European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 15, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 18 the stars and stripes Friday november 15, 1985 today s crossword rare air collection sprang a leak by Russell Baker new York Twenty seven years ago in Maine purchased a sealed hot lie or the local air and brought it Home. There a close relative took advantage of my absence to break the Seal and inhale it. I wanted to spank him but his Mother such a fuss about a silly bottle of air she asked. Because i explained i bought that bottle intend ing to become an air my Teeth Are gritted Rvin now at the memory. If that bottle had been kept out of childish reach 1 would today be the owner of a valuable Quantity of pure 27-year-old Maine air. Who can say what other treasures might adorn my collection 1 have since been to Miami Beach Karachi Casablanca Chicago and Afghanistan. Encouraged to travel with my own bottles and scaling equipment i might now have the goods to open a boutique Selling aged air from the historic past. Imagine the sums that aging sentimental Rich sex radicals would offer for the Only bottle of air left from the week they were tear gassed by the Chicago police during the democratic convention of 1968. Well it s useless to daydream. Discouraged by a insouciant child and his indifferent Mother i had for gotten my dream of becoming a great air collector until read about the latest discovery at the great Pyramid of Giza outside under the desert floor scientists say lies an unopened burial chamber that was hermetically sealed with Gypsum Cement 4.600 years ago after the death of the pharaoh Cheops. The new York times report those scientists Are enthralled by the Prospect of Cap Turing air that is nearly 5,000 years old. Getting the air out and keeping it untainted by mod Ern air in securely sealed containers will be a Tough problem but modern archaeology and space age technology the times reports May be up to the Job. My nostrils quivered with excitement Over this report for it revived Long dormant memories of the bottle of Maine air and Youthful dreams of becoming one of thereat collectors. After thinking it Over though i could see i might have been Lucky. This 4,600-year-old air coming onto the Market can Only bring trouble. So far collecting antique air has not been a big Mon big a jul Money sport like collecting Oil paintings old furniture big Lille books and oversized diamonds. You never read about a can of air from the Lincoln administration being knocked Down for s2 million at auction. This is Only because nobody has yet found a can of air from the Lincoln administration though. Maybe no body Ever will. Canning processes did t produce especially Good seals in Lincoln s time. If one turns up you can bet somebody will pay Fortune for it. The collector s ruling Maxim is if it s hard to find pay a Little extra if it s rare bid a million and put it in & Swiss vault until the Price i am not going to say that 4,600-year-old air is the rarest thing on Earth because there s always that Story around about the russians secretly cloning a tyrannosaurus Rex from six cells scraped off a Dinosaur Bone from the siberian Tundra. However 4,600-year-old Airis still rare enough to interest every billionaire who has run out of interesting stuff to collect. This in turn Means that the International under world s nostrils must have quivered As vigorously As mine at news of the stunning egyptian air find. You can see How this would Lead to nightmares for a modest operation such As mine would have been with its 27-year-old Maine air its authentic 1968 Chicago Conven Tion riot air and of All master thieves Are bound to steal the 4,600-year-old air. You and i know it s going to end Upin the dining room of some billionaire collector s person Al Ocean liner. So do the police but that s not going to Stop them from hauling me in for a grilling about who i know in the hot antique air i m Down at Headquarters Don t think Small time thieves Are going to miss the Chance to Rifle my boutique in the Hope of finding the egyptian stuff hid Den in one of my bottles marked "27-year-old Maine air or authentic 1968 Chicago riot air or air from Reagan administration undergoing aging for thinking of All the expensive air that those Crooks could inhale while destroying my life s work i am glad the boy saved me from this financial ruin 27 years agony inhaling my first bottle. And yet if i bad got really big in the Trade i might have been Given a Chance to Fence the real 4.600-year old stuff. What an Honor what a temptation when nobody was looking to inhale it All myself. C a i York to Law a towns a teacher s commitment by David Broder Columbus ind. Carole r. Goshorn is special one of 104 High school science and mathematics teachers who was in Washington to receive presidential awards for their excellence in the classroom. Although she does not look it the 34-year-old Mother of two is one of the front line fighters in America s Battle for survival in the increasingly Tough International economic Competition. Study after study has shown that the United states is doing a worse Job on science and math education the building blocks for Tomor Row s technology and Industry than West Germany up Nad other competitor nations. Despite recent moves in Many states to require More and tougher science and math courses in High schools close to one third of those classes Are taught by people with minimal or no qualifications in those subjects. And the proportion is growing. Science and math majors can double their teaching salaries by moving into Industry. Science minded col lege undergraduates tend to shun teaching degrees. Col Leges complain that High schools Are sending them fewer students with Good preparation for science math an engineering courses. And Industry says it cannot find the trained technical and scientific people it needs. Two years ago after a wave of reports highlighted these problems the Reagan administration reversed course. After decimating reducing to one tenth the National science foundation programs for math and science Educa Tion in his first two years Reagan endorsed an expanded program of scholarships and training for teachers in those Fields. The annual presidential awards for two top mat hand science teachers in each state Are the Public relations frosting on that cake for the president. They Are also a measure of How far most communities Inthis nation have to go if they arc to provide students with i no education that results when a gifted teacher such escarole Goshorn works in a Well equipped school in a Community As supportive of education As Columbus ind. The 1,600-student school draws from an Industrial Cit Yand a farm county it is not elitist but its standards re Tough. The other Day Goa Horn wearing a White lab coat with a Button Reading chemists have solutions on her Lapel and her teaching partner Jock Young took perhaps120 beginning chemistry students through a fast paced workout on calculating molecular weights of analogies were Down Home "10 to the 23d Power is about As Many leaves As you d find on All the Trees i Bartholomew county but the equations flashed on the screen Click Click Click no one had time to daydream. With a master s degree in biology from Indiana univer Sily Gas Horn could probably double her mid-$20, Sal Ary in Industry. But she and her husband an administrator of North High have a commitment to education and Wel come the Chance to work in a Community which has demonstrated its dedication to its schools. 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