European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 19, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday May 19, 1991 a the stars and stripes Pago 5 Nasa biologist by m Arcia do inn Ai aerospace writer Cape canaveral Fla in a Nasa Laboratory eight Miles trom the launch pad biologist Dorothy Spang Enberg dotes on 2,478 tiny jellyfish bound Tor space this week aboard the shuttle Columbia. A ,. That a her prime Crew. About 22,000 others Are on standby. A a a a. Spangen Borg needs a fresh Batch of jellyfish at just the right stage of development for every launch attempt she has enough for eight tries the first is wednesday morning w Hen Columbia is scheduled for liftoff., the Youn g creatures transported from her own Norfolk va., fill covered casserole dishes that arc stacked in incubators. The pyrex dishes arc dear so Spangenber can keep an Creon the action inside. A the jellyfish just love them a she said. A i Check them every Day to make sure they re Happy and in Good How does she know they re Happy a after 30years, you know a she said laughing. A a it a like knowing your child.�?�. Spangen Borg beamed As she showed off her menagerie Friday. A a a. A a a a a. A. A a they re the Best Little jellyfish in the world. You can to find any better jellyfish a she said. A i went to a conference and i did no to find anyone who pays More attention to their jellyfish than i Spangenberge a pampered Brood will be the first jellyfish to Fly in space. The Eastern Virginia medical school researcher wants to see How Aurelia Aurita or Moon jellies develop m weightlessness. They mature into a free swimming form r space Nae m five to six Davs on Earth when iodine is added to then water making them Ideal candidates Tor Columbia s nine Dav i Light. A. A. Fihe first group of 2.478 jellyfish will he loaded into Columbia on i 17 hours before scheduled liftoff in plastic bags and bottles. They will be moved from a mid deck locker into space Laba Laboratory module cargo Bay a once the shuttle reaches orbit also on Board will be 30 rats and of the flying jellies a 2,028 a will be polyps an Early form attached to underwater surfaces in hey Are about the size of the Lead tip of a Pencil. The 450 others will be the More mature pulsating Ephy Rae which have Gravity receptors to maintain direction and balance. Spangen Borg will examine them after the flight to see How much Calcium is lost in the receptors contributing to scientists knowledge of human Calcium loss in space. It takes four to six months for Eph Rae to reach the final developmental stage the familiar Bobby form known As a. A a a a. A a astronaut Tamara Jernigan will inject iodine into the water of less than a third of the polyps in orbit and videotape their behaviour. The experiments involving Jernigan will be duplicated the same Day on some of the approximately 100,000 Moon jellies left behind in Spangenberg s Norfolk Laboratory. A they re cute. Ill admit it a Jernigan said. A a it stun to watch them. You find yourself sort of mesmerized a �?o1 really enjoy this work and 1 really like these am ovals a Spangen Borg said. �?o1 can to wait until these animals come Home from biologist Dorothy Spangenberg prepares 2,478 tiny jellyfish for wednesday space shuttle says he s built a better Mousetrap Monroeville a. A Chester Lindros insists his Mousetrap is Well better because it does no to kill the mouse. A no blood no mess and its Safe for babies and pets a said Lindros one of about 150 people displaying their creations at an inventors show. A glow in the dark Candy and a device that helps Couch potatoes find those lost Remote controls were among the items on display. Lindros a Beer truck Driver from ave in the stars and stripes Nel n.j., made his trap by nestling one plastic tube inside another and holding them together with a rubber band. The smaller tube which has a Hole on its Side extends out one end when a cheese Cracker is inserted. If a mouse nibbles the Cracker enough the inner tube will retract trapping the rodent Lindros said thursday. A it took me months. I tried toilet paper Rolls and Beer cans. 1 tried everything a he said. The result of his labor a looks kind of like a room Deodorizer. Very a you can hold it up to the Light to see he a alive. You can release it wherever you want. I prefer the outdoors Quot Lindros said. Other inventors tapped the toy and electronics industries for their products displayed at the Lupex show which began thursday and ended saturday at the expo Mart in suburban Pittsburgh. Ann Schlotter helped develop Glo pop stick Candy that lights up from a Battery powered bulb in ils handle , and its always been a lad. You be gotta Isbeck then you be got glow in the dark she said. Schlotter from Stafford. Va., said Glo pop might be marketed Lor halloween the idea came to her husband and his partner As they watched Irick or to renters Quot All these kids were out with flashlights getting their Candy a said her Hub ail William Schlotter. A we thought Why not Combine the two a �?�10 year Sago May 19,1981 a israeli prime minister Menachem begin blasted saudi Arabia As a one of the most corrupt states in the world Quot and dismissed any Hope that they would be of help in defusing the israeli syrian missile crisis after saudi Arabia released a statement publicly supporting Syria s position in the confrontation. 20years ago May 19,1971 the . Naval Academy admitted that two of three seniors expelled Over the weekend for using drugs were in the top 15 of their 900-Man class but disputed a report of widespread marijuana smoking among midshipmen. 30 years ago May 19,1961�? East Germany adopted the slogans a no one is too Young and no one is too old to work Quot and a mothers belong in the factory to recruit housewives to fill employment gaps produced by the flight of refugees to the West. 40 years ago medicare Trust fund could be broke in 10 years government study says Washington a the medicare Trust fund that pays for Hospital care could run out of Money in 10 years unless health care costs Are reduced and available funds Are spent More wisely according to a government report. The social Security Board of trustees in its annual report said Friday that the Hospital insurance program will not keep up with the greater demands that will be placed on the system by an aging population a a Quot a a a a a a ,. A a a corrective action will be needed very soon in order to avoid the need for potentially precipitous changes later Quot the report said. Health an Tiuman services Secretary Louis Sullivan said the boards finding a underlines the urgency of our task in containing health care costs and spending our health care dollars More Sullivan made similar remarks last year when the trustees 1990 annual report suggested the Hospital insurance fund could run As Early As 1999. In its latest report the trustees said that under the most Likely economic and demographic assumptions the Hospital insurance Trust fund depleted by 2005. But under Adverse conditions the fund could run out of Money As Early As 2001. Under More optimistic circumstances last until 2018, the report said. Nearly All workers pay into the social Security and medicare systems through payroll taxes and can become eligible Lor their benefits about 34 million elderly and disabled americans arc enrolled in medicare while social Security to More than 40 million people. Last fiscal year the Hospital Trust fund took in nearly $83 billion and paid out nearly $80 billion. Stir gently there Are four workers paying into the system to support each medicare beneficiary but this ratio will shrink As the population Ages. By the Middle of the next Century there Are projected to be two covered workers supporting each beneficiary.. May 19, 1951 a although five so Viet bloc states defiantly refused to comply the United nations general Assembly clamped a worldwide embargo on the shipment of War mate riels to communist China and North Korea. Washington a Energy Sec rotary James a Watkins gave a $10 million Check Friday to officials of four Colorado cities neighbouring the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons Plant for a project to ensure. That their municipal water supplies Are not tainted in Case of an Accident at the Plant. Watkins said the cities of Broomfield Westminster Thornton and Northglenn would be Able to Start the design phase and engineering studies but would have to a wan results of an environmental assessment before proceeding further. He said the total Cost was expected to be about $100 million but that so tar Only $10 million had been appropriated by Congress. The project will divert any spill off from the Plant s holding Ponds away from the two reservoirs serving the nearby cities. Quot there is not today any danger to their water Walkin said at. A news conference. Quot when urn look at Accident analysis there is a potential a the rocks Flats Plant manufacture plutonium Detonator is or nuclear weapons. It has not been producing plutonium parts since december 1989. When it was shut Down for repeated safety problems. Robert Schule the major of Broom Field said nearby residents a have Long been anguished by the accidents at the Rocky Mats Plant a but were delighted at the government funding to protect their water supplies. Watkins also announced plans to spend $1 million annually to lest 2.000 current Anil former Rock Mats workers who May have been exposed to by Illium a radioactive Metal used in weapons production. So far. Is workers have been diam nosed with chronic beryllium disease u disabling and sometimes fatal lung disease caused by an immunological re action to her valium dust in i1&Quot a
