Uniform Day For Area Boy Scouts
The Hawkeye Area Boy Scout council plans a seven county Uniform Day launching Boy Scout week. Five thousand Cub Scouts and three thousand Boy Scouts will wear uniforms to show the district scope in Linn Jones Benton Iowa Johnson Cedar and Washington counties.
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Scouting
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Artificial Reefs Boost Marine Life Studies
A sunken Japanese fleet at Truk lagoon forms the world’s largest artificial reefs. Since 1975 Sylvia A. Earle studied marine growths on wrecks, noting reefs offer clues to growth rates and patterns of life around submerged ships. Life insurance sales rose 3.7 percent in 1975 to nearly 190 billion dollars.
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Truk Lagoon
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Sylvia A. Earle
New York
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Humans and Hibernation
Washington AP reports scientists speculate hibernation could extend human lifespan and aid long space voyages by slowing body processes and reducing oxygen needs. Triggers may involve endocrine and nervous systems, though true human hibernation remains uncertain.
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