European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 22, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Aquarium passes its by Catalina Ortiz the associated press Elp rises from the Sandy Bottom waving gracefully with the pulse of the sea. Sardines Are merely a Gray smudge in the water until they turn and the dim Light transforms them into a shimmering Silver Cloud. Sea otters play and snooze on the rocks nearby As stilts look for Worms in the Damp Sand Between the Reeds Andt Lesurf. Such realistic displays have made the Monterey Bay aquarium in Monterey calif., a Model since its opening a decade ago and the-17.5. Million visitors it has attracted thus far make it the most popular aquarium in the nation too. It is certainly the finest aquarium in the country without question says Raymond Chavez a/5im producer for the san Francisco based Marine mammal fund. They be really found a balance Between education and  the aquarium about 100 Miles South of san Francisco at once teaches and enchants by taking visitors through the Many worlds along and beneath the Waves. More than 100 exhibits and galleries display some 500 different Plant and animal species that inhabit the Shore wharves deep reefs and sea floor. A huge new Wing under construction will offer glimpses at the Bay s outer Waters and the deep sea beyond. Even on weekdays visitors crowd around the sea Otter exhibit oozing. And aching Over the Young animals that were rescued and will be returned to the sea. They gingerly pet Bat rays that Glide through a shallow Sandy Pool or try to catch giant octopuses changing color. They wonder at the three Story High kelp Forest the world s tallest aquarium exhibit then stroll along an aviary that reproduces a Sandy Beach. Then they can watch live television programs broadcast from a research submarine exploring the Depths of the Bay. I love it i just like to see All the big fish 9-year-old Russell Hall of Piedmont calif., says As he admires foot Long Steelhead Trout in an indoor outdoor exhibit that reproduces a a visitors watch Volunteer diver Joanne Garden feed fish by hand in a huge tank. At left a woman gets a dose took at some smaller sea life through a round window. Coastal Stream i Don t think it dawned on us even the Day it opened that it would be so successful says Steve Webster a Marine biologist who Heads the aquarium s education programs. The whole thing sprang from an idea Webster and three colleagues had in 1977. The four Marine biologists who were conducting research in Monterey at Stanford University s Hopkins Marine Center realized that a closed Down sardine packing factory on nearby Cannery Row was a Good place for an  of the scientists was Nancy Burnett daughter of Silicon Valley Pioneer and philanthropist David Packard. And Packard s family was looking for a worthy project they could make their own. Packard and his wife Lucille formed a foundation that paid $55 million to build the aquarium intended to Foster Public interest in investigating and protecting the sea today nearly 100,000 individuals and households Are contributing members of the nonprofit institution. An additional $13 million went into the creation of the aquarium s sister institution Monterey Bay aquarium research Institute. Now 82, Packard remains president of the aquarium s Board while another daughter Julie a Marine biologist is the aquarium s director. Science shorts tuesday november 22, 1994 the stars and stripes what makes a lefty a team of Canadian and . Researchers has shed new Light on what makes people left handed or right handed by identifying crucial chemical differences in the brains of people in the two groups. The scientists found that the lefties brains have far fewer cells that produce a protein called Par albumin which plays a key role in the regulation of Calcium in the brain. Calcium is necessary for conducting messages from one Neuron or nerve cell to another. According to researcher Sandra Witelson of Mcmaster University in Hamilton Ontario in some cases left handed individuals had Only half As Many Parv albumin producing cells As right handers the findings were presented last week at a conference of the society for neuroscience in Miami. Men too need oestrogen the first reported Case of a Man whose body could not respond to its oestrogen shows that men s Bones heed the hormone just As a women s Bones do researchers say. The 28-year-old Man had osteoporosis and had continued to grow taller during adulthood rather than stopping around age 17. At 6-foot 8, he had the Bones of a 15-year-old, not yet matured to the stage where they Stop growing. The osteoporosis and continued growth show that oestrogen plays an important role in Bone strength and maturation in males Well As in females researchers stated in the new England journal of Medicine last month. Men normally make a Small amount of oestrogen mostly by processing the hormone testosterone in a variety of tissues. The Man s body could not respond to oestrogen because of a genetic defect that made him produce a malfunctioning version of the protein Structure that oestrogen binds to exert its effects. Hospital gowns useless Hospital gowns and scrub clothes familiar symbols of Hospital sterility actually do nothing to promote infection control in Hospital nurseries according 1b a recent report. University of Hawaii researchers compared periods of no gown use with periods in which nurses and other staff changed into Hospital laundered scrubs and parents wore gowns Over Street clothes when visiting High risk infants in a neonatal intensive care unit. Looking at bacteria colonization infection rates hand washing behaviour and deaths the study reported in last month s archives of paediatrics and adolescent Medicine found no difference. It concluded that owning is an unnecessary custom in Hospital nurseries including intensive care units. Lion King and nutrition the agriculture department Hopes to work some Disney magic on children s eating habits by using characters from the lion King to promote healthful diets. In a two year Deal waft Disney co. Will produce animated nutrition messages starring Cumbaa the warthog and Timon the Meerkat who unappetizing by feasted on grubs and bugs during the summer hit the messages will be broadcast on the Disney Channel and Given to All to stations and will also appear at the Start of two Disney video releases a year. From wire reports 17