European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 28, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                / for  government Don t ease radiation victim s anger by Kristen Moulton the associated press As a teen Darlene Phillips lugged her father s camera lenses and tripods Over Southern Utah s Sandstone vistas occasionally rising Early to watch the atomic bombs create false Sunrise in the West. Quot we were explorers. This was one More adventure Quot recalls Phillips 60. Quot it was like the fourth of july to watch that bomb go  but when the exploring was Over the deadly reality of the risks her family took Sank Ini. They re still sinking in As More information about the nearly 50 years of atomic blasts at the Nevada test site a upwind from the Southern Utah town of Bountiful a trickles out of the . Energy department. Though Phillips can t prove it she believes she suffers from a rare immune disorder because of the fallout. And she s angry. This month the department disclosed 204 previously secret tests bringing to 1,051 the total above and below ground from 1945 to the present. The dawning of Phillips dread came in the late 1950s, when she was in her 20s, the Mother of five children and living in the Salt Lake area. Her hair started falling out in chunks arid she was perpetually exhausted Pale shaking and dizzy. Her husband s uncles who had returned from a uranium prospecting trip in Southern Utah dusted with a radioactive fallout died of leukaemia and an undiagnosed blood disease. Fallout was detected in a Canyon near Salt Lake City and warnings went out about radioactive iodine tainted milk Phillips was among the first of the Quot Down Winders Quot to put it All together a that Utah was stewing in radioactive fallout from open air tests of atomic bombs. Quot i was saying i wonder if this is what is wrong Quot Phillips recalls. After a lifetime of brushes with hepatitis cancer and death of living isolated from the Public and at times from her own children because of a rare immune system disorder she is convinced. Phillips knows she was exposed to fallout during the Many weekends vacations Summers trailing her photographer father through Southern Utah. She worked two Summers at the Bryce Canyon soda Fountain downwind from the blasts. And when she and Warren Phillips married they spent every free weekend in the ret Rock country pushing strollers Over Sandstone camping in the radiation dusted desert. Now she s angry that the government would Lake advantage of cold War the . Government has admitted conducting atomic tests in which americans were intentionally exposed to radiation. This was in Nevada in 1953. Fears when people were building bomb shelters in their backyards and eager to help the government. She s angry it would expose its own citizens and lie about the dangers. Quot we somehow blitzed out of our minds that our bombs were every bit As dangerous Quot Phillips said. Quot if the russians had dropped a bomb in Nevada we All would have been in  she s angry with Utah s conservative culture that welcomed the tests with patriotic Fervour a a culture that naively followed suggestions to watch the supposedly harmless tests. Quot As Long you put a Flag in front of it we d  said. And she s angry with herself. Quot i was part of us ii was Given a brain but i did t Phillips lauds the government s disclosure of secret tests because even late information is better than none. But she remains sceptical about the motives. Quot they re willing to come Dean now Beca use they veal ready i i m i Ted the compensation Quot she said. Congress passed a nuclear fallout victims compensation Bill three years ago which Phillips criticizes As applying to too narrow a group of victims. None of her family members including three Sisters who have thyroid ailments was included. Though she w As Able to emerge from her disease induced isolation in 1978 after National institutes of health Darlene Phillips is convinced her health problems Stem from atomic testing in Nevada researchers hit on a treatment regimen that works she carries a great sadness. The years she spent staying away from germs from her children and grandchildren took a toll. Quot that physical distancing Ted to some emotional distancing Quot she said and her relationship with her eldest son is strained. Quot i can t go Back to the children s school programs that i was t Able to go to. I can t go Back to my son s wedding and not Wear the gloves that i had to Wear Quot she said. Quot i did t tend my grandchildren like grandmothers Are supposed to  just wondering determining Eye color curing painful heels a by the new York times a if the main genetic switch for Eye color involves genes for Brown and Blue How do Green eyes arise there is a second Gene locus or separate position on a chromosome that controls Green coloration said or. John j. Gaynor a molecular biologist at Montclair state University in upper Montclair . The locus is called Green Blue or Gey for Short. It is on a separate chromosome from the Gene switch for Brown Blue which is abbreviated Bey. In the Green Blue focus Green is dominant behaving like Brown in the Brown Blue locus he said it is possible for example to have two Green eyed individuals each with one dominant Green Gene and one recessive Blue Gene who could be the parents of either Green eyed or Blue eyed children. It is now believed Gaynor said that even Blue Brown Eye color is under the control of More than one Gene and scientists suspect that there Are other Gene Sites that influence Eye coloration As Well. Quot two Blue eyed parents can have a Browneyes child and can be proven by other forms of Dan testing to be that child s parents so there is clearly some other locus involved and there May be Many More Quot he said. Blue Eye color ranges from deep penetrating Blue to something barely. Recognizable As Blue with mottling or patches. The explanation for the Range of shading could resemble some better known systems like pigmentation in plants Gaynor said where there is a great Range of variations from very dark to very Light. It could be a Gene losing effect with multiple copies of a Gene at work or it could involve multiple forms of a Gene with some More effective at producing the same pigmentation. A Why Dot a my heels sometimes Hurt when i stand up after resting a foot disorder called plantar Mascitis or inflammation of the ligaments of the sole of the foot produces pain in the Heel the first thing in the morning and after prolonged sitting As described in the foot Book by or. Glenn Copeland and or Stan Solomon Copeland says the problem is caused by a powerful twisting of the ligaments that attach the Heel Bone to the five metatarsal Bones. It results from a failure of the system in which the weight is shifted and distributed across the foot As it takes a step. It May be made worse by heavy footfalls or prolonged or vigorous exercise. The body tries to heal itself when it rests Copeland writes but when the person stands up after a Long resting period the work is undone and the pain recurs. It May Wear off As the Day goes on. The condition can eventually produce abnormal Bone extensions he said. It usually responds to nonsurgical measures including supportive footwear that cushions the Heel corrects the gait and helps the feet distribute the weight properly. Stretching exercises Are also useful As sometimes Are anti inflammatory drugs or weight loss. Foot pain after resting can also be connected to an underlying disease like arthritis or diabetes. The stars and stripes tuesday december 2d, 1993 / l