Oscars honor tech gains in film making and effects
Beverly Hills makers of new stock and a special effects process receive Academy technical achievement Oscars. Kodak and Petro Vlahos win for film stock and effects process. additional certificates awarded for optical software, digital film data systems, zoom lens, editing machines, and safer gun blanks among others.
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Beverly Hills
Calif
The
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Eastman Kodak Co
Petro
Paul Vlahos
Associated Press
Mars yard mocks pathfinder mission on Arizona campus
On the University of Arizona campus a 1600 square foot mock Martian yard simulates the Mars Path Finder mission set for launch next year. Arizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory staff shovel 79 tons of soil to sculpt a river valley like terrain and test equipment for NASA's $150 million project.
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Tucson
Ariz
University of Arizona
Mars
America
Red Planet
pSeteen
NASA
Arizona's
Lunar and Planetary Laboratory
Kechy
Arizona
Mars Pathfinder
Ares Tiu
Believers on Full Moon Births Upended by New Findings
Tucson analyst Dr. David Caton of Appalachian State University analyzed birth dates across 50 million babies. He reports births peak in the third quarter of the moon and on Tuesdays, with fewer on Sundays, while first quarter shows the least activity. He notes full and new moons are similar in birth counts.
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April Lloyd
Charlottesville
United States
Robert Loewenstein
Yerkes Observatory
University of Chicago
South Pale
Lewenstein
Peg Sue
Loewenstein
Point Observatory
New Mexico
Orig
Apache Point Dome
Apache Point Observatory
South Pole
Antarctica
Jupiter
Earth
Galaxy
Milky Way
Tucson
Aziz
David Caton
North Carolina
Appalachian State University
Caton
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Princeton University
Atet ' Bel Laboratories
Fermilab
CARA
Doyal A. Harper
States
Je. Propulsion Laboratory
Ed Press
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