European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 31, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Run i in 1 a u n it in is s by of Fec breakthroughs setbacks by Lisa m. Hamm associated press science made great sir indy in lfj.90 Wilh the  of a Way to extend the childbearing yours and a breakthrough drug to treat schizophrenia. Gut aids cont mod its deadly rampage and i he opening of inc Iron Carta in revealed a polluted wasteland in Eastern Europe a a a women who have Boon postponing ctn Kshir i for careers were buoyed by the discovery of a medical. Procedure that doors them a Chance to Lurn Back their. Biological clocks Well past menopause. A the method described in inc  journal of a Medicine involves stimulating the woman s womb with a hormones to enable it to carry sperm fertilized Wilh a younger donors egg. A. A a a in s. Pharmaceuticals company beg ran marketing a drug matted Cloza Pine to treat schizophrenia. The discovery was trailed As the first Signi tical breakthrough in psychopharmacology in 30 years and the Harbinger of a new. Wave of Ariti psychotics. But menial health officials. Arid patient advocates said the drug s $9.0q0-a-year Cost keeps it Oul Otho hands of Many who need it. 1 a new developments offered aids victims Hope for a longer More productive lives a but a cure for the fatal disease remained elusive. A a the . National institutes of health found new drug a combinations for treating some manifestations of. A. Acquired immune deficiency syndrome with fewer severe. Side effects than current drugs. A. A the count of those carrying the human  causes aids climbed to ,. About 10 million by the end of november Accord Ift to the More than 100,000 went to Washington in april to Mark the oth anniversary of the first Barth Day. U a pee Xua of Jagt a a4 be Hubble space Telescope Here a drawing turned out to be defective. World health organization most of the victims Are in the third world. Women were especially threatened. Women who have sex with aids infected men Are 14 times More a key to catch the virus than Are men who have sex with infected women scientists said at the sixth International conference on aids. There were breakthroughs and setbacks in other a areas of science this year. A. Some animals thought to be extinct were rediscovered. One was a Long lost tree dwelling relative of humans and apes the hairy eared Dwarf Lemur. The find in a rain Forest in Madagascar marked one of the most important re discoveries of mammals in a decade. A Riew species of Monkey with a Lions head and a Gold and Black coat a the Black faced lion Tamarin a was discovered in Brazil scientists said. A a. But other animals edged closer to doom. A., a landmark agreement. Banning the world Ivory a Trade a an Effort to save the african elephant a began to crumble sparked by Britain s. Withdrawal of support. Early in the year. Hundreds of endangered turtles washed ashore dead or dying on the Pacific coast of Colombia mystifying biologists. On a wider scale. Concern for the planet itself grew in 1990. A 200 million people in. .135 countries celebrated. Earth Day on april 22, and a  world environment Day followed in . Discussions of the greenhouse effect a the a. Gradual warming of the Earth induced by Carbon. Dioxide and other heat a a trapping gases a dominated several International conventions. Scientists at a United. Nations convention predicted that without immediate Radical action Quot global temperatures will Rise 5.4 degrees a fahrenheit 3 degrees a a Elsius by the end of the next Century. A the melting of Polar ice Caps would flood tens of thousands of Miles of a a science a., a Shoreline they warned. Although other scientists disputed the exact a temperature Rise they generally agreed the warming. Would be the fastest in 10.000 years. A Quot in november 18 european nations agreed to limit their  emissions to 1990 Levels. But poorer countries were re Luck int to follow suit because of the. Costs. The United slates rather than committing itself. To reducing heat trapping. Gases put More Money into research. The . Space Agency a meanwhile tried to get an unprecedented View of the universe but got a Blear eyed look instead the $1.5-billion Hubble space Telescope sent info the heavens aboard a space shuttle in april returned less a than Sharp pictures because of a defective main Mirror. In 1990, there was concern about How health could be. Damaged by. The actions of others. In Eastern Europe residents of the regions new democracies tried to Cope with undrinkable water a breathable air and Una arable. Earth resulting from decades of communist neglect. A pollution in. Some areas is decreasing life expectancies. Increasing cases of mental retardation and causing. Respiratory and other problems. D across thro Globe anti smoking restrictions multiplied after studies showed second hand tobacco smoke a causes heart disease deaths in non smokers. The smoke also raises the risks that children will get lung cancer a a when they grow up the studies showed. The United. States extended the smoking ban to Domestic airline  six hours or less. Many businesses and communities also prohibited smoking in Public places or required non smoking areas. A. Scientists meanwhile kept trying to stretch the boundaries of knowledge Aind a few were honoured for their work . Scientists dominated the Nobel science. Prizes. Harvard professor Elias James Corey won the chemistry  ins work in organic synthesis that a helped make hundreds of medications More readily available and affordable. Two scientists at Hub Massachusetts Institute of technology a Jerome i Friedman and Henry w. Kendall a and Canadian. Scientist Richard e. Taylor won the award in physics their work proving the existence of quarks particles smaller a. Than a Proton or a Neutron has. Helped scientists understand the Basic Structure of the universe. Two americans  Nobel prize in medicine.-. Joseph e. Murray discovered How to master the problem a of Organ rejection and in-1954, made the first successful kidney transplant. E Donalf Thomas lessened the severe reaction that Bone marrow t transp wants can cause in the. Recipients and his work led to a cure for leukaemia in most cases a Quot. Page 16 a a a k the stars and stripes monday december 31, 1990&Quot