European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 16, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday april 16,19b9. The stars and stripes Page 9 of leave helps victim pull through by Janet ii Owells tier Nev Statt writer Frankfurt Wesl Germany if Gale Mcclusky shows up a few minutes late for work no one gets Loo a cited. Vhal docs cd civic her co workers is that she is Able to come in at All. ,. -. It takes a while for me to get to my office because people Stop and want to talk to me All the Lime Mcclusky said. I m enjoying in ing Back More every day.". The civil Engineer returned to work with the . Army corps of Engi neers on april 3 after is months of recovery from a near fatal Accident. On sept. 15, 1987, Mccluskey was run Over by a car while biking to work on the congested streets around Frankfurt s Abrams Complex. She remained in a coma for 40 Days after the Accident and later underwent brain surgery and operations on her Jawand hip. Somehow despite disbelieving doer ton and the overwhelming medical Odds against her. Mccluskey Kepi get Ting better. Gale always had a mind set thai she was going to gut belter said Roy fairy one of her co workers fairy visited Mcclusky often in the Hospital ran errands Ana used a photo album to help bring Back the memories she lost after the Accident. Keeping a positive Altitude in inc hos Pilai atmosphere was Tough but somehow she managed he Saidt if Mucci Uscky Ever fell forgotten Dur ing the., Long convalescence doubt quickly vanished when Federal workers in Europe and the United Stales donated 3,770 hours 10 her cause under a trial leave sharing program. The leave program recently extended for five More years allows Federal workers to donate annual leave Lime to other govern men pm ploy oct with med ical emergencies said Pat Man Inez of Frankfurt s civilian personnel office. With All these hours donated,1 she has not Loil a Day s pay Martinez said. She has enough to. Carry her. Through december 1989 if she Conlin us work ing part  five Hundred hours tame from Hei Delberg said Mcclusky who is now working 20 hours a week. Fifty hours came ram a Friend in Georgia and some came from an old Section chief in Italy. Was  Mcclusky said her doctors Tell her she should be Able to work full Lime beginning in july. If she does thai will leave about 1,000 hours unused. The excess time could possibly be transferred to another recipient Martinet said adding she knows of two other medical emergency cases who have advertised for donated leave Lime. Some agencies in he slates have a donor Bank but we feel that s not advantageous to our  Marti Nez said. To belong to the donor Bank workers have to donate a certain amount of leave to be a member. Hut Many people who need leave during a medical emergency Don t have in to begin with.",the overseas leave sharing pro Gram requires donors to name their recipient. Employees needing leave during an emergency Are asked if they want their request advertised. If so notice is sent out in a personnel bul Idin. ,.  Only allowed to donate half their accrued annual leave Martinez said. And they can t donate leave they Don t have time to use be fore the end of the fiscal year Iceni  a. Leave sharing was a Miracle for my club key.  after leaving the Hospital in sep tember Mcclusky received her first paycheck in nearly a year a whop Ping Sli,000. The sum included donated leave up to thai time and came in Handy for medical Bills and other expenses. Relieved of the financial Burden of her recovery Mcclusky has had time to concentrate on her Busy life. She still needs weekly speech and physical therapy for some lingering problems with her rebuilt jaw and hip. S4s l Emmer Lumen or. Gale Mccluskey unwed by All the hours donated to Speed things along the 35-year-old swims and rides p stationary Bike in her "1 used to get. Upset and nervous when i had Lime to worry before 1 Home when she in t practising German came Back to work Mcclusky said with her fiance1, a social worker she met now i m not that Way. I keep Busy so Thiru s ital Lime to in Rev during her Hospital slay. There s no inc to worry test still generating fusion confusion by the Washington pail conflicting reactions continued to swirl around Tabletop fusion Friday. Sev eral laboratories around the country were still unable 10 conduct the Experiment successfully while competing Theo Ries were offered about Why it May work and Why it May never work. Researchers at the Georgia Institute of. Technology held an embarrassed press conference Friday and said their pre Vious enthusiastic press conference was ill founded. The results icy announced were wrong1 and cannot now be consid ered evidence of  said the project s head Jarilei Mahaffey nuclear fusion is the Power that fuels the Sun by fusing rather than splitting Aloma Mahaffey said the error came from a very strange effect that the group s instrument which Conli neurons ii sensitive to heat. So. When they thought they were counting the neutrons that would indicate nuclear fusion they were actually counting the warmth of the water in which the counter was placed. He said he had renamed their project the shroud of Turin Experiment refer ring to the burial cloth thought by same to be Jesus winding Sheet but which scientific examination revealed As a take painted in the 13th cd nutty. At the California Institute of technology researchers said they would not release. Their results. A spokesman said however thai after trying fusion experiments for weeks the scientists there remain very St Jit ical of claims made three weeks ago by b. Stanley Pons of the University of Utah and Martin Fleischmann of the University of Southampton in Britain. Researchers Al Princeton University have a so been unable to get results to. Svi Pori Pons and Reischmann s claim. Al the Massachusetts Institute of technology two scientists described competing new theories one that Sug g is s hat he fusion1 is real and the other that it is not. Keith Johnson a quantum theoretical chemist said the amount of Energy produced by he Pons Fleisc Bmat Experiment can be explained by chemical rather than nuclear processes. A chemical explanation would make the Experiment Isle resting scientifically but not practical us a Large Power source Johnson said. Peter hat Roslein.  of the x Ray laser offered a conflicting theory. He said an unusual nuclear reaction could have been taking place which would explain Why Pons and Fleischmann reported gelling much Energy but nol the usual waste products of a fusion reaction Suchias neutrons or Gamma rays. The events began when Pons and Fleischmann held a press conference on March 23 to announce thai Pilicy had Cre ated nuclear fusion in the Tabletop Experiment arid had produced More Energy than the process had consumed. This has been the goal of nuclear fusion research for decades. Hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent to Cream a fusion by a method like that inside the Sun where huge temperatures and pressures Force atoms to fuse. This fusion of two atoms releases about 100,000 limes More Energy than from a churn Cal  two atoms. The Pons Fici Schmann Experiment attempts to fuse iwo atoms of deuterium a form of Hydrogen. Al the news conference Pons said that during the Experiment an electrical current is used to drive nuclear particles through a lattice of palladium and Plati num electrodes forcing positively charged particles to fuse together and create a new atom. Unlike More traditional fusion techniques hat require tremendous heat and Are therefore very expensive the electro chemical process is carried out ill room temperature in a fragile Glass flask. One of he puzzling elements in the Pons Fleishmann claim was thai inc Experiment produced far More heat than could be explained by chemical processes while at the same time not producing the neutrons and Gamma rays is pet Efroni a nuclear fusion. Hagelstein said his theory explains this by showing that when two deuterium atoms enter the. Palladium electrode they fuse producing helium-4 and a great Deal of Energy. Instead of being Given off As Gamma rays he said this Energy is absorbed by he electrons in the Experiment s palladium electrode and the Energy in the palladium then heats the water in the Jar. Johnson on the other hand said it is unnecessary to resort to nuclear fusion to explain the heat. His theory is that when deuterium is Lakin up into the palladium electrode it is very energetic and thus capable of rapidly forming and breaking conc cimons with other atoms i palladium atoms however will not Bond with deuterium. This forces deuterium to Bond and u Riband More frequently with other deuterium atoms. This rapid snapping of Bonds probably gives off enough Energy to explain the heal from the Pons Fleischmann Experiment but Johnson said in would not be enough to yield Power on a Large scale