Sign postcard to send name aboard Cassini space probe
NASA invites signatures to ride aboard the Cassini planetary probe, launching October 1997 from Cape Canaveral. Up to 1 million autographs possible. 50 000 received so far. Sign postcards by Jan 1 1997 and mail to Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Saturn
NASA
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
California
Space Agency
Cassini
Cape Canaveral Air Station
Earth
Charley Kohlhase
Kohlhase
Rocks that Move in Death Valley Puzzle Scientists
Caltech researchers propose that the Racetrack Playa stones move due to an unusually flat surface creating a thin boundary layer wind up to 90 mph. The finding links geology to wind dynamics explaining rocks sliding across the playa without witnesses.
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Mick Jagger
Racetrack Playa
Death Valley
Playa
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena
Journal of Geology
Caltech
Memories haunt Hiawatha woman over CJD linked to Mad Cow
Viola Lohman recalls her husband James Lohman who died of Creutzfeldt Jakob disease in 1993 at Mercy Medical Center Cedar Rapids after a three month decline. The piece notes CJD is rare in the United States and discusses the emergence of a British linked BSE form affecting younger patients.
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Tom Walsh
Correspr
Viola Lohman
Hiawatha
James
Mercy Medical Center
Cedar Rapids
United States
Britain
James Lohman
Okinawa
Rising CJD Death Toll Suggests Underdiagnosis in U S
Dr Birgitte Bendixen of the University of Iowa notes autopsies show 5 of every 100 Alzheimer's cases may conceal CJD and urges broader surveillance. CDC expands tracking to Minnesota California Connecticut Oregon after Britain reports a new CJD strain linked to bovine spongiform encephalopathy fears.
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Tom Walsh
Birgitte Bendixen
University of Iowa College of Medicine
Department of Neurology
Bendixen
U.S. Centers For Disease Control
Minnesota
California
Connecticut
Oregon
CDC
Britain
Tom Skinner
U.S
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