European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 19, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday March 19, 19s8 the stars and stripes Page 9 debit s world of computers at Hannover mind boggling for visiting Dodds students  writer Hannover West Germany computer Kidskin a Candy shop or ideas eight department of de sense dependents schools students Manning a 5odds display at the Hannover computer show Are just that afloat in a 2-Millton-Square-Fbot sea of the latest technology from around the world. This is just like a warm finding itself in a Giganti Capple said Mannheim High school Junior Mike Lynch. It s absolutely fascinated me. It s hard to walk past anything because i want to Stop and see what they re doing and what equipment they re  it is a big class room. Going by figures released by debit 88 organizers. Lynch will have to nuke 2,764 stops if he is to Sec everything that everyone is doing with what equipment. He has until this weekend when Hii shift of four students is relieved at the show midpoint and Lynch returns to Mannheim Lynch is one of four indents Manning a working Center that takes data compiled by Dodds students on water Quality in the nectar and Rhine Rivers an sends it to the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. The Center displays desktop publishing capabilities offered in Dodds schools. The group is represented for the first time at the computer show after accepting an invitation and financial support from a Bonn Agency dedicated to promoting the us of computers in the classroom. German people understand that the americans Are five to 10 years ahead in education with computers said Dodds computer coordinator Jim Jar Rard. To a certain extent they want to use the american system As a  using computers on a mass scale began in Dodds Germany Region s 138 schools about six years ago Jarrard said. Today the system has More than 4,000 computers a 25-to-l ratio of students to is Pummer a Mim hts Mike Lynch left or Mannheim Hych school and Gregory Hull of Berlin High school work with computers it the Huju Zumr exhibition. Computers. But Jarrard said most computer use is concentrated in the upper grades. Berlin Mannheim  and Stuttgart High schools sent student to the Hannover exhibit. The Dodds display is part of the computer Camp an exhibition of International Young people displaying computer capabilities. That made Berlin Junior Greg Hall s liitle pensive. His end of the display is desktop publishing. Nil a German group already had gone Public with their newsletter on the first Day of the show. Maybe we could do this in English and hand it out Kali mused with a glane eat the German offering. Hall was parked in front of a computer screen combining a graphic he Ciuc Clad would Grace the front Page of his newsletter. Unlike Lynch who said he is not bound to his computer. Hall is a confirmed Hacker. I m around computers at least five hours a Day he said part of that Load comes from the three com Puter classes Hall takes. Hall can program in Pascal and Basic computer languages and Speaks English French and  combination could mean a future in an International computer Field he say. Hall is not sure what he will do but he enjoys checking out the International fare of the Hannover show. It s a lot bigger than any other thing i be been  was told to expect something big but not this  Jarrard Jet his charges Loose on b rotating basis Sothey could wander. For Lynch his wanderings May Lead to new ideas for the Home computer that his parents Are consid ering. To Sec the vast variety of things that Are being done with computers Sparks my mind As to what could be done with  Kail was struck by a nearby exhibit in which handicapped people worked special keyboards devel oped to circumvent their physical disabilities. I think that if they can actually find stuff for people who have a harder time than we have. Then that s amazing. It s a lot More exciting than school 1 can Tell you that  entombed Egypt an boat photographed Washington a an egyptian boat entombed 4,600 years ago was photographed through a Small Drill Hole but efforts to Sample ancient air failed because modern pollutants had filled the chamber National geographic officials said thursday. The boat buried beside the great Pyramid of Khufu As part of a Pharoah s funeral was studied last october by a joint . Team that was commissioned to document the boat without disturbing it. Nobody on the team Ever touched the boat but they photographed at least one Beetle that lives amidst the pile or Cedar timbers and Metal fillings. Officials said the insect presented Quick proof that the chamber historically was not sealed. Photographs taken during the project were released thursday by the National geographic society which coordinated and financed most of the a tort. Farouk Elbaz a Boston University researcher and the project s coordinator said a special Drill encased in an Airlock was used to Drill through 5 feet of Limestone and penetrate the Tomb. He said Athens was a chance1 that the chamber was still air tight after 46 centuries and experts had hoped to capture ancient air trapped inside. But Pietr tans a National oceanic and atmospheric administration scientist who collected and an Al Zed air samples said the chamber May have never been airtight. The air in the chamber proved to be moderately polluted Urban air said tans. Readings of the air s chemistry Are Little different from the nearby City of Giza he said. Tans blamed the Light Limestone used As a Cap on the chamber. The Rock was so permeable that this pit probably has never been scaled he said. Tans said that the ancient egyptians made a Good Job of it by cutting the i ton stones very precisely and then sealing the Small spaces Between stones with plaster. But because of the weak Limestone said tans there probably Ore a thousand matl cracks that pre vented the chamber from sealing. Elbaz said the boat had been disassembled before it was entombed. He said it appeared to be a sister Crar to a 142-Foomong boat found in a nearby chamber in i9s4. The earlier boat was excavated assembled and placed in t museum beside the great Pyramid. It has undergone great deterioration since and it was because of this decay said Elbaz that the egyptians did not want Ibe new boat to be dug tip but Only studied while in place. Al Bat said new technique permitted experts from the egyptian antiquities organization and from the United states to Survey the new boat using Remote cameras and sensors. The team he said started on the project three year Sago by using ground penetrating radar to determine the size and shape of the boat chamber. A special Drill which operated within the Airlock then Cut a borehole 3 w inches wide through the Lime Stone Cap. When the Hole reared the chamber the Drill was removed and the final inches were punched out. At the moment of breakthrough an arrangement of tubes within the Airlock collected air samples from three different Levels of the chamber. This air though proved to be a disappointment tans said it was Rich in Carbon dioxide and Short in Carbon monoxide and Hydrogen when compared to Modem atmosphere. But it contained traces of freon a tip off thai the chamber was not sealed. Freon a Gas of modern life has been common in the  sphere for Only about 50 years said Tana. Elbaz said the borehole into the chamber was open for Only five Days. During that Lime to and Lili Cam eras lowered through the Drill Hole were Able to Survey the entire boat and its Tomb. The still camera was an Ordinary aulos bus instrument rigged with a Strobe Flash. The to camera included a fiber optics lighting sys tem. This permitted Light to be directed into the Cham Ber Tor the camera but protected the Tomb from an added heal. Pictures released thursday show a Mound of Cedar limbers collapsed to the floor of a Long chamber that had been Cut with precision out of solid Limestone Bedrock. Scientists studying the picture have identified Var ious Boal parts including oar Blades dec House an Hull planking. There was no sign of a most sail or rigging. Experts said Elbaz have different theories on the purposes intended by ancient egyptians for the boats. Some have speculated that the boats were used to deliver the bodies of the Royal dead to the great Pyra mid. The Nile River is nearby and was used to travel from the Palace in Memphis to the pyramids at Giza. Oth it suggest that the boats arc symbolic and in tended for use by the Kings in an afterlife. A report on the exploration of the boat chamber is in the april Issue of National geographic the monthly Magazine of the National go graphic society. Strong earthquake rocks Tokyo Tokyo a a Strong earthquake Shook the japanese capital before Dawn Friday rocking skyscrapers rattling dishes and injuring Al least nine people. Japan s Central meteorological Agency said the tremor registered �.1 on the Richter scale meaning a severe quake. It said there was no danger of a tsunami or seismic tidal wave. The epicentre was 55 Miles below ground in the Eastern part of Tokyo the Agency said. The Japan broadcasting corp. Said nine people suffered injuries in Tokyo and neighbouring areas. Police had no reports of damage tremors were Felt throughout the area and in parts of the Tohoru Region to the North. The quake struck Al 5 34 a.m., disrupting train service throughout the Capi Tal Juu before the morning Rush hour. I could hear dishes rattling in people s kitchens said a woman in Kamakura a Southern suburb. Trees were shaking and there was a rumbling  Tokyo is on a major Western Pacific fault and i earthquake prone. Most temblor arc mild causing Little or no damage. The Richter scale is a measure of ground motion a recorded of seismographs. Every increase of one num Ber Means a enfold increase in magnitude so 7. Reflect an earthquake 10 limes stranger than one of 6.1. An earthquake of 3.5 can cause slight damage 4 moderate damage 5 considerable damage and 6 severe damage