European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 21, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                May 2007 stars and stripes Mideast edition Page 19 just by being Here you will be an Bruce Developer Green Florida town Aims to be Good to Earth by David Royse the associated press the future site of Homes Here could be heated or cooled using the earths natural underground appliances would be run by Sola powered houses would be oriented to avoid the summer and everyone could grow some of their own food in the Garden each House will have or in Community if All goes As the 600 families in this pro posed Florida Panhandle town will Lessen the Carbon they spew into the atmosphere by walking just about everywhere they except maybe work or youve got almost a Zer Carbon foot print just by living said Bruce one of the developers of the who envisions creating the climate stewards dream just by being Here you will be an part of a growing billion a year sustainable building sky is meant to be the Green town of the future the Way americans will live when they realize they use too much its developers they Hope it will serve As an Experiment into what can be done to accomplish that and maybe be a Model for other com it May be in one of the last places youd expect to find a Mecca of Green along a Bac Road in Remote and Rural Cal Houn its a half hour from the near est an hour from the coast and an hour from the nearest goo sized Florida grows by about 900 people a and new Homes have to be White won some plans for new town raising own food about half of the 571 acres in sky to be set aside for farm ing on homeowners gardens or Community plots to help reduce dependence on food trucked thousands of boosting efficiency engineers from Florida state University Center for advanced Power systems Are helping de sign the town and envision having one Central air conditioner for die entire town and then distributing the cooled air to some of the heat ing and Cooling May be done with a Geo Thermal where liquid is piped underground to be heated by the Earth in the Winter and cooled by it in the sum Mer and then used to heat and Cool Phil Ders Why it All has to be suburban things have got to he White said sky wont be a commune he winces at the hippie saying the town will be More of a luxury comm developers expect sky will Appeal to a professional Albe it one with a social a group of people that Are very Environ mentally aware and want to be somewhere with other people who think like said Whites architect Julia san describing the people she thinks would move people who want to con tribute and do something the town will have wireless internet Ca so some residents could work from Home or move their business to this Bruce president of White answers questions about the future develop ment of the town of during a tour of the site in ground breaking for the 624home Community is scheduled for next out the Way an hour commute to Tallahassee or Panama City would be Possi ble but might defeat the some locals say that if people really want to do Good by the Earth they  Start by building a 600plus Home development with new Wastewater and we Are paving Over wildlife habitat and we have to somehow protect said Betsy an environmental activist who runs a wild animal shelter in the Knight and a few other locals also worry that a big new development approaching the size of the county seat of Blountstown would change the areas skip who lives in the nearby Ham let of Doest want to Stop the but he is worried about potential damage to the Springs that feed the Chipola which runs into the Apalachicola and Hes concerned about what Impact a Large development would have on locals ability to draw water from their Many in the area support including Marti who works for the local chamber of we dont want Urban we like the flavor of says design the country Vickery it totally say Lincoln had then what by Alex Dominguez the associated press Baltimore Abraham Lin Coln might have survived being shot if today medical technology had existed in Given that the ques Tion is whether Lincoln would have recovered Well enough to return to says a doctor and historian who planned to speak Friday at an annual University of Maryland school of Medicine conference on the deaths of historic this years event asks if Lin Coln could have been saved and what Impact that would have Thomas the physician in chief at the University of Maryland Shock trauma Cen said brain injuries Are unpredictable but Lincoln would have stood a Good Chance of Lincoln died within 10 hours of being shot in the head at Fords theatre on april if mod Ern methods could have saved the 16th he May have also retained his cognitive abilities be cause the fatal shot did not dam age the frontal lobes of lincolns which Are responsible for emotion and problem Scalea Abraham Lincoln Lincoln would have faced months of recovery before he could have returned to and whether he would have been Able to communicate is the surgeon presidential historian Steven Lee Carson said lincolns Secretary of Edwin who made a number of important decisions the Day after the Assassin would Likely have played a greater role if Lincoln had sur vice president Andrew Johnson would not automatically have taken charge had Lincoln if Stanton had continued in lincolns the country would have been a better and More just especially on race mat in a far quicker car son firstos Itkind study shows How childrens brains grow by Lauran Neergaard the associated press Washington new research suggests some of the brains Basic building blocks for learning Are nearing adult Levels by age 11 or it is the first finding from a study of How childrens brains the most interesting re sults Are yet to about 500 super healthy new Borns to recruited from super healthy Are having periodic Fri scans of their brains As they grow they also get a Battery of Agap prop Riate tests of such abilities As language skills and memo the funded by the National institutes of is Tricky move during an and the image because scientists cannot sedate healthy they Are having to get Crafty to keep their subjects tired toddlers Are put in the scanners at Nap time mom squeezes in for a cuddle and earplugs help Block the machines noisy six Jearolds Wear earphones and watch favorite videos beamed into the the Fri images measure How different parts of the brain grow and reorganize throughout child overlap them with the Chil Drens shifting behavioural and intellectual abilities at each and scientists expect to produce a Lon sought map of Normal brain development in children representative of the diverse on scientists were pub Lishing a sneak preview at some surprising Early performance on a variety of cognitive memo spatial Recagni calculation rapidly improves Between age 6 and but then Levels we dont honestly know said Deborah waber of childrens Hospital who led the analysis published in the journal of the International Neur psychological this is a snapshot of 6to 18yearolds abilities during their first study results May change after researchers observe each Childs Progress with age and compare their Fri she the adolescent brain is still the Region responsible for things such Asim pulse control and moral judg ment is the last to some time in the Early said Jor Dan Grafman of the Nils nation Al Institute of neurological disorders and the study did not evaluate those kinds of its an in Complete he but the age finding does make suggesting a foundation necessary for higher learning is in place by said John Gilmore of the University of North Carolina school of medi the brain development specialist was not involved with the scientists already knew that before age the brain is racing to wire making More connections Between nerve cells that in turn enlarge vital this is a time of rapid the reason it is easier to learn a foreign language As a Young child than As a teenager or Gilmore after the process slows and the brain prunes it focusing less on installing new wiring than on program Ming and refining what is Al ready