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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 11, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes High court won t lose its spaces Washington a the Federal aviation administration fays it won t banish supreme court justices and diplomats from the vip lot at Washington National Airport to make More room for members of Congress. In i letter h rep. Philip Crane a ii. Faa administrator Donald Engen said be believed it we Best to continue the present practice of keeping designated parking space for the justices and Diplomat at the Airport a spokesman for Crane Bob Fos Ter Laid Friday the congressman was disappointed with the decision and hoped it would be reversed. He said Crane thought the Issue would be railed the next time the Faa s Bud get is reviewed by congressional committees. Crane led a recent drive to re Voke lira justices and diplomats parking privileges in the vip lot so members of Congress could use the spaces. He wrote a letter to the Faa signed by 37 other legislators complaining that lawmakers often ire forced to use less convenient Public parking lots because the vip area is filled. Stripe monday november 11,1985 Humphrey gave scientists Good look at species habits san Francisco a Humphrey regional director for the National Mariner the Hump backed whale s Inland journey up fisheries service. We almost scrubbed it a in of cd  Sacramento River gave scientists new knowledge about his elusive species including its sociability use of sound and swim Ming habits. Humphrey who gained National Atten Tion with his 25-Day trip up the Sacramento from san Francisco Bay and Back gave scientists their first Opportunity to study a Hump backed whale at close Range for a extended time. Among other things they found that Ibe whale appeared to use Echo location sounds like sonar to navigate. Other species of whales and dolphins Are known to have the ability but experts said no one had Ever had a Chance to detect such sounds by bump backed whales before. The discovery was made while the Marine mammal was trapped behind a Bridge in a narrow Slough North of Rio Vista. Scientists using underwater microphones Beard Humphrey make sounds they believe were used to find its Way out of the tight space. Another discovery the one that finally led Humphrey Back downstream to the Pacific Ocean to resume migration from alas a to Mexico was that the whale was attracted to the recorded sounds of other humpbacks played Over an underwater Loudspeaker. That was really Only supposed to be an Experiment and was Only supposed to last an hour said Charles Fumerton Western Region fisheries. T t because the boat was t ready that morn  recording was of the flute like sounds of humpbacks feeding a sound experts said attracted Humphrey because of loneliness rather than hunger. Humphrey followed the speaker equipped Bolt Back to the Salt water of san Francisco Bay a distance of about so Miles on nov. 4. The next Day Ibe whale swam through the Golden Date and into the Pacific. The scientists attempts to return Humphrey to the Nea also revealed that the whale apparently preferred to swim against tides and currents which gave it maximum control rather than Drifting with a current the discovery that Humphrey s travel weren t wanderings As much As moving on a schedule with the tides was t tested until the last Day after the theory was forwarded by mathematician Chris Dixon a Volunteer in the Rescue Effort. We were trying to imagine what the whale was Hsong to encounter Dixon said. I talked to a lot of boat pilots because i thought the Way they navigated their ships might help us learn Bow Humphrey  Fullerton Laid the discovery proved to be a key to the Rescue Effort we found it the whale moved really easily if it was against the current he said. Humpback whale Type Baleen whale instead of Teeth this Typo has hundreds of thin whalebone plates hat hang from upper jaw average weight 40 tons maximum Lei Yui 60 feet territorial water ? an of Mono and coastal Waters often duster around islands and hug Shor fews outstanding feature exceptionally Long flippers May be one third As Tang As body life Span 40 or More years Chicago Tribune graphic sources world Book ency Toedte stodd Aoji Tum study contradicts executive heart attack theory Miami a a study of heart Dis ease in Southern Florida counters the Long held notion that sedentary White Collar jobs mean a higher risk of heart attacks a har Vard researcher says. Men with Blue Collar jobs in the study were More than 40 percent More Likely to die of heart disease than executives and others with White Collar jobs and the re searchers say they can t explain the unexpected findings but they suspect diet May before we re ready to say that occupy Ion itself is the problem that there s some thing about Blue Collar work that increases the risk of heart disease we d have to look at other differences in medical history and lifestyle said or. Julie Buring Leader of the rive member Harvard medical school research team. Two questions remain whether it s the occupation itself or whether this is merely a Marker for something else not yet taken into account Buring said. She was to report her results monday at a scientific convention sponsored by the american heart association in washing ton. Researchers studied 5 8 married White men Between the Ages of 30 and 70 who had lived in Dade and Broward counties before suffering fatal heart attacks. They were compared to living men of the same Ages who lived in the same neighbourhoods. Such variables As cigarette smoking lifestyle Al Cohol and caffeine use were taken into account Buring said food May be the cause of More Blue Collar worker heart attacks. Blue Collar workers May be More Likely to have diets High in saturated fats or cholesterol she said. That would increase the risk of coronary heart disease. It could be diet or something like stresses that ire very different for Blue Collar workers than White Collar workers. I would look at diet first just because we be already taken All the main coronary risk factors into account Buring said. The Harvard team based its study on 10 year old information on heart attack Vic Miami for the Federal centers for disease control in Atlanta. Buring said the age of the information did not decrease the value or Validity of her team s study. Armed police add realism to actors terrorist scene Burbank Calif. Up a heavily armed police Force circled a theater late saturday in the mistaken belief that Acton and their prop weapons were actually terrorists holding hostages. The incident at the Burbank Guild Thea Ter in a Burbank Park left plenty of re faces but no injuries. Police showed up in response to Calls from alarmed neighbors who thought they saw terrorists holding scores of people at gunpoint. To us it seemed a heavyweight Deal said police it. Jay Farrand. Our reports were of men with  the police came Between the first and second acts of Gate ii i play about hijacking written by Chicago Pilot Jay Reed. Extending the acting into the intermission about 20 actors carrying plastic replicas of automatic weapons mingled with about 100 theatregoers on a Patio outside the Hall. Some of the Acton could be seen escorting spectators to restrooms As might happen during real hijacking. To some residents living near the Park the scene looked frighteningly real. They reported hat they saw and police descended on the scene said Joan Nelson assistant to the show s producer. It scared the hell out of everybody Nelson said. How we die in the United states number of 1994 to myths 1 1 suf Callon Emo atm object 1,100 i Rhea Iii to Mafli 1jmo q  1,740 q pcor9 i Gas. A Coral 1 Job a mis Joua a stews to q pregnancy birth or abortion 210 Best seller compiled by the new York times fiction ref Sills is a Weeton Stew by sumo i paperback fiction Talisman by sir Tom in. My Prtrt 4-Contact by Cal Sis a Lucky by . Cofflin Jeths two mrs. Grenville a splendor Falls by guru of t ooh by Louis l amour to if a Pale House by Hafl a comm 10-tme fourth protocol by frn Markk fort vol  
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