of Medicine\\nLines: 84\\n\\nSubject: Re: Eugenics\\n(Gordon Banks) writes:\\n/\\n;Probably within 50 years, a new type of eugenics will be possible. \\n;Maybe even sooner. We are now mapping the human genome. We will \\n;then start to work on manipulation of that genome. Using genetic\\n;engineering, we will be able to insert whatever genes we want.\\n;No breeding, no \"hybrids\", etc. The ethical question is, should\\n;we?\\n \\nTwo past problems with eugenics have been \\n1) reducing the gene pool and \\n2) defining the status of the eugenized.\\n \\nInserting genes would not seem to reduce the gene pool unless the inserted\\ngenes later became transmissible to progeny. Then they may be able to\\ncrowd out \"garbage genes.\" This may in the future become possible. Even if\\nit does, awareness of the need to maintain the gene pool would hopefully\\nmean provisions will be made for saving genes that may come in handy\\nlater. Evidently the genes for sickle cell disease in equatorial Africa\\nand for diabetes in the Hopi *promoted* survival in some conditions. We\\ndon\\'t really know what the future may hold for our environment. The\\nreduced wilderness- and disease-survival capacity of our relatively inbred\\ndomesticated animals comes to mind. Vulcanism, nuclear winter, ice age,\\nmeteor impact, new microbiological threats, famine, global warming, etc.,\\netc., are all conceivable. Therefore, having as many genes as possible\\navailable is a good strategy for species survival. \\n \\nOf course, the status of genetically altered individuals would start out\\nas no different than anyone else\\'s. But if we could make\\n\"philosopher-kings\" with great bodies and long lives, would we (or they)\\nwant to give them elevated status? We could. The Romans did it with their\\nkings *without* the benefits of such eugenics. The race eventually\\nrealized and dealt with the problems which that caused, but for a while,\\nit was a problem. Orwell introduced us to the notion of what might happen\\nto persons genetically altered for more menial tasks. But there is nothing\\nnew under the sun. We treated slaves the same way for millennia before\\n\"1984.\" \\n \\nI see no inherent problem with gene therapy which avoids at least these 2\\nproblems. Humans have always had trouble having the virtue and wisdom to\\nuse any power that falls into their hands to good ends all the time. That\\nhasn\\'t stopped the race as a whole yet. Many are the civilizations which\\nhave died from inability to adapt to environmental change. However, also\\nmany are the civilizations which have died from the abuse of their own\\npower. The ones which survived have hopefully learned a lesson from the\\nfates of others, and have survived by making better choices when their\\nturns came.\\n \\nNot that I don\\'t think that this gene altering power couldn\\'t wipe us off\\nthe face of the earth or cause endless suffering. Nuclear power or global\\nwarming or whatever could and may still do that, too. \\n \\nThe real issue is an issue of wisdom and virtue. I personally don\\'t think\\nman has enough wisdom and virtue to pull this next challenge off any\\nbetter than he did the for last few. We, as eugenists, may make it, an we\\nmay not. If we don\\'t, I hope there are reservoirs of \"garbage\" people out\\nin some backwater with otherwise long discarded \"garbage\" genes which will\\npull us through. \\n \\nI believe that the real problem is and will probably always be the same.\\nMan needs to accept input from the great spirit of God to overcome his\\nlacks in the area of knowing how to use the power he has. Some men have,\\nand I believe all men may, listen to and obey the still small voice of God\\nin their hearts. This is the way to begin to recieve the wisdom and virtue\\nneeded to escape the problems consequent to poor choices. Peoples have\\ndied out for many reasons. The societies which failed to accept enough\\ninput from God to safely use the power they had developed have destroyed\\nthemselves, and often others in the process. It is self-evident that the\\nones which survive today have either accepted enough input from the Spirit\\nto use their powers wisely enough to avoid or survive their own mistakes\\nthus far, or else haven\\'t had enough power for long enough. \\n \\nIn summary, I would say that the question of whether to use this new\\ntechnology is really an ancient one. And the answer, in some ways hard, in\\nsome ways easy, is the same ancient answer. It isn\\'t the power, it is the\\nSpirit.\\n \\nSorry for the long post. Got carried away.\\n \\nBob (ruegg@med.unc.edu)\\n\\n\\n\\n',\n", " 'From: x92lee22@gw.wmich.edu\\nSubject: Re: Is MSG sensitivity superstition?\\nOrganization: Western Michigan University\\nLines: 33\\n\\nIn article , annick@cortex.physiol.su.oz.au (Annick Ansselin) writes:\\n> In marco@sdf.lonestar.org (Steve Giammarco) writes:\\n> \\n>>>\\n>>>And to add further fuel to the flame war, I read about 20 years ago that\\n>>>the \"natural\" MSG - extracted from the sources you mention above - does not\\n>>>cause the reported aftereffects; it\\'s only that nasty \"artificial\" MSG -\\n>>>extracted from coal tar or whatever - that causes Chinese Restaurant\\n>>>Syndrome. I find this pretty hard to believe; has anyone else heard it?\\n> \\n> MSG is mono sodium glutamate, a fairly straight forward compound. If it is\\n> pure, the source should not be a problem. Your comment suggests that \\n> impurities may be the cause.\\n> My experience of MSG effects (as part of a double blind study) was that the\\n> pure stuff caused me some rather severe effects.\\n> \\n>>I was under the (possibly incorrect) assumption that most of the MSG on\\n>>our foods was made from processing sugar beets. Is this not true? Are \\n>>there other sources of MSG?\\n> \\n> Soya bean, fermented cheeses, mushrooms all contain MSG. \\n> \\n>>I am one of those folx who react, sometimes strongly, to MSG. However,\\n>>I also react strongly to sodium chloride (table salt) in excess. Each\\n>>causes different symptoms except for the common one of rapid heartbeat\\n>>and an uncomfortable feeling of pressure in my chest, upper left quadrant.\\n> \\n> The symptoms I had were numbness of jaw muscles in the first instance\\n> followed by the arms then the legs, headache, lethargy and unable to keep\\n> awake. I think it may well affect people differently.\\n\\nWell, I think msg is made from a kind of plant call \"tapioca\" and not those\\nstaff you mentiond above.\\n',\n", " \"From: gfk39017@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (George F. Krumins)\\nSubject: Re: Vandalizing the sky.\\nOrganization: University of Illinois at Urbana\\nLines: 59\\n\\nnicho@vnet.IBM.COM (Greg Stewart-Nicholls) writes:\\n\\n>In George F. Krumins writes:\\n>>It is so typical that the rights of the minority are extinguished by the\\n>>wants of the majority, no matter how ridiculous those wants might be.\\n> Umm, perhaps you could explain what 'rights' we are talking about\\n>here ..\\n> -----------------------------------------------------------------\\n>Greg Nicholls ... : Vidi\\n>nicho@vnet.ibm.com or : Vici\\n>nicho@olympus.demon.co.uk : Veni\\n\\nI was suggesting that the minority of professional and amateur astronomers\\nhave the right to a dark, uncluttered night sky.\\n\\nLet me give you an example. When you watch TV, they have commercials to pay\\nfor the programming. You accept that as part of watching. If you don't like\\nit, you can turn it off. If you want to view the night sky, and there is a\\nfloating billboard out there, you can't turn it off. It's the same \\nreasoning that limits billboards in scenic areas.\\n\\nPat writes:\\nGeorge.\\n\\n\\tIt's called a democracy. The majority rules. sorry.\\nIf ytou don't like it, I suggest you modify the constitution to include\\na constitutional right to Dark Skies. The theory of government\\nhere is that the majority rules, except in the nature of fundamental\\ncivil rights.\\n\\nI say: \\n\\tAny reasonably in-depth perusal of American history will show\\n\\tyou that many WASPs have continued the practices of prejudice,\\n\\tdiscrimination, and violence against others of different\\n\\traces, religions, and beliefs, despite the law.\\n\\nPat says:\\nIf you really are annoyed, get some legislation\\nto create a dark sky zone, where in all light emissions are protected\\nin the zone. Kind of like the national radio quiet zone. Did you\\nknow about that? near teh Radio telescope observatory in West virginia,\\nthey have a 90?????? mile EMCON zone. Theoretically they can prevent\\nyou from running light AC motors, like air conditioners and Vacuums.\\nIn practice, they use it mostly to control large radio users.\\n\\nI say:\\nWhat I'm objecting to here is a floating billboard that, presumably,\\nwould move around in the sky. I, for one, am against legislating\\nat all. I just wish that people had a bit of common courtesy, and\\nwould consider how their greed for money impacts the more ethereal and\\naesthetic values that make us human. This includes the need for wild\\nand unspoiled things, including the night sky.\\n\\nGeorge\\n-- \\n| George Krumins /^\\\\ The Serpent and the Rainbow | \\n| gfk39017@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu <^^. .^^> |\\n| Pufferish Observatory <_ (o) _> |\\n| \\\\_/ | \\n\",\n", " 'From: rind@enterprise.bih.harvard.edu (David Rind)\\nSubject: Re: Thrush (was: Good Grief! (was Re: Candida Albicans: what is it?)\\nOrganization: Beth Israel Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston Mass., USA\\nLines: 24\\nDistribution: world\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: enterprise.bih.harvard.edu\\n\\nIn article <21APR199308571323@ucsvax.sdsu.edu> mccurdy@ucsvax.sdsu.edu\\n (McCurdy M.) writes:\\n>My dentist (who sees a fair amount of thrush) recommended acidophilous:\\n>After I began taking acidophilous on a daily basis, the outbreaks ceased.\\n>When I quit taking the acidophilous, the outbreaks periodically resumed. \\n>I resumed taking the acidophilous with no further outbreaks since then.\\n\\nThis is the second post which seems to be blurring the distinction\\nbetween real disease caused by Candida albicans and the \"disease\"\\nthat was being asked about, systemic yeast syndrome.\\n\\nThere is no question that Candida albicans causes thrush. It also\\nseems to be the case that active yogurt cultures with acidophilous\\nmay reduce recurrences of thrush at least for vaginal thrush -- I\\'ve \\nnever heard of anyone taking it for oral thrush before (though \\npresumably it would work by the same mechanism).\\n\\nCandida is clearly a common minor pathogen and a less common major\\npathogen. That does not mean that there is evidence that it causes\\nthe \"systemic yeast syndrome\".\\n\\n-- \\nDavid Rind\\nrind@enterprise.bih.harvard.edu\\n',\n", " \"From: nickh@CS.CMU.EDU (Nick Haines)\\nSubject: Re: Level 5?\\nIn-Reply-To: 18084TM@msu.edu's message of Tue, 20 Apr 1993 21:37:55 GMT\\nOriginator: nickh@SNOW.FOX.CS.CMU.EDU\\nNntp-Posting-Host: snow.fox.cs.cmu.edu\\nOrganization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University\\nDistribution: sci\\nLines: 50\\n\\nIn article 18084TM@msu.edu (Tom) writes:\\n\\n Nick Haines sez;\\n >(given that I've heard the Shuttle software rated as Level 5 in\\n >maturity, I strongly doubt that this [having lots of bugs] is the case).\\n\\n Level 5? Out of how many? What are the different levels? I've never\\n heard of this rating system. Anyone care to clue me in?\\n\\nThis is a rating system used by ARPA and other organisations to\\nmeasure the maturity of a `software process' i.e. the entire process\\nby which software gets designed, written, tested, delivered, supported\\netc.\\n\\nSee `Managing the Software Process', by Watts S. Humphrey, Addison\\nWesley 1989. An excellent software engineering text. The 5 levels of\\nsoftware process maturity are:\\n\\n1. Initial\\n2. Repeatable\\n3. Defined\\n4. Managed\\n5. Optimizing\\n\\nThe levels are approximately characterized as follows:\\n\\n1. no statistically software process control. Have no statistical\\n basis for estimating how large software will be, how long it will\\n take to produce, how expensive it will be, or how reliable it will\\n be. Most software production is at this level.\\n\\n2. stable process with statistical controls, rigorous project\\n management; having done something once, can do it again. Projects\\n are planned in detail, and there is software configuration\\n management and quality assurance.\\n\\n3. The process is defined and understood, implementation is\\n consistent. This includes things like software inspection, a\\n rigorous software testing framework, more configuration management,\\n and typically a `software engineering process group' within the\\n project.\\n\\n4. Statistical information on the software is systematically gathered\\n and analysed, and the process is controlled on the basis of this\\n information. Software quality is measured and has goals.\\n\\n5. Defects are prevented, the process is automated, software contracts\\n are effective and certified.\\n\\nNick Haines nickh@cmu.edu\\n\",\n", " 'From: ron.roth@rose.com (ron roth)\\nSubject: Selective Placebo\\nX-Gated-By: Usenet <==> RoseMail Gateway (v1.70)\\nOrganization: Rose Media Inc, Toronto, Ontario.\\nLines: 30\\n\\nT(> Russell Turpin responds to article by Ron Roth:\\nT(>\\nT(> R> ... I don\\'t doubt that the placebo effect is alive and well with\\nT(> R> EVERY medical modality - estimated by some to be around 20+%,\\nT(> R> but why would it be higher with alternative versus conventional \\nT(> R> medicine?\"\\nT(> \\nT(> How do you know that it is? If you could show this by careful \\nT(> measurement, I suspect you would have a paper worthy of publication\\nT(> in a variety of medical journals. \\nT(> \\nT(> Russell \\n\\n If you notice the question mark at the end of the sentence, I was\\n addressing that very question to that person (who has a dog named\\n sugar) and a few other people who seem to be of the same opinion.\\n\\n I would love to have anyone come up with a study to support their\\n claims that the placebo effect is more prevalent with alternative\\n compared to conventional medicine.\\n Perhaps the study could also include how patients respond if they\\n are dissatisfied with a conventional versus an alternative doctor,\\n i.e. which practitioner is more likely to get punched in the face\\n when the success of the treatment doesn\\'t meet the expectations of \\n the patient!\\n\\n --Ron-- \\n---\\n RoseReader 2.00 P003228: When in doubt, make it sound convincing!\\n RoseMail 2.10 : Usenet: Rose Media - Hamilton (416) 575-5363\\n',\n", " 'From: jafoust@cco.caltech.edu (Jeff Foust)\\nSubject: Re: New planet/Kuiper object found?\\nOrganization: Caltech: Pasadena, California, USA\\nLines: 12\\nDistribution: sci\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: sandman.caltech.edu\\n\\nIn a recent article jdnicoll@prism.ccs.uwo.ca (James Davis Nicoll) writes:\\n>\\tIf the new Kuiper belt object *is* called \\'Karla\\', the next\\n>one should be called \\'Smiley\\'.\\n\\nUnless I\\'m imaging things, (always a possibility =) 1992 QB1, the Kuiper Belt\\nobject discovered last year, is known as Smiley.\\n\\n-- \\nJeff Foust [49 days!]\\t\"You\\'re from outer space.\"\\nSenior, Planetary Science, Caltech\\t\"No, I\\'m from Iowa. I only work in\\njafoust@cco.caltech.edu\\t\\t\\t outer space.\"\\njeff@scn1.jpl.nasa.gov\\t\\t\\t-- from Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home\\n',\n", " 'From: rls@uihepa.hep.uiuc.edu (Ray Swartz (Oh, that guy again))\\nSubject: Re: japanese moon landing?\\nReply-To: rls@uihepa.hep.uiuc.edu\\nOrganization: Vis-Orb Tragnetics Recorporation\\nLines: 35\\n\\nIn article , henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:\\n>In article dannyb@panix.com (Daniel Burstein) writes:\\n>>A short story in the newspaper a few days ago made some sort of mention\\n>>about how the Japanese, using what sounded like a gravity assist, had just\\n>>managed to crash (or crash-land) a package on the moon.\\n>\\n>Their Hiten engineering-test mission spent a while in a highly eccentric\\n>Earth orbit doing lunar flybys, and then was inserted into lunar orbit\\n>using some very tricky gravity-assist-like maneuvering. This meant that\\n>it would crash on the Moon eventually, since there is no such thing as\\n>a stable lunar orbit (as far as anyone knows), and I believe I recall\\n>hearing recently that it was about to happen.\\n\\n\\nThe gravity maneuvering that was used was to exploit \\'fuzzy regions\\'. These\\nare described by the inventor as exploiting the second-order perturbations in a\\nthree body system. The probe was launched into this region for the\\nearth-moon-sun system, where the perturbations affected it in such a way as to\\nallow it to go into lunar orbit without large expenditures of fuel to slow\\ndown. The idea is that \\'natural objects sometimes get captured without\\nexpending fuel, we\\'ll just find the trajectory that makes it possible\". The\\noriginator of the technique said that NASA wasn\\'t interested, but that Japan\\nwas because their probe was small and couldn\\'t hold a lot of fuel for\\ndeceleration.\\n\\n\\tThis from an issue of \\'Science News\\' or \\'The Planetary Report\\' I\\nbelieve, about 2 months ago(?).\\n\\n\\nRaymond L. Swartz Jr. (rls@uihepa.hep.uiuc.edu)\\n================================================================================\\nI read the newspaper today and was amazed that, in 24 hours, five billion\\npeople could accomplish so little.\\n================================================================================\\n\\n',\n", " \"From: harvey@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Betty Harvey)\\nSubject: Re: Is MSG sensitivity superstition?\\nReply-To: harvey@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Betty Harvey)\\nOrganization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD\\nLines: 30\\n\\nIn rec.food.cooking, packer@delphi.gsfc.nasa.gov (Charles Packer) writes:\\n>Is there such a thing as MSG (monosodium glutamate) sensitivity?\\n>I saw in the NY Times Sunday that scientists have testified before\\n>an FDA advisory panel that complaints about MSG sensitivity are\\n>superstition. Anybody here have experience to the contrary?\\n>\\nI know that there is MSG sensitivity. When I eat foods with MSG I get\\nvery thirsty and my hands swell and get a terrible itchy rash. I first\\nexperienced this problem when I worked close to Chinatown and ate Chinese\\nfood almost everyday for lunch. Now I can't tolerate MSG at all. I can\\nnotice immediately when I have eaten any. I try to avoid MSG completely.\\n\\nInteresting fact though is that all three of my children started experiencing\\nthe exact same rash on their hands. I couldn't understand why because I\\ndon't MSG in cooking and we ask for no MSG when we do eat Chinese (I still\\nlove it). After some investigation I knew that Oodles of Noodles where\\none of their favorite foods. One of the main ingredients in the flavor\\npackets is MSG. Now I look at all labels. You would be surprised at\\nplaces you find MSG.\\n\\n\\n/\\\\/\\\\/\\\\/\\\\/\\\\/\\\\/\\\\/\\\\/\\\\/\\\\/\\\\/\\\\/\\\\/\\\\/\\\\/\\\\/\\\\/\\\\/\\\\/\\\\/\\\\/\\\\/\\\\/\\\\/\\\\/\\\\/\\\\/\\\\/\\\\/\\\\/\\\\/\\\\/\\\\/\\\\/\\nBetty Harvey | David Taylor Model Basin\\nADP, Networking and Communication Assessment | Carderock Division\\n Branch | Naval Surface Warfare\\nCode 1221 | Center\\nBethesda, Md. 20084-5000 | DTMB,CD,NSWC \\n | \\n(301)227-3379 FAX (301)227-3343 | \\n/\\\\/\\\\/\\\\/\\\\/\\\\/\\\\/\\\\/\\\\/\\\\/\\\\/\\\\/\\\\/\\\\/\\\\/\\\\/\\\\/\\\\/\\\\/\\\\/\\\\/\\\\/\\\\/\\\\/\\\\/\\\\/\\\\/\\\\/\\\\/\\\\/\\\\/\\\\/\\\\\\\\/\\\\/\\n\",\n", " \"From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)\\nSubject: Re: Hismanal, et. al.--side effects\\nOrganization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA\\nLines: 15\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr20.212706.820@lrc.edu> kjiv@lrc.edu writes:\\n>Can someone tell me whether or not any of the following medications \\n>has been linked to rapid/excessive weight gain and/or a distorted \\n>sense of taste or smell: Hismanal; Azmacort (a topical steroid to \\n>prevent asthma); Vancenase.\\n\\nHismanal (astemizole) is most definitely linked to weight gain.\\nIt really is peculiar that some antihistamines have this effect,\\nand even more so an antihistamine like astemizole which purportedly\\ndoesn't cross the blood-brain barrier and so tends not to cause\\ndrowsiness.\\n\\n-- \\nSteve Dyer\\ndyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer\\n\",\n", " 'From: edm@twisto.compaq.com (Ed McCreary)\\nSubject: Re: Keeping Spacecraft on after Funding Cuts.\\nIn-Reply-To: nicho@vnet.IBM.COM\\'s message of Fri, 23 Apr 93 09: 06:09 BST\\nOrganization: Compaq Computer Corp\\n\\t<1r6aqr$dnv@access.digex.net> \\n\\t<19930423.010821.639@almaden.ibm.com>\\nLines: 14\\n\\n>>>>> On Fri, 23 Apr 93 09:06:09 BST, nicho@vnet.IBM.COM (Greg Stewart-Nicholls) said:\\nGS> How about transferring control to a non-profit organisation that is\\nGS> able to accept donations to keep craft operational.\\n\\nI seem to remember NASA considering this for some of the Apollo\\nequipment left on the moon, but that they decided against it.\\n\\nOr maybe not...\\n\\n\\n--\\nEd McCreary ,__o\\nedm@twisto.compaq.com _-\\\\_<, \\n\"If it were not for laughter, there would be no Tao.\" (*)/\\'(*)\\n',\n", " 'From: Dan Wallach \\nSubject: FAQ: Typing Injuries (4/4): Software Monitoring Tools [monthly posting]\\nSupersedes: \\nOrganization: University of California, Berkeley\\nLines: 333\\nExpires: 22 May 1993 01:24:03 GMT\\nReply-To: Richard Donkin \\nNNTP-Posting-Host: elmer-fudd.cs.berkeley.edu\\nSummary: software tools to help out injured typists\\nOriginator: dwallach@elmer-fudd.cs.berkeley.edu\\n\\nArchive-name: typing-injury-faq/software\\nVersion: 1.8, 7th December 1992\\n\\nThis FAQ is actually maintained by Richard Donkin .\\nI post it, along with the other FAQ stuff. If you have questions, you want\\nto send mail to Richard, not me. -- Dan\\n \\n \\n\\t\\t Software Tools to help with RSI\\n\\t\\t -------------------------------\\n \\nThis file describes tools, primarily software, to help prevent or manage RSI.\\nThis version now includes information on such diverse tools as calendar\\nprograms and digital watches...\\n \\nPlease let me know if you know any other tools, or if you have information\\nor opinions on these ones, and I will update this FAQ.\\n\\nI am especially interested in getting reviews of these products from people\\nwho have evaluated them or are using them. \\n \\nRichard Donkin \\nInternet mail: richardd@hoskyns.co.uk \\nTel: +44 71 814 5708 (direct)\\nFax: +44 71 251 2853\\n\\nChanges in this version:\\n\\n Added information on StressFree, another typing management tool \\n for Windows.\\n\\n\\nTYPING MANAGEMENT TOOLS: these aim to help you manage your keyboard use,\\nby warning you to take a break every so often. The better ones also include\\nadvice on exercises, posture and workstation setup. Some use sound hardware to\\n \\nwarn of a break, others use beeps or screen messages.\\n\\nOften, RSI appears only after many years of typing, and the pain has\\na delayed action in the short term too: frequently you can be typing\\nall day with little problem and the pain gets worse in the evening.\\nThese tools act as an early warning system: by listening to their\\nwarnings and taking breaks with exercises, you don\\'t have to wait for your \\nbody to give you a more serious and painful warning - that is, getting RSI.\\n\\n \\n Tool: At Your Service (commercial software)\\n Available from:\\n\\tBright Star\\n\\tTel: +1 (206) 451 3697\\n Platforms: Mac (System 6.0.4), Windows\\n Description:\\n\\tProvides calendar, keyboard watch, email watch, and system info. \\n\\tWarns when to take a break (configurable). Has a few recommendations\\n\\ton posture, and exercises. Sound-oriented, will probably work best \\n\\twith sound card (PC) or with microphone (Mac). Should be possible\\n\\tto record your own messages to warn of break.\\n \\n Tool: AudioPort (sound card and software)\\n Available from:\\n\\tMedia Vision\\n\\tTel: +1 (510) 226 2563\\n Platforms: PC\\n Description:\\n\\tA sound card to plug into your PC parallel port.\\n\\tIncludes \\'At Your Service\\'.\\n \\n Tool: Computer Health Break (commercial software)\\n Available from:\\n\\tEscape Ergonomics, Inc\\n\\t1111 W. El Camino Real\\n\\tSuite 109\\n\\tMailstop 403\\n\\tSunnyvale, CA\\n\\tTel: +1 (408) 730 8410\\n Platforms: DOS\\n Description:\\n\\tAimed at preventing RSI, this program warns you to take\\n\\tbreaks after a configurable interval, based on clock time, or\\n\\tafter a set number of keystrokes -- whichever is earlier.\\n\\tIt gives you 3 exercises to do each time, randomly selected from\\n\\ta set of 70. Exercises are apparently tuned to the type of work\\n\\tyou do - data entry, word processing, information processing.\\n\\tExercises are illustrated and include quite a lot of text on\\n\\thow to do the exercise and on what exactly the exercise does.\\n\\n\\tCHB includes hypertext information on RSI that you can use \\n\\tto learn more about RSI and how to prevent it. Other information\\n\\ton non-RSI topics can be plugged into this hypertext viewer.\\n\\tA full glossary of medical terms and jargon is included.\\n\\n\\tCHB can be run in a DOS box under Windows, but does not then\\n\\twarn you when to take a break; it does not therefore appear\\n\\tuseful when used with Windows.\\n\\n\\tCost: $79.95; quantity discounts, site licenses.\\n\\n Comments:\\n\\tThe keystroke-counting approach looks good: it seems better\\n\\tto measure the activity that is causing you problems than to\\n\\tmeasure clock time or even typing time. The marketing stuff\\n\\tis very good and includes some summaries of research papers,\\n\\tas well as lots of arguments you can use to get your company \\n\\tto pay up for RSI management tools. \\n\\n Tool: EyerCise (commercial software)\\n Available from:\\n\\tRAN Enterprises\\n\\tOne Woodland Park Dr.\\n\\tHaverhill, MA 01830, US\\n\\tTel: 800-451-4487 (US only)\\n Platforms: Windows (3.0/3.1), OS/2 PM (1.3/2.0) [Not DOS]\\n Description:\\n\\tAimed at preventing RSI and eye strain, this program warns you to take\\n\\tbreaks after a configurable interval (or at fixed times). Optionally\\n\\tdisplays descriptions and pictures of exercises - pictures are\\n\\tanimated and program beeps you to help you do exercises at the\\n\\tcorrect rate. Includes 19 stretches and 4 visual training \\n\\texercises, can configure which are included and how many repetitions\\n\\tyou do - breaks last from 3 to 7 minutes. Also includes online help \\n\\ton workplace ergonomics. \\n\\n\\tQuote from their literature:\\n\\n\\t\"EyerCise is a Windows program that breaks up your day with periodic\\n\\tsets of stretches and visual training exercises. The stretches work\\n\\tall parts of your body, relieving tension and helping to prevent\\n\\tRepetitive Strain Injury. The visual training exercises will improve\\n\\tyour peripheral vision and help to relieve eye strain. Together these\\n\\thelp you to become more relaxed and productive.\"\\n \\n\\t\"The package includes the book _Computers & Visual Stress_ by Edward C.\\n\\tGodnig, O.D. and John S. Hacunda, which describes the ergonomic setup\\n\\tfor a computer workstation and provides procedures and exercises to\\n\\tpromote healthy and efficient computer use. \\n\\t\\n\\tCost: $69.95 including shipping and handling, quantity discounts\\n\\tfor resellers. Free demo ($5 outside US).\\n \\n Comments:\\n\\tI have a copy of this, and it works as advertised: I would say\\n\\tit is better for RSI prevention than RSI management, because it\\n\\tdoes not allow breaks at periods less than 30 minutes. Also, it\\n\\tinterrupts you based on clock time rather than typing time, which\\n\\tis not so helpful unless you use the keyboard all day. Worked OK on\\n\\tWindows 3.0 though it did occasionally crash with a UAE - not sure\\n\\twhy. Also refused to work with the space bar on one PC, and has\\n\\tone window without window controls. Very usable though, and does not\\n\\trequire any sound hardware.\\n\\n Tool: Lifeguard (commercial software)\\n Available from:\\n\\tVisionary Software\\n\\tP.O. Box 69447\\n\\tPortland, OR 97201, US\\n\\tTel: +1 (503) 246-6200\\n Platforms: Mac, DOS (Windows version underway)\\n Description:\\n\\tAimed at preventing RSI. Warns you to take a break\\n\\twith dialog box and sound. Includes a list of exercises\\n\\tto do during breaks, and information on configuring your\\n\\tworkstation in an ergonomic manner. Price: $59;\\n\\tquantity discounts and site licenses. The DOS product is\\n\\tbought in from another company, apparently; not sure how\\n\\tequivalent this is to the Mac version.\\n\\t\\n\\tThe Mac version got a good review in Desktop Publisher \\n\\tMagazine (Feb 1991). Good marketing stuff with useful \\n\\t2-page summaries of RSI problems and solutions, with \\n\\treferences.\\n \\n Tool: StressFree (commercial software, free usable demo)\\n Available from:\\n\\tLifeTime Software\\n\\tP.O. Box 87522\\n\\tHouston\\n\\tTexas 77287-7522, US\\n\\tTel: 800-947-2178 (US only)\\n\\tFax: +1 (713) 474-2067\\n\\tMail: 70412.727@compuserve.com\\n\\n\\tDemo (working program but reduced functions) available from:\\n\\t Compuserve: Windows Advanced Forum, New Uploads section, or \\n\\t\\t\\tHealth and Fitness Forum, Issues At Work section. \\n\\t Anon FTP: ftp.cica.indiana.edu (and mirroring sites)\\n\\n Platforms: Windows (3.0/3.1) (Mac and DOS versions underway)\\n Description:\\n\\tAimed at preventing RSI, this program warns you to take\\n\\tbreaks after a configurable interval (or at fixed times). \\n\\tDisplays descriptions and pictures of exercises - pictures are\\n\\tanimated and program paces you to help you do exercises at the\\n\\tcorrect rate. Quite a few exercises, can configure which ones\\n\\tare included to some extent. Online help.\\n\\n\\tVersion 2.0 is out soon, Mac and DOS versions will be based\\n\\ton this.\\n\\n\\tCost: $29.95 if support via CompuServe or Internet, otherwise $39.95. \\n Site license for 3 or more copies is $20.00 each.\\n\\t (NOTE: prices may have gone up for V2.0).\\n \\n Comments:\\n\\tI have had a play with this, and it works OK. Its user interface\\n\\tdesign is much better in 2.0, though still a bit unusual.\\n\\texpensive tool around and it does the job. It is also the only\\n\\ttool with a redistributable demo, so if you do get the demo, post it\\n\\ton your local bulletin boards, FTP servers and Bitnet servers!\\n\\tDoes not include general info on RSI and ergonomics, but it does \\n\\thave the ability to step backward in the exercise sequence,\\n\\twhich is good for repeating the most helpful exercises.\\n\\n Tool: Typewatch (freeware), version 3.8 (October 1992)\\n Available from:\\n\\tEmail to richardd@hoskyns.co.uk\\n\\tAnonymous ftp: soda.berkeley.edu:pub/typing-injury/typewatch.shar\\n Platforms: UNIX (tested on SCO, SunOS, Mach; character and X Window mode)\\n Description:\\n\\tThis is a shell script that runs in the background and warns you\\n\\tto stop typing, based on how long you have been continuously\\n\\ttyping. It does not provide exercises, but it does check\\n\\tthat you really do take a break, and tells you when you\\n\\tcan start typing again. \\n\\n\\tTypewatch now tells you how many minutes you have been typing\\n\\ttoday, each time it warns you, which is useful so you\\n\\tknow how much you *really* type. It also logs information\\n\\tto a file that you can analyse or simply print out. \\n\\n\\tThe warning message appears on your screen (in character mode),\\n\\tin a pop-up window (for X Windows), or as a Zephyr message\\n\\t(for those with Athena stuff). Tim Freeman \\n\\thas put in a lot of bug fixes, extra features and support for \\n\\tX, Zephyr and Mach.\\n\\n\\tNot formally supported, but email richardd@hoskyns.co.uk\\n\\t(for SCO, SunOS, character mode) or tsf@cs.cmu.edu (for Mach,\\n\\tX Window mode, Zephyr) if you have problems or want to give \\n\\tfeedback.\\n\\n Tool: Various calendar / batch queue programs\\n Available from:\\n\\tVarious sources\\n Platforms: Various\\n Description:\\n\\tAny calendar/reminder program that warns you of an upcoming\\n\\tappointment can be turned into an ad hoc RSI management tool.\\n\\tOr, any batch queue submission program that lets you submit\\n\\ta program to run at a specific time to display a message to\\n\\tthe screen.\\n\\n\\tUsing Windows as an example: create a Calendar file, and\\n\\tinclude this filename in your WIN.INI\\'s \\'load=\\' line so\\n\\tyou get it on every startup of Windows. Suppose you\\n\\twant to have breaks every 30 minutes, starting from 9 am.\\n\\tPress F7 (Special Time...) to enter an appointment, enter\\n\\t9:30, hit Enter, and type some text in saying what the break\\n\\tis for. Then press F5 to set an alarm on this entry, and repeat \\n\\tfor the next appointment.\\n\\n\\tBy using Windows Recorder, you can record the keystrokes\\n\\tthat set up breaks throughout a day in a .REC file. Put this\\n\\tfile on your \\'run=\\' line, as above, and you will then, with\\n\\ta single keypress, be able to set up your daily appointments\\n\\twith RSI exercises.\\n\\n\\tThe above method should be adaptable to most calendar programs. \\n\\tAn example using batch jobs would be to submit a simple job\\n\\tthat runs at 9:30 am and warns you to take a break; this will\\n\\tdepend a lot on your operating system.\\n\\n\\tWhile these approaches are not ideal, they are a good way of forcing \\n\\tyourself to take a break if you can\\'t get hold of a suitable RSI \\n\\tmanagement tool. If you are techie enough you might want to\\n\\twrite a version of Typewatch (see above) for your operating\\n\\tsystem, using batch jobs or whatever fits best.\\n\\n Tool: Digital watches with count-down timers\\n Available from:\\n\\tVarious sources, e.g. Casio BP-100.\\n Description:\\n\\tMany digital watches have timers that count down from a settable\\n\\tnumber of minutes; they usually reset easily to that number, either\\n\\tmanually or automatically. \\n\\n\\tWhile these are a very basic tool, they are very useful if you\\n\\tare writing, reading, driving, or doing anything away from\\n\\ta computer which can still cause or aggravate RSI. The great\\n\\tadvantage is that they remind you to break from whatever you\\n\\tare doing.\\n\\t\\n Comments:\\n\\tMy own experience was that cutting down a lot on my typing led to\\n\\tmy writing a lot more, and still reading as much as ever, which\\n\\tactually aggravated the RSI in my right arm though the left\\n\\tarm improved. Getting a count-down timer watch has been\\n\\tvery useful on some occasions where I write a lot in a day.\\n\\n\\tI have tried an old fashioned hour-glass type egg timer, but\\n\\tthese are not much good because they do not give an audible\\n\\twarning of the end of the time period!\\n\\n\\nKEYBOARD REMAPPING TOOLS: these enable you to change your keyboard mapping\\nso you can type one-handedly or with a different two-handed layout. \\nOne-handed typing tools may help, but be VERY careful about how \\nyou use them -- if you keep the same overall typing workload you\\nare simply doubling your hand use for the hand that you use for typing,\\nand may therefore make matters worse.\\n\\n Tool: hsh (public domain)\\n Available from:\\n\\tAnonymous ftp: soda.berkeley.edu:pub/typing-injury/hsh.shar\\n Platforms: UNIX (don\\'t know which ones)\\n Description:\\n\\tAllows one-handed typing and other general keyboard remappings.\\n\\tOnly works through tty\\'s (so, you can use it with a terminal or\\n\\tan xterm, but not most X programs).\\n\\n Tool: Dvorak keyboard tools (various)\\n Available from:\\n\\tAnonymous ftp: soda.berkeley.edu:pub/typing-injury/xdvorak.c\\n\\tAlso built into Windows 3.x. \\n Description:\\n\\tThe Dvorak keyboard apparently uses a more rational layout\\n\\tthat involves more balanced hand use. It *may* help prevent\\n\\tRSI a bit, but you can also use it if you have RSI, since \\n\\tit will slow down your typing a *lot* :-) \\n\\n-- \\nDan Wallach \"One of the most attractive features of a Connection\\ndwallach@cs.berkeley.edu Machine is the array of blinking lights on the faces\\nOffice#: 510-642-9585 of its cabinet.\" -- CM Paris Ref. Manual, v6.0, p48.\\n',\n", " 'From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nSubject: Re: Migraines and Estrogen\\nReply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nOrganization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science\\nLines: 12\\n\\nIn article <3FB51B6w165w@jupiter.spk.wa.us> pwageman@jupiter.spk.wa.us (Peggy Wageman) writes:\\n>I read that hormonal fluctuations can contribute to migraines, could \\n>taking supplemental estrogen (ERT) cause migraines? Any information \\n\\nI\\'m not sure it is the fluctuation so much as the estrogen level.\\nTaking Premarin can certainly cause migraines in some women.\\n\\n-- \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nGordon Banks N3JXP | \"Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and\\ngeb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu | it is shameful to surrender it too soon.\" \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n',\n", " 'From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)\\nSubject: Re: DC-X: Vehicle Nears Flight Test\\nOrganization: Texas Instruments Inc\\nLines: 14\\n\\nIn <1993Apr5.191011.1@aurora.alaska.edu> nsmca@aurora.alaska.edu writes:\\n\\n>Since the DC-X is to take off horizontal, why not land that way??\\n>Why do the Martian Landing thing.. Or am I missing something.. Don\\'t know to\\n>much about DC-X and such.. (overly obvious?).\\n\\nYou missed something. I think it takes off vertically and is intended\\nto land the same way.\\n\\n-- \\n\"Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don\\'t have the balls to live\\n in the real world.\" -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden\\n------------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nFred.McCall@dseg.ti.com - I don\\'t speak for others and they don\\'t speak for me.\\n',\n", " 'From: filipe@vxcrna.cern.ch (VINCI)\\nSubject: Re: Krillean Photography\\nNews-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41 \\nOrganization: European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN\\nLines: 14\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr20.125920.15005@ircam.fr>, francis@ircam.fr (Joseph Francis) writes...\\n>In article <1993Apr19.205615.1013@unlv.edu> todamhyp@charles.unlv.edu (Brian M. Huey) writes:\\n>>I think that\\'s the correct spelling..\\n> \\n>Crullerian.\\n> \\n How about Kirlian imaging ? I believe the FAQ for sci.skeptics (sp?)\\n has a nice write-up on this. They would certainly be most supportive\\n on helping you to build such a device and connect to a 120Kvolt\\n supply so that you can take a serious look at your \"aura\"... :-)\\n\\n Filipe Santos\\n CERN - European Laboratory for Particle Physics\\n Switzerland\\n',\n", " 'From: sdbsd5@cislabs.pitt.edu (Stephen D Brener)\\nSubject: Japanese for Scientists and Engineers\\nOrganization: University of Pittsburgh\\nLines: 101\\n\\n\\n INTENSIVE JAPANESE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH THIS SUMMER\\n ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^\\n\\n\\nThe University of Pittsburgh is offering two intensive Japanese language\\ncourses this summer. Both courses, Intensive Elementary Japanese and \\nIntensive Intermediate Japanese, are ten week, ten credit courses \\neach equivalent to one full year of Japanese language study. They begin \\nJune 7 and end August 13. The courses meet five days per week, five hours \\nper day. There is a flat rate tuition charge of $1600 per course. \\nFellowships available for science and engineering students. Contact \\nSteven Brener, Program Manager of the Japanese Science and Technology\\nManagement Program, at the University of Pittsburgh at the number or\\naddress below. \\nALL INTERESTED INDIVIDUALS ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY, THIS IS NOT LIMITED TO \\nUNIVERSITY STUDENTS.\\n\\n\\n\\n \\n\\n#######################################################################\\n################# New Program Announcement ########################\\n#######################################################################\\n\\n\\n JAPANESE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT PROGRAM\\n\\nThe Japanese Science and Technology Management Program (JSTMP) is a new\\nprogram jointly developed by the University of Pittsbugh and Carnegie Mellon \\nUniversity. Students and professionals in the engineering and scientific \\ncommunitites are encouraged to apply for classes commencing in June 1993 and \\nJanuary 1994.\\n\\n\\nPROGRAM OBJECTIVES\\nThe program intends to promote technology transfer between Japan and the \\nUnited States. It is also designed to let scientists, engineers, and managers\\nexperience how the Japanese proceed with technological development. This is \\nfacilitated by extended internships in Japanese research facilities and\\nlaboratories that provide participants with the opportunity to develop\\nlong-term professional relationships with their Japanese counterparts.\\n\\n\\nPROGRAM DESIGN\\nTo fulfill the objectives of the program, participants will be required to \\ndevelop advanced language capability and a deep understanding of Japan and\\nits culture. Correspondingly, JSTMP consists of three major components:\\n\\n1. TRAINING IN THE JAPANESE LANGUAGE\\nSeveral Japanese language courses will be offered, including intensive courses\\ndesigned to expedite language preparation for scientists and engineers in a\\nrelatively short time.\\n\\n2. EDUCATION IN JAPANESE BUSINESS AND SOCIAL CULTURE\\nA particular enphasis is placed on attaining a deep understanding of the\\ncultural and educational basis of Japanese management approaches in \\nmanufacturing and information technology. Courses will be available in a \\nvariety of departments throughout both universities including Anthropology,\\nSociology, History, and Political Science. Moreover, seminars and colloquiums\\nwill be conducted. Further, a field trip to Japanese manufacturing or \\nresearch facilities in the United States will be scheduled.\\n\\n\\n3. AN INTERNSHIP OR A STUDY MISSION IN JAPAN\\nUpon completion of their language and cultural training at PITT and CMU, \\nparticipants will have the opportunity to go to Japan and observe,\\nand participate in the management of technology. Internships in Japan\\nwill generally run for one year; however, shorter ones are possible.\\n\\n\\nFELLOWSHIPS COVERING TUITION FOR LANGUAGE AND CULTURE COURSES, AS WELL AS\\nSTIPENDS FOR LIVING EXPENSES ARE AVAILABLE.\\n\\n FOR MORE INFORMATION AND APPLICATION MATERIALS CONTACT\\n\\nSTEVEN BRENER\\t\\t\\t\\tSUSIE BROWN\\nJSTMP\\t\\t\\t\\t\\tCarnegie Mellon University, GSIA\\nUniversity of Pittsburgh\\t\\tPittsburgh, PA 15213-3890\\n4E25 Forbes Quadrangle\\t\\t\\tTelephone: (412) 268-7806\\nPittsburgh, PA 15260\\t\\t\\tFAX:\\t (412) 268-8163\\nTelephone: (412) 648-7414\\t\\t\\nFAX: (412) 648-2199\\t\\t\\n\\n############################################################################\\n############################################################################ \\n\\n\\nInterested individuals, companies and institutions should respond by phone or\\nmail. Please do not inquire via e-mail.\\nPlease note that this is directed at grads and professionals, however, advanced\\nundergrads will be considered. Further, funding is resticted to US citizens\\nand permanent residents of the US.\\n\\nSteve Brener\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n',\n", " \"From: Simon.N.McRae@dartmouth.edu (Simon N McRae)\\nSubject: re: hepatitis-b\\nX-Posted-From: InterNews1.0b10@newshost.dartmouth.edu\\nOrganization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH\\nLines: 38\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr14.4274.32512@dosgate>\\nrussell.sinclair-day@canrem.com (russell sinclair-day) writes:\\n\\n> What we are really worried about is not knowing the facts. The doctor \\n> has stated that things will not be good if she is a carrier and avoids \\n> further questions on the subject. We really would like to know so we \\n> can take steps and plan in advance for any eventualities.\\n> \\n> Thank-you for your very informative post. Right now I am just trying \\n> to find out everything that I can.\\n> \\n> Russ.\\n\\nUnfortunately, Hep B infection can eventuate in chronic hepatitis and\\nsubsequent cirrhosis. Although not many patients with Hep B go on to\\nchronic hepatitis, it does still occur in a good number (20%?) and is\\nsomething to keep in mind. Hepatitis C (was: non-A, non-B Hep) much\\nmore frequently leads to chronic hep and cirrhosis. There is also an\\nautimmune chronic hepatitis that affects mostly younger women which\\nalso leads to cirrhosis. \\n\\nOf course, cirrhosis is a most unkind disease. The most dangerous\\neffects relate to portal hypertension and loss of liver function. \\nPatients develop life-threatening variceal bleeds and hepatic comas,\\namong many other problems, as a result of disturbances in hepatic\\ncirculation. Less ominously, they can exhibit the effects of\\nhyperestrogenemia which often characterize patients with cirrhosis. \\nThese effects include telangiactasias (small red skin lesions) and, in\\nmen, gynecomastia (breast development). The only real treatment for\\ncirrhosis is liver transplant.\\n\\nKeep in mind that cirrhosis is not expected, at least statistically, in\\nyour friend's case. Nevertheless you might want to bring up the\\nsubject of chronic disease and cirrhosis with the doctor. Hopefully he\\nor she can then carefully explain these sequelae of Hep B infection to\\nyou, and offer you support.\\n\\nSimon. \\n\",\n", " \"From: pyron@skndiv.dseg.ti.com (Dillon Pyron)\\nSubject: Re: Shuttle oxygen (was Budget Astronaut)\\nLines: 24\\nNntp-Posting-Host: skndiv.dseg.ti.com\\nReply-To: pyron@skndiv.dseg.ti.com\\nOrganization: TI/DSEG VAX Support\\n\\n\\nIn article <1qn044$gq5@access.digex.net>, prb@access.digex.com (Pat) writes:\\n>I thought that under emergency conditions, the STS can\\n>put down at any good size Airport. IF it could take a C-5 or a\\n>747, then it can take an orbiter. You just need a VOR/TAC\\n>\\n>I don't know if they need ILS.\\n\\nDFW was designed with the STS in mind (which really mean very little). Much of\\ntheir early PR material had scenes with a shuttle landing and two or three\\nothers pulled up to gates. I guess they were trying to stress how advanced the\\nairport was.\\n\\nFor Dallas types: Imagine the fit Grapevine and Irving would be having if the\\nshuttle WAS landing at DFW. (For the rest, they are currently having some power\\nstruggles between the airport and surrounding cities).\\n--\\nDillon Pyron | The opinions expressed are those of the\\nTI/DSEG Lewisville VAX Support | sender unless otherwise stated.\\n(214)462-3556 (when I'm here) |\\n(214)492-4656 (when I'm home) |Texans: Vote NO on Robin Hood. We need\\npyron@skndiv.dseg.ti.com |solutions, not gestures.\\nPADI DM-54909 |\\n\\n\",\n", " \"From: pwg25888@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Patrick W. Grady)\\nSubject: Re: Did any DC-X gifs show up?\\nOrganization: University of Illinois at Urbana\\nLines: 30\\n\\nfils@iastate.edu (Douglas R Fils) writes:\\n\\n>In article <1qgiah$h9g@news.cerf.net> diaspar@nic.cerf.net (Diaspar Virtual Reality Network) writes:\\n>>The rollout was great and I got lots of great shots. I attended\\n>>the press briefing and got shots of the DC-Y model, too. All\\n>>in 3D\\n>>\\n>>David H. Mitchell\\n>>\\n>>\\n>David,\\n>\\tAre you still planing on scanning these and posting them\\n>somewhere? Hope Hope Hope. If you could that would be GREAT.\\n\\n>Thanks for report of the rollout as well\\n>take care\\n>Doug\\n\\n\\tThey did the rollout already??!? I am going to have to pay more\\nattention to the news. Are any of the gifs headed for wuarchive??\\n \\n\\nPatrick\\n\\n\\n-- \\nPatrick Grady \\t\\t |How do they manage it, these humans-beginning\\n pwg25888@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu |each time so innocently, yet always ending up\\n pwg25888@sumter.cso.uiuc.edu |with the most blood on their hands?\\n\\t\\t\\t |Fathertree to bugger, O.S. Card's _Xenocide_\\n\",\n", " \"From: mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (J. D. McDonald)\\nSubject: Re: jiggers\\nArticle-I.D.: aries.mcdonald.895.734049502\\nOrganization: UIUC SCS\\nLines: 13\\n\\nIn article <78846@cup.portal.com> mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson) writes:\\n\\n>This wouldn't happen to be the same thing as chiggers, would it?\\n>A truly awful parasitic affliction, as I understand it. Tiny bugs\\n>dig deeply into the skin, burying themselves. Yuck! They have these\\n>things in Oklahoma.\\n\\nClose. My mother comes from Gainesville Tex, right across the border.\\nThey claim to be the chigger capitol of the world, and I believe them.\\nWhen I grew up in Fort Worth it was bad enough, but in Gainesville\\nin the summer an attack was guaranteed.\\n\\nDoug McDonald\\n\",\n", " 'From: djf@cck.coventry.ac.uk (Marvin Batty)\\nSubject: Re: Moon Colony Prize Race! $6 billion total?\\nNntp-Posting-Host: cc_sysk\\nOrganization: Starfleet, Coventry, UK\\nLines: 49\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr20.020259.1@aurora.alaska.edu> nsmca@aurora.alaska.edu writes:\\n>I think if there is to be a prize and such.. There should be \"classes\"\\n>such as the following:\\n>\\n>Large Corp.\\n>Small Corp/Company (based on reported earnings?)\\n>Large Government (GNP and such)\\n>Small Governemtn (or political clout or GNP?)\\n>Large Organization (Planetary Society? and such?)\\n>Small Organization (Alot of small orgs..)\\n\\nWhatabout, Schools, Universities, Rich Individuals (around 250 people \\nin the UK have more than 10 million dollars each). I reecieved mail\\nfrom people who claimed they might get a person into space for $500\\nper pound. Send a skinny person into space and split the rest of the money\\namong the ground crew!\\n>\\n>The organization things would probably have to be non-profit or liek ??\\n>\\n>Of course this means the prize might go up. Larger get more or ??\\n>Basically make the prize (total purse) $6 billion, divided amngst the class\\n>winners..\\n>More fair?\\n>\\n>There would have to be a seperate organization set up to monitor the events,\\n>umpire and such and watch for safety violations (or maybe not, if peopel want\\n>to risk thier own lives let them do it?).\\n>\\nAgreed. I volunteer for any UK attempts. But one clause: No launch methods\\nwhich are clearly dangerous to the environment (ours or someone else\\'s). No\\nusage of materials from areas of planetary importance.\\n\\n>Any other ideas??\\n\\nYes: We should *do* this rather than talk about it. Lobby people!\\nThe major problem with the space programmes is all talk/paperwork and\\nno action!\\n\\n>==\\n>Michael Adams, nsmca@acad3.alaska.edu -- I\\'m not high, just jacked\\n>\\n>\\n\\n\\n-- \\n**************************************************************************** \\n Marvin Batty - djf@uk.ac.cov.cck\\n\"And they shall not find those things, with a sort of rafia like base,\\nthat their fathers put there just the night before. At about 8 O\\'clock!\"\\n',\n", " 'From: agae@palm.lle.rochester.edu (Andres C. Gaeris)\\nSubject: Re: Orion drive in vacuum -- how?\\nReply-To: agae@palm.lle.rochester.edu (Andres C. Gaeris)\\nOrganization: UofR Laboratory for Laser Energetics\\nLines: 17\\nNntp-Posting-Host: palm.lle.rochester.edu\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr20.164655.11048@head-cfa.harvard.edu>, willner@head-cfa.harvard.edu (Steve Willner) writes:\\n> \\n> The NASM photo archives are open to the public. All (or almost all)\\n> still pictures in the collection are available for viewing, but I\\n> don\\'t know about films. At least it might be worth a try. I\\'m not\\n> sure if appointments are necessary, but I think not.\\n>\\nIs posible to make copies of these photographs (or any other aerospace\\nphotographs at NASM) if you pay a copyright fee?\\n\\n===============================================================================\\nAndres C. Gaeris\\t || \"Living example of the application of Newton\\'s\\nJunior laser fusioneer\\t || Zeroth Law:\\nagae@lle.rochester.edu\\t || `Every body in rest wants to remain in bed\\'\"\\n===============================================================================\\n\\n \\n',\n", " 'From: jeffp@vetmed.wsu.edu (Jeff Parke)\\nSubject: Re: Lyme vaccine\\nOrganization: College of Veterinary Medicine WSU\\nX-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL9]\\nLines: 45\\n\\nkathleen richards (kilty@ucrengr) wrote:\\n> My nearly-13 year old Pomeranian had a nasty reaction to this vaccination.\\n> ... Suffice it to say, we will not\\n> vaccinate her for Lyme disease again. She\\'s been camping through some 6\\n> states and has backpacked with us as well and we are used to watching for ticks\\n> and dealing with them and we simply won\\'t take her to really active Lyme\\n> disease areas....\\n\\nNot to drag this out anymore, but....\\n\\nMany veterinarians feel that Lyme Disease in dogs is so easy to treat that\\nin an endemic area, they often just give the appropriate antibiotics to dogs\\npresenting with lameness, swollen joints, +/- fever.\\n\\nA recent paper (March 1993) has finally established that Lyme disease in dogs\\ncan be reproduced in a controlled experimentaly setting. This has been\\nan ellusive matter for researchers, and is one of the fundamental requirements\\nfor many to acknowledge an agent as being causitive of a particular disease.\\nUp to now, only the vaccine manufacturer has been able to \"prove\" that\\nthe disease exists.\\n\\nThis paper is noteworthy in two other regards:\\n\\n1) None of the animals they infected were treated in any way. The dogs\\nhad episodes of lameness during a 6-8 week period which occurred 2-5\\nmonths after exposure. After this period, none showed any further\\nclinical signs up to the 17 month observation period of the study. So\\nthese are proven, clinically sick Lyme patients showing spontaneous\\nrecovery without the benefit of drug treatment. Of course, observations\\nlonger than 17 months will be necessary to be sure the disease doesn\\'t\\nhave the same chronicity that some see in humans.\\n\\n2) The addendum to the paper calls into question the techniques used by the\\nvaccine manufacturer to validate the vaccine. Of course, they want\\nthe world to use the model they developed in order to test vaccine\\nefficacy.\\n\\nAnyway, maybe we will see some independent, scientifically sound evaluations\\nof this vaccine in the next year or so.\\n\\n--\\nJeff Parke \\nalso: jeffp@WSUVM1.bitnet AOL: JeffParke\\nWashington State University College of Veterinary Medicine class of 1994\\nPullman, WA 99164-7012\\n',\n", " \"From: uabdpo.dpo.uab.edu!gila005 (Stephen Holland)\\nSubject: Re: diet for Crohn's (IBD)\\nOrganization: Gastroenterology - Univ. of Alabama\\nDistribution: usa\\nLines: 36\\n\\nIn article <1r6g8fINNe88@ceti.cs.unc.edu>, jge@cs.unc.edu (John Eyles)\\nwrote:\\n> \\n> \\n> A friend has what is apparently a fairly minor case of Crohn's\\n> disease.\\n> \\n> But she can't seem to eat certain foods, such as fresh vegetables,\\n> without discomfort, and of course she wants to avoid a recurrence.\\n> \\n> Her question is: are there any nutritionists who specialize in the\\n> problems of people with Crohn's disease ?\\n> \\n> (I saw the suggestion of lipoxygnase inhibitors like tea and turmeric).\\n> \\n> Thanks in advance,\\n> John Eyles\\n> jge@cs.unc.edu\\n\\nIf she is having problems with fresh vegetables, the guess is that there\\nis some obstruction of the intestine. Without knowing more it is not\\npossible to say whether the obstruction is permanent due to scarring,\\nor temporary due to swelling of inflammed intestine. In general, there are\\nno dietary limitations in patients with Crohn's except as they relate\\nto obstruction. There is no evidence that any foods will bring on \\nrecurrence of Crohn's. It is important to distinguish recurrence from\\nrecurrent symptoms. A physician would think of new inflammation as \\nrecurrence, while pains from raw veggies just imply a narrowing of the\\nintestine. \\n\\nYour friend should look into membership in the Crohn's and Colitis \\nFoundation of America. 1-800-932-2423\\n\\nGood luck to your friend.\\n\\nSteve Holland\\n\",\n", " 'From: Dan Wallach \\nSubject: FAQ: Typing Injuries (1/4): Changes since last month [monthly posting]\\nSupersedes: \\nOrganization: University of California, Berkeley\\nLines: 51\\nExpires: 22 May 1993 04:18:16 GMT\\nReply-To: Dan Wallach \\nNNTP-Posting-Host: elmer-fudd.cs.berkeley.edu\\nSummary: what\\'s new and happening with Dan\\'s FAQ and ftp archive\\nOriginator: dwallach@elmer-fudd.cs.berkeley.edu\\n\\nArchive-name: typing-injury-faq/changes\\nVersion: $Revision: 1.3 $ $Date: 1993/04/13 04:12:33 $\\n\\nThis file details changes to the soda.berkeley.edu archive and summarizes\\nwhat\\'s new in the various FAQ (frequently asked questions) documents.\\nThis will be posted monthly, along with the full FAQ to the various net\\ngroups. The various mailing lists will either receive the full FAQ\\nevery month, or every third month, but will always get this file, once\\nper month. Phew!\\n\\n============================================================================\\nChanges to the Typing Injuries FAQ and soda.berkeley.edu archive, this month\\n============================================================================\\n\\na few new files on the soda.berkeley.edu archive\\n the TidBITS \"Caring for your wrists\" document\\n RSI Network #11\\n Advice about \"adverse mechanical tension\"\\n More details about the new Apple keyboard\\n more info about carpal tunnel syndrome (carpal.explained)\\n more general info about RSI (rsi.details, rsi.physical)\\n\\n marketing info on the Vertical\\n MacWeek article the Bat\\n\\nnew details on hooking a normal PC keyboard to an RS/6000\\n\\nupdated pricing info on the DataHand and Comfort\\n\\nHalf-QWERTY now available for anonymous ftp on explorer.dgp.toronto.edu\\n\\nnew GIF picutures!\\n The Apple Adjustable Keyboard\\n The Key Tronic FlexPro\\n another picture of the Kinesis\\n The Vertical\\n The Tony!\\n\\n============================================================================\\n\\nIf you\\'d like to receive a copy of the FAQ and you didn\\'t find it in the\\nsame place you found this document, you can either send e-mail to \\ndwallach@cs.berkeley.edu, or you can anonymous ftp to soda.berkeley.edu\\n(128.32.149.19) and look in the pub/typing-injury directory.\\n\\nEnjoy!\\n\\n-- \\nDan Wallach \"One of the most attractive features of a Connection\\ndwallach@cs.berkeley.edu Machine is the array of blinking lights on the faces\\nOffice#: 510-642-9585 of its cabinet.\" -- CM Paris Ref. Manual, v6.0, p48.\\n',\n", " 'From: wingo%cspara.decnet@Fedex.Msfc.Nasa.Gov\\nSubject: Re: NASA \"Wraps\"\\nOrganization: University of Houston\\nLines: 86\\nDistribution: world\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: judy.uh.edu\\nNews-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41 \\n\\nIn article <1993Apr10.145502.28866@iti.org>, aws@iti.org (Allen W. Sherzer) writes...\\n>In article <9APR199318394890@judy.uh.edu> wingo%cspara.decnet@Fedex.Msfc.Nasa.Gov writes:\\n> \\n>>>BTW, universities do the same thing. They however, have a wrap of\\n>>>10% to 15% (again, this is over and above any overhead charge).\\n> \\n>>Wrong Allen. The max overhead charge is ALL of the charge. There is no\\n>>seperately budgeted overhead in any shape size form or fashion. \\n> \\n>A professor at the University of Virginia told me their wrap was about\\n>15%. The subcontracts I have let out and worked on for other universities\\n>are about the same. My employer (a non-profit research institute) does\\n>the same. This is generally reffered to as the fee.\\n> \\n\\nI don\\'t care who told you this it is not generally true. I see EVERY single\\nline item on a contract and I have to sign it. There is no such thing as\\nwrap at this university. I also asked around here. Ther is no wrap at \\nMarquette, University of Wisconsin Madison, Utah State, Weber State or\\nEmbry Riddle U. I am not saying that it doees not happen but in every instance\\nthat I have been able to track down it does not. Also the president of our\\nUniversity who was Provost at University of West Virgina said that it did\\nnot happen there either and that this figure must be included in the overhead\\nto be a legitimate charge.\\n\\n>>How do \\n>>I know? I write proposals and have won contracts and I know to the dime\\n>>what the charges are. At UAH for example the overhead is 36.6%.\\n> \\n>Sounds like they are adding it to their overhead rate. Go ask your\\n>costing people how much fee they add to a project.\\n>\\n\\nI did they never heard of it but suggest that, like our president did, that\\nany percentage number like this is included in the overhead.\\n\\n>>If you have some numbers Allen then show them else quit barking. \\n> \\n>I did Dennis; read the article. To repeat: an internal estimate done by\\n>the Reston costing department says Freedom can be built for about $1.8B\\n>a year and operated for $1B per year *IF* all the money where spent on\\n>Freedom. Since we spend about half a billion $$ more per year it looks\\n>like roughly 25% of the money is wasted. Now if you think I\\'m making\\n>this up, you can confirm it in the anonymous editorial published a few\\n>weeks ago in Space News.\\n>\\n\\nNo Allen you did not. You merely repeated allegations made by an Employee\\nof the Overhead capital of NASA. Nothing that Reston does could not be dont\\nbetter or cheaper at the Other NASA centers where the work is going on.\\nKinda funny isn\\'t it that someone who talks about a problem like this is\\nat a place where everything is overhead.\\n\\n>This Dennis, is why NASA has so many problems: you can\\'t accept that\\n>anything is wrong unless you can blame it on Congress. Oh, sure, you\\'ll\\n>say NASA has problems but do you believe it? Remember the WP 02\\n>overrun? You insisted it was all congresses fault when NASA management\\n>knew about the overrun for almost a year yet refused to act. Do you\\n>still blame Congress for the overrun?\\n>\\n\\nWhy did the Space News artice point out that it was the congressionally\\ndemanded change that caused the problems? Methinks that you are being \\nselective with the facts again.\\n\\n>>By your own numbers Allen, at a cost of 500 million per flight the\\n>>service cost of flying shuttle to SSF is 2 billion for four flights, so how\\n>>did you get your one billion number?\\n> \\n>I have no idea what your trying to say here Dennis.\\n> \\n> Allen\\n>-- \\n\\nIf it takes four flights a year to resupply the station and you have a cost\\nof 500 million a flight then you pay 2 billion a year. You stated that your\\n\"friend\" at Reston said that with the current station they could resupply it\\nfor a billion a year \"if the wrap were gone\". This merely points out a \\nblatent contridiction in your numbers that understandably you fail to see.\\n\\nDennis, University of Alabama in Huntsville.\\n\\nSorry gang but I have a deadline for a satellite so someone else is going\\nto have to do Allen\\'s math for him for a while. I will have little chance to\\ndo so.\\n\\n',\n", " 'From: hathaway@stsci.edu\\nSubject: Re: Vandalizing the sky.\\nDistribution: na\\nOrganization: Space Telescope Science Institute\\nLines: 101\\n\\n>Newsgroups: sci.astro,sci.space\\n>Subject: Re: Vandalizing the sky.\\n>\\n (excerpts from posting on this topic) \\n\\n>In article enzo@research.canon.oz.au \\n>(Enzo Liguori) writes:\\n>\\n>>Now, Space Marketing\\n>>is working with University of Colorado and Livermore engineers on\\n>>a plan to place a mile-long inflatable billboard in low-earth\\n>>orbit. \\n>... \\n>>... the real purpose of the project is to help the environment! \\n>>The platform will carry ozone monitors \\n>\\n>... \\n>I can\\'t believe that a mile-long billboard would have any significant\\n>effect on the overall sky brightness. Venus is visible during the day,\\n>but nobody complains about that. Besides, it\\'s in LEO, so it would only\\n>be visible during twilight when the sky is already bright, and even if\\n>it would have some miniscule impact, it would be only for a short time\\n>as it goes zipping across the sky.\\n>\\n\\n(I\\'ve seen satellites at midnight - they\\'re not only in twilight.) :o) \\n\\n>...\\n>\\n>From the book \"Prodigal Genius: The Life of Nikola Tesla\" by John J. O\\'Neill:\\n>\\n>\"This remarkable conductivity of gases, including the air, at low\\n>pressures, led Tesla to suggest, in a published statement in 1914, a\\n>system of lighting on a terrestrial scale in which he proposed to treat\\n>the whole Earth, with its surrounding atmosphere, as if it were a\\n>single lamp.... \\n>The whole Earth would be transformed into a giant lamp, with the night \\n>sky completely illuminated. ... making the night as bright as day.\"\\n> \\n\\nNow my comments: \\n\\nI\\'d like to add that some of the \"protests\" do not come from a strictly \\npractical consideration of what pollution levels are acceptable for \\nresearch activities by professional astronomers. Some of what I \\nwould complain about is rooted in aesthetics. Many readers may \\nnever have known a time where the heavens were pristine - sacred - \\nunsullied by the actions of humans. The space between the stars \\nas profoundly black as an abyss can be. With full horizons and \\na pure sky one could look out upon half of all creation at a time \\n- none of which had any connection with the petty matters of man. \\nAny lights were supplied solely by nature; uncorruptable by men. \\nWhole religions were based on mortal man somehow getting up there \\nand becoming immortal as the stars, whether by apotheosis or a belief \\nin an afterlife. \\n\\nThe Space Age changed all that. The effect of the first Sputniks \\nand Echo, etc. on this view could only happen once. To see a light \\ncrossing the night sky and know it was put there by us puny people \\nis still impressive and the sense of size one gets by assimilating \\nthe scales involved is also awesome - even if the few hundreds or \\nthousands of miles involved is still dwarfed by the rest of the universe. \\nBut there is still a hunger for the pure beauty of a virgin sky. \\n\\nYes, I know aircraft are almost always in sight. I have to live \\nin a very populated area (6 miles from an international airport \\ncurrently) where light pollution on the ground is ghastly. The \\nimpact of humans is so extreme here - virtually no place exists \\nthat has not been shaped, sculpted, modified, trashed or whipped \\ninto shape by the hands of man. In some places the only life \\nforms larger than bacteria are humans, cockroaches, and squirrels \\n(or rats). I visited some friends up in the Appalacian mountains \\none weekend, \"getting away from it all\" (paved roads, indoor plumbing, \\nmalls, ...) and it felt good for a while - then I quickly noticed \\nthe hollow was directly under the main flight path into Dulles - 60-80 \\nmiles to the east. (Their \\'security light\\' didn\\'t help matters \\nmuch either.) But I\\'ve heard the artic wilderness gets lots of \\nhigh air traffic. So I know the skies are rarely perfect. \\n\\nBut there is still this desire to see a place that man hasn\\'t \\nfouled in some way. (I mean they\\'ve been TRYING this forever - \\nlike, concerning Tesla\\'s idea to banish night, - wow!) I don\\'t watch \\ncommercial television, but I can imagine just how disgusting beer, \\ntruck, or hemmorrhoid ointment advertisements would be if seen up so high. \\nIf ya\\' gotta make a buck on it (displaying products in heaven), at \\nleast consider the reactions from those for whom the sky is a last\\nbeautiful refuge from the baseness of modern life. \\n\\nTo be open about this though, I have here my listing of the passage \\nof HST in the evening sky for this weekend - tonight Friday at \\n8:25 p.m. EDT it will reach an altitude of 20.1 degrees on the \\nlocal meridian from Baltimore vicinity. I\\'ll be trying to see it \\nif I can - it _is_ my mealticket after all. So I suppose I could \\nbe called an elitist for supporting this intrusion on the night sky \\nwhile complaining about billboards proposed by others. Be that \\nas it may, I think my point about a desire for beauty is valid, \\neven if it can\\'t ever be perfectly achieved. \\n\\nRegards, \\nWm. Hathaway \\nBaltimore MD \\n',\n", " 'From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nSubject: Re: Update (Help!) [was \"What is This [Is it Lyme\\'s?]\"]\\nReply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nOrganization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science\\nLines: 24\\n\\nIn article <1993Mar24.182145.11004@equator.com> jod@equator.com (John Setel O\\'Donnell) writes:\\n\\n>IMHO, you have Lyme disease. \\n\\n\\n>I sent you in private email a summary of the treatment protocols put\\n>forth by the Lyme Disease Foundation. I respectfully suggest that you\\n>save yourself a great deal of suffering by contacting them for a\\n>Lyme-knowledgeable physician referral and seek treatment at once.\\n>You\\'ll know in 2 weeks if you\\'re on the right course; and the clock is\\n>ticking on your 6 weeks if you have it. 1-800-886-LYME.\\n\\nIf these folks are who I think they are, Lyme-knowledgeable may\\nmean a physician to whom everything that walks in the door is\\nlyme disease, and you will be treated for lyme, whether or not\\nyou have it. Hope you have good insurance.\\n\\n\\n\\n-- \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nGordon Banks N3JXP | \"Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and\\ngeb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu | it is shameful to surrender it too soon.\" \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n',\n", " 'From: nsmca@aurora.alaska.edu\\nSubject: Re: Why not give $1 billion to first year-long moon residents?\\nArticle-I.D.: aurora.1993Apr19.130503.1\\nOrganization: University of Alaska Fairbanks\\nLines: 21\\nNntp-Posting-Host: acad3.alaska.edu\\n\\nIn article <6ZV82B2w165w@theporch.raider.net>, gene@theporch.raider.net (Gene Wright) writes:\\n> With the continuin talk about the \"End of the Space Age\" and complaints \\n> by government over the large cost, why not try something I read about \\n> that might just work.\\n> \\n> Announce that a reward of $1 billion would go to the first corporation \\n> who successfully keeps at least 1 person alive on the moon for a year. \\n> Then you\\'d see some of the inexpensive but not popular technologies begin \\n> to be developed. THere\\'d be a different kind of space race then!\\n> \\n> --\\n> gene@theporch.raider.net (Gene Wright)\\n> theporch.raider.net 615/297-7951 The MacInteresteds of Nashville\\n====\\nIf that were true, I\\'d go for it.. I have a few friends who we could pool our\\nresources and do it.. Maybe make it a prize kind of liek the \"Solar Car Race\"\\nin Australia..\\nAnybody game for a contest!\\n\\n==\\nMichael Adams, nsmca@acad3.alaska.edu -- I\\'m not high, just jacked\\n',\n", " \"From: prb@access.digex.com (Pat)\\nSubject: Re: Abyss: breathing fluids\\nArticle-I.D.: access.1psghn$s7r\\nOrganization: Express Access Online Communications USA\\nLines: 19\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: access.digex.net\\n\\nIn article enf021@cck.coventry.ac.uk (Achurist) writes:\\n|\\n|I believe the reason is that the lung diaphram gets too tired to pump\\n|the liquid in and out and simply stops breathing after 2-3 minutes.\\n|So if your in the vehicle ready to go they better not put you on \\n|hold, or else!! That's about it. Remember a liquid is several more times\\n|as dense as a gas by its very nature. ~10 I think, depending on the gas\\n|and liquid comparision of course!\\n\\n\\nCould you use some sort of mechanical chest compression as an aid.\\nSorta like the portable Iron Lung? Put some sort of flex tubing\\naround the 'aquanauts' chest. Cyclically compress it and it will\\npush enough on the chest wall to support breathing?????\\n\\nYou'd have to trust your breather, but in space, you have to trust\\nyour suit anyway.\\n\\npat\\n\",\n", " 'From: richard@tis.com (Richard Clark)\\nSubject: Re: Is MSG sensitivity superstition?\\nOrganization: Trusted Information Systems, Inc.\\nLines: 30\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: sol.tis.com\\n\\n>packer@delphi.gsfc.nasa.gov (Charles Packer) writes:\\n>\\n>>Is there such a thing as MSG (monosodium glutamate) sensitivity?\\n>>I saw in the NY Times Sunday that scientists have testified before \\n>>an FDA advisory panel that complaints about MSG sensitivity are\\n>>superstition. Anybody here have experience to the contrary? \\n>\\n>>I\\'m old enough to remember that the issue has come up at least\\n>>a couple of times since the 1960s. Then it was called the\\n>>\"Chinese restaurant syndrome\" because Chinese cuisine has\\n>>always used it.\\n>\\n\\n\\tMy blood pressure soars, my heart pounds, and I can\\'t get to sleep\\nfor the life of me... feels about like I just drank 8 cups of coffee.\\n\\n\\tI avoid it, and beet sugar, flavor enhancers, beet powder, and\\nwhatever other names it may go under. Basicaly I read the ingredients, and\\nif I don\\'t know what they all are, I don\\'t buy the product.\\n\\n\\tMSG sensitivity is definately *real*.\\n\\n\\n\\n-----------------------Relativity Schmelativity-----------------------------\\n Richard H. Clark\\t\\t\\t\\tMy opinions are my own, and\\n LUNATIK - watch for me on the road...\\t\\tought to be yours, but under\\n It\\'s not my fault... I voted PEROT!\\t\\tno circumstances are they\\n richard@tis.com\\t\\t\\t\\tthose of my company...\\n-----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n',\n", " 'From: twain@carson.u.washington.edu (Barbara Hlavin)\\nSubject: Re: Is MSG sensitivity superstition?\\nArticle-I.D.: shelley.1qvq10INNlij\\nDistribution: na\\nOrganization: University of Washington, Seattle\\nLines: 38\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: carson.u.washington.edu\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr19.204855.10818@rtsg.mot.com> lundby@rtsg.mot.com (Walter F. Lundby) writes:\\n>As nobody in the food industry has even bothered to address my previous\\n>question \"WHY DO YOU NEED TO PUT MSG IN ALMOST EVERY FOOD?\" I must assume\\n>that my wife\\'s answer is closer to the truth than I hoped it was.\\nI don\\'t mean to be disrespectful to your concerns, but it seems to me \\nthat you\\'re getting all wound up in a non-issue. \\n\\nAs many knowledgeable people have pointed out, msg is a naturally \\noccurring substance in a lot, if not most, foods. When food \\nmanufacturers add it to a preparation, they do so because it\\'s a \\nknown flavor enhancer. \\n\\nYour wife\\'s theory, that MSG is added to food to stimulate appetite, \\nmay well be true. But I don\\'t believe it\\'s ALWAYS the reason it\\'s \\nadded. People are (largely, for the most part) in charge of their \\nown appetites. \\n\\n>children\\'s and my parent\\'s) seem to fixate on a particular brand of pet\\n>food. The cat will eat any product within one brand and not any other\\n>brand. I have wondered if this is not a case of preference, but, some\\n>sort of chemical training or addiction. My questions, for the net, are:\\n>Does the FDA regulate the contents of pet food? Is it allowed for pet\\n>food to contain addictive or conditioning substances? Is MSG put in \\n>pet food?\\n>\\nYou don\\'t know much about cats, do you? \\n\\nCats will Take Advantage of You. Resign yourself: you will never \\nunderstand a cat. Their tastes are whimsical. \\n\\nI also suspect, though it\\'s been a while since I\\'ve checked ingredients \\non commercial cat food, that there are much more stringent requirements \\non pet food additives than human. \\n\\nSee, the FDA has this stupid idea that human beings have the intelligence \\nto look out after their own interests. \\n\\nBarbara, wondering how her cat would take care of *her*\\n',\n", " 'From: karl@anasazi.com (Karl Dussik)\\nSubject: Re: Dana-Faber Cancer Institute \\nOrganization: Anasazi, Inc. Phoenix, Arizona USA\\nKeywords: Dana-Faber Cancer Institute \\nLines: 13\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr14.090306.3352@etek.chalmers.se> e2salim@etek.chalmers.se (Salim Chagan) writes:\\n>\\tCan anyone send me the adress to \\n>\\tDana-Faber Cancer Institute in Boston, USA.\\n ^^ missing \"r\"\\n\\nDana-Farber Cancer Institute\\n44 Binney Street\\nBoston, MA 02115\\n\\n(617)732-3000\\n\\nKarl Dussik\\n(\"Alumnus\" - Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, 1983-1986)\\n',\n", " \"From: turner@reed.edu (Havok impersonated)\\nSubject: Re: Is MSG sensitivity superstition?\\nArticle-I.D.: reed.1993Apr16.170752.6312\\nOrganization: Reed College, Portland, OR\\nLines: 35\\n\\nIn article <1qlgdrINN79b@gap.caltech.edu> carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU writes:\\n>In article <1993Apr15.173902.66278@cc.usu.edu>, slyx0@cc.usu.edu writes:\\n>=Surprise surprise, different people react differently to different things. One\\n>=slightly off the subject case in point. My brother got stung by a bee. I know\\n>=he is allergic to bee stings, but that his reaction is severe localized\\n>=swelling, not anaphylactic shock. I could not convince the doctors of that,\\n>=however, because that's not written in their little rule book.\\n>Of course, bee venom isn't a single chemical. Could be your brother is\\n>reacting to a different component than the one that causes anaphylactic shock\\n>in other people.\\n\\nHmmm. The last time I got stung by a bee I experienced the same reaction\\nthe first poster's brother did. We went off to the doctor to see if I\\nshould worry about the fact that my foot was now about 3 times it's normal\\nsize. (And itched!!! Ow!) He basically said I shouldn't this time, but\\nthat bee sting allergy was not something you tended to get aclimatized to,\\nbut were something that each time got progressively worse generally and that\\nnext time could be the time I go into anaphylactic shock. Admittedly this\\nwas many years ago when I was young. Since then I just make sure I don't\\nget stung. I also should carry a bee sting kit with me, but I don't. \\n\\nThis isn't scientific or proof, but this would lead me to believe it's not a\\ndifferent reaction, just a different degree of reaction. Allergies work\\nthat way. People have various reactions. Sort of like diabetes, some\\npeople can get by with just monitoring their diet, others have to monitor\\ntheir diet and use insulin sometimes while others have to watch their diet\\nlike a hawk and use insulin regularly. \\n\\nI think MSG is probably similar...some people have allergic reactions to\\nit. Some people are allergic to fermented things and can't use soy\\nsauce...but the chinese have been using it for centuries... that doesn't\\nnecessarily mean that it's safe for everyone. \\n\\n\\tJohanna\\nturner@reed.edu\\n\",\n", " 'From: km@cs.pitt.edu (Ken Mitchum)\\nSubject: Re: Lung disorders and clubbing of fingers\\nArticle-I.D.: pitt.19424\\nReply-To: km@cs.pitt.edu (Ken Mitchum)\\nOrganization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science\\nLines: 36\\n\\nIn article slagle@lmsc.lockheed.com writes:\\n>Can anyone out there enlighten me on the relationship between\\n>lung disorders and \"clubbing\", or swelling and widening, of the\\n>fingertips? What is the mechanism and why would a physician\\n>call for chest xrays to diagnose the cause of the clubbing?\\n\\nPurists often distinguish between \"true\" clubbing and \"pseudo\"\\nclubbing, the difference being that with \"true\" clubbing the\\nangle of the nail when viewed from the side is constantly\\nnegative when proceeding distally (towards the fingertip).\\nWith \"pseudo\" clubbing, the angle is initially positive, then\\nnegative, which is the normal situation. \"Real\" internists\\ncan talk for hours about clubbing. I\\'m limited to a couple\\nof minutes.\\n\\nWhether this distinction has anything to do with reality is\\nentirely unclear, but it is one of those things that internists\\nlove to paw over during rounds. Supposedly, only \"true\" clubbing\\nis associated with disease. The problem is that the list of\\ndiseases associated with clubbing is quite long, and includes\\nboth congenital conditions and acquired disease. Since many of\\nthese diseases are associated with cardiopulmonary problems\\nleading to right to left shunts and chronic hypoxemia, it is\\nvery reasonable to get a chest xray. However, many of the \\ncongenital abnormalities would only be diagnosed with a cardiac\\ncatheterization. \\n\\nThe cause of clubbing is unclear, but presumably relates to\\nsome factor causing blood vessels in the distal fingertip to\\ndilate abnormally. \\n\\nClubbing is one of those things from an examination which is\\na tipoff to do more extensive examination. Often, however,\\nthe cause of the clubbing is quite apparent.\\n\\n-km\\n',\n", " 'From: doyle+@pitt.edu (Howard R Doyle)\\nSubject: Re: Donating organs\\nArticle-I.D.: blue.8016\\nOrganization: Pittsburgh Transplant Institute\\nLines: 31\\n\\nIn article <19393@pitt.UUCP> geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks) writes:\\n>In article <1993Mar25.161109.13101@sbcs.sunysb.edu> mhollowa@ic.sunysb.edu (Michael Holloway) writes:\\n>\\n>>there been anything recent in \"Transplant Proceedings\" or somesuch, on \\n>>xenografts? How about liver section transplants from living donors? \\n>>\\n>\\n>I\\'m sure the Pittsburgh group has published the baboon work, but I\\n>don\\'t know where. In Chicago they were doing lobe transplants from\\n>living donors, and I\\'m sure they\\'ve published. \\n\\n\\n\\nThe case report of the first xenotransplant was published in Lancet 1993; 341:65-71.\\nI can send you a reprint if you are interested.\\nThere was another paper, sort of a tour of the horizon, written by Starzl and\\npublished in the Resident\\'s Edition of the Annals of Surgery (vol 216, October 1992).\\nIt\\'s in the Surgical Resident\\'s Newsletter section, so you won\\'t find it in the regular\\nissue of the Annals. I don\\'t have any reprints of that one.\\nA paper has been accepted for publication by Immunology Today, though I\\'m not sure\\nwhen it\\'s coming out, describing our experience with the two xenografts done to date.\\n\\n\\nAs for segmental liver transplants from living related donors I must confess to a total\\nignorance of that literature. We are philosophically opposed to those, and I don\\'t keep \\nup with that particular field.\\n\\n=====================================================\\n\\nHoward Doyle\\ndoyle+@pitt.edu\\n',\n", " 'From: mancus@sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov (Keith Mancus)\\nSubject: Re: Lindbergh and the moon (was:Why not give $1G)\\nOrganization: MDSSC\\nLines: 32\\n\\nIn article <1r3nuvINNjep@lynx.unm.edu>, cook@varmit.mdc.com (Layne Cook) writes:\\n> All of this talk about a COMMERCIAL space race (i.e. $1G to the first 1-year \\n> moon base) is intriguing. Similar prizes have influenced aerospace \\n> development before. The $25k Orteig prize helped Lindbergh sell his Spirit of \\n> Saint Louis venture to his financial backers.\\n> But I strongly suspect that his Saint Louis backers had the foresight to \\n> realize that much more was at stake than $25,000.\\n> Could it work with the moon? Who are the far-sighted financial backers of \\n> today?\\n\\n The commercial uses of a transportation system between already-settled-\\nand-civilized areas are obvious. Spaceflight is NOT in this position.\\nThe correct analogy is not with aviation of the \\'30\\'s, but the long\\ntransocean voyages of the Age of Discovery. It didn\\'t require gov\\'t to\\nfund these as long as something was known about the potential for profit\\nat the destination. In practice, some were gov\\'t funded, some were private.\\nBut there was no way that any wise investor would spend a large amount\\nof money on a very risky investment with no idea of the possible payoff.\\n I am sure that a thriving spaceflight industry will eventually develop,\\nand large numbers of people will live and work off-Earth. But if you ask\\nme for specific justifications other than the increased resource base, I\\ncan\\'t give them. We just don\\'t know enough. The launch rate demanded by\\nexisting space industries is just too low to bring costs down much, and\\nwe are very much in the dark about what the revolutionary new space industries\\nwill be, when they will practical, how much will have to be invested to\\nstart them, etc.\\n\\n-- \\n Keith Mancus |\\n N5WVR |\\n \"Black powder and alcohol, when your states and cities fall, |\\n when your back\\'s against the wall....\" -Leslie Fish |\\n',\n", " \"Subject: Re: Can't Breathe -- Update\\nFrom: RGINZBERG@eagle.wesleyan.edu (Ruth Ginzberg)\\nDistribution: world\\nOrganization: Philosophy Dept., Wesleyan University\\nNntp-Posting-Host: wesleyan.edu\\nX-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.20In-Reply-To: nyeda@cnsvax.uwec.edu's message of 5 Apr 93 19:06:39 -0600Lines: 17\\nLines: 17\\n\\nThanks to all those who responded to my original post on this question. The\\nfinal diagnosis was Stress. I did not take her for a chiropractic adjustment.\\n(Rachel receives all her medical care at Keller Army Hospital since she is a\\nmilitary dependant, and the Army does not yet provide chiropractic adjustments\\nas part of its regular health care.) I am hoping that the arrival of (1)\\nSpring Break, and (2) College Acceptance Letters, will help. *UNFORTUNATELY*\\nshe was wait-listed at the college she most dearly wanted to attend, so it\\nseems as though that stressor may just continue for a while. :-(\\n\\nMeanwhile she is going on a camping trip with her religious youth group for\\nspring break, which seems like a good stress-reliever to me.\\n\\nThanks again for everybody's help/advice/suggestions/ideas.\\n\\n------------------------\\nRuth Ginzberg \\nPhilosophy Department;Wesleyan University;USA\\n\",\n", " 'From: uabdpo.dpo.uab.edu!gila005 (Stephen Holland)\\nSubject: Re: Lactose intolerance\\nOrganization: Gastroenterology - Univ of Alabama\\nLines: 19\\n\\nIn article , ng4@husc11.harvard.edu (Ho\\nLeung Ng) wrote:\\n> \\n> \\n> When I was a kid in primary school, I used to drink tons of milk without\\n> any problems. However, nowadays, I can hardly drink any at all without\\n> experiencing some discomfort. What could be responsible for the change?\\n> \\n> Ho Leung Ng\\n> ng4@husc.harvard.edu\\n\\nYou became older and your intestine normalized to the weaned state. That\\nis, lactose tolerance is an unusual state for adults of most mammals\\nexcept for h. sapiens of northern European origin. As a h. sapiens of \\nasian descent (assumption based on name) the loss of lactase is normal\\nfor you. \\n\\nSteve Holland\\ngila005@uabdpo.dpo.uab.edu\\n',\n", " \"From: Donald Mackie \\nSubject: Re: REQUEST: Gyro (souvlaki) sauce\\nOrganization: UM Anesthesiology\\nLines: 11\\nDistribution: world\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: 141.214.86.38\\nX-UserAgent: Nuntius v1.1.1d9\\nX-XXDate: Fri, 23 Apr 93 14:56:04 GMT\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr22.205341.172965@locus.com> Michael Trofimoff,\\ntron@fafnir.la.locus.com writes:\\n>Would anyone out there in 'net-land' happen to have an\\n>authentic, sure-fire way of making this great sauce that\\n>is used to adorn Gyro's and Souvlaki?\\n\\nI'm not sure of the exact recipe, but I'm sure acidophilus is one of\\nthe major ingredients. :-)\\n\\nDon Mackie - his opinions\\nUM Anesthesiology will disavow\\n\",\n", " 'From: pbd@runyon.cim.cdc.com (Paul Dokas)\\nSubject: Big amateur rockets\\nOrganization: ICEM Systems, Inc.\\nLines: 23\\n\\nI was reading Popular Science this morning and was surprised by an ad in\\nthe back. I know that a lot of the ads in the back of PS are fringe\\nscience or questionablely legal, but this one really grabbed my attention.\\nIt was from a company name \"Personal Missle, Inc.\" or something like that.\\n\\nAnyhow, the ad stated that they\\'d sell rockets that were up to 20\\' in length\\nand engines of sizes \"F\" to \"M\". They also said that some rockets will\\nreach 50,000 feet.\\n\\nNow, aside from the obvious dangers to any amateur rocketeer using one\\nof these beasts, isn\\'t this illegal? I can\\'t imagine the FAA allowing\\npeople to shoot rockets up through the flight levels of passenger planes.\\nNot to even mention the problem of locating a rocket when it comes down.\\n\\nAnd no, I\\'m not going to even think of buying one. I\\'m not that crazy.\\n\\n\\n-Paul \"mine\\'ll do 50,000 feet and carries 50 pounds of dynamite\" Dokas\\n-- \\n#include \\n#define FULL_NAME \"Paul Dokas\"\\n#define EMAIL \"pbd@runyon.cim.cdc.com\"\\n/* Just remember, you *WILL* die someday. */\\n',\n", " \"From: Pat.Hoage@f6507.n124.z1.fidonet.org (Pat Hoage)\\nSubject: army in space\\nLines: 7\\n\\nI just got out of the Army. Go signal corps or Intelligence; \\nphotointelligence interpretation. If you go ADA you might get to play with \\nrockets but space will look pretty far away dug in the mud next to a grunt \\nprotecting the foward troops from low flying objects. Good Luck \\n \\n\\n * Origin: *AmeriComm*, 214/373-7314. Dallas'Info Source. (1:124/6507)\\n\",\n", " 'From: wallacen@CS.ColoState.EDU (nathan wallace)\\nSubject: ORION space drive\\nReply-To: wallacen@CS.ColoState.EDU\\nNntp-Posting-Host: beethoven.cs.colostate.edu\\nOrganization: Colorado State University -=- Computer Science Dept.\\nLines: 16\\n\\nAn excellent reference for non-technical readers on the ORION system is\\n\"The Starflight Handbook\", by Eugene Mallove and Gregory Matloff, ISBN\\n0-471-61912-4. The relevant chapter is 4: Nuclear Pulse Propulsion.\\n\\nThe book also contains lots of technical references for the more academically\\ninclined. \\n\\nEnjoy!\\n---\\nC/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/\\nC/ Nathan F. Wallace C/C/ \"Reality Is\" C/\\nC/ e-mail: wallacen@cs.colostate.edu C/C/ ancient Alphaean proverb C/\\nC/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/\\n \\n\\n\\n',\n", " \"From: will@rins.ryukoku.ac.jp (William Reiken)\\nSubject: Re: nuclear waste\\nOrganization: Ryukoku Univ., Seta, Japan\\nLines: 12\\n\\nIn article <1pp6reINNonl@phantom.gatech.edu>, matthew@phantom.gatech.edu (Matthew DeLuca) writes:\\n>\\n> Greedy little oil companies? Don't blame them; oil companies just supply the\\n> demand created by you, me, and just about everyone else on the planet. If we\\n> run out, its all our faults.\\n>\\n\\n\\tOk, so how about the creation of oil producing bacteria? I figure\\nthat if you can make them to eat it up then you can make them to shit it.\\nAny comments?\\n\\n\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t\\tWill...\\n\",\n", " \"From: nicho@vnet.IBM.COM (Greg Stewart-Nicholls)\\nSubject: Re: Biosphere II\\nReply-To: nicho@vnet.ibm.com\\nDisclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not those of IBM\\nNews-Software: UReply 3.1\\nX-X-From: nicho@vnet.ibm.com\\n <1q1kia$gg8@access.digex.net>\\nLines: 18\\n\\nIn <1q1kia$gg8@access.digex.net> Pat writes:\\n>In article <19930408.043740.516@almaden.ibm.com> nicho@vnet.ibm.com writes:\\n>>In <1q09ud$ji0@access.digex.net> Pat writes:\\n>>>Why is everyone being so critical of B2?\\n>> Because it's bogus science, promoted as 'real' science.\\n>It seems to me, that it's sorta a large engineering project more\\n>then a science project.\\n Bingo.\\n>B2 is not bench science, but rather a large scale attempt to\\n>re-create a series of micro-ecologies. what's so eveil about this?\\n Nothing evil at all. There's no actual harm in what they're doing, only\\nhow they represent it.\\n\\n -----------------------------------------------------------------\\n .sig files are like strings ... every yo-yo's got one.\\n\\nGreg Nicholls ... nicho@vnet.ibm.com (business) or\\n nicho@olympus.demon.co.uk (private)\\n\",\n", " 'From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)\\nSubject: Re: Orbital RepairStation\\nOrganization: U of Toronto Zoology\\nLines: 21\\n\\nIn article collins@well.sf.ca.us (Steve Collins) writes:\\n>The difficulties of a high Isp OTV include...\\n>If you go solar, you have to replace the arrays every trip, with\\n>current technology.\\n\\nYou\\'re assuming that \"go solar\" = \"photovoltaic\". Solar dynamic power\\n(turbo-alternators) doesn\\'t have this problem. It also has rather less\\nair drag due to its higher efficiency, which is a non-trivial win for big\\nsolar plants at low altitude.\\n\\nNow, you might have to replace the *rest* of the electronics fairly often,\\nunless you invest substantial amounts of mass in shielding.\\n\\n>Nuclear power sources are strongly restricted\\n>by international treaty.\\n\\nReferences? Such treaties have been *proposed*, but as far as I know,\\nnone of them has ever been negotiated or signed.\\n-- \\nAll work is one man\\'s work. | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology\\n - Kipling | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry\\n',\n", " \"From: nick@sfb256.iam.uni-bonn.de ( Nikan B Firoozye )\\nSubject: Re: Sunrise/ sunset times\\nOrganization: Applied Math, University of Bonn, Germany\\nLines: 15\\n\\nA related question (which I haven't given that much serious thought \\nto): at what lattitude is the average length of the day (averaged \\nover the whole year) maximized? Is this function a constant=\\n12 hours? Is it truly symmetric about the equator? Or is\\nthere some discrepancy due to the fact that the orbit is elliptic\\n(or maybe the difference is enough to change the temperature and\\nmake the seasons in the southern hemisphere more bitter, but\\nis far too small to make a sizeable difference in daylight\\nhours)?\\n\\nI want to know where to move.\\n\\n\\t-Nick Firoozye\\n\\tnick@sfb256.iam.uni-bonn.de\\n\\n\",\n", " \"From: byab314@chpc.utexas.edu (Srinivas Bettadpur)\\nSubject: Re: Vandalizing the sky.\\nOrganization: Center for Space Research, University of Texas at Austin\\nLines: 15\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr23.140649.1@rhea.arc.ab.ca> thacker@rhea.arc.ab.ca writes:\\n>In article , enzo@research.canon.oz.au (Enzo Liguori) writes:\\n>\\n>> What about light pollution in observations? (I read somewhere else that\\n>> it might even be visible during the day, leave alone at night).\\n>\\n>No need to be depressed about this one. Lights aren't on during the day\\n>so there shouldn't be any daytime light pollution.\\n\\n Thanks for these surreal moments....\\n Srinivas\\n-- \\nSrinivas Bettadpur Internet : byab314@hermes.chpc.utexas.edu\\nP.O. Box 8520, Austin, Tx. 78713-8520, U.S.A. Tel. (512) 471 4332\\nBITNET : byab314@uthermes\\n\",\n", " 'From: C.O.EGALON@LARC.NASA.GOV (CLAUDIO OLIVEIRA EGALON)\\nSubject: Re: Space Debris\\nOrganization: NASA Langley Research Center\\nLines: 10\\nDistribution: world\\nReply-To: C.O.EGALON@LARC.NASA.GOV (CLAUDIO OLIVEIRA EGALON)\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: tahiti.larc.nasa.gov\\n\\n> Keesler, Loftus, Potter, Stansbery, Kubriek....?\\n\\nI gues it is Keesler. The others do not ring the bell but they might be \\ninvolved as well. Sometime ago Keesler was here at Langley teaching \\na course on space debris and, if my memory does not fai,l I think there\\nwas even a reference to a book on the subject.\\n\\nC.O.Egalon@larc.nasa.gov\\n\\nClaudio Oliveira Egalon\\n',\n", " 'From: mckay@alcor.concordia.ca (John McKay)\\nSubject: Lasers for dermatologists\\nOriginator: mckay@alcor.concordia.ca\\nNntp-Posting-Host: alcor.concordia.ca\\nOrganization: Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec\\nLines: 15\\n\\n\\nHaving had limited tinea pedis for more than 30 years, and finding\\nit resistant to ALL creams and powders I have tried, I wonder why\\ndermatologists do not use lasers to destroy the fungus. It would\\nseem likely to be effective and inexpensive. Are there good reasons\\nfor not using lasers?\\nI was told that dermatology had not yet reached the laser age.\\n\\nJohn McKay\\nvax2.concordia.ca\\n\\n-- \\nDeep ideas are simple.\\n Odd groups are even.\\n Even simples are not.\\n',\n", " 'From: C.O.EGALON@LARC.NASA.GOV (CLAUDIO OLIVEIRA EGALON)\\nSubject: Re: Vulcan? No, not Spock or Haphaestus\\nOrganization: NASA Langley Research Center\\nLines: 16\\nDistribution: world\\nReply-To: C.O.EGALON@LARC.NASA.GOV (CLAUDIO OLIVEIRA EGALON)\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: tahiti.larc.nasa.gov\\n\\n> Another legend with the name Vulcan was the planet, much like Earth,\\n> in the same orbit\\n\\nThere was a Science fiction movie sometime ago (I do not remember its \\nname) about a planet in the same orbit of Earth but hidden behind the \\nSun so it could never be visible from Earth. Turns out that that planet \\nwas the exact mirror image of Earth and all its inhabitants looked like \\nthe Earthings with the difference that their organs was in the opposite \\nside like the heart was in the right side instead in the left and they \\nwould shake hands with the left hand and so on...\\n\\n C.O.EGALON@LARC.NASA.GOV\\n\\nC.O.Egalon@larc.nasa.gov\\n\\nClaudio Oliveira Egalon\\n',\n", " \"From: mary@uicsl.csl.uiuc.edu (Mary E. Allison)\\nSubject: Re: Is MSG sensitivity superstition?\\nOrganization: Center for Reliable and High-Performance Computing, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign\\nLines: 66\\nDistribution: world\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: uicsl.csl.uiuc.edu\\n\\ncarl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick) writes:\\n\\n>Of course, bee venom isn't a single chemical. Could be your brother is\\n>reacting to a different component than the one that causes anaphylactic shock\\n>in other people.\\n\\n>Similarly, Chinese food isn't just MSG. There are a lot of other\\n>ingredients in it. Why, when someone eats something with lots of\\n>ingredients they don't normally consume, one of which happens to be\\n>MSG, do they immediately conclude that any negative reaction is to\\n>the MSG? \\n\\nARGHHHHHHHHHh\\n\\nREAD THE MEMOS!!!!\\n\\nI said that I PERSONALLY had other people order the EXACT SAME FOOD at\\nTWO DIFFERENT TIMES from the SAME RESTAURANT and the people that\\nordered the food for me did NOT TELL ME which time the MSG was in the\\nfood and which time it was not in the food.\\n\\nONE TIME I HAD A REACTION\\n\\nONE TIME I DID NOT\\n\\nTHE REACTION CAME THE TIME THE MSG WAS IN THE FOOD\\n\\nTHAT WAS THE ONLY DIFFERENCE\\n\\nSAME RESTAURANT - SAME INGREDIENTS!!!\\n\\n>Why, when someone eats something with lots of ingredients they don't\\n>normally consume, one of which happens to be MSG, do they immediately\\n>conclude that any negative reaction is to the MSG? \\n\\nI eat lots of Chinese food - I LOVE Chinese food. I've just learned\\nthe following\\n\\nIF I get food at one of the restaurants that DOES NOT USE MSG or\\n\\nIF I prepare the food myself without MSG or \\n\\nIF I order the food from a restaurant that will hold the MSG (and I\\nnever get soup unless it's from a restaurant that cooks without the\\nMSG)\\n\\nI DO NOT GET A REACTION!!!!\\n\\nOKAY\\n\\nDO YOU UNDERSTAND!!!!\\n\\nI GET A REACTION FROM MSG\\n\\nI DO NOT GET A REACTION WHEN THERE IS NO MSG\\n\\nIf you're having trouble understand this, please tell me which of the\\nwords you do not understand and I'll look them up in the dictionary\\nfor you.\\n\\n--\\nThe great secret of successful marriage is to treat all disasters\\nas incidents and none of the incidents as disasters. \\n -- Harold Nicholson\\n\\n Mary Allison (mary@uicsl.csl.uiuc.edu) Urbana, Illinois\\n\",\n", " \"From: dgempey@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (David Gordon Empey)\\nSubject: Re: PLANETS STILL: IMAGES ORBIT BY ETHER TWIST\\nOrganization: University of California, Santa Cruz\\nLines: 22\\nDistribution: world\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: ucscb.ucsc.edu\\n\\n\\nIn <1993Apr23.165459.3323@coe.montana.edu> uphrrmk@gemini.oscs.montana.edu (Jack Coyote) writes:\\n\\n>In sci.astro, dmcaloon@tuba.calpoly.edu (David McAloon) writes:\\n\\n>[ a nearly perfect parody -- needed more random CAPS]\\n\\n\\n>Thanks for the chuckle. (I loved the bit about relevance to people starving\\n>in Somalia!)\\n\\n>To those who've taken this seriously, READ THE NAME! (aloud)\\n\\nWell, I thought it must have been a joke, but I don't get the \\njoke in the name. Read it aloud? David MACaloon. David MacALLoon.\\nDavid macalOON. I don't geddit.\\n\\n-Dave Empey (speaking for himself)\\n>-- \\n>Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all week. Enjoy the buffet! \\n\\n\\n\",\n", " 'From: baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov (Ron Baalke)\\nSubject: Re: Magellan Update - 04/16/93\\nOrganization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory\\nLines: 29\\nDistribution: world\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov\\nKeywords: Magellan, JPL\\nNews-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41 \\n\\nIn article <1993Apr20.072706.19981@cs.ruu.nl>, jhwitten@cs.ruu.nl (Jurriaan Wittenberg) writes...\\n>In <19APR199320262420@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov> baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov \\n>(Ron Baalke) writes:\\n> \\n>>4. On Monday morning, April 19, the moon will occult Venus and\\n>>interrupt the tracking of Magellan for about 68 minutes.\\n\\n>Will this mean a loss of data or will the Magellan transmit data later on ??\\n\\nThe gravity data is collected in real-time and it not recorded to the tape\\nrecorder. However, you only need to collect the gravity every 3rd or 4th\\norbit, so there is no real data loss if the Moon blocks transmission for\\na short while.\\n\\n>BTW: When will NASA cut off the connection with Magellan?? Not that I am\\n>looking forward to that day but I am just curious. I believe it had something\\n>to do with the funding from the goverment (or rather _NO_ funding :-)\\n\\nThe aerobraking starts May 25 and is expected last about 70 days. If the\\nfunding is provided (8 million dollars) to extend the mission for the\\nhigh resolution gravity data, then the mission will last through October 1994.\\nOtherwise, the mission will end this coming July. \\n ___ _____ ___\\n /_ /| /____/ \\\\ /_ /| Ron Baalke | baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov\\n | | | | __ \\\\ /| | | | Jet Propulsion Lab |\\n ___| | | | |__) |/ | | |__ M/S 525-3684 Telos | The aweto from New Zealand\\n/___| | | | ___/ | |/__ /| Pasadena, CA 91109 | is part caterpillar and\\n|_____|/ |_|/ |_____|/ | part vegetable.\\n\\n',\n", " 'From: wats@scicom.AlphaCDC.COM (Bruce Watson)\\nSubject: Re: Why not give $1 billion to first year-long moon residents?\\nOrganization: Alpha Science Computer Network, Denver, Co.\\nLines: 5\\n\\nThe Apollo program cost something like $25 billion at a time when\\nthe value of a dollar was worth more than it is now. No one would \\ntake the offer.\\n-- \\nBruce Watson (wats@scicom.alphaCDC.COM) Bulletin 629-49 Item 6700 Extract 75,131\\n',\n", " 'From: drunen@nucleus.ps.uci.edu (Eric Van Drunen)\\nSubject: Re: Big amateur rockets\\nNntp-Posting-Host: nucleus.ps.uci.edu\\nOrganization: University of California, Irvine\\nLines: 30\\n\\nActually, they are legal! I not familiar with the ad you are speaking of\\nbut knowing Popular Science it is probably on the fringe. However, you\\nmay be speaking of \"Public Missle, Inc.\", which is a legitimate company\\nthat has been around for a while.\\n\\nDue to advances in composite fuels, engines are now available for model\\nrockets using similar composites to SRB fuel, roughly 3 times more \\npowerful than black powder motors. They are even available in a reloadable\\nform, i.e. aluminum casing, end casings, o-rings (!). The engines range\\nfrom D all the way to M in common manufacture, N and O I\\'ve heard of\\nused at special occasions.\\n\\nTo be a model rocket, however, the rocket can\\'t contain any metal \\nstructural parts, amongst other requirements. I\\'ve never heard of a\\nmodel rocket doing 50,000. I have heard of > 20,000 foot flights.\\nThese require FAA waivers (of course!). There are a few large national\\nlaunches (LDRS, FireBALLS), at which you can see many > K sized engine\\nflights. Actually, using a > G engine constitutes the area of \"High\\nPower Rocketry\", which is seperate from normal model rocketry. Purchase\\nof engines like I have been describing require membership in the National\\nAssociation of Rocketry, the Tripoli Rocketry Assoc., or you have to\\nbe part of an educational institute or company involved in rocketry.\\n\\nAmatuer rocketry is another area. I\\'m not really familiar with this,\\nbut it is an area where metal parts are allowed, along with liquid fuels\\nand what not. I don\\'t know what kind of regulations are involved, but\\nI\\'m sure they are numerous.\\n\\nHigh power rocketry is very exciting! If you are interested or have \\nmore questions, there is a newsgroup rec.model.rockets.\\n',\n", " 'From: oreilly@olivia.la.asu.edu (Tom O\\'Reilly)\\nSubject: Russian Phobos Mission\\nOrganization: Mars Observer TES Project, ASU, Tempe AZ\\nDistribution: sci.space\\nLines: 11\\n\\nYes, the Phobos mission did return some useful data including images of Phobos\\nitself. The best I\\'ve seen had a surface resolution of about 40 meters. By\\nthe way, the new book entitled \"Mars\" (Kieffer et al, 1992, University of\\nArizona Press) has a great chapter on spacecraft exploration of the planet.\\nThe chapter is co-authored by V.I. Moroz of the Space Research Institute in\\nMoscow, and includes details never before published in the West. Don\\'t\\nknow of any ftp sites with images though.\\n\\nTom O\\'Reilly\\nDepartment of Geology\\nArizona State University\\n',\n", " 'From: baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov (Ron Baalke)\\nSubject: Re: Comet in Temporary Orbit Around Jupiter?\\nOrganization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory\\nLines: 22\\nDistribution: world\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov\\nNews-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41 \\n\\nIn article <1993Apr6.061329.25582@den.mmc.com>, seale@possum.den.mmc.com (Eric H Seale) writes...\\n>baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov (Ron Baalke) writes:\\n>>According the IAU Circular #5744, Comet Shoemaker-Levy 1993e, may be\\n>>temporarily in orbit around Jupiter. The comet had apparently made a\\n>>close flyby of Jupiter sometime in 1992 resulting in the breakup of the\\n>>comet.\\n> \\n>Ooooh -- who would have thought that Galileo would get the chance to\\n>check out a comet TOO?!?\\n\\nComet Gehrels 3, which was discovered in 1977, was determined to have\\nbeen in a temporary Jovian orbit from 1970 to 1973. Comet Shoemaker-Levy 1993e\\nmay remain in orbit around Jupiter long enough to allow Galileo to\\nmake some closeup observations. The orbital trajectory for Comet\\nShoemaker-Levy is still being determined.\\n ___ _____ ___\\n /_ /| /____/ \\\\ /_ /| Ron Baalke | baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov\\n | | | | __ \\\\ /| | | | Jet Propulsion Lab |\\n ___| | | | |__) |/ | | |__ M/S 525-3684 Telos | Being cynical never helps \\n/___| | | | ___/ | |/__ /| Pasadena, CA 91109 | to correct the situation \\n|_____|/ |_|/ |_____|/ | and causes more aggravation\\n | instead.\\n',\n", " 'From: kutuzova@venus.iteb.serpukhov.su\\nSubject: THE RESEACHING OF STARVATION.\\nOrganization: Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Biophysics\\nLines: 29\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: venus.iteb.serpukhov.su\\n\\nI am very interested in investigations of starvation for improving health.\\nI am the young Russian reseacher and have highest medical education\\n and expierence in reseach work in biological field and would like\\n to work on this problem.\\nCan anybody send me the adresses of the hospitals or Medical Centers where \\nscientific problems of human starvation for the health are investigated? \\nAlso I would like to set scientific contacts with colleagues who\\ndeals with investigations in this field.\\nI would be very appreciated anyone reply me. \\n\\nPls, contact by post: 142292, Russia, \\n Moscow Region,\\n Puschino,\\n P.O. box 46, \\n for Kravchenko N. ;\\n\\n or by e-mail: kutuzova@venus.iteb.serpukhov.su\\n \\n Thank you advance, \\n Natalja Kravchenko.\\n \\n \\n \\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n',\n", " 'From: banschbach@vms.ocom.okstate.edu\\nSubject: Candida(yeast) Bloom, Fact or Fiction\\nLines: 187\\nNntp-Posting-Host: vms.ocom.okstate.edu\\nOrganization: OSU College of Osteopathic Medicine\\n\\nI can not believe the way this thread on candida(yeast) has progressed.\\nSteve Dyer and I have been exchanging words over the same topic in Sci. \\nMed. Nutrition when he displayed his typical reserve and attacked a women \\nposter for being treated by a liscenced physician for a disease that did \\nnot exist. Calling this physician a quack was reprehensible Steve and I \\nsee that you and some of the others are doing it here as well. \\n\\nLet me tell you who the quacks really are, these are the physicans who have \\nno idea how the human body interacts with it\\'s environment and how that \\nbalance can be altered by diet and antibiotics. These are the physicians \\nwho dismiss their patients with difficult symptomatology and make them go \\nfrom doctor to doctor to find relief(like Elaine in Sci. Med. Nutrition) and \\nthen when they find one that solves their problem, the rest start yelling \\nquack. Could it just be professional jealousy? I couldn\\'t help Elaine or Jon\\nbut somebody else did. Could they know more than Me? No way, they must be a \\nquack. \\n\\nI\\'ve been teaching a human nutrition course for Medical students for over ten \\nyears now and guess who the most receptive students are? Those that were \\nraised on farms and saw first-hand the effect of diet on the health of their \\nfarm animals and those students who had made a dramatic diet change prior to \\nentering medical school(switched to the vegan diet). Typically, this is \\nabout 1/3 of my class of 90 students. Those not interested in nutrition \\neither tune me out or just stop coming to class. That\\'s okay because I \\nknow that some of what I\\'m teaching is going to stick and there will be at \\nleast a few \"enlightened\" physicians practicing in the U.S. It\\'s really \\ntoo bad that most U.S. medical schools don\\'t cover nutrition because if \\nthey did, candida would not be viewed as a non-disease by so many in the \\nmedical profession.\\n\\nIn animal husbandry, an animal is reinnoculated with \"good\" bacteria after \\nantibiotics are stopped. Medicine has decided that since humans do not \\nhave a ruminant stomach, no such reinnoculation with \"good\" bacteria is \\nneeded after coming off a braod spectrum antibiotic. Humans have all \\nkinds of different organisms living in the GI system(mouth, stomach, small \\nand large intestine), sinuses, vagina and on the skin. These are \\nnonpathogenic because they do not cause disease in people unless the immune \\nsystem is compromised. They are also called nonpathogens because unlike \\nthe pathogenic organisms that cause human disease, they do not produce \\ntoxins as they live out their merry existence in and on our body. But any of \\nthese organisms will be considered pathogenic if it manages to take up \\nresidence within the body. A poor mucus membrane barrier can let this \\nhappen and vitamin A is mainly responsible for setting up this barrier.\\nSteve got real upset with Elaine\\'s doctor because he was using anti-fungals \\nand vitamin A for her GI problems. If Steve really understoood what \\nvitamin A does in the body, he would not(or at least should not) be calling \\nElaine\\'s doctor a quack.\\n\\nHere is a brief primer on yeast. Yeast infections, as they are commonly \\ncalled, are not truely caused by yeasts. The most common organism responsible\\nfor this type of infection is Candida albicans or Monilia which is actually a \\nyeast-like fungus. An infection caused by this organism is called candidiasis.\\nCandidiasis is a very rare occurance because, like an E. Coli infection, it \\nrequires that the host immune system be severly depressed. \\n\\nCandida is frequently found on the skin and all of the mucous membranes of \\nnormal healthy people and it rarely becomes a problem unless some predisposing\\nfactor is present such as a high blood glucose level(diabetes) or an oral \\ncourse of antibiotics has been used. In diabetics, their secretions contain \\nmuch higher amounts of glucose. Candida, unlike bacteria, is very limited in \\nit\\'s food(fuel) selection. Without glucose, it can not grow, it just barely \\nsurvives. If it gets access to a lot of glucose, it blooms and over rides \\nthe other organisms living with it in the sinuses, GI tract or vagina. In \\ndiabetics, skin lesions can also foster a good bloom site for these little \\nbuggers. The bloom is usually just a minor irritant in most people but \\nsome people do really develop a bad inflammatory process at the mucus \\nmembrane or skin bloom site. Whether this is an allergic like reaction to \\nthe candida or not isn\\'t certain. When the bloom is in the vagina or on \\nthe skin, it can be easliy seen and some doctors do then try to \"treat\" it.\\nIf it\\'s internal, only symptoms can be used and these symptoms are pretty \\nnondiscript. \\n\\n\\nCandida is kept in check in most people by the normal bacterial flora in \\nthe sinuses, the GI tract(mouth, stomach and intestines) and in the \\nvaginal tract which compete with it for food. The human immune system \\nususally does not bother itself with these(nonpathogenic organisms) unless \\nthey broach the mucus membrane \"barrier\". If they do, an inflammatory \\nresponse will be set up. Most Americans are not getting enough vitamin A \\nfrom their diets. About 30% of all American\\'s die with less Vitamin A than \\nthey were born with(U.S. autopsy studies). While this low level of vitamin \\nA does not cause pathology(blindness) it does impair the mucus membrane \\nbarrier system. This would then be a predisposing factor for a strong \\ninflammatory response after a candida bloom. \\n\\nWhile diabetics can suffer from a candida \"bloom\" the most common cause of \\nthis type of bloom is the use of broad spectrum antibiotics which \\nknock down many different kinds of bacteria in the body and remove the main \\ncompetition for candida as far as food is concerned. While drugs are \\navailable to handle candida, many patients find that their doctor will not \\nuse them unless there is evidence of a systemic infection. The toxicity of \\nthe anti-fungal drugs does warrant some caution. But if the GI or sinus \\ninflammation is suspected to be candida(and recent use of a broad spectrum \\nantibiotic is the smoking gun), then anti-fungal use should be approrpriate \\njust as the anti-fungal creams are an appropriate treatment for recurring \\nvaginal yeast infections, in spite of what Mr. Steve Dyer says.\\n\\nBut even in patients being given the anti-fungals, the irritation caused by \\nthe excessive candida bloom in the sinus, GI tract or the vagina tends to \\nreturn after drug treatment is discontinued unless the underlying cause of \\nthe problem is addressed(lack of a \"good\" bacterial flora in the body and/or \\npoor mucus membrane barrier). Lactobacillus acidophilus is the most effective \\ntherapy for candida overgrowth. From it\\'s name, it is an acid loving \\norganism and it sets up an acidic condition were it grows. Candida can not \\ngrow very well in an acidic environment. In the vagina, L. acidophilius is \\nthe predominate bacteria(unless you are hit with broad spectrum \\nantibiotics). \\n\\nIn the GI system, the ano-rectal region seems to be a particularly good \\nreservoir for candida and the use of pantyhose by many women creates a very \\nfavorable environment around the rectum for transfer(through moisture and \\nhumidity) of candida to the vaginal tract. One of the most effctive ways to \\nminimmize this transfer is to wear undyed cotton underwear. \\n\\nIf the bloom occurs in the anal area, the burning, swelling, pain and even \\nblood discharge make many patients think that they have hemorroids. If the \\nbloom manages to move further up the GI tract, very diffuse symptomatology \\noccurs(abdominal discomfort and blood in the stool). This positive stool \\nfor occult blood is what sent Elaine to her family doctor in the first \\nplace. After extensive testing, he told her that there was nothing wrong \\nbut her gut still hurt. On to another doctor, and so on. Richard Kaplan \\nhas told me throiugh e-mail that he considers occult blood tests in stool \\nspecimens to be a waste of time and money because of the very large number of \\nfalse positives(candida blooms guys?). If my gut hurt me on a constant \\nbasis, I would want it fixed. Yes it\\'s nice to know that I don\\'t have \\ncolon cancer but what then is causing my distress? When I finally find a \\ndoctor who treats me and gets me 90% better, Steve Dyer calls him a quack.\\n\\nCandida prefers a slightly alkaline environment while bacteria \\ntend to prefer a slightly acidic environment. The vagina becomes alkaline \\nduring a woman\\'s period and this is often when candida blooms in the vagina. \\nVinegar and water douches are the best way of dealing with vaginal \\nproblems. Many women have also gotten relief from the introduction of \\nLactobacillus directly into the vaginal tract(I would want to be sure of \\nthe purity of the product before trying this). My wife had this vagina \\nproblem after going on birth control pills and searched for over a year \\nuntil she found a gynocologist who solved the problem rather than just writting \\nscripts for anti-fungal creams. This was a woman gynocologist who had had \\nthe same problem(recurring vaginal yeast infections). This M.D. did some \\ndigging and came up with an acetic acid and L. Acidophilis douche which she \\nused in your office to keep it sterile. After three treatments, sex \\nreturned to our marraige. I have often wondered what an M.D. with chronic \\nGI distress or sinus problems would do about the problem that he tells his \\npatients is a non-existent syndrome.\\n\\nThe nonpathogenic bacteria L. acidophilus is an acid producing bacteria \\nwhich is the most common bacteria found in the vaginal tract of healthy women. \\nIf taken orally, it can also become a major bacteria in the gut. Through \\naresol sprays, it has also been used to innoculate the sinus membranes.\\nBut before this innoculation occurs, the mucus membrane barrier system \\nneeds to be strengthened. This is accomplished by vitamin A, vitamin C and \\nsome of the B-complex vitamins. Diet surveys repeatedly show that Americans \\nare not getting enough B6 and folate. These are probably the segement of \\nthe population that will have the greatest problem with this non-existent \\ndisorder(candida blooms after antibiotic therapy).\\n \\nSome of the above material was obtained from \"Natural Healing\" by Mark \\nBricklin, Published by Rodale press, as well as notes from my human \\nnutrition course. I will be posting a discussion of vitamin A sometime in \\nthe future, along with reference citings to point out the extremely \\nimportant role that vitamin A plays in the mucus membrane defense system in \\nthe body and why vitamin A should be effective in dealing with candida \\nblooms. Another effective dietary treatment is to restrict carbohydrate \\nintake during the treatment phase, this is especially important if the GI \\nsystem is involved. If candida can not get glucose, it\\'s not going to out \\ngrow the bacteria and you then give bacteria, which can use amino acids and \\nfatty acids for energy, a chance to take over and keep the candida in check \\nonce carbohydrate is returned to the gut.\\n\\nIf Steve and some of the other nay-sayers want to jump all over this post, \\nfine. I jumped all over Steve in Sci. Med. Nutrition because he verbably \\naccosted a poster who was seeking advice about her doctor\\'s use of vitamin \\nA and anti-fungals for a candida bloom in her gut. People seeking advice \\nfrom newsnet should not be treated this way. Those of us giving of our \\ntime and knowledge can slug it out to our heart\\'s content. If you saved \\nyour venom for me Steve and left the helpless posters who are timidly \\nseeking help alone, I wouldn\\'t have a problem with your behavior. \\n \\nMartin Banschbach, Ph.D.\\nProfessor of Biochemistry and Chairman\\nDepartment of Biochemistry and Microbiology\\nOSU College of Osteopathic Medicine\\n1111 West 17th St.\\nTulsa, Ok. 74107\\n\\n\"Without discourse, there is no remembering, without remembering, there is \\nno learning, without learning, there is only ignorance\".\\n',\n", " 'From: dante@shakala.com (Charlie Prael)\\nSubject: Re: Commercial mining activities on the moon\\nOrganization: Shakala BBS (ClanZen Radio Network) Sunnyvale, CA +1-408-734-2289\\nLines: 10\\n\\ndietz@cs.rochester.edu (Paul Dietz) writes:\\n\\n> Which merely evades the issue of why those lunatics are\\n> there at all (and, why their children would want to stay.)\\n\\nPaul-- for the same reason that many other colonies are founded. Why not?\\n\\n------------------------------------------------------------------\\nCharlie Prael - dante@shakala.com \\nShakala BBS (ClanZen Radio Network) Sunnyvale, CA +1-408-734-2289\\n',\n", " \"From: km@ky3b.pgh.pa.us (Ken Mitchum)\\nSubject: Re: How about a crash program in basic immunological research?\\nOrganization: KY3B - Vax Pittsburgh, PA\\nLines: 26\\n\\nIn article <93099.141148C09630GK@wuvmd.wustl.edu>, C09630GK@WUVMD (Gary Kronk) writes:\\n|> I have been contemplating this idea for some time as well. I am not a\\n|> doctor, but my wife is a nurse and I know a lot of doctors and nurses.\\n|> The point here being that doctors and nurses do not seem to get sick\\n|> nearly as much as people outside the medical profession.\\n\\nThis is a lovely area for anecdotes, but I am sure you are on to something.\\nAs a physician, I almost never get sick: usually, when something horrendous\\nis going around, I either don't get it at all or get a very mild case.\\nWhen I do get really sick, it is always something unusual.\\n\\nThis was not the situation when I was in medical school, particularly on\\npediatrics. I never had younger siblings myself, and when I went on the\\npediatric wards I suddenly found myself confronting all sorts of infectious\\nchallenges that my body was not ready for. Pediatrics for me was three solid\\nmonths of illness, and I had a temp of 104 when I took the final exam!\\n\\nI think what happens is that during training, and beyond, we are constantly\\nexposed to new things, and we have the usual reactions to them, so that later\\non, when challenged with something, it is more likely a re-exposure for us,\\nso we deal with it well and get a mild illness. I don't think it is that\\nthe immune system is hyped up in any way. Also, don't forget that the\\nhospital flora is very different from the home, and we carry a lot of that\\naround.\\n\\n-km\\n\",\n", " \"From: spp@zabriskie.berkeley.edu (Steve Pope)\\nSubject: Re: Is MSG sensitivity superstition?\\nOrganization: U.C. Berkeley -- ERL\\nLines: 13\\nDistribution: world\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: zion.berkeley.edu\\n\\nCarl Lydick:\\n\\n> And you're condemning one particular ingredient without any \\n> evidence that that's the ingredient to which you reacted.\\n\\nBelieve what you will.\\n\\nThe mass of anectdotal evidence, combined with the lack of\\na properly constructed scientific experiment disproving\\nthe hypothesis, makes the MSG reaction hypothesis the\\nmost likely explanation for events.\\n\\nSteve\\n\",\n", " 'From: leech@cs.unc.edu (Jon Leech)\\nSubject: Space FAQ 10/15 - Planetary Probe History\\nSupersedes: \\nOrganization: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill\\nLines: 527\\nDistribution: world\\nExpires: 6 May 1993 19:59:36 GMT\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: mahler.cs.unc.edu\\nKeywords: Frequently Asked Questions\\n\\nArchive-name: space/probe\\nLast-modified: $Date: 93/04/01 14:39:19 $\\n\\nPLANETARY PROBES - HISTORICAL MISSIONS\\n\\n This section was lightly adapted from an original posting by Larry Klaes\\n (klaes@verga.enet.dec.com), mostly minor formatting changes. Matthew\\n Wiener (weemba@libra.wistar.upenn.edu) contributed the section on\\n Voyager, and the section on Sakigake was obtained from ISAS material\\n posted by Yoshiro Yamada (yamada@yscvax.ysc.go.jp).\\n\\nUS PLANETARY MISSIONS\\n\\n\\n MARINER (VENUS, MARS, & MERCURY FLYBYS AND ORBITERS)\\n\\n MARINER 1, the first U.S. attempt to send a spacecraft to Venus, failed\\n minutes after launch in 1962. The guidance instructions from the ground\\n stopped reaching the rocket due to a problem with its antenna, so the\\n onboard computer took control. However, there turned out to be a bug in\\n the guidance software, and the rocket promptly went off course, so the\\n Range Safety Officer destroyed it. Although the bug is sometimes claimed\\n to have been an incorrect FORTRAN DO statement, it was actually a\\n transcription error in which the bar (indicating smoothing) was omitted\\n from the expression \"R-dot-bar sub n\" (nth smoothed value of derivative\\n of radius). This error led the software to treat normal minor variations\\n of velocity as if they were serious, leading to incorrect compensation.\\n\\n MARINER 2 became the first successful probe to flyby Venus in December\\n of 1962, and it returned information which confirmed that Venus is a\\n very hot (800 degrees Fahrenheit, now revised to 900 degrees F.) world\\n with a cloud-covered atmosphere composed primarily of carbon dioxide\\n (sulfuric acid was later confirmed in 1978).\\n\\n MARINER 3, launched on November 5, 1964, was lost when its protective\\n shroud failed to eject as the craft was placed into interplanetary\\n space. Unable to collect the Sun\\'s energy for power from its solar\\n panels, the probe soon died when its batteries ran out and is now in\\n solar orbit. It was intended for a Mars flyby with MARINER 4.\\n\\n MARINER 4, the sister probe to MARINER 3, did reach Mars in 1965 and\\n took the first close-up images of the Martian surface (22 in all) as it\\n flew by the planet. The probe found a cratered world with an atmosphere\\n much thinner than previously thought. Many scientists concluded from\\n this preliminary scan that Mars was a \"dead\" world in both the\\n geological and biological sense.\\n\\n MARINER 5 was sent to Venus in 1967. It reconfirmed the data on that\\n planet collected five years earlier by MARINER 2, plus the information\\n that Venus\\' atmospheric pressure at its surface is at least 90 times\\n that of Earth\\'s, or the equivalent of being 3,300 feet under the surface\\n of an ocean.\\n\\n MARINER 6 and 7 were sent to Mars in 1969 and expanded upon the work\\n done by MARINER 4 four years earlier. However, they failed to take away\\n the concept of Mars as a \"dead\" planet, first made from the basic\\n measurements of MARINER 4.\\n\\n MARINER 8 ended up in the Atlantic Ocean in 1971 when the rocket\\n launcher autopilot failed.\\n\\n MARINER 9, the sister probe to MARINER 8, became the first craft to\\n orbit Mars in 1971. It returned information on the Red Planet that no\\n other probe had done before, revealing huge volcanoes on the Martian\\n surface, as well as giant canyon systems, and evidence that water once\\n flowed across the planet. The probe also took the first detailed closeup\\n images of Mars\\' two small moons, Phobos and Deimos.\\n\\n MARINER 10 used Venus as a gravity assist to Mercury in 1974. The probe\\n did return the first close-up images of the Venusian atmosphere in\\n ultraviolet, revealing previously unseen details in the cloud cover,\\n plus the fact that the entire cloud system circles the planet in four\\n Earth days. MARINER 10 eventually made three flybys of Mercury from 1974\\n to 1975 before running out of attitude control gas. The probe revealed\\n Mercury as a heavily cratered world with a mass much greater than\\n thought. This would seem to indicate that Mercury has an iron core which\\n makes up 75 percent of the entire planet.\\n\\n\\n PIONEER (MOON, SUN, VENUS, JUPITER, and SATURN FLYBYS AND ORBITERS)\\n\\n PIONEER 1 through 3 failed to meet their main objective - to photograph\\n the Moon close-up - but they did reach far enough into space to provide\\n new information on the area between Earth and the Moon, including new\\n data on the Van Allen radiation belts circling Earth. All three craft\\n had failures with their rocket launchers. PIONEER 1 was launched on\\n October 11, 1958, PIONEER 2 on November 8, and PIONEER 3 on December 6.\\n\\n PIONEER 4 was a Moon probe which missed the Moon and became the first\\n U.S. spacecraft to orbit the Sun in 1959. PIONEER 5 was originally\\n designed to flyby Venus, but the mission was scaled down and it instead\\n studied the interplanetary environment between Venus and Earth out to\\n 36.2 million kilometers in 1960, a record until MARINER 2. PIONEER 6\\n through 9 were placed into solar orbit from 1965 to 1968: PIONEER 6, 7,\\n and 8 are still transmitting information at this time. PIONEER E (would\\n have been number 10) suffered a launch failure in 1969.\\n\\n PIONEER 10 became the first spacecraft to flyby Jupiter in 1973. PIONEER\\n 11 followed it in 1974, and then went on to become the first probe to\\n study Saturn in 1979. Both vehicles should continue to function through\\n 1995 and are heading off into interstellar space, the first craft ever\\n to do so.\\n\\n PIONEER Venus 1 (1978) (also known as PIONEER Venus Orbiter, or PIONEER\\n 12) burned up in the Venusian atmosphere on October 8, 1992. PVO made\\n the first radar studies of the planet\\'s surface via probe. PIONEER Venus\\n 2 (also known as PIONEER 13) sent four small probes into the atmosphere\\n in December of 1978. The main spacecraft bus burned up high in the\\n atmosphere, while the four probes descended by parachute towards the\\n surface. Though none were expected to survive to the surface, the Day\\n probe did make it and transmitted for 67.5 minutes on the ground before\\n its batteries failed.\\n\\n\\n RANGER (LUNAR LANDER AND IMPACT MISSIONS)\\n\\n RANGER 1 and 2 were test probes for the RANGER lunar impact series. They\\n were meant for high Earth orbit testing in 1961, but rocket problems\\n left them in useless low orbits which quickly decayed.\\n\\n RANGER 3, launched on January 26, 1962, was intended to land an\\n instrument capsule on the surface of the Moon, but problems during the\\n launch caused the probe to miss the Moon and head into solar orbit.\\n RANGER 3 did try to take some images of the Moon as it flew by, but the\\n camera was unfortunately aimed at deep space during the attempt.\\n\\n RANGER 4, launched April 23, 1962, had the same purpose as RANGER 3, but\\n suffered technical problems enroute and crashed on the lunar farside,\\n the first U.S. probe to reach the Moon, albeit without returning data.\\n\\n RANGER 5, launched October 18, 1962 and similar to RANGER 3 and 4, lost\\n all solar panel and battery power enroute and eventually missed the Moon\\n and drifted off into solar orbit.\\n\\n RANGER 6 through 9 had more modified lunar missions: They were to send\\n back live images of the lunar surface as they headed towards an impact\\n with the Moon. RANGER 6 failed this objective in 1964 when its cameras\\n did not operate. RANGER 7 through 9 performed well, becoming the first\\n U.S. lunar probes to return thousands of lunar images through 1965.\\n\\n\\n LUNAR ORBITER (LUNAR SURFACE PHOTOGRAPHY)\\n\\n LUNAR ORBITER 1 through 5 were designed to orbit the Moon and image\\n various sites being studied as landing areas for the manned APOLLO\\n missions of 1969-1972. The probes also contributed greatly to our\\n understanding of lunar surface features, particularly the lunar farside.\\n All five probes of the series, launched from 1966 to 1967, were\\n essentially successful in their missions. They were the first U.S.\\n probes to orbit the Moon. All LOs were eventually crashed into the lunar\\n surface to avoid interference with the manned APOLLO missions.\\n\\n\\n SURVEYOR (LUNAR SOFT LANDERS)\\n\\n The SURVEYOR series were designed primarily to see if an APOLLO lunar\\n module could land on the surface of the Moon without sinking into the\\n soil (before this time, it was feared by some that the Moon was covered\\n in great layers of dust, which would not support a heavy landing\\n vehicle). SURVEYOR was successful in proving that the lunar surface was\\n strong enough to hold up a spacecraft from 1966 to 1968.\\n\\n Only SURVEYOR 2 and 4 were unsuccessful missions. The rest became the\\n first U.S. probes to soft land on the Moon, taking thousands of images\\n and scooping the soil for analysis. APOLLO 12 landed 600 feet from\\n SURVEYOR 3 in 1969 and returned parts of the craft to Earth. SURVEYOR 7,\\n the last of the series, was a purely scientific mission which explored\\n the Tycho crater region in 1968.\\n\\n\\n VIKING (MARS ORBITERS AND LANDERS)\\n\\n VIKING 1 was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida on August 20, 1975 on\\n a TITAN 3E-CENTAUR D1 rocket. The probe went into Martian orbit on June\\n 19, 1976, and the lander set down on the western slopes of Chryse\\n Planitia on July 20, 1976. It soon began its programmed search for\\n Martian micro-organisms (there is still debate as to whether the probes\\n found life there or not), and sent back incredible color panoramas of\\n its surroundings. One thing scientists learned was that Mars\\' sky was\\n pinkish in color, not dark blue as they originally thought (the sky is\\n pink due to sunlight reflecting off the reddish dust particles in the\\n thin atmosphere). The lander set down among a field of red sand and\\n boulders stretching out as far as its cameras could image.\\n\\n The VIKING 1 orbiter kept functioning until August 7, 1980, when it ran\\n out of attitude-control propellant. The lander was switched into a\\n weather-reporting mode, where it had been hoped it would keep\\n functioning through 1994; but after November 13, 1982, an errant command\\n had been sent to the lander accidentally telling it to shut down until\\n further orders. Communication was never regained again, despite the\\n engineers\\' efforts through May of 1983.\\n\\n An interesting side note: VIKING 1\\'s lander has been designated the\\n Thomas A. Mutch Memorial Station in honor of the late leader of the\\n lander imaging team. The National Air and Space Museum in Washington,\\n D.C. is entrusted with the safekeeping of the Mutch Station Plaque until\\n it can be attached to the lander by a manned expedition.\\n\\n VIKING 2 was launched on September 9, 1975, and arrived in Martian orbit\\n on August 7, 1976. The lander touched down on September 3, 1976 in\\n Utopia Planitia. It accomplished essentially the same tasks as its\\n sister lander, with the exception that its seisometer worked, recording\\n one marsquake. The orbiter had a series of attitude-control gas leaks in\\n 1978, which prompted it being shut down that July. The lander was shut\\n down on April 12, 1980.\\n\\n The orbits of both VIKING orbiters should decay around 2025.\\n\\n\\n VOYAGER (OUTER PLANET FLYBYS)\\n\\n VOYAGER 1 was launched September 5, 1977, and flew past Jupiter on March\\n 5, 1979 and by Saturn on November 13, 1980. VOYAGER 2 was launched\\n August 20, 1977 (before VOYAGER 1), and flew by Jupiter on August 7,\\n 1979, by Saturn on August 26, 1981, by Uranus on January 24, 1986, and\\n by Neptune on August 8, 1989. VOYAGER 2 took advantage of a rare\\n once-every-189-years alignment to slingshot its way from outer planet to\\n outer planet. VOYAGER 1 could, in principle, have headed towards Pluto,\\n but JPL opted for the sure thing of a Titan close up.\\n\\n Between the two probes, our knowledge of the 4 giant planets, their\\n satellites, and their rings has become immense. VOYAGER 1&2 discovered\\n that Jupiter has complicated atmospheric dynamics, lightning and\\n aurorae. Three new satellites were discovered. Two of the major\\n surprises were that Jupiter has rings and that Io has active sulfurous\\n volcanoes, with major effects on the Jovian magnetosphere.\\n\\n When the two probes reached Saturn, they discovered over 1000 ringlets\\n and 7 satellites, including the predicted shepherd satellites that keep\\n the rings stable. The weather was tame compared with Jupiter: massive\\n jet streams with minimal variance (a 33-year great white spot/band cycle\\n is known). Titan\\'s atmosphere was smoggy. Mimas\\' appearance was\\n startling: one massive impact crater gave it the Death Star appearance.\\n The big surprise here was the stranger aspects of the rings. Braids,\\n kinks, and spokes were both unexpected and difficult to explain.\\n\\n VOYAGER 2, thanks to heroic engineering and programming efforts,\\n continued the mission to Uranus and Neptune. Uranus itself was highly\\n monochromatic in appearance. One oddity was that its magnetic axis was\\n found to be highly skewed from the already completely skewed rotational\\n axis, giving Uranus a peculiar magnetosphere. Icy channels were found on\\n Ariel, and Miranda was a bizarre patchwork of different terrains. 10\\n satellites and one more ring were discovered.\\n\\n In contrast to Uranus, Neptune was found to have rather active weather,\\n including numerous cloud features. The ring arcs turned out to be bright\\n patches on one ring. Two other rings, and 6 other satellites, were\\n discovered. Neptune\\'s magnetic axis was also skewed. Triton had a\\n canteloupe appearance and geysers. (What\\'s liquid at 38K?)\\n\\n The two VOYAGERs are expected to last for about two more decades. Their\\n on-target journeying gives negative evidence about possible planets\\n beyond Pluto. Their next major scientific discovery should be the\\n location of the heliopause.\\n\\n\\nSOVIET PLANETARY MISSIONS\\n\\n Since there have been so many Soviet probes to the Moon, Venus, and\\n Mars, I will highlight only the primary missions:\\n\\n\\n SOVIET LUNAR PROBES\\n\\n LUNA 1 - Lunar impact attempt in 1959, missed Moon and became first\\n\\t craft in solar orbit.\\n LUNA 2 - First craft to impact on lunar surface in 1959.\\n LUNA 3 - Took first images of lunar farside in 1959.\\n ZOND 3 - Took first images of lunar farside in 1965 since LUNA 3. Was\\n\\t also a test for future Mars missions.\\n LUNA 9 - First probe to soft land on the Moon in 1966, returned images\\n\\t from surface.\\n LUNA 10 - First probe to orbit the Moon in 1966.\\n LUNA 13 - Second successful Soviet lunar soft landing mission in 1966.\\n ZOND 5 - First successful circumlunar craft. ZOND 6 through 8\\n\\t accomplished similar missions through 1970. The probes were\\n\\t unmanned tests of a manned orbiting SOYUZ-type lunar vehicle.\\n LUNA 16 - First probe to land on Moon and return samples of lunar soil\\n\\t to Earth in 1970. LUNA 20 accomplished similar mission in\\n\\t 1972.\\n LUNA 17 - Delivered the first unmanned lunar rover to the Moon\\'s\\n\\t surface, LUNOKHOD 1, in 1970. A similar feat was accomplished\\n\\t with LUNA 21/LUNOKHOD 2 in 1973.\\n LUNA 24 - Last Soviet lunar mission to date. Returned soil samples in\\n\\t 1976.\\n\\n\\n SOVIET VENUS PROBES\\n\\n VENERA 1 - First acknowledged attempt at Venus mission. Transmissions\\n\\t lost enroute in 1961.\\n VENERA 2 - Attempt to image Venus during flyby mission in tandem with\\n\\t VENERA 3. Probe ceased transmitting just before encounter in\\n\\t February of 1966. No images were returned.\\n VENERA 3 - Attempt to place a lander capsule on Venusian surface.\\n\\t Transmissions ceased just before encounter and entire probe\\n\\t became the first craft to impact on another planet in 1966.\\n VENERA 4 - First probe to successfully return data while descending\\n\\t through Venusian atmosphere. Crushed by air pressure before\\n\\t reaching surface in 1967. VENERA 5 and 6 mission profiles\\n\\t similar in 1969.\\n VENERA 7 - First probe to return data from the surface of another planet\\n\\t in 1970. VENERA 8 accomplished a more detailed mission in\\n\\t 1972.\\n VENERA 9 - Sent first image of Venusian surface in 1975. Was also the\\n\\t first probe to orbit Venus. VENERA 10 accomplished similar\\n\\t mission.\\n VENERA 13 - Returned first color images of Venusian surface in 1982.\\n\\t\\tVENERA 14 accomplished similar mission.\\n VENERA 15 - Accomplished radar mapping with VENERA 16 of sections of\\n\\t\\tplanet\\'s surface in 1983 more detailed than PVO.\\n VEGA 1 - Accomplished with VEGA 2 first balloon probes of Venusian\\n\\t atmosphere in 1985, including two landers. Flyby buses went on\\n\\t to become first spacecraft to study Comet Halley close-up in\\n\\t March of 1986.\\n\\n\\n SOVIET MARS PROBES\\n\\n MARS 1 - First acknowledged Mars probe in 1962. Transmissions ceased\\n\\t enroute the following year.\\n ZOND 2 - First possible attempt to place a lander capsule on Martian\\n\\t surface. Probe signals ceased enroute in 1965.\\n MARS 2 - First Soviet Mars probe to land - albeit crash - on Martian\\n\\t surface. Orbiter section first Soviet probe to circle the Red\\n\\t Planet in 1971.\\n MARS 3 - First successful soft landing on Martian surface, but lander\\n\\t signals ceased after 90 seconds in 1971.\\n MARS 4 - Attempt at orbiting Mars in 1974, braking rockets failed to\\n\\t fire, probe went on into solar orbit.\\n MARS 5 - First fully successful Soviet Mars mission, orbiting Mars in\\n\\t 1974. Returned images of Martian surface comparable to U.S.\\n\\t probe MARINER 9.\\n MARS 6 - Landing attempt in 1974. Lander crashed into the surface.\\n MARS 7 - Lander missed Mars completely in 1974, went into a solar orbit\\n\\t with its flyby bus.\\n PHOBOS 1 - First attempt to land probes on surface of Mars\\' largest\\n\\t moon, Phobos. Probe failed enroute in 1988 due to\\n\\t human/computer error.\\n PHOBOS 2 - Attempt to land probes on Martian moon Phobos. The probe did\\n\\t enter Mars orbit in early 1989, but signals ceased one week\\n\\t before scheduled Phobos landing.\\n\\n While there has been talk of Soviet Jupiter, Saturn, and even\\n interstellar probes within the next thirty years, no major steps have\\n yet been taken with these projects. More intensive studies of the Moon,\\n Mars, Venus, and various comets have been planned for the 1990s, and a\\n Mercury mission to orbit and land probes on the tiny world has been\\n planned for 2003. How the many changes in the former Soviet Union (now\\n the Commonwealth of Independent States) will affect the future of their\\n space program remains to be seen.\\n\\n\\nJAPANESE PLANETARY MISSIONS\\n\\n SAKIGAKE (MS-T5) was launched from the Kagoshima Space Center by ISAS on\\n January 8 1985, and approached Halley\\'s Comet within about 7 million km\\n on March 11, 1986. The spacecraft is carrying three instru- ments to\\n measure interplanetary magnetic field/plasma waves/solar wind, all of\\n which work normally now, so ISAS made an Earth swingby by Sakigake on\\n January 8, 1992 into an orbit similar to the earth\\'s. The closest\\n approach was at 23h08m47s (JST=UTC+9h) on January 8, 1992. The\\n geocentric distance was 88,997 km. This is the first planet-swingby for\\n a Japanese spacecraft.\\n\\n During the approach, Sakigake observed the geotail. Some geotail\\n passages will be scheduled in some years hence. The second Earth-swingby\\n will be on June 14, 1993 (at 40 Re (Earth\\'s radius)), and the third\\n October 28, 1994 (at 86 Re).\\n\\n\\n HITEN, a small lunar probe, was launched into Earth orbit on January 24,\\n 1990. The spacecraft was then known as MUSES-A, but was renamed to Hiten\\n once in orbit. The 430 lb probe looped out from Earth and made its first\\n lunary flyby on March 19, where it dropped off its 26 lb midget\\n satellite, HAGOROMO. Japan at this point became the third nation to\\n orbit a satellite around the Moon, joining the Unites States and USSR.\\n\\n The smaller spacecraft, Hagoromo, remained in orbit around the Moon. An\\n apparently broken transistor radio caused the Japanese space scientists\\n to lose track of it. Hagoromo\\'s rocket motor fired on schedule on March\\n 19, but the spacecraft\\'s tracking transmitter failed immediately. The\\n rocket firing of Hagoromo was optically confirmed using the Schmidt\\n camera (105-cm, F3.1) at the Kiso Observatory in Japan.\\n\\n Hiten made multiple lunar flybys at approximately monthly intervals and\\n performed aerobraking experiments using the Earth\\'s atmosphere. Hiten\\n made a close approach to the moon at 22:33 JST (UTC+9h) on February 15,\\n 1992 at the height of 423 km from the moon\\'s surface (35.3N, 9.7E) and\\n fired its propulsion system for about ten minutes to put the craft into\\n lunar orbit. The following is the orbital calculation results after the\\n approach:\\n\\n\\tApoapsis Altitude: about 49,400 km\\n\\tPeriapsis Altitude: about 9,600 km\\n\\tInclination\\t: 34.7 deg (to ecliptic plane)\\n\\tPeriod\\t\\t: 4.7 days\\n\\n\\nPLANETARY MISSION REFERENCES\\n\\n I also recommend reading the following works, categorized in three\\n groups: General overviews, specific books on particular space missions,\\n and periodical sources on space probes. This list is by no means\\n complete; it is primarily designed to give you places to start your\\n research through generally available works on the subject. If anyone can\\n add pertinent works to the list, it would be greatly appreciated.\\n\\n Though naturally I recommend all the books listed below, I think it\\n would be best if you started out with the general overview books, in\\n order to give you a clear idea of the history of space exploration in\\n this area. I also recommend that you pick up some good, up-to-date\\n general works on astronomy and the Sol system, to give you some extra\\n background. Most of these books and periodicals can be found in any good\\n public and university library. Some of the more recently published works\\n can also be purchased in and/or ordered through any good mass- market\\n bookstore.\\n\\n General Overviews (in alphabetical order by author):\\n\\n J. Kelly Beatty et al, THE NEW SOLAR SYSTEM, 1990.\\n\\n Merton E. Davies and Bruce C. Murray, THE VIEW FROM SPACE:\\n PHOTOGRAPHIC EXPLORATION OF THE PLANETS, 1971\\n\\n Kenneth Gatland, THE ILLUSTRATED ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SPACE\\n TECHNOLOGY, 1990\\n\\n Kenneth Gatland, ROBOT EXPLORERS, 1972\\n\\n R. Greeley, PLANETARY LANDSCAPES, 1987\\n\\n Douglas Hart, THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SOVIET SPACECRAFT, 1987\\n\\n Nicholas L. Johnson, HANDBOOK OF SOVIET LUNAR AND PLANETARY\\n EXPLORATION, 1979\\n\\n Clayton R. Koppes, JPL AND THE AMERICAN SPACE PROGRAM: A\\n HISTORY OF THE JET PROPULSION LABORATORY, 1982\\n\\n Richard S. Lewis, THE ILLUSTRATED ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE\\n UNIVERSE, 1983\\n\\n Mark Littman, PLANETS BEYOND: DISCOVERING THE OUTER SOLAR\\n SYSTEM, 1988\\n\\n Eugene F. Mallove and Gregory L. Matloff, THE STARFLIGHT\\n HANDBOOK: A PIONEER\\'S GUIDE TO INTERSTELLAR TRAVEL, 1989\\n\\n Frank Miles and Nicholas Booth, RACE TO MARS: THE MARS\\n FLIGHT ATLAS, 1988\\n\\n Bruce Murray, JOURNEY INTO SPACE, 1989\\n\\n Oran W. Nicks, FAR TRAVELERS, 1985 (NASA SP-480)\\n\\n James E. Oberg, UNCOVERING SOVIET DISASTERS: EXPLORING THE\\n LIMITS OF GLASNOST, 1988\\n\\n Carl Sagan, COMET, 1986\\n\\n Carl Sagan, THE COSMIC CONNECTION, 1973\\n\\n Carl Sagan, PLANETS, 1969 (LIFE Science Library)\\n\\n Arthur Smith, PLANETARY EXPLORATION: THIRTY YEARS OF UNMANNED\\n SPACE PROBES, 1988\\n\\n Andrew Wilson, (JANE\\'S) SOLAR SYSTEM LOG, 1987\\n\\n Specific Mission References:\\n\\n Charles A. Cross and Patrick Moore, THE ATLAS OF MERCURY, 1977\\n (The MARINER 10 mission to Venus and Mercury, 1973-1975)\\n\\n Joel Davis, FLYBY: THE INTERPLANETARY ODYSSEY OF VOYAGER 2, 1987\\n\\n Irl Newlan, FIRST TO VENUS: THE STORY OF MARINER 2, 1963\\n\\n Margaret Poynter and Arthur L. Lane, VOYAGER: THE STORY OF A\\n SPACE MISSION, 1984\\n\\n Carl Sagan, MURMURS OF EARTH, 1978 (Deals with the Earth\\n information records placed on VOYAGER 1 and 2 in case the\\n probes are found by intelligences in interstellar space,\\n as well as the probes and planetary mission objectives\\n themselves.)\\n\\n Other works and periodicals:\\n\\n NASA has published very detailed and technical books on every space\\n probe mission it has launched. Good university libraries will carry\\n these books, and they are easily found simply by knowing which mission\\n you wish to read about. I recommend these works after you first study\\n some of the books listed above.\\n\\n Some periodicals I recommend for reading on space probes are NATIONAL\\n GEOGRAPHIC, which has written articles on the PIONEER probes to Earth\\'s\\n Moon Luna and the Jovian planets Jupiter and Saturn, the RANGER,\\n SURVEYOR, LUNAR ORBITER, and APOLLO missions to Luna, the MARINER\\n missions to Mercury, Venus, and Mars, the VIKING probes to Mars, and the\\n VOYAGER missions to Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.\\n\\n More details on American, Soviet, European, and Japanese probe missions\\n can be found in SKY AND TELESCOPE, ASTRONOMY, SCIENCE, NATURE, and\\n SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN magazines. TIME, NEWSWEEK, and various major\\n newspapers can supply not only general information on certain missions,\\n but also show you what else was going on with Earth at the time events\\n were unfolding, if that is of interest to you. Space missions are\\n affected by numerous political, economic, and climatic factors, as you\\n probably know.\\n\\n Depending on just how far your interest in space probes will go, you\\n might also wish to join The Planetary Society, one of the largest space\\n groups in the world dedicated to planetary exploration. Their\\n periodical, THE PLANETARY REPORT, details the latest space probe\\n missions. Write to The Planetary Society, 65 North Catalina Avenue,\\n Pasadena, California 91106 USA.\\n\\n Good luck with your studies in this area of space exploration. I\\n personally find planetary missions to be one of the more exciting areas\\n in this field, and the benefits human society has and will receive from\\n it are incredible, with many yet to be realized.\\n\\n Larry Klaes klaes@verga.enet.dec.com\\n\\nNEXT: FAQ #11/15 - Upcoming planetary probes - missions and schedules\\n',\n", " \"From: MAILRP%ESA.BITNET@vm.gmd.de\\nSubject: message from Space Digest\\nX-Added: Forwarded by Space Digest\\nOrganization: [via International Space University]\\nOriginal-Sender: isu@VACATION.VENARI.CS.CMU.EDU\\nDistribution: sci\\nLines: 58\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nJoint Press release ESA/UN No 18-93\\nParis, 19 April 1993\\n\\nUN/ESA joint training course on satellite applications\\nto be held in Italy, 19-30 April\\n\\nThe United Nations and the European Space Agency (ESA)\\nare jointly organising a training course on the applications of\\nsatellite data gathered by the European Remote Sensing\\nSatellite (ERS-1), to be held in Frascati, Italy, from 19 to 30\\nApril. The training course will discuss the applications of\\nsatellite data concerning natural resources, renewable energy\\nand the environment.\\n\\nThe training course, organised for the benefit of francophone\\nAfrican experts, will be hosted by ESRIN, the European Space\\nAgency's establishment in Frascati, which is responsible for\\ncoordination with the users of data from ESA's remote sensing\\nsatellite. Twenty-four experts in the field of remote sensing,\\nselected from 19 francophone countries from northern, western\\nand central Africa, and three regional African centres, will\\nattend the two-week session. The course will focus on remote\\nsensing techniques and data applications, particularly ERS-1\\ndata.\\n\\nThe ERS-1 satellite, developed by ESA and launched in 1991\\nwith the European Ariane launcher, carries an advanced radar\\ninstrument and is the first in a series of radar remote sensing\\nmissions that will ensure availability of data beyond the year\\n2000. The aim of the training course is to increase the\\npotential of experts using the practical applications of radar\\nremote sensing systems to natural resources, renewable energy\\nand the environment, with particular emphasis on applications\\nto geology and mineral prospecting, oceanography and near-\\ncoastal areas, agriculture, forestry and meteorology.\\n\\nThe education and practical training programme was\\ndeveloped jointly by the United Nations and ESA. The\\nfacilities and the technical support, as well as lecturers and\\ninformation documents for the training course, will be\\nprovided by the Agency. Lecturers at the training course will\\ninclude high-level experts from other European and African\\norganisations active in remote sensing applications. Funds for\\nthe training course are being provided by the United Nations\\n\\n\\n\\nTrust Fund for New and Renewable Sources of Energy; the\\nprimary contributor to that Fund is the Government of Italy.\\n\\nA similar training course is being planned for Latin American\\nexperts.\\n\\n\\n\",\n", " 'From: turpin@cs.utexas.edu (Russell Turpin)\\nSubject: Re: Science and Methodology\\nOrganization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin\\nLines: 67\\nDistribution: inet\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: im4u.cs.utexas.edu\\n\\n-*----\\nIn article lady@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Lee Lady) writes:\\n> The difference between a Nobel Prize level scientist and a mediocre\\n> scientist does not lie in the quality of their empirical methodology. \\n> It depends on the quality of their THINKING. \\n>\\n> It really bothers me that so many graduate students seem to believe that\\n> they are doing science merely because they are conducting empirical\\n> studies. ...\\n>\\n> And I\\'m especially offended by Russell Turpin\\'s repeated assertion that\\n> science amounts to nothing more than avoiding mistakes. Simply avoiding\\n> mistakes doesn\\'t get you anywhere. \\n\\nI think that Lee Lady and I are talking at cross purposes.\\nAbove, Lady seems concerned with the contrast between great\\nscience that makes big advances in our knowledge and mediocre\\nscience that makes smaller steps. In most of this thread, I have\\nbeen concerned with the difference between what is science and\\nwhat is not. \\n\\nLee Lady is correct when she asserts that the difference between\\nEinstein and the average post-doc physicist is the quality of\\ntheir thought. But what is the difference between Einstein and a\\ngenius who would be a great scientist but whose great thoughts\\nare scientifically screwy? (Some would give Velikovsky or\\nKorzybski as examples. If you don\\'t like these, choose your\\nown.) I say it is the same as the difference between the mediocre\\nphysicist and the mediocre proponent of qi. Both Einstein and\\nthe mediocre physcists have disciplined their work from the\\ncumulative knowledge of how previous researchers went wrong.\\nBoth Velikovsky and the mediocre proponent of qi have failed to\\ndo this. \\n\\nLet me approach this from a second direction. When one is asked\\nto review a paper for a journal or conference, there are many\\nkinds of criticism that one can make. One kind of criticism is\\nthat the work is just wrong or misinformed. Another kind of\\ncriticism is that the work, while technically correct, is either\\nnot important or not interesting. The first difference is the\\none that I have been pointing to. The second difference is the\\none that Lee Lady seems to be discussing. \\n\\n> If good empirical research were done and showed that there is some merit\\n> to homeopathic remedies, this would certainly be valuable information.\\n> But it would still not mean that homeopathy qualifies as a science. This\\n> is where you and I disagree with Turpin. \\n\\nI have often pointed out that for homeopathy to be considered \\nscientific, what is needed is a test of its theoretical claims,\\nnot just of some of its proposed remedies. Similarly, I suspect\\nthat traditional Chinese medicine has many remedies that work;\\nwhat it lacks (as one example) is any experiment that tests the\\npresence of qi.\\n\\n> ... In order to have science, one must have a theoretical\\n> structure that makes sense, not a mere collection of empirically\\n> validated random hypotheses.\\n\\nCertainly a \"theoretical structure that makes sense\" is the goal.\\nIn areas where we do not yet have this, I see nothing wrong with\\nforming and testing smaller hypotheses. Let\\'s face it: we cannot\\nalways wait for an Einstein to come along and make everything\\nclear for us. Sometimes those of us who are not Einstein have to\\nplug along and make small amounts of progress as best we can. \\n\\nRussell\\n',\n", " 'From: billc@col.hp.com (Bill Claussen)\\nSubject: Re: Should I be angry at this doctor?\\nOrganization: HP Colorado Springs Division\\nLines: 5\\nDistribution: na\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: hpcspe17.col.hp.com\\n\\n\\nReport them to your local BBB (Better Business Bureau).\\n\\nBill Claussen\\n\\n',\n", " 'From: jennise@opus.dgi.com (Milady Printcap the goddess of peripherals)\\nSubject: Looking for a little research help\\nOrganization: Dynamic Graphics Inc.\\nLines: 19\\nDistribution: usa\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: opus.dgi.com\\n\\n\\nHi,\\n \\n I\\'m writing a science fiction script and I\\'m looking for some\\nanswers to questions regarding the Moon and Earth. My starting point\\nis an impossible situation. [I checked with a professor at berkeley\\nand his response was a VERY helpful \"can\\'t happen\".] If you enjoy\\nplaying with unusual ideas and are willing answer some questions\\nplease contact me via e-mail (jennise@dgi.com).\\n\\n I get extremely annoyed when screen and tele-plays ignore basic\\nfacts about computers that I\\'m determined to be as scientifically\\naccurate as I can.\\n\\n\\n Sorry for being vague, but I\\'d like to protect my idea as much as I\\ncan until I\\'m ready to sell it (hopefully).\\n\\nJennise\\n',\n", " 'From: aws@iti.org (Allen W. Sherzer)\\nSubject: Re: Alaska Pipeline and Space Station!\\nOrganization: Evil Geniuses for a Better Tomorrow\\nLines: 20\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr5.160550.7592@mksol.dseg.ti.com> mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:\\n\\n>>Why can\\'t the government just be a tennant?\\n\\n>I think this would be a great way to build it, but unfortunately\\n>current spending rules don\\'t permit it to be workable. \\n\\nActually, that is no longer true. In the last few years Congress has\\nammended laws to provide whatever is needed. Note that both Spacehab\\nand Comet are funded this way.\\n\\nThe problems aren\\'t legal nor technical. The problem is NASA\\'s culture.\\n\\n Allen\\n\\n-- \\n+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+\\n| Allen W. Sherzer | \"A great man is one who does nothing but leaves |\\n| aws@iti.org | nothing undone\" |\\n+----------------------71 DAYS TO FIRST FLIGHT OF DCX-----------------------+\\n',\n", " 'From: bhjelle@carina.unm.edu ()\\nSubject: Re: My New Diet --> IT WORKS GREAT !!!!\\nOrganization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque\\nLines: 19\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: carina.unm.edu\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr21.091844.4035@omen.UUCP> caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX) writes:\\n>In article <19687@pitt.UUCP> geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks) writes:\\n>>\\n>>Can you provide a reference to substantiate that gaining back\\n>>the lost weight does not constitute \"weight rebound\" until it\\n>>exceeds the starting weight? Or is this oral tradition that\\n>>is shared only among you obesity researchers?\\n>\\n>Not one, but two:\\n>\\n>Obesity in Europe 88,\\n>proceedings of the 1st European Congress on Obesity\\n>\\n>Annals of NY Acad. Sci. 1987\\n>\\nHmmm. These don\\'t look like references to me. Is passive-aggressive\\nbehavior associated with weight rebound? :-)\\n\\nBrian\\n',\n", " \"From: jaskew@spam.maths.adelaide.edu.au (Joseph Askew)\\nSubject: Re: the call to space (was Re: Clueless Szaboisms )\\nKeywords: trumpet calls, infrastructure, public perception\\nOrganization: Statistics, Pure & Applied Mathematics, University of Adelaide\\nLines: 32\\n\\nIn article <1pfj8k$6ab@access.digex.com> prb@access.digex.com (Pat) writes:\\n>In article <1993Mar31.161814.11683@mksol.dseg.ti.com> mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:\\n\\n>>It isn't feasible for Japan to try to stockpile the amount of oil they\\n>>would need to run their industries if they did no use nuclear power.\\n\\n>Of course, Given they export 50 % of the GNP, What do they do.\\n\\nWell they don't export anywhere near 50% of their GNP. Mexico's perhaps\\nbut not their own. They actually export around the 9-10% mark. Similar\\nto most developed countries actually. Australia exports a larger share\\nof GNP as does the United States (14% I think off hand. Always likely to\\nbe out by a factor of 12 or more though) This would be immediately obvious\\nif you thought about it.\\n\\n>Anything serious enough to disrupt the sea lanes for oil will\\n>also hose their export routes.\\n\\nIt is their import routes that count. They can do without exports but\\nthey couldn't live without imports for any longer than six months if that.\\n\\n>Given they import everything, oil is just one more critical commodity.\\n\\nToo true! But one that is unstable and hence a source of serious worry.\\n\\nJoseph Askew\\n\\n-- \\nJoseph Askew, Gauche and Proud In the autumn stillness, see the Pleiades,\\njaskew@spam.maths.adelaide.edu Remote in thorny deserts, fell the grief.\\nDisclaimer? Sue, see if I care North of our tents, the sky must end somwhere,\\nActually, I rather like Brenda Beyond the pale, the River murmurs on.\\n\",\n", " \"From: tholen@galileo.ifa.hawaii.edu (Dave Tholen)\\nSubject: Re: New planet/Kuiper object found?\\nOrganization: University of Hawaii\\nDistribution: sci\\nLines: 18\\n\\nFrancisco da Fonseca Rodrigues writes:\\n\\n> \\tTonigth a TV journal here in Brasil announced that an object,\\n> beyond Pluto's orbit, was found by an observatory at Hawaii. They\\n> named the object Karla.\\n\\nThe name is a working name only; quite unofficial. The formal designation\\nis 1993 FW.\\n\\n> \\tThe program said the object wasn't a gaseous giant planet, and\\n> should be composed by rocks and ices.\\n> \\n> \\tCan someone confirm these information? Could this object be a\\n> new planet or a Kuiper object?\\n\\nIt's most likely a Kuiper Belt object, with an estimated diameter of\\n290 km. The orbit hasn't been determined well enough yet to say much\\nmore about it.\\n\",\n", " \"From: leech@cs.unc.edu (Jon Leech)\\nSubject: Space FAQ 07/15 - Astronomical Mnemonics\\nSupersedes: \\nOrganization: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill\\nLines: 95\\nDistribution: world\\nExpires: 6 May 1993 19:57:55 GMT\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: mahler.cs.unc.edu\\nKeywords: Frequently Asked Questions\\n\\nArchive-name: space/mnemonics\\nLast-modified: $Date: 93/04/01 14:39:14 $\\n\\nASTRONOMICAL MNEMONICS (This is the last FAQ section posted to sci.astro)\\n\\n Gathered from various flurries of mnemonic postings on sci.astro.\\n\\n Spectral classification sequence: O B A F G K M R N S\\n\\n\\tOh Be A Fine Girl Kiss Me Right Now, Sweetheart. (a classic)\\n\\n\\tO'Dell's Big Astronomical Fiasco Gonna Kill Me Right Now Surely\\n\\tObese Balding Astronomy Found Guilty; Killed Many Reluctant\\n\\t Nonscience Students.\\n\\tOctopus Brains, A Favorite Gastronomical Kitchen Menu,\\n\\t Requires No Sauce\\n\\tOdd Ball Astronomers Find Generally Kooky Mnemonics\\n\\t Really Nifty Stuff\\n\\tOh Big And Ferocious Gorilla, Kill My Roomate Next Saturday\\n\\tOh Boy, A Flash! Godzilla Kills Mothra! Really Not Surprising!\\n\\tOh Boy, An F Grade Kills Me\\n\\tOn Bad Afternoons Fermented Grapes Keep Mrs. Richard Nixon Smiling\\n\\tOn, Backward Astronomer, Forget Geocentricity; Kepler's Motions\\n\\t Reveal Nature's Simplicity\\n\\tOur Bad Astronomy Faculty Gets Killed Monday\\n\\tOven Baked Ants, Fried Gently, Kept Moist, Retain Natural Succulence\\n\\tOverseas Broadcast: A Flash! Godzilla kills Mothra!\\n\\t (Rodan Named Successor)\\n\\tOverweight Boys and Fat Girls Keep Munching\\n\\tOnly Bored Astronomers Find Gratification Knowing Mnemonics\\n\\tOh Bloody Astronomy! F Grades Kill Me\\n\\n Order of the planets:\\n\\n\\tSun\\n\\tMercury\\n\\tVenus\\n\\tEarth (Terra)\\n\\tMars\\n\\t(Asteroids)\\n\\tJupiter\\n\\tSaturn\\n\\tUranus\\n\\tNeptune\\n\\tPluto\\n\\n\\tMy Very Earnest Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas\\n\\tMother Very Thoughtfully Made A Jelly Sandwich Under No Protest\\n\\tMy Very Erotic Mate Joyfully Satisfies Unusual Needs Passionately\\n\\tMen Very Easily Make Jugs Serve Useful Nocturnal Purposes\\n\\tMan Very Early Made A Jug Serve Useful Noble Purposes\\n\\tMy Very Educated Mother Just Showed Us Nine Planets\\n\\tMy Very Eager Mother Just Showed Us Nine Planets\\n\\tMy Very Exhausted Mother hAs Just Swept Up a Planetary Nebula\\n\\tMost Voters Earn Money Just Showing Up Near Polls\\n\\tMy Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizza-pies\\n\\tMany Viscious Elephants Made John, Suzy and Uncle Need Protection\\n\\tSolar Mass Very Easily Makes All Jupiter's Satellites Undergo\\n\\t Numerous Perturbations.\\n\\n\\tMein Vater erklaert mir jeden Sonntag unsere niedlichen Planeten\\n\\t (My Father explains to me every Sunday our nine planets)\\n\\tMan verachte einen Menschen in seinem Unglueck nie -- Punkt\\n\\t (Never scorn/despise a person in his misfortune/bad luck/misery\\n\\t\\t-- period!)\\n\\n Colors of the spectrum: Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Indigo Violet\\n\\tROY G. BIV (pronounce as a man's name)\\n\\tRichard Of York Gave Battle In Vain\\n\\tRead Out Your Good Book In Verse\\n\\n Galilean Satellite of Jupiter: Io Europa Ganymede Callisto\\n\\tI Expect God Cries\\n\\tI Eat Green Cheese\\n\\tI Embarrass Good Christians\\n\\n\\tIch erschrecke all guten Christen\\n\\t (I scare all good Christians)\\n\\n Saturnian Satellites\\n\\tMET DR THIP\\n\\tMiriam's Enchiladas Taste Divine Recently. Tell Her I'm Proud.\\n\\t(Mimas, Enceladus, Tethys, Dione, Rhea, Titan, Hyperion,\\n\\t Iapetus, Phoebe)\\n\\n Uranian Satellites:\\n\\tMAUTO\\n\\tMispronunciations Afflict Uranus Too Often\\n\\tMy Angel Uriel Takes Opium\\n\\t(Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, Oberon)\\n\\nNOTE: the remaining FAQ sections do not appear in sci.astro, as they cover\\n material of relevance only to sci.space.\\n\\nNEXT: FAQ #8/15 - Contacting NASA, ESA, and other space agencies/companies\\n\",\n", " \"From: prb@access.digex.com (Pat)\\nSubject: Re: Proton/Centaur?\\nOrganization: Express Access Online Communications USA\\nLines: 15\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: access.digex.net\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr20.211638.168730@zeus.calpoly.edu> jgreen@trumpet.calpoly.edu (James Thomas Green) writes:\\n>Has anyone looked into the possiblity of a Proton/Centaur combo?\\n\\n\\nI don't know a whole lot on Proton, but given that it is a multi stage\\nrocket, up to 4 stages, it may not really need the Centaur, plus\\nit may end up seriously beating on said centaur. \\n\\nAlso, the centaur is not small, unless the Proton has an oversize\\nshroud you may not be able to get the centaur in under it.\\n\\nDennis, you know much about this?\\n\\npat\\n\\n\",\n", " 'From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nSubject: Re: Too many MRIs?\\nReply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nOrganization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science\\nLines: 15\\n\\nIn article <1q6rie$mo2@access.digex.net> kfl@access.digex.com (Keith F. Lynch) writes:\\n\\n>So, why are the scans so expensive, and what can be done to reduce the\\n>expense? Isn\\'t it just a box with some big magnets, a radio transmitter,\\n>and an attached PC?\\n\\nThe magnets are huge! Good MRI sets with big (>1.5 Tesla) magnets\\ncost millions of dollars. Then, the radiologist wants $400 for\\nreading each scan.\\n\\n-- \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nGordon Banks N3JXP | \"Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and\\ngeb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu | it is shameful to surrender it too soon.\" \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n',\n", " 'From: Wales.Larrison@ofa123.fidonet.org\\nSubject: Space Advertising (2 of 2)\\nX-Sender: newtout 0.08 Feb 23 1993\\nLines: 82\\n\\n Two developments have brought these type of activities back to\\nthe forefront in 1993. First, in February, the Russians deployed a\\n20-m reflector from a Progress vehicle after it had departed from\\nthe Mir Space Station. While this \"Banner\" reflector was blank,\\nNPO Energia was very active in reporting that future Banner\\nreflectors will be available to advertisers, who could use a space-\\nbased video of their logo or ad printed on the Banner in a TV\\ncommercial, as filmed from the Mir.\\n The second development, has been that Space Marketing Inc, the\\nsame company responsible for merchandising space on the Conestoga\\nbooster and COMET spacecraft, is now pushing the \"Environmental\\nBillboard\". As laid out by SMI Chief Engineer Dr Ron Humble of the\\nUniversity of Colorado Space Laboratory and Preston Carter of the\\nLawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the \"Environmental\\nBillboard\" is a large inflatable outer support structure of up to\\n804x1609 meters. Advertising is carried by a mylar reflective area,\\ndeployed by the inflatable \\'frame\\'.\\n To help sell the concept, the spacecraft responsible for\\nmaintaining the billboard on orbit will carry \"ozone reading\\nsensors\" to \"continuously monitor the condition of the Earth\\'s\\ndelicate protective ozone layer,\" according to Mike Lawson, head of\\nSMI. Furthermore, the inflatable billboard has reached its minimum\\nexposure of 30 days it will be released to re-enter the Earth\\'s\\natmosphere. According to IMI, \"as the biodegradable material burns,\\nit will release ozone-building components that will literally\\nreplenish the ozone layer.\" The remaining spacecraft will monitor\\nthe atmosphere for another year before it, too, re-enters and burns\\nup and \"adds to the ozone supply.\"\\n This would not be a cheap advertisement, costing at least several\\nmillions of dollars (exact costs were not available). But SMI\\nestimates that market exposure would be 3-5X that of the people who\\nwatched the SuperBowl, where a 30-second advertising \\'unit\\' cost\\n$600,000. Since SMI is located in Atlanta, Georgia, it is being\\npromoted as being available in time for the opening of the 1996\\nSummer Olympics in Atlanta.\\n \\nBut back to Brian\\'s questions:\\n>And does anyone have any more details other than what was in the WN\\n>news blip? How serious is this project? Is this just in the \"wild\\n>idea\" stage or does it have real funding?\\n \\n See above. As for serious -- if they can get $15-20 M or so (my\\nestimate of $5-10 for development costs and a flight unit, plus\\n$10-15 M for a launch), then it\\'s probably real. They are claiming to\\ntailor the orbit to overfly specific locations at specific times for\\noptimum advertising impact so they probably can\\'t piggy back upon\\nsomeone else\\'s planned launch and will have to buy a dedicated\\nlaunch. That\\'s a $10-15 M cost they need to raise, right there.\\n And there will probably be some legal challenges to this as\\nwell. Note there is one potential legal challenge to SMI on the use\\nof launch vehicle advertising already. While I don\\'t think the\\nlegal challenges would win out (and yes, I am an amateur astronomer,\\nand no, I don\\'t really like the idea of this additional light\\npollution, but I know of no prohibition of it...), the legal\\nchallenges and court fights would probably remove any positive\\naspects of the advertising. I can imagine several ways to make the\\nadvertisers look like louts for doing this -- which would change\\npositive market exposure to negative market exposure, and negate the\\nspace advertising advantage. (Would you spend $15 M to look like an\\nidiot?)\\n (And light pollution might not be too bad -- if it\\'s in a low\\nenough orbit, and it relies upon reflected light only, it would\\nonly be visible for a short time just after local dusk and before\\ndawn. For maximum market exposure, you want to have it visible just\\nafter dusk --minimizing impact on astronomy, since that\\'s the time\\nof worse seeing due to day/night thermal turbulence. It might still\\nbe a problem, but perhaps there are ways to mitigate this...)\\n As for having real funding -- none that I can identify. There\\nwere about 60 expressions of interest made on the Conestoga\\nadvertising opportunity, but that included curious folks and was for\\nonly a $500,000 commitment. I haven\\'t heard of any serious funding\\nfor this, but I\\'m sure they are shopping the venture around looking\\nfor some money in order to flesh out the concept some more. But I\\nam confident there are no firm or paying customers at this time.\\n \\n And if anybody wants to cross-post this to sci.astro, please be\\nmy guest. I don\\'t have posting privileges to that area (or at least\\nI don\\'t THINK I do...).\\n -------------------------------------------------------------------\\n Wales Larrison Space Technology Investor\\n\\n--- Maximus 2.01wb\\n',\n", " 'From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)\\nSubject: Re: Keeping Spacecraft on after Funding Cuts.\\nOrganization: U of Toronto Zoology\\nLines: 17\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr20.204335.157595@zeus.calpoly.edu> jgreen@trumpet.calpoly.edu (James Thomas Green) writes:\\n>Why do spacecraft have to be shut off after funding cuts. For\\n>example, Why couldn\\'t Magellan just be told to go into a \"safe\"\\n>mode and stay bobbing about Venus in a low-power-use mode and if\\n>maybe in a few years if funding gets restored after the economy\\n>gets better (hopefully), it could be turned on again. \\n\\nOne consideration to remember is that if you don\\'t turn it off now,\\nyou may not be able to later. This isn\\'t a case of reaching over and\\nflipping a switch; much of the spacecraft has to be working correctly\\nto execute a \"turn off\" command successfully. Spacecraft do malfunction\\nin their old age. The big concern is not radio clutter from idle\\nspacecraft, but radio clutter from malfunctioning spacecraft that can\\nno longer be turned off.\\n-- \\nAll work is one man\\'s work. | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology\\n - Kipling | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry\\n',\n", " 'From: tom@igc.apc.org\\nSubject: computer cult\\nNf-ID: #N:cdp:1469100033:000:2451\\nNf-From: cdp.UUCP!tom Apr 24 09:26:00 1993\\nLines: 59\\n\\n\\nFrom: \\nSubject: computer cult\\n\\nFrom scott Fri Apr 23 16:31:21 1993\\nReceived: by igc.apc.org (4.1/Revision: 1.77 )\\n\\tid AA16121; Fri, 23 Apr 93 16:31:09 PDT\\nDate: Fri, 23 Apr 93 16:31:09 PDT\\nMessage-Id: <9304232331.AA16121@igc.apc.org>\\nFrom: Scott Weikart \\nSender: scott\\nTo: cdplist\\nSubject: Next stand-off?\\nStatus: R\\n\\nRedwood City, CA (API) -- A tense stand-off entered its third week\\ntoday as authorities reported no progress in negotiations with\\ncharismatic cult leader Steve Jobs.\\n\\nNegotiators are uncertain of the situation inside the compound, but\\nsome reports suggest that half of the hundreds of followers inside\\nhave been terminated. Others claim to be staying of their own free\\nwill, but Jobs\\' persuasive manner makes this hard to confirm.\\n\\nIn conversations with authorities, Jobs has given conflicting\\ninformation on how heavily prepared the group is for war with the\\nindustry. At times, he has claimed to \"have hardware which will blow\\nanything else away\", while more recently he claims they have stopped\\nmanufacturing their own.\\n\\nAgents from the ATF (Apple-Taligent Forces) believe that the group is\\nequipped with serious hardware, including 486-caliber pieces and\\npossibly Canon equipment.\\n\\nThe siege has attracted a variety of spectators, from the curious to\\nother cultists. Some have offered to intercede in negotiations,\\nincluding a young man who will identify himself only as \"Bill\" and\\nclaims to be the \"MS-iah\".\\n\\nFormer members of the cult, some only recently deprogrammed, speak\\nhesitantly of their former lives, including being forced to work\\n20-hour days, and subsisting on Jolt and Twinkies. There were\\nfrequent lectures in which they were indoctrinated into a theory of\\n\"interpersonal computing\" which rejects traditional roles.\\n\\nLate-night vigils on Chesapeake Drive are taking their toll on\\nfederal marshals. Loud rock and roll, mostly Talking Heads, blares\\nthroughout the night. Some fear that Jobs will fulfill his own\\napocalyptic prophecies, a worry reinforced when the loudspeakers\\ncarry Jobs\\' own speeches -- typically beginning with a chilling \"I\\nwant to welcome you to the \\'Next World\\' \".\\n\\n- - -- \\nRoland J. Schemers III | Networking Systems\\nSystems Programmer | G16 Redwood Hall (415) 723-6740\\nDistributed Computing Group | Stanford, CA 94305-4122\\nStanford University | schemers@Slapshot.Stanford.EDU\\n\\n\\n',\n", " 'From: sasghm@theseus.unx.sas.com (Gary Merrill)\\nSubject: Re: Science and methodology (was: Homeopathy ... tradition?)\\nOriginator: sasghm@theseus.unx.sas.com\\nNntp-Posting-Host: theseus.unx.sas.com\\nOrganization: SAS Institute Inc.\\nLines: 16\\n\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr15.161112.21772@cs.rochester.edu>, fulk@cs.rochester.edu (Mark Fulk) writes:\\n\\n|> I don\\'t think \"extra-scientific\" is a very useful phrase in a discussion\\n|> of the boundaries of science, except as a proposed definiens. Extra-rational\\n|> is a better phrase. In fact, there are quite a number of well-known cases\\n|> of extra-rational considerations driving science in a useful direction.\\n\\nYeah, but the problem with holding up the \"extra-rational\" examples as\\nexemplars, or as refutations of well founded methodology, is that you\\nrun smack up against such unuseful directions as Lysenko. Such \"extra-\\nrational\" cases are curiosities -- not guides to methodology.\\n-- \\nGary H. Merrill [Principal Systems Developer, C Compiler Development]\\nSAS Institute Inc. / SAS Campus Dr. / Cary, NC 27513 / (919) 677-8000\\nsasghm@theseus.unx.sas.com ... !mcnc!sas!sasghm\\n',\n", " 'From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nSubject: Re: Need Info on RSD\\nReply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nOrganization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science\\nLines: 13\\n\\nIn article <1993Mar27.004627.21258@rmtc.Central.Sun.COM> lrd@rmtc.Central.Sun.COM writes:\\n>I just started working for a rehabilitation hospital and have seen RSD\\n>come up as a diagnosis several times. What exactly is RSD and what is\\n>the nature of it? If there is a FAQ on this subject, I\\'d really\\n>appreciate it if someone would mail it to me. While any and all\\n\\nReflex sympathetic dystrophy. I\\'m sure there\\'s an FAQ, as I have\\nmade at least 10 answers to questions on it in the last year or so.\\n-- \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nGordon Banks N3JXP | \"Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and\\ngeb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu | it is shameful to surrender it too soon.\" \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n',\n", " 'From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nSubject: Re: How to Diagnose Lyme... really\\nReply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nOrganization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science\\nLines: 20\\n\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr12.201056.20753@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> mcg2@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (Marc Gabriel) writes:\\n\\n>Now, I\\'m not saying that culturing is the best way to diagnose; it\\'s very\\n>hard to culture Bb in most cases. The point is that Dr. N has developed a\\n>\"feel\" for what is and what isn\\'t LD. This comes from years of experience.\\n>No serology can match that. Unfortunately, some would call Dr. N a \"quack\"\\n>and accuse him of trying to make a quick buck.\\n>\\nWhy do you think he would be called a quack? The quacks don\\'t do cultures.\\nThey poo-poo doing more lab tests: \"this is Lyme, believe me, I\\'ve\\nseen it many times. The lab tests aren\\'t accurate. We\\'ll treat it\\nnow.\" Also, is Dr. N\\'s practice almost exclusively devoted to treating\\nLyme patients? I don\\'t know *any* orthopedic surgeons who fit this\\npattern. They are usually GPs.\\n-- \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nGordon Banks N3JXP | \"Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and\\ngeb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu | it is shameful to surrender it too soon.\" \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n',\n", " 'From: gary@ke4zv.uucp (Gary Coffman)\\nSubject: Re: What if the USSR had reached the Moon first?\\nReply-To: gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman)\\nOrganization: Destructive Testing Systems\\nLines: 30\\n\\nIn article <93107.144339SAUNDRSG@QUCDN.QueensU.CA> Graydon writes:\\n>This is turning into \\'what\\'s a moonbase good for\\', and I ought\\n>not to post when I\\'ve a hundred some odd posts to go, but I would\\n>think that the real reason to have a moon base is economic.\\n>\\n>Since someone with space industry will presumeably have a much\\n>larger GNP than they would _without_ space industry, eventually,\\n>they will simply be able to afford more stuff.\\n\\nIf I read you right, you\\'re saying in essence that, with a larger\\neconomy, nations will have more discretionary funds to *waste*\\non a lunar facility. That was certainly partially the case with Apollo, \\nbut real Lunar colonies will probably require a continuing military,\\nscientific, or commercial reason for being rather than just a \"we have \\nthe money, why not?\" approach.\\n\\nIt\\'s conceivable that Luna will have a military purpose, it\\'s possible\\nthat Luna will have a commercial purpose, but it\\'s most likely that\\nLuna will only have a scientific purpose for the next several hundred\\nyears at least. Therefore, Lunar bases should be predicated on funding\\nlevels little different from those found for Antarctic bases. Can you\\nput a 200 person base on the Moon for $30 million a year? Even if you\\nuse grad students?\\n\\nGary\\n-- \\nGary Coffman KE4ZV | You make it, | gatech!wa4mei!ke4zv!gary\\nDestructive Testing Systems | we break it. | uunet!rsiatl!ke4zv!gary\\n534 Shannon Way | Guaranteed! | emory!kd4nc!ke4zv!gary \\nLawrenceville, GA 30244 | | \\n',\n", " 'From: rdl1@ukc.ac.uk (R.D.Lorenz)\\nSubject: Cold Gas tanks for Sounding Rockets\\nOrganization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.\\nLines: 14\\nNntp-Posting-Host: eagle.ukc.ac.uk\\n\\n>Does anyone know how to size cold gas roll control thruster tanks\\n>for sounding rockets?\\n\\nWell, first you work out how much cold gas you need, then make the\\ntanks big enough.\\n\\nWorking out how much cold gas is another problem, depending on\\nvehicle configuration, flight duration, thruster Isp (which couples\\ninto storage pressure, which may be a factor in selecting tank\\nwall thickness etc.)\\n\\nRalph Lorenz\\nUnit for Space Sciences\\nUniversity of Kent, UK\\n',\n", " 'From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)\\nSubject: Re: Sunrise/ sunset times\\nOrganization: U of Toronto Zoology\\nLines: 14\\n\\nIn article <1r6f3a$2ai@news.umbc.edu> rouben@math9.math.umbc.edu (Rouben Rostamian) writes:\\n>>Hello. I am looking for a program (or algorithm) that can be used\\n>>to compute sunrise and sunset times.\\n>\\n>Here is a computation I did a long time ago that computes the length\\n>of the daylight. You should be able to convert the information here\\n>to sunrise and sunset times.\\n\\nSorry, not so -- the changes in sunrise and sunset times are not\\nquite synchronized. For example, neither the earliest sunrise nor the\\nlatest sunset comes on the longest day of the year.\\n\\nYou can derive day length from sunrise and sunset times, but not\\nvice-versa.\\n',\n", " 'From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nSubject: Re: Blindsight\\nReply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nOrganization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science\\nLines: 18\\n\\nIn article werner@soe.berkeley.edu (John Werner) writes:\\n>In article <19213@pitt.UUCP>, geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks) wrote:\\n>> \\n>> Explain. I thought there were 3 types of cones, equivalent to RGB.\\n>\\n>You\\'re basically right, but I think there are just 2 types. One is\\n>sensitive to red and green, and the other is sensitive to blue and yellow. \\n>This is why the two most common kinds of color-blindness are red-green and\\n>blue-yellow.\\n>\\n\\nYes, I remember that now. Well, in that case, the cones are indeed\\ncolor sensitive, contrary to what the original respondent had claimed.\\n-- \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nGordon Banks N3JXP | \"Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and\\ngeb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu | it is shameful to surrender it too soon.\" \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n',\n", " 'From: prb@access.digex.com (Pat)\\nSubject: Re: Keeping Spacecraft on after Funding Cuts.\\nOrganization: Express Access Online Communications USA\\nLines: 54\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: access.digex.net\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr22.003719.101323@zeus.calpoly.edu> jgreen@trumpet.calpoly.edu (James Thomas Green) writes:\\n>prb@access.digex.com (Pat) Pontificated: \\n>>\\n>>\\n>\\n>I heard once that the voyagers had a failsafe routine built in\\n>that essentially says \"If you never hear from Earth again,\\n>here\\'s what to do.\" This was a back up in the event a receiver\\n>burnt out but the probe could still send data (limited, but\\n>still some data). \\n>\\n\\nVoyager has the unusual luck to be on a stable trajectory out of the\\nsolar system. All it\\'s doing is collecting fields data, and routinely\\nsquirting it down. One of the mariners is also in stable\\nsolar orbit, and still providing similiar solar data. \\n\\nSomething in a planetary orbit, is subject to much more complex forces.\\n\\nComsats, in \"stable \" geosynch orbits, require almost daily\\nstationkeeping operations. \\n\\nFor the occasional deep space bird, like PFF after pluto, sure\\nit could be left on \"auto-pilot\". but things like galileo or\\nmagellan, i\\'d suspect they need enough housekeeping that\\neven untended they\\'d end up unusable after a while.\\n\\nThe better question should be.\\n\\nWhy not transfer O&M of all birds to a separate agency with continous funding\\nto support these kind of ongoing science missions.\\n\\npat\\n\\n\\tWhen ongoing ops are mentioned, it seems to always quote Operations\\nand Data analysis. how much would it cost to collect the data\\nand let it be analyzed whenever. kinda like all that landsat data\\nthat sat around for 15 years before someone analyzed it for the ozone hole.\\n\\n>>Even if you let teh bird drift, it may get hosed by some\\n>>cosmic phenomena. \\n>>\\n>Since this would be a shutdown that may never be refunded for\\n>startup, if some type of cosmic BEM took out the probe, it might\\n>not be such a big loss. Obviously you can\\'t plan for\\n>everything, but the most obvious things can be considered.\\n>\\n>\\n>/~~~(-: James T. Green :-)~~~~(-: jgreen@oboe.calpoly.edu :-)~~~\\\\ \\n>| \"I know you believe you understand what it is that you | \\n>| think I said. But I am not sure that you realize that |\\n>| what I said is not what I meant.\" |\\n\\n\\n',\n", " 'From: pgf@srl03.cacs.usl.edu (Phil G. Fraering)\\nSubject: japanese moon landing/temporary orbit\\nOrganization: Univ. of Southwestern Louisiana\\nLines: 25\\n\\nrls@uihepa.hep.uiuc.edu (Ray Swartz (Oh, that guy again)) writes:\\n\\n>The gravity maneuvering that was used was to exploit \\'fuzzy regions\\'. These\\n>are described by the inventor as exploiting the second-order perturbations in a\\n>three body system. The probe was launched into this region for the\\n>earth-moon-sun system, where the perturbations affected it in such a way as to\\n>allow it to go into lunar orbit without large expenditures of fuel to slow\\n>down. The idea is that \\'natural objects sometimes get captured without\\n>expending fuel, we\\'ll just find the trajectory that makes it possible\". The\\n>originator of the technique said that NASA wasn\\'t interested, but that Japan\\n>was because their probe was small and couldn\\'t hold a lot of fuel for\\n>deceleration.\\n\\n\\nI should probably re-post this with another title, so that\\nthe guys on the other thread would see that this is a practical\\nuse of \"temporary orbits...\"\\n\\nAnother possible temporary orbit:\\n\\n--\\nPhil Fraering |\"Seems like every day we find out all sorts of stuff.\\npgf@srl02.cacs.usl.edu|Like how the ancient Mayans had televison.\" Repo Man\\n\\n\\n',\n", " 'From: ns14@crux3.cit.cornell.edu (Nathan Otto Siemers)\\nSubject: Re: Analgesics with Diuretics\\nIn-Reply-To: dyer@spdcc.com\\'s message of Tue, 6 Apr 1993 03:28:57 GMT\\nNntp-Posting-Host: crux3.cit.cornell.edu\\nOrganization: Department of Chemistry, Cornell Univ.\\nLines: 34\\n\\n>>>>> On Tue, 6 Apr 1993 03:28:57 GMT, dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer) said:\\n\\n | In article Lawrence Curcio writes:\\n|>I sometimes see OTC preparations for muscle aches/back aches that\\n|>combine aspirin with a diuretic.\\n\\n | You certainly do not see OTC preparations advertised as such.\\n | The only such ridiculous concoctions are nostrums for premenstrual\\n | syndrome, ostensibly to treat headache and \"bloating\" simultaneously.\\n | They\\'re worthless.\\n\\n|>The idea seems to be to reduce\\n|>inflammation by getting rid of fluid. Does this actually work? \\n\\n | That\\'s not the idea, and no, they don\\'t work.\\n\\n\\tI *believe* there is a known synergism between certain\\nanalgesics and caffiene. For treating pain, not inflammation.\\n\\n\\tNow that I am an ibuprofen convert I haven\\'t taken it for some\\ntime, but excedrin really works! (grin)\\n\\nNathan\\n\\n\\n\\n | -- \\n | Steve Dyer\\n | dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer\\n--\\n ......:bb|`:||,\\tnathan@chemres.tn.cornell.edu\\n ... .||: `||bbbbb\\n .. ,:` .``\"P$$$\\n .||. , . ` .`P$\\n',\n", " 'From: sandy@nmr1.pt.cyanamid.COM (Sandy Silverman)\\nSubject: Re: Barbecued foods and health risk\\nIn-Reply-To: rousseaua@immunex.com\\'s message of 19 Apr 93 13:02:13 PST\\nNntp-Posting-Host: nmr1.pt.cyanamid.com\\nOrganization: American Cyanamid Company\\n\\t<1quq1m$e8j@terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu>\\n\\t<1993Apr19.130213.69@immunex.com>\\nLines: 8\\n\\nHeat shock proteins are those whose expression is induced in response to\\nelevated temperature. Some are also made when organisms are subjected to\\nother stress conditions, e.g. high salt. They have no obvious connection\\nto what happens when you burn proteins.\\n--\\nSanford Silverman >Opinions expressed here are my own<\\nAmerican Cyanamid \\nsandy@pt.cyanamid.com, silvermans@pt.cyanamid.com \"Yeast is Best\"\\n',\n", " 'From: nash@biologysx.lan.nrc.ca (John Nash)\\nSubject: Re: Is MSG sensitivity superstition?\\nNntp-Posting-Host: 132.246.164.10\\nOrganization: National Research Council of Canada\\nLines: 39\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr15.135941.16105@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com> dougb@comm.mot.com (Doug Bank) writes:\\n>From: dougb@comm.mot.com (Doug Bank)\\n>Subject: Re: Is MSG sensitivity superstition?\\n>Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1993 13:59:41 GMT\\n\\n>In article <1993Apr14.122647.16364@tms390.micro.ti.com>, david@tms390.micro.ti.com (David Thomas) writes:\\n[lots of editing out of previuos posts]\\n\\n>Here is another anecdotal story. I am a picky eater and never wanted to \\n>try chinese food, however, I finally tried some in order to please a\\n>girl I was seeing at the time. I had never heard of Chinese restaurant\\n>syndrome. A group of us went to the restaurant and all shared 6 different\\n>dishes. It didn\\'t taste great, but I decided it wasn\\'t so bad. We went\\n>home and went to bed early. I woke up at 2 AM and puked my guts outs.\\n>I threw up for so long that (I\\'m not kidding) I pulled a muscle in\\n>my tongue. Dry heaves and everything. No one else got sick, and I\\'m\\n>not allergic to anything that I know of. \\n\\n>Suffice to say that I wont go into a chinese restaurant unless I am \\n>physically threatened. The smell of the food makes me ill (and that *is*\\n>a psycholgical reaction). When I have been dragged in to suffer\\n>through beef and broccoli without any sauces, I insist on no MSG. \\n>I haven\\'t gotten sick yet.\\n\\nFunny about that... my wife (my girlfriend at the time) used to get sick \\nafter eating certain foods at various Asian restaurants, and never knew \\nwhy. She\\'d go pale, and sweaty and then vomit copiously. A couple of us \\nventured a connection with MSG, and her response was: \"MSG? What\\'s that?\". \\nIt also happened when she pigged out on some brands of savoury crackers and \\nchips... which I noticed (later) had MSG on the label. Don\\'t know about \\ndouble blinds, but avoiding MSG has stopped her being sick at restaurants.\\n\\n\\ncheers, John\\n\\nJohn Nash | Email: Nash@biologysx.lan.nrc.ca.\\nInstitute for Biological Sciences, | National Research Council of Canada,\\nCell Physiology Group. | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.\\n *** Disclaimer: All opinions are mine, not NRC\\'s! ***\\n',\n", " 'From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nSubject: Re: Helium non-renewable?? (was: Too many MRIs?)\\nReply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nOrganization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science\\nLines: 18\\n\\nIn article turpin@cs.utexas.edu (Russell Turpin) writes:\\n>-*----\\n>How does the helium get consumed? I would have thought that failure\\n>to contain it perfectly would result in its evaporation .. back into \\n>the atmosphere. Sounds like a cycle to me. Obviously, it takes \\n>energy to run the cycle, but I seriously doubt that helium consumption\\n>is a resource issue.\\n>\\nIt\\'s not a cycle. Free helium will escape from the atmosphere due to\\nits high velocity. It won\\'t be practical to recover it. It has\\nto be mined.\\n\\n\\n-- \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nGordon Banks N3JXP | \"Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and\\ngeb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu | it is shameful to surrender it too soon.\" \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n',\n", " 'From: steinly@topaz.ucsc.edu (Steinn Sigurdsson)\\nSubject: Re: New planet/Kuiper object found?\\nOrganization: Lick Observatory/UCO\\nLines: 23\\nDistribution: sci\\n\\t<1r9de3INNjkv@gap.caltech.edu>\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: topaz.ucsc.edu\\nIn-reply-to: jafoust@cco.caltech.edu\\'s message of 23 Apr 1993 18:44:19 GMT\\n\\nIn article <1r9de3INNjkv@gap.caltech.edu> jafoust@cco.caltech.edu (Jeff Foust) writes:\\n\\n In a recent article jdnicoll@prism.ccs.uwo.ca (James Davis Nicoll) writes:\\n >\\tIf the new Kuiper belt object *is* called \\'Karla\\', the next\\n >one should be called \\'Smiley\\'.\\n\\n Unless I\\'m imaging things, (always a possibility =) 1992 QB1, the Kuiper Belt\\n object discovered last year, is known as Smiley.\\n\\nAs it happens the _second_ one is Karla. The first one was\\nSmiley. All subject to the vagaries of the IAU of course,\\nbut I think they might let this one slide...\\n\\n* Steinn Sigurdsson \\t\\t\\tLick Observatory \\t *\\n* steinly@lick.ucsc.edu\\t\\t\"standard disclaimer\" \\t *\\n* \"The worst thing you can say to a true revolutionary is that his \\t *\\n* revolution is unnecessary, that the problems can be corrected without *\\n* radical change. Telling people that paradise can be attained without *\\n* revolution is treason of the vilest kind.\" -- H.S. 1993\\t\\t * \\n\\n\\nJust had to try out my new .sig# on this forum ;-)\\n\\n',\n", " 'From: eder@hsvaic.boeing.com (Dani Eder)\\nSubject: Re: Vandalizing the sky.\\nOrganization: Boeing AI Center, Huntsville, AL\\nLines: 18\\n\\nRe: Space billboards\\n\\nEven easier to implement than writing messages on the Moon, once upon\\na time a group of space activists I belonged to in Seattle considered\\na \"Goodyear Blimp in orbit\". The idea was to use a large structure\\nthat could carry an array of lights like the Goodyear Blimp has.\\nPlaced in a low Earth orbit of high inclination, it could eventually\\nbe seen by almost everyone on Earth. Only our collective disapproval\\nof cluttering up space with such a thing stopped us from pursuing\\nit. It had quite feasible economics, which I will not post here\\nbecause I don\\'t want to encourage the idea (if you want to do such\\na thing, go figure it out for yourself).\\n\\nDani Eder\\n\\n-- \\nDani Eder/Meridian Investment Company/(205)464-2697(w)/232-7467(h)/\\nRt.1, Box 188-2, Athens AL 35611/Location: 34deg 37\\' N 86deg 43\\' W +100m alt.\\n',\n", " \"From: dmp@fig.citib.com (Donna M. Paino)\\nSubject: Psoriatic Arthritis - Info Needed Please!\\nOriginator: dmp@eagle\\nOrganization: Citibank IBISM\\nLines: 34\\n\\n\\n\\nA friend of mine has been diagnosed with Psoriatic Arthritis, as a result of\\ntrauma sustained in a car accident several years ago. The psoriasis is under\\ncontrol but the arthritis part of the illness is not.\\n\\nAnsaid (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory) worked pretty well for three years but\\nisn't helping much now. My friend is now taking Meclomen (another NSAID) but\\nthis isn't helping control the pain at all. In the past two months my friend\\nhas also started taking Azulfadine along with the NSAID medicines, but the\\neffects of the combined drugs aren't supposed to be realized for several months.\\n\\nAs a result of the pain, my friend is having problems sleeping. Staying in\\none position too long is an ordeal. Another major contributor to pain is that\\ntendonitis has now developed (left thumb and hand with numbness at the base of\\nthe palm; bottom of feet; shoulders and outer thighs). The tendonitis is\\nquite painful yet my friend's doctor has not recommended any form of treatment\\nto relieve it.\\n\\nThe latest twist is that the doctor has dropped the anti-inflammatories and is\\nnow recommending Prednisone. The hope is that the Prednisone will relieve some\\nof the pain from the tendonitis.\\n\\nMy friend is a 41 year old male who feels like he's 80 (his words, not mine).\\n\\n\\nIf anyone is aware of any new treatments for Psoriatic Arthritis, alternative\\ncourses of action, support groups or literature on it, I would be extremely\\ngrateful if you could e-mail to me. If anyone is interested, I'll post a\\nsummary to this newsgroup.\\n\\nthanks in advance,\\nDonna\\ndmp@fig.citib.com\\n\",\n", " \"From: solmstead@PFC.Forestry.CA (Sherry Olmstead)\\nSubject: Re: Heat Shock Proteins\\nNntp-Posting-Host: pfc.pfc.forestry.ca\\nReply-To: solmstead@PFC.Forestry.CA\\nOrganization: Forestry Canada (Pacific Forestry Centre)\\nLines: 25\\n\\nrousseaua@immunex.com writes about heat shock proteins (HSP's) and DNA.\\n\\nI hate to be derogatory, but in this case I think it's warranted.\\n\\nHSP's are part of the cellular response to stress. The only reason they\\nare called 'heat shock proteins' is because they were first demonstrated\\nusing heat shock. Dead tissue (ie. meat) is not going to produce ANY\\nprotein- because it's DEAD! \\n\\nAlso, who cares if the DNA you are ingesting is mutated!? It will be \\ncompletely digested in your stomach, which is about pH 2. \\n\\nSome of you worry WAY too much. Eat a healthy, balanced diet and relax.\\n\\nMy advice is, if you don't know what you are talking about, it is better\\nto keep your mouth shut than to open it and remove all doubt about your\\nignorance. Don't speculate, or at least get some concrete information\\nbefore you do!\\n\\nSherry Olmstead\\nBiochemist\\n\\n SHERRY OLMSTEAD Title: Lab Technician\\n Forestry Canada Phone: (604) 363-0600\\n Victoria, B.C. Internet: SOLMSTEAD@A1.PFC.Forestry.CA\\n\",\n", " \"From: sysmgr@king.eng.umd.edu (Doug Mohney)\\nSubject: Re: Moonbase race\\nOrganization: Computer Aided Design Lab, U. of Maryland College Park\\nLines: 13\\nReply-To: sysmgr@king.eng.umd.edu\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: queen.eng.umd.edu\\n\\nIn article , henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:\\n\\n>Apollo was done the hard way, in a big hurry, from a very limited\\n>technology base... and on government contracts. Just doing it privately,\\n>rather than as a government project, cuts costs by a factor of several.\\n\\nSo how much would it cost as a private venture, assuming you could talk the\\nU.S. government into leasing you a couple of pads in Florida? \\n\\n\\n\\n Software engineering? That's like military intelligence, isn't it?\\n -- > SYSMGR@CADLAB.ENG.UMD.EDU < --\\n\",\n", " 'From: backon@vms.huji.ac.il\\nSubject: Re: diet for Crohn\\'s (IBD)\\nDistribution: usa,world\\nOrganization: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem\\nLines: 52\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr22.202051.1@vms.ocom.okstate.edu>, banschbach@vms.ocom.okstate.edu writes:\\n> In article <1r6g8fINNe88@ceti.cs.unc.edu>, jge@cs.unc.edu (John Eyles) writes:\\n>>\\n>> A friend has what is apparently a fairly minor case of Crohn\\'s\\n>> disease.\\n>>\\n>> But she can\\'t seem to eat certain foods, such as fresh vegetables,\\n>> without discomfort, and of course she wants to avoid a recurrence.\\n>>\\n>> Her question is: are there any nutritionists who specialize in the\\n>> problems of people with Crohn\\'s disease ?\\n>>\\n>> (I saw the suggestion of lipoxygnase inhibitors like tea and turmeric).\\n>>\\n>> Thanks in advance,\\n>> John Eyles\\n>\\n> All your friend really has to do is find a Registered Dietician(RD). While\\n> most work in hospitals and clinics, many major cities will have RD\\'s who\\n> are in \"private practice\" so to speak. Many physicans will refer their\\n> patients with Crohn\\'s disease to RD\\'s for dietary help. If you can get\\n> your friend\\'s physician to make a referral, medical insurance should pay for\\n> the RD\\'s services just like the services of a physical therapist. The\\n> better medical insurance plans will cover this but even if your friend\\'s\\n> plan doesn\\'t, it would be well worth the cost to get on a good diet to\\n> control the intestinal discomfort and help the intestinal lining heal.\\n> Crohn\\'s disease is an inflammatory disease of the intestinal lining and\\n> lipoxygenase inhibitors may help by decreasing leukotriene formation but\\n> I\\'m not aware of tea or turmeric containing lipoxygenase inhibitors. For\\n\\n\\nIf you do a MEDLINE search on \"turmeric\" you\\'ll see that it is a potent\\nlipoxygenase inhibitor which is being investigated in a number of areas.\\nI\\'m in cardiology and about 4 years ago the cardiothoracic surgery lab at my\\nhospital compared the effect of a teaspoon of dissolved turmeric vs. a $2000\\nbolus of tPA in preventing myocardial reperfusion injury in a perfused\\nLangendorff sheep heart. The turmeric was more effective :-)\\n\\n\\nA colleague of mine in the School of Pharmacy (Dr. Ron Kohen) has a paper \"in\\npress\" on the free radical scavenging activity and antioxidant activity of tea.\\n\\nJosh\\nbackon@VMS.HUJI.AC.IL\\n\\n\\n> bad inflammation, steroids are used but for a mild case, the side effects\\n> are not worth the small benefit gained by steroid use. Upjohn is developing\\n> a new lipoxygenase inhibitor that should greatly help deal with\\n> inflammatory diseases but it\\'s not available yet.\\n>\\n> Marty B.\\n',\n", " 'From: paulson@tab00.larc.nasa.gov (Sharon Paulson)\\nSubject: Re: food-related seizures?\\nOrganization: NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton VA, USA\\nLines: 52\\n\\t<1993Apr17.184305.18758@spdcc.com>\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: cmb00.larc.nasa.gov\\nIn-reply-to: dyer@spdcc.com\\'s message of Sat, 17 Apr 1993 18:43:05 GMT\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr17.184305.18758@spdcc.com> dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer) writes:\\n\\n Newsgroups: sci.med\\n Path: news.larc.nasa.gov!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!think.com!hsdndev!spdcc!dyer\\n From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)\\n Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA\\n References: <20996.3049.uupcb@factory.com> <79727@cup.portal.com>\\n Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1993 18:43:05 GMT\\n Lines: 18\\n\\n In article <79727@cup.portal.com> mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson) writes:\\n >I remember hearing a few years back about a new therapy for hyperactivity\\n >which involved aggressively eliminating artificial coloring and flavoring\\n >from the diet. The theory -- which was backed up by interesting anecdotal\\n >results -- is that certain people are just way more sensitive to these\\n >chemicals than other people. I don\\'t remember any connection being made\\n >with seizures, but it certainly couldn\\'t hurt to try an all-natural diet.\\n\\n Yeah, the \"Feingold Diet\" is a load of crap. Children diagnosed with ADD\\n who are placed on this diet show no improvement in their intellectual and\\n social skills, which in fact continue to decline. Of course, the parents\\n who are enthusiastic about this approach lap it up at the expense of their\\n children\\'s development. So much for the value of \"interesting anecdotal\\n results\". People will believe anything if they want to.\\n\\n -- \\n Steve Dyer\\n dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer\\n\\n\\nThanks for all the interest in this problem of mine. I don\\'t think it\\nis a reaction to sugar or junk food per se since Kathryn has never shown\\nany signs of hyperactivity or changes in behavior in response to food.\\nShe has always been very calm and dare I say, a neat, smart kid.\\n\\nThe fact that this happened while eating two sugar coated cereals made\\nby Kellog\\'s makes me think she might be having an allergic reaction to\\nsomething in the coating or the cereals. Of the four of us in our\\nimmediate family, Kathryn shows the least signs of the hay fever, running\\nnose, itchy eyes, etc. but we have a lot of allergies in our family history\\nincluding some weird food allergies - nuts, mushrooms. \\n\\nAnyway, our next trip is to an endocrinologist to check out the body\\nchemistry. But so far, no more sugar coated cereals and no more seizures\\neither. Every day that goes by without one makes me heave a sigh of\\nrelief. Thanks again.\\n\\n--\\nSharon Paulson s.s.paulson@larc.nasa.gov\\nNASA Langley Research Center\\nBldg. 1192D, Mailstop 156 Work: (804) 864-2241\\nHampton, Virginia. 23681 Home: (804) 596-2362\\n',\n", " \"From: sbishop@desire.wright.edu\\nSubject: Re: Hismanal, et. al.--side effects\\nOrganization: Wright State University \\nLines: 22\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr21.024103.29880@spdcc.com>, dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer) writes:\\n> In article <1993Apr20.212706.820@lrc.edu> kjiv@lrc.edu writes:\\n>>Can someone tell me whether or not any of the following medications \\n>>has been linked to rapid/excessive weight gain and/or a distorted \\n>>sense of taste or smell: Hismanal; Azmacort (a topical steroid to \\n>>prevent asthma); Vancenase.\\n> \\n> Hismanal (astemizole) is most definitely linked to weight gain.\\n> It really is peculiar that some antihistamines have this effect,\\n> and even more so an antihistamine like astemizole which purportedly\\n> doesn't cross the blood-brain barrier and so tends not to cause\\n> drowsiness.\\n\\nIt also gave me lots of problems with joint and muscle pain. Seemed to\\ntrigger arthritis-like problems.\\n\\nSue\\n\\n> \\n> -- \\n> Steve Dyer\\n> dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer\\n\",\n", " \"From: daviss@sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov (S.F. Davis)\\nSubject: Re: Conference on Manned Lunar Exploration. May 7 Crystal City\\nOrganization: NSPC\\nDistribution: na\\nLines: 107\\n\\nIn article <1quule$5re@access.digex.net>, prb@access.digex.com (Pat) writes:\\n|> \\n|> AW&ST had a brief blurb on a Manned Lunar Exploration confernce\\n|> May 7th at Crystal City Virginia, under the auspices of AIAA.\\n|> \\n|> Does anyone know more about this? How much, to attend????\\n|> \\n|> Anyone want to go?\\n|> \\n|> pat\\n\\nHere are some selected excerpts of the invitation/registration form they\\nsent me. Retyped without permission, all typo's are mine.\\n\\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\\nLow-Cost Lunar Access: A one-day conference to explore the means and \\nbenefits of a rejuvenated human lunar program.\\n\\nFriday, May 7, 1993\\nHyatt Regency - Crystal City Hotel\\nArlington, VA\\n\\nABOUT THE CONFERENCE\\nThe Low-Cost Lunar Access conference will be a forum for the exchange of\\nideas on how to initiate and structure an affordable human lunar program.\\nInherent in such low-cost programs is the principle that they be \\nimplemented rapidly and meet their objectives within a short time\\nframe.\\n\\n[more deleted]\\n\\nCONFERENCE PROGRAM (Preliminary)\\n\\nIn the Washington Room:\\n\\n 9:00 - 9:10 a.m. Opening Remarks\\n Dr. Alan M. Lovelace\\n\\n 9:10 - 9:30 a.m. Keynote Address\\n Mr. Brian Dailey\\n\\n 9:30 - 10:00 a.m. U.S. Policy Outlook\\n John Pike, American Federation of Scientists\\n\\n A discussion of the prospects for the introduction of a new low-cost\\n lunar initiative in view of the uncertain direction the space\\n program is taking.\\n\\n 10:00 - 12:00 noon Morning Plenary Sessions\\n\\n Presentations on architectures, systems, and operational concepts.\\n Emphasis will be on mission approaches that produce significant\\n advancements beyond Apollo yet are judged to be affordable in the\\n present era of severely constrained budgets\\n\\n\\nIn the Potomac Room\\n\\n 12:00 - 1:30 p.m. Lunch\\n Guest Speaker: Mr. John W. Young,\\n NASA Special Assistant and former astronaut\\n\\nIn the Washington Room\\n\\n 1:30 - 2:00 p.m. International Policy Outlook\\n Ian Pryke (invited)\\n ESA, Washington Office\\n\\n The prevailing situation with respect to international space \\n commitments, with insights into preconditions for European \\n entry into new agreements, as would be required for a cooperative\\n lunar program.\\n\\n 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. Afternoon Plenary Sessions\\n\\n Presentations on scientific objectives, benefits, and applications.\\n Emphasis will be placed on the scientific and technological value\\n of a lunar program and its timeliness.\\n\\n\\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\\n\\nThere is a registration form and the fee is US$75.00. The mail address\\nis \\n\\n American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics\\n Dept. No. 0018\\n Washington, DC 20073-0018\\n\\nand the FAX No. is: \\n\\n (202) 646-7508\\n\\nor it says you can register on-site during the AIAA annual meeting \\nand on Friday morning, May 7, from 7:30-10:30\\n\\n\\nSounds interesting. Too bad I can't go.\\n\\n|--------------------------------- ******** -------------------------|\\n| * _!!!!_ * |\\n| Steven Davis * / \\\\ \\\\ * |\\n| daviss@sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov * () * | \\n| * \\\\>_db_ schumach@convex.com (Richard A. Schumacher) writes:\\n\\n>Would the sub-orbital version be suitable as-is (or \"as-will-be\") for use\\n>as a reuseable sounding rocket?\\n\\nDC-X as is today isn\\'t suitable for this. However, the followon SDIO\\nfunds will. A reusable sounding rocket was always SDIO\\'s goal.\\n\\n>Thank Ghod! I had thought that Spacelifter would definitely be the\\n>bastard Son of NLS.\\n\\nSo did I. There is a lot going on now and some reports are due soon \\nwhich should be very favorable. The insiders have been very bush briefing\\nthe right people and it is now paying off.\\n\\nHowever, public support is STILL critical. In politics you need to keep\\nconstant pressure on elected officials.\\n\\n Allen\\n\\n-- \\n+---------------------------------------------------------------------------+\\n| Lady Astor: \"Sir, if you were my husband I would poison your coffee!\" |\\n| W. Churchill: \"Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it.\" |\\n+----------------------57 DAYS TO FIRST FLIGHT OF DCX-----------------------+\\n',\n", " \"From: nickh@CS.CMU.EDU (Nick Haines)\\nSubject: Re: Vandalizing the sky.\\nIn-Reply-To: todd@phad.la.locus.com's message of Wed, 21 Apr 93 16:28:00 GMT\\nOriginator: nickh@SNOW.FOX.CS.CMU.EDU\\nNntp-Posting-Host: snow.fox.cs.cmu.edu\\nOrganization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University\\n\\t<1993Apr21.162800.168967@locus.com>\\nLines: 33\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr21.162800.168967@locus.com> todd@phad.la.locus.com (Todd Johnson) writes:\\n\\n As for advertising -- sure, why not? A NASA friend and I spent one\\n drunken night figuring out just exactly how much gold mylar we'd need\\n to put the golden arches of a certain American fast food organization\\n on the face of the Moon. Fortunately, we sobered up in the morning.\\n\\nHmmm. It actually isn't all that much, is it? Like about 2 million\\nkm^2 (if you think that sounds like a lot, it's only a few tens of m^2\\nper burger that said organization sold last year). You'd be best off\\nwith a reflective substance that could be sprayed thinly by an\\nunmanned craft in lunar orbit (or, rather, a large set of such craft).\\nIf you can get a reasonable albedo it would be visible even at new\\nmoon (since the moon itself is quite dark), and _bright_ at full moon.\\nYou might have to abandon the colour, though.\\n\\nBuy a cheap launch system, design reusable moon -> lunar orbit\\nunmanned spraying craft, build 50 said craft, establish a lunar base\\nto extract TiO2 (say: for colour you'd be better off with a sulphur\\ncompound, I suppose) and some sort of propellant, and Bob's your\\nuncle. I'll do it for, say, 20 billion dollars (plus changes of\\nidentity for me and all my loved ones). Delivery date 2010.\\n\\nCan we get the fast-food chain bidding against the fizzy-drink\\nvendors? Who else might be interested?\\n\\nWould they buy it, given that it's a _lot_ more expensive, and not\\nmuch more impressive, than putting a large set of several-km\\ninflatable billboards in LEO (or in GEO, visible 24 hours from your\\nkey growth market). I'll do _that_ for only $5bn (and the changes of\\nidentity).\\n\\nNick Haines nickh@cmu.edu\\n\",\n", " 'From: lunger@helix.enet.dec.com (Dave Lunger)\\nSubject: Modified sense of taste in Cancer pt?\\nKeywords: cancer\\nOrganization: Digital Equipment Corporation\\nLines: 13\\n\\n\\nWhat does a lack of taste of foods, or a sense of taste that seems \"off\"\\nwhen eating foods in someone who has cancer mean? What are the possible\\ncauses of this? Why does it happen?\\n\\nPt has Stage II breast cancer, and is taking tamoxifin. Also has Stage IV\\nlung cancer with known CNA metastasis, and is taking klonopin (also had\\ncranial radiation treatments).\\n\\nThanks!\\n\\n[not a doctor, but trying to understand family member\\'s illness]\\n\\n',\n", " 'From: tffreeba@indyvax.iupui.edu\\nSubject: Death and Taxes (was Why not give $1 billion to...\\nArticle-I.D.: indyvax.1993Apr22.162501.747\\nLines: 10\\n\\nIn my first posting on this subject I threw out an idea of how to fund\\nsuch a contest without delving to deep into the budget. I mentioned\\ngranting mineral rights to the winner (my actual wording was, \"mining\\nrights.) Somebody pointed out, quite correctly, that such rights are\\nnot anybody\\'s to grant (although I imagine it would be a fait accompli\\nsituation for the winner.) So how about this? Give the winning group\\n(I can\\'t see one company or corp doing it) a 10, 20, or 50 year\\nmoratorium on taxes.\\n\\nTom Freebairn \\n',\n", " \"From: dannyb@panix.com (Daniel Burstein)\\nSubject: japanese moon landing?\\nOrganization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC\\nLines: 17\\n\\nAfraid I can't give any more info on this.. and hoping someone in greter\\nNETLAND has some details.\\n\\nA short story in the newspaper a few days ago made some sort of mention\\nabout how the Japanese, using what sounded like a gravity assist, had just\\nmanaged to crash (or crash-land) a package on the moon.\\n\\nthe article was very vague and unclear. and, to make matters worse, I\\ndidn't clip it.\\n\\ndoes this jog anyone's memory?\\n\\n\\nthanks\\ndannyb@panix.com\\n\\n\\n\",\n", " \"From: candee@brtph5.bnr.ca (Candee Ellis P885)\\nSubject: Re: HELP for Kidney Stones ..............\\nOrganization: BNR Inc. RTP, NC\\nLines: 8\\n\\nIf you think you have kidney stones or your doctor tells you that you do,\\nDEFINITELY follow up on it. My sister was diagnosed with kidney stones\\n1 1/2 years ago and given medication to take to dissolve them. After that\\nfailed and she continued to be in great pain, they decided she had\\nendometriosis. When they did exploratory surgery, they discovered she\\nhad a tumor, which turned out to be rhabdomyosarcoma -- a very rare \\nand agressive cancer. I realize this is not what happens in the majority\\nof cases, but you never know what can happen and shouldn't take chances!\\n\",\n", " 'Subject: Ovarian cancer treatment centers\\nFrom: \\nOrganization: Rohm and Haas Company\\nLines: 9\\n\\nA relative of mine has recently been diagnosed with \"stage 3 papillary cell\\novarian cancer\". We are urgently seeking the best place in the country for\\ntreatment for this.\\n\\nDoes anyone have any suggestions?\\n\\nAs you might suspect, time is of the essence.\\n\\nThanks for your help. Bob\\n',\n", " 'From: colby@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (Kenneth Colby)\\nSubject: Re: chronic sinus and antibiotics\\nKeywords: sinus, antibiotics, antibacterial\\nNntp-Posting-Host: oahu.cs.ucla.edu\\nOrganization: UCLA, Computer Science Department\\nDistribution: na\\nLines: 9\\n\\n If the nose culture shows Staph, then Ceftin or even Ceclor\\n are better. Suprax does not kill Staph. Treating bacterial\\n infections involves a lot of try-and-fail because the\\n infections often involve multiple organisms with many resistant\\n strains. Some 60% of Hemophilus Influenza strains are now\\n resistant. What works for me and my organisms may not work\\n for you and yours. Keep experimenting.\\n\\t Ken Colby\\n\\n',\n", " \"From: mrl@pfc.mit.edu (Mark London)\\nSubject: Corneal erosion/abrasions.\\nOrganization: MIT PLASMA FUSION CENTER\\nLines: 11\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: nerus.pfc.mit.edu\\n\\nFor several years I have been dealing with reccurring corneal erosion. There\\ndoes not seem to be much known about the cause of such a problem. My current\\nepisode is pretty bad since it is located in the middle of the cornea. If it's\\nbad enough, the usual treatment for it is puncture therapy. However, my doctor\\nthis time is trying to let it heal by itself by putting a contact lens to\\nprotect the area. Apparently the problem is not that common, but I'd be curious\\nif anyone else out there has a similar problem, perhaps to see if a cause can be\\nfound. \\n\\nMark London\\nMRL@NERUS.PFC.MIT.EDU\\n\",\n", " 'From: szikopou@superior.carleton.ca (Steven Zikopoulos)\\nSubject: Re: prozac\\nOrganization: Carleton University\\nLines: 14\\n\\nIn agilmet@eis.calstate.edu (Adriana Gilmete) writes:\\n\\n>Can anyone help me find any information on the drug Prozac? I am writing\\n>a report on the inventors , Eli Lilly and Co., and the product. I need as\\n>much help as I can get. Thanks a lot, Adriana Gilmete.\\n\\nPDR and CPS are good places to starts.\\n\\ndo a medline search... lots of interesting debates going on (remember\\nwhen Prozac was impicated in suicidal behaviour?)\\n\\nsteve z\\n',\n", " \"From: kjiv@lrc.edu\\nSubject: Hismanal, et. al.--side effects\\nOrganization: Lenoir-Rhyne College, Hickory, NC\\nLines: 22\\n\\nCan someone tell me whether or not any of the following medications \\nhas been linked to rapid/excessive weight gain and/or a distorted \\nsense of taste or smell: Hismanal; Azmacort (a topical steroid to \\nprevent asthma); Vancenase.\\n\\nAlso:\\nYou may have guessed, I'm an allergy sufferer--but I'm beginning to \\nsuspect I'm also the victim of a Dr. toliberal with the prescription \\np. The allergist I went to last Oct. simply inquired about my symptons \\n( I was suffering chronic asthma attacks), gave me a battery of \\nallergy tests, and went down a checklist of drugs (a photocopied \\nsheet). I've gained out 30 lbs. since then though I haven't eaten \\nmore or much differently than before; I'vsuffered depression; , \\nfatigue; and I've experienced a foul smell and sense of taste for \\nabout the last two months. I mentioned the lack of smell and taste to \\nthis Dr. in Feb. and he said my sinuses did look a bit swollen (he \\njust looked up my nose with his little light--the same one used for \\nears), and prescribed Prednisone and Sulfatrim DS (severe headaches \\nand a rash resulted, particularly after my week's worth of Prednisone \\nran out). Now he wants to do a rhinoscopy to see if I have a bleeding \\nulcer or polyps in my sinus cavities. I'm considering seeing another \\ndoctor. Any suggestions/advice? I'd really appreciate it!\\n\",\n", " 'From: msb@sq.sq.com (Mark Brader)\\nSubject: Re: Comet in Temporary Orbit Around Jupiter?\\nOrganization: SoftQuad Inc., Toronto, Canada\\nLines: 34\\n\\n> > Can these questions be answered for a previous\\n> > instance, such as the Gehrels 3 that was mentioned in an earlier posting?\\n\\n> Orbital Elements of Comet 1977VII (from Dance files)\\n> p(au) 3.424346\\n> e 0.151899\\n> i 1.0988\\n> cap_omega(0) 243.5652\\n> W(0) 231.1607\\n> epoch 1977.04110\\n\\nThanks for the information!\\n\\nI assume p is the semi-major axis and e the eccentricity. The peri-\\nhelion and aphelion are then given by p(1-e) and p(1+e), i.e., about\\n2.90 and 3.95 AU respectively. For Jupiter, they are 4.95 and 5.45 AU.\\nIf 1977 was after the temporary capture, this means that the comet\\nended up in an orbit that comes no closer than 1 AU to Jupiter\\'s --\\nwhich I take to be a rough indication of how far from Jupiter it could\\nget under Jupiter\\'s influence.\\n\\n> Also, perihelions of Gehrels3 were:\\n> \\n> April 1973 83 jupiter radii\\n> August 1970 ~3 jupiter radii\\n\\nWhere 1 Jupiter radius = 71,000 km = 44,000 mi = 0.0005 AU. So the\\n1970 figure seems unlikely to actually be anything but a perijove.\\nIs that the case for the 1973 figure as well?\\n-- \\nMark Brader, SoftQuad Inc., Toronto\\t\\t\"Remember the Golgafrinchans\"\\nutzoo!sq!msb, msb@sq.com\\t\\t\\t\\t\\t-- Pete Granger\\n\\nThis article is in the public domain.\\n',\n", " 'From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nSubject: Re: How to Diagnose Lyme... really\\nReply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nOrganization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science\\nLines: 19\\n\\nIn article yozzo@watson.ibm.com (Ralph Yozzo) writes:\\n\\n>>Why do you think he would be called a quack? The quacks don\\'t do cultures.\\n>>They poo-poo doing more lab tests: \"this is Lyme, believe me, I\\'ve\\n\\n> \\n>Are you arguing that the Lyme lab test is accurate?\\n\\nIf you culture out the spirochete, it is virtually 100% certain\\nthe patient has Lyme. I suppose you could have contamination\\nin an exceptionally sloppy lab, but normally not. There are no\\nfalse positives.\\n\\n\\n-- \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nGordon Banks N3JXP | \"Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and\\ngeb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu | it is shameful to surrender it too soon.\" \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n',\n", " 'From: williamt@athena.Eng.Sun.COM (William Turnbow)\\nSubject: Re: Discussions on alt.psychoactives\\nOrganization: Sun Microsystems Inc., Mountain View, CA\\nLines: 39\\nReply-To: williamt@athena.Eng.sun.com (William Turnbow)\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: athena\\n\\nIn article <1r4bhsINNhaf@hp-col.col.hp.com> billc@col.hp.com (Bill Claussen) writes:\\n>\\n>This group was originally a takeoff from sci.med. The reason for\\n>the formation of this group was to discuss prescription psychoactive\\n>drugs....such as ...\\n>\\n>Oh well, obviously, no one really cares.\\n---\\n\\n\\tThen let me ask you for a \"workable\" solution. We have a name\\nhere that implies certain things to many people. Rather than trying\\nto educate each and every person that comes to the group -- is there\\nsome \"name\" that would imply what this group was originally\\nintended for? \\n\\n\\tMy dad was a lawyer -- as such I grew up with being a stickler\\nfor \"meaning\". In my \"reality\", psychoactives *technically* could \\nrange from caffeine to datura to the drugs you mention to more\\nstandard recreational drugs. In practice I had hoped to see it\\nlimited to those that were above some psychoactive level -- like\\nsome of the drugs you mention, but also possibly including *some*\\nrecreational drugs -- but with conversation limited to their psychoactive \\neffects -- the recent query about \"bong water\", I thought was a bit\\noff topic -- so I just hit \"k\".\\n\\n\\tBut back to the original question -- what is a workable solution --\\nwhat is a workable name that would imply the topic you with to\\ndiscuss? It sounds like there should be a alt.smartdrugs, or something\\nsimilar -- I don\\'t feel psychoactives would generally be used to\\ndescribe alot of those drugs. There is a big difference between a\\ndrug that if taken in \"certain doses, over a period of days may have\\na psychoactive effect in some people\", vs. many of the drugs in\\nPIHKAH which *are* psychoactive.\\n\\n\\nwm\\n-- \\n\\n:: If pro-choice means choice after conception, does this apply to men too? ::\\n',\n", " \"From: smithmc@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Lost Boy)\\nSubject: Re: Can men get yeast infections?\\nOrganization: Purdue University Computing Center\\nDistribution: na\\nLines: 25\\n\\nIn article noring@netcom.com (Jon Noring) writes:\\n>In article Tammy.Vandenboom@launchpad.unc.edu (Tammy Vandenboom) writes:\\n>\\n>>Here's a potentially stupid question to possibly the wrong news group, but. .\\n>>\\n>>Can men get yeast infections? Spread them? What kind of symptoms?\\n>>Similar as women's? I have a yeast infection and my husband (who is a\\n>>natural paranoid on a good day) is sure he's gonna catch it and keeps\\n>>asking me what it's like. I'm not sure what his symptoms would be. . \\n>\\n>The answer is yes and no. I'm sure others on sci.med can expand on this.\\n>\\n>Jon\\n\\nI know from personal experience that men CAN get yeast infections. I \\nget rather nasty ones from time to time, mostly in the area of the\\nscrotum and the base of the penis. They're nowhere near as dangerous\\nfor me as for many women, but goddamn does it hurt in the summertime!\\nEven in the wintertime, when I sweat I get really uncomfy down there. The\\nbest thing I can do to keep it under control is keep my weight down and\\nkeep cool down there. Shorts in 60 degree weather, that kind of thing. And\\nof course some occasional sun. \\n\\nLost Boy\\n\\n\",\n", " 'From: davpa@ida.liu.se (David Partain)\\nSubject: Candida Albicans: what is it?\\nOriginator: davpa@obel11\\nOrganization: Department of Computer Science, University of Linkoping\\nLines: 11\\n\\n\\nSomeone I know has recently been diagnosed as having Candida Albicans, \\na disease about which I can find no information. Apparently it has something\\nto do with the body\\'s production of yeast while at the same time being highly\\nallergic to yeast. Can anyone out there tell me any more about it?\\n\\nThanks.\\n-- \\nDavid Partain | davpa@ida.liu.se\\nIDA, University of Link\\\\\"oping | work phone: +46 (013) 28 26 08\\nS-581 83 Link\\\\\"oping, Sweden | telefax: +46 (013) 28 26 66\\n',\n", " 'From: apryan@vax1.tcd.ie\\nSubject: Cosmos 2238\\nLines: 11\\nNntp-Posting-Host: vax1.tcd.ie\\nOrganization: Trinity College Dublin\\nLines: 11\\n\\nI need as much information about Cosmos 2238 and its rocket fragment (1993-\\n018B) as possible. Both its purpose, launch date, location, in short,\\nEVERYTHING! Can you help?\\n\\n-Tony Ryan, \"Astronomy & Space\", new International magazine, available from:\\n Astronomy Ireland, P.O.Box 2888, Dublin 1, Ireland.\\n6 issues (one year sub.): UK 10.00 pounds, US$20 surface (add US$8 airmail).\\nACCESS/VISA/MASTERCARD accepted (give number, expiration date, name&address).\\n\\n (WORLD\\'S LARGEST ASTRO. SOC. per capita - unless you know better? 0.033%)\\nTel: 0891-88-1950 (UK/N.Ireland) 1550-111-442 (Eire). Cost up to 48p per min\\n',\n", " 'From: bbesler@ouchem.chem.oakland.edu (Brent H. Besler)\\nSubject: Is an oral form of Imitrex(sumatriptan) available in CA\\nArticle-I.D.: vela.1psee5$c3t\\nDistribution: na\\nOrganization: Oakland University, Rochester MI.\\nLines: 9\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: ouchem.chem.oakland.edu\\n\\nSumatriptan(Imitrex) just became available in the US in a subcutaneous\\ninjectable form. Is there an oral form available in CA? A friend(yes\\nreally not me!) has severe migranes about 2-3 times per week. We\\nlive right by the CA border and he has gotten drugs for GERD prescribed\\nby a US physician and filled in a CA pharmacy, but not yet FDA approved\\nin the US. What would be the cost of the oral form in CA$ also if\\nanyone would have that info? \\n\\nThanks\\n',\n", " 'From: lady@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Lee Lady)\\nSubject: Re: Science and methodology (was: Homeopathy ... tradition?)\\nSummary: Gee, maybe I\\'ve misjudged you.\\nKeywords: science errors Turpin NLP\\nOrganization: University of Hawaii (Mathematics Dept)\\nExpires: Mon, 10 May 1993 10:00:00 GMT\\nLines: 141\\n\\n\\nIn article turpin@cs.utexas.edu (Russell Turpin) writes:\\n>-*----\\n>I agree with everything that Lee Lady wrote in her previous post in\\n>this thread. \\n\\nGee! Maybe I\\'ve misjudged you, Russell. Anyone who agrees with something \\nI say can\\'t be all bad. ;-)\\n\\nSeriously, I\\'m not sure whether I misjudged you or not, in one respect. \\nI still have a major problem, though, with your insistence that science \\nis mainly about avoiding mistakes. And I still disagree with your \\ncontention that nobody who doesn\\'t use methods deemed \"scientific\" \\ncan possibly know what\\'s true and what\\'s not. \\n\\n> [Deleted material which I agree with.] \\n>\\n>Back to Lee Lady:\\n>\\n>> These are not the rules according to many who post to sci.med and\\n>> sci.psychology. According to these posters \"If it\\'s not supported by\\n>> carefully designed controlled studies then it\\'s not science.\"\\n>\\n>These posters are making the mistake that I have previously\\n>criticized of adhering to a methodological recipe. A \"carefully ...\\n> .... \\n>Rules such as \"support the hypothesis by a carefully designed and\\n>controlled study\" are too narrow to apply to *all* investigation.\\n>I think that the requirements for particular reasoning to be\\n>convincing depends greatly on the kinds of mistakes that have\\n>occurred in past reasoning about the same kinds of things. (To\\n>reuse the previous example, we know that conclusions from\\n>uncontrolled observations of the treatment of chronic medical\\n>problems are notoriously problematic.) \\n\\nOkay, so let\\'s see if we agree on this: FIRST of all, there are degrees \\nof certainty. It might be appropriate, for instance, to demand carefully \\ncontrolled trials before we accept as absolute scientific truth (to the \\nextent that there is any such thing) the effectiveness of a certain \\ntreatment. On the other hand, highly favorable clinical experience, even \\nif uncontrolled, can be adequate to justify a *preliminary* judgement that\\na treatment is useful. This is often the best evidence we can hope for\\nfrom investigators who do not have institutional or corporate support.\\nIn this case, it makes sense to tentatively treat claims as credible\\nbut to reserve final judgement until establishment scientists who are\\nqualified and have the necessary resources can do more careful testing.\\n\\nSECONDLY, it makes sense to be more tolerant in our standards of \\nevidence for a pronounced effect than for one that is marginal. \\n\\n\\nI come to this dispute about what science is not only as a\\nmathematician but as a veteran of many arguments in sci.psychology (and\\noccasionally in sci.med) about NLP (Neurolinguistic Programming). Much\\nof the work done to date by NLPers can be better categorized as\\ninformal exploration than as careful scientific research. For years\\nnow I have been trying to get scientific and clinical psychologists to\\njust take a look at it, to read a few of the books and watch some of\\nthe videotapes (courtesy of your local university library). Not for\\nthe purpose of making a definitive judgement, but simply to look at the\\nNLP methodology (especially the approach to eliciting information from\\nsubjects) and look for ideas and hypotheses which might be of\\nscientific interest. And most especially to be aware of the\\n*questions* NLP suggests which might be worthy of scientific\\ninvestigation.\\n\\nOver and over again the response I get in sci.pychology is \"If this\\nhasn\\'t been thoroughly validated by the accepted form of empirical\\nresearch then it can\\'t be of any interest to us.\" \\n\\nTo me, the ultimate reducio ad absurdum of the extreme \"There\\'ve got to\\nbe controlled studies\" position is an NLP technique called the Fast\\nPhobia/Trauma Cure.\\n\\nSimple phobias (as opposed to agoraphobia) may not be the world\\'s most \\nimportant psychological disorder, but the nice thing about them is that \\nit doesn\\'t take a sophisticated instrument to diagnose them or tell \\nwhen someone is cured of one. The NLP phobia cure is a simple \\nvisualization which requires less than 15 minutes. (NLPers claim that\\nit can also be used to neutralize a traumatic memory, and hence is\\nuseful in treating Post-traumatic Stress Syndrome.) It is essentially\\na variation on the classic desensitization process used by behavioral\\ntherapists. A subject only needs to be taken through the technique once\\n(or, in the case of PTSD, once for each traumatic incident). The\\nprocess doesn\\'t need to be repeated and the subject doesn\\'t need to\\npractice it over again at home.\\n\\nNow to me, it seems pretty easy to test the effectiveness of this cure. \\n(Especially if, as NLPers claim, the success rate is extremely high.) \\nTake someone with a fear of heights (as I used to have). Take them up \\nto a balcony on the 20th floor and observe their response. Spend 15 \\nminutes to have them do the simple visualization. Send them back up to \\nthe balcony and see if things have changed. Check back with them in a \\nfew weeks to see if the cure seems to be lasting. (More long term \\nfollow-up is certainly desirable, but from a scientific point of view \\neven a cure that lasts several weeks has significance. In any case, \\nthere are many known cases where the cure has lasted years. To the best \\nof my knowledge, there is no known case where the cure has been reversed \\nafter holding for a few weeks.) (My own cure, incidentally, was done\\nwith a slightly different NLP technique, before I learned of the Fast \\nPhobia/Trauma Cure. Ten years later now, I enjoy living on the 17th\\nfloor of my building and having a large balcony.) \\n\\nThe folks over in sci.psychology have a hundred and one excuses not to\\nmake this simple test. They claim that only an elaborate outcome study\\nwill be satisfactory --- a study of the sort that NLP practitioners, \\nmany of whom make a barely marginal living from their practice, can ill \\nafford to do. (Most of them are also just plain not interested, because \\nthe whole idea seems frivolous. And since they\\'re not part of the\\nscientific establishment, they have no tangible rewards to gain \\nfrom scientific acceptance.) \\n\\nThe Fast Phobia/Trauma Cure is over ten years old now and the clinical \\npsychology establishment is still saying \"We don\\'t have any way of \\nknowing that it\\'s effective.\" \\n\\nThese academics themselves have the resources to do a study as elaborate \\nas anyone could want, of course, but they say \"Why should I prove your \\ntheory?\" and \"The burden of proof is on the one making the claim.\" \\nOne academic in sci.psychology said that it would be completely \\nunscientific for him to test the phobia cure since it hasn\\'t \\nbeen described in a scientific journal. (It\\'s described in a number of \\nbooks and I\\'ve posted articles in sci.psychology describing it in as much \\ndetail as I\\'m capable of.) \\n\\nActually, at least one fairly careful academic study has been done (with \\nfavorable results), but it\\'s apparently not acceptable because it\\'s a\\ndoctoral dissertation and not published in a refereed journal.\\n\\nTo me, this sort of attitude does not advance science but hinders it. \\nThis is the kind of thing I have in mind when I talk about \"doctrinnaire\" \\nattitudes about science. \\n\\nNow maybe I have been unfair in imputing such attitudes to you, Russell. \\nIf so, I apologize. \\n \\n--\\nIn the arguments between behaviorists and cognitivists, psychology seems \\nless like a science than a collection of competing religious sects. \\n\\nlady@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu lady@uhunix.bitnet\\n',\n", " 'From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nSubject: Re: tuberculosis\\nReply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nOrganization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science\\nLines: 17\\n\\nIn article <206@ky3b.UUCP> km@ky3b.pgh.pa.us (Ken Mitchum) writes:\\n>\\n>I found out that tuberculosis appears to be the only MEDICAL (as oppsed to psychiatric)\\n>condition that one can be committed for, and this is because very specific laws were\\n>enacted many years ago regarding tb. I am certain these vary from state to state.\\n\\nI think in Illinois venereal disease (the old ones, not AIDS) was included.\\nSyphillis was, for sure.\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n-- \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nGordon Banks N3JXP | \"Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and\\ngeb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu | it is shameful to surrender it too soon.\" \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n',\n", " 'From: gmiller@worldbank.org (Gene C. Miller)\\nSubject: Immunotherapy for Recurrent Miscarriage\\nOrganization: worldbank.org\\nLines: 17\\n\\n\\n Following a series of miscarriages, my wife was given a transfusion of\\nmy white cells. (The theory as I understand it is that there is some kind\\nof immune blocking that prevents the body from attacking the pregnancy as\\nit normally would a \"foreign\" body. Where this blocking is deficient, the\\nbody evicts the \"intruder\", resulting in a miscarriage. The white cells\\napparently enhance the blocking capability.) Following the transfusion, she\\nsuccessfully carried the next pregnancy to term, and Jake is now an active\\n9 month-old who cannot wait to walk.\\n We\\'re now thinking about having another child, but no one (including\\nthe OBGYN who supervised the first transfusion) really seems to know\\nwhether or not the transfusion process needs to be repeated for successive\\npregnancies.\\n Is there anyone in net-land who has experience with this?\\nThanks...Gene (and Jane and Jake)\\n\\nP.S. I\\'ve also posted this in misc.kids.\\n',\n", " \"From: nsmca@aurora.alaska.edu\\nSubject: Re: Solar Sail Data\\nArticle-I.D.: aurora.1993Apr17.042918.1\\nOrganization: University of Alaska Fairbanks\\nLines: 24\\nNntp-Posting-Host: acad3.alaska.edu\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr15.051746.29848@news.duc.auburn.edu>, snydefj@eng.auburn.edu (Frank J. Snyder) writes:\\n> \\n> I am looking for any information concerning projects involving Solar\\n> Sails. I understand that the JPL did an extensive study on the subject\\n> back in the late 70's but I am having trouble gathering such information.\\n> \\n> Are there any groups out there currently involved in such a project ?\\n> \\n> \\t\\t\\t\\t\\tFrank Snyder\\n> \\t\\t\\t\\t\\tAuburn University\\n> \\n> \\t\\t\\t\\t\\tsnydefj@eng.auburn.edu\\n\\n\\nI know someone had long talks about Solar Sails early this year and late last\\nyear..Also about Solar Sailing. Not sure who captured it if possible..\\n\\nI think it was one of the regulars who had most or all the data?\\n\\nI think I started the latest round or the late last year round.. But the topic\\nhas been around here, off and on for a year or two..\\n\\n==\\nMichael Adams, nsmca@acad3.alaska.edu -- I'm not high, just jacked\\n\",\n", " 'From: jchen@wind.bellcore.com (Jason Chen)\\nSubject: Re: Is MSG sensitivity superstition?\\nNntp-Posting-Host: wind.bellcore.com\\nReply-To: jchen@ctt.bellcore.com\\nOrganization: Bell Communications Research\\nLines: 61\\n\\nIn article <1qmlgaINNjab@hp-col.col.hp.com>, cab@col.hp.com (Chris Best) writes:\\n|> \\n|> Jason Chen writes:\\n|> > Now here is a new one: vomiting. My guess is that MSG becomes the number one\\n|> > suspect of any problem. In this case. it might be just food poisoning. But\\n|> > if you heard things about MSG, you may think it must be it.\\n|> \\n|> ----------\\n|> \\n|> Yeah, it might, if you only read the part you quoted. You somehow left \\n|> out the part about \"we all ate the same thing.\" Changes things a bit, eh?\\n\\nFood poisoning is only one of the many possible causes. Yes, even other people\\nshare the food. \\n|> \\n|> You complain that people blame MSG automatically, since it\\'s an unknown and\\n|> therefore must be the cause. It is equally (if not more) unreasonable to\\n|> defend it, automatically assuming that it CAN\\'T be the culprit.\\n\\nBoy, you computer people only know 1s and 0s, but not much about logic. :-)\\n\\nNo. I did not said MSG was not the culprit. What I argued was that that\\nthere was enough reasonable doubt to convict MSG. \\n\\nIf you want to convict MSG, show me the evidence, not quilty by suspicion.\\n\\n|> Pepper makes me sneeze. If it doesn\\'t affect you the same way, fine.\\n|> Just don\\'t tell me I\\'m wrong for saying so.\\n\\nNobody is forcing you to change what you believe. But I certainly don\\'t\\nwant to see somebody preach to ban pepper because that makes him/her\\nsneeze. That is exactly what some anti-MSG activitiests are doing\\n\\n|> These people aren\\'t condemning Chinese food, Mr. Chen - just one of its \\n|> (optional) ingredients. Try not to take it so personally.\\n\\nLook, people with a last Chen don\\'t necessarily own a Chinese restaurant.\\nI am not interested if you enjoy Chinese food or not. Exploiting my last\\nname to discredit me on the issue is hitting below the belt.\\n\\nWhat I am interested in is the truth. Let me give you an excert from\\na recent FDA hearing:\\n\\n ``There is no evidence orally consumed glutamate has any effect\\non the brain,\\'\\' said Dr. Richard Wurtman of Massachusetts Institute\\nof Technology. The anecdotal experiences of individuals is\\n``superstition, not science,\\'\\' he said. ``I don\\'t think glutamate\\nhas made them sick.\\'\\'\\n\\nAnd Dr. Robert Kenney of George Washington University conducted an double\\nblind test in 1980 showing that the 35 people who reacted to MSG also\\nhad similar reaction when they thought they had MSG but actually not.\\n\\nAlthough there are many contradicting personal stories told in this group,\\nsome of them might have been due to other causes. But because the anti MSG\\nemotion runs so high, that some blame it for anything and everything. \\n\\nMy purpose is to present a balance view on the issue, although I am probably\\n20-1 outnumbered.\\n\\nJason Chen\\n',\n", " 'From: higgins@fnalf.fnal.gov (Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey)\\nSubject: Re: Conference on Manned Lunar Exploration. May 7 Crystal City\\nOrganization: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory\\nLines: 25\\nDistribution: na\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: fnalf.fnal.gov\\n\\nIn article , jbh55289@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Josh Hopkins) writes:\\n> I remeber reading the comment that General Dynamics was tied into this, in \\n> connection with their proposal for an early manned landing. Sorry I don\\'t \\n> rember where I heard this, but I\\'m fairly sure it was somewhere reputable. \\n> Anyone else know anything on this angle?\\n\\nThe General Chairman is Paul Bialla, who is some official of General\\nDynamics.\\n\\nThe emphasis seems to be on a scaled-down, fast plan to put *people*\\non the Moon in an impoverished spaceflight-funding climate. You\\'d\\nthink it would be a golden opportunity to do lots of precusor work for\\nmodest money using an agressive series of robot spacecraft, but\\nthere\\'s not a hint of this in the brochure.\\n\\n> Hrumph. They didn\\'t send _me_ anything :(\\n\\nYou\\'re not hanging out with the Right People, apparently.\\n\\nBill Higgins, Beam Jockey | \"I\\'m gonna keep on writing songs\\nFermilab | until I write the song\\nBitnet: HIGGINS@FNAL.BITNET | that makes the guys in Detroit\\nInternet: HIGGINS@FNAL.FNAL.GOV | who draw the cars\\nSPAN/Hepnet: 43011::HIGGINS | put tailfins on \\'em again.\"\\n --John Prine\\n',\n", " 'From: jgreen@trumpet.calpoly.edu (James Thomas Green)\\nSubject: What if the USSR had reached the Moon first?\\nOrganization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo\\nLines: 25\\n\\nSuppose the Soviets had managed to get their moon rocket working\\nand had made it first. They could have beaten us if either:\\n\\n* Their rocket hadn\\'t blown up on the pad thus setting them back,\\n\\nand/or\\n\\n* A Saturn V went boom.\\n\\nIf they had beaten us, I speculate that the US would have gone\\nhead and done some landings, but we also would have been more\\ndetermined to set up a base (both in Earth Orbit and on the\\nMoon). Whether or not we would be on Mars by now would depend\\nupon whether the Soviets tried to go. Setting up a lunar base\\nwould have stretched the budgets of both nations and I think\\nthat the military value of a lunar base would outweigh the value\\nof going to Mars (at least in the short run). Thus we would\\nhave concentrated on the moon.\\n\\n\\n/~~~(-: James T. Green :-)~~~~(-: jgreen@oboe.calpoly.edu :-)~~~\\\\ \\n| \"I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving\\t| \\n| the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the \\t|\\n| Moon and returning him safely to the Earth.\" \\t\\t|\\n| \\t\\t|\\n',\n", " \"From: mcovingt@aisun3.ai.uga.edu (Michael Covington)\\nSubject: Re: Need advice with doctor-patient relationship problem\\nNntp-Posting-Host: aisun3.ai.uga.edu\\nOrganization: AI Programs, University of Georgia, Athens\\nLines: 9\\n\\nSounds as though his heart's in the right place, but he is not adept at\\nexpressing it. What you received was _meant_ to be a profound apology.\\nApologies delivered by overworked shy people often come out like that...\\n\\n-- \\n:- Michael A. Covington, Associate Research Scientist : *****\\n:- Artificial Intelligence Programs mcovingt@ai.uga.edu : *********\\n:- The University of Georgia phone 706 542-0358 : * * *\\n:- Athens, Georgia 30602-7415 U.S.A. amateur radio N4TMI : ** *** ** <><\\n\",\n", " 'From: baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov (Ron Baalke)\\nSubject: Stephen Hawking Tours JPL\\nOrganization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory\\nLines: 68\\nDistribution: world\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov\\nKeywords: JPL\\nNews-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41 \\n\\nFrom the \"JPL Universe\"\\nApril 23, 1993\\n\\nCosmologist Stephen Hawking tours Lab\\n\\nBy Karre Marino\\n Some 15 years after his first visit to JPL, Prof. Stephen\\nHawking, Lucasian professor of mathematics at Cambridge\\nUniversity and author of \"A Brief History of Time,\" returned to\\nthe Lab April 5.\\n On a tour hosted by JPL Chief Scientist Dr. Moustafa Chahine\\nand Merle McKenzie, manager of the International Affairs Office,\\nHawking visited a variety of facilities, met with Lab Director\\nDr. Edward Stone and various project scientists and managers, and\\nfelt \"like royalty,\" he said. Hawking, whose theories attempt to\\nexplain the origin of distant galaxies, black holes and alternate\\ndimensions, wanted to re-visit JPL, he explained, \"because while\\nI\\'m most interested in those things in space that are farther\\naway, I know that here is where the first steps are taken.\"\\n Hawking, who was accompanied by his family, two graduate\\nstudents and his aides, began the tour in von Karman Auditorium,\\nas David Evans, deputy assistant Lab director in the Office of\\nFlight Projects, and Dr. Arden Albee, Mars Observer\\'s project\\nscientist, briefed him on current and past flight projects.\\n Voyager was pointed out to him, with special attention paid\\nto a gold plate with a series of engraved images. Should\\nextraterrestrial life stumble upon the spacecraft, Evans noted,\\nthey would find a variety of images that would explain something\\nof Earth. The professor asked if we were still communicating with\\nthe spacecraft, and Evans affirmed that we are.\\n Using a model of Mars Observer, Albee spent several minutes\\ndescribing the project and the spacecraft\\'s features. In answer\\nto a question from Hawking, Chahine described a proposed\\ndrag-free satellite, but confirmed that at this point, \"it\\'s only\\na concept.\" Chahine, who had met Hawking at Caltech about five\\nyears before, described the professor as \"a living miracle of the\\npower of the brain. He\\'s miraculous, and he has such a good sense\\nof humor.\"\\n The next stop, a demonstration on scientific data\\nvisualization in Section 384\\'s Digital Image Animation Lab,\\nentertained and delighted the group, as everyone donned goggles\\nto view 3-D images of Mars. Project Scientist Dr. Eric De Jong\\nshowed off the latest data -- a comet that had only recently been\\ndiscovered in orbit close to Jupiter. Hawking was curious about\\nits composition, and as he was shown how images are developed, he\\nasked several questions on their interpretation.\\n Norman Haynes, ALD, Office of Telecommunications and Data\\nAcquisition, briefed the professor on the Space Flight Operations\\nFacility, and then Hawking spoke with Stone.\\n The day ended with two technical discussions of particular\\ninterest to the professor. Technical Group Leader Dr. Frank\\nEstabrook and Senior Research Scientist Hugo Wahlquist described\\na three-spacecraft gravity wave experiment, currently under way.\\nThen planetary astronomer Dr. Richard Terrile explained the\\nphilosophy and plans for extra solar system planetary detection.\\n The Hawking party, which had been visiting Southern\\nCalifornia for five weeks, was headquartered at Caltech, and\\nplanned to leave for England within a few weeks after the Lab\\ntour. Upon departing, the Cambridge-based scientist promised\\nChahine that he would return to JPL for another visit.\\n ###\\n ___ _____ ___\\n /_ /| /____/ \\\\ /_ /| Ron Baalke | baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov\\n | | | | __ \\\\ /| | | | Jet Propulsion Lab |\\n ___| | | | |__) |/ | | |__ M/S 525-3684 Telos | The aweto from New Zealand\\n/___| | | | ___/ | |/__ /| Pasadena, CA 91109 | is part caterpillar and\\n|_____|/ |_|/ |_____|/ | part vegetable.\\n\\n',\n", " 'From: dougb@comm.mot.com (Doug Bank)\\nSubject: Re: Is MSG sensitivity superstition?\\nReply-To: dougb@ecs.comm.mot.com\\nOrganization: Motorola Land Mobile Products Sector\\nNntp-Posting-Host: 145.1.146.35\\nLines: 39\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr14.122647.16364@tms390.micro.ti.com>, david@tms390.micro.ti.com (David Thomas) writes:\\n|> cnavarro@cymbal.calpoly.edu (CLAIRE) writes:\\n\\n|> >>Is there such a thing as MSG (monosodium glutamate) sensitivity?\\n|> >>I saw in the NY Times Sunday that scientists have testified before \\n|> >>an FDA advisory panel that complaints about MSG sensitivity are\\n|> >>superstition. Anybody here have experience to the contrary? \\n|> >>\\n|> >>I\\'m old enough to remember that the issue has come up at least\\n|> >>a couple of times since the 1960s. Then it was called the\\n|> >>\"Chinese restaurant syndrome\" because Chinese cuisine has\\n|> >>always used it.\\n\\n|> So far, I\\'ve seen about a dozen posts of anecdotal evidence, but\\n|> no facts. I suspect there is a strong psychological effect at \\n|> work here. Does anyone have results from a scientific study\\n|> using double-blind trials? \\n\\nHere is another anecdotal story. I am a picky eater and never wanted to \\ntry chinese food, however, I finally tried some in order to please a\\ngirl I was seeing at the time. I had never heard of Chinese restaurant\\nsyndrome. A group of us went to the restaurant and all shared 6 different\\ndishes. It didn\\'t taste great, but I decided it wasn\\'t so bad. We went\\nhome and went to bed early. I woke up at 2 AM and puked my guts outs.\\nI threw up for so long that (I\\'m not kidding) I pulled a muscle in\\nmy tongue. Dry heaves and everything. No one else got sick, and I\\'m\\nnot allergic to anything that I know of. \\n\\nSuffice to say that I wont go into a chinese restaurant unless I am \\nphysically threatened. The smell of the food makes me ill (and that *is*\\na psycholgical reaction). When I have been dragged in to suffer\\nthrough beef and broccoli without any sauces, I insist on no MSG. \\nI haven\\'t gotten sick yet.\\n\\n-- \\nDoug Bank Private Systems Division\\ndougb@ecs.comm.mot.com Motorola Communications Sector\\ndougb@nwu.edu Schaumburg, Illinois\\ndougb@casbah.acns.nwu.edu 708-576-8207 \\n',\n", " 'From: ruegg@med.unc.edu (Robert G. Ruegg)\\nSubject: Re: Eugenics\\nSummary: errata\\nKeywords: gene pool; wisdom; virtue\\nNntp-Posting-Host: naples.med.unc.edu\\nOrganization: UNC-CH School of Medicine\\nLines: 7\\n\\nThanks to Tarl Neustaedter of MA for kindly letting me know that my\\nreference in prior post to Orwell and \"1984\" should probably have been to\\nHuxley and \"Brave New World.\" \\n\\nSorry, Al.\\n\\nBob (ruegg@med.unc.edu)\\n',\n", " 'From: rgasch@nl.oracle.com (Robert Gasch)\\nSubject: Re: Homeopathy: a respectable medical tradition?\\nOrganization: Oracle Europe\\nLines: 47\\nX-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]\\n\\nGordon Banks (geb@cs.pitt.edu) wrote:\\n: In article <3794@nlsun1.oracle.nl> rgasch@nl.oracle.com (Robert Gasch) writes:\\n: >\\n: >: From a business point of view, it might make sense. It depends on\\n: >: the personality of the practitioner. If he can charm the patients\\n: >: into coming, homeopathy can be very profitable. It won\\'t be covered\\n: >: by insurance, however. Just keep that in mind. Myself, I\\'d have \\n: >^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^\\n: >\\n: >In many European countries Homepathy is accepted as a method of curing\\n: >(or at least alleiating) many conditions to which modern medicine has \\n: >no answer. In most of these countries insurance pays for the \\n: >treatments.\\n: >\\n\\n: Accepted by whom? Not by scientists. There are people\\n: in every country who waste time and money on quackery.\\n: In Britain and Scandanavia, where I have worked, it was not paid for.\\n: What are \"most of these countries?\" I don\\'t believe you.\\n\\nIn Holland insurences pay for Homeopathic treatment. In Germany they do\\nso as well. I Austria they do if you have a condition which can not be \\nhelped by \"normal\" medicine (happened to me). Switzerland seems to be \\nthe same as Austria (I have direct experience in the Swiss case).\\n\\nAt the Univeristy of Vienna (I believe Innsbruck as well) homeopathy\\ncan be taken in Med. school.\\n\\nI found that in combination with Acupuncture it changed my life from\\nliving hell to a condition which enables me to lead a relatively \\nnormal life. I found that modern medicine was powerless to cure me\\nof a *severe* case of Neurodermitis (Note: I mean cure, not \\nsurpress the symptoms, which is what modern medicine attempts to \\ndo in the case of Neurodermitis). \\n\\nI\\'m not saying that Homeopathy is scientific, but that it can offer \\nhelp in areas in which modern medicine is absolutely helpless.\\n\\nFrom reading your aritcle it seems that your have some deeply rooted\\nbeliefs about this issue (this is not intended to be offensive or \\nsarcastic - it just sounded like that to me) which makes me doubt \\nif you can read this with an open mind. If you do/can, please excuse\\nmy last comment.\\n\\n---> Robert\\nrgasch@nl.oracle.com\\n\\n',\n", " 'From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nSubject: Re: Surgery of damaged tendons and median nerve\\nReply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nOrganization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science\\nLines: 27\\n\\nIn article bhatt@src.honeywell.com writes:\\n>I thought I will explore the net wisdom with the following questions:\\n>\\n> Is there any better way to control the pain than what the surgeon suggested?\\n> How long will such pain last? Will the pain recur in the future?\\n>\\nNo one can answer that. If she gets reflex sympathetic dystrophy,\\nit could last forever. Just hope she does not. Most don\\'t.\\n\\n> Do damaged (partially cut) tendons heal completely and is all of the finger\\n> strength regained? How long does it take for the complete healing process?\\n>\\n\\nSometimes they do and sometimes they don\\'t. You just have to do the\\nbest job you can reattaching and hope. You should know in a few\\nmonths.\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n-- \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nGordon Banks N3JXP | \"Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and\\ngeb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu | it is shameful to surrender it too soon.\" \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n',\n", " 'From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nSubject: Re: Could this be a migraine?\\nReply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nOrganization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science\\nLines: 34\\n\\n\\nIn article <20773.3049.uupcb@factory.com> jim.zisfein@factory.com (Jim Zisfein) writes:\\n\\n>Headaches that seriously interfere with activities of daily living\\n>affect about 15% of the population. Doesn\\'t that sound like\\n>something a \"primary care\" physician should know something about? I\\n>tend to agree with HMO administrators - family physicians should\\n>learn the basics of headache management.\\n>\\nAbsolutely. Unfortunately, most of them have had 3 weeks of neurology\\nin medical school and 1 month (maybe) in their residency. Most\\nof that is done in the hospital where migraines rarely are seen.\\nWhere are they supposed to learn? Those who are diligent and\\nread do learn, but most don\\'t, unfortunately.\\n\\n>Sometimes I wonder what tension-type headaches have to do with\\n>neurology anyway.\\n\\nWe are the only ones, sometimes, who have enough interest in headaches\\nto spend the time to get enough history to diagnose them. Too often,\\nthe primary care physician hears \"headache\" and loses interest in\\nanything but giving the patient analgesics and getting them out of\\nthe office so they can get on to something more interesting.\\n\\n\\n>(I am excepting migraine, which is arguably neurologic). Headaches\\n\\nI hope you meant \"inarguably\".\\n\\n-- \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nGordon Banks N3JXP | \"Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and\\ngeb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu | it is shameful to surrender it too soon.\" \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n',\n", " 'From: slyx0@cc.usu.edu\\nSubject: Re: Is MSG sensitivity superstition?\\nOrganization: Utah State University\\nLines: 35\\n\\n>>Between who? Over what? I would be most interested in seeing you\\n>>provide peer-reviewed non-food-industry-funded citations to articles\\n>>disputing that MSG has no effects whatsoever. \\n> \\n> You mean \"asserting\". You\\'re being intellectually dishonest (or just\\n> plain confused), because you\\'re conflating reports which do not necessarily\\n> have anything to do with each other. Olney\\'s reports would argue a potential\\n> for problems in human infants, but that\\'s not to say that this says anything\\n> whatsoever about the use of MSG in most foods, nor does he provide any\\n> studies in humans which indicate any deleterious effects (for obvious\\n> reasons.) It says nothing about MSG\\'s contribtion to the phenomenon\\n> of the \"Chinese Restaurant Syndrome\". It says nothing about the frequent\\n> inability to replicate anecdotal reports of MSG sensitivity in the lab.\\n\\n\\nOkay Mr. Dyer, we\\'re properly impressed with your philosophical skills and\\nability to insult people. You\\'re a wonderful speaker and an adept politician.\\nHowever, I believe that all you were asked to do, was simply provide scientific\\nresearch refuting the work of Olney. I don\\'t think the original poster sought\\nto start a philisophical debate. she wanted some information. Given a little\\neffort one could justify that shooting oneself with a .45 before breakfast is a\\nhealthy practice. But we\\'re not particularily interested in what you can\\nverbally prove/disprove or rationalize. Where\\'s the research? Where are the\\nstudies?\\n\\nI appoligize if this sounds flamish. I simply would like to see the thread get\\nback on track. \\n\\n\\nLone Wolf\\n\\n Happy are they who dream dreams,\\nEd Philips And pay the price to see them come true.\\nslyx0@cc.usu.edu \\n -unknown\\n',\n", " 'From: pgf@srl02.cacs.usl.edu (Phil G. Fraering)\\nSubject: Re: Dreams and Degrees (was Re: Crazy? or just Imaginitive?)\\nOrganization: Univ. of Southwestern Louisiana\\nLines: 19\\n\\nhiggins@fnalf.fnal.gov (Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey) writes:\\n\\n...\\n>Like others involved in sci.space, Mr. Adams shows symptoms of being a\\n>fledgling member of the technoculture, and I think he\\'s soaking it up\\n>fast. I was a young guy with dreams once, and they led me to get a\\n>technical education to follow them up. Too bad I wound up in an\\n>assembly-line job stamping out identical neutrinos day after day...\\n>(-:\\n\\nHow can you tell they\\'re identical?\\n\\nYou got one of them \"Star Drek: The Next Syndication\" neutrino\\nscanners?\\n--\\nPhil Fraering |\"Seems like every day we find out all sorts of stuff.\\npgf@srl02.cacs.usl.edu|Like how the ancient Mayans had televison.\" Repo Man\\n\\n\\n',\n", " \"From: ab961@Freenet.carleton.ca (Robert Allison)\\nSubject: Bursitis and laser treatment\\nReply-To: ab961@Freenet.carleton.ca (Robert Allison)\\nOrganization: The National Capital Freenet\\nLines: 20\\n\\n\\nMy family doctor and the physiotherapist (PT) she sent me to agree that the\\npain in my left shoulder is bursitis. I have an appointment with an orthpod\\n(I love that, it's short for 'orthopedic surgeon, apparently) but while I'm\\nwaiting the PT is treating me.\\n\\nShe's using hot packs, ultrasound, and lasers, but there's no improvement\\nyet. In fact, I almost suspect it's getting worse.\\n\\nMy real question is about the laser treatment. I can't easily imagine what\\nthe physical effect that could have on a deep tissue problem. Can anyone\\nshed some light (so to speak) on the matter?\\n-- \\nRobert Allison\\nOttawa, Ontario CANADA\\n\",\n", " \"From: baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov (Ron Baalke)\\nSubject: Re: Comet in Temporary Orbit Around Jupiter?\\nOrganization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory\\nLines: 30\\nDistribution: world\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov\\nNews-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41 \\n\\nIn article <1psfan$pj0@access.digex.net>, prb@access.digex.com (Pat) writes...\\n>In article <6APR199314571378@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov> baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov (Ron Baalke) writes:\\n>|Comet Gehrels 3, which was discovered in 1977, was determined to have\\n>|been in a temporary Jovian orbit from 1970 to 1973. Comet Shoemaker-Levy 1993e\\n>|may remain in orbit around Jupiter long enough to allow Galileo to\\n>|make some closeup observations. The orbital trajectory for Comet\\n>|Shoemaker-Levy is still being determined.\\n>a\\n> \\n>What about positional uncertainties in S-L 1993e? \\n\\nIf Comet Shoemaker-Levy 1993e is in Jovian orbit, and if the comet\\nis still hanging around when Galileo arrives, then I'm sure it will\\nbe added to the list of targets. We'll have by then over two years\\nof Earth-based observations to help narrow down the positions of the\\npieces of the comet. It probably won't be too much different than\\nwhat was done with Gaspra.\\n\\n>But when they were\\n>imaging toutatis?\\n\\nGalileo did not image Toutatis. That came from Earth-based radar.\\n\\n ___ _____ ___\\n /_ /| /____/ \\\\ /_ /| Ron Baalke | baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov\\n | | | | __ \\\\ /| | | | Jet Propulsion Lab |\\n ___| | | | |__) |/ | | |__ M/S 525-3684 Telos | Being cynical never helps \\n/___| | | | ___/ | |/__ /| Pasadena, CA 91109 | to correct the situation \\n|_____|/ |_|/ |_____|/ | and causes more aggravation\\n | instead.\\n\",\n", " 'From: degroff@netcom.com (21012d)\\nSubject: Re: Venus Lander for Venus Conditions.\\nOrganization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)\\nLines: 8\\n\\n\\n I doubt there are good prospects for a self armoring system\\nfor venus surface conditions (several hundred degrees, very high\\npressure of CO2, possibly sulfuric and nitric acids or oxides\\nbut it is a notion to consider for outer planets rs where you might\\npick up ices under less extream upper atmosphere conditions buying\\ndeeper penetration. A nice creative idea, unlikly but worthy of\\nthinking about.\\n',\n", " 'From: spp@zabriskie.berkeley.edu (Steve Pope)\\nSubject: Re: Is MSG sensitivity superstition?\\nOrganization: U.C. Berkeley -- ERL\\nLines: 17\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: zion.berkeley.edu\\n\\nBetty Harvey writes,\\n\\n> I am not a researcher or a medical person but it amazes me that \\n> when they can\\'t find a scientific or a known fact they automatically \\n> assume that the reaction is psychological. It is mind boggling.\\n\\nThis, simply stated, is a result of the bankrupt ethics in\\nthe healthcare and scientific medicine industries.\\n\\nAmerica is fed up with the massive waste and fraud that is costing\\nus 15% of our GNP to support these industries, while delivering \\nmarginal health care to the community.\\n\\nUnfortunately, the \"Clinton Plan\", in whatever form it\\ntakes, will probably cost us an even greater sum. Bleah.\\n\\nSteve\\n',\n", " \"From: enf021@cck.coventry.ac.uk (Achurist)\\nSubject: Re: Abyss: breathing fluids\\nNntp-Posting-Host: cc_sysk\\nOrganization: Coventry University\\nLines: 31\\n\\nIn article <93089.204431GRV101@psuvm.psu.edu> Callec Dradja writes:\\n>I am a bit nervous about posting this beacause it is begining to\\n>stray fron the topic of space but then again that doesn't seem to\\n>stop alot of other people. :-)\\n>\\n>With all of this talk about breathing at high pressures, I began\\n>to think about the movie Abyss. If you remember, in that movie one\\n>of the characters dove to great depths by wearing a suit that used\\n>a fluid that carries oxegen as opposed to some sort of gas. Now I\\n>have heard that mice can breath this fluid but for some reason, humans\\n>are unable to. Does anyone know more details about this?\\n>\\n>Gregson Vaux\\n>\\n\\nI believe the reason is that the lung diaphram gets too tired to pump\\nthe liquid in and out and simply stops breathing after 2-3 minutes.\\nSo if your in the vehicle ready to go they better not put you on \\nhold, or else!! That's about it. Remember a liquid is several more times\\nas dense as a gas by its very nature. ~10 I think, depending on the gas\\nand liquid comparision of course!\\n\\nAcurist\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\",\n", " 'From: baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov (Ron Baalke)\\nSubject: Magellan Update - 04/23/93\\nOrganization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory\\nLines: 34\\nDistribution: world\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov\\nKeywords: Magellan, JPL\\nNews-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41 \\n\\nForwarded from Doug Griffith, Magellan Project Manager\\n\\n MAGELLAN STATUS REPORT\\n April 23, 1993\\n\\n1. The Magellan spacecraft continues to operate normally, gathering\\ngravity data to plot the density variations of Venus in the\\nmid-latitudes. The solar panel offpoint was returned to zero degrees\\nand spacecraft temperatures dropped 2-3 degrees C.\\n\\n2. An end-to-end test of the Delayed Aerobraking Data readout\\nprocess was conducted this week in preparation for the Transition\\nExperiment. There was some difficulty locking up to the data frames,\\nand engineers are presently checking whether the problem was in\\nequipment at the tracking station.\\n\\n3. Magellan has completed 7277 orbits of Venus and is now 32 days\\nfrom the end of Cycle 4 and the start of the Transition Experiment.\\n\\n4. Magellan scientists were participating in the Brown-Vernadsky\\nMicrosymposium at Brown University in Providence, RI, this week. This\\njoint meeting of U.S. and Russian Venus researchers has been\\ncontinuing for many years.\\n\\n5. A three-day simulation of Transition Experiment aerobraking\\nactivities is planned for next week, including Orbit Trim Maneuvers\\nand Starcal (Star calibration) Orbits.\\n ___ _____ ___\\n /_ /| /____/ \\\\ /_ /| Ron Baalke | baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov\\n | | | | __ \\\\ /| | | | Jet Propulsion Lab |\\n ___| | | | |__) |/ | | |__ M/S 525-3684 Telos | The aweto from New Zealand\\n/___| | | | ___/ | |/__ /| Pasadena, CA 91109 | is part caterpillar and\\n|_____|/ |_|/ |_____|/ | part vegetable.\\n\\n',\n", " 'Subject: Re: Comet in Temporary Orbit Around Jupiter?\\nFrom: Robert Coe \\nDistribution: world\\nOrganization: 1776 Enterprises, Sudbury MA\\nLines: 23\\n\\njgarland@kean.ucs.mun.ca writes:\\n\\n> >> Also, perihelions of Gehrels3 were:\\n> >> \\n> >> April 1973 83 jupiter radii\\n> >> August 1970 ~3 jupiter radii\\n> > \\n> > Where 1 Jupiter radius = 71,000 km = 44,000 mi = 0.0005 AU. So the\\n> > 1970 figure seems unlikely to actually be anything but a perijove.\\n> > Is that the case for the 1973 figure as well?\\n> > -- \\n> Sorry, _perijoves_...I\\'m not used to talking this language.\\n\\nHmmmm.... The prefix \"peri-\" is Greek, not Latin, so it\\'s usually used\\nwith the Greek form of the name of the body being orbited. (That\\'s why\\nit\\'s \"perihelion\" rather than \"perisol\", \"perigee\" rather than \"periterr\",\\nand \"pericynthion\" rather than \"perilune\".) So for Jupiter I\\'d expect it\\nto be something like \"perizeon\".) :^)\\n\\n ___ _ - Bob\\n /__) _ / / ) _ _\\n(_/__) (_)_(_) (___(_)_(/_______________________________________ bob@1776.COM\\nRobert K. Coe ** 14 Churchill St, Sudbury, Massachusetts 01776 ** 508-443-3265\\n',\n", " 'From: dprjdg@inetg1.ARCO.COM (John Grasham)\\nSubject: Re: Why not give $1 billion to first year-lo\\nOrganization: ARCO Oil and Gas Company\\nLines: 44\\n\\nkeithley@apple.com (Craig Keithley) writes:\\n>\\n> All in all, I\\'m not certain that the single goal/prize of staying on the\\n> moon for a year is wise and/or useful. How about: A prize for the\\n> first\\n> non-government sponsered unmanned moon landing, then another for a\\n> manned\\n> moon landing, then yet another for a system to extract consumables from\\n> lunar soil, another for a reusable earth/moon shuttle, and so forth. \\n> Find\\n> some way to build civilian moonbase infrastructure... Having a single\\n> goal\\n> might result in a bunch of contestents giving up after one person\\n> appeared\\n> to win. And for those that didn\\'t give up, I find something a little\\n> scary\\n> about a half dozen people huddling in rickety little moon shelters. I\\'d\\n> like to see as much a reward for co-operation as for competition.\\n>\\n> Lastly, about ten or fifteen years back I seem to recall that there was\\n> an\\n> English space magazine that had an on-going discussion about moonbases\\n> on\\n> the cheap. I recalled it discussed things like how much heat the human\\n> body produced, how much lunar material it\\'d need for protection from\\n> solar\\n> flares, etc. Unfortunately I don\\'t remember the name of this magazine. \\n> Does this ring a bell to anyone?\\n>\\n> Craig Keithley |\"I don\\'t remember, I don\\'t recall, \\n> Apple Computer, Inc. |I got no memory of anything at all\"\\n> keithley@apple.com |Peter Gabriel, Third Album (1980)\\n>\\n\\nI love the idea of progressive developmental prizes, but the assumption\\nhas\\nbeen all along that only the U.S. Gummint could fund the prizes. It\\nwouldn\\'t and couldn\\'t do such a thing ... BUT ...\\n\\nAn eccentric billionaire COULD offer such a prize or series of prizes.\\n\\nAnyone know H. Ross Perot or Bill Gates personally?\\n\\nJohn G.\\n',\n", " 'From: brian@quake.sylmar.ca.us (Brian K. Yoder)\\nSubject: Re: Is MSG sensitivity superstition?\\nOrganization: Quake Public Access, San Fernando Valley, CA (818)362-6092\\nLines: 92\\n\\nHave you ever met a chemist? A food industry businessman? You must\\npersonally know a lot of them for you to be able to be so certain that they\\nare evil mosters whose only goal is to inflict as much pain and disease\\nas possible into the general public. Gimme a break.\\n \\nIn article <1993Apr15.215826.3401@rtsg.mot.com> lundby@rtsg.mot.com (Walter F. L\\nundby) writes:\\n>\\n>>>Is there such a thing as MSG (monosodium glutamate) sensitivity?\\n>>>Superstition. Anybody here have experience to the contrary?\\n\\n person who is very sensitive to msg and whose wife and kids are\\n>too, I WANT TO KNOW WHY THE FOOD INDUSTRY WANTS TO PUT MSG IN FOOD!!!\\n \\nBecause it makes the food TASTE BETTER! Why does it put salt in food?\\nSame reason.\\n\\n>I REALLY DON\\'T UNDERSTAND!!!\\n\\nObviously.\\n \\n>Somebody in the industry GIVE ME SOME REASONS WHY!\\n\\n>IS IT AN INDUSTRIAL BYPRODUCT THAT NEEDS GETTING GET RID OF?\\n \\nOf course not! (Although I would think that a person like you would be a\\nbig fan of such recycling if that were the case).\\n\\n>IS IT TO COVER UP THE FACT THAT THE RECIPES ARE NOT VERY GOOD OR THE \\n>FOOD IS POOR QUALITY?\\n \\nOn occasion that\\'s probably the case, but in general the idea is that MSG\\nimproves the flavor of certain foods.\\n \\n>DO SOME OF YOU GET A SADISTIC PLEASURE OUT OF MAKING SOME OF US SICK?\\n \\nNo.\\n \\n>DO THE TASTE TESTERS HAVE SOME DEFECT IN THEIR FLAVOR SENSORS (MOUTH etc...)\\n> THAT MSG CORRECTS?\\n \\nNo.\\n \\n>I REALLY DON\\'T UNDERSTAND!!!\\n \\nObviously.\\n \\n>ALSO ... Nitrosiamines (sp)\\n \\nAs I recall, these are natural by-products of heating up certain foods.\\nThey don\\'t \"put it in there\".\\n \\n \\nhave a number of criteria in choosing how to process food. They want to\\nmake it taste good, look good, sell for a good price, etc. The fact that they\\nuse it tells me that THEY think that it contributes to those goals they are\\ninterested in. One of those goals is NOT \"making people sick\". Such a goal\\nwoud quickly drive them out of business and for no benefit.\\n \\n>I think\\n>1) outlaw the use of these substances without warning labels as\\n>large as those on cig. packages.\\n \\nWarning of what? In California there is a law requiring that ANYTHING which\\ncontains a carcinogen be labeled. That includes every gasline pump, most\\nfoods, and even money cleaning machines (because Nickel is a mild carcinogen).\\nThe result is that now nobody pays any attention to ANY of the warnings.\\n \\n>2) Require 30% of comparable products on the market to be free of these\\n>substances and state that they are free of MSG, DYES, NITROSIAMINES and\\n>SULFITES on the package.\\n \\nWhy? What if not 30% of people wanted to buy this ugly, rotten, not-as-tasty\\nfood? I guess it will just be wasted, huh? How terribly efficient.\\n \\n>3) While at it outlaw yellow dye #5. For that matter why dye food?\\n \\nBecause it makes food look better. I LIKE food that looks good.\\nIf vitamin companies want to do that it is fine, but who are you to\\ntell THEM how to make vitamins? Who are you to tell ME whether I should\\nbuy flavored vitamins for my kids (who can\\'t swallow the conventional ones\\nwhole).\\n \\n>KEEP FOOD FOOD! QUIT PUTTING IN JUNK!\\n \\nHow do you define \"junk\"? Is putting \"salt\" in food bad? What about\\nPepper? What about alcohol as a preservative? What about sealing jars\\nwith wax? What about vinegar? You seem to think that \"chemicals\" are\\nsomehow different than \"food\". The fact is that all foods are 100% chemicals.\\nYou are just expressing an irrational prejudice against food processing.\\n \\n--Brian\\n',\n", " 'From: wallacen@CS.ColoState.EDU (nathan wallace)\\nSubject: ORION test film\\nReply-To: wallacen@CS.ColoState.EDU\\nNntp-Posting-Host: sor.cs.colostate.edu\\nOrganization: Colorado State University -=- Computer Science Dept.\\nLines: 11\\n\\nIs the film from the \"putt-putt\" test vehicle which used conventional\\nexplosives as a proof-of-concept test, or another one?\\n\\n---\\nC/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/\\nC/ Nathan F. Wallace C/C/ \"Reality Is\" C/\\nC/ e-mail: wallacen@cs.colostate.edu C/C/ ancient Alphaean proverb C/\\nC/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/C/\\n \\n\\n\\n',\n", " \"From: jgarland@kean.ucs.mun.ca\\nSubject: Re: Comet in Temporary Orbit Around Jupiter?\\nLines: 26\\nOrganization: Memorial University. St.John's Nfld, Canada\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr19.020359.26996@sq.sq.com>, msb@sq.sq.com (Mark Brader) writes:\\n>> > Can these questions be answered for a previous\\n>> > instance, such as the Gehrels 3 that was mentioned in an earlier posting?\\n> \\n>> Orbital Elements of Comet 1977VII (from Dance files)\\n>> p(au) 3.424346\\n>> e 0.151899\\n>> i 1.0988\\n>> cap_omega(0) 243.5652\\n>> W(0) 231.1607\\n>> epoch 1977.04110\\n> \\n> \\n>> Also, perihelions of Gehrels3 were:\\n>> \\n>> April 1973 83 jupiter radii\\n>> August 1970 ~3 jupiter radii\\n> \\n> Where 1 Jupiter radius = 71,000 km = 44,000 mi = 0.0005 AU. So the\\n> 1970 figure seems unlikely to actually be anything but a perijove.\\n> Is that the case for the 1973 figure as well?\\n> -- \\nSorry, _perijoves_...I'm not used to talking this language.\\n\\nJohn Garland\\njgarland@kean.ucs.mun.ca\\n\",\n", " 'From: djf@cck.coventry.ac.uk (Marvin Batty)\\nSubject: Re: Moonbase race\\nNntp-Posting-Host: cc_sysk\\nOrganization: Starfleet, Coventry, UK\\nLines: 22\\n\\nIn article <1r46o9INN14j@mojo.eng.umd.edu> sysmgr@king.eng.umd.edu writes:\\n>In article , henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:\\n>\\n>>Apollo was done the hard way, in a big hurry, from a very limited\\n>>technology base... and on government contracts. Just doing it privately,\\n>>rather than as a government project, cuts costs by a factor of several.\\n>\\n>So how much would it cost as a private venture, assuming you could talk the\\n>U.S. government into leasing you a couple of pads in Florida? \\n>\\nWhy use a ground launch pad. It is entirely posible to launch from altitude.\\nThis was what the Shuttle was originally intended to do! It might be seriously\\ncheaper. \\n\\nAlso, what about bio-engineered CO2 absorbing plants instead of many LOX bottles?\\nStick \\'em in a lunar cave and put an airlock on the door.\\n\\n-- \\n**************************************************************************** \\n Marvin Batty - djf@uk.ac.cov.cck\\n\"And they shall not find those things, with a sort of rafia like base,\\nthat their fathers put there just the night before. At about 8 O\\'clock!\"\\n',\n", " 'From: Gia Kiria \\nSubject: help\\nReply-To: gkiria@kiria.kheta.georgia.su\\nOrganization: Gia Kiria\\nKeywords: information echo cardio dopler\\nLines: 9\\n\\n HELP!\\nMaybe anybody know names of conferences in\\nPlease help Me find any information for next keywords:\\nechocardiography and cardiology+dopler\\nI hawe no informatins on this subjects 2 years becouse i leave in\\nTbilisy.\\nsorry for my bad english!\\nMY adress: irina@kiria.kheta.georgia.su\\n\\n',\n", " \"From: calzone@athena.mit.edu\\nSubject: Re: Eumemics (was: Eugenics)\\nOrganization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology\\nLines: 25\\nDistribution: world\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: w20-575-56.mit.edu\\n\\n\\n\\n>Probably within 50 years, it will be possible to disassemble and\\n>re-assemble our bodies at the molecular level. Not only will flawless\\n>cosmetic surgery be possible, but flawless cosmetic PSYCHOSURGERY.\\n>\\n>What will it be like to store all the prices of shelf-priced bar-coded\\n>goods in your head, and catch all the errors they make in the store's\\n>favor at SAFEWAY? What will it be like to mentally edit and spell-\\n>check your responses to the questions posed by a phone caller selling\\n>VACATION TIME-SHARE OPTIONS?\\n\\n\\nYou are absolutely daft. No flame required. You lack a brain.\\n\\n> ...[sic]...\\n>Memes are the basic units of culture, as opposed to genes\\n>which are the units of genetics.\\n\\n\\nWell... at least you're educated, it seems. But give credit\\nwhere credit is due: to Richard Dawkin(s?) \\n(the meme is a meme he invented)\\n\\n-zone\\n\",\n", " \"From: n4hy@harder.ccr-p.ida.org (Bob McGwier)\\nSubject: Re: NAVSTAR positions\\nOrganization: IDA Center for Communications Research\\nLines: 11\\nDistribution: world\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: harder.ccr-p.ida.org\\nIn-reply-to: Thomas.Enblom@eos.ericsson.se's message of 19 Apr 93 06:34:55 GMT\\n\\n\\nYou have missed something. There is a big difference between being in\\nthe SAME PLANE and in exactly the same state (positions and velocities\\nequal). IN addition to this, there has always been redundancies proposed.\\n\\nBob\\n--\\n------------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nRobert W. McGwier | n4hy@ccr-p.ida.org\\nCenter for Communications Research | Interests: amateur radio, astronomy,golf\\nPrinceton, N.J. 08520 | Asst Scoutmaster Troop 5700, Hightstown\\n\",\n", " 'From: MUNIZB%RWTMS2.decnet@rockwell.com (\"RWTMS2::MUNIZB\")\\nSubject: Space Event in Los Angeles, CA\\nX-Added: Forwarded by Space Digest\\nOrganization: [via International Space University]\\nOriginal-Sender: isu@VACATION.VENARI.CS.CMU.EDU\\nDistribution: sci\\nLines: 52\\n\\n FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: OASIS (310) 364-2290\\n\\n 15 April 1993 Los Angeles, CA\\n\\n LOCAL NATIONAL SPACE SOCIETY CHAPTERS SPONSOR TALK BY L.A.\\n ADVOCATE OF LUNAR POWER SYSTEM AS ENERGY SOURCE FOR THE WORLD\\n\\n On April 21, the OASIS and Ventura County chapters of the National \\nSpace Society will sponsor a talk by Lunar Power System (LPS) co-\\ninventor and vice-president of the LPS Coalition, Dr. Robert D.\\nWaldron. It will be held at 7:30 p.m. at the Rockwell Science\\nCenter in Thousand Oaks, CA.\\n\\n Dr. Waldron is currently a Technical Specialist in Space\\nMaterials Processing with the Space Systems Division of Rockwell\\nInternational in Downey, California. He is a recognized world\\nauthority on lunar materials refinement. He has written or\\ncoauthored more than 15 articles or reports on nonterrestrial\\nmaterials processing or utilization. Along with Dr. David\\nCriswell, Waldron invented the lunar/solar power system concept.\\n\\n Momentum is building for a coalition of entrepreneurs, legal\\nexperts, and Soviet and U.S. scientists and engineers to build\\nthe Lunar Power System, a pollution-free, energy source with a\\npotential to power the globe.\\n\\n For the past three years members of the coalition, nearly half\\nfrom California, have rejuvenated the commercial and scientific\\nconcept of a solar power system based on the Moon.\\n\\n The LPS concept entails collecting solar energy on the lunar\\nsurface and beaming the power to Earth as microwaves transmitted\\nthrough orbiting antennae. A mature LPS offers an enormous\\nsource of clean, sustainable power to meet the Earth\\'s ever\\nincreasing demand using proven, basic technology.\\n\\n OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Space\\nIndustrialization) is the Greater Los Angeles chapter of the\\nNational Space Society, which is an international non-profit\\norganization that promotes development of the space frontier.\\nThe Ventura County chapter is based in Oxnard, CA.\\n\\n WHERE: Rockwell Science Center Auditorium, 1049 Camino\\n Dos Rios, Thousand Oaks, CA.\\n\\n DIRECTIONS: Ventura Freeway 101 to Thousand Oaks, exit onto\\n Lynn Road heading North (right turn from 101\\n North, Left turn from 101 South), after about 1/2\\n mile turn Left on Camino Dos Rios, after about 1/2\\n mile make First Right into Rockwell after Camino\\n Colindo, Parking at Top of Hill to the Left\\n\\n',\n", " 'From: dennisn@ecs.comm.mot.com (Dennis Newkirk)\\nSubject: Space class for teachers near Chicago\\nOrganization: Motorola\\nDistribution: usa\\nNntp-Posting-Host: 145.1.146.43\\nLines: 59\\n\\nI am posting this for a friend without internet access. Please inquire\\nto the phone number and address listed.\\n---------------------------------------------------------------------\\n\\n\"Space: Teaching\\'s Newest Frontier\"\\nSponsored by the Planetary Studies Foundation\\n\\nThe Planetary Studies Foundation is sponsoring a one week class for\\nteachers called \"Space: Teaching\\'s Newest Frontier.\" The class will be\\nheld at the Sheraton Suites in Elk Grove, Illinois from June 14 through\\nJune 18. Participants who complete the program can earn two semester\\nhours of graduate credit from Aurora College. Please note that while the\\nclass is intended for teachers, it is not restricted to teachers.\\n\\nThe class, which is being cosponsored by the United States Space\\nFoundation, will teach how to use space exploration as a teaching tool\\nto get students excited about learning and interested in science.\\n\\nClassroom topics to be covered by the class include:\\n > Living in Space\\n > The Space Shuttle\\n > The Space Station\\n > NASA Spinoffs that Benefit Society\\n > Principles of Astrodynamics/Aeronautics\\n > The Solar System\\n\\nThere will also be simulated Zero-G training in an underwater space\\nstation simulation, model rocket launches, observing sessions at the\\nHarper College Observatory, and field trips to the Adler Planetarium and\\nthe Museum of Science and Industry.\\n\\nFeatured speakers include Jerry Brown of the Colorado based United\\nStates Space Foundation and Debbie Brown of the NASA Lewis Research\\nCenter in Cleveland, Ohio. Additional instructors will be provided by\\nthe Planetary Studies Foundation.\\n\\nThe social highlight of the class will be a dinner banquet featuring\\nSpace Shuttle Payload Specialist Byron Lichtenberg, currently President\\nof Payload Systems, Inc. Lichtenberg was a member of the crew of STS-9\\nwhich flew in November 1983. The banquet is scheduled for Thursday, June\\n17.\\n\\nThe registration fee includes transportation for field trips, materials,\\ncontinental breakfasts, lunches, and the special dinner banquet. Guest\\ntickets for the dinner banquet are also available. There is an\\nadditional charge to receive the two hours of graduate credit. For any\\nadditional information about the class, contact the Science Learning\\nCenter at (708) 359-7913.\\n\\nOr write to:\\nPlanetary Studies Foundation\\n1520 W. Algonquin Rd.\\nPalatine, IL 60067\\n\\n------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n\\nDennis Newkirk (dennisn@ecs.comm.mot.com)\\nMotorola, Land Mobile Products Sector\\nSchaumburg, IL\\n',\n", " 'Subject: Quotation? Lowest bidder...\\nFrom: bioccnt@otago.ac.nz\\nOrganization: University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand\\nNntp-Posting-Host: thorin.otago.ac.nz\\nLines: 12\\n\\n\\nCan someone please remind me who said a well known quotation? \\n\\nHe was sitting atop a rocket awaiting liftoff and afterwards, in answer to\\nthe question what he had been thinking about, said (approximately) \"half a\\nmillion components, each has to work perfectly, each supplied by the lowest\\nbidder.....\" \\n\\nAttribution and correction of the quote would be much appreciated. \\n\\nClive Trotman\\n\\n',\n", " 'From: robin@ntmtv.com (Robin Coutellier)\\nSubject: Critique of Pressure Point Massager\\nOriginator: robin@volans\\nNntp-Posting-Host: volans\\nReply-To: robin@ntmtv.com (Robin Coutellier)\\nOrganization: Northern Telecom Inc, Mountain View, CA\\nDistribution: na\\nLines: 141\\n\\nAs promised, below is a personal critique of a Pressure Point Massager \\nI recently bought from the Self Care Catalog. I am very pleased with \\nthe results. The catalog description is as follows:\\n\\n\\tThe Pressure Point Massager is an aggressive physical massager \\n\\tthat actually kneads the tension out of muscles ... much like a\\n\\tprofessional shiatsu masseur. The powerful motor drives two\\n\\tcounter-rotating \"thumbs\" that move in one-inch orbits --\\n\\treleasing tension in the neck, back, legs and arms.\\n\\n\\tPressure Point Massager A2623 $109\\n\\nTo order or receive a catalog, call (24 hours, 7 days) 1-800-345-3371 or\\nfax at 1-800-345-4021.\\n\\n********\\nNOTE:\\nWhen I ordered the massager, the item number was different, and the price\\nwas $179, not $109. When I received it, I glanced thru the newer catalog\\nenclosed with it to see anything was different from the first one. I was \\nQUITE annoyed to see a $70 difference in price. I called them about it,\\nand the cust rep said that they had switched manufacturers, although it\\nlooks and works exactly the same. He told me to go ahead and return the\\nfirst one and order the cheaper one, using the price difference as a\\nreason for return. In fact, since the newer ones might take a while to\\nship from the factory (I received this one in 3 days), he told me I could \\nuse the one I already have until the new one arrives, then return the old \\none. VERY reasonable people.\\n********\\n\\nI have long-term neck, shoulder and back pain (if I were a building, I \\nwould be described as \"structurally unsound :-) ). I have stretches \\nand exercises to do that help, but the problem never really goes away. \\nIf, for whatever reason, I do not exercise for a while (illness, not enough\\ntime, lazy, etc.), the muscles become quite stiff and painful and, thus, \\nmore prone to further strain. Even with exercise, I sometimes require \\nphysical therapy to get back on track, which 1st requires a doctor visit \\nto get the prescription for p.t. \\n\\nThe tension in my neck, if not released, eventually causes a headache\\n(sometimes confused with a sinus headache) over my left eye. When my \\nphysical therapist has massaged my neck, and the sub-occipital muscles \\nin particular (the 2 knobby areas near the base of the skull), the \\nheadache usually eased within a day, although it hurts like hell to \\nwhile it is being massaged.\\n\\nI ordered this device because it seemed to be exactly what I was wishing\\nsomeone would invent --a machine that would massage, NOT VIBRATE, my \\nneck and sub-occipital muscles like my physical therapist has done in \\nthe past, that I could use by myself. No doctor visit or inconvenient \\np.t. appts for a week later would be needed to use it. I could get up \\nin the middle of the night and use it, if necessary.\\n\\nI have been using it for about a week or so now, and LOVE it. The base\\nunit is about a 14\" x 9\" rectangle, about 3-3/4\" high, with handles on each\\nside, and it plugs into an average outlet. The two metal \"thumbs\" are about \\n1-1/2\" in diameter and protrude about 2-1/2\" above the base. The thumbs \\nare covered with a gray cloth that is non-removable. They are located more \\ntoward one end, rather than centered (see figure below). They move in \\neither clockwise or counter-clockwise directions, depending on which side \\nof the switch is pushed, and are very quiet. It can be used from either\\nside. For instance, the thumbs can be positioned at the base of the neck\\nor the top of the neck, depending on which direction you approach it.\\n\\n\\n _______________________________\\n | __ _______________ __ |\\n | | | |\\t\\t| | | |\\n | | | | \\\\^^/ \\\\^^/ | | | |\\n | | | | || || | | | |\\n | | | |\\t\\t| | | |\\n | | | |_______________| | | |\\n | |__|\\t\\t\\t |__| |\\n |_______________________________|\\n\\n\\nFor the neck/head, the user varies the amount of pressure used by (if \\nlaying down) allowing all or part of the full weight of the head and/or \\nneck to rest on the thumbs. The handles can also be used if sitting or\\nstanding, applying pressure with the arms/wrists. Since my wrists are\\nalso impaired (I\\'m typing this over an extended period of time), and I \\ndon\\'t have someone living with me who can apply it, laying down works \\nwell for me.\\n\\nFor my back, I sit in a high-backed kitchen chair, position the massager\\nbehind me at whatever point I want massaged, and lean back lightly (or\\nnot so lightly) against it. The pressure of leaning back holds it in place. \\nIf I want to massage the entire spine, I simply move it down a few inches \\nwhenever I feel like it. For my back, this machine is far superior to use \\nthan the commonly used \"home-made\" massager of 2 tennis balls taped together \\n(with the balls, position (against a wall or door) them over the spine and \\nmove the body up and down against them). The tennis balls are better than \\nnothing, but difficult to use for very long, especially if your quads are \\nnot in good shape, and my long hair gets (painfully) in the way if I don\\'t \\npin it up first. As far as I\\'m concerned, the easier something like this \\nis to use, the more likely I\\'ll use/do it. If there are multiple \\nconsiderations/hassles, I\\'m more likely to not bother with it.\\n\\nNot only has this machine helped with my headaches, but my range of motion \\nfor my neck and back are greatly increased. The first time I used it on my\\nneck/sub-occipital muscles, however, I overdid it and pressed too hard\\nagainst it, which resulted in a very tender, almost bruised area for a\\nfew days. I laid off it for about 3 days and applied ice, which helped. \\nAfter that, I was more gradual about applying pressure. At this point, \\nthe pain in the sub-occipital area is now minimal while being massaged. \\nI also learned to use VERY LIGHT pressure on my lower back, which is the \\nmost vulnerable point for me.\\n\\nIt also eased some painful knots of tension between my shoulder blades,\\nalthough, again, it took a few days of massaging (just a few minutes at\\na time) to really work it out.\\n\\nI highly recommend this product if you have similar problems, although I\\ncannot vouch for its durability (it seems pretty sturdy), since I\\'ve had\\nit such a short time. I plan to use it not only to ease tension, but also \\nto loosen the muscls BEFORE exercising (and maybe after, too). I have\\nbeen ill recently and not able to exercise much for a few weeks, so this \\nwas very timely for me.\\n\\nThis is the 1st product I\\'ve ordered from this company and only recently\\nbecame aware of it thru a co-worker. The catalog states they have been\\nin business since 1976. It contains quite a few health care products and,\\nwhile they appear to be more expensive than the average health care catalog\\nproducts, they also appear to be of much higher quality with more thought\\nput into what they actually do. Definitely a step above some other ones\\nI\\'ve seen such as \"Dr. Leonards Health Care Catalog\" or \"Mature Wisdom\".\\nI\\'m only 37, but have ended up on some geriatric-type mailing lists (no\\nbig surprise here :-) ). I consider many of those products to be rip-offs, \\nparticularly targeted toward the elderly, with dubious health benefits.\\n\\nI apologize for the length of this, but it\\'s the kind of info _I_ would \\nlike to know before ordering something thru the mail.\\n\\n\\nRobin Coutellier \\nNorthern Telecom, Mountain View, CA\\nINTERNET: robin@ntmtv.com\\nUUCP:portal!ntmtv!robin\\n\\n\\n\\n',\n", " 'From: km@cs.pitt.edu (Ken Mitchum)\\nSubject: Re: Immotile Cilia Syndrome\\nArticle-I.D.: pitt.19423\\nReply-To: km@cs.pitt.edu (Ken Mitchum)\\nOrganization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science\\nLines: 31\\n\\nIn article <1993Mar26.213522.26224@ncsu.edu> andrea@unity.ncsu.edu (Andrea M Free-Kwiatkowski) writes:\\n>I would like to know if there is any new information out there about the\\n>subject or any new studies being conducted. I am confident in my\\n>pediatrician and her communication with the people in Chapel Hill, but\\n>since this is a life-long disorder and genetically transferred I would\\n>like keep current. I do realize that since this is a relatively new\\n>disorder (first documented in 1974 in a fertility clinic in Scandanavia)\\n>and is therefore \"controversial\".\\n\\nI do not know a lot about this, except from seeing one patient with\\n\"Kartagener\\'s syndrome\", which is a form of immotile cilia syndrome\\nin which there is situs inversus, bronchiectasis, and chronic\\ninfections. \"Situs inversus\" means that organs are on the wrong\\nside of the body, and can be complete or partial. It is interesting\\nmedically because the normal location of organs is caused in part\\nby the \"normal\" rotation associated with ciliary motion, so that in\\nabsence of this, laterality can be \"random.\" People with situs\\ninversus are quite popular at medical schools, because of their\\nrarity, and the fact that most doctors get a bit upset when they\\ncan\\'t find the patient\\'s heart sounds (because they\\'re on the wrong\\nside). \\n\\nAccording to Harrison\\'s, immotile cilia syndrom is an autosomal\\nrecessive, which should imply that on average one child in four\\nin a family would be affected. But there may be much more current\\ninformation on this, and as usual in medicine, we may be talking\\nabout more than one conditiion. I would suggest that you ask your\\npediatrician about contacting a medical geneticics specialist, of\\nwhich there is probably one at NCSU.\\n\\n-km\\n',\n", " \"From: u96_averba@vaxc.stevens-tech.edu\\nSubject: Arythmia\\nLines: 11\\nOrganization: Stevens Institute Of Technology\\n\\nI don't know if anyone knows about this topic: electrical heart \\nfailure. One of my friends has had to go to the doctor because\\nhe had chest pains. The Doc said it was Arythmia. So he had to\\ngo to a new york hospital for a lot of money to get treated. His\\ndoctors said that he could die from it, and the medication caused\\ncancer ( that he was taking). Well, I suggested that he run, excersize\\nand eat more, ( he is very skinny) but he says that has nothing\\nto do with it. Does anyone know what causes arythmia and how \\nit can be treated?\\n\\t\\t\\tThanks \\n\\n\",\n", " 'From: steinly@topaz.ucsc.edu (Steinn Sigurdsson)\\nSubject: Re: Vandalizing the sky\\nOrganization: Lick Observatory/UCO\\nLines: 23\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: topaz.ucsc.edu\\nIn-reply-to: flb@flb.optiplan.fi\\'s message of Fri, 23 Apr 1993 12:01:38 GMT\\n\\nIn article flb@flb.optiplan.fi (\"F.Baube[tm]\") writes:\\n\\n From: \"Phil G. Fraering\" \\n\\n > Finally: this isn\\'t the Bronze Age, [..]\\n > please try to remember that there are more human activities than\\n > those practiced by the Warrior Caste, the Farming Caste, and the\\n > Priesthood.\\n\\n Right, the Profiting Caste is blessed by God, and may \\n freely blare its presence in the evening twilight ..\\n\\nThe Priesthood has never quite forgiven\\nthe merchants (aka Profiting Caste [sic])\\nfor their rise to power, has it?\\n\\n;-)\\n\\n* Steinn Sigurdsson \\t\\t\\tLick Observatory \\t*\\n* steinly@lick.ucsc.edu \\t\\t\"standard disclaimer\" \\t*\\n* Ya know... you penguin types offend me. ...\\t\\t\\t*\\n* My Gosh... Life is offensive!! \\t\\t\\t\\t*\\n* Offensensitivity.\\t\\t- BB 1984\\t\\t\\t*\\n',\n", " 'From: wmiler@nyx.cs.du.edu (Wyatt Miler)\\nSubject: Diaspar Virtual Reality Network Announcement\\nOrganization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.\\nLines: 185\\n\\n\\nPosted to the Internet by wmiler@nyx.cs.du.edu\\n \\n000062David42 041493003715\\n \\n The Lunar Tele-operation Model One (LTM1)\\n =========================================\\n By David H. Mitchell\\n March 23, 1993\\n \\nINTRODUCTION:\\n \\nIn order to increase public interest in space-based and lunar operations, a\\nreal miniature lunar-like environment is being constructed on which to test\\ntele-operated models. These models are remotely-controlled by individuals\\nlocated world-wide using their personal computers, for EduTainment\\npurposes.\\nNot only does this provide a test-bed for simple tele-operation and\\ntele-presence activities but it also provides for the sharing of\\ninformation\\non methods of operating in space, including, but not limited to, layout of\\na\\nlunar colony, tele-operating machines for work and play, disseminating\\neducational information, providing contests and awards for creativity and\\nachievement and provides a new way for students worldwide to participate in\\nTwenty-First century remote learning methods.\\n \\nBecause of the nature of the LTM1 project, people of all ages, interests\\nand\\nskills can contribute scenery and murals, models and structures,\\ninterfacing\\nand electronics, software and graphics. In operation LTM1 is an evolving\\nplayground and laboratory that can be used by children, students and\\nprofessionals worldwide. Using a personal computer at home or a terminal at\\na participating institution a user is able to tele-operate real models at\\nthe\\nLTM1 base for experimental or recreational purposes. Because a real\\nfacility\\nexists, ample opportunity is provided for media coverage of the\\nconstruction\\nof the lunar model, its operation and new features to be added as suggested\\nby the users themselves.\\n \\nThis has broad inherent interest for a wide range of groups:\\n - tele-operations and virtual reality research\\n - radio control, model railroad and ham radio operation\\n - astronomy and space planetariums and science centers\\n - art and theater\\n - bbs and online network users\\n - software and game developers\\n - manufacturers and retailers of model rockets, cars and trains\\n - children\\n - the child in all of us\\n \\nLTM1 OVERALL DESIGN:\\n \\nA room 14 feet by 8 feet contains the base lunar layout. The walls are used\\nfor murals of distant moon mountains, star fields and a view of the earth.\\nThe \"floor\" is the simulated lunar surface. A global call for contributions\\nis hereby made for material for the lunar surface, and for the design and\\ncreation of scale models of lunar colony elements, scenery, and\\nmachine-lets.\\n \\n The LTM1 initial design has 3 tele-operated machinelets:\\n 1. An SSTO scale model which will be able to lift off, hover and land;\\n 2. A bulldozerlet which will be able to move about in a quarry area; and\\n 3. A moon-train which will traverse most of the simulated lunar surface.\\n \\n Each machinelet has a small TV camera utilizing a CCD TV chip mounted on\\n it. A personal computer digitizes the image (including reducing picture\\n content and doing data-compression to allow for minimal images to be sent\\n to the operator for control purposes) and also return control signals.\\n \\nThe first machinelet to be set up will be the moon-train since model trains\\nwith TV cameras built in are almost off-the-shelf items and control\\nelectronics for starting and stopping a train are minimal. The user will\\nreceive an image once every 1 to 4 seconds depending on the speed of their\\ndata link to LTM1.\\n \\nNext, an SSTO scale model with a CCD TV chip will be suspended from a\\nservo-motor operated wire frame mounted on the ceiling allowing for the\\nSSTO\\nto be controlled by the operator to take off, hover over the entire lunar\\nlandscape and land.\\n \\nFinally, some tank models will be modified to be CCD TV chip equipped\\nbulldozerlets. The entire initial LTM1 will allow remote operators\\nworldwide\\nto receive minimal images while actually operating models for landing and\\ntakeoff, traveling and doing work. The entire system is based on\\ncommercially\\navailable items and parts that can be easily obtained except for the\\ninterface electronics which is well within the capability of many advanced\\nham radio operator and computer hardware/software developers.\\n \\nBy taking a graphically oriented communications program (Dmodem) and adding\\na tele-operations screen and controls, the necessary user interface can be\\nprovided in under 80 man hours.\\n \\nPLAN OF ACTION:\\n \\nThe Diaspar Virtual Reality Network has agreed to sponsor this project by\\nproviding a host computer network and Internet access to that network.\\nDiaspar is providing the 14 foot by 8 foot facility for actual construction\\nof the lunar model. Diaspar has, in stock, the electronic tanks that can be\\nmodified and one CCD TV chip. Diaspar also agrees to provide \"rail stock\"\\nfor the lunar train model. Diaspar will make available the Dmodem graphical\\ncommunications package and modify it for control of the machines-lets.\\nAn initial \"ground breaking\" with miniature shovels will be performed for\\na live photo-session and news conference on April 30, 1993. The initial\\nmodels will be put in place. A time-lapse record will be started for\\nhistorical purposes. It is not expected that this event will be completely\\nserious or solemn. The lunar colony will be declared open for additional\\nbuilding, operations and experiments. A photographer will be present and\\nthe photographs taken will be converted to .gif images for distribution\\nworld-wide to major online networks and bbs\\'s. A press release will be\\nissued\\ncalling for contributions of ideas, time, talent, materials and scale\\nmodels\\nfor the simulated lunar colony.\\n \\nA contest for new designs and techniques for working on the moon will then\\nbe\\nannounced. Universities will be invited to participate, the goal being to\\nfind instructors who wish to have class participation in various aspects of\\nthe lunar colony model. Field trips to LTM1 can be arranged and at that\\ntime\\nthe results of the class work will be added to the model. Contributors will\\nthen be able to tele-operate any contributed machine-lets once they return\\nto\\ntheir campus.\\n \\nA monthly LTM1 newsletter will be issued both electronically online and via\\nconventional means to the media. Any major new tele-operated equipment\\naddition will be marked with an invitation to the television news media.\\nHaving a large, real model space colony will be a very attractive photo\\nopportunity for the television community. Especially since the \"action\"\\nwill\\nbe controlled by people all over the world. Science fiction writers will be\\ninvited to issue \"challenges\" to engineering and human factors students at\\nuniversities to build and operate the tele-operated equipment to perform\\nlunar tasks. Using counter-weight and pulley systems, 1/6 gravity may be\\nsimulated to some extent to try various traction challenges.\\n \\nThe long term goal is creating world-wide interest, education,\\nexperimentation\\nand remote operation of a lunar colony. LTM1 has the potential of being a\\nlong\\nterm global EduTainment method for space activities and may be the generic\\nexample of how to teach and explore in many other subject areas not limited\\nto space EduTainment. All of this facilitates the kind of spirit which can\\nlead to a generation of people who are ready for the leap to the stars!\\n \\nCONCLUSION:\\n \\nEduTainment is the blending of education and entertainment. Anyone who has\\never enjoyed seeing miniatures will probably see the potential impact of a\\nglobally available layout for recreation, education and experimentation\\npurposes. By creating a tele-operated model lunar colony we not only create\\nworld-wide publicity, but also a method of trying new ideas that require\\nreal\\n(not virtual) skills and open a new method for putting people\\'s minds in\\nspace.\\n \\n \\nMOONLIGHTERS:\\n \\n\"Illuminating the path of knowledge about space and lunar development.\"\\nThe following people are already engaged in various parts of this work:\\nDavid42, Rob47, Dash, Hyson, Jzer0, Vril, Wyatt, The Dark One, Tiggertoo,\\nThe Mad Hatter, Sir Robin, Jogden.\\n \\nCome join the discussion any Friday night from 10:30 to midnight PST in\\n \\nDiaspar Virtual Reality Network. Ideas welcome!\\n \\nInternet telnet to: 192.215.11.1 or diaspar.com\\n \\n(voice) 714-376-1776\\n(2400bd) 714-376-1200\\n(9600bd) 714-376-1234\\n \\nEmail inquiries to LTM1 project leader Jzer@Hydra.unm.edu\\nor directly to Jzer0 on Diaspar.\\n\\n',\n", " 'From: tffreeba@indyvax.iupui.edu\\nSubject: Re: PLANETS STILL: IMAGES ORBIT BY ETHER TWIST\\nLines: 3\\n\\nThey must be shipping that good Eau Clair acid to California now.\\n\\nTom Freebairn \\n',\n", " \"From: proberts@informix.com (Paul Roberts)\\nSubject: Re: Too many MRIs?\\nOrganization: Informix Software, Inc.\\nLines: 11\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr12.165410.4206@kestrel.edu> king@reasoning.com (Dick King) writes:\\n>\\n>I recall reading somewhere, during my youth, in some science popularization\\n>book, that whyle isotope changes don't normally affect chemistry, a consumption\\n>of only heavy water would be fatal, and that seeds watered only with heavy\\n>water do not sprout. Does anyone know about this?\\n>\\n\\nI also heard this. I always thought it might make a good eposide of\\n'Columbo' for someone to be poisoned with heavy water - it wouldn't\\nshow up in any chemical test.\\n\",\n", " 'From: brein@jplpost.jpl.nasa.gov (Barry S. Rein)\\nSubject: Need survival data on colon cancer\\nOrganization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory\\nLines: 17\\nDistribution: world\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: desa.jpl.nasa.gov\\n\\nA relative of mine was recently diagnosed with colon cancer. I would like\\nto know the best source of survival statistics for this disease when\\ndiscovered at its various stages.\\n\\nI would prefer to be directed to a recent source of this data, rather than\\nreceive the data itself.\\n\\nThank you,\\n****************************************************************************\\n* Barry Rein \\n*\\n* brein@jplpost.jpl.nasa.gov \\n*\\n****************************************************************************\\n* No clever comment. \\n* \\n****************************************************************************\\n',\n", " 'From: nsmca@aurora.alaska.edu\\nSubject: Crazy? or just Imaginitive?\\nLines: 20\\nNntp-Posting-Host: acad3.alaska.edu\\nOrganization: University of Alaska Fairbanks\\n\\nI have a nice quote that I like (or as close as I can remember it).\\n\\nIf I say something that you think is crazy, ask me what I mean before you think\\nits crazy.. \\n\\nSo some of my ideas are a bit odd, off the wall and such, but so was Wilbur and\\nOrville Wright, and quite a few others.. Sorry if I do not have the big degrees\\nand such, but I think (I might be wrong, to error is human) I have something\\nthat is in many ways just as important, I have imagination, dreams. And without\\ndreams all the knowledge is worthless.. \\n\\nSorry my two cents worth. Or is it two rubles worth?\\n\\nThe basic quote idea is from H. Beam Pipers book \"Space Vikings\". Its a good\\nbook on how civilization can fall, and how it can be raised to new heights.\\n\\nUnfortunately H. Beam Piper killed him self just weeks short of having his\\nfirst book published, and have his ideas see light.. Such a waste.\\n\\n\\n',\n", " \"From: dozonoff@bu.edu (david ozonoff)\\nSubject: Re: food-related seizures?\\nLines: 24\\nX-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5\\n\\nSharon Paulson (paulson@tab00.larc.nasa.gov) wrote:\\n: \\n: Once again we are waiting. I have been thinking that it would be good\\n: to get to as large a group as possible to see if anyone has any\\n: experience with this kind of thing. I know that members of the medical\\n: community are sometimes loathe to admit the importance that diet and\\n: foods play in our general health and well-being. Anyway, as you can\\n: guess, I am worried sick about this, and would appreciate any ideas\\n: anyone out there has. Sorry to be so wordy but I wanted to really get\\n: across what is going on here.\\n: \\n: \\nI don't know anything specifically, but I have one further anecdote. A\\ncolleague of mine had a child with a serious congenital disease, tuberous\\nsclerosis. Along with mental retardation comes a serious seizure disorder.\\nThe parents noticed that one thing that would precipitate a seizure was\\na meal with corn in it. I have always wondered about the connection, and\\nfurther about other dietary ingredients that might precipitate seizures.\\nOther experiences would be interesting to hear about from netters.\\n\\n--\\nDavid Ozonoff, MD, MPH\\t\\t |Boston University School of Public Health\\ndozonoff@med-itvax1.bu.edu\\t |80 East Concord St., T3C\\n(617) 638-4620\\t\\t\\t |Boston, MA 02118 \\n\",\n", " 'From: chorley@vms.ocom.okstate.edu\\nSubject: Re: Homeopathy: a respectable medical tradition?\\nLines: 43\\nNntp-Posting-Host: vms.ocom.okstate.edu\\nOrganization: OSU College of Osteopathic Medicine\\n\\nIn article , geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks) writes:\\n> In article jag@ampex.com (Rayaz Jagani) writes:\\n> \\n>>\\n>>From Miranda Castro, _The Complete Homeopathy Handbook_,\\n>>ISBN 0-312-06320-2, oringinally published in Britain in 1990.\\n>>\\n>>From Page 10,\\n>>.. and in 1946, when the National Health Service was established,\\n>>homeopathy was included as an officially approved method\\n>>of treatment.\\n> \\n> I was there in 1976. I suppose it must have died out since 1946,\\n> then. Certainly I never heard of any homeopaths or herbalists in\\n> the employ of the NHS. Perhaps the law codified it but the authorities\\n> refused to hire any homeopaths. A similar law in the US allows\\n> chiropractors to practice in VA hospitals but I\\'ve never seen one\\n> there and I don\\'t know of a single VA that has hired a chiropractor.\\n> There are a lot of Britons on the net, so someone should be able to\\n> tell us if the NHS provides homeopaths for you.\\n> \\n> \\n> -- \\n> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n\\nI don\\'t think they provide homeopaths, heck the heir apparent was trying to \\npromote Osteopaths to the ranks of eligibility a couple of years back... It \\npleased my family no end, since I\\'m at an Osteopathic school, sort of \\nvalidated it for them...then I told them that the name was the same but the \\npractice was different....oh.\\n\\tIf you\\'re seeking validation for your philosophy on the strength of \\nthe national health service adopting it, I suggest that you are not very \\nsure of the validity of your philosophy. I believe in 1946, the NHS was \\nstill having its nurses taught the fine art of \"cupping\", which is the \\nvacuum extraction of intradermal fluids by means of heating a cup, placing \\nit on the afflicted site and allowing it to cool.\\n\\tI wouldn\\'t take my sick daughter to a homeopath.\\n\\n\\nDavid N. Chorley\\n***************************************************************************\\nYikes, I\\'m agreeing with Gordon Banks\\n**************************************************************************\\n',\n", " 'From: higgins@fnalf.fnal.gov (Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey)\\nSubject: Which Gehrels? (was Re: Comet in Temporary Orbit Around Jupiter?)\\nOrganization: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory\\nLines: 30\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: fnalf.fnal.gov\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr21.170817.15845@sq.sq.com>, msb@sq.sq.com (Mark Brader) writes:\\n> \\n>> > > Also, peri[jove]s of Gehrels3 were:\\n> \\n> Thanks again. One final question. The name Gehrels wasn\\'t known to\\n> me before this thread came up, but the May issue of Scientific American\\n> has an article about the \"Inconstant Cosmos\", with a photo of Neil\\n> Gehrels, project scientist for NASA\\'s Compton Gamma Ray Observatory.\\n> Same person?\\n\\nI would guess not. Dr. Neil Gehrels of CGRO is the son of Dr. Tom\\nGehrels of the University of Arizona. Since he\\'s long had research\\ninterests in asteroids and other solar-system astronomy, Tom is the\\none more likely to have discovered a comet (and thus had his name\\nattached to it).\\n\\nTom Gehrels is a leader in the Spacewatch project, which has recently\\nincreased mankind\\'s discovery rate on near-Earth asteroids (they\\'re\\nfinding a couple every month). For much more on this interesting guy,\\nread his autobiography, *On a Glassy Sea*.\\n\\n\"Do you know the asteroids, Mr.Kemp?... Bill Higgins\\nHundreds of thousands of them. All \\nwandering around the Sun in strange Fermilab\\norbits. Some never named, never\\ncharted. The orphans of the Solar higgins@fnal.fnal.gov\\nSystem, Mr. Kemp.\"\\n higgins@fnal.bitnet\\n\"And you want to become a father.\"\\n --*Moon Zero Two* SPAN/Hepnet: 43011::HIGGINS\\n',\n", " \"From: prb@access.digex.com (Pat)\\nSubject: Re: Alaska Pipeline and Space Station!\\nOrganization: Express Access Online Communications USA\\nLines: 25\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: access.digex.net\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr5.160550.7592@mksol.dseg.ti.com> mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:\\n|\\n|I think this would be a great way to build it, but unfortunately\\n|current spending rules don't permit it to be workable. For this to\\n|work it would be necessary for the government to guarantee a certain\\n|minimum amount of business in order to sufficiently reduce the risk\\n|enough to make this attractive to a private firm. Since they\\n|generally can't allocate money except one year at a time, the\\n|government can't provide such a tenant guarantee.\\n\\n\\nFred.\\n\\n\\tTry reading a bit. THe government does lots of multi year\\ncontracts with Penalty for cancellation clauses. They just like to be\\ndamn sure they know what they are doing before they sign a multi year\\ncontract. THe reason they aren't cutting defense spending as much\\nas they would like is the Reagan administration signed enough\\nMulti year contracts, that it's now cheaper to just finish them out.\\n\\nLook at SSF. THis years funding is 2.2 Billion, 1.8 of which will\\ncover penalty clauses, due to the re-design.\\n\\npat\\n\\n\",\n", " 'From: higgins@fnalf.fnal.gov (Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey)\\nSubject: Sixty-two thousand (was Re: How many read sci.space?)\\nOrganization: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory\\nLines: 67\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: fnalf.fnal.gov\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr15.072429.10206@sol.UVic.CA>, rborden@ugly.UVic.CA (Ross Borden) writes:\\n> In article <734850108.F00002@permanet.org> Mark.Prado@p2.f349.n109.z1.permanet.org (Mark Prado) writes:\\n>>\\n>>One could go on and on and on here, but I wonder ... how\\n>>many people read sci.space and of what power/influence are\\n>>these individuals?\\n>>\\n> \\tQuick! Everyone who sees this, post a reply that says:\\n> \\n> \\t\\t\\t\"Hey, I read sci.space!\"\\n> \\n> Then we can count them, and find out how many there are! :-)\\n> (This will also help answer that nagging question: \"Just what is\\n> the maximum bandwidth of the Internet, anyways?\")\\n\\nA practical suggestion, to be sure, but one could *also* peek into\\nnews.lists, where Brian Reid has posted \"USENET Readership report for\\nMar 93.\" Another posting called \"USENET READERSHIP SUMMARY REPORT FOR\\nMAR 93\" gives the methodology and caveats of Reid\\'s survey. (These\\npostings failed to appear for a while-- I wonder why?-- but they are\\nnow back.)\\n\\nReid, alas, gives us no measure of the \"power/influence\" of readers...\\nSorry, Mark.\\n\\nI suspect Mark, dangling out there on Fidonet, may not get news.lists\\nso I\\'ve mailed him copies of these reports.\\n\\nThe bottom line?\\n\\n +-- Estimated total number of people who read the group, worldwide.\\n | +-- Actual number of readers in sampled population\\n | | +-- Propagation: how many sites receive this group at all\\n | | | +-- Recent traffic (messages per month)\\n | | | | +-- Recent traffic (kilobytes per month)\\n | | | | | +-- Crossposting percentage\\n | | | | | | +-- Cost ratio: $US/month/rdr\\n | | | | | | | +-- Share: % of newsrders\\n | | | | | | | | who read this group.\\n V V V V V V V V\\n 88 62000 1493 80% 1958 4283.9 19% 0.10 2.9% sci.space \\n\\nThe first figure indicates that sci.space ranks 88th among most-read\\nnewsgroups.\\n\\nI\\'ve been keeping track sporadically to watch the growth of traffic\\nand readership. You might be entertained to see this.\\n\\nOct 91 55 71000 1387 84% 718 1865.2 21% 0.04 4.2% sci.space\\nMar 92 43 85000 1741 82% 1207 2727.2 13% 0.06 4.1% sci.space\\nJul 92 48 94000 1550 80% 1044 2448.3 12% 0.04 3.8% sci.space\\nMay 92 45 94000 2023 82% 834 1744.8 13% 0.04 4.1% sci.space\\n(some kind of glitch in estimating number of readers happens here)\\nSep 92 45 51000 1690 80% 1420 3541.2 16% 0.11 3.6% sci.space \\nNov 92 78 47000 1372 81% 1220 2633.2 17% 0.08 2.8% sci.space \\n(revision in ranking groups happens here(?))\\nMar 93 88 62000 1493 80% 1958 4283.9 19% 0.10 2.9% sci.space \\n\\nPossibly old Usenet hands could give me some more background on how to\\ninterpret these figures, glitches, or the history of Reid\\'s reporting\\neffort. Take it to e-mail-- it doesn\\'t belong in sci.space.\\n\\nBill Higgins, Beam Jockey | In a churchyard in the valley\\nFermi National Accelerator Laboratory | Where the myrtle doth entwine\\nBitnet: HIGGINS@FNAL.BITNET | There grow roses and other posies\\nInternet: HIGGINS@FNAL.FNAL.GOV | Fertilized by Clementine.\\nSPAN/Hepnet: 43011::HIGGINS |\\n',\n", " 'From: bhjelle@carina.unm.edu ()\\nSubject: Re: Barbecued foods and health risk\\nOrganization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque\\nLines: 18\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: carina.unm.edu\\n\\nIn article SFEGUS@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu writes:\\n>In article <79857@cup.portal.com>\\n>mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson) writes:\\n> \\n>>\\n>>No, there is something called the \"Delany Amendment\" which makes carcinogenic\\n>>food additives illegal in any amount. This was passed by Congress in the\\n> \\n>I think what we have to keep in mind is that even though it may be illegal to\\n>commercially produce/sell food with carcinogenic substances, it is not illegal\\n>for people to do such to their own food (smoking, etc). Is this true?\\n> \\nWhoa. What did you say your name was? Address, SSN? Smoking foods, eh?\\nI think the gov\\'t would like to know about this...\\n\\nBrian\\n:-) \\n\\n',\n", " 'From: wsun@jeeves.ucsd.edu (Fiberman)\\nSubject: Re: Is MSG sensitivity superstition?\\nKeywords: MSG, Glu\\nOrganization: University of California, San Diego\\nLines: 5\\nNntp-Posting-Host: jeeves.ucsd.edu\\n\\nI have heard that epileptic patients go into seizures if they\\neat anything with MSG added. This may have something to do with\\nthe excitotoxicity of neurons.\\n\\n-fm\\n',\n", " 'From: dietz@cs.rochester.edu (Paul Dietz)\\nSubject: Re: nuclear waste\\nOrganization: University of Rochester\\n\\nIn article <844@rins.ryukoku.ac.jp> will@rins.ryukoku.ac.jp (William Reiken) writes:\\n\\n>\\tOk, so how about the creation of oil producing bacteria? I figure\\n> that if you can make them to eat it up then you can make them to shit it.\\n> Any comments?\\n\\nThey exist. Even photosynthetic varieties. Not economical at this\\ntime, though.\\n\\n\\tPaul F. Dietz\\n\\tdietz@cs.rochester.edu\\n',\n", " 'From: jim.zisfein@factory.com (Jim Zisfein) \\nSubject: Re: migraine and exercise\\nDistribution: world\\nOrganization: Invention Factory\\'s BBS - New York City, NY - 212-274-8298v.32bis\\nReply-To: jim.zisfein@factory.com (Jim Zisfein) \\nLines: 29\\n\\nJL> From: jlecher@pbs.org\\nJL> > I would not classify a mild headache that was continuous for weeks\\nJL> > as migraine, even if the other typical features were there (e.g.,\\nJL> > unilateral, nausea and vomiting, photophobia). Migraines are, by\\nJL> > common agreement, episodic rather than constant.\\nJL> >\\nJL> Well, I\\'m glad that you aren\\'t my doctor, then, or I\\'d still be suffering.\\nJL> Remember, I was tested for any other cause, and there was nothing. I\\'m\\nJL> otherwise very healthy.\\nJL> The nagging pain has all of the qualifications: it\\'s on one side, and\\nJL> frequently included my entire right side: right arm, right leg, right eye,\\nJL> even the right side of my tongue hurt or tingled. Noise hurt, light hurt,\\nJL> thinking hurt. When it got bad, I would lose my ability to read.\\n\\nThe differential diagnosis between migraine and non-migranous pain\\nis not *always* important, because some therapies are effective in\\nboth (e.g., tricyclic antidepressants such as amitriptyline,\\nnon-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs such as ibuprofen). Other\\ntherapies may be more specific: beta-blockers such as propranolol\\nwork better in migraine than tension-type headache.\\n\\nThe most important thing, from your perspective, is that you got\\nrelief. Also, please understand that a diagnosis other than\\nmigraine does not necessarily mean \"psychogenic\"; I suspect that\\norganic factors play as large a role in tension-type headache as in\\nmigraine.\\n---\\n . SLMR 2.1 . E-mail: jim.zisfein@factory.com (Jim Zisfein)\\n \\n',\n", " 'From: u1452@penelope.sdsc.edu (Jeff Bytof - SIO)\\nSubject: End of the Space Age?\\nOrganization: San Diego Supercomputer Center @ UCSD\\nLines: 16\\nDistribution: world\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: penelope.sdsc.edu\\n\\nWe are not at the end of the Space Age, but only at the end of Its\\nbeginning.\\n\\nThat space exploration is no longer a driver for technical innovation,\\nor a focus of American cultural attention is certainly debatable; however,\\ntechnical developments in other quarters will always be examined for\\npossible applications in the space area and we can look forward to\\nmany innovations that might enhance the capabilities and lower the\\ncost of future space operations. \\n\\nThe Dream is Alive and Well.\\n\\n-Jeff Bytof\\nmember, technical staff\\nInstitute for Remote Exploration\\n\\n',\n", " 'From: et@teal.csn.org (Eric H. Taylor)\\nSubject: Re: Gravity waves, was: Predicting gravity wave quantization & Cosmic Noise\\nSummary: Dong .... Dong .... Do I hear the death-knell of relativity?\\nKeywords: space, curvature, nothing, tesla\\nNntp-Posting-Host: teal.csn.org\\nOrganization: 4-L Laboratories\\nDistribution: World\\nExpires: Wed, 28 Apr 1993 06:00:00 GMT\\nLines: 30\\n\\nIn article metares@well.sf.ca.us (Tom Van Flandern) writes:\\n>crb7q@kelvin.seas.Virginia.EDU (Cameron Randale Bass) writes:\\n>> Bruce.Scott@launchpad.unc.edu (Bruce Scott) writes:\\n>>> \"Existence\" is undefined unless it is synonymous with \"observable\" in\\n>>> physics.\\n>> [crb] Dong .... Dong .... Dong .... Do I hear the death-knell of\\n>> string theory?\\n>\\n> I agree. You can add \"dark matter\" and quarks and a lot of other\\n>unobservable, purely theoretical constructs in physics to that list,\\n>including the omni-present \"black holes.\"\\n>\\n> Will Bruce argue that their existence can be inferred from theory\\n>alone? Then what about my original criticism, when I said \"Curvature\\n>can only exist relative to something non-curved\"? Bruce replied:\\n>\"\\'Existence\\' is undefined unless it is synonymous with \\'observable\\' in\\n>physics. We cannot observe more than the four dimensions we know about.\"\\n>At the moment I don\\'t see a way to defend that statement and the\\n>existence of these unobservable phenomena simultaneously. -|Tom|-\\n\\n\"I hold that space cannot be curved, for the simple reason that it can have\\nno properties.\"\\n\"Of properties we can only speak when dealing with matter filling the\\nspace. To say that in the presence of large bodies space becomes curved,\\nis equivalent to stating that something can act upon nothing. I,\\nfor one, refuse to subscribe to such a view.\" - Nikola Tesla\\n\\n----\\n ET \"Tesla was 100 years ahead of his time. Perhaps now his time comes.\"\\n----\\n',\n", " 'From: msmilor@skat.usc.edu (Mark Smilor)\\nSubject: Summer Internships\\nArticle-I.D.: skat.1psaifINNfc5\\nOrganization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA\\nLines: 15\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: skat.usc.edu\\n\\n\\n\\t\\n Hi Folks not exactly certain if this is the best place to ask, but I am\\nsearching for a summer internship in engineering. I will be graduating in early\\n May with a B.S. in aerospace engineering and then pursuing my Masters this Fall\\n.Does anyone know of anything that is available, I am in the process of applyi\\nng to some of the larger companies (ie. MacDac, Martin Marietta, Lockheed. If a\\nnyone knows of anything I would appreciate it if you could mail it to me.\\n\\nThanks in advance\\n\\nMark Smilor\\nmsmilor@skat.usc.edu\\nor\\nsmilor@aludra.usc.edu\\n',\n", " 'From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)\\nSubject: Re: Is MSG sensitivity superstition?\\nOrganization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA\\nLines: 22\\n\\nIn article myers@cs.scarolina.edu (Daniel Myers) writes:\\n>I am under the impression that MSG \"enhances\" flavor by causing the\\n>taste buds to swell.\\n\\nNo, that\\'s not how it works.\\n\\n>If this is correct, I do not find it unreasonable\\n>to assume that high doses of MSG can cause other mouth tissues to swell.\\n\\nThis may be through a different mechanism.\\n\\n>Also, as the many of the occurances (including two of the above)\\n>involved beef, and as beef is frequently tenderized with MSG, this is\\n>what I suspect as being the cause.\\n\\nTenderizing beef involves sprinking or marinading it in papain, an enzyme.\\n\"Meat tenderizer\" packets might contain papain and MSG and seasonings, but\\nMSG doesn\\'t act as a tenderizer.\\n\\n-- \\nSteve Dyer\\ndyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer\\n',\n", " \"From: nsmca@aurora.alaska.edu\\nSubject: Re: Stereo Pix of planets?y\\nLines: 15\\nNntp-Posting-Host: acad3.alaska.edu\\nOrganization: University of Alaska Fairbanks\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr20.010326.8634@csus.edu>, arthurc@sfsuvax1.sfsu.edu (Arthur Chandler) writes:\\n> Can anyone tell me where I might find stereo images of planetary and\\n> planetary satellite surfaces? GIFs preferred, but any will do. I'm\\n> especially interested in stereos of the surfaces of Phobos, Deimos, Mars\\n> and the Moon (in that order).\\n> Thanks. \\n\\n\\names.arc.nasa.gov not sure what subdirectory thou..\\n\\n==\\nMichael Adams, nsmca@acad3.alaska.edu -- I'm not high, just jacked\\n\\nPS: I know it has a GIF area as well as SPACE and other info..\\n\\n\",\n", " \"From: russ@pmafire.inel.gov (Russ Brown)\\nSubject: Re: Altitude adjustment\\nOrganization: WINCO\\nLines: 22\\n\\nIn article <4159@mdavcr.mda.ca> vida@mdavcr.mda.ca (Vida Morkunas) writes:\\n>I live at sea-level, and am called-upon to travel to high-altitude cities\\n>quite frequently, on business. The cities in question are at 7000 to 9000\\n>feet of altitude. One of them especially is very polluted...\\n\\nMexico City, Bogota, La Paz?\\n>\\n>Often I feel faint the first two or three days. I feel lightheaded, and\\n>my heart seems to pound a lot more than at sea-level. Also, it is very\\n>dry in these cities, so I will tend to drink a lot of water, and keep\\n>away from dehydrating drinks, such as those containing caffeine or alcohol.\\n>\\n\\n>Thing is, I still have symptoms. How can I ensure that my short trips there\\n>(no, I don't usually have a week to acclimatize) are as comfortable as possible?\\n>Is there something else that I could do?\\n\\nGo three days early. Preliminary acclimatization takes 3-4 days. It\\ntakes weeks or months for full acclimatization. Could you be\\nexperiencing some jet lag, too?\\n\\n\\n\",\n", " 'From: bmdelane@quads.uchicago.edu (brian manning delaney)\\nSubject: Brain Tumor Treatment (thanks)\\nReply-To: bmdelane@midway.uchicago.edu\\nOrganization: University of Chicago\\nLines: 12\\n\\nThere were a few people who responded to my request for info on\\ntreatment for astrocytomas through email, whom I couldn\\'t thank\\ndirectly because of mail-bouncing probs (Sean, Debra, and Sharon). So\\nI thought I\\'d publicly thank everyone.\\n\\nThanks! \\n\\n(I\\'m sure glad I accidentally hit \"rn\" instead of \"rm\" when I was\\ntrying to delete a file last September. \"Hmmm... \\'News?\\' What\\'s\\nthis?\"....)\\n\\n-Brian\\n',\n", " 'From: dfield@flute.calpoly.edu (InfoSpunj (Dan Field))\\nSubject: Re: Too many MRIs?\\nOrganization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo\\nLines: 19\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr19.043654.13068@informix.com> proberts@informix.com (Paul Roberts) writes:\\n>In article <1993Apr12.165410.4206@kestrel.edu> king@reasoning.com (Dick King) writes:\\n>>\\n>>I recall reading somewhere, during my youth, in some science popularization\\n>>book, that whyle isotope changes don\\'t normally affect chemistry, a consumption\\n>>of only heavy water would be fatal, and that seeds watered only with heavy\\n>>water do not sprout. Does anyone know about this?\\n>>\\n>\\n>I also heard this. I always thought it might make a good eposide of\\n>\\'Columbo\\' for someone to be poisoned with heavy water - it wouldn\\'t\\n>show up in any chemical test.\\n\\nThat would be a very expensive toxin indeed!\\n-- \\n| Daniel R. Field, AKA InfoSpunj | Joe: \"Are you late?\" |\\n| dfield@oboe.calpoly.edu | Dan: \"No, but I\\'m working on it!\" |\\n| Biochemistry, Biotechnology | |\\n| California Polytechnic State U | | \\n',\n", " \"From: Mark W. Dubin\\nSubject: Re: Barbecued foods and health risk\\nOriginator: dubin@spot.Colorado.EDU\\nNntp-Posting-Host: spot.colorado.edu\\nReply-To: dubin@spot.colorado.edu\\nOrganization: Univ. of Colorado-Boulder\\nLines: 16\\n\\nrsilver@world.std.com (Richard Silver) writes:\\n\\n\\n>Some recent postings remind me that I had read about risks \\n>associated with the barbecuing of foods, namely that carcinogens \\n>are generated. Is this a valid concern? If so, is it a function \\n>of the smoke or the elevated temperatures? Is it a function of \\n>the cooking elements, wood or charcoal vs. lava rocks? I wish \\n>to know more. Thanks. \\n\\nI recall that the issue is that fat on the meat liquifies and then\\ndrips down onto the hot elements--whatever they are--that the extreme\\nheat then catalyzes something in the fat into one or more\\ncarcinogens which then are carried back up onto the meat in the smoke.\\n\\n--the ol' professor\\n\",\n", " 'From: yamauchi@ces.cwru.edu (Brian Yamauchi)\\nSubject: Inflatable Mile-Long Space Billboards (was Re: Vandalizing the sky.)\\nOrganization: Case Western Reserve University\\nLines: 70\\nDistribution: world\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: yuggoth.ces.cwru.edu\\nIn-reply-to: enzo@research.canon.oz.au\\'s message of Tue, 20 Apr 1993 22:36:55 GMT\\n\\nIn article enzo@research.canon.oz.au (Enzo Liguori) writes:\\n>WHAT\\'S NEW (in my opinion), Friday, 16 April 1993 Washington, DC\\n\\n>1. SPACE BILLBOARDS! IS THIS ONE THE \"SPINOFFS\" WE WERE PROMISED?\\n>In 1950, science fiction writer Robert Heinlein published \"The\\n>Man Who Sold the Moon,\" which involved a dispute over the sale of\\n>rights to the Moon for use as billboard. NASA has taken the firsteps toward this\\n>hideous vision of the future. Observers were\\n>startled this spring when a NASA launch vehicle arrived at the\\n>pad with \"SCHWARZENEGGER\" painted in huge block letters on the\\n>side of the booster rockets. Space Marketing Inc. had arranged\\n>for the ad to promote Arnold\\'s latest movie.\\n\\nWell, if you\\'re going to get upset with this, you might as well direct\\nsome of this moral outrage towards Glavcosmos as well. They pioneered\\nthis capitalist application of booster adverts long before NASA.\\n(Sign of the times: a Sony logo on a Soyuz launcher...)\\n\\n>Now, Space Marketing\\n>is working with University of Colorado and Livermore engineers on\\n>a plan to place a mile-long inflatable billboard in low-earth\\n>orbit.\\n\\nThis sounds like something Lowell Wood would think of. Does anyone\\nknow if he\\'s involved?\\n\\n>NASA would provide contractual launch services. However,\\n>since NASA bases its charge on seriously flawed cost estimates\\n>(WN 26 Mar 93) the taxpayers would bear most of the expense. This\\n>may look like environmental vandalism, but Mike Lawson, CEO of\\n>Space Marketing, told us yesterday that the real purpose of the\\n>project is to help the environment! The platform will carry ozone\\n>monitors he explained--advertising is just to help defray costs.\\n\\nThis may be the purpose for the University of Colorado people. My\\nguess is that the purpose for the Livermore people is to learn how to\\nbuild large, inflatable space structures.\\n\\n>..........\\n>What do you think of this revolting and hideous attempt to vandalize\\n>the night sky? It is not even April 1 anymore.\\n\\nIf this is true, I think it\\'s a great idea.\\n\\nLearning how to build to build structures in space in an essential\\nstep towards space development, and given that Freedom appears to be\\nshrinking towards the vanishing point, I question whether NASA\\'s space\\nstation is going to provide much, if any, knowledge in this area.\\n(Especially if a design such as Faget\\'s wingless orbiter is chosen...)\\nIf such a project also monitors ozone depletion and demonstrates\\ncreative use of (partial) private sector funding in the process -- so\\nmuch the better.\\n\\n>Is NASA really supporting this junk?\\n\\nAnd does anyone have any more details other than what was in the WN\\nnews blip? How serious is this project? Is this just in the \"wild\\nidea\" stage or does it have real funding?\\n\\n>Are protesting groups being organized in the States?\\n\\nNot yet. Though, if this project goes through, I suppose The Return\\nof Jeremy Rifkin is inevitable...\\n--\\n_______________________________________________________________________________\\n\\nBrian Yamauchi\\t\\t\\tCase Western Reserve University\\nyamauchi@alpha.ces.cwru.edu\\tDepartment of Computer Engineering and Science\\n_______________________________________________________________________________\\n\\n',\n", " 'From: jpw@cbis.ece.drexel.edu (Joseph Wetstein)\\nSubject: Sunrise/ sunset times\\nOrganization: Drexel University, College of Engineering, Philadelphia, PA\\nLines: 8\\n\\n\\nHello. I am looking for a program (or algorithm) that can be used\\nto compute sunrise and sunset times.\\n\\nI would appreciate any advice.\\n\\nJoe Wetstein\\njpw@coe.drexel.edu\\n',\n", " 'From: pyron@skndiv.dseg.ti.com (Dillon Pyron)\\nSubject: Re: space food sticks\\nKeywords: food\\nLines: 25\\nNntp-Posting-Host: skndiv.dseg.ti.com\\nReply-To: pyron@skndiv.dseg.ti.com\\nOrganization: TI/DSEG VAX Support\\n\\n\\nIn article , jelson@rcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (John Elson) writes:\\n>Has anyone ever heard of a food product called \"Space Food Sticks?\" This\\n>was apparently created/marketed around the time of the lunar expeditions, along\\n>with \"Tang\" and other dehydrated foods. I have spoken with several people\\n>who have eaten these before, and they described them as a dehydrated candy. \\n>Any information would be greatly appreciated. \\n\\nA freeze dried Tootsie Roll (tm). The actual taste sensation was like nothing\\nyou will ever willingly experience. The amazing thing was that we ate a second\\none, and a third and ....\\n\\nI doubt that they actually flew on missions, as I\\'m certain they did \"bad\\nthings\" to the gastrointestinal tract. Compared to Space Food Sticks, Tang was\\na gastronomic contribution to mankind.\\n--\\nDillon Pyron | The opinions expressed are those of the\\nTI/DSEG Lewisville VAX Support | sender unless otherwise stated.\\n(214)462-3556 (when I\\'m here) |\\n(214)492-4656 (when I\\'m home) |God gave us weather so we wouldn\\'t complain\\npyron@skndiv.dseg.ti.com |about other things.\\nPADI DM-54909 |\\n\\nPS. I don\\'t think Tang flew, either. Although it was developed under contract.\\n\\n',\n", " \"From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)\\nSubject: Re: japanese moon landing?\\nOrganization: U of Toronto Zoology\\nLines: 14\\n\\nIn article dannyb@panix.com (Daniel Burstein) writes:\\n>A short story in the newspaper a few days ago made some sort of mention\\n>about how the Japanese, using what sounded like a gravity assist, had just\\n>managed to crash (or crash-land) a package on the moon.\\n\\nTheir Hiten engineering-test mission spent a while in a highly eccentric\\nEarth orbit doing lunar flybys, and then was inserted into lunar orbit\\nusing some very tricky gravity-assist-like maneuvering. This meant that\\nit would crash on the Moon eventually, since there is no such thing as\\na stable lunar orbit (as far as anyone knows), and I believe I recall\\nhearing recently that it was about to happen.\\n-- \\nAll work is one man's work. | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology\\n - Kipling | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry\\n\",\n", " 'From: games@max.u.washington.edu\\nSubject: Aerospace companies cooperate in reusable vehicle market.\\nArticle-I.D.: max.1993Apr6.121843.1\\nDistribution: world\\nLines: 34\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: max.u.washington.edu\\n\\nWhat would all of you out there in net land think of the big 6 (Martin\\nMariatta, Boeing, Mcdonell Douglas, General Dynamics, Lockheed, Rockwell)\\ngetting together, and forming a consortium to study exactly what the market\\nprice pints are for building reusable launch vehicles, and spending say\\n$3million to do that. Recognizing that most of the military requirements\\nfor launch vehicles are pulled out of a hat somewhere (say, has the shuttle \\never really used that 1200mi crossrange capability? You get the idea, figure\\nout how many, how often, where to, etc...)\\n\\nThen taking this data, and forming a sematech type company (bad example, I\\nknow... but at least its an example...) To develop between 3 and 5 craft\\ndesigns. Then to take all of those designs, and figure out EXACTLY what\\nthe technologies are, and demonstrate those technologies, in order to \\neliminate designs that can\\'t be built today. And lets say that this\\nportion again funded by the GOV cost about $20 million.\\n\\nAnd from here all of these companies went their separate ways, with the\\nintention of taking all of the market data and the design data to wall\\nstreet, and saying \"I want to build this vehicle, and here are the numbers\\nthat show %20 ROI, fund me...)\\n\\n\\nNow many of you think that this is a joke, but I have it on good authority that\\njust this project is shaping up in the background. It seems that the aerospace\\ncompanies have learned that everyone yelling similar but different things\\nends up in many programs that do nothing much and get canceled (NASP, NLS,\\nALS, DCY?, etc...) They need to work more in the japaneese, and european\\nspirit of initial cooperation. They have also learned that design requirements\\nthat are phony (I.E. some generals idea of what a space vehicle ought to be)\\nends up getting chopped up in congress, because it is not a REAL requirement.\\n\\nAny feedback?\\n\\n\\t\\t\\tJohn.\\n',\n", " 'From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nSubject: Re: Patient-Physician Diplomacy\\nReply-To: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)\\nOrganization: Univ. of Pittsburgh Computer Science\\nLines: 18\\n\\nIn article <1993Mar29.130824.16629@aoa.aoa.utc.com> carl@aoa.aoa.utc.com (Carl Witthoft) writes:\\n\\n>What is \"unacceptable\" about this is that hospitals and MDs by law\\n>have no choice but to treat you if you show up sick or mangled from\\n>an accident. If you aren\\'t rich and have no insurance, who is going\\n>to foot your bills? Do you actually intend to tell the ambulance\\n>\"No, let me die in the gutter because I can\\'t afford the treatment\"??\\n\\nBy law, they would not be allowed to do that anyhow.\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n-- \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\nGordon Banks N3JXP | \"Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and\\ngeb@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu | it is shameful to surrender it too soon.\" \\n----------------------------------------------------------------------------\\n',\n", " 'From: prb@access.digex.com (Pat)\\nSubject: Re: Eco-Freaks forcing Space Mining.\\nOrganization: Express Access Online Communications USA\\nLines: 25\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: access.digex.net\\n\\nIn article <1993Apr23.001718.1@aurora.alaska.edu> nsmca@aurora.alaska.edu writes:\\n>In article <1r6b7v$ec5@access.digex.net>, prb@access.digex.com (Pat) writes:\\n>> Besides this was the same line of horse puckey the mining companies claimed\\n>> when they were told to pay for restoring land after strip mining.\\n>===\\n>I aint talking the large or even the \"mining companies\" I am talking the small\\n>miners, the people who have themselves and a few employees (if at all).The\\n>people who go out every year and set up thier sluice box, and such and do\\n>mining the semi-old fashion way.. (okay they use modern methods toa point).\\n\\n\\nLot\\'s of these small miners are no longer miners. THey are people living\\nrent free on Federal land, under the claim of being a miner. The facts are\\nmany of these people do not sustaint heir income from mining, do not\\noften even live their full time, and do fotentimes do a fair bit\\nof environmental damage.\\n\\nThese minign statutes were created inthe 1830\\'s-1870\\'s when the west was\\nuninhabited and were designed to bring people into the frontier. Times change\\npeople change. DEAL. you don\\'t have a constitutional right to live off\\nthe same industry forever. Anyone who claims the have a right to their\\njob in particular, is spouting nonsense. THis has been a long term\\nfederal welfare program, that has outlived it\\'s usefulness.\\n\\npat\\n',\n", " \"From: baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov (Ron Baalke)\\nSubject: Re: Command Loss Timer (Re: Galileo Update - 04/22/93)\\nOrganization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory\\nLines: 22\\nDistribution: world\\nNNTP-Posting-Host: kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov\\nKeywords: Galileo, JPL\\nNews-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41 \\n\\nIn article <1993Apr23.103038.27467@bnr.ca>, agc@bmdhh286.bnr.ca (Alan Carter) writes...\\n>In article <22APR199323003578@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov>, baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov (Ron Baalke) writes:\\n>|> 3. On April 19, a NO-OP command was sent to reset the command loss timer to\\n>|> 264 hours, its planned value during this mission phase.\\n> \\n>This activity is regularly reported in Ron's interesting posts. Could\\n>someone explain what the Command Loss Timer is?\\n> \\n\\nThe Command Loss Timer is part of the fault protection scheme of the\\nspacecraft. If the Command Loss Timer ever countdowns to zero, then the\\nspacecraft assumes it has lost communications with Earth and will go \\nthrough a set of predetermined steps to try to regain contact. The\\nCommand Loss Timer is set to 264 hours and reset about once a week during \\nthe cruise phase, and is set to a lower value during an encounter phase. \\n ___ _____ ___\\n /_ /| /____/ \\\\ /_ /| Ron Baalke | baalke@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov\\n | | | | __ \\\\ /| | | | Jet Propulsion Lab |\\n ___| | | | |__) |/ | | |__ M/S 525-3684 Telos | The aweto from New Zealand\\n/___| | | | ___/ | |/__ /| Pasadena, CA 91109 | is part caterpillar and\\n|_____|/ |_|/ |_____|/ | part vegetable.\\n\\n\",\n", " 'From: jaskew@spam.maths.adelaide.edu.au (Joseph Askew)\\nSubject: Re: Small Astronaut (was: Budget Astronaut)\\nOrganization: Statistics, Pure & Applied Mathematics, University of Adelaide\\nLines: 25\\n\\nIn article <1pfkf5$7ab@access.digex.com> prb@access.digex.com (Pat) writes:\\n\\n>Only one problem with sending a corp of Small astronauts.\\n>THey may want to start a galactic empire:-) Napoleon\\n>complex you know. Genghis Khan was a little guy too. I\\'d bet\\n>Julius caesar never broke 5\\'1\".\\n\\nI think you would lose your money. Julius was actually rather tall\\nfor a Roman. He did go on record as favouring small soldiers though.\\nThought they were tougher and had more guts. He was probably right\\nif you think about it. As for Napoleon remember that the French\\navergae was just about 5 feet and that height is relative! Did he\\nreally have a complex?\\n\\nObSpace : We have all seen the burning candle from High School that goes\\nout and relights. If there is a large hot body placed in space but in an\\natmosphere, exactly how does it heat the surroundings? Diffusion only?\\n\\nJoseph Askew\\n\\n-- \\nJoseph Askew, Gauche and Proud In the autumn stillness, see the Pleiades,\\njaskew@spam.maths.adelaide.edu Remote in thorny deserts, fell the grief.\\nDisclaimer? Sue, see if I care North of our tents, the sky must end somwhere,\\nActually, I rather like Brenda Beyond the pale, the River murmurs on.\\n',\n", " ...],\n", " 'filenames': array(['C:\\\\Users\\\\Fabiano\\\\scikit_learn_data\\\\20news_home\\\\20news-bydate-train\\\\sci.space\\\\61116',\n", " 'C:\\\\Users\\\\Fabiano\\\\scikit_learn_data\\\\20news_home\\\\20news-bydate-train\\\\sci.med\\\\58122',\n", " 'C:\\\\Users\\\\Fabiano\\\\scikit_learn_data\\\\20news_home\\\\20news-bydate-train\\\\sci.med\\\\58903',\n", " ...,\n", " 'C:\\\\Users\\\\Fabiano\\\\scikit_learn_data\\\\20news_home\\\\20news-bydate-train\\\\sci.space\\\\60774',\n", " 'C:\\\\Users\\\\Fabiano\\\\scikit_learn_data\\\\20news_home\\\\20news-bydate-train\\\\sci.space\\\\60954',\n", " 'C:\\\\Users\\\\Fabiano\\\\scikit_learn_data\\\\20news_home\\\\20news-bydate-train\\\\sci.med\\\\58911'],\n", " dtype='>> from sklearn.datasets import fetch_20newsgroups\\n >>> newsgroups_train = fetch_20newsgroups(subset=\\'train\\')\\n\\n >>> from pprint import pprint\\n >>> pprint(list(newsgroups_train.target_names))\\n [\\'alt.atheism\\',\\n \\'comp.graphics\\',\\n \\'comp.os.ms-windows.misc\\',\\n \\'comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware\\',\\n \\'comp.sys.mac.hardware\\',\\n \\'comp.windows.x\\',\\n \\'misc.forsale\\',\\n \\'rec.autos\\',\\n \\'rec.motorcycles\\',\\n \\'rec.sport.baseball\\',\\n \\'rec.sport.hockey\\',\\n \\'sci.crypt\\',\\n \\'sci.electronics\\',\\n \\'sci.med\\',\\n \\'sci.space\\',\\n \\'soc.religion.christian\\',\\n \\'talk.politics.guns\\',\\n \\'talk.politics.mideast\\',\\n \\'talk.politics.misc\\',\\n \\'talk.religion.misc\\']\\n\\nThe real data lies in the ``filenames`` and ``target`` attributes. The target\\nattribute is the integer index of the category::\\n\\n >>> newsgroups_train.filenames.shape\\n (11314,)\\n >>> newsgroups_train.target.shape\\n (11314,)\\n >>> newsgroups_train.target[:10]\\n array([ 7, 4, 4, 1, 14, 16, 13, 3, 2, 4])\\n\\nIt is possible to load only a sub-selection of the categories by passing the\\nlist of the categories to load to the\\n:func:`sklearn.datasets.fetch_20newsgroups` function::\\n\\n >>> cats = [\\'alt.atheism\\', \\'sci.space\\']\\n >>> newsgroups_train = fetch_20newsgroups(subset=\\'train\\', categories=cats)\\n\\n >>> list(newsgroups_train.target_names)\\n [\\'alt.atheism\\', \\'sci.space\\']\\n >>> newsgroups_train.filenames.shape\\n (1073,)\\n >>> newsgroups_train.target.shape\\n (1073,)\\n >>> newsgroups_train.target[:10]\\n array([0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0])\\n\\nConverting text to vectors\\n~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\\n\\nIn order to feed predictive or clustering models with the text data,\\none first need to turn the text into vectors of numerical values suitable\\nfor statistical analysis. This can be achieved with the utilities of the\\n``sklearn.feature_extraction.text`` as demonstrated in the following\\nexample that extract `TF-IDF`_ vectors of unigram tokens\\nfrom a subset of 20news::\\n\\n >>> from sklearn.feature_extraction.text import TfidfVectorizer\\n >>> categories = [\\'alt.atheism\\', \\'talk.religion.misc\\',\\n ... \\'comp.graphics\\', \\'sci.space\\']\\n >>> newsgroups_train = fetch_20newsgroups(subset=\\'train\\',\\n ... categories=categories)\\n >>> vectorizer = TfidfVectorizer()\\n >>> vectors = vectorizer.fit_transform(newsgroups_train.data)\\n >>> vectors.shape\\n (2034, 34118)\\n\\nThe extracted TF-IDF vectors are very sparse, with an average of 159 non-zero\\ncomponents by sample in a more than 30000-dimensional space\\n(less than .5% non-zero features)::\\n\\n >>> vectors.nnz / float(vectors.shape[0]) # doctest: +ELLIPSIS\\n 159.01327...\\n\\n:func:`sklearn.datasets.fetch_20newsgroups_vectorized` is a function which \\nreturns ready-to-use token counts features instead of file names.\\n\\n.. _`20 newsgroups website`: http://people.csail.mit.edu/jrennie/20Newsgroups/\\n.. _`TF-IDF`: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tf-idf\\n\\n\\nFiltering text for more realistic training\\n~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\\n\\nIt is easy for a classifier to overfit on particular things that appear in the\\n20 Newsgroups data, such as newsgroup headers. Many classifiers achieve very\\nhigh F-scores, but their results would not generalize to other documents that\\naren\\'t from this window of time.\\n\\nFor example, let\\'s look at the results of a multinomial Naive Bayes classifier,\\nwhich is fast to train and achieves a decent F-score::\\n\\n >>> from sklearn.naive_bayes import MultinomialNB\\n >>> from sklearn import metrics\\n >>> newsgroups_test = fetch_20newsgroups(subset=\\'test\\',\\n ... categories=categories)\\n >>> vectors_test = vectorizer.transform(newsgroups_test.data)\\n >>> clf = MultinomialNB(alpha=.01)\\n >>> clf.fit(vectors, newsgroups_train.target)\\n MultinomialNB(alpha=0.01, class_prior=None, fit_prior=True)\\n\\n >>> pred = clf.predict(vectors_test)\\n >>> metrics.f1_score(newsgroups_test.target, pred, average=\\'macro\\') # doctest: +ELLIPSIS\\n 0.88213...\\n\\n(The example :ref:`sphx_glr_auto_examples_text_plot_document_classification_20newsgroups.py` shuffles\\nthe training and test data, instead of segmenting by time, and in that case\\nmultinomial Naive Bayes gets a much higher F-score of 0.88. Are you suspicious\\nyet of what\\'s going on inside this classifier?)\\n\\nLet\\'s take a look at what the most informative features are:\\n\\n >>> import numpy as np\\n >>> def show_top10(classifier, vectorizer, categories):\\n ... feature_names = np.asarray(vectorizer.get_feature_names())\\n ... for i, category in enumerate(categories):\\n ... top10 = np.argsort(classifier.coef_[i])[-10:]\\n ... print(\"%s: %s\" % (category, \" \".join(feature_names[top10])))\\n ...\\n >>> show_top10(clf, vectorizer, newsgroups_train.target_names)\\n alt.atheism: edu it and in you that is of to the\\n comp.graphics: edu in graphics it is for and of to the\\n sci.space: edu it that is in and space to of the\\n talk.religion.misc: not it you in is that and to of the\\n\\n\\nYou can now see many things that these features have overfit to:\\n\\n- Almost every group is distinguished by whether headers such as\\n ``NNTP-Posting-Host:`` and ``Distribution:`` appear more or less often.\\n- Another significant feature involves whether the sender is affiliated with\\n a university, as indicated either by their headers or their signature.\\n- The word \"article\" is a significant feature, based on how often people quote\\n previous posts like this: \"In article [article ID], [name] <[e-mail address]>\\n wrote:\"\\n- Other features match the names and e-mail addresses of particular people who\\n were posting at the time.\\n\\nWith such an abundance of clues that distinguish newsgroups, the classifiers\\nbarely have to identify topics from text at all, and they all perform at the\\nsame high level.\\n\\nFor this reason, the functions that load 20 Newsgroups data provide a\\nparameter called **remove**, telling it what kinds of information to strip out\\nof each file. **remove** should be a tuple containing any subset of\\n``(\\'headers\\', \\'footers\\', \\'quotes\\')``, telling it to remove headers, signature\\nblocks, and quotation blocks respectively.\\n\\n >>> newsgroups_test = fetch_20newsgroups(subset=\\'test\\',\\n ... remove=(\\'headers\\', \\'footers\\', \\'quotes\\'),\\n ... categories=categories)\\n >>> vectors_test = vectorizer.transform(newsgroups_test.data)\\n >>> pred = clf.predict(vectors_test)\\n >>> metrics.f1_score(pred, newsgroups_test.target, average=\\'macro\\') # doctest: +ELLIPSIS\\n 0.77310...\\n\\nThis classifier lost over a lot of its F-score, just because we removed\\nmetadata that has little to do with topic classification.\\nIt loses even more if we also strip this metadata from the training data:\\n\\n >>> newsgroups_train = fetch_20newsgroups(subset=\\'train\\',\\n ... remove=(\\'headers\\', \\'footers\\', \\'quotes\\'),\\n ... categories=categories)\\n >>> vectors = vectorizer.fit_transform(newsgroups_train.data)\\n >>> clf = MultinomialNB(alpha=.01)\\n >>> clf.fit(vectors, newsgroups_train.target)\\n MultinomialNB(alpha=0.01, class_prior=None, fit_prior=True)\\n\\n >>> vectors_test = vectorizer.transform(newsgroups_test.data)\\n >>> pred = clf.predict(vectors_test)\\n >>> metrics.f1_score(newsgroups_test.target, pred, average=\\'macro\\') # doctest: +ELLIPSIS\\n 0.76995...\\n\\nSome other classifiers cope better with this harder version of the task. Try\\nrunning :ref:`sphx_glr_auto_examples_model_selection_grid_search_text_feature_extraction.py` with and without\\nthe ``--filter`` option to compare the results.\\n\\n.. topic:: Recommendation\\n\\n When evaluating text classifiers on the 20 Newsgroups data, you\\n should strip newsgroup-related metadata. In scikit-learn, you can do this by\\n setting ``remove=(\\'headers\\', \\'footers\\', \\'quotes\\')``. The F-score will be\\n lower because it is more realistic.\\n\\n.. topic:: Examples\\n\\n * :ref:`sphx_glr_auto_examples_model_selection_grid_search_text_feature_extraction.py`\\n\\n * :ref:`sphx_glr_auto_examples_text_plot_document_classification_20newsgroups.py`\\n'}" ] }, "execution_count": 2, "metadata": {}, "output_type": "execute_result" } ], "source": [ "twenty_sci_news" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": 3, "metadata": {}, "outputs": [ { "data": { "text/plain": [ "['DESCR', 'data', 'filenames', 'target', 'target_names']" ] }, "execution_count": 3, "metadata": {}, "output_type": "execute_result" } ], "source": [ "# Como é a nossa estrutura de dados?\n", "dir(twenty_sci_news)" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": 20, "metadata": {}, "outputs": [ { "name": "stdout", "output_type": "stream", "text": [ "Word: warrior has tfidf 0.14419623132344556\n", "Word: via has tfidf 0.08316321143608602\n", "Word: venari has tfidf 0.10306090845025997\n", "Word: vandalizing has tfidf 0.10306090845025997\n", "Word: vacation has tfidf 0.09940094711578061\n", "Word: usl has tfidf 0.11179542894047016\n", "Word: university has tfidf 0.04472415025074764\n", "Word: twilight has tfidf 0.13938927782180838\n", "Word: try has tfidf 0.07299884066247375\n", "Word: to has tfidf 0.023121678808052184\n", "Word: tm has tfidf 0.21905151003339682\n", "Word: those has tfidf 0.0604689129732226\n", "Word: this has tfidf 0.031080086794021272\n", "Word: there has tfidf 0.038526909338402866\n", "Word: the has tfidf 0.1575430629068933\n", "Word: that has tfidf 0.0267700801861891\n", "Word: than has tfidf 0.051919303301861876\n", "Word: subject has tfidf 0.021541978127203303\n", "Word: srl03 has tfidf 0.12052994943068036\n", "Word: space has tfidf 0.0981412939894769\n", "Word: sky has tfidf 0.09111995870601317\n", "Word: sender has tfidf 0.09303606350425025\n", "Word: sci has tfidf 0.06670300928912898\n", "Word: right has tfidf 0.06776142459179929\n", "Word: remember has tfidf 0.07688691730428245\n", "Word: profiting has tfidf 0.15039347223579033\n", "Word: priesthood has tfidf 0.14419623132344556\n", "Word: presence has tfidf 0.11880567117273491\n", "Word: practiced has tfidf 0.13214100026010303\n", "Word: please has tfidf 0.07128977029653105\n", "Word: phil has tfidf 0.10227747745499308\n", "Word: pgf has tfidf 0.11433270851833559\n", "Word: original has tfidf 0.08515311547788548\n", "Word: organization has tfidf 0.02220486052514028\n", "Word: optiplan has tfidf 0.13214100026010303\n", "Word: more has tfidf 0.04649724133406933\n", "Word: may has tfidf 0.054354685566794535\n", "Word: lines has tfidf 0.0217240753917972\n", "Word: its has tfidf 0.061486833585120304\n", "Word: isu has tfidf 0.09940094711578061\n", "Word: isn has tfidf 0.07299884066247375\n", "Word: is has tfidf 0.025534922944795507\n", "Word: international has tfidf 0.08134167803269203\n", "Word: in has tfidf 0.023916675966349804\n", "Word: human has tfidf 0.08446918571322562\n", "Word: god has tfidf 0.11880567117273491\n", "Word: from has tfidf 0.04308395625440661\n", "Word: freely has tfidf 0.11880567117273491\n", "Word: fred has tfidf 0.08936045234843079\n", "Word: fraering has tfidf 0.11302673424119598\n", "Word: forwarded has tfidf 0.09627343943524702\n", "Word: flb has tfidf 0.26428200052020606\n", "Word: finally has tfidf 0.0974705239533559\n", "Word: fi has tfidf 0.10952575501669841\n", "Word: farming has tfidf 0.14419623132344556\n", "Word: evening has tfidf 0.11302673424119598\n", "Word: edu has tfidf 0.059478528675203104\n", "Word: distribution has tfidf 0.05290729202325939\n", "Word: digest has tfidf 0.09459399361414343\n", "Word: cs has tfidf 0.054605662908115665\n", "Word: cmu has tfidf 0.08134167803269203\n", "Word: caste has tfidf 0.4325886939703366\n", "Word: cacs has tfidf 0.11433270851833559\n", "Word: by has tfidf 0.11991135778082027\n", "Word: bronze has tfidf 0.14419623132344556\n", "Word: blessed has tfidf 0.15039347223579033\n", "Word: blare has tfidf 0.15039347223579033\n", "Word: baube has tfidf 0.26428200052020606\n", "Word: are has tfidf 0.034632611820731754\n", "Word: and has tfidf 0.049148994807640255\n", "Word: age has tfidf 0.09158324490848233\n", "Word: added has tfidf 0.088129147047705\n", "Word: activities has tfidf 0.09066642662557042\n", "Word: 12 has tfidf 0.07618819730345819\n" ] } ], "source": [ "# Preparação para criar as features ou colunas das nossas linhas. Cada linha é um documento diferente. \n", "# Cada coluna é relacionada a uma palavra diferente.\n", "import os\n", "from sklearn.feature_extraction.text import CountVectorizer\n", "from sklearn.feature_extraction.text import TfidfTransformer\n", "\n", "# Conta quantas vezes cada palavra aparece no documento\n", "count_vect = CountVectorizer()\n", "# Pesa a frequência na qual a palavra aparece no documento vs quanto aparece em todos os outros documentos\n", "tfidf_transformer = TfidfTransformer()\n", "\n", "word_count = count_vect.fit_transform(twenty_sci_news.data)\n", "word_tfidf = tfidf_transformer.fit_transform(word_count)\n", "word_list = count_vect.get_feature_names()\n", "\n", "for n in word_tfidf[0].indices: \n", " print(\"Word:\", word_list[n], \"has tfidf\", word_tfidf[0, n])" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": 21, "metadata": {}, "outputs": [ { "data": { "text/plain": [ "numpy.int64" ] }, "execution_count": 21, "metadata": {}, "output_type": "execute_result" } ], "source": [ "import numpy as np\n", "type(twenty_sci_news.target[0])" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": 22, "metadata": {}, "outputs": [], "source": [ "# Cria os arquivos de treino e teste\n", "from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split\n", "\n", "X_train, X_test, y_train, y_test = train_test_split(word_tfidf,twenty_sci_news.target,test_size=.3)" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": 23, "metadata": {}, "outputs": [ { "name": "stderr", "output_type": "stream", "text": [ "C:\\Users\\Fabiano\\Anaconda3_Novo\\lib\\site-packages\\sklearn\\svm\\base.py:196: FutureWarning: The default value of gamma will change from 'auto' to 'scale' in version 0.22 to account better for unscaled features. Set gamma explicitly to 'auto' or 'scale' to avoid this warning.\n", " \"avoid this warning.\", FutureWarning)\n" ] }, { "data": { "text/plain": [ "SVC(C=1, cache_size=200, class_weight=None, coef0=0.0,\n", " decision_function_shape='ovr', degree=3, gamma='auto_deprecated',\n", " kernel='poly', max_iter=-1, probability=False, random_state=None,\n", " shrinking=True, tol=0.001, verbose=False)" ] }, "execution_count": 23, "metadata": {}, "output_type": "execute_result" } ], "source": [ "# Treina o classificador SVM\n", "from sklearn import svm\n", "s = svm.SVC(kernel='poly', C=1).fit(X_train,y_train)\n", "s" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": 24, "metadata": {}, "outputs": [], "source": [ "# Testa o classificador\n", "ypred = s.predict(X_test)" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": 25, "metadata": {}, "outputs": [], "source": [ "# Quantifica a qualidade do treino vs teste\n", "from sklearn import metrics\n", "\n", "accuracy = metrics.accuracy_score(y_test, ypred)\n", "precision = metrics.precision_score(y_test, ypred)\n", "recall = metrics.recall_score(y_test, ypred)" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": 26, "metadata": {}, "outputs": [ { "name": "stdout", "output_type": "stream", "text": [ "Acurácia: 0.4957983193277311 Precisão: 0.4957983193277311 Recall: 1.0\n" ] } ], "source": [ "print(\"Acurácia:\", accuracy, \" Precisão:\", precision, \" Recall:\", recall)" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "metadata": { "collapsed": true }, "outputs": [], "source": [] } ], "metadata": { "kernelspec": { "display_name": "Python 3", "language": "python", "name": "python3" }, "language_info": { "codemirror_mode": { "name": "ipython", "version": 3 }, "file_extension": ".py", "mimetype": "text/x-python", "name": "python", "nbconvert_exporter": "python", "pygments_lexer": "ipython3", "version": "3.7.1" } }, "nbformat": 4, "nbformat_minor": 2 }